Nom nom nom!!!!!!!

How was your walk yogi? I got soaked! It was icy cold too

Our walk was good, thanks, sorry you got soaked. There was a pretty chilly wind but it was bright.

That's good, I'm glad one of us had good weather we did have a couple of sunny spells, and even saw a rainbow, so at least it wasn't all bad.

Mr summer is picking up fish & chips on his way home

Is it nice having full cupboards again?

Yummy, fish and chips!

I'm on my own for dinner tonight, so just had beans on toast with cheese on top.

Yes, I'm happy now the cupboards are full again.

 

Apart from the weather, have you had a good day?

Lol I always have a simple tea if I'm home alone, I love things like beans on toast!

I've had a lovely day thank you, I've already had a hot bath and am in my PJ's
I've just downloaded ios7 to my iPad, it looks straaaaange now

ios7 does look a bit strange but I have got used to it now.

One negative I have noticed, the battery seems to drain much quicker since ios7 was downloaded.

I'm going to have an early bath and get into my PJs too.

What do you put in your bath yogi?
I usually go for a nice bath foam but went for salts today, it was really nice

I'll watch out for the battery on my iPad then, i hope it doesn't run out before mr Darcy and Elizabeth finally get together

My preference is L'occitane or Molton Brown bath products. MB Heavenly Gingerlily and L'occitane Almond Oil are devine and lots of bubbles!

 

 No you don't want the battery to run out before they get together!

I used molton brown bath salts! I keep radox salts in the cupboard but much prefer the MB ones.
Where do you get the L'occtaine products? The hotel we stayed in over the weekend had a very nice soap by them. I wanted to bring it home with me
I'm a fan of Chsmpneys too, and even more so since boots started stocking it, they have 3 for 2 offers frequently

Btw- heavenly gingerlily is lovely

I like the hanalini at christmas time

I wonder what bath oil this little guy uses allan@singaporerc.com/buffyOwl/buffbath.jpg">

Aww, sweet pic.

I'm off for my bath, might be back later.

Enjoy yogi
Might see you later, if not- sweet dreams

Going to read for a while and then an early night.

Goodnight Summer (and any other night owls), sleep well and sweet dreams.

Sweet dreams yogi see you tomorrow

Leaving a hug for moonie, hope you are soon back with us

Good morning everyone

 

Still cold and windy here. My area is right on the edge of the rain area to the east so there may be heavy rain at times today or dry.

 

My phone returned to life some time between 8 and 9 last evening. The Virgin Media service status still shows that the fault is being worked on and expect the fault to be fully sorted by 4 this afternoon.

Good morning everyone. Weather is milder than yesterday, and dry and bright.

Virgin must have quite a big problem in your area, El. I'm glad your phone is working again.

Going to get my hair trimmed this afternoon. It doesn't need much off, just a tidy up.

I started reading the first Inspector Morse book by Colin Dexter, called Last Bus To Woodstock and I'm enjoying it, so far. I am ignoring Dexter's physical description of Morse and imagining John Thaw in the role.

Hugs for everyone.

 

Good morning

Dry but overcast here, and still windy.

El I hope the phone line fault doesn't affect your business too badly today

Yogi, I think it'd be very hard to picture anyone other than John Thaw as Morse
Enjoy your hair cut

Squiggle, just out of curiosity, where does Tilly sleep?

Summer, although my phone is currently working, if it's not then many of my clients are on the internet so could email me if they were trying to contact me. I don't get or make a lot of phone calls so it's more of an inconvenience rather than a disaster.

I am going off to see a client in a few minutes and have another client meeting mid afternoon so will be out quite a lot of the time.

 

I should think Colin Dexter's mental image of Morse when he first wrote the books was rather different to that of John Thaw. Also in the books Lewis is Welsh.

 

She sleeps in her bed (which she adores) in the boys' bedroom.  Reluctantly I am told because she used to be owned by a girl who they think allowed her to sleep in the bed with her because my eldest grandson says the minute he gets into bed she leaps on top and tries to nose her way under the duvet.  She clambered onto my lap yesterday, let's just say she's not a lap dog, she fidgeted and wriggled about and I think we both looked very uncomfortable, there's quite a bit of her

 

It's quite cloudy and grey here although they have said in the forecast it's supposed to be a dry day.  I am glad your phone is back to normal EL, for a business it's not good for a phone line to be down.

 

I hope the hairdresser cuts your hair just right Yogi.  Leaving hugs for Skylark and moonie

Hi all 

Just getting son ready, he off for a fishing weekend down the Borders, picked the wrong weekend, its so cold! 
Thats the schools on holiday too, for nearly a fortnight!!! 

Be back later, when i get time to myself.

I'm back from client 1, am getting my lunch, then off to see client 2. The phone appears to be still working though I didn't get any calls while I was out.

 

I mentioned my phone problem to client 1. He is a ham (amateur radio fan) and was listening in and heard that the problem was caused by a cable having been damaged somewhere.

 

He's a PAT tester. We were talking about when subsistence costs were allowable for tax and when they were not. As an example I said that if he went to a seminar in Nottingham run by the royal society of pat testers (I don't think there is such a thing) that meals which he paid for his own meals (not when he's paying for others as that's entertaining) would be fine. He then said that he and other pat testers had got together to form a group. Next year they were going to get together at a meeting in Nottingham Am I pyschic or am I psychic

Skylark, I hope your son has a pleasant weekend , Fishermen should be used to freezing conditions so he shouldn't have a problem with the cold.

 

Yogi, don't forget the twirl when you return this afternoon

Lol at Tillie guess a girls got to try it hasn't she?

El I'm glad your phone will soon be sorted, and without too much disruption to yourself

Skylark I hope your son has a great time fishing

Next week's stories on Doctors (BBC1 1.45pm Monday to Friday) are on a theme.

Titles are Monday & Tuesday Austenland parts 1 & 2, Wednesday Charlotte's Web, Thursday Northanger Bungalow, and Friday Gemma.

All the stories have a Jane Austen theme and could be rather good. Hopefully they won't be nonsense and nonsensibility.

(Charlotte was the title of a novel which Jane Austen never finished but a version was finished by Julia Barrett some years ago and was published)

 

I'm off now to see client 2. I'll be back later.

 

Lol El please review the episodes for us if you watch them

Just for Psychic El, * twirls* 

 

Skylark, I hope your son enjoys the fishing trip, in spite of the cold weather.

 

Summer, have you had a good day?

I'm back from seeing client 2. She lives in Hucclecote. At this time of the day the main road from Hucclecote to the Walls roundabout on the outskirts of Gloucester city is one long line of traffic (2 miles)  waiting to get on to the ringroad at the roundabout. Even when one gets on to the ringroad it's fairly slow. Time from my house to the client going to her is about 15 minutes. Estimated time to return that way at this time is more likely to be 30 to 45 minutes. (they are planning to improve the roundabout to speed things up).

 

So I decided to go on an alternative route which is slightly longer and goes cross country around Churchdown hill. I managed to get home missing all traffic jams and it took 15 minutes

 

Thank you. I knew of course that you would say that

 

I should say that my psychic abilities are a bit haphazard and random. For instance I once dreamt the 6 winning numbers of the national lottery and remembered them when I woke up. However I realised that there was little point in getting a ticket with those numbers as they were:

8,8,8,8,8 and 8 (that is true, I'm not making it up)

 

Well done on avoiding the busy route, El.

 Would not have been a winning ticket, I fear.

Say a prayer for the people in North East India - terrifying colossal storm heading their way - may develop to the worst natural disaster for some time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-24487130 there's a video of the current weather forecast which is scary. Calcutta/Kolkata is right on the edge of the storm system. You may remember that my family had a strong historical connection with Calcutta over 300 hundred years ago.

 

 

That sounds awful EL, I hope they have been able to make preparations for it and there will be no loss of life.

Ditto.

Likewise, that's very worrying
I hope it dissolves out at sea and doesn't hit them. Chances are slim I should think

Yogi, I've had a good day thank you work was quiet, which was perfect because I had an upset tummy last night so didn't dare eat anything today! I have eaten some toast since I got home and feel alright

Did you have a good day?