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Sunday, 1 November 2009

In pictures: Gail Platt's five marriages

News in today is that Gail says yes to Joe's proposal on the love boat in Coronation Street next week. That'll make it marriage number five for Gail so let's have a look back at the men she's loved and lost.

Over on the X-F thread Mollie, if you were wondering.

Good evening all
Hope you all had a good Sunday.
Started off very windy and wet here, but cleared later, so we were able to take doggie a walk in the country.

Emptybox... glad you enjoyed your special Saturday meal and beer.   I think it is nice to have a special food treat for Saturdays.

Hicky... I bet you enjoyed that Sunday brekkie today.   did you have any visitors today?

I bought a nice new black wooly beret hat today from Asda to stop the wind blowing my hair. It has nice shiny pink threads through it, and a few pink jewells in the  front too.  They aren't diamonds though,   (because it would of been a lot more than £6 if they were).

enjoy X factor everyone.

Hi Mollie.
Brekkie was good, very filling though, a pack of kipper fillets, but tasty.
Went to see one of little friends this afternoon, great fun.
He loves seeing my car, didn't let him in, it's hard getting him back out.
So I spent an hour or so drawing cars etc with him.

Just watched the X-F results, wrong one in the last 2 though.
And Rachel shouldn't have gone either.

Evening.

Been a very wet day here.

I went into the main town to Argos to buy a present for my youngest nephew's birthday, which is a week next Tuesday.

It's a battery operated metal detector. I was told that was what he wanted, so who am I to argue? He's going to be 11.

I'm going across to see my Brother next weekend, so I'll give it to him then.
I'm going to be treated to a meal out to celebrate my half century, so that'll be nice.

Also did some hoovering and some ironing this afternoon.

Had a chicken balti for supper. I just used a ready made balti sauce, and cut up a chicken breast and fryed it up then added the sauce. Wasn't too bad.

Hi Emptybox.
I suppose all metal detectors are battery operated.
Would need an awful long mains lead otherwise.

Tell him you want 10% of the treasure he finds, you never know.

A half century eh, not doing bad then, i'm nearly 3 quarters, doesn't time fly.
Hope you enjoy your meal then, heaven knows when the next one will be then.

You've got a while to go before you become a Chef then.

I've ordered a Laser Thermometer for doing my sweets, it might save trying to stir the mixture with a thermometer in it.
That's if it will work on the mixture.

I suppose that's true Hicky.
But they don't all work from one PP3 battery.


I may not be a chef, but I insist on wearing the white hat while cooking.

That's sounds very high tech.

Hi Emptybox.
You can get NiMH PP3 rechargable batteries for £4.99 with a charger for £14.75 how about that?
Save a lot on batteries and the charger charges the AA & AAA rechargable as well.
Thats what battery my Laser Thermometer takes PP3.

Can just imagine you with your white Chefs hat on.

I'm hoping the Laser unit will be able to tell me a lot of temperatures of things, might even tell me if the little ones have a temperature by firing it at their forehead

Time for brekkie now but i'm not at work so i'll have to cook it myself..

Just been clearing up more leaves, same every spring, millions of them, I don't even have a tree just leaves from the road and a park over the way with the most Ginormous tree's in it, and most of the leaves blow into the road depending on the wind direction of course.

Just going to the Garden Centre for a look around and an ice cream.

Checked with Virgin rail, my tickets are for the London Underground as well so that's ok.

My Laser Therm is on it's way, had an email off Amazon, goody.

Chanelle has got a new Project on it's way, no idea what it is though, but she's got a personal trainer and is running 3 times a day.

Hi Hicky.

Wonder how that laser thermometer works? Can't say I've ever seen one.
The guy that came to do my Energy Certificate a while ago, had a laser tape measure for measuring the size of the rooms. That was impressive enough.

I wouldnae fire it at the wee yin's heids though. Might fry their brains?  

I saw that about Chanelle.
She seems to be obsessed with X-Factor at the mo.

I had to wait in for a delivery that needed signing for today. The second Windows 7 DVD that I sent away for.
It didn't come till 2pm, and by then the weather was very cold and blustery, so I decided to give my van a good wash rather than go out.

While I was waiting in I made a birthday card for my nephew, but when I tried to print it out I found the printer had run out of red ink.
It's an HP printer that just has one colour cartridge, and that is still a third full; but I'll have to replace it unless I want to print everything in blue and yellow until the cartridge is empty.
I suppose I must have printed too many red things out previously, unless it was filled unevenly at the factory?

Hi Emptybox.

The Laser Thermometer is an infra red device which is harmless really, the Laser just shows where you have it aimed at.
I've used the Laser Rule before, had them at work, pretty good as well.

In fact I think I've used the Laser Thermometer before as well, we do a lot of strange jobs at work with thermal control, like designing a frame that can heat a car bumper to a certain temperature between 2 very precise figures so that they can be installed in the winter and they have to be a certain temperature for the sealants to take.

That's the problem with single cartridges for the colour, they are unlikely to use all colours at the same speed.

It is unlikely that your cartridge was filled unevenly, you get very little ink in a cartridge, probably about 15ML for each colour, your best setting it to print in black as a default.
The printer I use at work, or one of them is a colour laser with each of 4 cartridges costing about £300 each.
Great Machine though.

Good evening all

Hicky... that little lad sounds a typical little boy, so fond of cars, as you can't get him out of yours, if he gets in it.  
I agree that Rachel shouldn't of gone last night.
Did you enjoy your ice-cream at the garden centre? What did you buy from the garden centre?   Your new laser thermometer should be just the job for all that sweetie making.

Emptybox
I bet your nephew is well pleased with having an uncle like you, if you buy him nice pressies like that.   As Hicky says, could be  a good idea to request commission from future finds.   Glad to hear you have an invite to your brothers for that special birthday of yours. What day is your birthday, does it fall on the weekend?  Sounds like you are doing well with the home cooking. at the chefs hat.
I see a spot of the Scottish talk came to light again there.
Did you have a dry day today for the gardening?

It was dry here most of the day, so I got most of my washing dry, then it rained later on. I hope we get a dry day for Nov 5th, or at the weekend because we have some fireworks to set off in the garden.

I had my fave meal of jacket potatoe, beans and cheese tonight. 

Good Evening Mollie. 

I didn't have an Ice cream at the garden centre, had a cheese and spring onion panini, love them.

Then went so see one of the little ones, he had been to a nursery school for his first day (2 hours), he loved it anyway.

Then when we got home I put on some stewing steak to cook, added onion , carrots and spuds.
It turned out well.

It's been a nice day here really.

Will have to get to bed, work in the morning.

Hi Mollie.

It was dry here, and seems like a very clear night, so I wouldn't be surprised if we got frost.

My actual birthday is on Monday the 9th, and my Nephew's is on Tuesday the 10th.
I don't think he's going to be there at the weekend though. Off to some scout camp or other, so I won't see wether he likes his present or not.
 I think he's already had some birthday outing last weekend?
I'll see my older nephew though.

Hi Hicky.
That's a bit steep for an ink cartridge?  

I think, with my printer, if I choose plain paper as the source, then it uses the black cartridge for the black colour, but if I select photo paper, then it uses the colour cartridge for the black. More accurate greyscale I suppose?
I can manually select which it uses in the settings though.

I've found with my printer that it doesn't really matter which black cartridge that I buy, but the proper HP colour cartridge gives better results than a cheaper alternative.

Tonight I had roast chicken breast with sausage bacon and stuffing, with roast potatoes, carrots, broccolli and gravy. Not half bad.
I bought the chicken with bacon, sausage and stuffing in the supermarket, you get two in a pack, and I kept it in the freezer.

Hi Emptybox.

You'll find that there are different black inks, some don't mix with colours and dry at a different rate, so maybe the black with the colour is compatable with the colours for mixing.You're doing all right with the cooking then, needs must.

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Monday Corrie eps top 10 million

Tuesday, November 3 2009, 10:16 GMT

By Kris Green, Soaps Editor

Cowell donates to critically ill tot

Good evening all
Hope they didn't work you too hard today Hicky.
It was pouring here this morning, then cleared up later, so I was able to get my washing dry.
Wonder if Emptybox managed his gardening today?
Hicky... that sounds like a nice garden centre if you can get cheese and onion panini. I think i would of gone for that too instead of the ice-cream.   Glad to hear the little lad enjoyed his nursery, I wonder if they had any toy cars there for him?   My boys all loved toy cars when they were small.

Emptybox... your bithday is very close to your nephews. Shame he wont be there when you visit. I wouldnt fancy camping this time of year. Sounds like you are getting some nice nutricous meals cooked up for yourself.  Have you caught up with your work now we have had a few dry days?

I have a cold, but fortunately not a bad one, Had a bad runny nose yesterday, which has dried up now, just a stuffed head today, and sore throat. Bit annoying, but at least not too bad, but hope it doesnt develop.

Do you watch Horizon, Emptybox? It looks quite interesting tonight, it is about the black hole.

Good Evening Mollie.

It wasn't too bad at work, still had plenty of free time, 80% anyway.
The garden centre always had the cheese panini's on sale, as well as many other items, like pasties and pies, cakes etc. Quality stuff, the finest of everything you can imagine that you can get in a jar.

The little one just loves me to draw cars and lorries and trailers.

Hope your Nose/Throat clears up quick.

The black hole is on now, it just happens to be on this station.

Hicy.... can't be bad if you had 80% of free time, at least it gives you time to check the news and forums.  
I reckon with all this drawing practice, you should be able to sell your drawings  to an art museum soon.

I am watching Black Hole now.
forgot to watch pete Andre, OH was watching footie. But I think it is repeated. I see pete was doing the channel 4 slot at 5pm as a stand in for Paul O'Grady, so he is doing well for himself.   He is just a natural on these shows especially with the kiddies.

Hi Mollie.
It's funny really because the little ones sister is so good at drawing cartoons and that, pages and pages of them.
Had to buy my lad a new keyboard for his Puter, can't remember if I told you, the rabbit chewed through the cable.

This black hole is giving them a headache isn't it, they need a telescope dish 4,000 kilometres across, so they are getting telescopes from all around and joining the data by computer.
Good Luck to them.

Didn't see Peter A, he would be good with the kiddies though.

Evening.

I was wrong. There was no frost.
In fact it was very wet first thing.
It did dry up enough for me to do some work, but then we had more rain around lunchtime.

I've got quite a few jobs that I should get done before Friday because I do my invoices dated the 6th of a month, but it's not critical, and apart from that I'm on top of things at the mo.

I watched the Horizon Black Hole programme, and it was very interesting. Right on the brink of known physics.
I didn't know it was on though, I just happened to be on the right channel, like Hicky.

Hope your cold gets better quick Mollie.

A rabbit ate your keyboard Hicky?
Is that a first?

Hi Emptybox.

Well it isn't raining here today, had a nice Lie in anyway.

My Lads girl has 2 white Rabbits, both male.
They live in the hall in a metal cage.
It was my Lads Keyboard, they let the rabbits run around sometimes but have a habit of chewing on things, one decided to chew the keyboard wire but I got him a new one.

Good afternoon all
seems cooler today, so I have dug out my nice thick fleece, because we don't want to use the heating yet.

Emtybox..
glad you are nearly up to date workwise. It must be hard to keep up because you have to depend on the weather. Glad you caught the black hole programme. That Horizon programme is often interesting.

Hicky...Day off today is it? What are you up to?
Our rabbit lives in our hall and comes out to play with his ball at night. He too loves wires if he can get hold of them. He chewed through one of the Sky ones once, and I phoned to complain to Sky it wasn't working. It wasnt until OH checked the back of the tv, that we realised bunny had chewed through the wires.   Glad you managed to replace your sons keyboard. Sounds like us, they need to keep a closer eye on bunny now.

My cold is a lot better today, so it only lasted a few days.   I had that First defence nose Spray, and I think that really does work, and vastly reduces the duration of a cold.

We just had a heavy hailstorm. Didn't last long though.

"The Family" starts a new series on Channel 4 tonight at 9pm, I enjoyed the last series, so will be watching this one.

Good Afternoon Mollie.

I've been putting the heating on at night for a couple of hours.

Yep, day off, The Sun has just come out here, ooooooh lovely.

Rabbits will probably chew at anything, it must be a novelty to get Sky wires and Keyboard wires as they are hard to come by in the wild.

Glad your cold is better, the First Defence seems good then.

Hailstones all ready, that's a sure sign things are cooling down.

My Laser Thermometer came this morning, though I would have to go out to get a PP3 battery then suddenly remembered I've got a home battery kit and it had one in it.

I'm at present firing it at everything there is to see what the temperature is.

It works on virtually anything from -20c to 200c or you can set it to 'F' if you like, you have to tell it to use the Laser beam, that is only to show you were it is aiming.
You can aim it at your own forehead by looking in a mirror for the laser spot.
Mine read 87.8f, it's bound to be able to tell if a little one has a temperature and it's not intrusive.

CHANTELLE Houghton showed off her surgically-enhanced assets in a glamorous low-cut frock last night.

The glamour girl, 26, flaunted her E cup boobs in the strapless number to attend the premiere of Jim Carrey's Christmas Carol in Leicester Square.

After watching the film she enjoyed a spot of dinner with her pal Peter Andre, who Jordan has claimed she is dating.

Chantelle has recently been linked to another one of Jordan's exes - Dane Bowers - after they were reportedly spotted leaving a nightclub together.

She told this week's OK! magazine: "I spoke to him but I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know if he fancied me."

I'm sure he will after seeing you in that dress, Chan...

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One of my Faves since she won Celeb BB a few years ago.

Evening.

Chantelle looks good in that outfit Hicky.

Happy...er...temperature taking.

Was a lovely day here so I got quite a few of my jobs done.
Trouble is everything stays damp all day no matter what the weather.
I put a load of washing on the line before i went out, and it was still slightly damp by the time it was going dark. Guess it's the tumble dryer from now on.

My heating's on for about 8 hours a day (2 hours in the morning and 6 at night), and it needs to be. It's gone bloomin' cold again here. Only about 3 degrees C outside at this time of night.
That's why heating bills are so much higher up here.

Glad your cold is getting better Mollie.

I'm watching that 'Family' programme about the Indian family. They're a funny bunch.

Hi Emptybox.

Looking for things to take the temperature of.
It can tell me if I have a bad connection in a plug top which is making it overheat.

You can buy a clothes maiden to put your clothes on in the house to dry, Dryers are fairly expensive to run, depending how often you use it of course.
Didn't see the 'Family'.

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Simon Cowell splits up "boring" Cheryl and Dannii

Good morning all


Hicky
thanks for all the Corrie news.   It is a really good storyline at the moment.
Glad to hear you are enjoying experimenting with your thermometer.
Going by the time of your post today, I take it is a work day? hope you had a good brekkie, and that they dont work you too hard.
Sainsburys has just delivered my shopping, I do like thier fruit and veg, especially the vivaldi potatoes, and if you order over £100, they dont even charge for delivery.

Emptybox..  I never realised it got that much colder up there. It has only got down to about 9 degrees at night so far here. Our house now is a newer build, so a lot warmer than our old house.  Our old one was stone built, well built and solid but prone to cold and damp. Still find these new builds have no character though, and are tighter on space. This house is supposed to be 5 beds, but is smaller than our old 4 bedded one.
Glad to hear you got another dry day to catch up work wise yesterday.

Tonight we hope to have our firework party, but if it is wet, we will postpone fireworks till the weekend. I have bought the kids some sausages for hot dogs, and I have got some quourn and onion ones. We got budget fireworks from Lidl this year, and sparklers from Tesco, but I bet we will still enjoy them.  Daughter will bake some peanut butter cookies because OH's friend is calling over, and he loves them.

Hi Mollie.A great picture that one with the Fire Works, it looks like the Liverpool seafront as well.Yep, it's work today, get here at about 6.30 wash the cups etc, fill the water bottles and make a coffee, the rest of the day I drink tea.

Had the usual brekkie, 2 toast, 2 saus, bacon, egg and beans, not bad.The Vivaldi Potatoe's are good as you say.You should get the big cooked Burger Sausages, you only have to heat them so you don't have to worry whether they are cooked properly or not.Don't think I will be going to a firework party, not sure if we are having any this year, might wait till the weekend.

Went up to one of my Lads, a little one is 3 tomorrow, so we took a battery operated JCB, great fun, he loves it, he'll get loads of pressies tomorrow anyway.

Got a Chippy meal on the way back.

Watched SCD ITT, very good, just watching the 'Restaurant' at the Mo.

Hicky
Glad to hear you are still getting your brekkie whilst at work, and that they are not overworking you.
Aawww, a JCB...that sounds like a fun pressie for the little lad.   And I bet you enjoyed your chippie meal too.

Our fireworks were great, and the weather stayed nice and dry.  One of the neighbours kids even stopped me to tell me how good they were, when we were waving off OH's friend.   The boy must of been looking out of his bedroom window at them. The hot dogs and fried onions were lovely too, as were my daughters choccy cookies.
I had ordered some buleberries with my weekly shop, and tried a new recipe I found on the net, it was so yummy too.

Here it is, I think you would find it easy Emptybox, whilst wearing your chef's hat....Blueberries are full of vitamins too, and I know oats are good for you too. I ate it with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream.
Recipe...
box of blueberries (mine had about 300g in it, and was fine)
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
65g flour (I used plain flour)
4 Tablespoon butter.  Room temperature.
75g rolled oats.
165g brown sugar (I didn't add quite as much as this, because I didn't want it too sweet).

1) Grease 1.5litres baking dish (I just used standard glass casserole dish)
2)  Place blackberries in baking dish. Sprinkle with lemon juice.
3) Mix with a fork, in a bowl,.... the sugar, flour, butter and oats. Spread on top of the blueberries.
4) Bake at 190c till golden brown and blueberries are bubbling. Aprox 30 mins.

With mine the blueberries mixed with nearly all the top, and it tasted great.

Emptybox... is it tommororw you go away to your brothers?I hope you have a great weekend, and a lovely birthday.
I think it is a good idea of HIcky's to hang your washing on a clothes airer thingie. You can get them from argos. If you have the heating on those many hours in the day, the clothes will dry very quickly on a clothes horse, and it will give a bit of moisture into the dry central heated air. I always hang some clothes around the house in winter to save on over use of the tumble drier.

Yes I think the Family on channel 4 do certainly seem a funny bunch. The mother and father certainly like their food, and seem to be able to get a lot in their mouth with one bite.

Nearly bed time for me, it seems a bit cooler here tonight. I may have to put the winter quilt back on again soon.

Hi Mollie.
Had a Chicken Curry with fried rice, very nice too.
Your fireworks sounded good, it stopped raining here this evening but we didn't go out.

Liked your recipe, couldn't tell what bit was Blueberry and what was Blackberry, it seemed to alternate.
Did you have both?

Will be off to bed myself in a Mo.
Nothing on TV, I record anything I want to watch.

Chantelle looks stunning, seen that picture yesterday on Daily Mail website on an article about the X-Factor stars stealing the show at the film premiere.


My weekend has now started. Can't wait for the weekend football. SCD,then XF.


I'm all up to date workwise at College as always so more free time, was cold here today though and raining. Love the canteen food.

Hi Mollie and Hicky.

Well, it was a nice day here so I got everything done that I wanted.
I was still cutting grass at 5.15pm, in the half-dark.
It was quite nice, cos the house I was at has all these solar powered lanterns round their pond, and I'd never seen them lit up before.

I haven't seen any fireworks here, or even heard any.
Glad your party went with a bang Mollie.

That sounds like a nice recipe Mollie.  Sort of an oaty crumble.
I think I've got most of the ingredients apart from the fruit. I guess you could use any fruit really?
I might give it a go next week.

I don't go to my Brother's till Saturday. I'll be working tomorrow, although I don't think there's a good forecast.
I bet the little lad loved his JCB Hicky.

Hi darlo.

Good idea, keeping up to date with your college work.


I forgot to say in my previous post, that I've got a clothes horse that I use if the clothes are a bit damp, and need further drying.
Not sure if it would cope with wet clothes straight out of the machine though?