Hi Emptybox.

Don't know if the cash back report is false or not, easy to do, but the receipt tells what till it came from and the time and everything so don't see how anyone could get away with it.

You've sure had a lot of snow, heavens 16" is no joke, not in November anyway.
Your well and truly stuck then.

The chef cooked 10 cookies as soon as I gave her the box, but she still has 62 left.
I get a couple of free brekkies, my brekki usually costs about £3 so I don't lose.

Gaga did say they were doing changes from the 29th, I had to sign in as well.
Will have to see what the changes are, they are probably documented in a thread somewhere.

Came home without my Jacket, not sure how, never done that before in my life.
Must have just put my heavy yellow overcoat on, never noticed till I took my overcoat off to leave in the car, was walking to the front door and realised I just had jumpers on.
It must be still over the back of my chair at work, the overcoat is over the chair next to it.
It will have to wait till Wednesday now, it only has a few things in it, and my wallet, but all stuff I need till then I carry in my pockets as I only use the jacket for work.

Hi Hicky.

I hope your wallet is still in your jacket on Wednesday. 
Not the weather to be leaving your clothes behind.

Good morning all
Coudlnt get in here yesterday,
had to hunt out my email and password to get in here, because couldnt remember anything I had set up here.
I see they have made some background changes as well.

Emptybox
are you still with snow there? I hope your satelight is working ok if you sitll have snow, and you are still well stocked with food.
we have only had a dusting here, but you were right about it being too cold to snow before that. On the evenings we had minus 12, there was no snow at all, but with the milder night last night of minus 5, we had a little snow.

Hicky
hope you got your wallet back ok.
How is the lounge looking now with the nice new rugs and cushions, and the tv mounted?
work or at home today?

think I will have to go online today, to start to choose kids Christmas gifts.
I accidently grated my finger in with the grated cheese for the cauliflower cheese last night. Ouch!!  Drew blood, so have a plaster on it now. That will teach me to rush things in the kitchen.

IAC...Gillain gone at last I see. I reckon Stacey will win this hands down, she is so sweet.

have a good day all.
xxx

Hi Mollie.
Is grated finger a delicacy in Wales? Think I'll pass?
Poor you.

Not sure I like the new background colours, but don't suppose it makes much difference really?

I'm still snowed in. Thought there was a little thaw starting yesterday, because some snow has fallen off the sides of the car, and from the tops of trees etc, but it's been snowing again today.
The neighbour has a landrover, and they got that going today, but there's still no chance of me getting my vehicles out.

The postie hasn't been today again either. I think they stop them going on their rural rounds, even if the roads are open? I'm waiting for quite a few parcels as well. 

Just finished another pile of ironing. Keeps me busy I suppose, but I'm begining to get cabin fever.
It's not that I have anywhere that I particularly want to go, just the idea that I can't go anywhere. Also that I can't get anything delivered to me.

Not sure if Stacey will win IAC? I think she should, but I can see some finding the way she speaks a bit annoying? I think Dom Jolly or Shaun Ryder might have a chance.
Glad that Gillian's away though.

Good Afternoon Mollie & Emptybox.

My Coat should be OK, they usually lock the office if no-ones in.

The Lounge is looking very good, the feller came and fitted the new blinds on the French Window section, it's 4 blinds in all.

Sorry to hear about grating your finger Mollie, easy to do.

My Humax recorders came this morning, had them both installed in minutes.
One problem, one of the remote control units is a German model, an RM-02 instead of 01, it won't work.

Phoned them up, they are posting the right one.

I'm off today, almost ready to take a picture of the rooms now.

We had a sprinkling of snow during the night, that froze, I've put rock salt down on the driveway etc.

Glad Gillian is out, what a strange women, very clever, don't like her though.

Phoned Sky up, cancelled it, but have another payment to make because we are half way through a month.

Chanelle has her tree up, needs the pressies now.
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Just need to add the presents now!!!!!
http://yfrog.com/0objj0j

Just going to try this + Add Attachments link.
Will try and show a pic of the Villa and vehicle we hired to get round.
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Wow, just added the picture straight from my hard drive, it uploaded great, just click and you get full page.

Hi Hicky.
That attachments is a great new feature. Smashing pics.
The villa looks great, and the bed looks very comfy.
Look forward to seeing the pics of your rooms now.

Is that a Vauxhall Vivaro? (will be badged an Opel on the continent) 
I quite fancy one for my gardening, if my Ford conks out. The van version obviously.

Your Humax boxes came quick. Pity about the remote, but presumably the working one you've got works on both boxes? You'll just have to run between them.

That's very early for Chan to have her tree up.
She'll be sick of it long before Christmas.

Hi Emptybox.

It looks a great idea if we can upload pics and movie files etc.
It only takes a few minutes as well, you just browse on your drive for what you want, tried 1 pic first and as it was ok added more.Not too sure what the 9 seater was, it did the job well, easy on fuel.

The remote does do both boxes ok, O/H very pleased as the picture on the 42" TV is better than she ever had on Sky, don't know why, don't mean on HD, just on normal.
Still going to get a bigger dish and get the aerial sorted, it will be even better then.

Thought leaving my coat at work wouldn't matter, till 6.15am this morning when I realised that my chipped pass to get through the security turnstiles at work to get into the factory was in the pocket.
Had to ask one of the fellers going into the turnstile if I could go through with him, phew, that was close, nearly had to walk half a mile to a manned gate to ask security to let me in. 

Have a feeling I'll be busy at work today, with it being the end/start of the month.

Good morning all
these coloured spots on our new backround here look very pretty.

Emptybox
cant imagine what it must be like to have so much snow that you can't get out. I hope it becomes easier for you today, and you can get out. It may clear a little now, because I think they said it is going to become milder and wetter. It feels milder here, well minus 1 , which it is this morning, does feel mild after the minus 12 we had a few days ago.
I hope your postie turns up with your parcels today,.

Yes Chanelle has put her tree up early, especially as it looks like a real tree. I should imagine the bits will be falling off before Christmas. It does look very pretty though.

HIcky
Phheewww, that was lucky that someone managed to let you in work. Hope you arent too overworked today.
Those piccies of your hols looks lovely. What a nice looking villa, and a good sized pool too.
that is a great feature here, now we can see photos so easily.
Glad your OH is pleased with her tv piccy now.

A nice bright morning here today. No snow, frost or rain anyway.

Looking forward to the Apprentice tonight.

time for cheese and tomatoes on toast for brekkie for me.
enjoy your brekkie at work HIcky.

have a good day all. xx

Hi Mollie and Hicky.

The snow won't shift here for weeks, I don't think. Still got 16 or 17 inches, and it's been sunshine and snow showers today again.
The snow won't melt to any extent until the temp goes above 4 degrees.

I think wether I can get out will depend on the farmer clearing the drive, which he hasn't shown any signs of yet. If he hasn't done so by the begining of next week, I'll have to ring him up.

If they would only clear the end of the drive, the postman could park. At the moment he would have to park on the road, and as it's a bad corner, it wouldn't be very safe. 
I've got 7 parcels due, plus 4 days worth of newspapers, and various letters and junk mail, so it must be making quite a pile somewhere now. 

That was lucky with your pass Hicky. Bet you were pleased to get into work?......or perhaps not?

The humax boxes do have a good reputation for picture quality, although it's exactly the same satellite channels as on Sky, so there shouldn't be that much difference. But glad your OH is pleased. That's the main yardstick.

I see there's a clash between IAC and The Apprentice tonight.
I think I'll concentrate on The Apprentice. IAC is a bit predictable at this stage. Just as long as Stacy stays.

I think I might start getting stuff ready to do my tax return. It'll keep me occupied anyway.
Plus I'm going to do a thorough backup of all my computers.

Oh! And I see they are trying out new themes here, on a daily basis.
Definitely don't like today's one.

Hi Mollie.

Rush eased off a bit.
It seems a lot of people I chat too are blocked in with a foot of snow or more

We'll be able to post pics easier now, maybe we could before, just never tried.
I think it's snowing here at the mo.
Looking forward to the Apprentice tonight.

It's strange with this funny colour.

Hi Emptybox.
You sure have a lot of snow there, hardly any here.
Both my O/H and my Lad said the picture is a lot clearer now, wonder if it's because the Humax HD box has a HDMI socket which I used but the Sky+ box was only a scart.
Bet thats it, solved.
At least I can record programs now, I'll record IAC like you and watch the Apprentice.
I don't mind what colours they use as long as I can see the text, when they get 2 colours similar I have trouble reading the text.

Have we lost our post count?
I'm sure we had one.

Just noticed that a load of the old smilies don't work now, the wave ones and the sausage one, only the very simple original ones are in the list, the others are there but not recognised.
They have changed the software.
Not to worry.

Just had to show you this link, it was tweeted by carol McGiffin earlier.

It's a photo contest 47 pics.
Fantastic pictures

http://bit.ly/birta6

Hi Hicky.
There are some beautiful pictures there. And it's worth reading some of the text underneath.

It probably is the HDMI making the difference.

Didn't notice the depleted  smilies, but I tend to stick to the tried and trusted ones anyway.

Surprise surprise! I did get a postal delivery, at about 4pm in the dark.
I was upstairs listening to music, so I didn't hear him, but I found 3 jiffy bags and a few letters on the mat. It's a start anyway.
I suspect it wasn't the usual postman, because I'm supposed to get my papers with the post, and there weren't any papers. Ah well! Maybe tomorrow?

Hi Emptybox.

Yep, fantastic pics.
Just watching The Apprentice, hope the IAC records.
Strange about the Smilies.
Glad you got your mail, or some of it anyway.
I wonder what happened to the papers then?

Morning.
Heavy snow again.

I had a delivery earlier. A girl postie in sturdy boots with 2 parcels. But no papers and no other mail. At least I've now got my book from Amazon.

I think they must be putting on special deliveries, to get rid some of the backlog of parcels, but not doing ordinary postal deliveries? I presume the girl had a 4x4, but I didn't see.
The postie normally picks up the papers from the shop at the start of their round, but they can't be doing that. There'll be nearly a week's worth of papers waiting at the shop. I'll maybe have to phone the shop and cancel, if I don't get out soon, or the normal postie doesn't come.

The neighbour with the landrover offered to get shopping for me, if I need it. I'm OK just now, but it was nice of him to offer.

The Apprentice was a good episode. Quite glad Laura went. She was a bit too negative for me.
I see that 'Aggro' fella went on IAC? No great loss.
I hope your box recorded IAC as expected Hicky?

Hope you have another frost and snow free day Mollie.

Good Afternoon Mollie & Emptybox.

At least your getting some mail.

That was nice of your neighbour offering you help.

Enjoyed the Apprentice.
Don't know what happened with my recording, somehow it didn't record but I seamed to record the ITV2 show twice, don't know how, so haven't see the ITV1 show with Ant & Dec.

My remote controls came this morning, one original from Humax and one I ordered for my O/H to use upstairs, it  looks different but works fine.

Have taken a few pics of the rooms and French Windows with the TV on the Chimney breast, and one of the outside back and front.

Hi Hicky.

Thanks for the photos.
I do like that brown leather sofa. That looks lovely. And the other leather chair.
In fact that whole room looks good. The wallpaper is very bold, but it just goes with the rest of the colour scheme.

Not sure why you lost the IAC recording? But you want to experiment to make sure the box is working properly. They are supposed to be very reliable.

My papers problem has been solved.
A farmer, who lives between me and the village, called in with all my papers in a bundle.
He must have been in the paper shop in town, and offered to bring them out to me (and others). Very kind of him.

ETA: Woo Hoo!   My landlord has just brought the digger down from the farm and cleared a lot of the snow from the drive.
I will still need to do a lot of shovelling to get my car out, but I feel a corner has been turned, and I don't feel so cut off now. 

Hi Emptybox.
The Sofa's are great because the cushions etc are fitted in so don't slide off, they are all fixed.
Also the Sofa's come to pieces for places that haven't got good access.

My O/H try's to get all the stuff to match, one way or another.

I think I haven't quite got the hand of the recording on the remote controls yet.
Think I pressed the wrong button which maybe wasn't the one required.
Will practice tonight.

That was good of the  farmer, to bring your papers for you, and that's better now you have the end of the road cleared.

I was looking on a thread about Freesat and control codes and found a setting for the Foxsat recorder and controller, you hold the No. 0 and the OK button on together for 5 seconds while pointing at the box, you then get a message on the screen saying what code is in use, default is 1, you can then select 2 to 6 for a new code.
I've done this and so now I can use my remote control up stairs the same as my O/H, brill couldn't do this before.

Have now asked the question how I change the code on a remote when it isn't aimed at the box, would like 2 remote controls for each box.

Hi Hicky.
I see your question over there. You could always ask in the Freesat+ forum, if nobody can answer your question where it is.

Can you not sync each remote with it's Humax HDR on it's main TV, before you take it upstairs to use with the sender? I would think you could sync 2 remotes to the one box, and use different codes for each box? Or am I misunderstanding the problem?

I've got my Tax Return finished online now, so that's another job done for the year.

Hi Emptybox.

Not sure what you mean.
When I change the code on one of my boxes it changes the code to match in the remote control, I then can't use any other remote, so I can't change the code in the second control because it won't talk to the box because the signal is different.
I have the O/H's box on the default channel 1 and mine on channel 5, but I want to buy another remote to use upstairs but how do I change the code to channel 5?

At least you got your tax return done.
Not a lot else you can do this weather.

Good evening all
so we have flowery marigolds here in the background today.

Emptybox
glad to hear your mail and papers arrived at last.
We still have no snow or bad weather at all here. Just cold, but dry and bright again today. bit boring though seeing all these pics of elswhere looking all bright and white, but I am grateful we havent had any transport problems.  So far anyway. OH had no problem because no snow at all.
At least you managed to do your tax return whilst you have not been able to get out and about. Hopefully you will be out again soon, now you can get at your car.

Hicky
what lovely pics of your house. That wallpaper is dead trendy and funky, and lovely matching rugs too.   Our leather suite is very similar to yours,  They are very comfy, arent they?  That is good, that you have such clear reception on your tv.

I have been busy sorting out our tescos vouhcers today, because I had to trade them all in, wiht the value of them going down on 6 december if you havent traded them in. We hope to go to Paris with them, and a couple of UK hotels too.

I wont be around much tommoorrow, I am meeting an old friend in Cardiff, She is coming from somerset,  to see her daughter play in an orchestral  concert here. Her daughter is at the music Uni here. Then I will do a bit of shopping after.

Nearly the end of iAC , looks like it will be an easy win for Stacy.
My friend in Gold Coast (where the jungleites are) tells me they are sick of the constant rain there. It was their wettest october for 100 years, and is still pouring on and on now.

Goodnight all. xx

Hi Mollie.
I can tell you, I'm sick of the snow now.  You can have some of it gladly.  

Hope you have a good time with your friend tomorrow.

Why are the Tesco vouchers going down in value?
It'll be great if you can use them to go to Paris though.  

Hicky, I didn't realise you could only sync one remote per box?
I've got 2 Sharp Blu-ray players of the same model, and one of those was a refurbished one. When i first got it i couldn't get it to work with the supplied remote, but I looked at the manual, and managed to change the remote channel to the same as my original box (similar to the Humax procedure). Now both remotes will work with either player. But i could have chosen to have the 2 boxes on different channels so each remote would have only worked with one of the boxes.
Perhaps Humax has a different system? 
Anyway, i hope someone has the answer for you on DS.

It's looking like Stacey will win IAC.

Hi Mollie & Emptybox.

They are going to change the thread scheme/theme every day, a vote will be taken at the end, I got a message on twitter.
Here.
Help us choose a theme for @gagajoyjoy: http://ht.ly/3j5RF

Loving my new room at home, O/H loves them as well.
Still going to get the dish changed and the aerial sorted so I get the best reception for HD, and I want Freeview as well.

Strange your vouchers running out on the 6th December.
Hope you get the chance to use them.

The wettest for 100 years, that wasn't a lot of fun for them.

The minute that you have Sync with one remote to the box on say channel 5 the other remote's won't talk to the box, because they are a different channel so you can't connect to Sync.
Hope Stacey wins.
Have recorded Secret Millionaire, just hope it worked.
And don't have to go downstairs to change the mode on the box, yippeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Good Afternoon Everyone.

Not a bad day here, it's not snowing, no wind.
Been outside pruning vines with my new 2.3 TOG socks on my feet in my wellies.

My recording worked OK, watched it last night.

If the weather stays nice like this I might get some decking from B&Q and start making my plant boxes to hide the tubs.

One of my Sil's has got the big 'C' and is in a bad way, they can't stop the pain and keeps going for injections by the spine, it is in the backbone it seems, don't know how long she has but I would think maybe a few months.
It's an extension of the breast cancer she has years ago, but nothing can be done.

Afternoon.

Terrible news about your SIL Hicky. That must be hard on the whole family. Just hope she can get proper pain relief.

Very cold here, but no new snow.
Just spent 2 hours digging my car out, and my feet are freezing now. I could have done with your socks. 
I got the car moving, but I haven't gone anywhere yet, because it was 3pm when I finally finished and I didn't want to be driving in the dark. But at least I've got a car now, rather than a mound of snow.
Might try for the shops tomorrow if I can get out onto the road, and it's not too icy or snowy.
The snow is very dry now, and was reluctant to come off the car, but I kinda shoved it off in big blocks. It's quite abrasive when it gets to that stage, so I was worried about the paint work.

Glad your recording worked Hicky.
And glad you were able to get out into the garden to prune your vines.
I had to prune a neighbours rose bush. But only cos the snow had knocked it over, and it was hanging into the drive, and I didn't want it to scratch my car. The neighbour might not be too pleased, but it's been needing pruned for ages.

After I had done my tax return yesterday, I thought I would use the government website to get a forecast of my state pension. I'm not going to retire yet , but I think I must nearly have made enough NI contributions to qualify for a full pension (at 66), and I thought I would check.
The website is one of the worst I've ever used. Not user friendly at all. It kept giving me errors, and didn't seem to recognize me at all. Anyway I phoned up about it this morning and the guy was very helpful, checked my details, and said he would send me a forecast in the post. Simple. So online isn't always best, unfortunately.
The guy agreed with me, that their website was very user unfriendly.

Just been reading one of the threads on DS and saw a report about the film they put over the surfaces to protect them.
There is a layer inside the front cover which is held up by magnets, you can't see the film and had to get my penknife to try and find the edge of it to peel it off.
Don't remember seeing anything about it in the manual.
But they put a film on the outside as well, I think.

Hi Emptybox.

Just seen your post, must have been posting at the same time.
Glad you've uncovered your car anyway, but be careful if it isn't 4 wheel drive.

You normally need to pay Tax & Insurance for 40 years to get a full pension.
Didn't know you could get a forecast, when I was getting mine they only give you 1 forecast, that was it.
But it's taxable don't forget, the same as all pensions.

Hi Hicky.

The rules have recently changed.
You used to have to make 44 yrs worth of NI contributions before you got the full pension, but you now only have to make 30, which is why I thought I might be around that stage now. Mind you, I won't be eligible to start till I'm 66, in 15 years time.
You can get a forecast at any time, but not sure how much use it'll be? Just wanted to make sure all my contributions had been counted.

Not sure what your previous post is on about? Is it the Humax boxes that have the films?

ETA: Didn't get any mail or papers again today. Must have been too cold for the postie?

Hi Emptybox.

I'm sure it's always been 40 yrs, until recently maybe.

I was talking about the Film of plastic that is put on the surface of finished polished products to protect the surface (Humax box), but in this case they have put a layer inside the drop down front cover and you can't see it, couldn't see it when I knew it was there, had to scrape with a knife to find an edge, crazy.

Have emailed the company who makes Remote's to order to see if I will be able to change the operating channel.

Good Afternoon Mollie & Emptybox.

Well, it's raining now, the little snow we had is going fast.
If it freezes tonight we could have a problem.

Been out for fuel, loaded up with goodies for the programs tonight.
Cad-Nibbles, Cad-Crunchie Rocks, Maltesers, Fry's -Turkish Delight bars, Bass-Jelly Babies.
That should do for now.
And of course some little pork pies and a meat & pot one as well.

Afternoon Hicky.
Sounds like you are going to be stuffed watching the telly tonight?

It's been a nice sunny day here, so I ventured out to the shops to get provisions, lottery tickets and fuel. The roads aren't too bad, but with the snow banked up on either side, they are narrower than usual.
I had one hairy moment on a narrow stretch uphill, and a blasted big lorry coming the other way.
I had to stop, and he inched past with millimetres  to spare. Unfortunately my wheels were in the snow and spinning, and I had to reverse to get unstuck. I got home unscathed though.

I think this weekend is to be only a short respite, and the snow is to come back next week.

Annoyingly the supermarket car-park was closed because they hadn't cleared the snow. Also the big trolleys were unusable because they were piled high with snow. I had to park in town and walk with my bags back to the car. As a result I didn't buy as much as I was intending because I wouldn't have been able to carry it all. I bet the supermarket is losing a lot of business because they couldn't be bothered to clear the snow.

I got another girl postie today, but no papers. I picked them up in town myself, but it's a nuisance if the post has stopped picking them up.
I pay a delivery charge, and the shop obviously pays the postal service to deliver them, so I'm seriously thinking of cancelling the papers if this goes on. The snow might be here till March, and it's no good getting papers days late.
Obviously I wouldn't want the posties to be at risk, but as I say, the post is getting through now, but not the papers.  

Hi Mollie. Hope you had a good time with your friend at the concert, and you had a fruitful shopping trip after?

Hi Emptybox.

You had a better day than me for a change, hasn't stopped raining all day here.
was going to B&Q if the weather was nice, don't like rain, so delayed that idea.
Was hoping to start building my plant boxes, have till the summer.

I admire you struggling without 4 wheel drive, not that it makes sense.
With the weather getting worse each year everyone will have to get 4 x 4 or they will just block all the roads up.
I suppose they couldn't clear the car park of the super market, where would they put the snow?
It's easy to clear the trolley, you just turn it over surely, and give it a bang.
Strange about your papers, what did the paper shop say when you told them?

Looking forward to SCD, X-Factor & IAC tonight, should be good.

It's confusing with the dish position to see the satellite, it says to get Astra 2D @ 28.2 deg East of Due South the dish will be almost verticle because of the offset.
It says on the web site I tried that I am 39,300 km's away
Why isn't there a relay satellite above the UK? we wouldn't have all these obstructions then, aiming a dish at the horizon doesn't sound a good idea at all.

Hi Hicky.
Pity rain stopped play in your garden.

The supermarket could have hired a digger to clear the car park. There's a wall at the back that leads to the river, so they could have put the snow there, or made a heap in the corner of the car park. It wasn't closed when we had all the snow last February.
I didn't try the trolleys because I knew i was going to have to carry the bags so just used one of the hand baskets, but it would have been tricky to free a trolley because they were locked together in a train, with the snow on top.

Not sure why the satellite dish has to be aimed at the horizon? Mine is only aimed slightly upward as well. The footprint of the Astra 2D satellite is definitely aimed at the UK, although you can pick it up in other parts of Europe using a bigger dish. You'd think the dish should point more upward, but I think the satellites are in a group orbiting over France. That's probably where they are launched from.

So glad Stacey won in the Jungle.
I quite enjoyed the ITV2 show as well. i don't usually bother with that.

Hi Emptybox.

It is strange them no opening/clearing the car park and trolleys, maybe the cost would be too much each time it snowed.

I noticed on the Astra 2D footprint, they don't even show a 43CM dish, that is what is fitted around here, strange eh.
I want a 59/60 CM one anyway.

Chuffed that Stacey won, a deserving winner for me.

I've been reading up on pruning my Wisteria & Clematis now, when the weather is a bit better, it's all over the Pagola.

I need some more canes to go across my Vine Trellis work sections.
Will go to the garden center I think and get some., I need 6ft and 7 ft canes to go horizontal for the vines to cling to, could use wire but not on the Trellis work.

The Bird bath is running again, cleared off the ice and the drip is active.

Afternoon.
It was very cold overnight, but I got my car thawed out to go for the papers. Don't think I'll venture out further though.
It's sunny though, with clear blue skies.
It seems there is more snow on the way in the early part of the week, but maybe better conditions by next weekend? Hope so anyway.

I think that diagram I showed is a bit out of date Hicky. It shows a 60cm 'squarial', which aren't used now.

Hope you get what you need in B&Q. Don't know when I'll get to do any more gardening. Maybe not till April?

Hope Mollie is having a good weekend.

Hi Emptybox.

I'm after a 59CM dish anyway, it says the dish is fitted vertical because the offset to the LMB is built into it.

It's freezing here now, minus 3.0 at the Mo.

I went to the garden centre, got some screw in vine loops, going to see if I can put wires up like I'm supposed to.
Couldn't get any canes because the outside was closed due to the black ice everywhere, could have asked a staff member but will go next week.

My O/H got me some thick socks for my wellies, super, can use them as slippers in the house.

Good evening all
had a hectic weekend.
Realised it was last posting day for australia yesterday, and even though I bought my cards back in September, so I wouldnt get behind, I still hadn't written one of them.  I have ten to send, and letters to write too, but managed to get them all off yesterday afteroon.
It poured most of the day here yesterday, so that snow you sent me Emptybox got too overheated on the way, so didnt work.

Glad you managed to get out at last Emptybox, good job you didnt get stuck though.

Hicky
glad you are happy with your lounge, from what we have seen in the pics, it does look lovely and cosy.
Good idea to have nice thick socks for your wellies, you need them in this weather. We too have thick ice on the pavements, that is more lethal than snow because you cant see it.
at all your saturday night viewing treats. We too like to buy special chocs for Saturdays.
did you sneak a visit in to the B and Q burger van today?

We went to get a few more pressies today , and we had a nice jacket potate at the food hall.

what a lovely winner our Stacy was for IAC.
Looking forward to X factor tonight.
My fave is Rebecca.
who is your favourite?

hope you are both enjoying your weekend. xx