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[BrilloPad]

Although equally I could pour another sherry and sit here feeling mellow.

Is mellow your mistress?

[BrilloPad]

MrsBP says eta for lunch is 13:30.

[northernladuk]

MrsBP says eta for lunch is 13:30.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have her back by then.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Just to counteract my earlier Christmas wishes - a bit Bah Humbug to DrStrangelove. We wouldn't want you to have too good a day after all.

How many days until you can be back in with the hoi polloi?

7.5 days.

Well that was a nice long walk.

Up to tonna lock, down to town, up through the memorial gates, up through the Gnoll grounds avoiding the oiks, onward & upward along the leat to the res, then up the road to Parsons' Folly, finally stopping to take photos of the numerous windmills visible from the cattle grid underneath the electricity pylons.

Glorious view of the valley, boyo, there's tidy then, glistening in the sun once the fog had burned off.

Then back down the hill.

In a fit of insanity I decided to try what used to be a path, there being signs that others had progressed that way.

Which led to me falling arse over tit when I caught my foot in a fecking bramble.

Since it's a semibog there was little damage other than to my dignity.

Once I'd recovered my watch which had fallen out of my shirt pocket, it was onwards and downwards once again.

Lunch was poached tomato and scrambled egg on Morrisons sunflower and pumpkin seed toast (crust).

And during all this time no one wished any form of season's greetings.

[ladymuck]

There's really only one answer after teasing us like that...

I suspect they're puns on classics, with titles like "yellow snow, yellow, yellow snow" and "chipmucks roasting on an open fire". I expect about 10% will be genuinely funny

[DoctorStrangelove]

Trip to Toolstation to get a hydraulic accumulator that's designed to stop water hammer, which is a problem with both washing machines.

Which, as it happens, didn't do the job for very long before going solid.

Shall have to get a different, larger, one from Screwfix when & if I ever get a round tuit.

[ladymuck]

Which, as it happens, didn't do the job for very long before going solid.

Shall have to get a different, larger, one from Screwfix when & if I ever get a round tuit.

Is the water pressure very high? Any chance of reducing it?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Dunno. I've never measured it.

[ladymuck]

Now watching that 6 Underground fillum on Netflix. It's not had great reviews, can see why. It's somewhat self indulgent and I can't discern much plot. It could be that it's not holding my interest enough for me to have picked it up. Pretty much Ryan Reynolds being Ryan Reynolds.

[NickFitz]

Nice dinner for lunch; I won’t bother detailing the ingredients as you can probably guess