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<3 A very Happy and Healthy New Year to all on this thread <3

Just popped in to wish you all a <3HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 <3. We don't usually stay up anymore, but fireworks have been going off here for about an hour now.

Thanks LG.

Vera coughs going gradually, weather today was foul. Wet and windy.nturkey meal tonight was scrumptious.

Happy new year all. We hope to stay up. <3

A very Happy and Healthy New Year to all on this thread. :-)

Its got really gusty here now and its been quite warm if you are out of the wind.

For those of you not staying up I am wishing you all a very happy new year and a healthy one. <3

Not done much today after all and not seen a soul. Feeling a bit lonely today. :-(

Vera thats very kind but don't think about sorting out that recipe now you have family to think about there's no hurry forget about it now and I'll try and think about asking in a few weeks you concentrate on your family <3

It really clouded over this afternoon and looked like it was going to pour with rain but it did stay dry ,the wind has got up a bit too.

Not sure that we will be keeping up for the new year I don't think I'll be able to keep my eyes open so I'll wish you all a very Happy and Peaceful New year <3 see you all in 2025

Good afternoon all

The day started quite bright but gradually got more dull. It’s not really been cold as long as we were out of the wind but bitter in the wind. The wind is getting stronger now and tomorrow is supposed to be horrible with strong gusts and heavy rain.

Because of the weather warning for tomorrow I decided to pick up my meds today. Oh, there was a long wait I used to go in and my bag of tablets would be waiting for me. Now they don’t make the script up until you go in for it and if there are several people ahead of you it can take ages. I could see OH getting fed up waiting and hoped he wasn’t going to say anything. When we later went into Boots we found their queue was even longer so it seems to be the same everywhere now. While we were out we also stocked up with 24 tins of Heinz baked beans at Farm Foods for a lot less than we would have paid at any of the supermarkets and got a load of bird food from Pets at Home. If we eventually give up the car we won’t be able to take advantage of the prices at these places as they are not in the town centre so I wouldn’t be able to get to them.

Will the football match OH is planning to go to still take place Annx? I wonder if it might be cancelled in view of the likely wind and rain. I shouldn’t think it would do your OH much good to be standing around in a cold wind getting soaking wet. If you had your lamb chops today I hope you enjoyed them. Unlike Mandy we have quite a lot of lamb, though we seldom have chops. We had a half shoulder on Sunday and cold on Monday and we like shanks or leg steaks done in a casserole. I’ve never made a beef cobbler either. I should try it sometime. Tonight’s meal is Cottage Pie.

Btw Mandy, I haven’t forgotten I said I’d send you that cheesecake recipe. I’ll try and do it this week.

How’s the weather with you AnnG? I hope you are all keeping warm and all your coughs and colds are getting better.

~~~~~~~~~~ just waving to Mel and Gwyn and anyone else who looks in and I wish you all a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. See you all in 2025

Suns still out but there is a cold wind. Washing is on the line and I am just going to have a tidy up and a hoover. Need to clean the little loo and bathroom too.

Your cobbler sound nice I don't think I have ever made that.

Shoiuld ring Stu and see what he is doing as its my day to cook this week but it may have to be Thursday if he's dpoing something with the kids.

Morning all,

We have sunshine this morning but it's a bit chilly out .

Just cooking my beef for the cobbler tomorrow and I've done the veg ,I'm also going to make the crumble and then I can just pop that in the oven to reheat while we have the cobbler .

Anng I think your in for the wet and windy weather the next few days ,we should get the wind tomorrow.

Hope you enjoy your lamb chops today Ann ,that's something we don't really have a lot of Lamb ,mum used to cook a lovely shoulder of Lamb and I use to like the first crispy slice off the top .

Good morning on this last day of 2024.

Quite bright here this monring for a change and its 10 degrees and cloudy by the pc.

Don't know what I am goinfg to do today will just see how the mood takes me.

What are you lot up too?

Hope you all had a good sleep last night.

All up late this morning. Good morning all very wet and very windy here.

All up late this morning. Good morning all very wet and very windy here.

Been to Holsworthy this afternoon and had a bit of retail therapy. Got chickens food in Mole Valley and some rat bait and treated myself to some sweets ma,rked down. I bought 6 walnut whips, a box of Anton Berg's apricot in marzipane, and some Nuberry fruiits hav'nt had those for years.

Went in the co-op and bought milk and bacon and fairy liquid then came home. Got in just before it was dark and I could still see to get the key in the door. I had fed the girls before going so now I am indoors and am going to make myself a well earned cuppa.

I could do with a bit of that apple crumble for dessert tonight Mandy. Maybe I'll mkae one and some apple sauce for the freezer.

Afternoon All,

Yes I managed to sleep better last night and feel brighter today. No fog or mist and some bright sunshine which is a pleasant change from recent weather.

Mel it's a shame you didn't get a photo of the 'twins' with their mum, but wildlife tends to vanish or move when I haven't got my camera in my hand. I'll have to try the looking up trick!

AnnG what a nuisance the 2 appliances at your DIL's going wrong. As Mandy said you can wash up by hand, but you really need the washer to do clothes, so I hope it can be fixed today.

Mandy that was lucky your son managed to get a new tumbledryer delivered on Christmas Eve, but it's not a time when you want more expense. There's nothing nicer than a home made apple crumble is there and I see you have some apples now. The ones you get when you eat out seem to just be sprinkled with an oat mix and don't have that lovely crunch!

As OH is hoping to go to a match in Derbyshire on New Year's Day (gales and snow permitting!) I think we will have some Barnsley lamb chops on New year's eve instead..........he hates missing out! I might just have a pizza on New Years Day as a last naughty treat that's quick to do.

We called and dropped off my parcel to return at the Post office this morning and I asked about paying cheques in. Like the lady who served me and has the same bank, she said the service doesn't apply for us as our bank is a building society! She said she'd opened a seperate bank account in the end that was solely for her to pay cheques in to save travel and parking costs going to the few distant branches that are left. Isn't life getting ridiculous! We called at the bathroom place then and I picked up the latest catalogue. Then we went down the main road to Sainsbury's for OH to drop a suit at the drycleaners in there. Well it was mayhem with the traffic queuing in all directions for the retail park and blocking all the lanes on the island so no-one could move when the traffic lights changed. We were lucky to find a parking spot near the exit at Sainsbury's, but a chunk of the carpark is now charging points for the EVs and people going to the retail park there as well now and walk across the main road. Now OH has gone for his annual blood sugar test.

That's a good idea to freeze apple sauce Vera. I've done it when I've made too much, but not thought to do a batch. I'm not keen on the bought stuff either and find it too sweet.

A COT next I think and a browse through this catalogue.

The mist and fog has gone at last and it's a lovely sunny day, though it is very cold. OH has been out in the garden for a lot of the day so things are looking a bit tidier out there now.

I don't know where the time is going at the moment but I seem to be working all the time and not achieving very much. Now Mandy has reminded me that I bought some cooking apples a few days ago and had forgotten about them. I used my last pot of apple sauce the last time we had pork and I need to make some more. I usually do quite a lot in one go and freeze it in little pots. I think I'd better get on with that now before I forget again or the apples won't be worth using.

Enjoy what's left of the day everyone.

Yes I thought of you Mel when I said about the cookers I thought bet Mel has some cookers .

Oh thats a nuisance Anng the dishwashers not so bad as you can wash up but you need the washer for clothes ,sons tumble dryer went wrong just before Christmas he had a fiddle with it but they had to buy a new one ,luckily Hughes could deliver christmas eve but its something they could have done without having to buy at Christmas time.

Got some lovely big cookers for the crumble and a nice cabbage for 50p dropped the scrips in the doctors it was very busy nowhere to park but Colin nipped out and put them in the box while I turned round ,now we're having a coffee and then I'm making some parsnip soup for lunch .

Good morning all. I did add or try to add a post earlier but safari wouldn’t play. I slept quite well and got up later than usual. It is dull but dry. We are probably not going out. Daughter is still coughing and the washing machine went wrong before we went away. This morning the dishwasher has come out in sympathy and the man is coming to fix both this afternoon. Just hope he can fix them.

Morning Mandy and all,

Shame you don't live nearer as I still have picked cookers int he boot of my car.

Its 9 degrees here a much brighter day and I have three deer walking across the garden O they're playing. It was the mum and twins which are getting big now. I suppose they stay with mum for a year at least. I wonder if she is carrying again?

BIL has the week off so I suppose he could turn up at any time.

Hope you all slept better last night.

Morning all,

Nice bright morning no fog today its cleared at last ,hopefully we'll see the sun .

Ann I hope you've managed to get a good night's sleep it makes you feel awful when you've have a bad night .

We're off to get our prescriptions into the doctors and I need to get some cooking apples as I nearly forgot I had said I'd make a nice crumble for new years day for the family .

I do hope you can sleep well tonight Annx. I was once told that if you can't sleep to look upwards. It has worked for me in the past.