Stormy Weather

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

are your galoshes packed Caliban?

[Nick Armstrong]

are your galoshes packed Caliban?

Blenkinsop accompanies me everywhere with a tarpaulin and a twelve-bore, so all should be well

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Good show old chap!

[Anna]

Foxes, solar flares, and now, a group of grannies representing Russia in the Eurovision Contest
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17297443 I bet they'll beat Humperdinck, cos everyone has a Nan that they love. Smart move by Purtn. I think it's catchy!

[BBMmk2]

That a big fox! Also thoae grannies!! :)

Rather a nice day down here but cold.

[doversoul1]

Weather-wise off topic but I bought a bottle of posh looking Greek olive oil in Sainsbury’s the other day, reduced from some £5 to £1. This evening, my visitor noticed that the label on the bottle stated the sell by date 31 February 2012.

It was lovely and sunny down in this corner of Kent today.

[Chris Newman]

Spoil yourself, doversoul, and use the olive oil up within the next couple of months. That is the sell by date. The use by date should be three or four months later. It'll still be fine for dressings etc. Dip your bread in it instead of spreading butter. After May then use it up for cooking.

[salymap]

Just reviving the dear old thread as it's sunk to the bottom of the page.

I thought we were promised a warm w/e but seems cold to me. It may be because I seem to have contracted a sort of, erm, gastric chill. Shall try some toast for lunch now

[BBMmk2]

Goodness, have we been neglecting this thread? Mind you, ive been rather busy this week. Hence, why you have seen less of me of late

Lovely sunny day here today. had a great jamming session to as well!!

[Serial_Apologist]

Goodness, have we been neglecting this thread?

There's a drought on, BBM...

[amateur51]

Spoil yourself, doversoul, and use the olive oil up within the next couple of months. That is the sell by date. The use by date should be three or four months later. It'll still be fine for dressings etc. Dip your bread in it instead of spreading butter. After May then use it up for cooking.

It'll be a wonderful oil for making croutons for a salad or fried bread to transform a humble tin of baked beans or a fried egg.

Coming nurse!

[BBMmk2]

There's a drought on, BBM...

[Anna]

Gosh, a sweltering 18.1 degrees here at half two, now dipped to 15.1, all windows and back door open (not such a good thing as neighbours will have heard the shouting during the rugby!)

saly, sorry about your gastric chill, I find dry toast smeared with Marmite a certain pick me up (unless you are a Marmite hater) If you are a Marmite hater then I recommend raw onions on dry toast, what don't kill, cures! As to rainfall, here in Jan we had half our average, in Feb a quarter of our average. The Herons are abandoning the river and raiding the private ponds in their search for fish. One bloke has lost 61 Koi from his lake to them. Bless, you can't blame them though.

[Mahlerei]

There may be a drought on but it's taken Thames Water TWO MONTHS to repair a burst water main nearby. It caused partial subsidence and a pedestrian came to grief there last week. Then my neighbours either had no water at all or a rust-coloured sludge.

Been warm enough to bath Sky, who had no choice in the matter as she'd rolled in dog poo at the green. Why do they do that, I wonder? I think I'm wetter than she is and I can't even shake myself dry :(

[marthe]

Just reviving the dear old thread as it's sunk to the bottom of the page.

I thought we were promised a warm w/e but seems cold to me. It may be because I seem to have contracted a sort of, erm, gastric chill. Shall try some toast for lunch now

I hope you've had a good lunch despite the gastric chill! Time for me to leave the desk and go down to the kitchen to make some lunch as well. Don Giovanni on the live Met broadcast this afternoon. This was one of my Dad's favorites so I shall think of him as I listen...and eat my lunch. Weather today is a mix of sun and cloud with rather brisk temps. Our clocks go ahead at 2AM tomorrow.