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good morning everyone
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the overnight rain is supposed to ease off by afternoon



breakfast is ready


porridge

selection of cold cereals

Full English

Troll's b.e.l.t. sandwich ……… bacon, two fried eggs, lettuce, tomato and
mayonnaise on your choice of toast. Served with hash browns or mini potato cakes and grilled tomato on the side

French (eggy) toast, maple syrup, Golden syrup

Scrambled eggs, baked beans, and toast. Bacon may be added if desired

Portobello Mushroom Caps with eggs, cheese and spinach

Chicken and basil sausages, 2 eggs any style, chef’s potatoes, toast


in the warmers ................

bacon, sausage patties, poached eggs, grilled mushrooms, baked tomatoes, baked beans, home-fried potatoes with garlic and bacon


toast (selection of Artisan breads)
barm cakes
croissants
crumpets


selection of jams, jellies, marmalade, marmite


Tea, coffee, juices




enjoy
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s
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Hi everyone
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a damp drizzly day all day Monday


it's supposed to be dry for New Year :-)




s
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Just popped in and had to rescue poor Fred from page 2 :-(

Sylvia glad you enjoyed yourself nice to see you back

Cynthia hope you all had fun at the party.

got caught up on housework just in time for the GD's to mess it all up again tomorrow ;-)

Gins glad you enjoyed yourself and great to see you back on here :-)

Hey you~~~~~

Back home from Wales and although we had a lovely time, as always....its good to be home

Hope you are all OK and have been looking after Fred

Good morning all :-)

Nice to see you back Sylvia - I will have the Huevos Rancheros please with extra bacon on top <3 :-D

Might find room for some of those lovely Caribbean Banana Fritters to follow :-D

I think you are all correct about my water supply. I will wait a week or two until they sort out the main supply problem and then call someone in to test it.

I hope your friend is now recovering Sylvs

Enjoy the party Cynths.

See you all later,

Dea Xxx

Good morning everyone and welcome back Sylvs :-D


Thank you for breakfast, though I am not sure I can face any after reading about Dea's black gunge..... :-0


Something isn't right there Dea and you should get someone in to sort it pronto!

Like Sylvs, gunge can build up in the outlet pipes and I occasionally make sure they are clean by pouring boiling water and soda crystals down the waste pipes but I can't think we have had any in the toilet :-S


It's daughter's birthday today and I think the gang are coming round here at about 11am. I think I had better have a quick tidy up so that they can make a mess of it all again... :-D :-D :-D :-D


Back later ~~~~

good morning, everyone
xxx



breakfast is ready :-)


Fresh fruit salad with vanilla yoghourt

Honey Yoghurt and Berries, with granola and walnuts


Oatmeal Berry Bowl ………..oatmeal topped with a berry compote


Selection of cold cereals


Caribbean Banana Fritters


French Toast with Caramelized Bananas


Full English

Hearty Canadian – 3 eggs any style, bacon or ham, sausage, hash browns, pancakes, toast

The Continental – choice of assorted chilled fruit juices, hot oatmeal or assorted cold cereals, toast or fresh-baked muffin


Asparagus and cheese or Ham and cheese omelette


Boiled eggs and toast


Portobello Mushroom Caps with eggs, cheese and spinach

Huevos Rancheros

Mini Tomato Baked Frittata


Breakfast bagel ……… scrambled egg, bacon and cheese OR vegetarian (scrambled eggs, basil pesto, tomato, aubergine


in the warmers ....................

Bacon, turkey sausages, scrambled eggs, grilled mushrooms, baked tomatoes, baked beetroot, fried bread


Toast
croissants
crumpets
barm cakes


selection of homemade jams, jellies, marmalade, peanut butter


tea, coffee, juices





enjoy
xxx





s
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I've been catching up the UK weather, and the floods




The weather here was pretty good ................. mild, dry, and even some sun.


Quite unlike what was happening in Toronto and southern Ontario, and in New Brunswick. They had a major ice storm before Christmas, and thousands of people are still without power .......... and some are unlikely to get it before New Year.

At one point over 300,000 people were without electricity!

AND ............ there is another storm for them tonight and one over New Year!


I was sitting here watching the TV news before we went away, thinking "if this had been a year to go east to our daughter, we'd have been in the thick of THAT ............ or that ............ or that"!




Daughter bought grandson a pair of snowshoes with money I sent ................. they had him out on them today (ie, Sunday). He apparently loves them!

They're waiting to see if they get part of the next storm!

Dea .................


we get black grunge in our waste pipes leading from the sinks, especially in the bathrooms ............. it can appear up around the plug, and can block the pipes if it builds up too much

That is caused by bacteria living on the stuff that we put down the sinks ................ hair, soap, fat, etc.


BUT you should not be getting it from the inflow and the taps.


You really should contact the powers-that-be to come and see what is causing it.

We had a good visit away, bit different from the norm in many respects, but still enjoyable.


One of the weirdest was on Boxing Day ....................

My daughter phoned from the East Coast to tell us that one of our friends was in hospital ............ in the city where we were :-S

She had tried to phone M for Christmas, but the phone was answered by someone who had gone in to water the plants and feed the cat .............

M was taken to hospital on Christmas afternoon after having trouble swallowing.

We hadn't made any arrangements to see M who was spending the holiday with other people, so the other 5 of the "close" friends hadn't realised.


M has been released, but more tests are pending ............... it seems that it might have been a very bad attack of gastric reflux ............... but as she is 87 ..................

Hi all
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I'm back in circulation :-)


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Dea,

We had trouble with our water supply once and the council sent someone out to test the water. Could you do that?

You should be able to drink the water from your taps so must be a fault somewhere!

We are spoilt here our water is so good I miss it when we are on holiday :-D

Hi Toots nice to see you <3

Now where is Jonesey? Probably still stuffed from all that food on Christmas day ;-)

just dropping by to say hi

I'm off back to the dark side to make sure they don't delete the competition details again. It's like a battle of wills :-D

Good morning all :-)

Thank you for the lovely breakfast Cynthia <3

About the black gunge - yes, that is with us all the time - it builds up on the taps and in the toilets so I am for ever scrubbing them and bleaching to get rid of it.

We have never had the problem anywhere else we have lived.

Dea Xxx

Morning all.... :-D


Ewwww...Dea. Do you get that black gunge from the taps all of the time, or is it just whilst there is the ongoing problem? I can certainly understand drinking bottled water in those circumstances, but I just meant about drinking it in general.


Looks as though I am on breakfast duty again.

It's going to have to be a quick one because there is only one 'sitting' at you-know-where, due to the holiday season and it's an hour earlier than I am used to....... zzzzzzzzz

Okay, a quick scout around and please help yourselves..


Cereal
Porridge

Bacon and eggs with tomatoes or mushrooms

Crumpets and croissants

Toast a plenty

Tea and Coffee and fresh juice.


Must dash ~~~~~~

Cynths - you would drink bottled water if you could see the black gunge which comes out of my taps and into my toilets !!!!!

"What IS that annoying tweeing noise? "- I can't imagine ??? ;-) :-D

Nite nite nows,

Dea Xxx

I rarely buy bottled water Dea, can't see the point to be honest...... :-S


Enjoy your trip Gins.....


Linds, I can remember my granddaughter cuddling up for sleep too....it was so wonderful to have little arms wound around my neck........gulp!



I went up to the attic last night and, in doing so, some of the plaster dust came down but I decided to leave it until today to clear up. In the end, I decided to hoover every room in the house and tidy up after Christmas.......Quite enjoyed it too!!


What IS that annoying tweeing noise? :-S

Enjoy your takaway Linds <3

We just had a bit of a surprise - we wanted something warm and soothing after all the rich food at Christmas so I looked in the freezer and brought out something which looked like a beef stew - the label had fallen off but is had chunks of beef in it and carrots so I 'pinged' it and did some veg and dumplings to go with it.

When I had cooked it I realised that it was a beef bourginon !! - To be honest it was a bit rich with the dumplings plonked in but it went down well all the same. ;-) :-D

Dea Xxx

Dea,

That lot should keep you going for a while <3

Gins enjoy your visit with your family :-D

We had F today as big sister was at a party she wouldn't go to sleep for grampa so I had to go and lie down with her and she cuddled in and went to sleep.

Oh it was lovely to have a little one fall asleep beside you brought back memories of her daddy doing the same thing and it doesn't seem so long ago that he did ;-)

Think I will have a lazy night and order a takeaway ;-)

Is that an Easter bunny on your avatar Ginns ???

You are becoming as far ahead as the supermarkets :-( :-0 :-(

Talking about supermarkets - I went to mine today and intended, amongst other things, to buy some bottled water. I never drink tap water even when it looks clean and would not dream of making the children's cordial with it.

Unfortunately, due to our local water problems there was hardly any left on the shelves.

However, as I was driving to the exit I noticed several men in those yellow shiny jackets standing by stacks of bottled water - they gave me 18 x 1.5 litre bottles for free and even carried it to my car for me :-) :-) :-)

That's what I call a good deal :-)

I didn't like to ask them for enough to have a clean bath in ;-)

Dea Xxx