RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 23, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2023 6 minutes ago, Hroth said: I can do with someone to pop in and do some cleaning, will "Bleached Linen" do as an alternative? More likely to attract him with the smell of fresh baked bread and frying bacon. 6 2 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 (edited) 39 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: More likely to attract him with the smell of fresh baked bread and frying bacon. Having just risked hypothermia and frost bite to watch some trains go by, that is very tempting I'll have to make do with coffee and cake though. I did think I was going to watch someone get bowled over. They got off a train and took the shortcut across the track, oblivious to the train going the other way. There was about 5 seconds in it give or take. As for cleaning, not my choice. I managed to get away with just the vacuuming and some light dusting, but it bought me a 3 hour pass. It was too cold to use all 3 hours though. 2c with a stiff, lazy breeze and snow flurries has driven me back for cake Andy Edited December 23, 2023 by SM42 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 23, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2023 11 minutes ago, SM42 said: Having just risked hypothermia and frost bite to watch some trains go by, that is very tempting I'll have to make do with coffee and cake though. I did think I was going to watch someone get bowled over. They got off a train and took the shortcut across the track, oblivious to the train going the other way. There was about 5 seconds in it give or take. As for cleaning, not my choice. I managed to get away with just the vacuuming and some light dusting, but it bought me a 3 hour pass. It was too cold to use all 3 hours though. 2c with a stiff, lazy breeze and snow flurries has driven me back for cake Andy I would not have bothered to go out, and instead spent the full three hours on a cake fest. 8 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 3 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: I would not have bothered to go out, and instead spent the full three hours on a cake fest. Cake wasn't on the menu before I went out. The restorative effects only came into play upon my return. Nice bit of gingerbread cake and some apple cake have restored the circulation in the extremities. Andy 12 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 23, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2023 20 minutes ago, SM42 said: Cake wasn't on the menu before I went out. The restorative effects only came into play upon my return. Nice bit of gingerbread cake and some apple cake have restored the circulation in the extremities. Andy As Jean Luke Picard would have said: 'The hippo needs a three hour cake fest: Make it so!' 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 26 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: As Jean Luke Picard would have said: 'The hippo needs a three hour cake fest: Make it so!' If you really want one.... 2 3 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 Feel free to send fresh baked bread, bacon, cake, alcoholic refreshment! Had to clear snow twice outside the house today. Had 6 inches, (15cm), dumped on us in 5 hours. Even the Snow Ploughs are struggling! Paul, Time for a Hot Toddy 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Hroth said: If you really want one.... Is that HH's stage name or have you been 'acquiring' children's birthday cake. Edited December 23, 2023 by Winslow Boy 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 23, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2023 49 minutes ago, Flying Fox 34F said: Time for a Hot Toddy I've just poured two glasses of sherry for Nyda and myself. Veg prep for this evenings meal will follow. 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 (edited) The last big meal till tomorrow night has just been consumed. Potato pancakes with goulash. Very tasty. Just a light breakfast tomorrow and then nothing till the main event around 5pm. Most shops are closed, one or two supermarkets are open for those last minute supplies and then it's all closed till Wednesday. I hope we've got enough in otherwise we will have to survive on beer alone Andy Edited December 23, 2023 by SM42 12 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted December 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 23, 2023 I was going through some recently acquired records and saw this one; it made me think of a certain resident Hippo: Note that it is the Eastman Symphonic WIND Ensemble! 😲 1 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darlington_Shed Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 16 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: Note that it is the Eastman Symphonic WIND Ensemble! How did they know? 1 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted December 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 23, 2023 Good question. It was recorded back in 1957 or so; there is a small notation in fountain-pen ink that state "11-2-57", probably the date that the purchaser bought it. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted December 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 23, 2023 Night Owl from the Piedmont. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 43 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: I was going through some recently acquired records and saw this one; it made me think of a certain resident Hippo: Note that it is the Eastman Symphonic WIND Ensemble! 😲 He'll probably be doing that too after the Brussels Sprout fest..... 4 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 24, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2023 (edited) 46 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: Good question. It was recorded back in 1957 or so; there is a small notation in fountain-pen ink that state "11-2-57", probably the date that the purchaser bought it. I was around then and was well practiced in what is sometimes referred to as a Poonami. 43 minutes ago, Hroth said: He'll probably be doing that too after the Brussels Sprout fest..... Roasted sprouts: We are having them tomorrow this evening. Yum! Edited December 24, 2023 by Happy Hippo 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: Roasted sprouts: We are having them tomorrow this evening. Yum! Have they declared a no fly zone? 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted December 24, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2023 Yeah the fly's have all been gassed.. 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying Fox 34F Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 Just finished clearing another 12 inches, (30cm), of snow from outside of the house to the road, that came down overnight. Another two hours gone! Now warming up with tea and cake. Mother-in-Law is making Cozonac, (Sweet bread) and my wife is making curtains!! I’ve got to clear the snow off the car next! Merry Christmas everyone on TNM. Paul 10 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 We're having a white Christmas Well not much to write hone about, but snow is falling and there is a light dusting on the grass and roofs. It's that fine, dry powdery stuff. Andy 13 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike Bellamy Posted December 24, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2023 19 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Will you even open a small tin of Fresh Flour so that the aroma makes him feel at home. Jamie 19 hours ago, Hroth said: I can do with someone to pop in and do some cleaning, will "Bleached Linen" do as an alternative? Sorry but both of those colours are so out of fashion now - the one to use in 2024 (according to the Pantone Colour Institute) is Peach Fuzz, as illustrated in the link below - together with links to other "Colours of the Year" "Peach Fuzz captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. It's a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body, and soul" https://www.pantone.com/uk/en/color-of-the-year/2024 Interesting to see that in several places on their website, they use both spellings for Colour and Color . 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 Don't know who Pan Tone is but when I suggested Peach Fuzz to Mrs SM42 she said, "Oh my god! On the walls? Nice" in that sort of sarcastic way. Don't think Fresh Flour is dead yet. Andy 1 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 24, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2023 (edited) 18 minutes ago, SM42 said: Don't know who Pan Tone is It may have lavatorial overtones. A fruity little mixture of Stroudley's LBSC Improved Engine Green, and the North British Burnt Umber Edited December 24, 2023 by Happy Hippo 2 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 Pan* Tone is some bloke called Tone Mrs SM42's not heard of him either Anyway we have Koledy ( Christmas songs, no not by Wham, Slade et al) playing, so we are getting into the Christmas vibe at SM42 Villas Andy *means Mr in Polish 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 10 hours ago, Darlington_Shed said: How did they know? Advanced planning or could it be that HH is from a long line of HH's and that until the advent of social meeedia they'd not had a ready and surceptical audience. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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