Tony_S

I rather like Guinness. When being “designated driver” on our very few pub restaurant outings I have started to order Guinness Zero instead of Diet Coke. It isn’t quite the same as normal Guinness but I prefer it to the Cola.

Do you still have some pliers? Last year my brother had to have some fragments of big toenail root removed. The nurse told him to look away. He assumed she was going to anaesthetise the toe but she just quickly pulled out the toenail fragment while he wasn’t looking!

I went out for my routine blood test this morning. I had to go in the Fiesta as someone had parked their car so close to mine I couldn’t get in. Aditi was very apologetic. I then went to get my hair cut after some unusually subtle suggestions. Business was quiet at the barbers. He was asleep in a chair when I arrived. As it was quite a bright day Aditi suggested a walk at Hyde Hall Gardens. We only got as far as walking across the car park and went in to the restaurant near the entrance for lunch. We usually walk up the hill to the other restaurant! We had a walk round some of the lower level gardens and also had a look at the geese (two varieties) . Aditi bought a plant too. We haven’t done anything since arriving home other than drink tea and read. I didn’t even want anything to eat. Tony

GWR once painted their coaches something that was very very like Crimson Lake.

One of my Freelanders had an occasional refuse to start. Wait a while and it would start. When it did its fail to start at home I called out the Lamd Rover Rescue people. The chap arrived and said that it was almost certainly an earth fault, would probably take 30 secinds to sort. Half an hour later after bypassing loads,of sensors with tiny jump leads , he identified an intermittent fault on the starter motor. This was replaced next day.

All of our recent cars have had darkened rear windows. They don’t impair driving visibility but do make it a bit harder for anyone looking in to see anything on the back seats. That is harder, not impossible. Or is it an aesthetic thing, dark windows on a light car? My car is black paintwork with dark obscured glass in the rear.

Much more elegant than BOGOF

Though free buns are always popular!

Our friend in Connecticut had been in the USNavy and then banking/finance. His wife said it was impossible to get him to commit to holidays and he had no idea of whatever leave he had owing, and his colleagues were similar. Tony

She was probably responsible for boosting his early career by performing some of his songs.

The Google ads (not on RMweb) I am receiving at the moment have a lot of funeral arrangement content, especially budget cremations. All I did was use Google to compare the lump excised from my back with Google images. I removed the dressing this morning (as instructed) and it looks like a tattoo of a butterfly, Aditi photographed it for me. . There was a circle drawn round the mole with a skin pen. The stitches have pulled the circle into a butterfly wing shape. The stitches look like a butterfly body. The stitches should come out in about 10 days. Hopefully the skin marker will fade, not really bothered though. Tony

Aditi liked her Fiesta but I don’t know if it was true for all versions but the petrol tank wasn’t very large. Her journey took her up to Stratford in East London.The good thing was she usually filled up about 8 or 9 pm at a BP garage and all the M&S food was significantly reduced. I joked with people that we lived on food from a garage.

Is that the vehicle you drive to Poland in?

Little end, but that may be due to the rather minimalist stainless steel egg cups we normally use. I think these questions are safe to answer here, but having seen your posts elsewhere perhaps ‘hit it with a Hillman Imp” is the correct answer. Some eggs we had recently required a bit more effort. We had blue eggs with very yellow yolks substituted for our usual sort recently. They were smaller and had slightly rough shells, that were very tough. I wondered if while they were free ranging they had been eating Kevlar or,similar.

I don’t know why but after a lifetime of tapping the egg and removing the cracked shell, I have become a person who hits it with the knife edge attempting a clean cut to remove the top.

Probably.

I used to get Harrogate and Huddersfield confused. Aditi clearly explained which was which when we visited Yorkshire recently.

I would quite happily go and eat in the cafeteria on formal nights but Aditi has had very few occasions to wear a posh frock so it wouldn’t have been very nice to deny her the opportunity to dine with me (she said she wouldn’t go on her own!) so I oblige and dress formally,

I now have clothing suitable for those temperatures but I hope it won’t be needed for Iceland in summer. Rainwear and sensible boots apparently.

Will management insist on you wearing medals. I noticed medals with DJ when we crossed the Atlantic on QM2 but not on our last Med cruise on the same ship. On the first cruise we went in there was a senior police officer in dress uniform on a formal evening. We were in a lift with him when a group of people from Liverpool got in and asked him which fire brigade he worked for. When they got out, he uttered words to his wife telling her that was why he didn’t want to wear such a thing on holiday and wasn’t going to again.

We are not going on our cruise until July but I am hoping I have taken care of my shopping needs now, certainly for the clothes I will need on shore visits in Iceland. The cruise line has relaxed the dress code for “formal nights” somewhat and removed the “jacket required” for other evenings, but it seemed much the same as usual looking at other diners. Some people look so elegant, I look like a dishevelled penguin.

The odd looking mole on my back I had removed today fortunately didn’t need a plough. Though the local anaesthetic did mean I was unaware of the tool used and couldn’t see as I had to be on my front. The nurse said to hold the pillow edges and grip the pillow. I did so and it went “pop” like a balloon. Fortunately only the disposable cover.

If you haven’t bought a car recently paying for them is different now. No cash, no bankers draft. Bank transfer or debit card. After a credit card deposit.

That is how affluent is pronounced in Solihull.

Perhaps. it went via Nouvion…