Tony_S

I was a bit worried for a moment that the ones I had recently were like “The Emperors New Clothes” .

https://www.craghoppers.com/mens-kiwi-winter-lined-trousers-black-1/ Wouid these do?

It is much breezier here today in south Essex but the wind can’t be blamed on Poland, it is coming from the west.

I have just bought a Fjallraven parka. I don’t think I will be cold again like I was a few weeks ago. I was wearing the coat I used to wear when walking the all weather dog. However while it was wind and waterproof I had to remove to thermal lining as I seemed to have gone up a size now we no longer have a dog. I don’t think my new coat was aimed at deerstalkers though as it mentioned the zip pulls were of non plant origin. They looked like leather to me.

I suspect the materials used in postie’s modern uniform trousers have moved on from the days of blue serge.

Baden Powell era scouts didn’t have modern materials though. My Craghoppers “winter” trousers got lashed by sideways rain during Storm Debi in Yorkshire and my legs remained dry and the fabric wasn’t waterlogged.

We have one to prevent birds coming down the chimney, even though we don’t have a real fire.

Update. The turkey has arrived , a few minutes early!

Morning all. Our trip to and from Enfield yesterday was uneventful. We thought we may have had a slow journey home but the delays due to traffic incidents all cleared during the journey. MiL was having financial anxieties yesterday. I think the money being spent on care costs worries her. She said she misses doing her own finances, and checking bills. I explained and reassured her about her finances . I have done this so many times but of course she forgets. Aditi and I have no part in MiL’s financial arrangements but I suspect we are better at explaining them. I watched the cricket from Trinidad last night. I watched the last few overs on my iPad while sitting in bed. I didn’t bother with the post match analysis mainly because I had the sound off . I have been tracking our turkey delivery, from despatch yesterday from the farm in Danbury (near Chelmsford), it arrived in Basildon early this morning and is now on a FedEx.van and due to arrive between 8.40 and 12.40. I will be looking out as while it would be unlikely to be stolen from our front step I can’t be so,sure about the local fox population. Tony

I am fortunate. I was put on the statin that is first choice for heart related conditions. It works very well and I am fortunate not to have any the unpleasant side effects. A near neighbour had his heart problems at the same time as me and had very serious statin side effects. One good result was that when investigations about muscle weakness and falling over were started they also found he had a cancerous tumour on a kidney. He is fine now, walking about and working!

Replacing headlamp bulbs on some cars really require someone with tiny hands and long skinny arms. Or as you say, taking the front off.

“do you do?” or “”long is a piece of string?”

I have no idea If it rained or was windy last night. Slept very well after our meal at the Golden Prawn (or shrimp, not totally sure of my translation). We are off to Enfield soon so hopefully the weather there isn’t too bad. We can usually park right outside MiL’s residence. There is an underground garage but we would have to go up and get her entry fob so it usually easier to walk a bit. Tony

Isn’t Mrs Bob on record as saying she doesn’t want you getting annoyed later about missing special offers and just buy it.

Typing Roy Cazaly into Google UK gives pages of results …

We have managed to acquire a visiting slot in MiL’s social calendar and will go over tomorrow. However she said she is very tired and doesn’t feel like getting up. Aditi said she doesn’t expect her Mum to provide food and entertainment. I know MiL always responds well to visits from Aditi though when Aditi’s sister was away on holiday it didn’t take long for Aditi to,be cast as “the bossy daughter” when she needed her Mum to do something. I didn’t think there was enough petrol in my car for a trip out tomorrow, so filled its tank up. For those who are interested it was £1.38 a litre. I don’t follow prices closely, I think it may have been more when I last filled up but that was some time ago. We will be venturing out after dark this evening. We will be meeting some friends at a restaurant down near the station. There isn’t any parking at the restaurant but one of the friends lives nearby so we can park on her drive. We could go on the bus I suppose but we won’t be! I am happy to be designated driver. The restaurant is Italian, I think its name translates as “The Golden Prawn’, once upon a time it was a seafood stall. I would have gone to,one of the three nearby pubs but they all have entertainment this week. There is no indication online that the restaurant had any Christmas theme to the menu. We will see. Tony

Instead of TT it could be HO HO HO scale….

Same here, except black should be added to your list. I have to look for other clues in car parks for mine to distinguish it from other black 4x4 boxes. It has two shark fin aerials on the roof but that isn’t a great help. There is a “find my car” phone option but I can usually rely on Aditi. Must be her training as a geographer.

We were at a Renault dealer once looking at sensible family cars when Aditi noticed one of the the Megane cabriolets in bright yellow. She announced something like “oh look at that lovely custard car”. The salesman said “ it is called sunflower yellow”. Aditi told him they would probably sell more if were called custard yellow”. We bought a Scenic, it was red.

@BR60103 Happy 77th Birthday. Have a great day. Tony

The artwork on a local postbox is the nearest we are going to get to a white Christmas here.

I have no excuse for consuming the cake Aditi purchased after visiting the hairdresser. It was called a Christmas bun. It was like a Chelsea bun but with some sort of seasonal spices.

How about https://www.s-r-s.org.uk/html/gwb/S706.htm If you are looking for any photos online for research you need to make sure you are looking at the Great Western branch not the Colonel Stephens line.

Is this seasonal traffic or “security checks”. On our last trip (2019) from Austria there were considerable delays as Austrian border security were checking every vehicle. All the Germans we met insisted it was nothing to do with them. No one seemed to know why it was happening but it was for a few weeks at least.

According to the song that would be the carpenter following on from the gas person.