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Mizmo said:
Ohh I can smell them all the way over here even through Niagara Falls and on to Burlington.
Geez I could eat one right now slathered in butter.

You really are making me frantic for scones. We cannot buy scones! I have a British shop nearby who sell potato scones to fry up with bacon and egg but never blueberry or even plain.

If I didn't have the missing thumb that is still there annoying me I would have a go at making myself with your recipe of course.
Sooo..please do send warm drooly delicious thoughts my way when you have one with your coffee
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well I've beaten you to the scones as well, Mizmo.....on the way home from lunch with DD.. I stopped off at a town north of here where they have a M&S food hall.. and even tho' it was dark and raining, and almost everywhere else was closed at 4pm... I managed to get some freshly baked Cheese scone and Sultana scones... oooh they're delicious, I love M&S scones they're the only ready made ones which don't give me heartburn

For lunch at the pub which much to our surprise had every table reserved.. there was lots of big families still celebrating Christmas and swapping gifts..

We got a nice table by the window , but we'd only been there about 15 minute when torrential rain started.. so our view of the garden was interrupted

We had our main course.. DD had a Fish in batter with side portions of various other fish.. she said it was nondescript..sadly... but I had a Mixed grill...which was nice enough... but the crowning glory of the meal was a Dark Choc Fondant Honeycomb melting middle cake.. served with fresh raspberries, and Ice cream made from Clotted cream... :p:p

Left the pub, we both drove to the motorway going opposite directions.. and there was some kind of incident way ahead and I got stuck on the motorway for over half an hour in the dark and rain before I could finally leave at a slip road, and drive through all the country roads to avoid the Jam...
 
hollydolly said:
well I've beaten you to the scones as well, Mizmo.....on the way home from lunch with DD.. I stopped off at a town north of here where they have a M&S food hall.. and even tho' it was dark and raining, and almost everywhere else was closed at 4pm... I managed to get some freshly baked Cheese scone and Sultana scones... oooh they're delicious, I love M&S scones they're the only ready made ones which don't give me heartburn

For lunch at the pub which much to our surprise had every table reserved.. there was lots of big families still celebrating Christmas and swapping gifts..

We got a nice table by the window , but we'd only been there about 15 minute when torrential rain started.. so our view of the garden was interrupted

We had our main course.. DD had a Fish in batter with side portions of various other fish.. she said it was nondescript..sadly... but I had a Mixed grill...which was nice enough... but the crowning glory of the meal was a Dark Choc Fondant Honeycomb melting middle cake.. served with fresh raspberries, and Ice cream made from Clotted cream... :p:p

Left the pub, we both drove to the motorway going opposite directions.. and there was some kind of incident way ahead and I got stuck on the motorway for over half an hour in the dark and rain before I could finally leave at a slip road, and drive through all the country roads to avoid the Jam...
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So happy you got to spend some special time with your daughter and enjoy that mouth-watering dessert. Traffic and weather can be unpredictable. Glad you made it home safe and sound.
 

Oh I tell you.... I am ready to emigrate!!
Wait, I am Scottish so can just go!
This scone thing and that Choc wot ever cake and M&S who abandoned the whole of Canada.
It is all too much.😭
I was doing bits and pieces of cleanup but now I am just going to do my favourite thing and I have recorded an old Movie..Love Actually..... which I have seen before and am going to binge watch while doing so.
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P.S. Glad you had such a nice lunch and made it home safely.
 
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My lunch today was sausage and peppers that DD brought home the other evening. I cooked some spaghetti and chowed down. Too full for dessert. How is that possible? I'm never too full for dessert.

Laundry is done. Dishes washed. Kitchen tidied up. Time for nap. Then dessert?

I sat outside in the sun a while ago without a jacket or sweater! It felt sooo good after our bitter cold. Temp right now is a glorious, sunny 50F.
 
Georgiagranny said:
My lunch today was sausage and peppers that DD brought home the other evening. I cooked some spaghetti and chowed down. Too full for dessert. How is that possible? I'm never too full for dessert.

Laundry is done. Dishes washed. Kitchen tidied up. Time for nap. Then dessert?

I sat outside in the sun a while ago without a jacket or sweater! It felt sooo good after our bitter cold. Temp right now is a glorious, sunny 50F.
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...you mean you didn't even have a scone ?!!!!!
Lucky you with that temp. Sun was shining and ice on my bedroom window did melt a little.
Guess I really should turn up my heating temp. I Iive in apt building but do have to pay for hydro so trying to be cautious about that with the
thermostat but gotta turn it up now..just too chilly.
 
Christopher said:
Speaking of ice cream...I visited a local Walmart yesterday and the store is selling pints for $0.25. Yes, twenty-five cents a pint! Now, I haven't purchased a pint of ice cream for that amount since the summer of 1968. That was one of the summers that I, armed with my quarter and penny (for tax), would venture to the neighborhood Walgreens Drug store to purchase those square cardboard boxes of ice cream for $0.25. You might remember the little wooden spoons that they gave away with the ice cream so kids could just enjoy it on the walk home.

Oh, what memories these pints bring up. I bought chocolate, and mint chocolate. Yum!

Christopher
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I would have hoped to get Pistachio Ice Cream, if I'd lived there... Baskin Robbins is the closest to ice cream parlour these days but the closest is in Glasgow or Braehead, bummer!

I'll try Morrisons for Ben&Jerry's next week, maybe... Missing Dairy Queen!🍦
 
It’s been a busy day…. Out running errands, stopped by Ed’s and picked up his metal detector, hoping to locate my glasses in the yard. No dice. I think the Bermuda Triangle made a visit to my house on Christmas 😩.

also made a Walmart run and (among other things) got a new electric kettle. Then this afternoon it was the library, the furniture repair person, and the local consignment “mall” where I picked up a couple things. I’m developing the skill of seeing things in the store, checking the price tag and then thinking through what I already have at home that could be used instead.

now home planning on a simple supper and a good book with the hot pad on my feet…. If my feet are warm, the rest of me is good to go—anyone else feel that way?
 
hollydolly said:
Amazon UK are going on Strike... why not.. everybody else is on strike, postal people. railways workers, airport workers, University lecturers, Nurses, medical ancillary workers , and many more.. .. why not Amazon, who want a third more in their wages.. :rolleyes:...
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Oh great... I'm waiting on Amazon UK sales in January to brighten dull Christmas
 
Today……
Nothing like adding fuel to the fire…….meaning tortured the pulled muscle in my back.
Shovelled sNOw away from my garage doors before the driveway was cleared.
Since it was so mild this morning -3c…….I chipped away an inch of packed sNOw on my deck and steps……deck is 16ft x 12ft, but only 4 steps.
But the -3c didn’t last long, only a couple of hours, dropped off to now -13c…….but I got a good job done.
Didn’t put out my garbage bin this morning……would have had to shovel a path down the drive……10 inches of sNOw…..nope.
Driveway got cleared late morning…..garbage pick up is always between 7 and 7:30am.
So, I’m paying the price…..maybe not a lot of sleep, again tonite.
Ok……I’m done whining for now.
 
katlupe said:
It is a HUD building and there may be a regulation in their paperwork somewhere about the elevator.
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Yes, I would think so.
But I know there are many details to their regulations, their rules and guidelines. :rolleyes:

I live in same sort of building, and while I am thankful for it,
the actualities often do not seem to resemble the logical suggestions in @Blessed 's caring post above.
It sure has a difficult effect on tenants.
 
CinnamonSugar said:
topped by Ed’s and picked up his metal detector, hoping to locate my glasses in the yard. No dice. I think the Bermuda Triangle made a visit to my house on Christmas
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wow, where could they be, mysterious! Have you looked in the laundry hamper in case they got hooked into a sweater when you pulled it off over your head? Or even a knit hat might have snatched the glasses?
 
HoneyNut said:
wow, where could they be, mysterious! Have you looked in the laundry hamper in case they got hooked into a sweater when you pulled it off over your head? Or even a knit hat might have snatched the glasses?
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Part of the problem, @HoneyNut, is it’s such pandemonium when my younger granddaughter comes over and we were in survival mode…. I honestly don’t remember what all I did between them arriving and when we went outside.

But I persevere! They r here SOMEWHERE.

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"Nowt. Absolutely, nowt. Well, okay ... mebbe not "absoLUTEly nowt. I did manage to watch a movie on Netflix. It was called, "Escape From Pretoria". El recommendo, if yinz like prison escape films. Other n' that ... I did nowt."

Okay, soytenly! Nowt means the absence of owt! El recommendo means, I recommendo le filme de la, "Escapadissimo de Pretoria" . N' "yinz" is Pittsburghese for "Youse lot!" KayKay? :)
 
Kaila said:
Yes, I would think so.
But I know there are many details to their regulations, their rules and guidelines. :rolleyes:

I live in same sort of building, and while I am thankful for it,
the actualities often do not seem to resemble the logical suggestions in @Blessed 's caring post above.
It sure has a difficult effect on tenants.
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The repairman was here today working on it. Waiting on parts or trying to find parts (it is a very old vintage elevator). My son came by and took my garbage out and brought my Amazon packages upstairs for me. So I am good for now.
 
CinnamonSugar said:
Part of the problem, @HoneyNut, is it’s such pandemonium when my younger granddaughter comes over and we were in survival mode…. I honestly don’t remember what all I did between them arriving and when we went outside.

But I persevere! They r here SOMEWHERE.

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@CinnamonSugar something similar happened to me a few months back. I couldn't find my glasses anywhere for almost a week. I have a back-up pair but I prefer the ones that I had misplaced. I finally found them in the guest bedroom.

I use the closet in that room for storage and I was using a step-stool to reach for something on the upper shelf of the closet. Even though I had my glasses on, I got a speck of dust or something in my eye. I took my glasses off and mindlessly laid them on one of the pillows on the bed. The glasses slid between the pillows and by the time I realized they were missing, I had no idea where I had last seen them. Did I leave them on the shelf in the closet? Or did I have them on when I went into the bathroom to put drops in my eyes? Or did I accidentally thrown them out? So many scenarios ran through my mind for days. I retraced my steps as best I could but it was like some imp or fairy that took them away. I even looked on the bed and moved some of the pillows (but not all of them).

I finally gave up and just accepted that they were gone and I'd have to get a replacement pair. And it was soon thereafter that something compelled me to go back into the guest room and move all of the pillows (because I turned everything else upside down and inside out) and there they were, safely nestled underneath six pillows waiting to be found.

Fingers crossed for you that your glasses are somewhere close waiting to be found!
 
TeeJay said:
"Nowt. Absolutely, nowt. Well, okay ... mebbe not "absoLUTEly nowt. I did manage to watch a movie on Netflix. It was called, "Escape From Pretoria". El recommendo, if yinz like prison escape films. Other n' that ... I did nowt."

Okay, soytenly! Nowt means the absence of owt! El recommendo means, I recommendo le filme de la, "Escapadissimo de Pretoria" . N' "yinz" is Pittsburghese for "Youse lot!" KayKay? :)
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Got it!!! :)
 

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