What's on your agenda for today?

Will be setting off for my youngest granddaughter's birthday party in a minute. I will enjoy the walk to her house as it's a beautiful, sunny day and that's also good for the kids as they'll be able to play outside in the garden before having the party games and I believe there's a lady bringing some spiders and other creepy crawlies to show them all... that's when I'll disappear! :eek:nthego: ;)
 

Shalimar said:
Have fun, Pam! Now I want to bake a fairy cake, maybe a Dundee cake. I spent five years with a wonderful Englishman in my twenties, who taught me to cook 'properly'. Toad in the hole coming up!
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Love fairy cakes! I called them cupcakes when I was first here but was soon corrected.
 
Holly - Thanks for wising me up on what a stream is vs. a canal. :D Also, thanks for using one of my favorite descriptive words, ARCHETYPAL. I have a long list of words that I think are unique or pretty or profound etc. I've been a wordaholic forever!

I am a huge Anglophile and want to revisit as soon as possible because there are many things I have yet to see because there wasn't enough time to see it all before. In London, I loved the V & A Museum and the British Museum so much that I'd have spent the night there if it had been permissible. I have an appt. to get my new passport (old one expired last year) so that clears the way for visiting UK.

I am just nuts about peacocks because there is no other bird like them that I know of. I didn't know there were peacocks in Spain but how fun for those folks in Spain! I haven't been to Spain yet but have been to Portugal which was really lovely and had the best seafood I've ever had! Up until then, the only tuna I'd ever eaten came out of a can (tin) but when in Portugal the tuna was super fresh, just off the boat and a totally fantastic taste experience! I'll bet you get some wonderful meals when you're in Spain!

How are you doing? Has your pain level gone down at least part of the way to the goal (pain-free)? Since my shoulder has gotten so painful, I often think about you over there having all that back pain!
 
Kath, I love the British Museum and V & A, and lots of others. When do you plan to come back? I also recommend the Museum of London. It shows the entire history of London.

We saw a peacock on our honeymoon in Scotland.
 
Shalimar, glad to see your a fellow fruitcake lover. So hard to find decent fruitcake anymore, without making it myself, which I've never done. I like to have it with cheddar cheese and wine.

Hope everyone is fine today. Wishing Holly a very good day back at work.

Slept in very very late for some reason (achy jaw after dental work) and just having my 'morning' coffee. Rainy, windy and cold outside so not going for a walk in the park. Catch up on laundry and such... sigh.
 
Cookie, absolutely love fruitcake, especially the black stuff, full of brandy, and topped with homemade marzipan, and royal icing. When my aunt was alive, she imported ratafia extract from England to put in the marzipan. I don't know if one can buy it here.
 
I love marzipan too. Ratafia extract, I'm gonna look for some. Thanks. I love that dark dark kind too. I remember an after skiing party I went to in Van. where there was tons of excellent fruitcake and cheddar cheese and of course red wine.
 
Glinda that place sounds great, and the fruitcakes look delicious. I wonder if they ship to Canada. If not I'll ask my sister to try to find it when they go stateside. There's a Trappist monastery in Quebec I used to visit called Oka which makes the cheese. Maybe they do other foods now too. Thanks for that. :D

Happy days ahead for you AS. Congrats you are a lucky ducky!
 
Glinda said:
I used to order this fruitcake and I have visited the monastery in Oregon. I'm not a big fruitcake fan but this is delish.

http://www.monasterygreetings.com/product/450/Christmas-Fruitcakes
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These look really good, Glinda, yes thanks for posting, have you tried the rum cake?

Today, I have moved all my plants from the garage to the back patio, I'll have to protect them from the wind a few weeks, then they will be ready to soak up the sunshine for another summer.

Good for you Annie on another trip planned.
 
Good evening everyone...13 hours after I posted this morning...thank you Shali. Georgia, Kath , Annie, Cookie and everyone for your good wishes for me today, they must have been what got me through but I hate to whine, and I knowww you must all be fed up with it already but, my Bluddy Back is killllling me!!!!!...Only got through on a wing , a prayer and a ton of PK's,,and jeeez you should have seen the work waiting for me when I got there, I nearly turned around and went back home, seems they left all the difficult stuff for me to sort out rather than deal with it while I was away.. so it's been a long hard, painful day..........but eeeenuff of the whining it's done, and I get the star prize and have to go back and do it all again tomorrow.. *Yikes** :holymoly:


Kath , thanks for thinking of me chikadee, I'm so sorry your shoulder pain is worse, it must really be getting you down poor you..((have a gentle hug))

Yessss loads of peacocks in the Public Parks in Spain, and they run free , not gated in or anything and but they rarely go out of the gates onto the busy roads which is amazing really, ... I have loads of pictures somewhere of them that I've taken over the years, I'll look them out and post one or 2 when I'm off at the weekend and have more time..
You're so right about the fresh fish, we get fresh Tuna , fresh swordfish, and lots of others straight from the boats..and they cost a fraction of what we'd have to pay here, and soo delicious nothing like the canned stuff whatsoever. Same with the fruit and veg, straight from the market ...HUGE strawberries, grapes and pears bigger than grapefruits....Everyone outside the cities shop at the market on a daily basis for their fruit and veg, as I did when I lived there permanently for many years. ...and every time I go back on holiday I just do exactly that . and look forward to going around the market with the aromas of fresh baked breads, dozens of fruit and cheese and olives and almonds stalls and wonderful enormous pans of Paella cooking, and not to forget the wine tasting Bodega's on every market ( not that I drink alcohol) but my o/h does and to get served straight from a Keg is just something much more special than buying a bottle of wine from a supermarket shelf!
BTW...I don't actually live in London city I live 20 miles outside the city centre, in the countryside, it take about 20 minutes to drive into North London which is about 15 miles away...and about 3 days to drive the rest into the city centre because of the horrendous city traffic so I usually just go in by train which takes about 1/2 an hour ...

I hope everyone had a good time who were going out with family and friends today..I'm not keen BBQ's Annie but I hope you have a lovely time

Shali...yes, good old fashioned Toad-in-the-hole, with plenty of gravy yuummyyy.. I think half of us in the UK were raised on it.. :D the secret is to make sure the batter is well beaten to incorporate plenty of air and then poured into a piping hot baking pan and baked at a really high temperature , and it will rise as high as a soufflé and be just as light..no soggy thick Yorkshire pudding batter that comes out the texture of a sponge cake ..yuk!! :D..

Cookie I hope the jaw ache is becoming more bearable it's surprising just how much aching it causes after a tooth is removed much less the trauma you went through..let's hope it starts to get better very soon ((gentle hug to you too))
 
Just back from physical therapy, I have the same man from previous times and how I forgot what a hunk of man he was, thinking I should book more days a week than what I chose. He had the nerve to ask if I missed him, I just rolled my eyes, wouldn't give him the satisfaction. LOL. He's so funny, I forgot how really terrific the staff are there, I have actually missed several of them especially the ones that would stop by to talk with me about TWD. :D Anyway, we tried a little traction today, will build up to a higher number as we go along, wasn't the best start with the exercise, but, as was said to me, we have to take it slower, due to how the situation stands at this time with my pain threshold. At least it's way better than last week.

Happy Wed everyone.
 
Holly, glad you made it through the day and sorry that those slugs couldn't even bother to get the work done. Kath and AprilT, hope you both get better and better. It's no fun to hurt:(

Ameriscot, you just got back and already you're getting ready to make lists and pack to go again? LOL When I've been gone, which is rare these days, all I want to do is get home and stay there. A good for instance is my dog sitting gig this week. Tonight's my last night. I've already got my clock set for 5 am so I can get up, feed and walk the dog, get my stuff and get home so that I can have a decent cup of coffee and still get to work on time. Decent cup of coffee? My clients have a Keurig. I've never been, am not now and never will be a fan. Ugh! Oh...and when my daughter and I got back from lunch, I promptly set up my own coffee pot to turn on at 7 so that my coffee will be ready and waiting for me.

It will be heaven to sleep in my own bed, even if only for one night. Dog sitting for a different client Friday/Saturday nights. After that? Unless I need the extra money, I believe that I'm going to decline any dog sitting for a while!
 
Georgia, no not packed, but the lists are already made - just a bit of editing from last trip. Bought our airline tickets. We go in December. In the meantime got a summer trip to the US.
 
Morning all...5.15am...another day another dollar.

April do you find the traction works for you, it never did work for me nor did the hospital PT. I had to pay privately a lot of money for a sports PT, and she was the only one that helped relieve the pain when everything seized completely after years of useless Hospital PT's.... but fingers crossed you get some respite with the Transaction, it just was no good for Moi..I have a feeling your PT's might be a lot better than ours..
 
Shalimar said:
Have fun, Pam! Now I want to bake a fairy cake, maybe a Dundee cake. I spent five years with a wonderful Englishman in my twenties, who taught me to cook 'properly'. Toad in the hole coming up!
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It was good fun... kids all enjoyed the 'Little Beasties' which started off with lovely bunnies, baby tortoises, a cute hedgehog before getting down to a frog, snake etc. and finally... what the kids had all been waiting for.... the tarantula ... which is when I did a disappearing act. ;)
 
Holly, hope your back does better today at work.

Had a nice BBQ last night although it was too chilly to sit outside and eat. Too much red wine. Why did I drink the red instead of rose'?? Had heartburn. Still stuffy head today but I'll get some things done - laundry, a workout at home, more colouring, reading.

Already emailed the manager of the community in Thailand where we stay to give her airport pickup time! Only things left to do are get a visitor visa and make two bookings at the Dubai airport hotel.
 

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