Scribbler is an actual professional company and they think this “approximation” of Alan is worthy for sale!?!? He looks like he’s been refaced and used a ridiculous filter as well @Alansbigplate Im offended on your behalf
I love this little anecdotes, your life could not be more different from mine and I find it so fascinatingOof, nothing makes your heart stop like turning into the village in the van and seeing 406 come belting down the hill on her own, no other sheep in sight, BAAAAing loudly. Sped home, grabbed some sheep food, jumped on the quad and went back down there. She's not particularly tame and is quite wary about following me even when Nibbles is with her, but she followed back up the hill a little way and then went on strike. So I went on because I could see some sheep on the ridge and thought it might be the rest of mine, although if it was they'd come a long way down from where I put them out. Shouting and rattling the bucket only produced one answering BAAAA and Nibbles came trotting out of the flock (turned out to be a neighbour's ewes), which was a huge relief, because my first thought when I saw 406 on her own was that Nibbles had died.
Nibbles and I, followed at a distance by the neighbour's flock, walked back down to where I'd left 406 and there was much happy BAAing as they were reunited. Those ewes only got put out today, so I'm guessing somehow my two got mixed up with them and 406 got separated and confused. Went down to the other end of the grazings where the other 20 were still happily working their way through the remnants of the bales that got put out for the cattle before they went off to winter indoors, so all's well that ends well.
And I have toffee cake from the local bakery
I wash my cast iron pan. I’m vegetarian, so I don’t know if that makes a difference?Thank you guys so much for the pan recommendations - I’ll investigate tomorrow (at my desk at work) and get back to you! The whole cast iron not washing it thing gives me the heeby jeebies tbh. Heard it adds flavour but surely that flavour is just burnt / meat?
Hate buying for my husband at Christmas too - food is a good idea but omnicron has other ideas for us all this yearx
yeah I wash mine as well, wasn't aware that it wasn't a thing to wash it!I wash my cast iron pan. I’m vegetarian, so I don’t know if that makes a difference?
It's very different from the way I thought mine would be, to be fair! I grew up in the middle of Bristol, then moved to Reading, Cambridge and south London. I only started living here 13 years ago, when I was in my early 30s. Steep learning curveI love this little anecdotes, your life could not be more different from mine and I find it so fascinating
as someone currently living in south London I think "learning curve" sounds very much like it would be an understatement!It's very different from the way I thought mine would be, to be fair! I grew up in the middle of Bristol, then moved to Reading, Cambridge and south London. I only started living here 13 years ago, when I was in my early 30s. Steep learning curve
It’s amazing how life turns out isn’t it? I spent a few weeks in NYC after I finished university and I was desperate to stay instead of coming home to do postgrad. In the bad moments (standing in Tunnel dog poo mainly) I often wonder what could have been if I had done the GRE…It's very different from the way I thought mine would be, to be fair! I grew up in the middle of Bristol, then moved to Reading, Cambridge and south London. I only started living here 13 years ago, when I was in my early 30s. Steep learning curve
Mega late but congratulations I’m so pleased for you.Hello all!
I have some good news! I got made redundant a few months ago which necessitated a change of direction career-wise. I have finally been offered a permanent contract in an area involving computer coding, which I've always been interested in but thought I'd missed the boat. Stress levels are receding (and no more job centre appointments, thank goodness)!
Hope you are all well and I'm busy on my mega-grunk now!
I’m so sorry for your loss hope you’re bearing up been through such a lot this year sending you Elmo hugsjust need to vent a minute, sorry lads. so the shitty news i mentioned on the MT was that a colleague of mine died very suddenly yesterday
she was only a year or 2 older than me, not yet 40. she was lovely, so good with people, her and her husband were looking into adoption. it's so fucking shit
other thing is, this is the 3rd year in a row someone in my department has died around this time of year. feels like we're cursed
and on top of mr kcc's dad's death and all the other stuff going on in the wider world, not to mention money, stuff needing to be fixed in the car and at home, it's all a bit too much and it's fucking xmas!
yesterday, i basically spent the day on the sofa unable to relax because of my anxiety and I'm just exhausted now
sorry for ranting at you, but thank you all for being here
/SPOILER]
Sorry for the stupid question but what do your Christmas cards look like do you have Santa on the beach instead of him flying his sleigh in the snow?Yes, I do! My mum was Canadian so we always had turkey and all the trimmings when we were kids but as we all got older it was salad and cold meats. Most Aussies have prawns and pavlova on the day and a game of backyard cricket is pretty normal.
When I was a kid our Christmas Eve was always a night at the drive-in in my mum's old station wagon with grapes and bananas for snacks.
It must seem odd to you guys but I've lived here most of my life and have no memories of cold Christmases.
We are having beef this year, and possibly a little gammon too, I cook a glazed gammon every Xmas Eve to have as cold cuts and optional meat for the main dinner. Both meats are from our local butchers, the beef is their own and the cows grow up in the fields around us, so it's as local as we can get reallyas someone currently living in south London I think "learning curve" sounds very much like it would be an understatement!
So as not to derail totally, what is everyone eating on xmas day? I am going to my parents and we are having beef wellington, the only benefit of the mess of the last two years seems to be that my sister has accepted that life is too short to suffer through turkey at xmas for the sake of tradition
I’m off to my parents and we’re having Turkey as it’s traditionas someone currently living in south London I think "learning curve" sounds very much like it would be an understatement!
So as not to derail totally, what is everyone eating on xmas day? I am going to my parents and we are having beef wellington, the only benefit of the mess of the last two years seems to be that my sister has accepted that life is too short to suffer through turkey at xmas for the sake of tradition
NO CENTRAL HEATING! You must be tough (and acclimatised).I think it's beef here - it's just the two of us, we can't ask anyone to look after all the animals over Christmas, it's not fair, and our families aren't keen on trekking hundreds of miles north to a house with no central heating!
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?