The Breakfast Club Returns!

[LilyLangtrey]

Good evening, Clunkers!

Welcome to the Breakfast Club where the kettle is permanently on, the drinks flow and the snacks are both self-replenishing and calorie-free.

We start each day with a look at history and a tribute to a brave or inspiring woman. Mostly though, we just chat randomly about current affairs, recipes, life in lockdown, literature, music and anything else that comes into our heads.

Veteran Clunkers welcome. Anyone else who wants to join in the chat - sense of humour essential! - welcome.

Kettle's on ☕️☕️☕️

Well , I entered the Hallow’een name change again . I wasn’t going to after last year’s fiasco but I came up with a simple idea .
I will change it back !

Morning everyone! Doris certainly had a way with words, didn't she? And so, following her advice, I am going to see if I can find someone who used to post in the Breakfast Club (she kept chickens and made wonderful wooden designs) and try this. @WinterAndRoughWeather, come and say hello.

Anne

And of course, I am sending out all best wishes to Yellow, and hoping for some news.

We had pizza delivered last night because neither of us felt like cooking. Mr G is currently eating leftover pizza for breakfast, saying this is what teenagers do. I'll get rid of his inner Kevin later when I hand him a duster or maybe get him cleaning windows.

Clunkers, good morning.

Sending best wishes to Yellow

Thank you for the OTD, Lily

Anglea Raynor- what an unpleasant woman.

Morning Clunkers,

Normal start to my day walking.

Breakfast was poached egg and avocado on wholemeal toast.

Showered dressed, all boring stuff done, striped bed and clean bedding put on.

Daughter phoned to say she will pop in for a coffee and no doubt something to eat, if she is having something to eat I will make omelette with salad, quick and easy.

Hopefully I can listen to Pop Master before daughter arrives. 😁

Son and girlfriend have landed safely.

@LilyLangtrey. Thank you. 🌷

@TracysShoulder. Thank you. 🥑😁

Hope everyone is ok and enjoy your day. 🌸

I like that Anne. Tracy'sDismemberedShoulder? haha! No point me joining in as I only post on here.

I don't remember that poster name at all Lily, but I do remember someone with chickens.

Hope all is ok Yellow.

Breakfast looks fabulous TS .
That is a shame @DistantShores1 . Hi 👋🏻 @Nelllyyy . A coffee given your name !

Which poster TS ?

Dinosaur Chickens.
I thought Div had her .

Morning all.

Hope there's good news this morning, Yellow.

I know Sir Cloudesley - he was MP for these parts.

It wasn't that the navigators were incompetent. Scientific and technical knowledge (clocks and telescopes) just hadn't advanced to the point where they could calculate longitude - east-west positions. Quite a few ships (Dutch and English) heading for the East Indies were wrecked on the west coast of Australia - when they didn't even know Australia existed - because they didn't know how far east they'd travelled after rounding the Cape of Good Hope.

People at the time were well aware of the difficulty, and the importance of navigation to the Royal Navy and England's expanding overseas trade. It's one of the reasons Charles II created the post of Astronomer Royal and founded the Royal Observatory at Greenwich (hence the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time).

Christopher Wren, as a Professor of Astronomy, was interested in navigation.

Sir Joseph Williamson, a contemporary of Sir Cloudesley, was another local MP, and second president of the Royal Society, preceding Sir Christopher. He founded a Mathematical School (known as 'the Math School') to teach boys mathematics and navigation.

Anne, the one that Lily is looking for, WinterAndRoughWeather.

I've found something for the retro corner. I thought the little patterned knife matched your paper Anne but it's green not blue as I thought. I don't know what these little knifes are for. They were MIL's. They are too small for anything I think, even dainty scones. One is marked Cutlass and Coalport so Sheffield connection would fit in. I wonder if they were miniatures of full size knives.

Hippo, why don't you record the littleHippos and play it back to them

Morning, Gramgram, after the day you had, I think MrG deserves to get in touch with his inner Kevin today...but then hand him that duster!

Glad everything is bright and cheerful chez Nelly.

Morning, Tracy, and thank you for the lovely breakfast again. I like the smiley face coffee. The feathered one was a work of art but somehow a smiley face encapsulates the mood of the BC. Our friend liked dinosaurs as well.

Our new extension is still having the electrics checked. We thought they had been done and we could start using our lovely new den - that's why the boxes of books were stacked up, ready to be arranged on the new bookshelves (which look very neat) - but our electrician is a careful chap and likes to triple-check for safety. Most, I think, double check anyway as part of their standard legal requirements but he is determined to do a proper job first time. He said whoever built the old garage should have been hung, drawn and quartered. Well, he actually put it more pithily than that but you get the picture! It is frustrating because it is taking so much longer than we ever thought it would but we reasoned that safety was far more important than speed.

In the meantime, I keep popping in here when I can - he keeps wanting to explain to me what he's doing (like I would understand? ) - for sane chat. Every time I learn something technical, it pushes something out of my ancient brain. Back later...

Div lost her, Anne, so I'm giving it a go.

Sarah, your explanation makes so much more sense because it puts everything into proper context. The work of John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, made a huge difference to the world and, of course, made the Royal Navy supreme on the seas.

Hi Lily. It's always good to be cautious. It's why we had our conservatory foundations piled, to avoid it falling in on itself in the future. So long as you can keep popping in here when you have chance. All is running comfortably and efficiently, just as you like it

Very interesting Sarah. I like having an in-house historian.

Cam, how's your building work coming along? Bathroom in yet?

Fleegle, has the royal garden got sprouts?

Your electrician being thorough shows good workmanship Lily. I'm sure you'd rather delay completion of the new extension, knowing all is in order than risk problems later on.
A good tradesman is worth waiting on. The extension can be safely used for years to come.

Isn't the chicken lady still using the old cafe we would meet for a chat?

Tracy's smiley coffee always makes me smile. It's a pity to drink it.
Someone was asking after Xing. She posted on the food poverty thread last night.

I have knives like that @TracysShoulder

Write it down Lily ... and away it goes . Thanks for all your hard work.
( that applies to everyone)

You do Anne? The small ones? What are they for?

Maybe not quite as small . I think they are for fruit .

Here they are. I had to be careful, I was nearly in the photo.

Mind you @TracysShoulder, I am not absolutely certain of that .

Nice set Anne. Mine are a lot smaller than that though and I only have 1 of each, which makes me think they were samples. 4.5 inches long. Hmm.. I guess they could be for fruit on the go, a bit like a pen knife?

Genteel ladies might use them for afternoon tea ?

I think the smallest ones are fruit knives. I think I got a set of them for a wedding present in 1066. No idea what happened to them they were not ever used as far as I know.

Genteel ladies with teeny-tiny gloved hands