Swagger Inn 177 - The weather is turning colder, the nights are drawing in, we need a few HBFs to help us through the winter <looks around wistfully>

[ApricotCrush]

More domestic witterings...

Morning all. Not too daaaaaaaaaaaaaark now - we've got no cloud cover so it's got light relatively early.

Need to feed chickens etc, and then get out to BoringOfficeJob

Morning wenches.

Dark and I think frosty here.

Awesome decluttering Fancy!

That’s a lot of a day Helen. You must be exhausted! Blood donor man asked which arm I preferred them to use. I said wherever you can find a vein. He looked at both arms, there was a little bit of hmming, me squeezing a tube thing, and then he did manage to get one.

Must call at shops on way to work as need to get the final bits that are going in the posted parcel.

Have great days wenches.

Afternoon. Dismal and murky day and I think it's raining now, but I can't really see because it's daaarrrkk.

Very impressive decluttering Fancy. I do get rid of stuff but it never seems to be any less.

I have Christmas cards and one has actually gone out, because it's DNiece's birthday and I send the two cards together.

Hope everyone's had a good day.

Afternoon
Have been working from home today - did venture out briefly to squeeze more leaves in the green bin and top up the compost bin. The excitement.

It sounds impressive apricot but I feel a bit the same - still so much stuff! I need to keep the momentum up next year, it feels overwhelming doing a massive clear out in one go, especially as I just don't want to take usable stuff down the tip, so slow & steady has to be the method for me. I will get a reward - once these two sales have happened I will have £100 in my ebay account to use as a treat for me & the DC.

Chonk & Floof are enjoying their advent calendar so far - because it's food based. Chonk is becoming quite a snuggler in the evenings now it's cold.

Evening wenches.

It’s got rather windy here.

I often think I’ll tidy out a shelf at a time, or drawer or whatever. Good intentions but it never seems to happen, so both Fancy and Apricot have my admiration.

I didn’t end up wrapping the presents, or writing any cards.

DS2 also enjoying his advent calendar. It’s football-based 😁

Morning wenches.

Daaaarrkkkk. Whyyyyyyy? (I mean I know why but whyyyyyy).

Wind and rain. Fun times.

Have lovely days wenches.

Morning all.

Same weather here - all very 'duvet/hibernation day'. I think I'll be making lots of hot chocolate. And grumbling about work. (No change to the usual then!) I should go on the stepper to warm up/wake up a bit really.
<continues to sit on sofa>

Afternoon. Horrible day, wet, windy, dark, cold. I haven’t got any motivation to do much.

Well done on the sales Fancy. EBay are withholding funds on one of my sales, because the buyer wasn’t in to receive the item and says he didn’t receive a card from Royal Mail. He thought I should arrange redelivery. I don’t know where I find them from.

Hope work hasn’t been too bad for you all.

Evening wenches.

Went dark again from about 2.30 and the rain has been awful. Like a miracle though it stopped just before 5pm!

DH is out on his work Christmas drinks and dinner so it’s just me and DS2 at the moment. All the jobs are done - washing, dinner, lunches for tomorrow - so I am deciding between knitting or bath’n’book.

<throws another log on tavern fire>

Evening all. In good news, there's a new Strike trailer at https://x.com/RGalbraith/status/1864353742708969540

In less good news. Today has been brought to you by the letter 'A' for 'Arghhhhhhhh' - miserable weather all day (and still being miserable, much to IdiotKitty's disgust). DS' bus home got delayed by an accident before it got to him, so he ended up on a different bus going somewhere completely different for me to pick him up, which meant we got stuck in traffic along with everyone else who was trying to avoid the accident.
WobblyCat has been draining my bank account with a blood test to make sure that her current drugs aren't doing nasty things to her kidneys. She's still wobbling along - diagnosed with sore back and hip joint and knees. <side eyes at IdiotKitty for jumping on her which, if it didn't cause it, won't have helped.>

<cbf> at Ebay Apricot

Are you knitting in the bath LetUs?

Morning wenches.

Believe me, if I could manage to knit in the bath, I would 😁

Poor WobblyCat and your bank account Helen. Worth it though. Urgh to traffic.

Saw the Strike trailer - quite excited about it. Dalgliesh started last night too which is excellent so I’ll save that for the weekend.

Wind hasn’t arrived yet but both forecasts I’ve checked are equally awful for this evening and tomorrow.

Have great days wenches.

er... not quite morning. I did mean to post and I sort of thought I had.

Busy, busy, work etc etc. Weather is 'calm before the storm' so I got some washing on the line to partially dry. <battens down all wenches>

Ah - what I did mean to say this morning is that there's a Killers concert from last year on BBC4 tonight, about 10pm I think.

Today is worky-worky-worky cook, eat, worky-worky-work <le sigh>
Stupid freelancing deadlines...

Afternoon, miserable, wet etc. etc. No wind yet, but it looks ominous. Bit worried about the caravan, but nothing we can do.

Well, DH came in from golf distraught because he's pranged the car rather badly. Totally his fault, no-one else involved. It's looking like at least one new door.

Then we had to take Misty for her annual jabs and check-up. Our vet is temporarily closed, so we had to go to another branch miles away which we hadn't been to before, in terrible traffic, in the dark. I Google Earthed it and said 'yes, I know where it is'. Well, you know me, I didn't. DH went into a pub to ask where it was while I strode down the road I thought it was on but wasn't. He then took the right road and got to the vet's thinking I would be there, but I wasn't, so he explained the situation, left poor Misty there and came looking for me, thinking I'd been abducted or had a heart attack or something. Anyway we met up eventually and went back to the vet's. All was well that ended well, Misty was very good and we were relieved of at least the cost of three evenings out at a restaurant. It did include a flea treatment, but where the hell do they get their prices from?

Oh, naughty IdiotKitty, hope WobblyCat is alright. Yes, I saw the Strike trailer online. Knitting in the bath sounds interesting.

I'm now exhausted and I think we'll have an early night. I'll record the Killers.

Evening wenches.

Work was worky. Weather is shite, worse tomorrow, although we are very fortunate when I look at other parts of the country.

Have set The Killers to record - thank you for the heads up!

Eeeek at pranged car! Also eeeeek at different vets and it simply not being where it jolly well should be. The prices for vet treatment is something I definitely don’t miss.

Have been to IKEA. Maps didn’t know there was a road closure, which has been closed for quite a while, then it told me to be in the wrong lane at a massive traffic light controlled roundabout, and I’m really not great at driving in the dark. Got one main thing I went for, but not the other things which was quite frustrating. Then from there to collect DS2 so that was a new journey. Who knew there were so many single track roads round here with no lighting which was SUCH FUN in the pissing down rain. I will be having a drink and an early night.

Urgh LetUs - Since I've got glasses for driving, I hate driving in the dark. It never used to be a problem but now I just don't seem to be able to see as well. Also FFS at Ikea. I had at least one wasted trip when DH was little - they said something was in stock so I went there... and it wasn't

Sympathies on the pranged car Apricot, hope MrA gets it sorted out without too much stress for you.

Morning wenches.

Are we all okay? No one blown away or any damage? Chucking it down here and very gusty. Will brave a quick errand into town and then stay in until this evening when we’re going out for our sibling Christmas meal. In a country pub down country lanes. I am such a scaredy cat.

Have lovely (and safe) days wenches.

Morning all (just about). We have breeze and drizzle, so nothing to get worried about here, fortunately. Hopefully it will stay that way, since I'm out tonight.

No plans other than that. I might wrap up and get out into the garden. Also need to find more cat food. IdiotKitty is being fussy, so need to try a different brand to avoid the hassle. (Though the chickens very much appreciate his leftovers!)

Have a good day all, and keep out of the stormy weather!

Afternoon. Quite a busy day. Up early to collect some parcels before my appointment at the hairdresser. Then to the recyling station and after that to the supermarket. Got home, watched an episod of Grantchester. Vacuumed, cleaned the bathroom. Done some laundry, handwashed some dishes. Plan to do nothing else for the rest of the day. Up early tomorrow for some extra work.

I really don't like driving in the dark, especially if it's raining and lot of oncoming traffic.

Hope you have a lovely evening out Letus 🍷

Glad Misty is fine but going to the vet's so expensive

Hope WobblyCat is doing ok Helen ❤

Aaaw at snuggly Chonk ❤

Afternoon, still pretty windy here. I did walk into town to buy some stocking filler presents & get a few supplies, am glad to be back home now.

Blimey, that was a full on day apricot, I hope the car is easily sorted. I had an ebayer like that once. If I remember right, I found tracking info to say the parcel was back at the depot & sent it to him. The lazy twat made no effort to rearrange delivery or pick the parcel up, so eventually the parcel came back to me. I refunded him & then blocked the prick from buying my stuff.

Afternoon. Windy and raining all day, but not too bad.

We got the trees and decorations out of the loft earlier, so busy sorting it all out. Has it really been 11 months since we put it away?

That does sound a productive day WW, you deserve a rest.

I fear that's what's going to happen with my buyer Fancy. I've sent him the tracking number and he says he'll try to find it but who knows?

Have a lovely (and safe) evening all.

Evening. I have been out for an enjoyable gig, but it's a bit blustery out there.

That was a busy day wicked - I did nothing all morning, but I did spend the afternoon in the garden playing 'If it doesn't move, prune it!' so the rose bushes and fuchsias have had haircuts.

Morning wenches.

That was a busy day and a half Wicked!

Many commiserations to wenches with buyer troubles. A curse upon them.

<admires Helen’s swishy bush> <nae>

Garden table cover has staged a bid for freedom but it remained trapped under one of the table legs. Meal out was delicious.

Today will be the usual Sunday with additional Christmas planning. Cards are done though (mostly) so woohoo.

Have lovely days wenches.

Morning all. We have wind now (also <nae>) so DS will be grumpy when he wakes up - his girlfriend's parent won't take her out and about in stormy weather, so today's meet-up is likely off.

Hurrah for the nice meal out, and well done on the cards LetUs - I got ours out at least a week ago, which means in my head that they're started. They're not. They're just sitting in a box.

Plans today are probably cards, given the above. And maybe more gardening - more pruning needs to be done.

Afternoon. What a miserable day - still pretty windy here and rain too. That's more than 24 hours of it now. We're not nearly as bad as some areas but there are still trees down and reports yesterday of an issue with a power cable. Am impressed you were out in the garden yesterday helen - although 'If it doesn't move, prune it!' would have meant no pruning here as everything was blowing around