Taipan wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2024 12:14 pm
Got £934 I wasn’t expecting and my wife got her blue light card though, but we can’t go out and celebrate cos the selfish moo has shingles!
Check everything you buy against the BLC, some great savings and some not so good. Holidays, cruises and most travel stuff can be cheaper along with all insurance, plus sky tv, do t forget eating out, lots of money to be saved there too.
There’s a BLC Facebook group, lots of moaners but some useful tips there.
Mick
Cheers Mick. Going to hopefully use it in Le Shuttle for the Taipans on Tour summer holiday!
I tried to use mine for Vue cinema tickets, with the offer open for several months and still advertised. Sold out!
Have used it for Bill's restaurant - 20% off including drinks
As said, shop around. Many of the deals are bettered elsewhere.
Spent most of another day tooshing about with the garage door,attempting to stop the gale blowing in through the gaps. The curse of a South facing garage.
I also bought a little fan thingy which sit on top of the radiator and blows warm air forward. Time will tell if it's any use or not. The weather is very mild today,so it hasn't had a proper test yet.
Up at sparrows fart to get to an xmas fayre before it was rammed, then dragged around it for 6 sodding hours without food
Oh there was a metric ton of good looking / smelling food there but I'll be buggered if I'm paying 10 - 20 quid for street food and having to use a wooden spork, yes totally my fault as I put on the wrong shorts which were the shorts I hadn't stashed a fork and straw in the night before
Skub wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2024 5:55 pm
Spent most of another day tooshing about with the garage door,attempting to stop the gale blowing in through the gaps. The curse of a South facing garage.
I also bought a little fan thingy which sit on top of the radiator and blows warm air forward. Time will tell if it's any use or not. The weather is very mild today,so it hasn't had a proper test yet.
I went to a friends chalet to do a wine tasting yesterday! I am so NOT the right person for that. Well, someone once said I was for this reason - I often love the first taste of a wine but then the after taste hits and it's yucky!!! So it's rare I find a wine that I actually enjoy enough to drink a glass (well, over here, it's a half glass!!).
The other weekend I was chatting to Rich (the mate with the chalet) because I love a good port, but rarely like red wine. He said he thinks it's the strength of the wine as to whether I like it.
So, onto last night, he had 5 to test (and just us two cos no one else could make it and his wife is in the uk!! 3 boxed wines and two bottles (that also come by the box!)
Anyway, the first one made me screw my face up a lot! I didn't want to say anything but when he tried it he said "well that's not on the list"!!!
Interestingly, we had the same opinion on all five wines. Two were ok and three not (one definitely not!). But the wine they had at dinner a couple of weekends ago (not on the wine tasting list!) was the best!! LOL Sadly the shop has stopped stocking the one we prefer!!
So, Julie (his wife) is back today and will give her opinion - they don't generally like the same wines, so have to find something in the middle that will appeal to most people!!
Then, off to a bar for pizza and chat with the others.
First proper night out in yonks and it was great fun! Start work tomorrow
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
Went for a little ski tour. Partly cos it's too easy to sit on my butt and partly because next time I speak to my friend he'll ask me if I've been No excuse not to - yesterday I didn't because the pistes were actually dangerous (for me!) on Friday and so I figured I'd wait another day for some pisting. Today, the pistes had been done a bit more!!
But, I did go the other way today so didn't go as far or quite as high, but that route is a lot steeper, so I think I did a fairly good work out - and managed not to 'ping' the dodgy ligament today (in my groin, the reason I didn't make it the top of the mountain on the first attempt last year, started pinging yesterday and was why I stopped when I did!!)
Anyway, Bloody gorgeous as ever. But, got a call as I was de-skinning the skis and getting ready to ski back down (after a bit of a chill!). My mates dog has been quite ill (they have three!) with a sudden onset heart condition. She called me to ask if I could call the emergency vet for her as the dog was getting worse (she's pretty good at French but stress and emotion always make it more difficult). She feels they should put the dog down as even after it sees the heart specialist on Tuesday, it doesn't have a long prognosis for life. But her hubby wants to do everything possible to keep the dog alive. So we arranged for them to go and see the vet later to see what she thinks. Then I got a call saying the dog had had a 5 minute fit and once he eventually got up, he could only walk around in circles and wouldn't lie down.
So, the vet is on her way up from the valley to go and check the doog to see if she thinks she can make him comfortable enough until Tuesday, or if it's kinder to put it down. So so sad, they have no kids, the dogs are basically their kids - so to have to make this decision is so difficult, especially when one is more about quality of life and putting out of misery more than the other
So, here are some pics of the short walk up the piste to brighten things after my doggy tale -
The wind has blow the manufactured snow around the nice piste a bit, but still nice -
Mont Blanc over there!
Always makes me feel good when some bloke storms past at warp speed while I'm puffing a bit cos it's a little bit steep!!
First proper ski down (Friday really doesn't count due to the conditions!!!)
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
Today, back to my training church to take a service there (Vicar has retired) and had over 110 people there. Really lovely to see them all. Spent a bit of time chatting and catching up. Then home to do some shopping and lunch. Have also installed a Eufy S340 camera on the Homebase 3 system, so easy to do. All sorted and working very nicely with an excellent panoramic viewpoint of image capture. Worth the money in the BF Sales.
Now getting ready for a busy week where I will need to do quite a lot of visits, meetings and more. But it is all good stuff. School ministry and hospital visits etc...
Proverbs 17:9
One who forgives an affront fosters friendship, but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend.
Today I went to a birthday party of a ex door neighbour who is now in a care home . 100 years old.
What a lovely smashing women. Her brother survived d day but was shot dead by a sniper 3 days later
Today I found out two of her other siblings lost their lives in ww2 and that to this day the french put daffodils on her brothers tombstones in Normandy
The lord leftentient of West Yorkshire came and gave her a birthday card from Charlie and his missus
I do wonder what I'll find that I've stashed when I eventually move somewhere with a bit of space!! I am certain the haul won't be anything like your various spaces-of-plenty, but it'll be interesting! LOL
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
Taipan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 12:28 pm
I went searching for my favourite winter gloves. The wardrobe-of-plenty delivered!
Is the wardrobe of plenty a subdivision of the loft of plenty?
Yes. We're quite diverse in the -of-plenty storage range. We of course have the original and mighty loft-of-plenty and there are two sheds-of plenty, with a third recently added to that range but it's currently awaiting stock. Back inside we obviously have the aforementioned wardrobe-of-plenty and we have the two underbeds-of-plenty. Sadly the legendary bathroom cupboard-of-plenty was lost in the great bathroom refurb of 2022. There are some smaller storage units known as the man-drawers-of-plenty, but these are under constant attack from the evil serial tidier known as Mrs Taipan, who is a sworn enemy of the -of-plenty storage facilities.
Taipan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 12:28 pm
I went searching for my favourite winter gloves. The wardrobe-of-plenty delivered!
Is the wardrobe of plenty a subdivision of the loft of plenty?
Yes. We're quite diverse in the -of-plenty storage range. We of course have the original and mighty loft-of-plenty and there are two sheds-of plenty, with a third recently added to that range but it's currently awaiting stock. Back inside we obviously have the aforementioned wardrobe-of-plenty and we have the two underbeds-of-plenty. Sadly the legendary bathroom cupboard-of-plenty was lost in the great bathroom refurb of 2022. There are some smaller storage units known as the man-drawers-of-plenty, but these are under constant attack from the evil serial tidier known as Mrs Taipan, who is a sworn enemy of the -of-plenty storage facilities.
Just showed that to our lass. She giggled and was very impressed
Just had my first ever bone density scan and now awaiting results!!!
First up, X-rays of my spine, so had to warn him about the two old fractures
Then off to a different room for the bone density jobbie
Here’s hoping all’s well. TBF, I’ve no reason to think not, but with family history and age I figured it was worth a check up. Forewarned is forearmed etc!!
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
Only ever drunk it out of choice a few weeks ago in The Coach and Horses near Aldwych. Place is renowned for it and when I went in it the only pint really being sold, so I thought I'd give it a go.
What a revelation. Creamy and quite light. I was informed that the storage and gas used is key to the top condition. One way to tell a good pint is to see the head 'proud' of the top of the glass.
I think it just proves that most pubs in this country can't keep Guinness well.
I am so NOT the right person for that. Well, someone once said I was for this reason - I often love the first taste of a wine but then the after taste hits and it's yucky!!! So it's rare I find a wine that I actually enjoy enough to drink a glass (well, over here, it's a half glass!!). 
Start work tomorrow 
