General Chat

Coz your a friend, the ticket will be free, but dont tell anyone else will you, we can't have the whole thread turning up causing embarrassment for Jean. :-D :-D :-D

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D <3

I cant believe you two are taking the micheal out of me, :-P :-P :-P
I couldnt come to you Missis Mo cause I only have posh shower gel and special fluffy towels ;-) ;-) and I know yours wouldnt be up to scratch, or maybe they would make me scratch :-D :-D :-D I think that Sallie has a fancy man tucked away somewhere ;-) ;-) although Alun does sound rather dishy so perhaps not....

what I meant to say Ann, was the table sale was bubbish as our little next door says :-) :-) I did however manage to spend £ 36 from the regular stock.so there :-P :-P


Sylvia so glad to see you back safe and sound,hope it wasnt all doom and gloom for you , the train journey sounded good fun and profitable too..

we are having a chippy meal tonight dont do it often but its just arrived, rag puddings , chips, gravy, and mushy peas, mmmmm can you smell it Mo, and you are not getting any of it and that Ann can only have a chip too :-P :-P
love and chips to all Jean xx <3

Ahhhh Jean, I am sooo disappointed in you, fancy not sharing your chips around.
Anyway what on earth is Rag Pudding, being a southern gal, I aint got a clue what it is.
I thought you had bought a table at the table sale, not craft things. See I am a real ficko lol

Glad you asked that Mo, we don't eat rags here don't know about you.

Mo, re my fleas, I had set off flea bombs on 2 occasions and was still getting fleas on the legs so I bought a big shaker of flea powder and shook it all over the floors and mats and brushed it into all the cracks. It seems to have done the trick. I dont know how long the effects last though, so maybe I will buy another half dozen flea bombs to set off when once I clean up the powder. I have left it for about a week now, the house looks a horrid mess with powder and footprints all over the place, but any visitors who are horrified at the mess will be told the alternative would have been being attacked by fleas.

Ann, are you having any problems adding photos to your blogspots? I started one on the Rangitoto Climb, and the text added alright, then one photo, then more text, but I spent several hours yesterday trying to add more photos and I just couldnt. I will have to try again today. Perhaps it just needed a rest. :-S

Jean, if I ever get the blogspot finished you will be able to see the photos.

Huia I added one yesterday ok but, how many photos have you got on there. The google blogs will only take a certain number before reaching capacity, they then expect you to pay for extra space.

Ann, the only time I had anything made via a rag/cloth, was a steak and kidney pudding, or spotted dick pudding. So like you I aint got a clue what a rag pudding is.

Huia,I have visions of you trailing that there powder all over the house, and the place looking like a haunted house.
I do hope the little blighters have gone for good though love. If people turn up, and the house is upside down, so what, they should take you as they find you, or go home themselves.

Night Night god bless.

Mo up here int norf we have steak or mince in clean pieces of cloth and steam the pudding that my thicko friend is a rag pudding !! a rare delicacy, but you southerners wouldnt know what a lovely stodgey meal it is.... puts some meat on your bones :-D :-D or the hips in my case :-D :-D you can also put jam in too called a roly poly.... Ann I am deeply hurt I thought you was one of my bestest friends, but now I dont know :-S :-S :-S

Huia , I wait with bated breath to see your wonderful photos always a pleasure for me....

we have just watched the film with Judy Dnch and Maggie Smith in it fantastic film,The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" so many great actors in also....

so off to bed and hope to sleep right through which will be a novelty.
nite nite sleep well love and prayers Jean xx

Hi all
xx


this cold is rotten!

OH has gone out to do the weekly shop, while I stay home, miserable



No, it was not all doom and gloom ............... although there were 2 or 3 days that were doom and gloom.

J and I had a good, if wet, talk on Boxing Day morning ............ she was crying her eyes out because her 2 families were having problems. I do not think she had ever realised before that M's behaviours had an effect on other people, such as making them believe they were not wanted. We really were thinking of trying to find a hotel for the remaining days of our trip. Christmas night and Boxing Day were particularly bad.


OH has made our Christmas cakes and puddings for many years ............ although we did stop making cakes quite a few years ago, we had to eat too much of it ourselves! The supermarket (Safeway) makes a delicious dark fruit cake at Christmas, which is just enough for us.


Daughter requested that we take a small pud over to hers, so OH made 3 puds in November, and we packed the smallest in one of the cases.

It was just the right size. 6 people plus a tiddler for Christmas dinner, but only OH, J and myself had any ............... the others all turned up their noses at it. We got pud for dessert on Boxing Day, and that was it, all eaten.

It was delicious ............. even though OH did not bother to make any brandy or rum sauce.



We had "fun" one day while over there. J asked if we wanted to go the mall on the Saturday, she needed to do some shopping, and "maybe I could leave MJ with you while I do it??"

We went, and she did. He was quite happy for a few minutes, until he decided to lick a mirror in the men's department. I stopped him, and he immediately started crying and shouting "Mummay! Mummay".

Funny thing was, he never once let go of my hand, and pressed up close to me.

All the assistants kept looking at us, and other shoppers gave us sympathetic looks. It went on for almost 20 minutes, and we then decided that she'd had long enough, and took him up to the next floor to find Mummy. J had to sit on the floor and hug him for several minutes.

At least he didn't fight us .............. and so no-one reported us!!

Not even taking him out into the mall to look at Santa's place helped!




take care



s
xx

Jean (and anybody else interested) my blogspot is:

http://rangitotoclimb2012.blogspot.co.nz/

You have to click on the oldest post and look at them from the bottom up to get them in chronological order. Click on my profile to see my other blogspots.

Jean lol :-D

Is it just meat then? No suet pud? My mum used to make a delicious bacon Roly poly in suet cooked in cloth of some sort. Loved it.

Thats it Ann, its known as rag puddings here but just the same as your mum made only with meat and gravy....suet pastry.... tonights meal was one D saw on the Hairy Bikers show, made in the slow cooker incl sauseges , chicken, and loads of veg all chopped fine and it was lovely I dont do a lot of veg, she told me after I cleared my plateI had had six various ones :-0 cant believe it all mixed fine so didnt realise I had them :-D and there is enough left over for another two meals .....the recipe is on the show that is low calorie food , so we shall be watching all the series.....

Huia The pics are great you did have a big climb and did very well too...
curly hair as well....now. well done ...
thanks for sharing them with us

love Jean xx

That is not me with curly hair, Jean, that is Gaal.

I have been to the doc this morning and she says I would have been dehydrated. I might have knocked my head when I fell as I have had a headache ever since so she gave me some stronger pain killers for when I get fed up with it.

Whoops Huia I should have gone to you-know- were :-S :-S sorry...

Jean, what 'rag' did Debra use to cook it in and can you give us the recipe please? It sounds nice.

we save old pillowcases, boli them clean, so they are great to use , up here we can buy ready made boil in the bag rag puds, they are wrapped in greaseproof , also most folk use small pudding basins, and our local chippy sells them in foil cases ...... we also like toasties too, the last toaster was a nightmare to clean I had to unscew the plates to clean it, so we binned it, now we have a lovey proffesional one with deep sections, which also pop out at the touch of a button making cleaning easier, there is a recipe book with it and lots of great ideas....cant wait to use it.......

Happy Birthday Huia, hope its a good one for you and hope your headache is much better, take care

Love Jean xx

Happy Birthday Huia, hope you have a great day. Also a Happy Birthday to your son, who's birthday is the same day as your's
Hope your headache is a lot better soon.


Jean, hope you, J and D are all okay. When is your grtgrandchild due?


I haven't been on for a couple of weeks, between one thing and another. Firstly Richard's car broke down the Saturday before Christmas, so Alun and I had to go down on the Sunday to bring up here for Christmas, and then we took him back on the Thursday. We were going to stay a couple of days with him but I started with a flu virus so we came home the next day. It lasted almost two weeks and I still don't feel 100% but a lot better than I was, thank goodness.


Mo, I was sorry to read that Rita had passed away on Christmas Eve, she was such a lovely lady. I'm sure she is greatly missed on the Friendly thread.

Hope you and Roly are both okay. How is Lilly these days? I hope that she is alright now.


Ann, hope all is well with you and T.


I know I'm late, but I just want to say thank you to you all for your Christmas cards and hope that you all had a good Christmas.

Wishing you all a belated but Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New year.



Love to you all. Sallie.xxx

Hi Sallie, lovely to have you back on here , this flu thing is really hard to shift, we had it before christmas and still feel iffy, our little one is any due day now,
we are all ok, thanks, I was hoping we could get through winter without more snow and ice, but the forecast looks ominous, I have been doing some die cutting cant remember if I told you J bought me the Grand Calibru for christmas , cant move for machines now....but I love them all and can do so much more now, I have just done some fancy edged cards on the G/R using the very big dies,and lots of small dies all at one go,
How is Jenny , I hope she is doing o.k. D has been taking some of her holiday days, so he had a big break over christmas, but within two days she was bored and couldnt wait to get back. and neither could we...lol....take care
love Jean xx