Good Morning Early Birds!

[waterboatman]

Wednesday. It's mild and quite pleasent outside. It can't last.

The ongoing saga of the contractors. I phoned my wee lassie at the council. She was disgusted with the contractor. She said she would phone the contractor. I asked her to get the contractor to phone me. A young lady from the contractor did phone, from what was said the boss wouldn't. I wonder why! She said they thought the work was already done, but from the way she said it, she knew that was not the case. I didn't rip into her, I wanted to rip into the boss. I've now got their phone number. I was promised that the wee men will be here at 0830 this morning. I will give them 15 minutes leeway, to allow for traffic etc. If they are not here their boss is going to get an army Sergeant type 'telling off'.

So I shall do my running around at 0730, and come back on when I get back.

Have a happy day everyone.

[waterboatman]

I'm going to shove off and get everything out of the way for them. I'm an optimist! :o}

[murraymints]

bye Boaty xx good luck !

[Togo]

Sorry to see that you are "under the weather" Mints.X I think Boaty is having the bathroom refurbished.............allegedly. :))

[murraymints]

morning Togo xx thought that had been done and dusted, it has been a long time

[mikey4444]

Morning All !

Very late appearance from me today. Another disturbed, sleepless night I'm afraid. But I have nothing much on today, so I can catch up on the missed sleep after lunch.

Nice to see you back Minty....I was just about to send out search parties !

[murraymints]

morning Mikey xx we have been sleepless together ! lol.. had line problems BT had to put up another one. blummin next door's Lleylandii as the line has been swallowed up by them and they damage it

[donny48]

Good morning all.
Good morning Minty XXOOXX.
I am in the middle of Christmas cake making, four for the kids and one for ourselves.

[murraymints]

morning Donny XX..OO..XX.. gosh you bake cake ! kept that secret, I shall expect a supply in the cupboard !

[donny48]

Baking is something I have always enjoyed, so does Ann , we usually share. One week Ann will bake and the next is my turn.

[murraymints]

I do a nice cherry and pineapple, never lasts long..Boaty's recipe

[mikey4444]

Minty...I too, have been having a spell of cake baking lately !

I made a cherry cake at the weekend but how do I prevent the cherries all sinking to the bottom ?

[emmie]

morning all, not sure what the weather has in store, but doubt if i will do much today..

[donny48]

My favourite is my Clootie pudding, that should make some people start Googling.

[murraymints]

morning Emmie xx
do you add other fruit Mikey ? I put a healthy amount of mixed fruit in and it seems to hold the cherries well

[murraymints]

in a real clootie ? mum used to do a good one it took ages to cook

[donny48]

We eat it as cake and it does take a while, about 4hrs to simmer and then a short drying time in the oven.

[murraymints]

nice with custard too

[murraymints]

we call it clootie dumpling

[donny48]

I am particularly fond of the skin that forms on the outside. I think I started calling it pudding because down here people thought I was talking about dumplings that go with stew.

[murraymints]

sassenachs ! lol