We have a bowl of hyacinths. They do not perfume the room, but if yoy get close to them they have an aroma which we think reminds us of a vegetable but we just cannot identify it. Any ideas, please?...
I am still working. I shall be until midnight Mr BM has, however, cleaned the dining room and living room. Including getting the wax out and properly waxing the furniture that needed it. It looks...
On my right foot, I have a lump. It is on the top of my foot to the inner side. It is about an inch round. It is hard. I do have a bunion on that foot and it is about 1.5 inches up the foot from my...
It's my annual "what am I going to cook?" Thread. Got about 40 coming for pre Christmas drinks and nibbles. Then 11 on Boxing day. I need ideas for nibbles that do not include pastry or cheese (cos...
Our neighbours across the field have invited us to a celebration of their twins' first birthday on Saturday. What do you get two 1 year old boys?! I said to Mr BM, we won't get the boys anything since...
I'm thinking of getting a new pressure cooker. I've got a 9l stove top one - it is far too big for just two of us. It's fine if I want to batch cook or do a joint of gammon, but it is not practical...
they are little so and so's! This is how my day started:- 8.15 Rescue kittens from hall 8.16 Feed kittens 8.16.30 Remove one kitten from hall and put on food dish 8.17 Remove other kitten from hall...
I need to fill a pavlova at the weekend with a dairy and gluten free cream, before I top it with fruit. I won't be able to use ice cream because it will have to be filled a couple of hours before it...
After we lost ASBO I registered us with sone local cat re-homing charities. Due to being ill with covid I had to decline the offer from one during the week for a kitten. I was gutted. Last night, just...
I spent Saturday and Sunday cooking cold desserts for an event next month and stuck the food in the freezer. On Saturday night, we went to a party which is undoubtedly where we both contracted covid....
Some new people have moved into the house whose boundary abuts one end of our garden. Admittedly it is quite a way from the house, but it is not far from our veg plot. It is a large mastiff type....
I am sick of tomatoes. We have had an amazingly good crop this year and I am running out of ideas for them. The last 3 weekends have been spent making soup, passata, bolognaise and ratatouille (we...
When cooking and cleaning I always wear an apron. I always have done. (Just a bog standard blue and white striped butcher's type apron). Mr BM remarked earlier that he had never known anyone to wear...
I have just tried to log onto btinternet, but I get a message saying that my connection is not secure and that hackers may be accessing my information. I tried this on another device and got the same...
Just sorting out my outfit for a wedding later this month and decided on a nice clutch bag which will go well with everything else. And then I realised that not only will I need car keys, house keys,...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10980687/Just-Stop-Oil-eco-zealots-glue-Constables-Hay-Wain-National-Gallery.html This is not the first time a work of art has been targeted by these idiots....