Another pointless thread

5, that's 5 visits in the last 2 years as the lights were, supposedly, possible and we've seen nothing, nowt, bu..er all.

As the Bee Gess sang ..... And the lights all went out in Massachusetts and Scotland,

Fickle things, those auroras. You can get a flight to see one. Out into the Atlantic, cabin lights out, fly in circles for a bit, swap seats with other passengers in darkness (could be fun with the right person !) so you all get a chance of looking out of the window, back home again about 3 hours after you left. All for £250. But as the booking website says, "Please note as the Northern Lights is a natural phenomenon, we cannot guarantee a successful sighting.". And you definitely don't get to see Massachusetts.

Steve

We were victims of a drive-by cleaning today.

Arrived home to find the windows had all been cleaned (not too well).

Apparently they got the wrong house

or took pity??


p.s. pass on my address.......

so..

Last night we went around to our good friends and neighbours, too much of the falling down juice was enjoyed (and my head is reminding me about that!)
but we were informed that they were struggling to find an engineer to service their gas fire..

,,,which takes me back to the begining of this thread, or is it a rope?

I've just thrown a couple of logs on the fire and will top up with coal shortly.

Solid fuel/ wood burner/ coal stoves seem to be comming back into fashion, and we're well ahead of the trend..

So I disovered a few months ago that I rather liked Rye bread, although it is quite difficult to source around here. It can be bought on Amazon maybe 12 loaves at a time, but we don't have the space to freeze it. Plenty of Sourdough about, plenty of mixtures such as Wheat/Rye but no pure Rye bread as such. Then we came across some Pumpernickel bread in Morrisons, and that's also a small, very dark loaf with a heavy texture. Delicious, and after investigations I find that Pumpernickel is a sweet Rye bread.

So I discovered yesterday that I rather like Rye bread and Pumpernickel bread, life just gets better all the time. It must be Christmas.

I love malt loaf, takes me back to my childhood, and Soreen still produces it after all these years! Oooh, and pikelets with hot runny butter, just the thing for a winter’s tea.

Oh, Soreen Malt Loaf .... gimme, gimme! We haven't lit the open fire yet (but we will ere long). Then we get the toasting fork out. Hot toast from an open fire just cannot be mimicked or beaten! As to pikelets, M&S have produced some shaped like snowmen this year - they don't last long at all, albeit from the toaster.

Love malt loaf. Pumpernickel was always a favourite of my father's god rest his soul.

The question is with or without butter ?

Has to have butter! I recall now that on Sundays we had a lunchtime roast waiting for us after church morning service so for tea it was a snack like sardines on toast, pikelets (that’s muffins in less civilised parts) or malt loaf.

Pumpernickel...

[quote="MeriiamWebster"]
Etymology
German, from pumpern to break wind + Nickel goblin; from its reputed indigestibility[/quote]Enjoy!

Forgive me Ricoh for I have sinned - and bought a Panasonic! -

The pressure cookers bust. That leaves two more, it always comes in threes

Oh dear . Was it a big bang - sprouts stuck to the ceiling, bits of parsnip decorating the windows, fairy blown off the top of the tree by the force of the explosion??

Steve

Not quite, seal went. Pan burnt, bent the base.