Plans for today (2024)

Going to the butchers this morning as there’s been a second request for faggots from the son who hadn’t had them before! Plus a joint of beef and some meat for a meat press thing I want to try out.
I was thrilled to read the butchers in Worle got a silver ‘Taste of the West’ award. That award does actually mean something here.
Our crappy little village high street has a quality butcher that might just make it work!!

Then off to Waitrose to pick up the new single hob plate. At the end of last summer I threw the old one away in a fit of pique because even though it worked it was awful so I decided I’d force future me to buy a new one.
Not so amused with myself now I’ve got to fork out for a new one 😂

Grocery delivery 9.30 with all the Father’s Day goodies. Mr SSOAP has requested roast beef and all the trimmings.

Then groom out the dogs and give them a hair cut because off to Spain for a short break on Monday.

Looking forward to the day, which is great because I haven’t for a while so maybe🤞🤞🤞things are looking up!!

Have a lovely day everyone 😊
 
Well, to start our day, at 2:45am, the emergency PA system went off, very loudly I might add.
Blaring that "an emergency has been report. Please proceed calmly to the nearest exit stairwell. Do not use the elevator."
DH & I assembled ourselves as best we could.
I grabbed two bottled waters, our wallets, house keys and footwear aka rubber slippers and off we went.
25 flights of stairs later, we made it!
The local Fire Department was on scene, doing what they do.
As we got out of the building and pulled ourselves together, not ten minutes later, they gave the all clear sign - they couldn't find anything!
Needless to say, that was not how I wanted to start our day - surprisingly, we went back to bed and slept for about five hours or so.
So the plan for the rest of our fractured day is to just sit and recuperate (our knees are not doing well) in the apartment... well, I do need to go out and just some essentials ...
 
kaneohegirlinaz said:
Well, to start our day, at 2:45am, the emergency PA system went off, very loudly I might add.
Blaring that "an emergency has been report. Please proceed calmly to the nearest exit stairwell. Do not use the elevator."
DH & I assembled ourselves as best we could.
I grabbed two bottled waters, our wallets, house keys and footwear aka rubber slippers and off we went.
25 flights of stairs later, we made it!
The local Fire Department was on scene, doing what they do.
As we got out of the building and pulled ourselves together, not ten minutes later, they gave the all clear sign - they couldn't find anything!
Needless to say, that was not how I wanted to start our day - surprisingly, we went back to bed and slept for about five hours or so.
So the plan for the rest of our fractured day is to just sit and recuperate (our knees are not doing well) in the apartment... well, I do need to go out and just some essentials ...
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It's a bugger when that happens.

We used to get false alarms all the time at university in the chemistry department, but twice it was the real deal.. first time around carbon monoxide in the stair well between chemistry and biochemistry.... both buildings evacuated, couldn't return for 6 hours. My coat, house keys, wallet & rail card and most importantly inhalers were all in my locker.... I ended up at the hospital with mild hypothermia (it was icy outside and before freezing and i had on a tshirt and a lab coat) and by lunch, needing a script for my 3 inhalers that were in the chemistry department. Lesson learnt.

Second time around a small explosion (no joke) happened in the room I was in, just metres from where I was working. I called the safety officer over, I knew what was in those bottles before they dissolved the labels off the boxes so he and the fire service wouldn't know what they were dealing with.... then I went to my locker, got my coat, bag and everything else, told those who would listen, to grab their stuff. We weren't on fire (yet) and so on, but we were not getting back into the building any time soon. Everything was exceptionally flammable or just highly volatile and some of it wasn't nice stuff... then I went home for the day.

When I worked for the armed forces, I was told that unless I could see smoke or fire, I should return to my desk to get my bag and inhalers before leaving the building. I always do that now. My boss also took to grabbing my bag for me as well, if I was away from the office when one of the many alarms went off (we had different alarms for different events/attacks (it was a time before the IRA ceasefire), some were close windows, shelter under desk, others were open windows and doors, others were just get out fast. ) he'd linger in the corridor waiting for me (ground floor office) and if I came from the far end, I'd see him and leave at the bottom end of the corridor and meet up at the evac point).
 
Oh my SatNavSaysStraightOn !

We were sound asleep and I thought at first I was dreaming, because I wear an eye mask & ear plugs.
What made DH angry was there is no where in this older building with evacuation instructions, such as for the handicap; nor is there a sprinkler system to douse any fire if need be.
DH is a heart patient and those 25 flights of stairs were extremely difficult for him.

SO ... for today, we're going to skip the beach and try to take a walk in Waikiki.
Our legs are very soar today.
 
This was brilliant.
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kaneohegirlinaz said:
DH is a heart patient and those 25 flights of stairs were extremely difficult for him.
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Yep, that would have been difficult.
When I was in the wheelchair, I always wondered what exactly happened to those unable to do stairs during a fire alarm or evac. The do not use lift orders make it very difficult.

Take it easy for the next few days. You're going to need it. I know I'm always worse on the second day after something strenuous.
 
My plans for today have come unstuck.

I was meant to be finishing my fairisle jacket/cardigan today, but I ran out of the colour ocean last night whilst widening the sleeves. I have 2 other kits for knits that use the same wool yarn and neither have that colour in them. The only shop locally that stocks the British Breeds yarn is closed on Sundays and Mondays. Tuesday I'm busy (the shop is 65km away) and Wednesday I'm at the shop on a patchwork course.

I'm try to block the cardigan today, so I can sew some of it together, but then I'm stuck. I can't do anything with it until I have that colour. 😠

So I'll have to cast on something else, so I've got something to knit whilst I'm on the phone to my mother and watching TV in the evenings. To say it's annoying is an understatement.

I had needed a full day to concentrate on finishing it and we'd set aside today for that.
 
We were back at the garden centre this morning so after lunch we are looking to plant them along with the plants we bought on Thursday but haven't had the chance to plant due to the rain.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
My plans will be over in about 20 minutes cos I found some melatonin with the paracetamol and am heading to the land of nod regardless of what my brain suddenly decides urgently needs tending to at 22.43 at night 😆
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…until 1:43AM, when you sit bolt upright in bed and say, “Oh! Can I make mortadella with my new deli meat tube-a-majiggy?!”
 
TastyReuben said:
…until 1:43AM, when you sit bolt upright in bed and say, “Oh! Can I make mortadella with my new deli meat tube-a-majiggy?!”
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Yep 😂
Except it was melatonin delayed until 7am and involved Chicken and mushrooms 😆 - quick get up and put the slow cooker on outside before the temperature rises any further, go go go!
 
Fed/Bank holiday today (Juneteenth), so I’m off today (though I’m still on-call).

Going about halfway between my house and where I grew up - the family cookout I mentioned going to a month or so ago…I left a serving spoon and a knife over there, so my brother’s going to meet me halfway and bring them back, and give me some foodie thing someone gave him as a gift (he doesn’t want it).

There’s a kitchen shop near there, so I’ll probably swing into that, because I’ve been looking for some little 2-tablespoon glass prep bowls, and no one seems to carry those in-store. This is my last attempt before ordering online.
 
TastyReuben said:
Fed/Bank holiday today (Juneteenth), so I’m off today (though I’m still on-call).

Going about halfway between my house and where I grew up - the family cookout I mentioned going to a month or so ago…I left a serving spoon and a knife over there, so my brother’s going to meet me halfway and bring them back, and give me some foodie thing someone gave him as a gift (he doesn’t want it).

There’s a kitchen shop near there, so I’ll probably swing into that, because I’ve been looking for some little 2-tablespoon glass prep bowls, and no one seems to carry those in-store. This is my last attempt before ordering online.
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Oh how I adore mini bowls!
I find it hard to walk past anything miniature but tiny ramekins, no chance, they must be mine ALL MINE 😆
 
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