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Good evening, Rusty!
I got home much later than originally planned!
I decided to go into Croydon on the way back.
The trams ran very sedately - there are notices up everywhere to ensure passengers of their safety.
Added speed restrictions have been put into place.
We had a very nice lunch - a bit of a swan song as my friend moves to Devon mid- December!
She and her husband are moving to live nearer to their son and his family.
I have read up about Jess' belated Gold medal award.
She sounds thrilled, but how much better it would have been had she been awarded the "correct" medal at the right time and in the right place!
What have you been up to today?

Hello, Elle,
I think the trams should run very sedately on that bend, though it is too late for those who died there.
Yes, Jess is thrilled, so that's good!
But a pity it happened to begin with.
I have had a quiet day.
Spoke to my phone supplier about leaving them for another company and was immediately switched to "retentions" dept, who offered me a very good deal to stay.
I thanked them and said i would ponder it and let them know tomorrow.
Just finished the crossword.
A disappointing setter. He thinks a "Pawnee" is an Indian.
That grates!
And there is another answer which he said is to with Cockneys.
And I do not have a clue about it, and nor do I want to!
Rant over!

Hi, Rusty!
You seem to do well with your deals with suppliers!
Whenever you argue the toss......you always come away with a better deal!
I'm afraid I haven't had time to look at the crosswords!
I thought a Pawnee was a Native American?
I don't think I have the energy or the brain power to cope with the 15 x 15 tonight!
I struggle with it at the best of times!
I might have a go at the QC.
My Welly Repair kit arrived this morning! I haven't even opened it yet.
Mr. M is discovering bull-fighting......

Hello, Elle!
No arguing with suppliers!
I did a bit of homework on rival suppliers deals, and suggested that they better them, in a very friendly manner...and it worked.
Yes, you are right about Pawnee.
Times is wrong....again!
I am looking forward to see how the welly repair kit goes!
In Mr M's "Iberia", a lot of it is to do with bull fighting.
"Iberia" is not a novel.
He spent quite some time going around Spain with a matador and "crew".
There is a word for them, but it has left me.
From the "wee folk" on Barra, to bull fighting!
Amazing!

Hey, Rusty!
Right...update!
Having scrubbed and thoroughly dried my welly - I had almost forgotten that they were green! - I have now applied the glue!
The kit came with a choice - to use a self- adhesive patch (two were supplied) OR to use the glue by itself.
I have opted for the glue - as shown in the videos on YouTube, and as advised in the accompanying instructions should the area be such as a seam or where a 'bend' might occur in the rubber.
I filled the crack with the glue , then added an additional rim of 5mm glue as told.
Seemingly, it should be "touch -dry" in 2 hours, but must be left for 10 -12 hours before wearing the boot.
My husband insists it won't work!
I think it might! ( the videos were impressive!)
Maybe I should take bets......?
I have put said boot in one of the bedrooms ( it has to lie undisturbed on its side; almost like a surgical operation! ) and I am not going to check on its progress until tomorrow lunchtime!
(If I can be so strong -willed and don't give in to temptation to peek!)

P.S. Rusty
Do you mean the "toreros" - bullfighters on foot?

Hello, Elle!
I have a good feeling about your cobbling skills!
Be very interesting to see how it works, and you always have the patch if it does not.
I read somewhere once, that you should buy black wellies rather than green ones. Black ones last longer.
Something to do with the light.
No, not "toreros", the word which drifted off has returned.
"Cuadrilla"
It is in Chambers, too.

Hi, Rusty!
I didn't know that the colour of a wellington made any difference to its longevity?
There are such a variety of colours/ stripes/ and spots these days that that doesn't sound plausible?
(I suspect you of having me on again?)
"Cuadrilla" is a new word for me.
Yes, I have looked it up in Chambers!
It is even in my errant 13th edition!
This week seems to be progressing far too quickly?
Thursday already tomorrow!
I am meeting the "Ladies who Lunch" - except that there will only be two of us, I think!
And Friday is our (forty-fourth!) Wedding Anniversary!
I am hoping we shall go out for dinner!

Hello, Elle!
Honest! I read somewhere that black wellies last longer.
It is to do with the rays from the sun, apparently.
But it is years since I read it and I do not remember where.
Just possibly in the Trout and Salmon magazine.
I shall ask my son.
I did not know "cuadrilla" until I read "Iberia".
So, you have an anniversary to celebrate.
Very good!
I am happily divorced!
Yes, go out for your dinner.
Fish, chips, and mushy peas, food for the Gods!
My son has just texted,
"Sunlight affects rubber and plastics, but no idea about wellies."
I still think I am right, you know!

Hello again, Elle.
Just had a thought.
All car tyres are black.
And, a useless bit of info.
Did you know that Nokia started out making wellies before they made mobile phones?