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Good evening, Elle!
It is quite mild here, after our few days of minus temperatures.
After all the chat about fish and chip deliveries, and Chinese takeaways, I had bread and cheese for my tea!
Was fine!
Have you heard from the Carvery about your "fine"?

Hi, Rusty!
It is still very chilly here!
But according to the local forecast, it should start to become milder from Wednesday.
I think the "ideal" meal is eating what you like.....when you like.
So well done, you, for enjoying your bread and cheese!
No, still no word from either the ECP or the Carvery - I wrote to both.
I am not worried......we were only there for 15 minutes.
This is borne out by the camera.
The timing fits perfectly with what happened.....
I do not think either the ECP or the Carvery has the proverbial leg on which to stand!
It is just an unnecessary hassle!
No "Eggheads" all week.....
I wonder why?

Hello, Elle!
The mild spell has started here!
I like Red Leicester cheese the best.
it has a slightly nutty flavour.
So, where exactly at the Carvery did you park?
In a designated parking space?
Then you went inside, could not get served, and left, is that it?
How can you know it is full, without parking and going in?
I would tell them to go and whistle for their money.
I do not know about Eggheads.
I stopped watching it, a year or two ago.
I missed Daphne!

Hi, Rusty!
Cheddar cheese is my favourite!
Now the Carvery......I'm sorry, I thought I had previously explained this.
Yes, we parked in the restaurant's own car park.
We queued outside as there was a long queue.....
Then a member of staff came along and apologised for having to turn away anyone who had not reserved a table, as they were so busy.
So we left.
Now....one does not get to leave one's car Registration number in the machine until one reaches the booking desk.
As one is assigned a table, one is asked, at that time, to enter the car Reg into the machine.
We did not even get inside the restaurant..... let alone within striking distance of the booking desk and the registration machine!
So , you see, totally not our fault!
I shall have withdrawal symptoms from no "Eggheads" for a week!

Hello, Elle!
You appear to be blameless as regards parking.
Mad if the restaurant folk can not see that!
We do not have that system at Pine Cone, though La Bamba has been known to park beside the tractors before!
Now, Eggheads.
There are hundreds of episodes of Eggheads on YouTube which you can watch at your leisure.
Everything in the whole wide world is on YouTube!
Not so long ago, I read about Luisa Tetrazzini, who was a coloratura soprano, and reputed to be one of the all time greats.
But she died in 1940, and I thought I would never get to see/hear her.
Wrong!
Found her on YouTube on a Movietone newsreel from 1932, where she is listening to a recording of her great friend Caruso, and half way through she joins in.
What a voice! She was superb!

Good morning, Rusty!
It is another lovely day here.......and thankfully a tad warmer; 4C when I was out on my walk.
Unfortunately, one of the goslings is missing from the lake.....
Mum and dad were only escorting two babies this morning.
I suspect perhaps a fox?
We unearthed the Christmas tree from the understairs cupboard last night.
So, hopefully, might get it erected sometime soon!
And I had better look for my Christmas cards.....
Time is marching on!

Good morning, Elle!
Fine day here, on the cold side, but frost free.
I bought Christmas cards today.
I go to a wee shop who has an amazing variety of cards.
Much bigger choice than the supermarkets have, and much cheaper, too.
The shop only sells cards and sweeties.

Hi, Rusty!
I still have to buy the family cards...but will start writing all the others soon...maybe tomorrow.
I am awaiting my husband's erecting the tree - a difficult job - and sorting out the lights, and then I shall decorate it.
The cat "helps"...only he takes off, what I have put on....
He is under the impression that the coloured balls are there expressly for him to bat about the room!
I am hoping, though, to have the tree finished by the weekend.
Some one has smashed the wing mirror on our car...…
My husband has just gone down the road to see if the local car repair shop can fix it!
I hope it won't entail a trip to Volvo as that is some distance way.
One way or another, today is turning out to be a somewhat frenetic day!

Good evening, Elle!
A pity about your wing mirror.
Hopefully it's an easy fix.
I have had a canny day.
Finished my puzzle earlier.
I have seen 25a before, but did not know what the word meant.
A good puzzle!

Good evening, Rusty!
How have we got to nearly eight o'clock at night?
Where has my day gone?
I seem to have been spinning around......
The wing mirror turned out to be the least of our problems!
The very kindly mechanic said that he would order the replacement glass for it by tomorrow, bring the car back at noon, and he would fix it then......and then offered to share his fish and chip lunch with my husband!
Now that is service....!
I never got around to completing the puzzle.....there were too many distractions.....
"Autodidact" was a new word for me , too!
I liked "sic" at 26a.
It is definitely time I had a coffee!