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Hey, Rusty!
Oops! sorry to hear about the possible demise of your hoover.......
I hope you succeed in resurrecting it tomorrow!
I had to laugh when I read about "Maggie".......(are you making this up?)
I have just dug out a book by Jeffrey Archer that I have no recollection whatsoever of reading before........"False Impression".
Have you read this ?
I can only assume that I bought it and then set it side for some reason and it got "buried"!
Anyway, I shall enjoy reading it now........
Yes, I am "lunching" tomorrow.........no idea as to where, though, yet.
Very cold here now, and It's going to be zero degrees when I go out with the dog in the morning!


Hello, Ros!
I hope you have bought enough paint to do all your walls!
A possible plan against a disaster could be to decide on the most dominant wall and then leave that till the last? Then, if you run out of "creme de la rose" paint, you could maybe do that remaining wall in a contrasting colour?
Just a contingency plan........
The £495 (!) on vet bills was spent over the last five months.... a large part was the cost of the dog's operation and the biopsy done on the "lump" .

I have always done both the inside and outside decorating, Rusty! Until last year, when I paid someone to paint the rendering yet again. I have swopped my scaffold tower for a chain saw (I kid you not).

Thanks for the idea, Elle. I am pretty sure I have enough paint for 2 coats. I may do the chimney breast something startling. The room only has 3 walls, since it was knocked through, and most of one is taken up with a bay window. I think I will do the other room in a different colour- at the moment it is pretty featureless.

At Homebase (we no longer have a B & Q) they have put some posts to restrict the width of cars entering the car park. This i sapparently to stop the travellers getting in. They have had to be evicted 5 times recently, at a cost of £5,000 per time.

Good morning, Elle!
Very cold today.
Minus something outside.
The tale of Maggie and the painter is true!
Mind, it does not take much to baffle me!
I have to wait until vacuum filters dry out until I replace them.
Then try out the cleaner.
I have read that Henry vacuums do an excellent job?
Hope you enjoy lunch!

Good day, Rosalind,
Our town gets plagued with travelers too from time to time.
The mess they leave for others to clean, is sickening.
I am sure there must an answer.
If you run out of paint, I hear Maggie is all the rage!

Hello, Elle!
My painter uses MacPhersons paints.
So now we know Maggie's surname.
Maggie MacPherson.
Sounds like a real Highlander!

Someone gave my a Dyson, Rusty. Best vacuum cleaner I have ever had.
Yep, could always paint with Maggie. 5 litres should be enough for 2 and a half walls, though. Ceiling is sail white.

Good morning, Rusty!
Bitter cold here! I went out well layered up this morning!
I enjoyed the walk though. It was great to be out so early in the sunshine!
I hope you can restore your own vacuum cleaner to its former glory?
At the risk of offending any one reading this who owns a Henry, I think they are awful!!
They are the pull-along- behind- you type, which I dislike, preferring the -sit-up- and -beg ones that you push along in front of you!
I have had a lot of bad experiences with various Henrys as there have been varying models over the years in the house we rent when we go to Pakefield.
I don't find them very efficient. To me, they make cleaning very hard work!
I can recommend a Dyson though!.
(No, I don't have shares in the company!)
Maggie MacPherson! I like that!

I hadn't used my Vacuum cleaner for ages so I sold it on e-Bay - it was just gathering dust ;-)

...the winner of last year's best joke, maybe at the Edinburgh Fringe? It's still funny!

Hello, Elle and Rosalind!
I shall forget about Henry, so!
I'll see how I get on with the filters in this machine.
A Tesco Multi-cyclone, I think it is. Was a cheapie.
I still have my Which trial, so will look at their reviews.
I have a notion that a Miele gets highest marks from them but costs far too much.
Bright and dry here, whatever happened to Winter!

Good afternoon, Rusty!
I enjoyed lunch- and the catch up chat!
A pleasant venue - it might be interesting to try it for dinner one evening.
So far I have only lunched there on a few occasions.
What have you been up to today? Have you finished your clearing out now?
You are beginning to make me feel guilty..... I know that I need to do some sorting ....especially with my books - all my bookshelves are double deep in books and there is nowhere at all to put my latest acquisitions!
I have yet to do today's crosswords........ I shall make a coffee and start on the Times QC!
Have you had time to do your crossword yet?
Oh nearly forgot to ask...how is your vacuum cleaner? is it working now?