Afternoon, mumpers! It’s currently 4c/40f with a predicted high of 11c/51f and cloudy. Weather app says “It’s not that fucking cold outside. People from Canada will tell you to fucking get over yourself.” It’s warming up out there, it was definitely below freezing when we got home last night. Hopefully we will get rain today too, so hopefully that will wash some of the snow away.
That’s really sad to read, I’m glad you were able to do something to help.
Is there a local youth club or somewhere that might know of someone who could help? Or could you sell them yourself and donate the money to a charity of your choice?
Thank you 
To be fair, this shade of purple is relatively tame compared to some of the things I’ve done to my poor old head in the past!
I am glad he got a good send-off and everyone was able to celebrate his life too. Using the best local caterer is always a winner! Before she died, mum gave me a chunk of cash to spend on her reception and told me exactly who she wanted to do the food etc, and some of the things that definitely had to be on the menu!
You’re lucky to get the mini-gritters, we don’t have such luxury down here in the frozen middle wasteland. The thaw has started though, the road outside is wet rather than icy today, and the bit where cars are parked is slowly turning to slush. We just need some rain to deal with the rest of it.
We went to the zoo many years ago, it was just over $50 each then, and we got a small discount by booking them via the concierge desk at our hotel. We justified it to ourselves as a holiday treat, since we were not expecting to return to San Diego again. My local zoo’s admission charges would be around $28 for an adult and $20 for children over 3yrs old. The cheapest tix are online, bit more expensive at the gate, and there’s a small voluntary donation price too.
I’m sorry it’s not been the best of starts for you and your wife, it’s a lot to take in at once so it’s good that she has you for support. The added debt problem is nasty though.
Not what we were planning! We went to the Lych Gate pub where someone had a birthday party but several people weren’t able to make it because of the snow, so they had a load of leftover buffet food. Not wanting it to go to waste, they offered it to the handful of people in the pub, so that ended up being dinner
Fabulous! Llamas are such funny things
The white stuff did not thaw at all yesterday and given the early kick-off for the home footie game, we opted to go out later in the afternoon. We decided walking wasn’t a good idea so I summoned an Uber to take us into town. We started off at the Posada, our favourite barmaid was working so she was already pouring our drinks as we came through the door.
The pub has a new jukebox too, it’s got some interesting stuff on it and also works via an app. ‘im indoors put some music on and then grumbled because someone had used the app and got their choices in before him! Then he found out that another pub we go to has the same jukebox app, so he could sit in the Posada and put some music on down the road in the Clarendon
After the Posada, we went over the road to the Lych Gate and had some free buffet food which was very good, and very kind of the person whose party it was. Then of course, we ended up heading down the road to the Giff. Somehow, we always seem to end up there even when we aren’t planning to. It was quite empty in there, the snow and icy conditions had kept a lot of people away, and the football fans had already gone home. We stayed there until about 2am, then got a cab home, had a cup of tea and some cheese on toast with Marmite, then headed to bed.
I have nothing planned for today, I’m hoping we get some rain to help get rid of the snow and ice, and I shall be spending my afternoon being slothful. I found an unwatched season of TWD: Daryl Dixon on the kodi box so I might be spending some time with Greasy Daryl later