Weekend Chatterbox

Let us just say that it has stayed with me.

Just back from my first ever Flu jab, really efficient, 5 minute queue, hand in form, jab, off you go.

Also walked back listening to the Saturday Night Fever OST, it's impossible not to strut to it.

Happy Birthday Gong!

Today I have decided it’s time to clean the oven, as previously apparently used a slab of bacon to clean it with. Don’t think it’s ever been done. I have had to chisel off dried on grease from the drip tray, and it’s finally starting to look ok.

Games? Hahaha, no.

My mother used a tinned steak pie to do that and test the oven safety door at the same time. I can testify that an unpunctured Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie lobbed into the oven does the latter very well.

When it went off there was a low dull thump, an incredibly loud scream and lots of small impact sounds. The outer oven door was wide open, the safety door's hinges was all that was left intact. The rest of it and the pie was all over the kitchen floor, walls, ceiling and my mother.

She'd not read the bit which said "pierce lid"... these were the first of these* to be sold in the UK. She was OK, but the sight of this tough, determined woman covered in fragments of safety glass and a brown sludge will remain with me forever...

*She hated cooking and it showed, so Dad would grab any gadget to try and improve it. Years of fruit cakes which were 4" high at the rim, steeply sloping down to a thin layer of Mum's Patented Pemmican. Great stuff for survival rations provided you don't mind the taste of charcoal. 

You keep telling yourself that chief.

Now I know the true meaning of a birthday Gong. Happy Birthday, gongfarmer !

Though he can't have been very good last year because the weather is absolutely dreadful here. At least we know whose fault it is.

Fortunately it's nice and dry in the worry tent, although social distancing poses a bit of a challenge.

Ganes: This morning I resisted the urge to indulge in a spot of save scumming in Animal Crossing after I narrowly missed the mark for creating a perfect Snowboy. I was successful yesterday and there's still plenty of time, so I let it slide. I was a dab hand at creating Snow People in New Leaf but have been trying to do it a bit more scientifically by making a 10-square path to reduce the size of the head snowball, but the whole enterprise takes up too much space, so I'll probably go back to making a guess at the correct ratio.

TV: I still haven't watched Once Upon a Time in Iraq and I'm not sure that I will ever be able to. It's too close to home.

Just watched some YouTube last night, then fell asleep before I was able to go to bed. Hate it when that happens.

Pref.Mam. update: Talked to him last night, he's now in yet another room and much happier because he's got a reading light. Bad thing is that he's again out of breath and in need of the oxygen mask. He sounds exactly like me when I had fluid in my lungs after a bout of pancreatitis, so I'm guessing this is what's happened here. It's annoying but it will pass. Worst thing about it is that it is really difficult to find a comfortable position to sleep in.

Christmas cheer: the grandchildren are busy decorating Christmas biscuits. The twins have discovered the joys of sugar sprinkles, so that should make them nicely hyper. Hopefully they won't bring down the tree again.

I'm just lashing out as I need to clean ours before Xmas.

FUCKING SLOW CHANGE YOU FUCKING MORON

Pref.Mam. wants to know whether you're having a bad day.

Constant here.

I think this needs a vote, so we can weed out the slow change freaks.

I'm a slow change inverter and proud of it.

I'm a constant inverter.

At least right up to the point the rozzers catch me again.