OneGuyFromBarlick

I am aiming for an hour in the shed early doors and after second sleep I shall be cooking Savoury cabbage as an extender for my veggies....
Carl will be delivering my meat tonight on his way home.

This morning I finished the milling of the elements of the steam chest. I didn't forget to add the witness marks for registering the parts. Now I deserve breakfast.

Morning

No cherry trees don’t last Stanley but we usually get a week of good blossom if its not too windy. We are lucky it reached that before we left, it will be over when we get back next weekend.

We are in a Premier Inn near Oxford, we shall breakfast and I will do my daily Duolingo french before we drive down to Portsmouth. I think we are planning on visiting Porchester Castle today. It should be a dry day. Have a good day all

Have a nice day Sue. I am back up after three hours of second sleep and gearing up to cook cabbage... XXX

I shall be in the shed for my morning session of occupational therapy.Later I shall fry my sweet potato chips.....

The next task is to fettle my cylinder lids but I can't do them until I have an accurate measurement of my cylinder bore so boring the cylinder is the next job. I spent 30 minutes this morning setting the cylinder up in the VM and am ready to start boring but instead of crashing on I shall stop there and come back tomorrow with plenty of time to check my setup and be very careful about my boring. Right now breakfast is more important.

We are going here tonight, relive our youth.

I have just had a black pudding and two eggs for second breakfast. Very nutritious and low in carbs, ideal for diabetics!

Stanley wrote: ↑18 Apr 2026, 08:40 I have just had a black pudding and two eggs for second breakfast. Very nutritious and low in carbs, ideal for diabetics!

Do love a black pudding. Stornoway is probably my favourite and then Bury.

Oooh I love a fatty black pudding.

Stuart Brown's are good, plenty of fat in them. Round about £1.25 each.....

Black pudding with scallops and a prawn and chorizo sauce.
An excellent starter

Oh I could just eat that Kev, sounds lovely.

Gloria wrote: ↑18 Apr 2026, 13:42 Oh I could just eat that Kev, sounds lovely.

I'm glad there are so many fans of black puddings. Such an honest artisanal food and so good for you.
I shall be in the shed early doors checking my set-up and boring the cylinder.... Later, after second breakfast I shall fry my sweet potato chips....

It took me a while to get set up correctly but I got there in the end and bored the cylinder. It is very close to perfection so I am pleased. It took me an hour so I have earned my breakfast.

)Morning

We had a good day on Friday visiting Porchester castle and a short walk along the coastai path. We then went and had a beer at the outlet centre and bought some jeans at the M&S there. The crossing in the evening was calm . We arrived at the house via the shops for a few essentials such as butter and milk. All was good but the ground was rack hard. The grass seed and a few of the potatoes had not sprouted and two more shrubs in the lawn had died. At least there won’t be much weeding to do. After lunch I prepared the veggie plot for planting tomatoes which I hope to buy on the market on Monday , Bob removed the dead shrubs.

We are out for lunch today and Laetitia and family are coming over about 4.A dry day at 18 degrees is forecast. Have a goog day all

Last night we went to Remember Th’Imp in Barnoldswick, what a good night that was. Plenty of memories, good meat and potato pie, bar open, couldn’t have been better. Well done to the organisers , excellent job.

I have just spent half an hour frying my sweet potato chips and extending my veggies in the fridge. Now I shall make second breakfast, black pudding and eggs.....

Been down to feed Jacks cats, collected the Saturday takings and the weekly sheet from the shop. I need to make some dough for a loaf, then at some point make a batch of energy bars. Count the weekly shop takings and card transactions, balance the weekly sheet and then prepare the cash for paying into the banking hub. I need to pick Sally up from Silsden at 11 to 11.30, she has been dog sitting. Carla and family have been up to Edinburgh for yesterdays rugby at Murrayfield, they went up in their camper van, stayed overnight and should be on their way back now. Short shop to do at Aldi and I probably will need some expensive petrol. Apart from that its a free day. May have to take Sally to the InPost lockers at Aldi as she has probably sold more stuff from her sewing room. She has been selling stuff on Vinted for about a month and is currently £600 up!

Dough is mixed an arguing with itself on the side, just finishing a quick brew then off to Silsden to pick Sally up.

At a BBQ in Harrogate, it's quite pleasant out.
Got a photoshoot on The Stray later, the blossom is out so I'm expecting it to be busy.

Nice to see so much activity! The better the day the better the deed!
I shall be in the shed early doors. Now I have my cylinder bored I can finish my lid castings because Now I know what size the bosses that engage with the bore to centre the lids have to be. After second sleep I need to go to the Col-op for milk and some bits and pieces.....

No image this morning, I've spent half an hour changing the mill from boring set up back to milling and had a good chip chase. I am ready now to get into my lids tomorrow....

Morning

A busy day yesterday. I fed the roses in the morning whilst Bob sorted out the automatic watering system for our pots of plants . After lunch we were having a short walk along the river when Joanne phoned to see if we were in. She arrived shortly after we got home and had a cuppa. She came to collect the wallpaper we brought over for her. No sooner had she left than Laetitia and family arrived. They stayed a couple of hours. We then spent a quiet hour finishing a jigsaw, and I spread some weed and feed on the lawn so I can water it in on Wednesday.

It was a lovely summery day and the rest of the week is forecast the same. Today we are off to the market to try and buy some veggies and geranium plants for the outdoor pots. I hope to get them planted up this afternoon. I will have to water things well as there is no rain forecast for at least 10 days. Have a good day all