How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

The only acceptable way to eat a sausage roll as far as I'm concerned is to smother it in ketchup.

I am aware this post may get me banned from the board.

Don't worry, Dawnstar. I've no interest in Sondheim, and Burly has the constitution of a...bear. He doesn't like to growl about it, but it's the only good thing to come out of his time at Bell Vue Zoo in the 1970s. Some of the stuff the keepers used to feed him would make anyone mad! 😉

That's 100% true TallPaul.

The Gregg's vegan sausage roll isn't too bad. Though I'll stick with the traditional sausage roll with HP sauce which is my preferred combination.

I went shopping this morning and wandered down by the river to wait for the store to open, and was approached by some optimistic ducks who rapidly became disappointed ducks. On an intellectual level I know that ducks aren't the smartest of birds, but I swear one of them gave me a look as if to say "I haven't run over here in a futile attempt to get fed. I came over here because I wanted to have a look at ... erm ... that stone."

A day of two halves, 3 hours on the bike in the morning and the completely bonkers Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga film in the afternoon.

Not the greatest film of all time but one of those that creeps up on you and end up liking much more than it deserves in the same way the Eurovision Song Contest does year after year.

Just seen that the soundtrack is available to stream, Jaja Ding Dong whenever you want it!

Today I visited my friend Alfie who is making a good recovey from surgery. He sends his love!

He had a big cancerous lump on his ear that was the size of a walnut.

He is now very fine. One of the many things I love about dogs is if you don't know or analyse things then everything is dandy

I went to do the washing this morning. I opened up a new box of detergent pods and one of the pods had burst and set off a chain reaction that caused half the others to fall apart as well. I'm not entirely sure how: they dissolve in water but they obviously can't dissolve in their own contents or they'd never make it out of the factory.

I managed to save half of them. They're a bit gloopy, because it's not as if I can wash them.

OH is somehow "too busy" with garden work to attend our usual Wed quiz but had time to tell his mum to contact me for any help she needs connecting to Zoom. I love her dearly, but don't have much patience with my own IT, let alone trying to help with something I can't see!

ruby, I can completely understand why that would be a little frustrating: I love my mum dearly, she is the absolute best, and the only time we usually argue is when she expects me to provide IT support remotely (she lives in another state) and refuses to acknowledge that when I say that I have no idea why something doesn't work, I really really don't; it's not that I don't want to help, I just don't really have a clue why her Skype/Internet/Telegram... is having trouble operating. Luckily, she'll then usually give up and call my ex, who is a) actually an IT guy and b) has nerves of steel and much more patience than me - which is something she should have done in the first place. :) There really is no other way to go about these things, except to try and take them with a touch of humour and a lot of patience.

My day has been fine. After a disastrous start to the week for work reasons outside my control, it seems like things are actually sort of coming together. Fingers crossed they are, at least.
But I heard from an ex colleague from back home whom I love dearly, which was such a mood brightener, and I treated myself a little (to a new dress) as reward for something I've done over the weekend. So I guess it all kind of balances out.

Surely it can't be the 40th anniversary of the release of Airplane?