WCMUT....what cheered me up today

Coming home to a letter from the inland revenue, immediate thoughts were, how much do they want this time ??
Wrong for one, it's a very nice refund :D:banana:
 
Tori_T said:
Is it a real one?
Brown HMRC letter scams are still a thing. :mad:
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Hope not, but as I'm not in any hurry to get it, I'll just leave it till the cheque arrives rather then rush
to get it paid into my bank account online
 
Could have annoyed me had we arrived 10 minutes later and been unable to get an inside table but it was good to see the café-restaurant at Otterton Mill so busy on a Monday lunchtime. A popular place for walkers and an easy wander up from the seafront car park in Budleigh Salterton.
 
Nod said:
Could have annoyed me had we arrived 10 minutes later and been unable to get an inside table but it was good to see the café-restaurant at Otterton Mill so busy on a Monday lunchtime. A popular place for walkers and an easy wander up from the seafront car park in Budleigh Salterton.
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One of my partner's favourite summer afternoon walks when he manages to bunk off work early on a Friday - Budleigh to Otterton and back along the river. Never been in the cafe as we get back to Budleigh for a fish supper on the sea front. My favourite summer afternoon walk is over Golden Cap.............:D
 
The hake and chips at Otterton Mill is worth the walk up the river! Didn't do it today (got to the "decision time" junction and realised that a karzi was needed sooner than any exercise!) but usually do. Good blackberrying path at the right time of year and a reasonable chance of spotting a kingfisher - and shooting herons, egrets as well as other waders, deer etc.. When I lived with Mum and Dad just outside Woodbury, Dad used to go to the chippy opposite the Salterton Arms once a month. Always an eagerly awaited treat but I reckon the Otterton Mill hake'n'chips is better - maybe because the chips aren't soggy after the trip home!

We don't get along as far as Bridport - the lure of the View café in Lyme is too strong! Having said that, there's a 'bike helmet shop in West Bay that I want to visit so maybe, if there's a suitably sunny Monday, Wednesday or Friday over the winter, we might go further over the border...
 
Marc said:
My driving license waiting for me when I got home. My old one expired over 2 months ago and I've been waiting for them to finish their medical enquiries. A friend, who is under the same neurologist as me had to wait 10 months for hers so this was a rather pleasant surprise! :)
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Took the useless f***wits an age to give me mine back despite my surgeon and GP both being happy about my fitness to drive.
 
Nod said:
Took the useless f***wits an age to give me mine back despite my surgeon and GP both being happy about my fitness to drive.
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Yeah but this delay wasn't down to the DVLA in this instance. I wasn't able to send my renewal forms until July as I was going through the hand control assessments and then it had to go through the medical checks so, all in all a good result.

That said, I was still able to drive whilst I was waiting.
 
So was I, after applying! Then took them over 4 months to decide I wasn't fit to drive and then 11 months to decide that I was, despite their assurances that it would be 12 months after the op that I should get it back.
 
Different pages in different languages.
 
It was pouring down when I put the bin out this morning :( but there was a lovely rainbow and all of it was bright, vivid and visible :D
 
woof woof said:
Mrs WW made chocolate brownies and when I asked what was in them one ingredient surprised me... sweet potato. Why would anyone put sweet potato in a brownie? You don't put vegetables in chocolate brownies, surely?

Anyway, not to be put off I tried one and it was lovely :D I assume she only put a bit of sweet potato in to act as a sweetener. Anyway, they're lovely so there's only three left now :D

She also made a sort of snack mix. It's cornflakes mixed with nuts of various types and mixed fruit (the sort you put in cakes) and possibly other things too and roasted in the oven. Then she stirred it until it was cool, apparently this stops it all sticking together. The result is absolutely lovely :D We have a big jar of it but it's going fast as we put it in little dipping type bowls and eat it with a spoon :D

Breakfast was eggless pancakes (one of my recipes, it's flavoured with cider vinegar and a splash of Tabasco source) on toast and mid afternoon snack was the home made chocolate brownie and chocolate cookie and some snack mix and a smoothie. For dinner we had pasta mixed with quorn steak strips, mince, sausage pieces, tomato and onion in tomato source. It was all lovely.

It was a great day :D
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I Googled that because I’ve never heard of them either..sweet potato brownies.... and they look a bit moreish . I really like sweet potato but we have them with a meal..either whole eg. with Sunday dinner..or in small chunks with veggie dishes ( I don’t eat meat) . They’re very good,nutritionally and re fibre too. You’ll have to excuse me but when I read something that is unusual I kind of dig down.

https://deliciouslyella.com/recipes/sweet-potato-brownies-with-chocolate-sauce/

Health benefits of sweet potatoes..not the brownies..lol.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/health-benefits-sweet-potato
 
Cobra said:
Joke section and the Brexit thread more than once on both counts :D
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Ok...thanks. I had a look through those threads just now and enjoyed the posts and I’ve just seen the ‘serious topic’ thread too . I didn’t know there was a Brexit thread. Probably better for my mental welfare.lol..so, I haven’t usually visited the OOF,Discussions forum but with being grounded I’ve looked in lately.Grounded re acute sciatica ..bulging L5 disc..(base of spine) pressing on the sciatic nerve...just putting up a hanging basket bracket,using a drill and screws would you believe it, in an awkward spot so I had to reach up ,lean and twist and haven’t been able to get out with the camera..or even just get out.Just a matter of time and physio. My wife now feels rather guilty having asked me to do that job but does like the brightness the flowers have brought...lol.
 
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JohnC6 said:
Grounded re acute sciatica ..bulging L5 disc..(base of spine) pressing on the sciatic nerve...just putting up a hanging basket bracket,
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OUCH! OUCH! AND DOUBLE OUCH!
I sympathise and it happens so easily too :(

JohnC6 said:
I haven’t usually visited the OOF,Discussions forum
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Just take it all with a pinch of salt and your'll retain your sanity (y)

JohnC6 said:
I didn’t know there was a Brexit thread.
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There have been several, just take them all with a pinch of salt and your'll retain your sanity (y)
 
Very strange day today, just before I left home to go and help Mum I got an email from Wex saying my XF56mm f1.2 has been dispatched. So I phoned Wex and said I had not put an order in at all and that I was going to get a lens but it was the 23mm, they gave me the persons name who had ordered the 56mm and all I can say is..... Thank so so very much Mum, I look after you because I`m your son and I love you. Turns out Mum ordered the 56mm for me as a Thank you for all the help I have been to her.
 
Didn't have any weddings booked for next August, so decided to b****r off to Thailand for 3 weeks instead, so booked flights for that.
 
KitsuneAndy said:
Didn't have any weddings booked for next August, so decided to b****r off to Thailand for 3 weeks instead, so booked flights for that.
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OOh. Thailand is good. Mrs WW is from Chonburi. I love the food and the little coffee and milk shake places they have and there's just soooo much to see and do. I like the Big Buddha...

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but I'm not too keen on the monkeys, they're vicious little s***s IMVHO and if I wasn't an animal lover and if no one was watching...
 
Manning the door here for Halloween night [from 5pm to 7:30] seems to have quietened down, which is good because I'm running out of sweeties! - Anyway as the last callers, a bunch of 5 kids, were turning to leave and thanking me for the treats the eldest girl [around 10yrs old] shouts back "Your house smells really nice" :D I knew those Yankee candle tarts would pay off! - it is the little things.
 
WCMUT? No beggars with menaces! Means we can eat the treats ourselves.
 
It's quiet here now with no one at the door for over an hour. We really like to see the kids made up. It cost us a tub of Quality Street and all the change we had in the house but it was worth it :D Mrs WW would have loved to take pictures of the kids to send to here family but I explained years ago that in the UK you really can't take pictures of kids... although she may have got away with it as obviously all photo taking paedos are men :(

I'm now relaxing with a cookies and cream Twin Peaks bar. They're delicious :D
 
woof woof said:
OOh. Thailand is good. Mrs WW is from Chonburi. I love the food and the little coffee and milk shake places they have and there's just soooo much to see and do. I like the Big Buddha...

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but I'm not too keen on the monkeys, they're vicious little s***s IMVHO and if I wasn't an animal lover and if no one was watching...
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We've been to Asia a couple of times, but not Thailand yet :) So dealt with monkeys before haha.

We're there for 3 weeks, flying in and out of Bangkok, going to tour around and see as much of the country as we can, without rushing it. Avoiding the too touristy areas though like Phuket.
 
woof woof said:
It's quiet here now with no one at the door for over an hour. We really like to see the kids made up. It cost us a tub of Quality Street and all the change we had in the house but it was worth it :D Mrs WW would have loved to take pictures of the kids to send to here family but I explained years ago that in the UK you really can't take pictures of kids... although she may have got away with it as obviously all photo taking paedos are men :(

I'm now relaxing with a cookies and cream Twin Peaks bar. They're delicious :D
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Mega-packs of Haribos, cheap lollipops, bags of crisps and milky way bars is what I dished out mostly. Some of the kids were very inventive with their costumes, had a couple of Donald Trump variants in the mix, scary!! :D
 
Cagey75 said:
Mega-packs of Haribos, cheap lollipops, bags of crisps and milky way bars is what I dished out mostly. Some of the kids were very inventive with their costumes, had a couple of Donald Trump variants in the mix, scary!! :D
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We had everything from kids that had hardly bothered at all to some quite wonderful costumes. It's usually the little kids that come first but this year we had some early teens come first all made up and that's never happened before. Maybe little ones that liked all the dressing up are now teenagers and keeping it going.
 
KitsuneAndy said:
We've been to Asia a couple of times, but not Thailand yet :) So dealt with monkeys before haha.

We're there for 3 weeks, flying in and out of Bangkok, going to tour around and see as much of the country as we can, without rushing it. Avoiding the too touristy areas though like Phuket.
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I'm sure you'll have a great time.

There's just so much to do and see you really need either a guide or to do a lot of research.
 
woof woof said:
We had everything from kids that had hardly bothered at all to some quite wonderful costumes. It's usually the little kids that come first but this year we had some early teens come first all made up and that's never happened before. Maybe little ones that liked all the dressing up are now teenagers and keeping it going.
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Much the same here, first couple were really small kids and very well made up, parents waiting at the gate letting them have a little independence, then we get the pre to mid teens, and so long as they make some kind of effort I'll give them same - we didn't have any chancers though. And if we did, I'd probably still give them same, because I was one once ;)
 
We don't put anything up in terms of decorations but always have a bucket of sweets in case anyone knocks on...

Had 1 lad dressed as a shark, made me smile!

Last year we had 2 knocks, 1 was a group of 3 Romanian lads who made no effort what so ever but I like my windows where they are so didn't tell them to p*** off
 
As Halloween is my birthday and the tradition is to take cakes into work, yesterday I took in Halloween themed Cakes, donuts, muffins and lastly some fruit as a healthy option.
To my surprise this morning, after two shifts ( around 30 people) there is still plenty of cakes etc left, but all the fruit has gone.
 
keef32 said:
Last year we had 2 knocks, 1 was a group of 3 Romanian lads who made no effort what so ever but I like my windows where they are so didn't tell them to p*** off
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Ah that's why it's called begging with menaces then ;)
Best Halloween sign I saw, a couple or so years back..
"Please text to announce your arrival, no need to knock and get the Rottweilers involved"
Well it made me smile...
 
No Halloween callers last night, which was nice. And yes, I am a miserable old git and proud of it.

A tip for any fellow miserable old gits on Halloween. First caller of the night answer the door naked wearing a scream mask and holding a blooded axe. Apart from the police you will have no more callers.
 
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