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Hope you get some sleep Castle25.
Got some good news today my DH qualifies for the higher rate of attendance allowance, so we can get taxis to his many appointments when the weather turns bad instead of the buses.
Xx

Just popped in to wish everyone goodnight.

Tomorrow we are going on the hunt for a rollator. DH is beginning to get around more now he has the trolley with shelves. It is wonderful that Social Services provide such things ( I just wish they weren’t beige and brown!).
He is still unable to get upstairs but he is very determined!

Sleep tight everyone.

Fallingstar that’s good news for you. So hard to qualify for AA. Obviously I'm still not asleep yet

That is good news fallingstar although of course you’d both rather it wasn’t deserved.

Your washing machine issue raised a smile here charley. Many years ago, our 50 year old son was pre school, we lost one of his shoes. Hunted everywhere getting more and more irate. Only when a plastic box of cakes was spotted on the floor did the light dawn The shoe was in the freezer where the cakes should have been. Guilty as charged!

Your husband is progressing now dragonfly. I’m sure he’ll make it up the stairs one day. Determination will get him there when the time is right. Good for him - and you

I’ve had far too much coffee with caffeine today, mostly by accident when prepared by others and I didn’t want to offend. Oh well. I’m not sleepy so back to a library book I can read on my iPad. It will be good company.

Night night everyone, sleep well.

A quick message from soop who tells me Soop Castle has no internet connection so she cannot come and 'see' you all today. She is also a incommoded by a chest infection and the medication thereof.

Life on the Boggy Brae is a bit manic at the moment. We have had our ceiling man visit again today and yes, the sitting-room ceiling needs the same treatment that the room above it needed six months ago. So there will be much moving of furniture and humungous botherations. However, he says he can cover our many bookcases to protect them and their contents from "ceiling work" so we feel a little less daunted by the whole caboodle than we did.

Meanwhile the decorator who was going to come and do our hall and stairwell has been informed that there will be, ahem, a bit of a delay in his being able to start.

And just to round things off our new boiler conked out at the weekend. Parts and labour guaranteed for ten years but our boiler man is abroad on holiday.

We are beginning to think we are jinxed.

Poor you, Baggs, it does seem as if the universe has something against you. Hope at least the boiler problem is resolved quickly.

Baggs, botherations indeed!
Or as my old mum would say ‘a bundle of bothers’.

Oh Baggs what a dreadful start to 2026 sending you some luck 🍀

Wishing soop a speedy recovery from her chest infection, there seems to be a lot of them about at the moment.

I have started tidying and decluttering my wardrobes, I had no idea that I had 22 pairs of jeans (all sorted into style, colour, smart and everyday, none found their way into the charity or bin bag 🤷‍♀️). More success on the sweater front, 15 to charity one in the bin.

Wishing you all a Night Night

Baggs that all sounds awful. I hope it can very sorted quickly. Soop wishing you all the best.
I've had a reasonably good day. Dgs2 was hard work but manageable. I dropped the boys off at school and was confronted by a pal and her grandchildren who were seriously impressed that I had been on tv last night. My art tutor was the subject of a documentary on BBC Scotland and I was interviewed about her work. I don't film well!

Thank you, Baggs for keeping us "in the loop" with news from soop.
I hope that soop soon feels better, also that she & her DH are keeping warm & comfortable.
Not a good start to the new year for you Baggs, hope all those "botherations" get sorted for you.

Warm thoughts for you all in this friendly kitchen, x.

That’s not good baggs. I feel for you. Our boiler is also misbehaving. Our boiler man seems to be avoiding us - the latest message is he’ll be here later in the week which is exactly what he said last week. I’m getting just a bit irritable about it. Hope your ceiling work wont be too difficult to live with and your boiler is rapidly fixed.

I’m sure you filmed more than well grandmab. Enjoy your fame .

Hope that chest infection leaves soop rapidly. Chest infections are miserable things.

I’m impressed at your decluttering grannyg. When you’ve finished I could do with a hand - several hands I suspect. I think I’d be pleased to find anything in my wardrobe I could describe as smart. I feel like a real scruff these days.

We ventured into the nearest city today, the park and ride is a wonderful thing, enjoyed a wander round three stores then I felt unwell, very hot, dizzy and sick, apparently very pale, no idea I couldnt see myself. Needed a rapid sit down. Why? No idea. Mr C thought a retreat home was sensible, he’s happy to go again soon as long as there’s no repeat performance. Well, I’ll try .

Quiet evening ahead here. Wishing you all a restful time.

Baggs lovely to see you and sorry to hear of your domestic issues. And sorry to hear about soop's health hiccup.

GG13, I just move excess clothing to a different wardrobe - works for me.

I've had quite a productive day -:getting back to grips a bit with domestic stuff. DH has been a star but he doesn't see things quite like me!

Sending love to everyone.

baggs thank you for the update on the soops. I hope that soop’s chest infection improves soon.
Not a good start to the New Year for you, I hope you can get your boiler fixed soon and that the ceiling man will be able to fix your ceiling without damaging any of your bookcases. I don’t know why decorators never arrive when they say they will, but unfortunately they’re all the same.

Well done for your decluttering grannygravy, and for rearranging your jeans! One of these days I’ll do my wardrobes too.
I had some post today, the first for a week, including some letters that needed dealing with immediately, so I had to get that done this morning, instead of the housework I’d planned! I’ll do the dusting tomorrow.
Night night everyone, sleep well.

Oh Baggs I hope you get everything sorted out soon. So sorry to hear soop has a chest infection and no internet. Having no internet really causes the doldrums in or house.

We were successful with the rollator but were astonished at how big they were. The one we decided on folds twice so will fit in the car.

Sleep tight everyone.

Thank you baggs for telling us about soop you are such a great friend to her. I hope the chest infection abates soon for soop she has enough to contend with.
So do you baggs in a different way and I hope your boiler is firing well soon. You need a warm house and hot water in cold January.
In fact warm thoughts to everyone in this lovely kindly kitchen.

What a time of year for everything to go pear shaped Baggs
I had trouble with a leaking shower head yesterday, such a minor thing and it worried and stressed me.
It was soon sorted bu tightening up all the connections but I can’t cope with stress now.
I hope all the tradesmen are available for you.
I also hope Soop is feeling better.

I had a very “funny turn” this morning.
I woke up feeling frozen, shivering and shaking uncontrollably.
Of course I was the only one at home, my teeth rattled like castanets, I have heard of that before but never experienced it.
I had to put a thick dressing gown on and get back in bed, eventually falling to sleep and feeling ok when I woke but felt I had been through a wringer.
I rang my Wednesday friend to cancel our meeting up but she didn’t mind as her S is coming to stay with her for a couple of days.
.I am having more off days now, only to be expected but oddly family don’t understand.!!
Mums should be invincible.

Very icy this morning but milder now, take care everyone.

Thank you for the good wishes everyone. I'm just back from work, wood-burner lit and MrB has an electric heater in his office. Fortunately the shower is heated electrically too.

Sadly, soop is feeling worse today - "feeling lousy" were her words. Her cough has worsened and she was sick after her morning meds. She still asks me to "send love to the grans". Granset and The Soop Kitchen in particular have made a big difference to her life over that last few years.

Thank you for your updates Baggs

So sorry to learn our dearest soop is feeling lousy sending her a huge ((hug)) and my best wishes x

I'm sorry to hear that Soop is feeling so bad.
I worked for a couple of hours in the school library this morning. Once home, I've emptied and loaded the dishwasher, made leek and potato soup and a loaf of nice bread and finished dds tumble drying. I think did half an hour of Spanish. I'm having a rest before a quick hoover. I think I'll make chicken
curry for dinner. Brook I hope you are feeling better. You too Utbb

Am sorry to hear Soop isn’t well, I have only joined the kitchen recently but am aware how much a part of her this thread is and how much she has given to all the Kitcheners.
Sending her a healing bowl of my very best chicken soup - Jewish penicillin. 👍

Group hugs are needed for all our kitchen folk, especially soop & all those who are poorly, or have other worries.
Thinking of you. x

Sorry soop is feeling so rotten.
I hope Baggs has a plan b for boiler corner glad you’re keeping warm.
Good news for Falling star and dragonfly for your dear husbands - I’m pleased.
Are you feeling better now utbb?
brook is poorly too and her mister.
I’ll stick my head in later to catch up.

Hope dear Soop feels better soon 💐

Hi kitchen pals, it’s so good to be back amongst friends here in this lovely kitchen
I hope you’re recovery is going ok jax and you’re gradually getting better
So sorry to hear Soop is feeling so poorly, hope things improve soon, thanks for the update Baggs and hope your boiler and ceiling problems are soon sorted
Our holiday really wasn’t the best, we were so pleased to get home yesterday. Ive definitely been put off holidays for a while as we had cancelled flights, bad weather and we both got a vomiting bug that wiped us out for a couple of days. Anyhow I’m feeling a bit better today and on the mend, it’s just as well as I’m supposed to be visiting DD1 in Cambridge at the weekend. I don’t want to cancel again as I cancelled my visit just before Christmas when I had the awful cough virus, hopefully I’ll get there this time
Apologies, I’m very much out of touch with kitchen news but I hope everyone and their families are doing ok, sending gentle hugs to all x