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Hi, Page. Hope all's well with you and yours.

Good afternoon, Gary. Felt really warm here at times today inside the walled garden. Especially when the clouds weren't obscuring the sun. Hope you don't get too much rain. We could almost do with some here in Ireland. But the problem is that, when it does start to rain here, it often forgets to stop, maybe for weeks or months on end. I've found several long lengths of hose pipe in the new, old place. On my shopping list for Monday, when the garden centre and hardware shops reopen, is hose connectors to join them together so that I can reach from the back of the house to the raised garden the other side of the old cottage. Of course, if we do get no rain, the County Council may put a hosepipe ban in place...

Good morning, everyone! Although only about 10°C (50°F) at present, with a forecast high of around 13°C (55°F), today feels much more pleasant than the past few, probably due to the fact that it's sunnier, combined with very little wind. Hopefully you will all have a good day. I've had my second coffee, so now it's time for me to actually face the day!

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Me too, Albert.

Crazy. I haven't seen any increases here in Ireland. Or heard of any. My biggest worry here is that I seldom see bread flour on the shelves. Seems people are bulk buying it, as there's often no flour of any description on the shelves, unless I go in very early in the morning. Fortunately I have enough to last me a few more months, that I had actually bought before the covid-19 scare.

Howdy, young Albert!

Sweet dreams, Mr B

Good day, all! Another mainly cloudy, but dry day here. Just got back from the shopping trip I had talked about doing yesterday, so kitchen now stocked again with fresh produce. Yesterday I shared a photo with you all that I had taken on my 65th birthday, so today here's one I took a year later on my 66th... Have a great day, everyone!

So I just have to share this video:

I wouldn't dream of telling you that. And are you really telling me you weren't nuts long before I brightened up your life!? Anyway... Val will be happy. There were no tiny puke balls or any devilish fungi in my meal this time.

I had baked potatoes, chopped up and mixed with a nob of butter and 2 diced hard boiled eggs, along with a chopped up tomato, with grated cheddar on top and half a tin of baked beans. And a slice of my banana bread for afters. Filled me up, and didn't need any fancy recipe. Nothing shaved, madolined, shredded, julienned or matchsticked. Oh! And the potatoes were white, not purple (Not that I'm in any way colour prejudiced.)

Hi, Page

More strange words from across the pond to confuse me.

Hi, Gary. Hope your day's going well.

Hi, Albert. All good with you and Steve?

Good day, everyone! Another cool day here in Ireland. Mostly cloudy, although we are promised a little sun. I might turn over another few rows of soil for my new vegetable garden in the evening, but first I intend to do some very covidiot-free shopping for a few essential items of fresh produce and other groceries. I'm also slowly moving items from my rented accommodation to my new, old house, as I intend giving my landlord his month's notice towards the end of the week. The monthly automatic transfer of the rent from my bank to his is due next Monday, so I will let him know that once that payment has been made I will log into my online banking and cancel the Standing Order. In the meantime, here's a photo I took when I was out hillwalking on my 65th birthday getting on for 8 years ago:

I'm away to my bed, gang! Be safe, all. A little night music for you all:

Oh! A slicer!

There you both go... Confusing me again... How the flipping heck can you shave a Brussel sprout with a stringed musical instrument?

I'm suspecting you mean shredded Brussels sprouts... So why don't you just call them that, for f'sake? Jimminy-cricket! You Americans with your strange terms...

I must admit that I've never seen a hairy Brussel sprout.... But I'm wondering whether one needs a special type of razor in order to shave one.

And...?