What made you happy today?

I've had the nicest couple of days. My old neighbours are staying at a caravan park about 10 mins away in their Motorhome because it's close to us. They came round last night for a Chinese Takeaway and a few drinks and this afternoon we went on a walk with them along Baiter Park, Poole Quay and Poole Town Centre. I haven't seen them in nearly a year what with Lockdown and everything. It was so lovely to see them again. I used to see them at least once a week and just pop round for a chat when they got in from work. I miss them so much.
 
Merab's Slave said:
Tried to adapt a recipe for oat & orange biscuits to make it suitable for a gluten & dairy intolerant husband and I’m diabetic.

We’re having crumble with an oat & orange topping tomorrow!
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Yes I've had several gluten free unexpected outcome baking attempts over the summer with my gluten and dairy allergy nephew... we had a crumble topped with what appeared to turn into toffee that sank into the fruit (he enjoyed that very much!) and some complete fail cookies that wouldnt form a dough until I added so much floor that they seemed to turn into baked wallpaper paste in the oven!
Luckily my next big baking attempt will by Uncle John's 79th birthday cake later this week, he can and does eat absolutely everything so no tricky substitutions! Its sad we cant have a party for him but at least we can deliver a big home made cake :)
 
The piggies seem to be happy outdoors, which in turn makes me happy. And my brother was down with his while his girl got her hair done.
 
Had to cancel my wine date outing with a friend yesterday as she is in isolation as family member has developed a cough (they are waiting for covid test result) but we had a video call date instead with gin (neither of us had wine in) which lasted 2.5 hours! Was lovely to catch up & we will rearrange our outing when we can.
 
Sar said:
Had to cancel my wine date outing with a friend yesterday as she is in isolation as family member has developed a cough (they are waiting for covid test result) but we had a video call date instead with gin (neither of us had wine in) which lasted 2.5 hours! Was lovely to catch up & we will rearrange our outing when we can.
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Sounds like a good 2.5 hours well spent!:beer:
 
PigglePuggle said:
Yes I've had several gluten free unexpected outcome baking attempts over the summer with my gluten and dairy allergy nephew... we had a crumble topped with what appeared to turn into toffee that sank into the fruit (he enjoyed that very much!) and some complete fail cookies that wouldnt form a dough until I added so much floor that they seemed to turn into baked wallpaper paste in the oven!
Luckily my next big baking attempt will by Uncle John's 79th birthday cake later this week, he can and does eat absolutely everything so no tricky substitutions! Its sad we cant have a party for him but at least we can deliver a big home made cake :)
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I do find that biscuits are the trickiest to make.
Still it’s fun experimenting and the crumble was very nice
I’m sue that Uncle John will love his cake
 
The September piggie parcel. I think it’s my favourite one yet :) the boys love everything in it and ozzy hasn’t left the hay since I put forage in there :)
 
What made me happy today is .... I'm so pleased I bought my new Shark vacuum cleaner!I have the battery powered lift-away model and it has paid for itself already.

As some of you may know I am completely :yikes: :yikes: TERRIFIED :yikes::yikes:of spiders. This morning there was a MAHOOSIVE spider in the garage in the weighing scales. It was a big black garden spider. My OH had just left for work. I go in the garage every morning to feed the piggies and weigh Meg. I didn't know what to do. I had to go in the garage. I got my new Shark, lifted it off the stick so that I just had the bit that collects the dust and the hose and I sucked up the spider and let a very dusty spider out onto the grass where it ran off. I was shaking the whole time I was doing this and for about 15 minutes afterwards.
 
Betsy said:
What made me happy today is .... I'm so pleased I bought my new Shark vacuum cleaner!I have the battery powered lift-away model and it has paid for itself already.

As some of you may know I am completely :yikes: :yikes: TERRIFIED :yikes::yikes:of spiders. This morning there was a MAHOOSIVE spider in the garage in the weighing scales. It was a big black garden spider. My OH had just left for work. I go in the garage every morning to feed the piggies and weigh Meg. I didn't know what to do. I had to go in the garage. I got my new Shark, lifted it off the stick so that I just had the bit that collects the dust and the hose and I sucked up the spider and let a very dusty spider out onto the grass where it ran off. I was shaking the whole time I was doing this and for about 15 minutes afterwards.
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I’m proud of you! I don’t think I’d have it in me to go near it lol :)
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
Sounds like a weekend well spent 😋 I hope they survived the airport handling service. And that you didn't have to quarantine on your return!
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The food survived, but sadly I do have to quarantine so am now at home for 10 days.
I checked everything on Thursday night and thought I would be ok becasue I would be back by Monday lunchtime, but the Swiss government made the quarantine announcement on Friday night, and becasue of the reduced flight schedule at the moment I couldn't get back earlier.
But I got to spend 3 days with family, and right now if you travel you have to be flexible I guess.
 
Today I am happy that I had lots of online tutorials and one of my students who is completely mad about cows zoom chatted from her cowshed with cute cow noses leaning over her shoulder trying to lick her webcam! So online learning is working very well for some students :)
 
A couple of years ago I got given an indoor rose plant as a gift. I sort of killed it off not long after receiving it but managed to save it & last year it gave me some beautiful rose flowers. I'm not quite sure what happened this year, whether I didn't cut it back early enough or maybe cut it back too much but I was starting to think I'd killed it again as was looking a bit sorry for itself. However, over the last couple of weeks its had some lovely leaves on...and now a rose! I'm so pleased!
 
Betsy said:
What made me happy today is .... I'm so pleased I bought my new Shark vacuum cleaner!I have the battery powered lift-away model and it has paid for itself already.

As some of you may know I am completely :yikes: :yikes: TERRIFIED :yikes::yikes:of spiders. This morning there was a MAHOOSIVE spider in the garage in the weighing scales. It was a big black garden spider. My OH had just left for work. I go in the garage every morning to feed the piggies and weigh Meg. I didn't know what to do. I had to go in the garage. I got my new Shark, lifted it off the stick so that I just had the bit that collects the dust and the hose and I sucked up the spider and let a very dusty spider out onto the grass where it ran off. I was shaking the whole time I was doing this and for about 15 minutes afterwards.
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Well done @Betsy .
That took a lot of courage when you suffer severe arachnophobia
 
Claire W said:
My mum is having a procedure done at the hospital in a couple of weeks time but has to isolate for 14 days and have a covid test beforehand so me and my parents went for breakfast this morning which made me happy as I won’t see her for two weeks now
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Hope your mum’s procedure goes well
 
Well done @Betsy I've learnt to ignore them now. I used to hit them as if I was killing a snake...my husband’s words 🤷🏾‍♀️

@Swissgreys glad you enjoyed yourself. May the 10 days pass quickly.

@Claire W all the best with your mum’s procedure.

I’m happy today because I did two more sessions. Good feedback and some things to work on. One is voice projection so may need to look it up at the weekend. One positive was my resources which I made myself 😁
 
Haha! Imagine the students reading that! Couldn’t make head nor tail!

I’m happy because we have the dining room back. But sad because the piggies are outside.
 
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