Moments of joy in your day today

[MikeTheThinker]

3 hours ago, Stonekeeper said:

 

Any ideas as to the origins?  The carer's language is English but with a suggestion of - maybe - Icelandic hints?  The dog's names are also Scandiwegian in style.

 

Update: managed to decode the text at top right - Scagway, Alaska.  Is this their version of Doggy Daycare?

 

Edited 24 February by MikeTheThinker

[Stonekeeper]

25 minutes ago, MikeTheThinker said:

Any ideas as to the origins?  The carer's language is English but with a suggestion of - maybe - Icelandic hints?  The dog's names are also Scandiwegian in style.

 

 

I think it's Alaska?

 

https://www.youtube.com/MoMountainMutts

 

 

Just noticed that whilst i was researching where it was you found out where it was 😂

 

 

Edited 24 February by Stonekeeper

[Gaz]

More feel good than actual joy.  I pick up litter when I see it.  If I'm out on my scooter it goes in the basket, and then gets dropped in the next bin/recycling I go past.  This week I've pick up a brown McDonalds bag, two drinks cans and a beer bottle from out in my cul de sac, which so many people passed, looked at and did nothing.  On Monday's recycling a glass bottle got smashed, and was simply left in the middle of the road; people drove around it.  Yours truly toddled out with a broom and swept it up - wasn't hard, took moments.

 

This afternoon a bloke walked past the front of my house.  He stopped and looked at one of our broom shrubs.  Then plucked a large sweet wrapper out of the broom, put it in a black plastic bin liner and walked off.  No high viz, no identifying clothing, no idea who he is.  As he walked on I saw he had an easy-reach/litter picker and picked another bit of rubbish up off the verge two doors down.  Good man I thought to myself 👍

 

Gaz

 

[@Lee]

I won €66 from a €12 stake on the lotto today. 

 

[Gaz]

Seeing the Sun on the north facing side of our roof for the first time this year 🌞  Roll on Spring! 

 

Gaz

[Gaz]

I love that my Daughter, 28 years old and Store Manager in a major supermarket chain, still draws me a card every year on a certain day.  This year she's drawn a picture of her Granddad's (my Dad) Sunbeam S7 motorbike he had in the mid '70's:

 

 

I also got a near plate sized eccles cake:

 

 

We had a day out today, going to West Bay in Dorset.  I love West Bay 😎

 

Two canny things happened.  Sat in the bar of the West Bay Hotel, at 2:28pm, they played 'Fly me to the moon'.  At 2:28pm last Thursday the same song was being played at my mate Leia's funeral.  On the way back, we popped into Dorchester for fuel.  As I got to the Eastern end of the Dorchester bypass, going the other way was the Sprint Yellow vRS I had before the GTI I've got now.  It was sign written with red lettering, but I didn't get chance to read what it was, as I'd just said to Mrs Gaz 'Awww, look, there's a sprint yell....' when I clocked the registration number.  That was about 140 miles away from home -what on earth are the chances!!!  Was cool to see it 

 

Gaz 

[@Lee]

5 minutes ago, Gaz said:

I love that my Daughter, 28 years old and Store Manager in a major supermarket chain, still draws me a card every year on a certain day.  This year she's drawn a picture of her Granddad's (my Dad) Sunbeam S7 motorbike he had in the mid '70's:

 

 

I also got a near plate sized eccles cake:

 

 

We had a day out today, going to West Bay in Dorset.  I love West Bay 😎

It was the last place I had a proper day out with my mum before she passed away in 2009 and where we had her wake. 

She lived in Broad Windsor not far from Bridport. 

Did you pass a very very long wall with a huge gate and two stone sculptures of Stags either side of it by any chance? That's the edge of Richard Drax MPs estate. 

[Gaz]

5 minutes ago, @Lee said:

Did you pass a very very long wall with a huge gate and two stone sculptures of Stags either side of it by any chance? That's the edge of Richard Drax MPs estate. 

 

Yeah, 'course - there and back.  We love the area and I could see myself retiring to Bridport, or thereabouts 😎  Today's the day my Local Government pensions are payable from.  Not State Pension age yet, but does that make me a pensioner?  Heaven forbid 😱

 

G

[Paws4Thot]

2 minutes ago, Gaz said:

Richard Drax MPs

He needs to change his first name,...

... to Hugo.

[mac11irl]

5 hours ago, Gaz said:

 

Yeah, 'course - there and back.  We love the area and I could see myself retiring to Bridport, or thereabouts 😎  Today's the day my Local Government pensions are payable from.  Not State Pension age yet, but does that make me a pensioner?  Heaven forbid 😱

 

G

 

Congratulations Gaz

no, not a proper pensioner until the state starts paying you

 

[Graham Butcher]

10 hours ago, Paws4Thot said:

He needs to change his first name,...

... to Hugo.

Moonraker (9/10) Movie CLIP - Drax Had to Fly (1979) HD (youtube.com)

[Gaz]

7 hours ago, mac11irl said:

no, not a proper pensioner.....

 

Pah, always the bridesmaid ...... 

 

[Lady Elanore]

Brilliant drawing and an epic Eccles cake (I love them )

 

Hippy Yardbath 

[Graham Butcher]

So do I, sadly they are getting rarer these days along with London Cheesecakes and Belgian Buns, in fact good old bakeries have gone and pathetic supermarkets have replaced them with their limited offerings ☹️

[Lady Elanore]

Eccles cakes are still pretty easy to get up here in the North West and Chorley cakes are available too  M&S do a nice Eccles, but they do sprinkle the pastry with sugar, which is an acquired taste imho (it won't stop me eating one though) 

[Gaz]

Mrs Gaz makes fab eccles cakes 😎  She made two - one for me, and a smaller one for her (gluten, wheat and dairy free).  I think it's a testament to how good they are that whenever I have one elsewhere, they're always a bit of a disappointment (yes, even the M&S ones).

 

Moment of joy - we've friends around for dinner tonight, so I've lots to do.  Mrs Gaz has been a little subdued - Mother's day tomorrow and it's her first parent-less one (even though her Mum passed 16 years ago).  We're going to go up to Ashdown Forest, where her Mum's ashes are scattered for a bit of quiet reflection.  Mrs Gaz wanted some freesias (her Mum's favourite) but hasn't managed to find any for love nor money.  My sixth phone call rendered success, so I've just bombed into town and got her some lovely stems.  She's at work, so i'll be a nice surprise when she gets home 😁

 

Gaz

 

Edit:  Eccles Sitrep:

 

Edited 9 March by Gaz
Progress report 👍

[@Lee]

3 minutes ago, Gaz said:

I've just bombed into town and got her some lovely stems. 

 

This you 'bombing into town'? 

26 minutes ago, Lady Elanore said:

Eccles cakes are still pretty easy to get up here in the North West and Chorley cakes are available too  M&S do a nice Eccles, but they do sprinkle the pastry with sugar, which is an acquired taste imho (it won't stop me eating one though) 

Probably one for 'Dull things' but my Dad's from Eccles. 

[Gaz]

Should've said in the other thread that we know Broadwindsor fairly well.  Our all time favourite B&B (now sadly closed 😢) was at Pilsdon.  We'd go through Broadwindsor on our way to The New Inn at Stoke Abbott.

 

I wish re the scooter 🏎️  Traffic going into town was atrocious.  And when I got to near the flower shop, the road is now 'No vehicles except for access 🚫'.  Should've cycled in, but the freesias are quite delicate, so might've got mullered on the ride back.

 

G

[Mickvrs220]

1 hour ago, Lady Elanore said:

Eccles cakes are still pretty easy to get up here in the North West and Chorley cakes are available too  M&S do a nice Eccles, but they do sprinkle the pastry with sugar, which is an acquired taste imho (it won't stop me eating one though) 

Eccles should be sprinkled with sugar ,chorley cakes are made with a sweet pastry so have no sugar on them ,plenty available here in yorkshire too ,as my belly will testify haha 👍

[Graham Butcher]

4 minutes ago, Mickvrs220 said:

Eccles should be sprinkled with sugar ,chorley cakes are made with a sweet pastry so have no sugar on them ,plenty available here in yorkshire too ,as my belly will testify haha 👍

Sadly however, that is not the case down here around the London area, we are dictated to by the supermarkets , who will only stock what they make the most profits on and that I feel is because of the very high property prices and business rates here. 

[Mickvrs220]

1 hour ago, Graham Butcher said:

Sadly however, that is not the case down here around the London area, we are dictated to by the supermarkets , who will only stock what they make the most profits on and that I feel is because of the very high property prices and business rates here. 

I think its a northern thing graham ,eccles ,chorley ,bit of stodge to keep us warm haha .

[Lady Elanore]

6 hours ago, Mickvrs220 said:

Eccles should be sprinkled with sugar ,chorley cakes are made with a sweet pastry so have no sugar on them ,plenty available here in yorkshire too ,as my belly will testify haha 👍

 A colleague of mine, who has a Baker for a mum, told me it was the pastry difference that separated Eccles and Chorley cakes. I've had Eccles with both Sugar and no sugar, and I think I prefer without. But boy does that flaky pastry make a mess!. They are quite nice warmed up and with custard, but don't tell anyone I said that. 

Edited 9 March by Lady Elanore

[@Lee]

The Amazon man brought me 450g of HP Sauce and a Fray Bentos pie 😋 

 

 

 

[olddog]

Really hope its still made in Argentina.....but is it ?

[@Lee]

7 minutes ago, olddog said:

Really hope its still made in Argentina.....but is it ?

 

No mention of Argentina on the back only Scotland and Poland and there's a GB customs code on it.