Almost Easter..

Phew!

I thought you were going to have nothing to do all weekend until you mentioned Aer Johns Laundry !

I'm just going to add... I think I have far too many packing cubes in different sizes so deciding which to use could take a while!

I'm just going to add... I think I have far too many packing cubes in different sizes so deciding which to use could take a while!

Do empty packing cubes pack inside each other or do you need to buy a special packing cube to pack the packing cubes in?

I too am more than ready for a break. Yesterdays 14 hour day at work almost did me in!! n( Luckily I have 5 days off over Easter and will be heading off to Japan the week after, as I stalk Bretty across the globe ):

Today I am at home and top of my agenda is cleaning out the chicken coop and run. What joy! Then we are off up country to Bristol for a couple of days, as I need to hit Cribbs Causeway big time for a shopping spree. Back home for a couple of days R&R then, including a craft fair in Exeter Quays and of course, packing those cubes for our trip

Next week at work will be busy but just a 2 1/2 day week and then 18 days off... ^)

Have a lovely Easter everyone.

With all these predictions of rail, road and flight chaos I am happy for once to be staying home and only venturing out locally. I shall enjoy looking at the beautiful ( if somewhat battered by winds) daffodils in my garden.

Is it just me or has anyone noticed a pattern ? HL goes on a flight - always something out the norm. HL on holiday - what disaster will strike this time ? The village hit by a flood worthy of Noah - HL lives there. Now the church HL attends is suddenly visited by more than usual mishaps. Is there a link ? ?|

Do empty packing cubes pack inside each other or do you need to buy a special packing cube to pack the packing cubes in?

No.... but I do keep them all in a storage box along with shoe bags, toiletry plastic cases etc :0

Do empty packing cubes pack inside each other or do you need to buy a special packing cube to pack the packing cubes in?

No.... but I do keep them all in a storage box along with shoe bags, toiletry plastic cases etc :0

ROFLMAO, I think that just fits Tonty's description

I too am more than ready for a break. Yesterdays 14 hour day at work almost did me in!! n( Luckily I have 5 days off over Easter and will be heading off to Japan the week after, as I stalk Bretty across the globe ):

Today I am at home and top of my agenda is cleaning out the chicken coop and run. What joy! Then we are off up country to Bristol for a couple of days, as I need to hit Cribbs Causeway big time for a shopping spree. Back home for a couple of days R&R then, including a craft fair in Exeter Quays and of course, packing those cubes for our trip

Next week at work will be busy but just a 2 1/2 day week and then 18 days off... ^)

Have a lovely Easter everyone.

Funny you should mention chickens... a bleedin' hen recently adopted us from somewhere in the village. Moved into the yard, won't go and I don't want to keep her. Admittedly she's giving us an egg a day but...

Seems my husband is like Dr Doolittle because all the strays, usually cats, come here to him, and the birds - we get more than any of our neighbours! Anyway, he's called the hen Doris, after his mum!

Great name. Mine are called Barbara, Mimi, Yvette, Edith and Fanny

Can you find out where she came from? Chickens do not do well on their own, they need to be in a flock. They do frequently pine away and die if left solo.

I would happily take her off your hands. Take her to LHR with you next week and leave her in the United Club Lounge and I will collect her next weekend. I am sure the staff there will mind her until I collect a few days later She would love to tour Japan with me I am sure

Most of the weekend will be used to get some seriously needed rest. A few social occasions will be thrown in the mix, including a quick trip to London for a friend birthday on Saturday ... No holidays as such coming up straight away but still 4 days out of the office .... Pure bliss !!!

Its back to work for me, having only just landed a week ago from my 4 weeks away.
Got to earn a few pennies and save some miles for next year.
We will go and bore family and friends with a few of the 2600 photos we took.
Dick D

Heading down to the south of France tonight (Ryanair) for a few days of sunshine. Scratch that, a few days of cloud according to the latest forecast Never mind, we'll still have lovely wine, cheese and walks on the beach

Great name. Mine are called Barbara, Mimi, Yvette, Edith and Fanny

Can you find out where she came from? Chickens do not do well on their own, they need to be in a flock. They do frequently pine away and die if left solo.

I would happily take her off your hands. Take her to LHR with you next week and leave her in the United Club Lounge and I will collect her next weekend. I am sure the staff there will mind her until I collect a few days later She would love to tour Japan with me I am sure

Now that's funny
Seriously though, we know she needs to be with others of her kind, although she seems content but we'll see. OH is from farming family so knows more about these things than I, I'm a townie born and bred.

Anyway Happy Easter one and all

On the VS2 tonight for a Good Friday LHR arrival!

Excited to be on a 787-900 again.

Like HL, I'm involved with my local church, though not at the exalted level of Sacristan. Not bells & smells either, though traditional High Anglican, 1662 Prayer Book, Choral Communion.

Those not involved with behind the scenes of services must imagine it's all as calm as it appears, instead of the disasters which seem to cluster round HL and (to a slightly lesser extent) the rest of us.

One of mine concerns Midnight Communion one Christmas. I was on chalice administration (Rector offers the wafers, two of us process in seemly fashion behind him proffering the chalice). Always difficult at Christmas and Easter to estimate the numbers likely to partake, lots of visitors, many who only come for major festivals, etc. You simply don't know how many of the several hundred will actually take communion.

In use were the (very) antique, beautiful, large and very heavy chalices, fingers crossed I didn't lose my grip on mine and give someone a bath in communion wine.

Rector had a beautiful singing voice and after communion, would always join the choir for the final post-communion anthem. That day he'd badly over-estimated the likely number of communicants and we both had lakes of wine left in the huge chalices which he must consume as it's consecrated wine.

The man on duty with me hissed "what are you doing after the service". For a brief idiotic second I thought he was chatting me up, then sanity returned. I said I'm driving home (what else would I do at something after 1.00 in the morning - my partying till the small hours days are behind me). He hissed "If we leave (the Rector) to consume this lot, we'll have to pick him up off the floor, we'll have to help him".

So with Rector still warbling away on Ave Verum Corpus or the like, we solemnly, in full view of the mesmerised congregation, stood in the Sanctuary making merry with Communion wine.

I drove home rather carefully that night.

Thank you for a good laugh, Whiterose !
And Happy Easter to you and all V-flyers !

Oh yes, I mentioned the few hours break here and there. During those I have a date! With laundry!! Aer John will be home!!

Doing his laundry HL ?? :0 when several TRs are lonnnnnng overdue v( ( you'll be telling us you're cooking him Easter lunch too after you finish your duties :0 ) .
You're forgiven on the other counts .
DL

Do empty packing cubes pack inside each other or do you need to buy a special packing cube to pack the packing cubes in?

No.... but I do keep them all in a storage box along with shoe bags, toiletry plastic cases etc :0

ROFLMAO, I think that just fits Tonty's description

I was trying to avoid the obvious answer.... the storage box also contains pots and bottles of various different sizes I know (after practise) I can decant toiletries into for a overnight to couple of days stay, one week and two weeks.

I think I will get my coat now

Happy Easter everyone.

I hope Bretty's chook lays the golden egg. I know mine are laying huge ones at the moment. Mohooooosive omelettes here this weekend.

Off work for a full month from today. Off to lax Tuesday in UC after staying at the "new" Hatton cross hilton Monday for a DTCI Tuesday as don't want a 3am start when going to west coast. All for a road trip of road trips !!! TR to come but the trip follows quite a few recommendations from on here from a post from 9 months ago!

This is turning into an interesting thread what with chickens, packing cubes (again!!), communion wine, Aer John's laundry (how old is this son of yours HL?), and everybody's upcoming lovely travel plans and plans with family. A month off work for an amazing road trip Starquake, how fab!

What a lovely little online community this is

[honey lamb]

So today has been spent disposing of old ceremonial oils to await the new ones and dispensing of same; preparing for two evening ceremonies, one of which went to plan but the other had a touch of the honey lamb's about it! The organist was held up by a major traffic accident and had to call in his second in command with very little notice; one of the altar servers was violently sick on the altar; the person who was to assist me didn't stay so that at one point I was required to be in three places at the one time! :0

Still we got through it but then I got home and poured myself a well-earned G&T (after all, I had only had two half hour breaks during the day) and promptly knocked it over!! :0

And that was only Maundy Thursday! Another two disaster-prone days to come. And to lose the G&T, not to be borne. Hope Good Friday services and G&Ts are more successful.