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Post by kelso on Sept 8, 2016 8:40:21 GMT
Hoping that you and Vera have a pleasant, on time flight tomorrow and that the residents of Mount Olympus look favourably upon you when deciding who gets what kind of weather.
Bob
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Post by dennisn on Sept 8, 2016 10:05:29 GMT
Thank you so much Bob - they are certainly shining down on Keynsham at the moment if that's anything to go by?
This last day is always a drag, just wishing the time away to get on the move.
The shower sucker is well packed, of course - that was a dead good brownie points tip you gave me, Vera was well impressed in June, loved it. Probably the cheapest and one of the best brownie points I ever laid hands on!
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Post by kathos on Sept 8, 2016 10:26:17 GMT
Have a good holiday Dennis. Did you ever come across the metal gadget for putting over a hob ring to make toast?
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Post by dennisn on Sept 8, 2016 10:48:39 GMT
Whatever is that Kathos? Toast? With my teeth? Not in a million years, all the crumbs would get under the plate and I can assure you, that's more than painful. Not that it would happen - I can't bite toast so No crumbs are ever left in this mouth overnight (private joke - like the signs you see on vans about tools). I get really told off for taking the teeth out to clear tomato pips, which are as sharp as the worst toast crumbs, but I CAN chew tomatoes (if they're cut up nice and small for me).
We used to make toast holding bread on a fork in front of the fire when I was young - you could try that? My posh aunty had a toasting fork - specially long wiry thing with prongs, kept you far enough away from the fire not to get burnt (ordinary forks got you burned). But it was easy to drop the bread off if you weren't careful and half toasted bread with coal embers sticking to it was not quite brownie points.
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Post by dennisn on Sept 8, 2016 10:59:08 GMT
By the way, when we were in Villa Maria in June, there was a proper genuine toaster in our room (I had mentioned to Angela that some guests had posted they wanted toasters, not the sandwich toaster things). I don't know how many rooms have them and we don't use them anyway.
Isn't it annoying that the iPhone 7 can't be ordered until after 8am tomorrow, at which time I should be at 35,000 feet somewhere over France where I can't pre-order one!
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Post by kelso on Sept 8, 2016 11:15:42 GMT
I thought that the iPhone launch had been held up because of exploding batteries. I hope it wasn't caused by people using them to make toast!
I've made toast in the past by just laying the bread on the ring and that works OK, as long as you keep an eye on it.
By the way, the rain is pissistantly falling here and has been for the lady hour or so!
Bob
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Post by katet on Sept 8, 2016 12:40:32 GMT
'Lady hour', Bob - sounds interesting!
Happy hols, Vera and Dennis - 5 days and 16 hours before we take off!! May see you on the Bourtzi one afternoon :-)
Kate & Paul
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Post by dennisn on Sept 8, 2016 12:45:29 GMT
Doesn't Bob have REALLY interesting predictive text? And he eats toasted circles, how quaint.  |
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Post by kathos on Sept 8, 2016 12:52:28 GMT
Does Matron know that Dennis and Kelso are not in their rooms?  |
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Post by derbyshirelass on Sept 8, 2016 13:15:18 GMT
We have a toaster every time now at Villa Marua.
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Post by kelso on Sept 8, 2016 17:00:13 GMT
Doesn't Bob have REALLY interesting predictive text? And he eats toasted circles, how quaint. That predictive text post slipped through because I had given my proof reader the day off. I'm far too good to her! Don't mock toasted circles until you have tried them! They fit much better on the plate - unless you have square plates. Bob |
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Post by dennisn on Sept 8, 2016 17:49:27 GMT
We have square plates.
All finished now. Two suitcases, 15.5 and 16.6kgs (20kg allowance). Hand bags (at first I typed handbags!) 5.05 and 6.65kgs. I have a purse full to bursting with one pound coins ready to please the cabin crew when they serve my several Baileys (and Vera's one water). The suitcases are in the van, ready for a quick getaway and I've asked Siri to wake me at 2am (in the forlorn hope that I'll be asleep!). It would be nice to get some sleep this time for a change. Going to bed in about half an hour to get nearly 7 hours sleep - fat chance!
I just wish it was 2am right now, absolutely itching to get gone.
Conundrum - should I change my ticker now to show Skiathos 9? It will only show two and that means I would have to delete the one for tomorrow. Would anybody notice? Or should I wait until I get to Troulos? That would be the correct way about it. Why should I worry? There are loads of members showing their tickers as weeks, even months, ago. Bad form really, tantamount to something I can't think of right now.
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Post by cariad23 on Sept 8, 2016 17:50:39 GMT
oh memories i remember toasting forks we had extending one i remember sitting on the floor with my late mum after school making toast in front of fire. Tastes better than in a taster, we make it now over chimney of chimenea.
My dad had major issue with tomato pips too, always moaning about them !
Have a great holiday
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Post by dennisn on Sept 8, 2016 18:00:08 GMT
How can anything taste better than in a taster? And toast done on a chimney? YUK!
Do you realise, there are people who have no idea what a toasting fork is? And gas mantles for the lights in our house? And the man who cycled round, morning and night turning the gas streetlights on and off?
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Post by kelso on Sept 8, 2016 18:02:51 GMT
Dennis, put that drink down and get to bed!
Bob
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