SCRAMBLED EGGS AND SUNSHINE.. NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A GREAT START TO THE DAY!

Yum Yum.. soft scrambled eggs were on the menu this morning, how delicious and Old Man Sun has the beam on his torch switched to high, what a cracker of a day it's going to be!

We are off to do lots of allotment themed chores today, first of all, a trip to drop various things off at the allotment, next a trip to the dump with rotten fencing, from there we go to B&Q to buy fence supports and maybe a couple of long posts (we already have the chain link fencing), four bags of compost, that will be dropped off, then three loads of wood chips and manure which will be put into huge builders bags and transported down the long track in Dean's car.

He is kind beyond belief, a star.

He is due here soon at 11am and he is never late, so it's time we got a wiggle on and started to get ready for our day in the warm sunshine.. yippee!

GeeGee Parrot.
February 22nd, 2019.

SHE DISLIKES RUDE PEOPLE WHO WASTE OTHER PEOPLE'S TIME.

What's that saying.. oh yes, 'No good deed goes unpunished', well, she certainly thinks that about this woman whom we won't name but oh, what a pain in the arse she is.

She's pulled and it must have taken some effort, the blinds down in the spare bedroom of a house that belongs to a friend of ours.

She called to say the blinds are faulty, please would you come and have a look and see what needs to be done as the cord is broken, so mama went last week with new cord to fix them.

Only to find that there was nothing the matter with the cord, the entire fitting of the new Roman blind was lying on the floor as the top section had been wrenched off the wall and the screws were out of the rawl plugs! What a mess.

She explained that she needed tools to mend the damage and a pair of steps, that she would return when it was convenient for the woman.

A time was fixed for today at 11am, mama took her tool box and a pair of steps and went up the road and banged on the door at 11am.

To receive no answer, the neighbour said that the woman had gone out at about 10.45am with her dog for a walk in Hyde Park.

So she left a note through the door saying that she had been there at the appointed time and waited for 15 minutes and told the woman to call the blind company who supplied and fitted the blind as she wasn't going to come back again.

She dragged the steps home, gave me a kiss and a cuddle, a fat slice of tangerine and went off to meet a friend in Ealing Broadway at 1pm.

Goodness me, what a busy place! They had a coffee, discussed what they had to talk about and then she came home.

We were supposed to go out to tea with friends but I played hard to get or rather would not step onto her hand, so she said "Bye, I'm off to tea without you, you regret this when you see me go up the stairs and you're left at home alone again" and blow me down, she did too, she went off to tea without me!

And said I had played the silly 'you can't catch me' game (which drives her mental sometimes). I was all over her when she came back and said I was sorry.. hmmm, she said.

Whoops, one blotted copybook, I fear.

Moving swiftly along, we are off on a jaunt with Dean tomorrow to B&Q for fence supports and other stuff for the allotments. She's figured out how the thieves are getting onto the plots, they're coming over the small fence that is the boundary between Brian's and our plots.

She saw him on Sunday and asked if he would help her mend the fence, so they're doing it on Saturday, let's hope it's as sunny a day as it was today.

And that Hilary's, the blinds company, charge that rude woman a fat fee.

Good night to you all.. we've got to go for we need our beauty sleep.

GeeGee Parrot.
February 21st, 2019.

LADEN WITH PLANTS.. WICKER WHEELIE WAS COMPELETLY FULL TO HIS BRIM!

Grrr.. how was she to know that there were so many road works on the way to Squires, the journey took or seemed to take twice as long and she had forgotten to take a book with her.

But the day was sunny and there is always something to look at on the way, including spying a large Morrisons in the middle of Brentford.

What a joy Squires is to visit! The staff are great, as are all of their plants which are properly maintained.

The only disappointment was that there was a 20 minute wait to be served in the restaurant.. gulp.. that's what happens over half term.. note to self, never go again at half term time!

So she left with an empty tummy but not an empty Wicker Wheelie!

They had put aside two Black Elderberry plants, they were good sized plants, so she took them both. 

Then, as she plans to eat more berries this year, she asked Toby, one of the outside staff, if they had strawberry plants in yet and where they were if they had.

He took her to the section and she chose two of three different varieties and found a few more varieties up near to the herb section when she was hunting for French Tarragon.

Her bill was just a fraction over £50 and as she going with Dean on Friday to pick up fence supports and other stuff from B&Q on Friday, we will be on a tight budget for the next month! 

Thank goodness for things in white frosty larder and our dry stores and our green vegetables from the allotment.

Mizuna, Pak Choi, Rocket and Japanese Mustard leaves come home with her each time she goes out there and mighty tasty they are too!

On the way home she got off in the middle of Brentford and went into the BIG Morrisons store.

She has a great affection for this company, their generosity when she was fundraising for Polio with the Rotarians was staggering, so spends her money with them whenever she can but sadly, there isn't a store close to where we live.

She picked up a box of four pots of Tete a Tete narcissi and pot of hyacinths - both at a good price - to give as a gift to Myra with whom she is having supper later this week.

Nice store, large, well maintained, lots of staff, they give 5 points for every £ you spend, she has a lot of points on her card from when she shopped at their superstore that used to be in Streatham.

Sadly it closed, Adam French, the very nice and highly respected, manager said that the site, which they owned, was too valuable not to sell and in its' place now are a M&S food store and an Aldi, both large stores, this tells how big the Morrisons was!  

Today is another glorious day! The sun is shiny bright and it's warm, so warm in fact that she turned the boiler off this morning!

And went on line to British Gas to put in her electric and gas readings and look at her bill for last year, the total for both gas and electricity was £535.00 which is just over £10.00 a week for the year, that's ok. 

This years consumption will be much less, last winter was much colder and she certainly wasn't able to switch the boiler down, let alone off, until well into May.

And sunny days like today mean that electric lights don't have to be on as our bedroom is full of natural light as is the bathroom and nothing is ever left on stand-by! If you're not using something, switch it off!

Today is quiz day and she's taking her own lunch. She pulled out two bags of frozen chicken bones last night and put them into the stock pot with root vegetables and herbs early this morning. 

They came to the boil, she dropped the heat to simmer, picked off a lot of the flesh which she put aside, made a pot of roasted buckwheat with more vegetables and several cloves of garlic, then pureed the meat with a few ladles of the stock.

At 12.45 she'll heat it up gently, put it into a thermos and take it with her to New Horizons,

The quiz starts at 2pm, she'll be home at 4.30pm, I will doze and snack for she has put a couple of dishes out for me.. almonds and red grapes plus a few of my hard, crunchy Harrisons treats.

All is well in our world.. walk on the sunny side of the street folks.. there are two meanings to this old proverb.. work them both out.

GeeGee Parrot.
February 20th, 2019. 

NOT A LOT WAS DONE & WHY SHE DISLIKES DYSON MACHINES.

Well, nothing sensible got done, the post is still in her basket and the jaunt to Squires didn't take place.

For she felt more than a trifle stiff and cold, so she piled on thermal clothes and stayed at home with me.

I certainly wasn't about to complain, she couldn't have taken me on the jaunt as she would have been carrying home two heavy pots.

She did some housework, not much but some, more papers were sorted and shredded and Mr.Bissel, the carpet cleaner, then went around making his noise whilst he cleaned the carpets.

Don't ever use a suction carpet cleaner on 'good' carpets and NEVER use them on oriental rugs, old or new.

For they strip the wool or silk from the threads and cause horrendous damage to valuable rugs. She has a dear friend who is a restorer of beautiful rugs and tapestries and she says that almost all the rugs that are brought to her studio for restoration and repair are damaged by.. guess whose machines?

Why none other that Sir James Dyson's! The man who gained a knighthood but is now doing a bunk to Singapore.

And he 'vacuums' up money in other ways apart from his various Dyson machines.

In 2017 his company Beeswax Framing got £1.8 million in farm subsidies. Just over £1 million of that was for just owning farmland! 

In 2014 he was listed as owning 25,000 acres and by 2017 his land holdings had increased to 33,000 acres. These acres are in Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire and in Gloucestershire, where he owns Dodington Park.

Farmland is free of inheritance tax.. need I say more?

She has called Squires and asked them to put two Black Elderflower aside for her and said she will be with them before 1pm, so she better get a wiggle on and make our fast breaking yumyum in that case!

Yes, I have to stay at home but I will be out there at the allotments for most of the rest of the week, apart from tomorrow which is the day she has lunch with Barbara and takes place in the Quiz.

It's a sunny day, we heard from Pegeen in Illinois that snow is 'deep and crisp and even' all over her garden, meanwhile, here we have 15C and it's climbing! 

Chirp.

GeeGee Parrot.
February 19th, 2019.

FOUR & A HALF HOURS OF HARD WORK IN SUNSHINE.

I chose not to go, silly me for I was home alone for over six hours. I really should listen when she talks as she did say that it would be at least 6pm before she gets back.

She left before midday and returned just before 6pm and so I was mighty pleased to see her for I had chewed the big box and was pretty bored.

She, meanwhile, had had a cracker of a day! 

The sun had shone, she moved ten strawberry plants over to a bed that had dwarf beans in it last year, raked up all leaves, dug over five large beds, weeded and swept the small terrace outside the Shack and chatted to Roz and Joska.

All of the existing vegetable beds are now ready for planting and this week, she'll 'break ground' on the old herb area.

Where she has planned to dig four skinny beds making them into raised beds with a double frame of decking boards. These will be used for annual and perennial herbs and the 'dunking bath' will have a frame made for it so it stays upright.

A boring and back breaking job has to be done this week, it is to weed the terrace.. boring but it has to be done. Another boring job will be to chop up the tree cuttings into small pieces and to mix up the composts which are 'brewing' in the wooden box beds.

And she has to repair the front wall of Little Shed.

This will be a very BIG job indeed, she's got the huge panels of mdf and all the timber for the supports but needs a stretch of good weather in which to do the work, for everything has to come out so she can remove the entire front wall of the shed.

The last 'job' will be to repair the front fence, the pallets have done a brilliant job as she placed them in the spring of 2002!

Then it will be planting time! Time goes fast when you have good weather in the last month of Winter but then, there's always work to be done in any type of garden.

Such as to remove a invasive Jasmine which never flowered but has crawled everywhere and tries to creep under the roofing felt of the Shack, what a naughty plant it is!

To did out old Gooseberry plants which have come to the end of their productive life, she'll plant annuals and perennial flowers in their place.

She loves Pink Elderflower cordial and wants three plants, for their foliage is beautiful besides their fabulous flowers and she'll plant them to make a hedge behind the narcissi walk.

But it is time for her to go to post a birthday card and a letter and to go to Squires to buy mixed Dahlias and Ranulucus, which she loves both of these as cutting flowers and ask them to get her three Pink Elderflower plants.. she wants the Black Lace variety of Sambucus Nigra. 

This was the plant that Constance used to make her elderberry champagne and cordial, she has her mother's recipe and we will give it to you at another date. They are glorious, both in colour and taste and look amazing! 

Chirps to you all..

It's gloomy but hey, it's still Winter unless you live 'Down Under'!

GeeGee Parrot.
February 18th, 2019.

HURRY SCURRY BACK TO THERMALS

When we woke up yesterday we noticed something slightly unpleasant, it was cold and there wasn't any sunshine when she pulled up the blind.

Brr, it was chilly and dreary outside so that put the mockers on our plans to go out to the allotments.

But breaking our fast always cheers us up, she made scrambled eggs and we went back to eat these in the bedroom and think about what she would do instead of gardening.

Housework.. ugh.. she would much rather play in mud than do this but it has to be done. 

She washed, put in eye drops, dressed in comfy clothes and started in the kitchen, pans that were clean but had not yet been polished with the newly aquired Brillo pads were scrubbed until they shone, cabinets and countertops were washed, as was the inside of chilly white larder aka fridge, she took food out of frosty white larder aka freezer for supper and the floor was washed.

She put on a load of washing and cleaned the basin, bath, mirror, lavatory and floor.

The hall and bedroom were vacuumed. All done, well, as much as she was going to do.

For there is still that big fat elephant in the room.. aka the sitting room to be sorted out (rather her than me folks). 

She thought about going to the library but that would have entailed getting dressed in 'proper' clothes instead of comfy thermal leggings, socks and sweatshirt, so decided that wasn't a sensible idea as she was warm and it was mighty chilly out there.

She's still got a rattly cough and her left ear is sore which is affecting her hearing and when she saw her GP on Thursday about this, she took a swab from her left ear and said "This has gone on for too long, I'm making you an appointment to see a specialist at the ENT Hospitals in Grays Inn Road, 4pm on March 26th. You'll need to take this letter and the results of this swab with you when you go, let's get to the bottom of this and find out why it keeps recurring in this poor ear".

She returned calls and emails that had plopped into her phone which had been on silent whilst she was doing housework, then made supper.

Eaten and washed up by 7pm, we settled down for an early night in bed, there were almonds to be crunched and delicious dates to be nibbled.. what a feast of treats!

And we wished for a sunny Sunday, which has duly arrived, but it isn't that warm, I am staying here whilst she goes out to the allotments, she wants to go to the horticultural shed where they have a sale on of primroses and other plants that she wants.

I'll be back to tell you what she bought. Enjoy your Sunday.

GeeGee Parrot.
February 17th, 2019. 

A FEW OF HER FAVOURITE THINGS..

Bird song, crocuses, daffodils, gifts, good food, great company, jonquils, rosy peony shoots, snowdrops and sunshine are some of her favourite things and they were all in abundance yesterday.

Jane, with a suspiciously full looking trolley, was already in the arcade at South Ken tube station when we arrived at 12.10  yesterday, I say we because, having been very silly and not gone with her yesterday, I thought I would venture forth today and I am mighty glad I did.

They greeted each other and went down onto the platform to catch a train to Hammersmith, a train to Richmond appeared in less than a minute and we were 'all aboard' and off on our jaunt!

The sky was a brilliant blue, nasty old and cold Mr.Wind was blowing elsewhere and it was warm, really warm! What a treat for the middle of February.

Off at Hammersmith and up the escalator to the top level of the Broadway we went to catch a 190 bus, one came along quite quickly and we got on and settled ourselves down for the journey out to the Chertsey Road.

She said to Jane to make a note of the noise when they got off the bus and walked to the allotment gate, for one of the wonderful things about the site is the near silence of man generated noise and as you walk down the steps to the plots, the noise fades away, it always makes her relax and smile.

She unlocked her front gate and invited Jane onto her plots. She came through, stopped, looked around, smiled, nodded her head and said "Yes, I get it, Debbie's right, it is an oasis, what a wonderful place".

They walked up onto the terrace, mama put me onto the table, organized shade for me on the top of my cage, checked my water bowl and went to open up the Shack whilst Jane went for a potter about. 

She brought out plates, glasses, water, napkins and the box of cutlery out onto the table and found Jane unpacking all manner of exciting things!

Delicious boxes of Japanese food, a goat cheese, some fruit, three mysterious little packages and a beautiful plant, a pink Hellebore.

They sat down and she was handed the three little boxes one after the other, the first was a set of three olive wood oval bowls, the second an olive wood soft cheese knife and then she opened the third box. It was a small Swiss retractable hard cheese knife with the handle made of olive wood, the blade is very sharp indeed.

What beautiful things to receive and absolutely perfect for outdoor living OR actually anywhere, for who would not be thrilled to receive them and a pink Hellebore as well!

Their lunch was delicious and mine was too, for I had scrambled egg, grapes, almonds and some of my tasty Harrington cubes to crunch.

Mama washed up and potted up the Hellebore into a terracotta pot and sunk it into the ground with a cloche over it, for it has been grown in a green house and she certainly doesn't think this fabulous weather is going to last.

It had been a very cold night as the two bottles of olive oil in Shack were congealed.. it's a test for good oil, pure olive oil will congeal if the glass bottle gets cold whilst oil with nasty additives will not and she never buys olive oil in plastic bottles.

After collecting gloves, two hand forks and a rake, they planted lots of red onions and fat shallots and raked up leaves, then mama walked her around the plot and introduced Jane to REALLY wild rocket which is very different to that poor stuff you buy in shops, wild garlic, self seeded mizuna and Japanese spicy mustard leaves.

The mizuna, which self seeded itself last autumn on the terrace, has been almost eaten to the ground by birds, she begrudges them it not one bit for it's good for them and she was glad to see the water bowls were full of rain water, for birds have to drink just like we do and it is much better for them if they have access to clean rain water rather than having to drink from muddy puddles.

Jane went for a wander about so mama sneaked off with a big bag to pick lots of tasty greens to give to her and managed to push it down into her trolley before she returned. They put on their jackets, mama locked up Shack, organised my travel bag and we left to catch a bus home.

They talked on the bus and Jane told her that one of her grand daughters has asthma so that decided their route home, they stayed on the little bus, getting off at the North End Road and going into Al Baydar to get Black Seed oil aka Black Cumin oil.

Whilst they were waiting to be served, the customer in front of them bought a kilo of fresh dates and then, very sweetly, gave Jane and mama one each. 

The look on Jane's face was a delight as she tasted it and she said "Now I know why people love them, I have never tasted anything so delicious, I will have to take some as well" and asked for a kilo split into two, one of which she gave to mama!

We went off up the street, where she has never been before, with mama pointing out various places for good food or services like her excellent tailor and dry cleaner.

Onto a 414 bus at Fulham Broadway and it was 'home again, home again jigeddy jig' with Jane getting off at the top of Onslow Square and us getting off three stops later.

We returned home to a quiet flat for where was Boy Burki whom we had left behind? 

He appeared after about five minutes, he had eaten and drunk water but there was no sign that he had been sleeping on her bed, he disappeared again and she found him in the boiler room, she has always suspected that is where the mice get into our flat and he obviously the same idea too!

Emi came to collect him at 8pm and we settled down for a snack of fruit and nuts with a hot drink for her and a very early night for both of us, for we were tired, we were full of fresh air and exercise and she had had a lovely day with more than a few of her favourite things!

GeeGee Parrot.
February 16th, 2019.

HUGO DIED 38 YEARS AGO ON ST.VALENTINE'S DAY.. OH DEAR.

Whilst most of the rest of the world was happy to celebrate Valentine's day, it wasn't such a 'happy' day for her and she usually spends it quietly.

Her father suffered a very severe stroke which ended his life on St.Valentine's day in 1981. She was in Spain and received a telegram from her brother telling her and it was such a huge shock.

For she had enjoyed a very happy time with Hugo only a few days before she flew out to Malaga to help a friend move house. 

And so she said to Inez how very grateful she was that she'd seen him and that they had had such a happy time together.

She's now several years older than her papa had been when he died.. rising sixty nine whilst he had only been rising sixty one.

Yesterday there is a chore to be done for a friend first and she spent the afternoon doing 'stuff' at the allotment, the fine weather we were promised had materialized!

However, I decided that I didn't want to go and stayed 'home alone', I know.. silly me, for she came home early, grabbed her laptop and shot out again to go to Raja's house.

Her old laptop of sixteen years died, he took out the hard drive and bought her a reader so that they could take all the information off it.

Yeah.. she found all the photos of the four wren babies who were born in the Shack in 2005! They are adorable photos and Raja was entranced by them.

Today we are going out to the allotments, we'll meet Jane at South Ken tube and have lunch out there, she has lots of red onions and shallots to plant and there are a lot of dead leaves to be raked up and old peony stalks that need to be cut down and burnt in the incinerator.

She's bought several bags of mixed dahlias tubers so they, together with lots of freesias corms, need to be planted.

Oh, you didn't know you could grow these lovely flowers outside? Yes, they're exquisite but you must remember to dig the corms up in the autumn and dry them off as they would rot in wet wintery earth.

We're off now as she has to get everything together. Many chirps to you all.

GeeGee Parrot.
February 15th, 2019.

A TASTY LUNCH & A BETTER SCORE. (THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT!)

Lunch was scrummy, even more scrummy as she didn't have to cook it! 

She blew me a kiss, told me to be a good girl and left to go up the road for lunch with Barbara and the Wednesday quiz.

Oh, it's boring that she can't eat peppers for the dish of stuffed peppers looked delicious but she chose spicy beef with quinoa instead and a side salad.

Time for the quiz, the tables were cleared, a space was made for Michael's wheelchair, coffees, teas and grapes appeared and they started bang on the dot of 2pm.

She got the first ten questions right! 

Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker cap.
It is the Cutty Sark which was built in 1869 and is in th dry dock at Greenwich.
Samuel Pepys described the pub as the heart of England.
The photo was of Henry Kissinger.
Leo is the astrological sign of people born on 1st August.
The Collezione Peggy Guggenheim is in Venice. 
Borneo is split between Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Vodka is the spirit used to make Screwdrivers and Sea Breeze .
Mc.Donald's staff will serve people on horseback at their drive-throughs.

Sadly she left the rest of quiz papers behind or that's what she's saying!! Nudge nudge.. get my drift!

They were a merry bunch and it was warm enough to have one of the garden doors open! Let's hope that the next two days are also fine, for tomorrow we're bound for the allotments to plant onions and shallots.

And on Friday morning, Jane's meeting us at South Ken tube station, we'll take the Piccadilly line to Hammersmith and then catch a 190 bus out to the allotments.

And Jane's said she'll bring a hot lunch in a thermos! What a treat and Joska's due to be there as well.

Spring is a'coming folks and the gardening gang will soon all be back on their plots working hard to get their seeds and cuttings ready for this year's produce.   

And on our way home tomorrow, we are having tea with our Lebanese friends, Raja has said he'll take the hard drive out of her old dead laptop and transfer the photos onto a disc.

So here we are, halfway through the week with a couple of pleasant things to look forward to. We hope that you're having an happy and trouble-free week? 

Now she's got to rustle up a bowl of fruit, nuts and dried chunky yumyum for me, which is what I like to eat in the evening whilst I watch television.. as you do when you're a much beloved African Grey.

Which I am.

GeeGee Parrot.
February 13th, 2019.

BLACK SEED OIL..

She went to the North End Road to get Brillo pads, a jar of cloves and two bottles of Black Seed Oil.

Do you know this oil? It is an essential oil from the Black Cumin seed and has many properties.

Go on line and read about it.

She learnt about this oil when she asked Anissa, her hairdresser, if she knew of anything that would stop hair loss.

"Yes, you need to get a bottle of Black Seed oil from Al Bayar in the market, mix it with a good olive oil, rub it onto your scalp, leave it for at least an hour and then wash it out with a non-sls hair shampoo. Do this at least three times a week and you'll see a difference within four to six weeks" said Anissa.

Anissa is from Morocco and went on to say that the oil is also great for coughs and that she uses it to keep her asthma at bay.

So she went, all those years ago, and bought a bottle and applied it to her scalp, she also rubbed it on her face at night. 

Sure enough, her receding hair line stopped receding, the hair grew back, has never thought of disappearing again and her skin looked pretty good too! 

The only thing was that she had to go to find a navy blue pillowcase as the oil, as described in its' name, is truly dark and it stained a white pillowcase but that wasn't anything a wash with sterilisation fluid couldn't handle!

She has a dear friend called Judith who had gruesome asthma attacks so, when Anissa told her that she uses the oil to control her asthma, she bought her a bottle and gave it to her.

About ten days later, she received a call from Judith saying that she wanted to have lunch and tell her something and asked where should they meet?

Mama suggested the small Polish restaurant near to Bartek on Streatham's Centre Parade and they agreed to meet at 1pm on the following Tuesday.

Judith had arrived and 'bagged' a quiet table at the back and after hugging each other, they sat and mama said "What was it that you wanted to tell me?"

She grinned and said "I cannot thank Anissa enough.. for after taking the oil for three days, I haven't had a single attack and haven't had to use my inhaler, so here's a letter that I would like you to give to Anissa together with this" and she picked up a pretty bag which had in it a charming bowl full of dark blue hyacinths!

"And lunch is on me".

Woooo! This was amazing news as her poor friend used to have to have her inhaler with her all the time and for her to have nearly two weeks without having to use it once was amazing!

So when her throat felt scratchy and she coughed.. Black Seed Oil was put onto the shopping list!

She gets it from two shops, if she's shopping in Streatham, she buys it from a shop called MFC which stands for Mediterrean Food Centre, where she finds pure pommegranate syrup and the best yoghurt known to exist, in glass jars.. not horrid plastic tubs! They charge £3.99 for a large bottle of the oil.

If she isn't going up there and it is a fair way to go, she gets it from Al Bayar on the North End Road who sell it for £4.99.

You do not have to spend anything more than that! If you do, you are being ripped off! 

The oil has a strong taste and is slightly 'peppery' and a couple of people have said that they cannot drink it, so she tells them to mix it with fresh lemon juice and a bit of honey to disguise the taste but to drink it!

She drank some out of the bottle in the shop and has taken a large teaspoonfull every four hours, it has stopped whatever was brewing in its' tracks and she's increased her intake of water as well as 
her brews of fresh ginger and turmeric root which now have crushed cloves and lemon juice added to them. 

This combination of spices pack a mighty punch against germs and viruses and certainly any cold that thought it was going to invade her has now had second thoughts!

Ok, time to get dressed and go to New Horizons for a light lunch and play the general knowledge quiz and hopes to do better than last week.

Who knows when Elvis married Priscilla? She didn't.

It's vaguely sunny.. the sky is pale grey but at least it's dry and doesn't look to be too windy. Where's all this amazingly good weather they keep talking about?

GeeGee Parrot.
February 13th, 2019.