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Hello Elle and Rusty!

Rusty, I envy your mildness! it is already minus 4 here with a steady North-Easterly wind so it feels like minus 8C.
And it is due to get even colder for the rest of the week!
I just can't get warm and looking at the frost outside (which has not melted from last night) makes me feel even colder.

I am having a nice warming ox-tail dish later on - that should be rather nice! (Inside fuel...)

PS - The vegetation around the Loch looks very white!

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, a cup of coffee went down a treat!
I am recovering now!
Donna Fraser had a rough time in the middle of her Athletics career.
She suffered from breast cancer, and had a mastectomy.
She is a nice lady. A favourite with everyone.
It is freezing cold here - the maximum we were promised today was 2C, but for most of the day, it has felt much colder than that.
It was minus 1 when I went out early this morning.
I am recording "Eggheads" to watch later.... we shall see how the recording goes with the new set up!
Right now........I am going to wash my hair......



Hello, Pigale!
How are you?
It is lovely to hear from you!
I thought of you and your books the other day when we were wondering some origin!
I thought it was cold here...but your temperatures "take the biscuit"!

Hi all
It's probably worth reading the book I mentioned at 11839, if only for the first part of the third section, which is mostly about how the new Pope was elected (that's the bit I re-read).

Good evening, Pigale!
Yes, it is mild here.
My heating has been off for a couple of days.
It was very cold last week, and windy!
I hope you enjoy your ox-tail meal.
It sounds tempting!

Good evening, Elle!
Donna Fraser came across as a lovely lady (as did Katharine Merry), on the programme.
I did not know about her mastectomy.
Poor you and the freezing cold!
We have mild weather here, about 6 or 7 degrees.
Malone and me will be on tenterhooks awaiting the results of the upcoming "recording"!

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, Donna Fraser was one of our GB "Stalwarts", wasn't she?
She was always to be relied upon.
Rather like Jenny Meadows has been in later years?
Ah, Rusty, you are teasing me ........
but for a technophobe such as myself, this setting up of the new television is a very serious matter!
Says she "tongue in cheek"!
( I am sure I must get a sympathy vote from somewhere?)
And who knows, maybe I have patented a new way to watch and record - with two aerials?
(Malone, this is your cue to say what a brilliant way I have devised to access my Red Buttons....!)
Seriously, though, within my limited capacity, I think I have done very well!
Don't you think?
Now ....the cold....
I do not consider it "mild" at 6C!
And you say you've switched your heating off?
Brrrh!
Well, I shall go and sit - in the warm - and watch my successful recordings........



Hello, Chris!
I am very sorry... I didn't see your previous post.
I have looked back now and read it.
Yes, that sounds an interesting book to follow up, particularly in the light of the recent discussion about vicars and popes!

Hello, Elle!
I think you are going great guns with the TV!
Let us hope the recording is successful.
Two aerials is a new one on me, right enough!
6 degrees is mild compared to last week.
Posties are not wearing jackets.
That is a good indicator!
I have several "indoor" fleeces to combat the cold if I feel a bit chilly.
I put the heating on when it gets too cold, though.

Elle, I was - am - hugely impressed with your two-aerial solution. It's something I'd never have thought of, though that's partly because I've only ever had one aerial. The main thing is that you applied logic to your problem - and it has worked. I'm sure you and the Red Buttons will be very happy together, for a long time to come.

Hi, Rusty!
Update!
I did several recordings as an experiment...all successfully.
This seems to be working fine!
You folk north of the border must be made of far sterner stuff......even our postmen are wrapped up well against the elements!
I honestly do not think that turning the c/h off in mid January with a maximum temperature of only 6C is a good idea.
You weren't feeling well last week and said you felt as though you had a "chill".
But I know whatever I say "will fall on stony ground".... or else I'm "batting my head against a brick wall"............ whatever.....
So I shall say no more on the subject!
How are you getting on with your book?
How is Dr Crippen?