TV Dinners

You may well find today's blog to be a bit brief, and indeed you may be grateful for that, but the fact is that we didn't do very much or take many photos. The day gets off to a rather lazy start when we sleep in until 08.45. The curtains in our room are very effective. Wordle doesn't go too well as it is a word that has one letter more in British English. We still have the car and want to see the highly recommended view from Pico do Barcelos.
This turns out to be much like other views from up in the hills to the north. It is noticably hazier today but warm. We spent the next few hours visiting various retail boxes and getting lost driving between them.
The highlight of the day was supper. In our first week we had bought a couple of frozen meals as a standby and decided it was time to use these. As we have uttterly failed to comprehend the combination microwave/oven/grill our ever resourceful chef improvises a steamer. D's contribution is less helpful. He manages to freeze the wine solid in the icebox.
The fish pie was jolly tasty and the wine thawed out just in time.

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  1. chouxdle10 February 2022 at 03:25

    "Wordle doesn't go too well as it is a word that has one letter more in British English."
    hahahahhahahahahahahaha Balaady ynanks. Humor. Is that even a word?

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  2. knownunknown10 February 2022 at 04:59

    When Cailín went 100% vegan; her meals on the plane were frozen TV dinners. They looked just like 👆
    Freezers should have tubs of icecream and Alaskan King Crabs.
    Rees-Mogg is planning to export British version of Wordle to the former colonies! https://nypost.com/2022/02/09/wordle-backlash-begins-blaming-this-on-the-americans/

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    1. chouxdle10 February 2022 at 05:40

      Oh dear. The Americans are going to have to go to the wire getting them 5-letter words now :(

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  3. Unknown10 February 2022 at 06:54

    Mrs S spent what seemed like hours on yesterday's Wordle until the grumpy one mentioned America! It appears that I have my uses albeit not many

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    1. knownunknown10 February 2022 at 13:53

      A Welsh kid, and his indian partner, in the outerborough created a game. The indian chose the dictionary! For them who are epileptic about the words, there is always 100% yankee free https://wordle.danielfrg.com/

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