Val's Cafe

Good morning everyone

Toady (()) it rained all day yesterday we got soaked. My boots are going to have a bit fixed to stop it rubbing me. I have a brown pair and a red pair. That’s good your loft was dry. Have a good day

Toni (()) the screws have one in each pack. Brenda’s coming to screw the handle on I said I can do it but not tight enough. Have a good day

Jojo (()) that’s good you had a nice time with the children

Reshmi (()) have a good day love to your mum (())

Stuart (()) have a good day love to your mum (())

Skinny Keef (()) Sucr’e (()) has done well all the best in the big class. Love to Loanda (())

i managed to get the KTM cleaned before the rain came. Stupid SERVICE light came up on my last cold start. By my reckoning it’s not due till at least November, it’s done less than 2000 miles since last oil change but I have nothing to do with servicing it like the others as it’s too complicated and needs special oil etc

Always something…….

Head just started to hurt now so going for siesta. Hopefully won’t need pills.

Wppl

Hi all 👋 was awake a bit in the night couldn't be bothered to get tea, went back off fairly quick and somehow the Sunday noise brigade let me sleep til gone 10 😮 have been behind all day.

I didn't get your torrents of rain frog or it would have woken me too I guess! due some in the night, 4am heavy, lovely 🙄. Not much sign of this wind letting up either. Might get to the postbox later that'll be about it I expect. Hope your day has been going ok, that's a pretty big undertaking, getting the bearded dragon to Somerset! Hope it all went smoothly probably not sorry to hand it over I imagine. Hope it's a good move for Lucy's friend too. Well done all 4 of you managing Arya's photoshoot so capably 🤭 lucky someone hadn't set their heart on the best outfit and the substitute is fine 👍️ isn't her hair sweet too 😊. Go Elfie, getting into tiptop condition there 😁 hope he had a nice trip to Taunton and you all had time for a little stop maybe? Any nice zyder orchards to be visited? Yes I hate to say it but tidy courtyard gardens have something to be said for them 😬 cut your coat according to your cloth etc, although if a distant relative wants to leave me a few acres and a team of gardeners I won't throw it back in their face 😁. What can I say about that little piggywig 😍 he can come to Toad Hall any day. Have a good new week, love to all 😊 xx

Hello Joan, my last doughnut went mouldy, the weather I expect, so I need not care if it had custard or not 😂 I didn't think they were as nice as previous ones so went to read the reviews and sure enough the most recent ones weren't good so I bet they have made changes 🙄. I was reading about lots more high street clothes shops closing down, there will be nowhere to go and shop soon I find it very sad 😕. Sorry you had rain all day yesterday and were caught in it 😔 some here overnight that's all. Have a good evening 😘 xx

Hope your day is going ok Keef, head responding to a lie-down 🤞 I liked the off-white tea 😂 very good. That's nice to hear how well the school have been doing for Sucré sounds like you could recommend them to anyone 😊 it does come across in the pic he looks good-natured (the odd hissy fit off camera don't we all 😉). Will you take the bike in anyway even if it's premature by your reckoning or can something trip the service light like a bit of a false alarm? Well done getting in a clean anyway, seems to be only me without rain today,. Have a good spell while you're home alone this week I hope 👍️ xx

Hi bosh, look, I finally found the original card with the 1-inch mini hairgrips, living proof, they aren't just the stuff of legend 😂 I knew it was here somewhere. Didn't realize I had that many left because I found the lighter colour more handy, although it does mean that somehow somewhere I've lost two thirds of them over time 😮 probably all indoors, probably all down cracks in the floorboards 😣. Anyway why you can't buy them now is a mystery to me 🤷‍♀️. Hope your day has been going ok, I'm having the same sort as you yesterday, time going & nothing much done 😬. I love the other teacups too, & like Toni think the one saying 'that was not tea' is genius 😂. I don't know what we'll end up with on the new money but yes a vote from me for Mavis 😀 where will we spend them though, I was saying to Joan more clothes shops are going including 33 'Shiver Highland' branches and some 'Blue Book' 😟. Also noticed that both of the 2 firms I hold any banking stuff are going, and they are the branches in the next town, having already closed their ones here 😱 good grief. On that cheerful note 😄 take care have a good evening :) xx

How are you today Jojo, hope work going as well as possible what's your shifts like for this week? Hope the tiredness is manageable and like you say the amount you'd expect from doing more. Take care have a good evening 👋😘 xx

Sorry about the continual disturbance and pain & achiness Stuart 😔 I was awake sometime myself was too tired to get tea was just glad it was Sunday and there would be no post etc to get up for. Hope everything as well as poss otherwise, when's your dentists appt?

Take care all have a good evening ☕️ xx

hi Toni

How are you?

Loud downpour, how annoying

Im okay thanks, a little bit of pre - bed backache, but that sometimes happens

BR spoke to mum on the phone and said he went out to lunch and had sausages (I won’t tell P*ppa) and pain au chocolat - what a clever boy! He also said his mum and dad ‘argued and argued and argued’

Oh dear - the truth comes out lol

Nice ice cream.
Good night Toni tc xx

👋toady

How are you?

I see the mystery hairclips have been located, very good lol

Sorry I’ve got the backache Demon at the moment

Nothing serious but I really should attempt to hit the plaque - as my dentist once said

Yes I must claim ownership of that bad pun

Yes closed bank branches etc very irritating indeed

Keep your Mavis krewitts - is that the right name? - anyway keep any phantom and fairy currency under the mattress lol

Night and Tc toady xx

👋night all sorry will try to post properly tomorrow tc xx

4 am ☕️😮‍💨

morning all,

Toni/Toady yes I think the service light is just advisory, it doesn’t shut the bike down, but it’s booked in, just annoying I have to clear the message on dash every time I start engine but I don’t mind it’s such a great bike. Servicing costs are quite a bit. £900 for a valve clearance service. Fortunately only every 34k miles and mine was done when I bought it as part of the deal. BMW are about the same I think, it all evens out, some costly some not depending on mileage. I got the bike for a bargain price because it was ‘high mileage’ but when I asked around some of those engines have done over 100k miles in the adventure bikes KTM does. They use the 1290 cc engine in a few different models. Impossible to wear it out with hard use when it produces over 170 horse power. Your licence would be gone first. 🤪

morning Reshmi, Stuart, Jojo, Dachshund and anyone I have forgotton. Hope everyone has a good day. I have tidying and general boring stuff to do that i put off yesterday. Humph!