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pity the weather stopped you making much progress on the garage work yesterday. I am guessing it is no better weather wise today.
Our mild weather here suddenly disappeared, woke up to see a few snowflakes, but didnt' last long. But when we went out, the wind was bitterly cold!
However it was nice and warm inside the WEatherspoon pub for brekkie I am pleased to say. 
I had a Hicky variety type brekkie....a bagel with cream cheese, mushroom, tomatoes, beans, 2 hash browns, veggie sausage. Very nice it was. And I had so much, I bought home a sausage for daughter for her tea. I always tell them to leave the egg off and give me extra beans as I hate eggs, but love beans.
Pity you haven't got the fibre, I don't know what mbs we have, but gaming son is always complaining it is not fast enough for him! He uses Steam a lot. I think 5 of us using it at once in the evenings slows it down. But sky tell me we have the best one they have in this area, appartently we can't have the top one as we cant' get it round here. (not sure what that is though!). They put fibre in here around 4 years ago I think. As you say, the trouble is the usual big business not wanting to spend in remote areas.
That is interesting it is not called probate there. Solicitor said I have to go to another solicitor's office with this form and swear an oath for this blooming probate thing. What a pest, wish it was like yours and I could just sign the forms instead of having to treck to a solcitors appointmet again! Ridiculous really as the power of attorney thing was far harder to do and I had control of everything and had to do that for years. Every time I took money out or paid bills I had to account for it, even cash for food etc. I will just be glad when this is all done and dusted now. My brother is not going to be too pleased when he finds out the jewellery he thought was so very valuable isn't at all! (that is why I had to take every single thing in for an independant valuation). The valuation man was so interesting, he put this thing on his eyes and used this machine to check for diamonds and weighed the gold things. He took lots of photos, then he does a written report on everything. But he said, the old stuff is out of fashion so only melt down value. And the possible platinum ring could only be classed as metal because it didn't have a proper hallmark, so worthless. He said it is pointless to look at jewellery for sale on sites/shops, as most people do to value it themselves, as jewellers mark prices up by 90%! He said this is why most peope don't realise how little the family jewellery is actually worth. I did guess though. But I never checked monetary value, as I didn't think of it in monetary terms any way, it was just sentimental stuff to me. eg my nans old ring. Valuer also told us he often has to do house clearance, and people are shocked to realise that it is going to cost them for him to clear it, rather than him give them money for their old furniture! But again I guessed that, as we had so much trouble getting rid of the stuff in mums flat. Charity shop wouldn't take most of it. eg no furniture unless it had fire safety thing on it, and they didn't want wardrobes or drawers either. So OH had to chop it and take it to the tip.
Hicky
shame it was still not nice enough for you to do anything in the garden.
Yes I did wonder how you would make the samosa case, but what a good idea to practice with the paper. I think the seeds on them will make it so tasty.
I am not keen at all on oven chips either, proper home made ones are so much nicer. (not that I ever do them now though).
I had a letter today about carers allowance...oh boy was it nonsense. ...some weeks ago they wrote to say they would stop carers allowance benefit from when mum died mid January. So this letter started off the same as the last one along the lines of ..... they are sorry about mum dying but by law they have to get in touch about changes to my benefit.
Then they went on to say... they now have looked at the "facts and evidence" and as a result they have changed their original decision! (to stop the carers allowance!) 
What!!!???? And so they have now paid me the back pay from when mum died to now, so 2 months allowance for Jan to March!
What "facts and evidence" could they possibly have to make them change their decision about someone dying, despite the fact they were provided with the death certificate ?? ! It should be simple, if I have no one to care for any longer, then I dont get carers allowance! If they can't even get that right, heaven help us! 
(irony).
We now have an amber warning for snow, not sure when though as we have only had a few flurries so far.
Watched Ant and Dec, now watching the Voice.
Goodnight both xxx