Food, glorious food!

We have ordered food for the Christmas period online and it has been delivered. We have been to the local supermarket to get all the things we forgot when ordering online and we have managed to find a home for everything - just - although the turkey proved a bit of a problem. I did suggest hanging it in the shed until we need to cook it. The fact that the shed is dirty and full of spiders doesn't bother me as I don't eat meat! However, Keith thought it might be better to put it in the Camaro (the car in the back garden - keep up!). In fact, he thought that if we switched on the heater that he has been using to dry it out (the car not the turkey), it could gradually cook over the next few days (the turkey, not the car).
As luck would have it, we managed to squeeze it into the fridge, but two questions spring to mind:

1. Why is it that when men do the food shopping, they always assume that we are going to be living under seige conditions for the next six months?

2. Who has bought up all the dry ginger? Couldn't find any anywhere!

The Sound of Silence

Our last stop during our meanderings yesterday was outside a little place called Nebo, quite close to Llanrwst. It's part of the Snowdonia National Park and we stopped to take more photos of the snow covered hills and to say hello to the sheep, as we last stopped there in February and we were sure they would remember us. Suffice it to say that their welcome was muted, to say the least. As we stood there looking down into the valley, there was not a single non-nature sound - no distant traffic noises, no-one going past, not even a breath of wind. Everything was so still and calm, we could hear the sheep cropping the grass - and then a crow flew overhead and we could hear the sound of its wings beating. As Keith remarked, the silence was deafening.

Nature's Christmas tree

Christmas tree.
Although it doesn't show up very well in the photo, this fir tree was growing in the hedge on the way back towards Ruthin and someone had decorated it with baubles and tinsel.

And more snow

There's snow on them thar hills!

Out and about around the Llangollen areas today, we were surprised to see snow on the distant hills, over Snowdonia way. Mind you, it was absolutely freezing whenever we vetured out of the car!

Christmas Greetings

A brilliant Christmas greeting from T.K. that I thought was so good, I would share it with you all. Check it out and enjoy!
Look here

Virgin resellers

2 weeks ago, I was looking on the Virgin website for information about part of their reseller programme. "Phone this number or click here for more information" it said, so, ever obedient, I tried the phone number first. Altogether I have tried it five times and each time there is a recorded message inviting me to leave my name and phone number for a return call.
So, when I got bored with getting nowhere with that option, I tried emailing. No response, so the next day, Keith emailed again on my behalf:
IS THERE ANYONE THERE?
Within half an hour, an email came back:
Yes.
(This is as true as I am sitting here writing it!)
So I emailed again, explaining what I wanted......and waited.....and waited.....no reply.
Yesterday, I sent the following:

We are an independent IT retailer in North Wales and are interested in the Virgin resellers scheme. If you could contact me in the near future, I would be, not only totally amazed but very pleased.

Needless to say, I am still waiting for a reply, but it doesn't fill me with confidence regarding their support if we did decide to be part of their scheme!