HAPPY NEW WEEK!!!
Here's a link to last week's Weekly Chat thread. The code for this week's Weekly Chat is WC250813 (in case you ever want to search for it from the search box).
I was away most of last week, and I think it's too late for me to get caught up on replies. I have read all of your news and have loved all the photos! I enjoyed the report and pics from AQ's most recent trip (yay, ducks! And loved that pelican, also the big trees). Wonderful photos from Mulberry and NiteOwl (lilies are one of my very, very favorite flowers; yours are super lovely!). Beautiful dragonfly from Alicat. I really loved the very majestic photos from Lindy -- ducks and deer! Woo hoo! That's an especially beautiful species of deer. Beautiful hibiscus from Alan. Love your increasingly subversive signatures, Alan. LOL! Glad that Mulberry saw an osprey! Happy belated birthday to Jess.Glad that Cerist at Dyfi has been found! Nice to see Mike posting here. Brenda: Are you glad or relieved to say good-bye to the puppy? LOL OG: Hope your sparrow hawk was okay after the window strike! Thanks for posting the excellent photos of handsome Diesel, handsome George, and your own beautiful self!Nice to see Lynette. I hope you have a grand holiday in Austria.I hope that Limpy is feeling better!I'm so very glad that Margo has had good results from the chemo. Sending good energy to you, Margo.Everyone have a great week! It's Indian Summer here and the temperatures this week will be 90 - 100 F (32.2 - 37.7 C) with very high humidity. Yuck.
Good Morning ALL. Playing catch up yet again. Foggy start here but the sun has now burnt through. I spent yesterday doing the dreaded HW. Penny was returned to our son on Sunday. I have to admit she was 'hard work'. It was like having a young child in the house again. If we couldn't see where she was, there was panic until we found her and find what she was doing. Our garden needs some serious repair work :-)) It was also good to see her very big training cage removed from the house and her travelling cage removed from the car but having said all that, we both miss her. She has a lovely character and is proving easy to train. We are also missing our early morning walks with her.
I must now catch up with all your news while OH has gone to have his hair cut. My hair desperately needs cutting but my appointment is not until Friday morning.
Clare Bailey said: Good morning, Mulberry - I've just been for a lovely swim and I'm completely knackered now. However did snapping come to mean eating? The Yorkshire dialect must be at least as curious as the Suffolk one!
Good morning, Mulberry - I've just been for a lovely swim and I'm completely knackered now. However did snapping come to mean eating? The Yorkshire dialect must be at least as curious as the Suffolk one!
Ah, nothing like a lovely swim. Hope Harwich docks are looking well.
In Yorkshire "Snap" is a worker's lunch. "Snap-time" = lunchtime, a "Snap-box" is a lunchbox.
A phrase I hear a lot at work is "What taarm's tha' snappin'?", which means "May one enquire as to the particular hour as to which one is intending to partake in one's luncheon"
??????? I know I'm a southerner but nobody I know 'partakes in luncheon'. Are you practising for a garden party at Buck House?
LOL!
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Clare - When we stayed at Badwell Ash near Bury St.Edmunds last year we heard a lot of accents like that! And up here in Yorkshire we have Harrow-gate, where speaking like that is compulsory.
Mulberry – I thought food was only “snap” when it is what you take to work in your “snap box”! Ah, I see you have explained that – loved the translation to "May one enquire as to the particular hour as to which one is intending to partake in one's luncheon". Ah, yes, Betty’s Tearoom in Harrogate (and York) serves Luncheon, I believe! Or should that be 'Arrigat and Yark?
Clare - glad you enjoyed the swim.
AQ – pleased to see you are enjoying yourself; housework can always wait when there are better things to do!
Linda – a slight mist here to start, but soon cleared and sun is coming through now.
Brenda – good to see you! Not surprised you have had to reclaim your house, garden and lives after Penny-sitting! My OH also has a haircut today – and J mentioned he will be looking for one after work this afternoon.
Just been skinning baby toms picked yesterday, ready to put in pasta this evening – will freeze leftovers. Also cooked some which I shall sieve when cool and freeze for sauces.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Linda , Lovely photographs of Little Moreton Hall. I have been there but many years ago. It is outstanding with many tales to tell.
OG, Sorry your phantom driveway man hasn't appeared yet. Doeesn't sound as if he wants the job. Your neighbours must be lonely people if they treat everybody the same as they treat you. So sad for them.
Clare, I have heard your description of cormorants before, it always seems especially funny when there is a long line of them, all facing the same way. Well done on your early swim this morning.
Annette, For you to admit to being so tired must mean that you were truly whacked out, but you obviously enjoyed yourself.
Dibnlib, What an adorable large puppy. Excellent doing 60 lengths swim. I no longer have an old freezer but I do have a Morphy Richards pink hairdryer that still works, but is only used when a 'modern' hairdryer stops working, that My mother bought for me when I was about 18. LOL I still have to post my latest pics of Penny.
Nice lot of posts on here today, already: have enjoyed but don't have time to reply to All as we are busy putting away some of the ornaments I got out & washed yesterday, or else packing them up to go to the auction rooms!
Did laugh loudly at Mulberry's posts re eating 'luncheon' !!!! MY OH used to refer to his lunch as "bagging" from when they were farmers, busy in the fields, and the womenfolk would turn up with a sandwich and a flask of hot tea in a bag, so that they did not have to return to the farmhouse in the middle of work. That's certainly an old hairdryer, Brenda! And I thought I kept things for a long time!!
Here are today's batch of pics from Little Moreton Hall: the house is deceptive, and there is a large courtyard once you enter, with more of the house behind ....
In one corner there is a lovely dog kennel, built into the wall itself, with a trough beside it for a drink:
Inside, there is hardly a single wall which is straight, nor an even floor anywhere. Illustrated well by this rather odd fireplace!
- Note the wood panels on the walls. Nearly all the rooms had these and they looked awesomely old!!
Two figures, one either side, carved into the doorposts above, in the courtyard: