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.
CLARE no I use the bowls of boiling water to help speed things. Freezer switched back on a couple of minutes ago and will put the bits and bobs (kept in cool boxes) back in shortly.
love all your great bird pics Clare, keep snapping please
That's what my mother used to do.
I'm planning to be snapping as much as I can this autumn and winter so watch this space.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
ANNETTE this frz is doing well at 18 years old. We got it just after moving back down to the mainland and it is definitely not frost free. We will keep hold of it to the bitter end as nothing lasts that long now.
18 years old is impressive! I hope you didn't buy the additional warranty that the shop offered. This freezer has clearly outlasted their expectations.
Jay has been arrested at the AHVLA 'death camp' in GLOS. On ITV news now. 3 police cars and 1 helicopter to make one arrest. Gonna be a costly cull.
Life in this house is already settling down into its autumn routine - Helen is watching TV (she goes back to school next week), Limpy is glued to the Man U v Chelsea match (goodness only knows why) and I'm chatting here. I feel an early night coming on as I'd like to swim before I go to work - something needs to fill the EJ gap!
See you all tomorrow.
Evening, all. Driveway man still didn’t turn up!
Linda – pleased the list is diminished! (I assume it isn’t finished because my mother used to say “a woman’s work is never done”!) Well done with the garden bench; can I borrow you to persuade my OH to do some jobs which need finishing? I remember going to Little Moreton Hall with two little girls, in the days when we dressed them alike (now both in their forties); and clearly remember the view to Mow Cop! The Hall is quite unique – I understand Great Moreton Hall (then called Moreton Magna) was originally similarly timbered, but was pulled down (by the chap who built the Mow Cop folly) when he built the current castellated Victorian pile. I know which I prefer!
Clare – I always like to see Cormorants hanging their wings out to dry, but shall have a wholly different picture after the way you described them! Lovely selection of garden birds today. Enjoy your morning swim!
Dibnlib – you make me feel tired with your swimming distances – I just don’t know how you do it!
Annette – oh, how you needed that long sleep! When I wrote about following red herrings up a cul-de-sac, I knew it was a mixed metaphor, but it said just what I wanted to say! For info on Great Moreton Hall see my reply to Linda in this post.
And so to bed...
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Clare Bailey said: I'm planning to be snapping as much as I can this autumn and winter so watch this space.
Just logged on and did a double-take immediately. Snapping in Yorkshire means eating!
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!
I may catch up some time. Bus trip Sunday - great. Photo excursion with friend today - great. Tomorrow is library day. Did I hear the word Housework? What's that?