HAPPY NEW WEEK!
Last week's chat thread is here.
I saw R. T. Hawk on Thursday. It's been so cold here that I had to put the battery charger on my car for a long while. I went out as the sun was setting to remove it. R. T. screeched at me when I went out the front door. When I closed the car bonnet/hood, he screamed at me loudly and flew around his tree. I think he was telling me off for disturbing him when it was time to roost in his tree. He called more gently when I went indoors. :-)))
Everyone have a wonderful week. Roll on spring!!!
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Clare: Helen is lovely, and the photos of her are just grand! I enjoyed your bird photos, especially the corvids.
Lindy: Thanks for your comment. I'm glad you had a good visit with your family!
LizLFW: Nice to see you. I hope all is well in your life and you're keeping warm. I think I remember that it can be very cold where you are.
Rosy: I'm glad your OH is improving.
Chrisy: Good luck with your heated blanket purchase. Some of the ones here are kind of flimsy, so get one that is well cushioned so you don't feel the wires. :-)
Margo: Thinking of you.
Unknown said:How's Helen doing with her jumping?
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 - I'm fine - hibernating currently!! Plenty of snow and ice - the latter is causing problems for walking on - can only hope the gritter will be round today.
Diane - now the tennis at the Oz Open has begun I am on the night shift!! Keeping warm by keeping the doors shut and the heating on full blast. Hope your weather isn't causing you too many problems
Good Morning, All: another chilly start here, so it's warm sweater weather again! Hope the roads are good for OGs journeys.
Annette - We put some of the chocolate from the festivities at the back of the fridge, and we treat ourselves to a nibble at weekends. All gone now except for some luxury champagne truffles we were given, which I may keep as a treat for Easter, LOL!!
Going to spend today finishing a lot of things which have been started. Our Eldest is coming up to go to the office in Warrington, so will be staying tonight. Hope he will take with him a large ride on Ladybird which a friend passed to them when they were here, but there was no room in the car for it! It keeps surprising me by grinning at me when I go into the study!
Clare - Lovely to see Helen enjoying her horse riding. I've never sat upon a horse, though I've wobbled around on a donkey a couple of times! It's certainly a lovely hobby to have, and as you say, she can keep it up into adulthood. Nice bird pics, like the one where you say "it could be spring". That Manor House is a beautiful building.
Good morning all - above zero temperature all night and snow mostly disappeared. Still feeling a bit "iffy", but had a good sleep for first half of the night. Today will take me through the halfway point of treatment, so quite looking forward to it! Will come home for lunch before OH goes shopping in Tesco, so I will have a rest.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Good morning all
I'm hoping that OG will have a safe journey to Carlisle and back today. It is much less cold here this morning, just below freezing.
Another quiet day at home for me. OH has gone bowling. There are a few housework type jobs that need doing but I've little enthusiasm!
Tomorrow will go to hospital with middle daughter. She is to have a biopsy (uterine ) She's very nervous - they have advised that she takes painkillers in advance.
CLARE- lovely pics of Helen. I haven't seen the others yet.
I'd better end this mid morning break from doing nothing (!) and force myself to speak to the vacuum cleaner. As you do.
BTW LINDY, my OH hasn't stopped eating chocs since Christmas! I made things worse the other day by buying a large box of Thorntons chocs reduced from £13 to £1.50 in Tesco. They had six months before best before date. I should have hidden them, but he so loves chocolate. And he hasn't put on any weight. Really, life is so unfair-----
Appointment postponed! Phone call while I was in the shower - radiographer had a message from oncologist not continue until after she sees me tomorrow! So I have to report to clinic first and she will hopefully give the go ahead for tomorrow's treatment. Hoping I will be able to convince her that I am feeling better!
They are obviously on the ball, OG! Good communication between departments?
How are you feeling today?
You must have mixed feelings about the cancellation, OG, as I know you were looking forward to saying that you were now in the second half of treatment. Never mind, at least they're on the ball, as Heather says.
Hope you feel OK.
Just had a knock on the door and the Water people are using detectors to find pipes under our garden, from next door - apparently it may be necessary to dig up their newly laid front driveway! Ouch!! They found nothing!