Weekly Chat (Non-Osprey), 31 January 2016

SKY Channel 308 are screening the film Groundhog Day 13 times in a row today in case anyone has missed it.

Good morning from a wild and windy Highlands.

Stuff scattered all about garden and the tree has tilted even further.

Not sure what plan is but looking at it I think the best scenario would be that it fell on its own accord. Safer for tree feller and we would have a power outage whither way it all goes.

I think they might leave felled tree as difficult to get to but I think the distillery own that bit.

It would be good for wildlife as my stoat lives over there. We watch it going in and out of the rabbit holes. At the weekend we played " spot the stoat" in the snow !!!!

Stay safe everyone.

Oh my hygienist phoned in sick... :-)

Good Morning Everyone. Pleased to see that OG and Wendy have survived the storm without any damage, although there seems to be reports of damage, roads closed, power cuts,etc.

Wendy, I hope that tree falls early today, but sorry that it will still cause you to have no power.

Annette, So glad that the fallen eucalyptus tree fell without any harm to anyone. Using glue to seal cuts is quite common here. I hate to think what happens to peoples hair, when it is a head cut, after the cut has healed. I am sure Heather will let us know.

Hi Diane, Do we presume that you are now feeling better ?

Margo, Thinking of you this morning, but also know that your excitement is building up for Joe Brown :-))

Good Morning all

Very windy indeed here last night. Like OG, had to close bedroom window which we hate doing. Now it is absolutely bucketing down rain. Middle daughter saying she will have to get a taxi to Tesco ,about eight minutes walk from her house. I sometimes wonder if the next generations down from ours have any toughness genes....

Another dreadful day, so probably no walk for Benson again. Funeral at 1245, then we will probably pop back home while family and close friends go to the crematorium before returning to the church for tea and cakes. I spent a while at church this am helping with the preps.

Good to hear that you are ok Dibnlib. I am sure Benson is glad that he won't be going out in your dreadful weather. Sounds like a busy afternoon for you.

The sun has appeared here, but a chilly breeze. The window cleaner has just been, so there must be more rain forecast.

I am sadly watching as workmen are removing a hedge down most of the left side of our Close. Even though we always cared for it, it actually belonged to the previous owner, of what is now a building site.  They are replacing it with high metal screens / fencing, so that we don't have to look at the site, while they work. We won't be able to see across the fields now, until they have completely finished building. I can still see the fields at the top of the Close and to the back of our house.

BRENDA- a miserable outlook for you. I wonder how long they will be building.

Well at long last the weather is improving but added problem of runoff from back field. Stone drain overwhelmed my garden is pretty soggy but next door has it going in her kitchen. If the farmer had for proper planning position years ago with kitchen extension they would have had to have back door elsewhere.

Tree saga goes on and it's still moving.

2 guys this morning.

8 now plus a comfort van as they are on the road 24/7. Lots of mobile phones and scratching of heads. So much better than watching TV :-)

Morning all:

OG: Can you take an iPod or something like that to therapy?  I imagine not, but it might help pass the time...  I bet the folks at OTB will wonder what happened to you when you don't have to make those trips any more.

dibnlib: Good of you to provide eats for the funeral party....

Alan: I see Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow - so an early Spring is in the forecast (at least in Pennsylvania), but apparently, his Canadian relative Shubenacadie Sam came to the same conclusion, also Staten Island Chuck (NY) and General Beau Lee (Georgia).  Not sure if we have a California groundhog, but if we did, he'd be wearing sunglasses this morning.

Brenda: I think gluing a cut here would be frowned upon  -  not a money-maker for the providers.  :-)   Assume it's too late now to rush out and tell the workmen to put their ugly metal screens on the other side of the hedge - or not bother at all. Then you'd be able to keep tabs on progress.

Heather: I can see getting a taxi back to carry groceries in bucketing rain - of course, we are soft beyond belief here in California. :-)

Wendyb: Letting the tree fall of its own accord does seem like the better plan (but nobody asked us did they?)

Have some errands to do today - must find a couple of shrubs to pop in those holes the muscle men left when they did all that digging. Soil is lovely and moist so can't afford to let it dry out before new stuff goes in.

Take care everyone.