HAPPY NEW WEEK and HAPPY EASTER (to those who celebrate the holiday).
Last week's Chat thread is here.
Everyone have a wonderful week.
Good Morning, All. Sunny here but showers predicted later: will have to put laundry out but keep one eye on the sky.
AQ - sorry you seem to have a fracture, wonder if that means it will take longer to heal :-( Your daughter seems to have had the E.eggs well organised!
Annette - Sorry you lost a big part of your plant, bummer. The walls are traditionally dry stone, and a lot of them very skilfully made. Sometimes they have cement put along the top, as in my example, but not sure what they used before that: when it's around the houses, they often paint that white all along the top which looks neat.
As in UK, some modern wall builders cheat by putting cement in the middle part of construction. We assume the smaller windmills, like that one, were used to get water out of deep wells, water is very scarce on the islands. Nowadays, there are huge saline plants to provide water claimed from the sea.
Nice and sunny here at the mo. Work colleague fractured her scaphoid. She was told it would take 8 weeks to repair. She was lucky really. She came off her bike going downhill on a main road. She wasn't wearing a helmet.
Good Morning Everyone. A sunny morning, but with a white sky. Not sure what is due to happen.
Annette, Such a pity about your lavatera. As you say they do grow quickly but you have to get it back in shape, now.
AQ, Sorry that you definitely have a fracture, but pleased that your daughter enjoyed Easter and seems to be coping well.
Dibnlib, Your work colleague really was lucky after such a dangerous fall from her bike. Her injuries could have been so much worse.
Lovely holiday photographs, Linda. The sky doesn't look too grey.
Time for just one of my favourite views across a large, long valley ~ this was where we had just been, and taken the previous pictures:
If I had taken other pictures it would have made a huge panorama, as there are more mountains to either side of these! Must dash, off to get my photos of the gchildren processed in nearby town, as our local Boots has broken machinery - Grr!
LINDY Some lovely pics, thank you. Your script with the last one made me smile as you mentioned mountains. I think it was the programme about "The Queen at 90" when the presenter describing the scenery mentioned "the big hills". OH and I thought, they are called mountains actually.
Hello all
I hope that MARGO is a feeling a bit better today xx
LINDY - Lovely pics!
I'll come back later, not feeling very chatty, had a call from France at 9am which has made me feel not a little cross. Bad luck is one thing but stupidity is quite another.
Dibnlib - Funnily enough, we discussed it whilst there as some of them are marked with their heights on our road map - not huge, by European standards, but I think if you climbed one you would call it a mountain! Liked your story....
Heather - Get it off your chest by griping on here! You don't have to describe your conversation, but I can imagine parts of it! Relatives can be infuriating! That reminds me of my OHs conversation yesterday with Annoying Cousin: she asked him how he was celebrating his birthday and he said we were cooking some steak. When he said we were frying it with onions, she announced "Well, you should be barbecuing it!" --- he looked out at the pouring rain and said he didn't think so!
I also hope that dear Margo is feeling better today.
More pics..... I have been breaking off to look at the 55 pictures I took of my Grandchildren on Sunday, but I promise not to put all of them on here!
There has been an effort on many parts of the island to add to the colourful art installations:
Close up, you can see its made of stones.....
Along the marina, there are lots of pretty handpainted fishes:
Morning all:
Lindybird: Have never heard of bathtubs with large bulges - another swish Euro idea no doubt. A decade or so ago, they built a huge salt-water reclamation plant in Santa Barbara due to ferocious drought. The the drought ended, so it wasn't used and fell into disrepair, being very expensive to maintain, but now it's costing even more millions to replace/fix it (can't remember which) coz we have another drought. Must be because we live in - surprise! - a basically arid climate subject to drougts . Whodathunkit! I see no trees in those photos - interesting. Wonder if they chopped them down for housing, etc. or if it's a natural state. Love those painted fishes! Also the whale fluke (saw a real one the other day - those tails are really powerful).
AQ: Don't like the sound of scaphoid fracture, but then again, Dau will have to find an alternative - maybe one with staying power? Hope your OH isn't at the top of the list.
Margo: Hope you're doing better and have rescheduled your steak meal.
Off to stuff food in mouth and start on today's To Do list.
LINDY A mountain is a peak 2000ft and over. Between 2500 and 3000ft we call them Corbetts. 3000 plus they are of course Munros.
Three days on the trot is has hailed mid afternoon. I dashed out to get a bit of washing in and got cold and soaked. I should have left it on the whirly.