Weekly Chat (Non-Osprey), 29 May 2016

LINDY- safe journey home, tomorrow. Too much sun is not something likely to happen up here :-(  I can't tolerate it anyway, but it would be nice to have the choice!

I think I am replying to posts from last Wednesday onwards, so apologies in advance for any I miss out!

Lynette – sounds as if you found the Welsh cottage holiday a bit disappointing, but I hope you were at least able to rest and recharge your batteries.

Annette – I like to hear music in unexpected places, such as the piano you heard in LA.  I hope you are finding homes for all the oranges!  The drive into the hills sounds wonderful – and I am surprised you managed to drag yourself away from that bookshop!  Let us know when you try out the bike!

Brenda – I am sure you will have had a wonderful weekend with your family; how long is your Son staying in the UK this visit?

Diane – so pleased you can hear the juvenile RT Hawks – I hope you get to see them before they are sent off to find their own territories.  I don’t know how you can wrestle with the Wasp nests!  There have been articles around telling us to love our Wasps as they rid the garden of aphids.

AQ – that knee sounds quite a horror story, with all the damage.  Unfortunate that you will miss trips (especially N Z) but I am sure there will be other opportunities when you have two fully-working legs again!  Sorry you are having trouble with Windows 10; I accepted it on the first day I was offered, and have been very happy with it.  Did I ever mention, I met a lady from down your way when we visited the Kelpies – she used to live in the suburbs, but moved down into the peninsula (about an hour away, she reckoned) where she finds the heat less gruelling.  What a performance making the soup – why can’t your OH chop vegetables?

Linda – pleased that your Brother communicated – maybe that will be a start to staying in touch.  You certainly chose a week of good weather for your time in Wales, and I hope you both managed to relax and enjoy it – without you-know-who causing any problems with dead fish and other exciting investigations!  Safe journey home tomorrow …

Yas – a very belated welcome from me.  As you will have worked out by now, I live in Scotland but very near the border, with OH and our Son (also have two Daughters, one in Scotland and one in England).  We came here from Northwest England twelve years ago, although OH and I were both born in the South.

Wendy – hope you got all the chores completed and are relaxing in Dunkeld and enjoying LotL.

Heather – thanks for reminder to prune Forsythia – no stepladder involved for mine as it is only a two-year-old.  The baking was nothing exciting – just simple cornbread to eat with soup or salad.

Margo – lovely post from you at the weekend – so glad you had been having a good time and enjoying the extra energy.  Hope the more recent transfusion lasts you as well as that one had, so you will be fit for the wedding.

Alan – congratulations on Blue Tit babies.  We haven’t seen a photo of Bowie recently – how is he?

Keith – may I add my belated condolences on the sudden and tragic loss of your brother; it must be doubly hard for you trying to deal with all the practicalities with your caring role at home too – pleased your stepdaughters are being so helpful.

Time now to water garden and greenhouse plants.  Not much in the diary this week, so may be less of a lurker on here.

Thanks OG for your warm welcome and telling me about yourself.Hope l'll chat with you more. Just off now down the garden to setup the cam trail camera to record some foxes in next doors field, that come every night, trouble see the glass is getting long sheep aren't doing there job hubby calling bye yas

I wrote a post earlier which would not post (frown, grump)

Wish I could send this sunshine to you, Heather!  

I feel a fraud now, as we said we would go home tomorrow but we discussed it at lunchtime, and as it's been so nice here, we decided to stay for one more day. It just needs a phone call to the kind friend who waters the greenhouse at the allotment for us, and for us to ignore the milk on the step when we get back!!

Just seen a great sunset. Off to bed, tired. I've been feeling a little off colour for a couple of days but it could be anything or nothing.

OG: You sound like the Energizer Bunny (an advert for batteries here - it keeps going!).  Bike cleaned and shiny; tires inflated. Stay tuned!

Lindybird: So what constitutes "much too hot" in Wales?  :-)  Don't blame you for extending your stay.

Off with daughter tomorrow.

Have a good Tuesday all!

Good Morning. Good to hear that the bike is ready to go, Annette!  Look forward to hearing about your adventures!

We have that advert here, Energizer Bunny is a good description of OG!! She just keeps going!! LOL!!

It was wall to wall sunshine here yesterday, and because it's slightly uphill towards the sea from where we sit on our decking, we don't get the sea breeze. It was very still: no wind at all. So the official temperature was given on the Weather reports as 18degrees C, but it was definitely much warmer, in the 20s ----  in our kitchen we have a wall thermometer which is in the shade and next to a wide open window, which said it was 28.5 deg. in the afternoon and it felt like that outside, but of course that's not a proper guide. We had to draw all our curtains but open all the windows for a through draught, and I could not sit out even under the umbrella, for a while.  My OH sat out and is now very brown. 

We went down to watch the sun setting over the sea, and it was beautiful. Needed a jacket on, by then. (About 9.30pm) Have taken lots of pics!!

We missed watching the TV version of "A Midsummer Nights Dream" which I was looking forward to - it's had good reviews. Hopefully can catch up with it when we get home.

LINDY- good that you can stay another day and enjoy the good weather! It is 12c and another cloudy day here. The sun did arrive yesterday but not until after 5pm.

ANNETTE- bike? I must have missed something.

OG- There are six - now seven - shirts here, waiting for you to iron them. I am the world's best procrastinator.

I ordered a replacement vacuum cleaner yesterday. It won't arrive until next week so am lugging the upright one up and down stairs. Without specs on, I can't see the 'bits' on the carpet and OH maintains that there aren't any! However, my mother always said that a job left undone meant twice as much work the next time. Why doesn't ironing get done, then?

YAS- a friend of mine has a sort of night time camera that records nocturnal visitors to her garden. She feeds visiting badgers. She also has a gadget that attracts moths.

A little shopping to do this morning and then must continue some garden work.

PS OH keeps telling me that he can't remember the last time that he felt hungry. This does not apply to chocolate, LOL, always finds room for that.

Yes heather this is a night time camera and day, got some foxes last night really close to the camera, but the grass is too long to see them well, so hubby later will cut it and hope for some better videos tonight, was excited to see 2 together last night. and there has been a badger a bit more shy, but will keep trying.

another nice sunny day today. take care from Yas

It is now very hot, here! OH and I have been sitting in the semishade but it is oh so good to see clear blue sky! Front grass cut, edges done,  more begonias planted, two bathrooms cleaned and the ironing board is ready for action. OG has shamed me into doing things! Thank you, OG!!!