Weekly Chat (Non-Osprey), 29 May 2016

LINDY   glad you are feeling better.

Thanks dibnlib.  Quite relieved, as it's never convenient, is it?! Felt sore throated and kind of, well fragile.....hard to describe. Anyway, at least it didn't matter and all our meals have been planned to be easy. My OH has been good and made lots of cuppas!

Just went to see our last sunset of this visit - magical.  The sun sank very slowly, and I fought to capture some seabirds flying across the pink sky, but think I missed them! Bonnie ran around with a dry dead fish so we ignored her until we could catch her & bring her back. This morning she escaped through an open door and did Victory circuits of this end of the Site until my OH caught her again. The neighbours were highly amused!

Lovely Robin chicks, Yas :-)

OG – The Fleurieu Peninsula south of Adelaide is lovely, lots of wineries with farms further south. On the coast are towns Victor Harbor & Port Elliott & smaller places with holiday shacks. Victor is usually a few degrees cooler than Adelaide and is a famed retirement town. Also venue for end-of-year Schoolies Week!

Why can’t OH chop veggies? I blame his mother who believed that males should not do anything in the house. I am grateful that he does any housework at all. He huffs & puffs & grumbles at anything from heating frozen meals to washing machine. When I was away on holidays, I think he lived on Lunches out. At home - almonds, sultanas, sprigs of raw broccoli (leaving all other veggies safely in crisper!) & maybe a can of baked beans.

Yas – Thank you for your cheery pic of your robins. They look so snug!

Evening all:  Nice morning out with daughter, but brunch was a bit of a bust. We both ordered waffles with berries, but the strawberries were frozen and coated in some kind of gunky sauce - this in a town literally surrounded by fields full of ripe strawberries! Go figure. I remarked on the "surprise" and the staff all agreed it was disappointing and said to comment on the company's website because telling their manager wouldn't do any good (not that I think it'll do much good.   Anyway, we drove by another restaurant that I've been reading about on the way home and will try that next time.

Yas: What cute baby robins! How old are they?  I like the nightlife in your area.

Heather: I was blathering a couple of days ago about cleaning up my ancient 3-speed Raleigh with the notion of either riding it or selling it.   Why bother lugging the old vac around if the new one is coming next week? You have the perfect excuse to put your feet up.

Lindybird: Hope your trip home was good. 28C is hot for you guys!  It hasn't got that hot here yet this year.

WendyB: Too bad about LotL. Maybe just an "off" day?

AQ: My OH is wonderful about offering to help - usually right after I've just finished whatever I was doing....

Have a good Wednesday everyone!

Hi Annette Glad you liked the baby robins, that was the day just before they all lift the nest box,good timing to my surprise, so was busy early the next morning when on the computer to see them suddenly leaving,so grab the camera to get some videos, and got hubby out of bed to help me find where they'd gone to. yes glad to have the fox coming every night, will see what footage got this morning hope the badger comes back haven't got good videos of him yet.

Can't beleive you were served frozen strawberrys, when fresh ones growing, ours is just coming into season still very expensive, there's a pick your own place near me do they do that where you are? a lot cheaper, must get hubby to get some this year,has l'm not well enough, but rasberries l love especially and( you can freeze them) if you put them in a bit of sherry before use and then put what you like on top eg icecream, custard like a truffle, l do in a tall glass if got company.

Well raining hear at the moment, but have had some hot days, weeds are growing nicely. so take care from yas

aquilareen said:

I blame his mother who believed that males should not do anything in the house

Glad you liked the photo AQ l can understand what you say about your OH and his mother mine was the same when l married him we both late in life, me 38 yrs first time and himself 45 yrs first time so a long time with mum and dad doing all domestic stuff, so thought l'm not going to be another mother, so started to learn him to cook he kicked up about it for a while but l said if you hadn't have got married when you parents died you'd have to do all this, and said he couldn't multi task, but we got there in the end now he's great at it and then years down the line getting lyme disease glad he can cause l can't too painful, even ironing he said l can't do that, l said you can l'll teach you . now he's good. l kept telling myself start has you mean to go on.

And have learn't sometimes it's how you ask something that makes the different, like with hubby if l can show him something makes sense, and he gets it, more likely to do it.

Are you still feeling really bad or are the meds helping a bit?

take care from Yas

Lindybird said:

Lovely Robin chicks, Yas :-)

Thanks Lindy sometimes a nice photo can put a smile on a face, well does me, sorry to hear you haven't been feeling well, hope you'll soon feel that much better.

Going to take me a while to get to know you all.not a good memory for names but will do my best. and hope we all can become friends. take care from yas

Good Morning, All.  Cloudy and rather dull here, as we pack up to go.

Yas, thank you: I feel much better today. Don't worry about remembering everyone, it must be confusing at first. I've been on this Site since I first started watching the ospreys in 2008 - the Site has had changes in that time and we started this Chat Page a few years ago, to stop the main bird Pages from getting clogged up with our goings on and chuntering :-)

Everyone is really friendly, and we don't mind if people post here every day or only occasionally, when they can, so don't feel obliged to make the effort if y ou have a busy day.

AQ - Sorry your OH can't cook you the occasional simple meal, to help out. I told mine years ago that he needed to grasp at least the basics, in case anything happened to me, and he's been a good pupil. He can now cook a better roast dinner than I, and his "roasties" are delish! No baking, though, and no idea how to work the w.machine except to open it & take out the results. And what's an ironing board?? Must say, since he retired he's become a whizz with the Hoover and does peel the spuds for me.

My sons learned how to iron, and cook basic stuff like omelettes before they left home, and they are now both good at cooking, and to my amazement, can also now bath a baby and change a nappy!!  It's a constant surprise to me how much things have changed.

Hope you soon feel a whole lot better: you're having a bad year. (HUGS)