Lindybird: I love the idea of the Country Living tent - I could probably do a lot of $$$ damage there!
ForestBoar: Thanks for clarifying. Hope daughter can move there sooner than later.
Lynette: Ghastly situation for your bro with contractors peering in the windows. What a nerve!! My niece is going to Dorset (I had to Google Durdle Door) within the next couple of weeks with friends to look for fossils (they apparently got the correct tools after a previous trip!). I read Remarkable Creatures and loved it. I thought they were going to make a movie of it, but haven't been able to find if it was actually made. Love the idea of an ice cream farm! :-)
Take care all.
OG: Phew; that's a relief! I was worried for a minute that EE was using the wrong stock! :-) Glad you got your wheelchair ordered!
OG: Good that the wheelchair is ordered. The blue balls flowerbud looks pretty, but I've no idea what it is!!
Got part of the trouser project done - have cut off the surplus material and nearly finished oversewing the frayed edges before doing the actual hemming bit. Ugh - so many stages to what should be a small job.
Hi all.
Annette- Dau visited Durdle Door on a coach trip along the Jurassic coast, took some great photos which were posted on FB. If I can find them I'll post them on here.
AQ - sounds like you are having weather similar to ours, its been breezy, overcast with some sunshine and showers, normal for August.
OG - sounds like you have a nice outlet for icecream. Dau and I are popping up to Manchester (Edgeworth) where our favourite home-made icecream shop is - hoping to meet up with brother and partner as well, but will be after we get back from holiday.
Lindybird - such lovely flower displays at Tatton. Great pic.
http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/wildlife-webcams/loch-of-lowes/
RSPB Giving Nature a Home
OG - not a grump, just letting off steam. Hope you're successful in getting the wheelchair you want.
Lindy - what a lovely surprise for your OH, trust mum and dad came back to the nest. Happy apple picking.
Clare - thanks for your pics, you certainly are getting good at good captures.
AQ - hope you get your visit in with chauffer friend. Love the picture of the church window with cat.
Lindybird - another set of great pics from Tatton - love the horse and peacock but must cost a small fortune.
OG - you are having a time of it, hope you feel a lot better soon.
Got our Women's group Garden Party tomorrow but judging by the weather forcast I expect we will probably be indoors. Never mind, it calls for cake and cream scones with strawberries, can't be bad, well just a tad.
Strange plant, OG. Not well up on names of plants but no doubt someone will come up with the answer.
It’s time I answered some of your questions/comments. Those I can remember LOL.
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OG – We should be getting rain these months as it is winter. Cool wet winters, hot dry summers for us. Of course we don’t want too much rain all at once. This morn it is foggy. (That always reminds of a lovely old lady I knew years ago. She would say when her windows were dirty “How foggy it is!”)
The stained glass window with the cat is in the Grange Anglican church here in SA. I dropped by one Sunday at end of their service, asked permission to photo windows, lovely friendly people. Many of our churches have windows harking back to the “Mother Country”. I must admit I am learning a lot of useless info as I research these windows, eg the story of the cat!
Linda – A few years back when we visited Coffs Harbor in NSW, a visit to a butterfly house was one of the highlights. It was extremely hot & humid inside and my camera refused to work properly but I did manage a few pics. I shall look them up. I am enjoying "my" visit to the garden show. I like the sculptures.
Lynette – I had to Google Durdle Door, then realized I had probably seen it on one of the many docos I watch. Could have been with Tony Robinson, Michael Portillo or others I can’t name!
Annette & Diane – We are heading west tonight across USA with Portillo.
Clare - I love seeing all “your” birds.
Good Morning, All. A little late again, I was up in the night so my OH has gone out, leaving me in bed.
Dry here today. It sounds strange somehow for you to describe fog, AQ, as it's not what I imagine for Aus! I used to go to Durdle Door for my holidays with my parents when I was a very young child, that part of the coast is very beautiful. If you've seen it on tv it's not surprising, as when they do tours around that part of the UK it's always included, it's very famous as a landmark.
Lynette - The doves were not put off by my OH being in their tree, he didn't go near the nest once he saw it but thinks there's only one chick. Maybe we'll see it when it fledges!
The horse sculpture was priced somewhere in the £20,000 bracket, we can't remember as we had no intention of buying! The hare was so beautiful, I stayed gazing at it and the one behind it, for ages. But the smaller more affordable ones were very small, which is one reason why I did not buy, nor ask my OH for a very special future birthday present!
I‘m feeling a wee bit down. Friend has called off our escape as the roads may be too wet. They are mostly unsealed where we were going. Oh well, I have the Little People to look forward to tomorrow.
aquilareen said: I‘m feeling a wee bit down. Friend has called off our escape as the roads may be too wet. They are mostly unsealed where we were going. Oh well, I have the Little People to look forward to tomorrow.
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Aw, AQ, that's a shame. Go to the library instead and get yourself a good book out, then read while it eating something naughty!