Weekly Chat, Sunday August 29, 2010

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You're welcome, Alicat! What a wonderful idea. I hope you enjoy them very much!!!

Hi diane im have a drink now out of my new mug since i got my other mug i hardly use any other mug just keep washing and using my osprey mug now i will have two to go at

Hi all. Beautiful warm (almost hot) sunny day here.  We have a young man taking our front garden apart (to put it together again!) and I'm worrying that he'll be too hot.

Margobird Your timing isn't great - should have had your chest infection sooner and got it over and done with.  Seriously, though, as a veteran of many chest infections, I know just how awful you must be feeling.  It really drags you down.  Hope the medication puts you to rights and the holiday completes your convalescence.

Can't remember who (maybe Annette) gave the tip about reading the 3rd Stieg Larson book immediately after No. 2.  I've taken that advice.  Had read No 2 before I realised it was one of a series and had to re-read it after I read No 1.  I find I can cope better if  I don't try to pronounce all the Swedish place-names as I go along.  They certainly are gripping books.

Good wishes to all.

Good afternoon  patriciat  and thanks so much.  I do feel quite grim but I am sure once I have another couple of days antiobotics down me things will improve.  I have no energy whatsoever, have to sit and think what I want to do and then take things one at a time.  I am sure Cornwall will get me up and running again.

 Margo : Sorry you are feeling poorly. It is a shame it has developed just before your holiday. Lady P has also been to the docs and is on antibiotics for a sinus infection.  

Diane, I think a relocation is on the cards. I won't repeat what my neighbour suggested..... However, I'm a big softie so that isn't on the cards. Thanks for the tip about them eating apples. I didn't know that. I was wondering what would get it into the humane trap. Think I may need to get a bigger one than we got our barn cat to the vet's in! Glad it's cooling off for you. I think we will miss the worst of Earl (famous last words!) but i got a couple of extra torches yesterday just in case.

Margobird, sorry to read you're poorly, just as you are about to go away. Hope the AB's kick in soon.

Lynette, love the mugs, they've come out really well. Alicat, thanks for the reposting of the captures. They are something special.

Alan, glad the shopping mission went Ok and you are right about BigRab, now having 3 youngsters. He'll have plenty of time in 30 odd years.. How can you have a leaf blower exclusion zone! lolol. They are one of the best tools (toys) invented.

(BTW, sorry if the "level" of conversation topics has dropped since I posted yesterday..)

Highland Cattle help to increase butterfly numbers:

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/newsrele.nsf/byunique/5518E79AA02F76838025777D003B6DA4

Incidentally the "Chequered Skipper" pub mentioned in the article is in Ashton near Oundle. I have been there many times and is also where the World Conker Championships used to take place until it was moved to a larger venue last year. 

Thanks Gary I am sure when we get to Cornwall I will be OK.  Have to take some walks along the cliffs that should blow the germs away.

Margobird, so sorry. You should rest and take plenty of naps to let the AB's do their stuff:)

Hello everyone.  I have really enjoyed all your chat!  It is so different from the way the Daily Update ran, and I am on a steep learning curve.  I think I need to have a pen and paper to hand to write down who says what, and when in order to keep up with you all!  I had a visitor for five days over the weekend, so to speak, so was unable to finish with all the thank yous etc on the DU, but I am very grateful to the welcome I received once I started!  I will remember this season with much fondness, not least because of you all.  I love the names that may have been chosen for the tagged chicks, but I will always think of the middle chick as 'Quackers' for reasons I have already explained.  I wish them all a fond farewell, a safe journey and a return.  As for what I've been up to, well the friend and OH removed three trees from the garden with much glee.  I have resisted it for a couple of years, but a winter flowering cherry which I planted on recommendation of the friend who helped chop it down, had vastly outgrown its space!  I obviously bought a tree which had been grafted on very rampant stock, and some of the roots coming from it were at big as his main tree trunk.  Something went wrong!  Suckers were appearing all over the place too.  I am on chalk so think the roots struggled to grown down, and just spread out.  As Alan has said we are enjoying a spot of lovely weather here in the south and yesterday I popped into the Cambridge Botanic Gardens which were looking as you would expect at this time of year....!  Yes,  I know I should have visited earlier, or waited until the autumn colours.  The harvest is almost over around us, and the sowing has begun.  It looks as though we will have a lot of rape around us in 2011,  Hope you soon feel better Margobird, just think of the bracing air for your holiday.