Weekly Chat, Sunday September 5, 2010

Joan - I could almost smell your soup from here. I love leek and potato. I know that some people eat it cold and call it vichysoisse but I just can't get my head around cold soup. Probably because we live in a cold place!

Alicat - Thinking about you and Jasper.

Gary - I have always wanted one of those American  fridges with water/ ice dispensers. Now you tell me:-))))

Goodnight all, take care.

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Joan, lovely picture of the pine martin. Thanks so much. Thanks for the tip about LOTL Chrissy.

Alicat, glad the vet's visit is over. How did Jasper do? Was he up for a walk afterwards?

Dibnlib, have a good trip. So sorry about your mums condition. It must be very hard.

All my tasks finished for today so thinking about starting tomorrow's today...

Hi Gary Casper had to be muzzled he strugled with them but they managed to do it in the end,they then left it to me to take it off him we then went for a nice walk on the park which he enjoyed he has now crashed out

Just looking in again.

DJoan - fab pic of the pine marten.   We have one at LG now, then!!! Then there is the one at LOTL too.We are being inundated with them , well nearly. This is great news.

Was watching the squirrels earlier and there were three at it. This was early afternoon. Alicat - glad to see casper has had the cyst drained, do hope it doesn't come back again.

House all clean and tidy!  We didn’t get to prune trees – had some silly little showers, not real rain but enough that we didn’t really feel like standing in it!  So I caught up on conference admin and this evening we have made my sewing machine work properly – it had a tension problem (know how it feels!  LOL).

Joan – Bird Club meets each month September through April – and by joining nationally, we can attend meetings of other branches in Scotland.  Some talks are about birds abroad, but mostly it’s about species we might see in Scotland.  Thanks for spotting and posting the LG Pine Marten – there was a mother with kit under the centre in June, so maybe they have stayed around.

Heather – love the story about fluffy potatoes!!

Lynette – funny, I had assumed Cirrus was the one in the middle!  Wonder if she’ll tell us which?  Lovely capture of the three squirrels – “bright eyed and bushy tailed”! 

Gary – thanks for confirming that when the time comes we shall get a side-by-side fridge-freezer without ice and water dispensers!

Alan – sorry, the windmill was the only clue – there is a working one in one of the villages!

Alicat – fingers crossed that the steroid injection is successful.  Hope Casper is not too sore this evening – maybe he’ll just sleep it off.

Dibnlib – may be too late with this, but enjoy the Air Day, and will be thinking of you on Sunday.

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House all clean and tidy!  We didn’t get to prune trees – had some silly little showers, not real rain but enough that we didn’t really feel like standing in it!  So I caught up on conference admin and this evening we have made my sewing machine work properly – it had a tension problem (know how it feels!  LOL).

Joan – Bird Club meets each month September through April – and by joining nationally, we can attend meetings of other branches in Scotland.  Some talks are about birds abroad, but mostly it’s about species we might see in Scotland.  Thanks for spotting and posting the LG Pine Marten – there was a mother with kit under the centre in June, so maybe they have stayed around.

Heather – love the story about fluffy potatoes!!

Lynette – funny, I had assumed Cirrus was the one in the middle!  Wonder if she’ll tell us which?  Lovely capture of the three squirrels – “bright eyed and bushy tailed”! 

Gary – thanks for confirming that when the time comes we shall get a side-by-side fridge-freezer without ice and water dispensers!

Alan – sorry, the windmill was the only clue – there is a working one in one of the villages!

Alicat – fingers crossed that the steroid injection is successful.  Hope Casper is not too sore this evening – maybe he’ll just sleep it off.

Dibnlib – may be too late with this, but enjoy the Air Day, and will be thinking of you on Sunday.

Hi OG don't think it's to sore just laid asleep at the moment had a nice walk in the park after going to the vets which he enjoyed. I also thought Cirrus was the one in the middle like you said maybe she will let us know

Evening everyone. I decided to get the email alerts so I could sneakily keep up with what you're all doing while I'm at work, then wondered why it had stopped on Monday...took me until Wed to realise that it wouldn't tell me about the new thread! Doh!

Thanks for the Panama Canal, (Diane?) looks really interesting. My office looks over our local dock so I see boats coming in several times a week, and they get pretty close to the sides sometimes.  We get wheat, wood pulp, molasses and fertiliser, and probably other things I can't remember.

Last Saturday I spent the day baking for the produce show in the town where I work - victoria sponge, shortbread biscuits, gingerbread, rock buns and scones.  I usually win with sponge and scones (the classes are very small) and come nowhere with gingerbread or shortbread, so this year I used different recipes for the failures, and..... came nowhere with sponge or scones and first with gingerbread and shortbread biscuits, so THANK YOU OG for your Preston gingerbread recipe!  I was halfway through making it and I thought, did you say later that you'd put a wrong quantity down? But it tastes great and (more importantly for the show) looks much better than my old recipe.

I think Cirrus is the dark haired one, too.  And talking of photos on mugs, Jessops do them online and you can collect from a local branch.  £8.  I haven't tried them.

Gary, are you sure you haven't been multi-tasking? If you've finished all your jobs you can't have been given enough to do!

Glad Casper is sleeping off his visit to the vet, Alicat, hope he's ok in the morning.

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Glad Casper is sleeping off his visit to the vet, Alicat, hope he's ok in the morning.

Thanks TerryM

OG

Lynette – funny, I had assumed Cirrus was the one in the middle!  Wonder if she’ll tell us which?  Lovely capture of the three squirrels – “bright eyed and bushy tailed”! 

OG, don't really know which one is Cirrus. Educated guess that's all.

Hi everyone.

Thanks to all for the posts and pictures.  The last couple of days seem to have flown in at roughly the rate of a Starling heading for a suet ball.  I've been busy doing nothing in particular but somehow the time has sort of slipped away.  So appologies for the lack of individaul replies but I offer a friendly wave and smile to everyone.

A belated Happy Thursday to all.  :-)



Paul.