Weekly Chat, Sunday February 6, 2011

Morning everyone!    It's a damp Cheshire day here again - but we did so enjoy that bit of sunshine yesterday, it really lifts the spirits.  I am now improving albeit very slowly, each day, so hope to be back to Normal Service soon.  Have so much rubbish residing in my head that I have to turn up the volume on the radio & TV.  Also have been eating chocolate with a good excuse - although the bathroom scales are not best pleased!

Lynette:  How can we get bored with all the lovely pics you put on??   Keep it up!   (& Thank You).

Annette:  The lady in the attempted robbery  film is quite a celebrity here, but I saw on Breakfast TV that she has refused to be interviewed, as she just wants to live a quiet life! - she has put away her distinctive red coat so as not to be recognised in the the street.  Hope you enjoy Joshua Bell - I 'd just love to see him play.

auntie:  Nice to hear from you.   Bet its still really cold there in Finland.  Nice that you can see birds from your windows.

Must go and hose myself down and face the day - have to get the spare room cleared out ready for our exciting visit from Sweetpea!

EDIT:  Just overlapped with Brenda - Glad that the furniture is no more, Brenda!

Morning all,

Auntie : Sorry you are having such cold snowy weather. We seem to have had most of our snow in December this winter. It has been unusually mild for February.

Brenda : I am glad that your old furniture has been removed. I need to do a big garage clear out in the spring.

Linda : You seem to have had a really bad time with the virus but hopefully things will improve rapidly now you are feeling a bit better.

Lynette : You are doing a great job with the captures. Keeps us going until the main event.

Gary : There is nothing like the company of a mans best friend.

Thanks to everyone else. As Annette said it is hard to reply to everyone as there are so many posting now.

The weather is back to cloudy this morning after a sparkling springlike day yesterday. Every day that passes with these mild temperatures shortens the winter a little bit more. Temp is 8.3c.

I feel a shopping mission coming on so must away.

Update from Dunedin, Florida:

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2/8/11 - A new camera was installed this morning.  It was cold and windy.  Once the software configuration is complete we should have a picture for everyone again!  The ospreys landed on the platform several times while we were there, fought over fish, some competition was apparent, but once the work was complete the pair settled onto the platform together.   BW"

Good morning Lindybird and so pleased you are feeling a little better.  Enjoy your chocolate treats and don't get on the scales until you are fully recovered.  It was a lovely day yesterday as you say but all change again today, dull and a bit damp.

The lady in the red coat was simply amazing, how brave she was. She wasn't going to give up and I see from Annette's  post that the film has been shown in America so she is achieving fame even there she says she doesn't want to give her name.  Well done her but it could have turned out so badly, not sure I would have waded in like that.

So glad you will be able to see Sweetpea this weekend but take it easy and don't tire yourself out.

Good morning BrendaH  pleased you have had old furniture delivered and didn't have to wait all day.  I was waiting for the new cylinder to be delivered for fitting tomorrow and that has just come so I can relax now and not worry about going to the loo or out in the garden.

You are right I would ring my sister daily but with the long journey they have to take each day and not getting back until after 6.00 I am a bit loathe to do that as I know she still gets so tired.  Will probably ring Friday evening but she is on my mind the whoe time I must admit.

Billy has been around most of the morning, tucking into the food and milk and sitting on the patio surveying his patch I think.  Had a little chat to him out of the bedroom window and he just looks at me but at least he doesn' t run away like he used to.

Good mroning aunte and your weather sound so bad.  Take care if you do go out and wrap up warm although I would think you as you are used to these freezing temperatures.  How lovely to see the bullfinches that must have brightened the day up.

Good morning  Lynette and as others have said will never get bores of all the wonderful captures you put on for us all to see.  Keep them coming as you say it whiles away the time until our ospreys return.

Hope your eye is better now.

Having my 'coffee break' with a cup of hot chocolate, and thought I'd come on here & describe my strange/scary event with the car, on Monday.

The car went into the Garage for some work on the engine:  too technical to bother with here. We have a lovely Garage Man:  he went to school with my OH and they have known each other For Ever.  We collected it at 5.30 by which time all was dark: I elected to drive it home, following my OH in the other car.  We had gone barely 500 yards, and I had just popped through the traffic lights on a big junction, when as I turned the corner, expecting to be able to accelerate up the road, I found that all the lights on the dashboard came on like a Christmas Tree, and an alarm sounded: and as I took all this in, the engine quietly died!  I had the presence of mind in a split second to try & steer towards the kerbside, which the car duly obliged just by going on momentum.  Now I was at a stop on double yellow lines in a busy corner.  All the following traffic flew past me & I put my warning lights on & decided what to do next, as I had already watched my OH 's tail lights disappear into the darkness ahead, blissfully unaware.  There was no way the car was going to start again - it was totally dead.  I was sooo glad that I was not caught in the middle of that main junction!  I dug out the mobile & called OH, who returned & scratched his head:  he called the Garage, and after about 10 minutes their chief mechanic arrived - in a short T shirt & shorts, & a tattoo or two, and not much else!  This is of course February in the evening, and I had on two sweaters, a coat & a scarf as I dare not take chances after having such a bad chest lately.

He put on a light under the bonnet and searched:  then scratched his head, too!  Eventually, we went home & they took it back to the Garage with a tow truck.  They rang us later to say it was sorted:  it had been the failure of a tiny rubber tie which held together some of the wiring and must have been disturbed by their tackling the engine. So 'for want of a horsehoe nail'!'  Scary to think that the whole car could just fail like that, for such a little thing.  It shook my confidence somewhat, to think it could have failed at any time

Hello aquilareen I would love to be sitting on the beach eating what sounds like a very tasty cheesecake, manageable temperature as well.  Thanks for the link to ARkaroola very interesting.

Hello to all I have not mentioned had a really good start to my day, got an envelope out to put a letter in and found £30 tucked inside.   I have no idea how long it has been there or why I did it but made me feel good anyway.  Have found money before in handbags I don't use very often.

I see Lily has one of each and I think it was the boy I was watching earlier, a right little wriggler.  It took Lily a long time to settle it down.  At one stage she did an enormous yawn as if to say please go to sleep and let me rest.  Cubs and Hope must be satisfied now as it is very quiet.

The sun keeps trying to come out but not making a very good job of it at the moment.  It was a beautiful day yesterday and Billy enjoyed the sun and spent a good hour asleep on my patio.

Have a good day all.