Afternoon all: Geez. May already? This happens every year!
Sitting in garden with laptop! Under umbrella in shorts and trying to ID a pale pink hybrid rose I didn't think I'd bought but which is now blooming like mad. I went out to buy orange/apricot/peach and yellow roses and have no idea how this pale pink one got into the mix. Also, it doesn't have a little metal label, which the others do, and I'm wondering if it didn't get into the wrong bin at La Sumida, where I bought six bare roots. In the meantime, Amber Flower Carpet and Julia Child roses are doing brilliantly... Met friends for breakfast this morning: Had a egg-white and seasonal veggie mix - won't make that mistake again! Very boring and challenging since nothing stayed on my fork. Was forced to rectify the situation with a cafe au lait and a boysenberry and lemon scone!
Diane: I have a visor and a sweathshirt with a hood that I wear on windy days at the whale count. That's it! Daughter has several cowboy hats, including one with a woven decorative band she made from hair taken from Cimarron's tail (the horse she had to put down Feb 10). I'll check out Trucker Steve next.
Alicat: Bet you had fun with Bobbie. Have you sorted your naughty OH yet? :-)
Wendy: Dolphin visit sounds like fun.
Sheila: Argh! Take care of that knee. Geez. A 1.5 hour wait for food? Did everyone complain loudly? Apparently, several of our channels repeated the wedding video throughout the day yesterday; I'm watching the recording a bit at a time; can't stand to be inside on a lovely day.
OG: More fab azaleas! Good news that son is trying the part-time option; hope it works out for him. Really understand "more money than sense," which also applies to grandson who, sad to say, doesn't have much money, so .....! Still, he's young yet and as always, we live in hopes. Little vole looks awfully sweet.
Hallo also to Lynette. It's past 4; can now officially start new Weekly Chat!
Alan, thanks for the update on Hamish. Glad they were able to sort him out and hope the tests don't show anything lurking:)
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Oh, dear – just caught the news about Hamish, Alan. Little chap, in the wars again, I do hope he’s not going to be in too much pain..
Had to laugh at TT Gary (what does the second T stand for ? )
Have a laugh, Lindy (my eyesight !! ) when I first looked at your pic of OH and Buzz I thought – OMG, I’ve got it all wrong, Buzz is OH not the dog L0L and then
I saw Buzz :)
Alan, Poor Hamish. He is having trouble lately. Fingers crossed, all works out well. If I remember correctly, there is only a week to go before you are on holiday.
Bless him, Hamish has been thru such a lot!! Alan I hope the news is positive for him, and that his paw isn't too sore for too long. An extra biscuit for him tonight! Thanks for the slowmo red kites - fascinating - and the Dunedin chicks. I guess ours will be like that in two shakes of a bee's knee!
Rain. What rain. Nothing here yet, despite BrendaH's son having some in London. I was in our local town yesterday for another manipulation and massage, and the application of a bright blue piece of sticky plaster up the back of the thigh, and had enough rain drops to necessitate putting up the brolly, for a mere four minutes, and there was none at home, just five miles away! Ever hopeful for some tonight, but somehow I fear we may be just east of the blue pattern on the weather map! So, so far I think Lindybird, OG and Wendyb have reported rain.
Lynette lovely poster! OG it is sad that it seems folk are finding LotL somewhat less than friendly. I wouldn't recognise Lady, I'm afraid. I rarely check the nest out as there is sooo much to look at and read over here!
OG more wonderful photos, thank you. I particularly liked the barnacle geese. Good luck to your Gdaughter at York. A lovely city to live in I am sure. What subject is she going to read (or ought I to know that already?).
Margo sorry to hear about your morning panic. Poof fish. Lucky you spotted the problem when you did. My pond level had already been topped up once, but that's due to evaporation - I think - rather than a pump, which I don't have, or hopefully not a leak! The rubber lining is over 20 years old, so I guess it has done well. I am aware of one small hole on a fold below the rim, but I believe that was caused by a pesky heron some years ago when there were goldfish in the pond. When they all died, were eaten by heron or just disappeared, I decided to let it just become a wildlife pond with frogs, toads, newts, dragonfly pupae and all other small creatures that lurk below the waterline.
Lindybird I was amused by the marmite story! So easily done as we get older and perhaps less vain, and don't check the mirror every five minutes as we perhaps did when we were young!! Glad that Buzz has recovered from his illness. Tatton Park looks a lovely place to walk. I take it it is the same Tatton Park that the RHS has one of its shows?
AQ lovely to see the photos of your latest trip, particularly the WWII window. You probably know that there is a Spalding in the UK, which is well known as a tulip bulb growing area. What I didn't know (checked out Wiki) is that a settlement has existed in the Spalding area from the Rome times, where they produced salt from the marshland. There was also the Anglian tribe, Spaldingas, which settled in the area during the 6th century, and retained its administrative independence right up to the ninth and tenth centuries, when the region formed one of the Five Boroughs of the Kingdom of York. I also found out that a certain Matthew Flinders was born at nearby Donington in 1774 and he went on to discover most of southern Australia!! When I can get on it, I do love the internet!!
Gary I bet Toffee had fun in the muck and mire! Or perhaps she just enjoyed her first bath so much she decided to find a way of having another!
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Alan: Poor old Hamish - bet he's feeling sorry for himself. Sounds like you have a good Vet there, so you can be confident that they will be thorough. Hope he recovers in time for your hols.
Cirrus: Had to laugh at the thought of being married to a Buzz! (Perhaps then I would be a busy bee, myself.....!) I know what you mean, as that's why I put the caption at the bottom after I put the photo up, - he is so far away he could be missed, but then that's typical of him, when we go for walks he just trots off on his own and then comes back periodically to see if we are still there. At least he gets a good bit of exercise, as he's been twice as far as we have!
Sheila: Yes, Tatton Park in Cheshire is the same one which has the wonderful RHS Flower Show every year. We have been to them all, since they started, as before they came here we had to go to the Gardeners World Show in Birmingham for the day to see such displays. There is an annual Flower Show in Southport, Lancashire, not too far away, but it's not as large, or with such mind boggling exhibits.
I'm trying to garden, and dust at the same time... Our home business has gone quiet so don't have to stop to answer the phone every 5 minutes, thank goodness. Off to get a much needed haircut soon, then a sit down with a glass of something strong tonight.
Hi folks, did the usual chores this morning and then waited for our second "central heating" man to arrive. Duly did and looked the place over and left a quote for us to peruse over, seemed quite reasonable. Will have to wait and see what yesterdays man has to say and then seriously compare the 3 quotes and decide. Decisions, decisions!!
Alan - Lets hope it is nothing sinister re Hamish and hopefully he will be romping about before too long when the paw has healed.
Talking of LOtL, somehow don't want to go to site as often as last year as all we can do is commentary and not see lovely Lady and Laird on screen anymore. Maybe after this years decision not to let us take pics they may relent next year. Although I won't hold my breath.
Turned out a sunny and humid day down here but still not had any rain.
Took this one of the Dunedin chicks last night. Right at the other side of the nest and mum was feeding them.
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Gary - TT must have been really smelling "nice" after her two rollabouts.
AQ - thanks for your continuing sag on you day out will have to look at Google Earth and try and pinpoint these places out of interest.
Forgot to say, our rain was not much at all, and we still need lots more! Have been out with the watering can again.
Lynette: I don't feel the same about LotL either.
I must admit, Lindybird, it looks nothing like Lady, as you say too pale but nevertheless a super pic of one in flight.
OG - meant to say that pic makes a good screenbackground and have at present put it as my screensaver - hope you don't mind.
Lindybird I would love to go to Chelsea, but I would hate the crowds!! A work colleague and I went to the Hampton Court event probably ten years or more ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. We got up early and arrived before it opened so it was very quiet when we got in. I seem to recall is was also an important Wimbledon draw that day, so I was torn between staying at the show or dashing home to watch TV!! I even splashed out some money for a beautiful painting of poppies by Evelyn Binns. http://www.evelynbinns.com/ I am on her Christmas card list - quite why, other than I bought one of her paintings and she has a relative in Cambridge, I don't know. She offered to deliver my painting the next time she visited her relative, and it was duly delivered. She was a lovely lady. Me and my money are seldom parted, so that goes to show how much I loved her poppies!!
Edit: My poppies are similar to this http://www.evelynbinns.com/gallery/papaver%20rhoeas%20160108.html but I have two green buds, with two slightly opening buds above them, and one open poppy on top, centrepiece.