Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers. I hope you all have a great day.
Do check back to last week's chat for OG's gorgeous wildflower garden pics And Lynette's pics of Dunedin & Hampton eaglets.
Linda - I love your pics of Tatton Park, especially autumn.
Alan -24 handbags!!!! Must be related to our Dau#2 who collects shoes & handbags. Me, I have one all-purpose go-everywhere shoulder bag. Plus the gold one OH gave me decades ago and saw the light of day at the weddings.
Brenda, Linda, Lynette, Joan, OG - On my first trip o/s I had a list of what to take. It helps remind me not to forget vital things like eye drops, film (nowadays it is memory cards & battery charger!). When I returned I noted what I didn’t use and now I check the amended list, pruning every trip. Why drag excess around? Invariably my room in B&Bs was on 2nd or3 rd floor. Besides I may buy things, such as jumpers - that’s my weakness. Stupid really because I knit them and the wardrobe is bursting. So, OG, I shall choose one of them. And camera almost lives in said all-purpose bag!
Joan - I heard a story of a local teacher who had 7 children in her class named "Amy" but all spelled differently.
dibnlib...that did make me chuckle about Dillon and his toys....We have 2 cats, Oska and Archie and they have so many toys in their little basket, that friends actually think we are both mad! Its quite amusing to watching them, they sit and look inside the basket first, before they go in and pull one out, don't you just love them :-)
Oh! bettyboo, please put some pics on here of your cats, I just love, them even tho I don't have one at the moment. (only a spoilt dog with also, lots of toys...).
Here is a pic of Buzz taking his walk the other day with his beloved Dad, near Lymm in Cheshire...
Partner now gone to work, so I have desk top on upstairs and laptop downstairs, I don't want to miss anything whilst catching up with ironing etc, its much better than anything you can find on the TV.. I can't believe I've managed to log on, after all the problems I had gaining access and just before the switch off for 3 days...Not at all happy
Djoans lucky you having a male sparrowhawk. I haven't seen our female for weeks. I assume she has paired up and is off rearing a family somewhere.
Wendyb we'll have to try and cafe at Glemore when we're there, it sounds good.
OG very sadly no we're not near LG but will be going there in 7 weeks on a 2 week holiday so will be visiting often while we're staying in Nethybridge.
Dibnlib don't think anyone can be worse than us for buying toys. Mia has far too many. She has a toy box in the living room. If I am very lucky she occasionally takes one back before she gets another one out but more often she just leaves them scattered about for us to tidy up after her. As for cats she loves to try and chase them but if she ever caught ip with one I'm sure she'd turn and run in the opposite direction. She's terrified if one arches it's back and spits at her when we're out.
BTW looks like it's going to be over 500 posts this week. Is that a record? Probably not.
Unknown said: BTW looks like it's going to be over 500 posts this week. Is that a record? Probably not.
Well spotted. Very few other weekly threads get over 400 posts. This one will be the first to go over 500 as far as I know.
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Lovely plant photos OG, to add to the earlier one's I've already spoken of.
Horror Liz LFW, snow above 1000ft! But I guess snow can fall at almost any time at that height.
If as Wendyb says Mor is at the Glenmore visitors centre, then I've been there, and also the Reindeer Centre from where we were taken up the road towards Cairngorm and a trek over the hills to feed the reindeer by hand! Exciting! Who says I'm an adult? We also went to the Ord Ban restaurant cafe at te Rothiemurchus Centre - delicious late breakfast here!
Wendyb you may be interested to watch this programme: Den Brook Valley Wind Farm . Having been thru the process I can relate to it. Mike Hulme, one of the main protagonists particularly concerned with noise, put in a Freedom of Information request to see the original draft of ETSU-R-97 which you have probably by now come across.
Apart from that I have had a smile on my face all the time I've been reading the chat, the daily update and watching the webcam. Why? My local wildlife of course. It has been hugely entertaining. I am about to put a few photos on. We have had mallard around during the breeding season for a number of years Occasionally we find a nest, but it is often predated, and we have never seen any young. Mr & Mrs M called yesterday evening, had a quick feed and slurp and left. Well today Mrs M turned up with five not so young ducklings. I have a large rather old plastic pot plant saucer which I deep topped up with water, and they have discovered this along with the ground feeder. I meant to get some more grain today, but forgot, so I hope it lasts until Monday! Pheasant, partridge, magpie, robin, finches and wagtail have all entertained me on the grass on the south of of my kitchen.
These were all taken through double glazed windows which is why there is a slight haze.
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Sheila Is that you doing a posh link? Well done :)
SheilaFE: Thanks for link.
Love the ooooh aaaaah pictures. Not seen my baby pheasants today tucked up somewhere warm...I hope.
Sheila - fabulous photos of your wildlife .... and a posh link too! As Tiger said "Well Done"! I still can't do them :-( I thought I had saved Tiger's instructions but I can't find them!
OG - more gorgeous photographs of your garden ... it must be beautiful!
Joan - avid bird and nature watcher in Northumberland!
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