Welcome to a new week. Check back to last week's chat for news. Linda is spending weekend with Tomasz. Annette has been told to slow down . . . by Brenda who sounds just as busy! Alan has been wandering shops again.
MARGOBIRD. Glad you had a good family weekend. Seems to me that you are being very brave yourself. Feel so much for you, your sister and all family.
MARGOBIRD very interesting diary, thank you
LINDYBIRD great smiles as usual
Afternoon all,
No time to reply as I have just been called out on an urgent mission:
THought you might like this pic:
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Afternoon all ... I haven't been on over the weekend ... I tried a few times, but the pages were so slow to load that I couldn't hang around waiting for them!
Linda - glad you enjoyed your sunny weekend with Tomasz and family. Lovely Monday Smiles.
OG - I hope your blood test went ok this morning ... pity the phlebotomist didn't have her gear with her at the cream tea! Sounds like a lovely day out yesterday.
margobird - glad you had a good weekend with your family ... your sister sounds like a very strong person with a very positive outlook! I enjoyed reading your diary, and look forward to the next instalment.
Thanks to everyone for chat etc.
Take care.
Joan - avid bird and nature watcher in Northumberland!
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Hello everybody. Started the day with an appointment at the hairdressers, then garden centre, then Boots and Waitrose, met OH for lunch and back home by 1.30pm. OH went off to play golf and soon after I decided I was going out again. I couldn't find my house keys. Emptied my handbag, retraced my steps around the house, then rang hairdressers and the little restaurant, where we had eaten lunch. Began to panic and turned my handbag upside down and found the bloomin keys stuck in a corner of the lining. There are four keys on the ring, how did I not find them the first time !! I had wasted over an hour looking for them. I had also forgotten that my neighbour, whose house and garden we have been looking after, is due home late tonight so then had to dash out for some milk, bread and a little food for her to come home to.
The men won the bowls match yesterday but it was good fun.
OG, I did take some photographs at Dixter on Sunday. I will put them on the computer shortly. Our friend got a first for his carrots, a 2nd for his raspberries and a 2nd for a plant (?) I can't remember. EDIT- Bougainvillea.
Annette, Thanks for your explanation of your Health Service. I can now understand the problem. I did notice that the French are still trying to accuse Armstrong of taking drugs.
Dibnlib, I admire you for your helicopter ' rides'. I have been in one from Gatwick to Heathrow only and it was so noisy. The weather was terrible, wind and rain, and I felt so sick. I have no problem with flying but I have refused to go in a helicopter ever since.
Margo, I am enjoying reading your diary. I even ignored hearing a fish delivery to carry on reading. They were long hours you were in the hide, compensated by seeing the birds, but oh so cold. If the sound goes off in the future, we will possibly know where the problem lies. Glad you were able to enjoy your time with your sister. I just wonder where she gets the strength from, when she is so ill. Fantastic Lady.
Linda, Lovely to hear you had such a wonderful weekend.
Oh dear, I haven't even thought what we are having for dinner. Today has gone so quickly and the sunshine is brilliant.
Glad to hear that our margo is feeling better, with her appetite back again. Also sounds like a wonderful, memorable family trip to the Isle. of W. You and your sisters must feel very close, now. I do hope that your sister can get to Jersey for that holiday.
I managed to catch some of the Mens Tennis Finals, thought right away that Nadal was in trouble and would have a problem when I saw the 1st Set. No way could our Andy Murray have come up with tennis to match such a display, so perhaps just as well that he was already out of the running. (AQ- your boy who won the Boys title, beat our British lad Liam in the final!)
We had such a nice weekend: we were able to sit in the garden for some of the time, and also went to feed the ducks with our grandson. Also visited Aged Auntie and her four generations - she was resting in bed, but we saw her briefly, and were entertained by her son and his family, his daughter, and her two children! They were all charmed by Tomasz and his winning smile - he positively beams! Here he is although not quite beaming, in a restaurant where we stopped for a cold drink. On Daddy's knee with a toy dog given by his new Uncle.
Apparently he cried at 3.00 in the morning, on Saturday night - but his grandparents were too flaked out to hear him! Next day he was fine, although his parents looked a little groggy. He is learning all the time, and its fascinating to watch (a bit like young ospreys!!!!) We fed the ducks and his eyes never left them, so he is going to be a fine birder when he grow up. Whilst by the water we heard a sudden shriek from a Granny, who had found her g.daughter eating the bread from on the ground! Yuk!
We ate so many strawberries over the last 3 days I think I may be a bit on the red side, now. Our fruits are coming to an end though, and we are now on raspberries.
Brenda: Overlapped with you - how annoying about the keys - I've been known to do the same sort of thing myself.
Its been so warm here I've struggled to do some weeding in the garden, as got too tired in the heat - also have just had to rescue something from the freezer as we had no idea what we were having for our dinner, either! Looks like its lamburgers and cabbage (again)...
Will write some more replies later.
Hi everyone. I'm afraid I got really fed up with this and the DU sites yesterday, being sooo slow and uncooperative for me. What with that and the tennis I just didn't come on. Life is funny at times. A bit like busses, you get none for ages and then three turn up at once and that's been a bit like that for me. Since we got back from holiday in early June I seem to have been hither and thither which for me is rather unusual. We had the folk staying for the long weekend when we watched the bumps on the Cam and had a smart, but boring, dinner afterwards and cooked pizzas in the pizza oven for 12 on the Sunday. I went into London to meet up with 20 or so old school friends from Bishop's Stortford. I discovered the location of the Shard, which at 1,017 ft it will be the tallest building in the EU. Later that week I met up with four school friends from Eaton Socon at one of the friends in Rutland. On Friday OH and I were invited as guests to the Henley Regatta - more a people-watching event than a rowing event for me! Fascinating outfits worn on all shapes and sizes and ages. A dress code has to be adhered to as well. Ridiculous! But my highlight was seeing so many red kite flying over the Thames. At one point I could see at least eight, and on another occasion one flapped languidly along the water at about 10 feet. No one appeared to even notice. Wouldn't it be wonderful to reach the time when osprey are as common!! This week I had lunch for former work colleagues in Cambridge. At all meets the chat was endless and the laughter too.
Now the tennis is over until the US Open at the end of August, so more time with ospreys and the garden!
Margo thank you for your lovely osprey diary. I can relate to a lot you have said! One was wearing lots and lots of layers in the sleeping bag and then acting like a mermaid with me in the sleeping bag and hobbling to the tall stool to keep we warm in there too! I am looking forward to your next episode. I am glad you had a good time with your sister and family. What an amazing person she is.
OG I am thinking about you and your blood tests this morning. Hope all goes well.
Hey Annette hope you can chill out in your hammock soon! So the Royals won't be popping in for tea then. Pity. I did think about Kelloggs though. Doesn't she come from Prince Edward Island where the party were yesterday?
Mr Farmer was out spraying the rape today, which must mean that in a couple of weeks the dusty harvest will start. He will have been applying the desiccant. Must remember to close the windows this year!
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