Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Topic started by: Ma Lowe on March 12, 2014, 04:37
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Well here I am again, hubby is gently snoring away while I lay here for the past hour trying to get back to sleep with no joy. So I thought I would come on here and read up on things. It's ever so lonely at this time of morning :(
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I sympathise. I feel almost lazy if I am still in bed at 5 because I am such a bad sleeper. But yes, you feel alone when someone is snoring and just can't get to sleep. My hated thing is going out like a light at 10pm then being totally alert by 11 knowing there are hours before you can give up and get up. I used to get up and watch a bit of telly and that sometimes did the trick, but here in Bulgaria TV is sparodic as we watch through the internet and often, like now, reception is not good enough.
What the heck, at least we live in a beautiful country and I don't have to go to work.
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I'm late this morning having gone to bed about 12:30, but I slept through until 6:00. So sometimes it pays to stay up past 'bedtime' but another time it doesn't work.
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I used to come on in the early hours when I had a medical problem I was surprised how many others were on.
I occasionally am wide awake at about 1 o-clock and unable to get back, I usually make a cup of tea and do some work on the computer that dose the trick after about half an hour I feel sleepy.
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I had read through some stuff on here then went over to fleabay and started to feel sleepy by 6am so had another hour or two.
I sympathise. I feel almost lazy if I am still in bed at 5 because I am such a bad sleeper. But yes, you feel alone when someone is snoring and just can't get to sleep. My hated thing is going out like a light at 10pm then being totally alert by 11 knowing there are hours before you can give up and get up. I used to get up and watch a bit of telly and that sometimes did the trick, but here in Bulgaria TV is sparodic as we watch through the internet and often, like now, reception is not good enough.
What the heck, at least we live in a beautiful country and I don't have to go to work.
Tosca the late time I was awake early I read through your blog. Very interesting and well done on making that move it looks great. :)
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I'm often on here about that time for one last look before I go to bed - it's the time difference, about 6 hours.
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Aww thanks Ma, that's very kind of you to say.
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I had to be up at sparrow-parp today, and set the alarm on the mobile. The blasted thing started doing a notification tinkle at a minute to twelve, and that was it until well gone 4.00am!
I came here to see who was on, and the signal went veeeeery slow for some reason, so I gave up! Shame, we could all have had a jolly natter!
Had a chance to try out the new mattress we had delivered yesterday though, and am well-pleased!
And nadgered now..;0)
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I follow Tosca's blog as well. Bulgarian life seems to be like the 1930's, before electricity and central heating were common :D Nice to see people making their own of almost everything and keeping life simple and community oriented.
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I should have put Harrison online he seems to think thats the time he wants to get up. Shame his conversational skills are so rubbish and his typing is poor ;)
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I should have put Harrison online he seems to think thats the time he wants to get up. Shame his conversational skills are so rubbish and his typing is poor ;)
You could have a thread for folk with wide awake children in what feels like the middle of the night :unsure: There are sure to be a few around ;)
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I am hoping I wont be seen at that time of the morning tomorrow or any other day. I have a feeling it has a lot to do with themenwithpaws so i may just have to ride them out and catch up on slep during a quiet time n the day. I am coming back as man thats for sure :nowink:
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I should have put Harrison online he seems to think thats the time he wants to get up. Shame his conversational skills are so rubbish and his typing is poor ;)
You could have a thread for folk with wide awake children in what feels like the middle of the night :unsure: There are sure to be a few around ;)
I think that's called mumsnet :lol:
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There is not much chance of a lie in once Bonnie lab knows you are awake. Everyone knows labs are in a perpetual state of STARVING. She doesn't winge or whine, she just occasionally shakes her head which makes her ears flap, and taps her feet on the floor. Managed to hold off till 5 this morning. (we are two hours ahead)
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My excuse today is that I've been up all night at work! :D
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Sorry I slept late this morning :D
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4am for me this morning, as YS's work alarm went off (didn't seem to wake him up though! ::))....
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Good morning! Not as early as some mornings. This time I know why, I have been tossing and turning all night because of my back after bending over planting the damned strawberries yesterday. I hurt from my shoulder down to my ankles :( definitely some gentle seed sowing today.
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Darn cats!!
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Morning guys ;)
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Darn cats!!
???? Explain :nowink:
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Morning guys ;)
Morning Cadalot looks to be a lovely day again here. Unfortunately I will de NOT be doing anything on the plot after yesterday's escapade some extra gentle seed sowing for me today :)
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Darn cats!!
???? Explain :nowink:
Wanted feeding!
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Darn cats!!
???? Explain :nowink:
Wanted feeding!
. :D :D I thought maybe they had been howling through the night and woke you. Nothing worse than that cat howl when they are fighting :(
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The chicken alarm clock has gone off here :lol: Generally means 'Feed me! feed me now!' ::)
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. :D :D I thought maybe they had been howling through the night and woke you. Nothing worse than that cat howl when they are fighting :(
There is around here, Foxes in the early hours looking for a little bit of loving :nowink: I wonder if its Basil from the Allotment following me home to annoy me, or perhaps just a relative :nowink: I had one that used to follow me and my old dog on our evening walk and never an evening went by without seeing at least one.
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. :D :D I thought maybe they had been howling through the night and woke you. Nothing worse than that cat howl when they are fighting :(
There is around here, Foxes in the early hours looking for a little bit of loving :nowink: I winder if its Basil from the Allotment following me home to annoy me, or perhaps just a relative :nowink: I had one that used to follow me and my old dog on our evening walk and never an evening went by without seeing at least one.
I have been woken up regularly recently by the howls of loved up foxes. :lol:
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. :D :D I thought maybe they had been howling through the night and woke you. Nothing worse than that cat howl when they are fighting :(
There is around here, Foxes in the early hours looking for a little bit of loving :nowink: I winder if its Basil from the Allotment following me home to annoy me, or perhaps just a relative :nowink: I had one that used to follow me and my old dog on our evening walk and never an evening went by without seeing at least one.
Better than howling drunk young people in the park at midnight! :mad:
I have been woken up regularly recently by the howls of loved up foxes. :lol:
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Missed out on the early mornings I changed my pillow height and now get a good nights sleep without all the tossing and turning. queer ::)
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4.30am today, usually about 5. Didn't think to check in here though. I love it, the quiet, house to myself....been know to pop down the lottie at 7 on a summer morning :D loverly.
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Planning an early morning trip tomorrow to get a couple of hours squeezed in leaving the girls in bed condensing snot :ohmy: They can't complain if they are asleep :nowink:
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Okay, where is everyone? 8)
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After wine and chat till after midnight and incubators playing up all night (OH up and down, slamming doors) I didn't get up till six. after showering, making brekkie, seeing to chooks her I am, 7 o'clock. Disgusting. Now off to a bird fair to see if I can replace the lost eggs. :(
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So here I am again. Can't blame cats, or even dawn chorus this time.
Quite a mild morning (9oC), so all I can do is wait for it to get light and then trundle off to the plot.
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Morning! Just of to work now to do some heifer wrestling!
Have a good day :D
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Morning! Just of to work now to do some heifer wrestling!
Have a good day :D
Tea requirement here - after Ache Day yesterday..;0)
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Morning Growster et al ...... Garden and Allotment today :)
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Oops slept late again :D it's a habit I could quite get used to. We have been spoilt with the sun shining through early in the mornings but this morning it's grey :(
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Oops slept late again :D it's a habit I could quite get used to. We have been spoilt with the sun shining through early in the mornings but this morning it's grey :(
It seems writing on here has done your sleep the power of good Ma Lowe, long may it continue. :D
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I'm on here alone again. Where are all the sleepyheads :D
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I am here :( woke up at 3.30 with terrible heartburn and acid in my throat. Must have been that fizzy drink I had last night. Won't be doing that again :(
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Been awake half the night scratching. The bitey insects are out in force and I am the one they prefer to bite! The joys of gardening eh?
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Morning tosca. Not good being bitten alive. Do you use insect repellent?
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Been up 1/2 hour - dressed and having breakfast then off to the lotty :D
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I got up at 5am - deliberately!! :wacko:
Ozzie Grand prix ;)
I'm expecting a maximum of 10 cars (from 22) to finish the race ::)
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Morning tosca. Not good being bitten alive. Do you use insect repellent?
I always forget, realise when they start landing, then 'just finish this' then forget again. I blame me age! As soon as they get warm at night it starts. I stink of germolene but am looking at natural repellent andde-itch. What it is to be tasty........................ :lol:
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Overslept today! :lol:
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I got up at 5am - deliberately!! :wacko:
Ozzie Grand prix ;)
I'm expecting a maximum of 10 cars (from 22) to finish the race ::)
I normally watch all the race's, but as its on sky I can't. Anyway as I am up, think I will go and wash the car, then have some breakie.
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I was up early but then after reading things on here I fell asleep again. Not that I am saying anything I was reading was boring mind ;)
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I was up early but then after reading things on here I fell asleep again. Not that I am saying anything I was reading was boring mind ;)
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I was up early but then after reading things on here I fell asleep again. Not that I am saying anything I was reading was boring mind ;)
You been reading my blog again? Always guaranteed to send a person to sleep... :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I got up early this morning for a read through here and then went to get the bamboo out of the ground after watching my programmes; apparently the girl next door didn't like the sound of a sledge hammer striking a crowbar at 8… Who'd have thought??? ::)
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Gah I was up at 3am this morning, stressing about the allotment. Following house cleaning etc. I finally managed to get down there for a few hours which was wonderful.
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First! But this was an accident- I'd set the alarm just in case (I never need it) for 5.30am, to take daughter boyfriend to train but it seems I might have knocked the main time setting as it on other clocks it appears to be 4.30am it went off :lol:
and I've got a late night tonight. blergh.
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Reporting for duty.
Looks like a good plot session this morning.
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Been up for 40 mins as usual for a weekday. Would love to head down the plot but sadly I have to go to work :( in wish I could be semi-retired when I turn 30 in June :D
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I can only thank Ma most profusely. Since she started this post I have been getting up later than has been the norm for more years than I care to remember. I will keep checking in when I finally surface :lol:
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OK, I'm off.
I reckon a good four hours and easily back for lunch.
That's the plan anyway. They have a habit of becoming derailed. Perhaps I could "forget" to take my phone.
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I can only thank Ma most profusely. Since she started this post I have been getting up later than has been the norm for more years than I care to remember. I will keep checking in when I finally surface :lol:
Seconded! :D
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I can only thank Ma most profusely. Since she started this post I have been getting up later than has been the norm for more years than I care to remember. I will keep checking in when I finally surface :lol:
I am so pleased it is having a positive effect for you all.
It's not too bad for me either. I did wake at 4ish this morning and tossed and turned until after 5 but then I must have dropped off again. I was determined not to come on here because then the likely hood is that I would be awake all morning :D
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Last night I woke slightly,but didn't even get up to visit the loo & my glass of water was untouched. All signs I'd had a good night, & I went to bed at 9.30.
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Everything feels so much better when you get a decent nights sleep doesn't it :D
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Aww yus, :) bet it won't continue when I get back to work next week, but m working on it. >:(
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I can't be first on parade, surely?
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Nope DD I am here was just reading about Clarissa bless her. Hubby's alarm woke me and I couldn't get back to sleep so here I am with Blubell(our little Westie) cwtched beside me :D
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Looks like another early start on the plot!
Spud and pea patches are prepped and ready for planting/sowing, may do a bit for for peas then move onto the carrot patch.
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It's raining here :( so no plot work yet but I may go in the greenhouse and fill some tubs with compost and carrot seeds. :D
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We have had days of heavy lifting at work as our whole plant area is being redeveloped. I was really tired last night after working the weekend and went to bed at 9.00pm.
Not a good move. It's my day off and I was awake at 4.00am ::) Gave in and got up at 5.00am. Now contemplating an early morning plot session, but need another coffee before I'm ready to get going :lol:
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Morning New Shoot. Not a good start to a day off but then think of all you could do on your plot :D
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It's raining here :( so no plot work yet but I may go in the greenhouse and fill some tubs with compost and carrot seeds. :D
There's not much on the radar, so it'll soon pass. Dry here.
http://www.raintoday.co.uk
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Loo thanks DD I just saw that little patch of rain cloud mover over us :D may well get on the plot anyway then.
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Morning New Shoot. Not a good start to a day off but then think of all you could do on your plot :D
That's very true Ma :D I think a bit of digging, as some exercise will fend off the aches from the weekend. Then maybe a bit of a potter in the greenhouse at home. I have lots of seedlings of various greens, peas, beetroot and kohl rabi to tend and shunt out to the seedling cloche to harden up if they are ready :)
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Was up at 6am this morning to sort out and coo over some seedlings - didn't think anyone would be on here. :)
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Up at 5 off at 6 and in Fulham by 7 for a meeting on site - didn't get time to look here this morning :nowink:
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and BOING! My eyes are awake. Not sure the rest of me agrees.
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Can't sleep too much running through my mind, I've been tidying up emails and filing stuff for an hour, quick look here now I'm off back to bed to see if I'm tired enough to catch a couple of hours more sleep
Update for tosca100 - Yep for a little while up again at 5:30 and staying up now
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Hope you got back to sleep ok Cadalot. :)
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Morning!
Off to work for some more heifer wrestling, ten have called in over night so busy morning with the other 150 already milking.
Have a good day.
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Hi folks, this is the third time tonight I have been up with my new pup who was great the first two nights but has spent tonight howling the house down. I am exhausted but if I can get through to 7 my daughter is going to take over.
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Bit earlier today.
Looks like another plot morning.
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Sorry slept late :D
Hi folks, this is the third time tonight I have been up with my new pup who was great the first two nights but has spent tonight howling the house down. I am exhausted but if I can get through to 7 my daughter is going to take over.
Oh dear I remember that well. Where is your pup sleeping? We had ours sleeping in the kitchen but she howled so much that we brought her up to our bedroom in her cage so she couldn't get out and wander around and she settled great we then gradually put her closer and closer to the stairs each night until she eventually went back to the kitchen. Had the odd whimper from her but then she settled and has slept in the kitchen ever since. If you haven't got a cage try and get one they are great. We only shut her in at night for the first few weeks and it was open during the day when we were around.
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5am, but got lots of paperwork done 8)
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Urgh. Wide awake 2.30am to 5am, then crashingly tired. S'gonna be a great day! NOT
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Urgh. Wide awake 2.30am to 5am, then crashingly tired. S'gonna be a great day! NOT
It's awful when you feel like that and it lasts all day get plenty of caffeine down you or better still a Berocca :D
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I find when I've been awake for a long time I'm better to stay up,yes I'm tired but not as bad as going back to bed as you end up having to wake from deep sleep & I never get over that all day.
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If you can bear to say to yourself that you'll never get that sleep back, when you're having to get up after having had only a couple of hours, it does get easier just to forget the wakeful hours!
There's always the next night to look forward to!
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I've got a lot done on the plot with these early rises. 9 sessions in the last 10 days. (Sunday was a day of rest!.
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Oh dear I remember that well. Where is your pup sleeping? We had ours sleeping in the kitchen but she howled so much that we brought her up to our bedroom in her cage so she couldn't get out and wander around and she settled great we then gradually put her closer and closer to the stairs each night until she eventually went back to the kitchen. Had the odd whimper from her but then she settled and has slept in the kitchen ever since. If you haven't got a cage try and get one they are great. We only shut her in at night for the first few weeks and it was open during the day when we were around.
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She is in a cage in the kitchen. If she doesn't sleep tonight I will move the cage to my room and see how we get on from there. She seems a little more settled tonight so fingers crossed. Will let you know later how I am getting on.
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2.55 here in BG, been awake nearly two hours but lying tense so decided to get up and have a drink, let the dogs out and see if I can relax a bit. Lucky that we don't have to go out to work, but hope I am not too crabby later :(
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Hmmm, I'm still here all alone while the rest of you lot were snoring. :lol:
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fell asleep on the sofa last night so got off to bed 10.30pm.
4.40am :D boing.
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Morning!
And so begins another day, hope it's a good one....
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Morning everyone, a few more early risers this morning. :D
She is in a cage in the kitchen. If she doesn't sleep tonight I will move the cage to my room and see how we get on from there. She seems a little more settled tonight so fingers crossed. Will let you know later how I am getting on.
I hope she slept better for you last night bless her. Just like having a baby :D
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Not as bad last night we were up with her till 1.30 and then my daughter was up at 6'which started her off.
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Not as bad last night we were up with her till 1.30 and then my daughter was up at 6'which started her off.
That's good to hear hopefully she will be settled soon. What breed is she?
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She is a cross breed but it looks like she is mainly German Shepherd. I have tried to put a picture up with no success. I can't figure out photo bucket on the iPad!
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I'm fed up of early mornings (getting up for work) - I wanna lie in!! :D
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I'm fed up of early mornings (getting up for work) - I wanna lie in!! :D
I wish I could sleep in too I don't know about you but I've got so used to getting up early now, that I find I'm up early even when I don't need to be . I think it's the shift work that does it :(
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I'm fed up of early mornings (getting up for work) - I wanna lie in!! :D
I wish I could sleep in too I don't know about you but I've got so used to getting up early now, that I find I'm up early even when I don't need to be . I think it's the shift work that does it :(
Oddly (or not) since I've got fitter and healthier I find I'm waking up earlier :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:
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Morning all. Going to make use of the good weather and take the camera out, spring has sprung. :D
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Morning everyone!
Good idea Tosca! Mrs Growster suggested I did that yesterday, and thank goodness I did, as it's pouring down here at the moment!
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Fell asleep on sofa at 10.30 hubby rolls his eyes and tells me to go up. no reading and am straight out.....
5.10am :wub: :nowink: and it's my day off.
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Here again.
Off to Dorset in a bit for a long weekend. Annual visit to Mrs Digger's relatives.
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Been up for an hour or so messing about with wild garlic bulbs OH brought me back from Devon. Finally potted and out but the kitchen looks a bit muddy. Uh-oh :unsure:
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Morning all,
It seems since I started this thread you are getting earlier and I am getting later though I have been sort of awake since 5.56 but couldn't be bothered to get up. I didn't get to sleep until after 11.30 last night which is a lot later than I have been since having the plot. Normally I am asleep by 10pm
Oddly (or not) since I've got fitter and healthier I find I'm waking up earlier :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:
That's exactly what I am finding, all the hard work on the plot and you'd think I would want to sleep longer but I am having less sleep now.
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I fell asleep watching TV,waking to see the last 5 minutes of the programme I was watching >:( couldn't understand what was happening though. Straight to sleep to sleep til 5 :lol: :D how good is that? Then back to sleep til DD was ready for the off for her next day at fire school & needing a hug to get her through the day.
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Fire school? Is she training to be a fire(wo)man or have I got my wires crossed?
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Yes she is, she is training to be an on call firefighter. This week has been tough,& today she's got to get a 70kg ' body' out of a on fire room :ohmy: . She' not huge, she's on her last module. I'm immensely proud of her. Does it show? Getting up to see her off is why I've been sleeping better I think as I've been getting up before I'm ready if that makes sense.
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A fine profession :) does she intend on making it permanent? I suppose as difficult it is, it's for her safety as well as others... Really pleased for you both though - let us know how it goes!
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Yes she would love to make it permanent but won't be able to apply for a 'job' for 3 years once this training is complete. It's going to be tough as she works 40 hrs a week & has to train as well to keep her fitness levels where they need to be. She always was small but determined :D
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Morning everyone!
Good idea Tosca! Mrs Growster suggested I did that yesterday, and thank goodness I did, as it's pouring down here at the moment!
Had a wonderful morning nature watching. Saw a large flock of returning white storks, masses of jays, a black stork, heron, blackbirds (don't see many here) buzzards, two different woodpeckers, pheasant, kingfisher and an as yet unidentified water bird, snails and fresh water mussels, frogs and toads and a terrapin. And the only mammala were suslik (ground squirrel) and a jackal crossing the road. Oh, and masses of butterflies. Well worth going out early for.
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Oh Tosca - I am feeling really jealous. :D What a lovely morning.
The wild primroses are starting to bloom on the garden banks. It is so cold that the bees have gone into hiding again.
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Typical fell to sleep on the settee at 9:00ish last night just woke up 12:30 and now have to go the bed and will not be able to get back to sleep Doh!
UPDATE Back up awake at just after 2 in the morning and decided to potter around on the computer and tidy my little office so that I get knackered enough to get back to sleep so I guess and hour or so and then I will try again
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Can't sleep too much running round my head wether we have got everything for our trip to Cornwall ..... oooo towels and tea towels .... See I would have forgot them :nowink:
I can always catch up with a few zzzzz in the car on the way down. The birds are so noisy this morning lol.
Typical fell to sleep on the settee at 9:00ish last night just woke up 12:30 and now have to go the bed and will not be able to get back to sleep Doh!
UPDATE Back up awake at just after 2 in the morning and decided to potter around on the computer and tidy my little office so that I get knackered enough to get back to sleep so I guess and hour or so and then I will try again
Did you get back to sleep after pottering around on the computerr :D
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Been awake since three with so much going on in my head.work, garden, etc. My mind is just too active that's the trouble. Anyway I eventually got up at five having realised I was not going back to sleep, and now on my second cuppa reading last years gardening diary. The dogs deserted and gone back to bed. I am thinking of taking something to keep me asleep in future as I have no trouble dropping off at all. I've trawled the internet and saw a newspaper article which recommends something called Slumber. Has anyone tried it?
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Good morning all, I've been up since 5am and I have the weekend off i just can't sleep any longer,like most my minds to active and being stressed out from work yesterday is one of the reasons.
Slumber not tried that, I've tried nightall and a few others but they didn't work for me ,but then I don't have much trouble going to sleep, it's staying asleep.
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As you're wide awake, Steve, is there still a big pub/hotel in Malvern Link, where the landlord used to have an enormous bottle of Scotch on an optic?
He could easily drain that in a week, and was the life and soul of the place!
I stayed there back in the seventies, and can't remember the name, unless it was 'The Lygon'...
(That'll send you off to kip no doubt..;0)
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Good morning Steveharford and Blackberryjam it seems we suffer from the active mind syndrome :D I too have no trouble getting to sleep it's the staying asleep that is the problem
Not heard of slumber. I would think that these remedies are more for getting you to sleep than keeping you there.
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Not much in the way of hotels in The Link , Growster. A few in great Malvern itself such as The Abbey. There is a Lygon Arms in Broadway which is some distance away.
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Not much in the way of hotels in The Link , Growster. A few in great Malvern itself such as The Abbey. There is a Lygon Arms in Broadway which is some distance away.
Is that the place where Morgan cars are made, Steve?
I must be getting confused..;0)
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Yep they still make the Morgan here. Still going strong despite ignoring Sir John Harvey Jones advice :-)
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Yep they still make the Morgan here. Still going strong despite ignoring Sir John Harvey Jones advice :-)
Thankyou!
I love the story of a bloke who got on the waiting list, and by the time he took delivery, he'd put on so much weight, he couldn't fit behind the steering wheel!
Great car - wish I'd had one!
(My dad was engineer at Braces Leigh - Guinness Hop Farms! The big oast I designed is still there I think - well I hope so!)
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Just thinking maybe it was the Foley Arms in Malvern but then I still see the ex owner about here and I doubt he would still be alive if he drank like that :-)
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Yes those were the days when you could take delivery and immediately sell it for a massive profit ! Oooops !
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Just thinking maybe it was the Foley Arms in Malvern but then I still see the ex owner about here and I doubt he would still be alive if he drank like that :-)
Hmmm...it could have been 'The Foley'...
Trouble is, it was in back in 1974, and I was on my my first job away from home and wife and family, so minds wander after forty years..;0)
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Enjoy your trip to Cornwall Ma, maybe the sea air will help you sleep better.
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Enjoy your trip to Cornwall Ma, maybe the sea air will help you sleep better.
Thank you. I hope so too bit if you see me on here you know it hasn't worked :D
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Can't sleep too much running round my head wether we have got everything for our trip to Cornwall ..... oooo towels and tea towels .... See I would have forgot them :nowink:
I can always catch up with a few zzzzz in the car on the way down. The birds are so noisy this morning lol.
Typical fell to sleep on the settee at 9:00ish last night just woke up 12:30 and now have to go the bed and will not be able to get back to sleep Doh!
UPDATE Back up awake at just after 2 in the morning and decided to potter around on the computer and tidy my little office so that I get knackered enough to get back to sleep so I guess and hour or so and then I will try again
Did you get back to sleep after pottering around on the computerr :D
Yes and no ... got back into bed and only woke up twice - but then up a 6:00 and have been doing the business accounts - now having breakfast and reading typing here the girls are all still upstairs asleep ::)
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been up for an hour, bathroom now sparkles. bacon sarnie then plotwards - happy Saturday all! :)
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Can't sleep too much running round my head wether we have got everything for our trip to Cornwall ..... oooo towels and tea towels .... See I would have forgot them :nowink:
I can always catch up with a few zzzzz in the car on the way down. The birds are so noisy this morning lol.
Typical fell to sleep on the settee at 9:00ish last night just woke up 12:30 and now have to go the bed and will not be able to get back to sleep Doh!
UPDATE Back up awake at just after 2 in the morning and decided to potter around on the computer and tidy my little office so that I get knackered enough to get back to sleep so I guess and hour or so and then I will try again
Did you get back to sleep after pottering around on the computerr :D
Yes and no ... got back into bed and only woke up twice - but then up a 6:00 and have been doing the business accounts - now having breakfast and reading typing here the girls are all still upstairs asleep ::)
It's hard to switch off when you have your own business. So much to do and think about no wonder sleepless nights.
been up for an hour, bathroom now sparkles. bacon sarnie then plotwards - happy Saturday all! :)
I can just smell that bacon Surbie mmmmm
Hubby has just said as we are awake so early let's have an hour on the plot before we go. Nooooooo chance :ohmy: I have too much to sort. Right I am off folks have a good week
Ma x
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Enjoy Ma :)
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If my brain is going round at 100mph overnight, I usually put the radio on very quietly. Usually R5 but sometimes R4 instead. I find that my brain engages sufficiently with the speech to be distracted from my thoughts, but it's quiet enough to allow me to drop off without disturbance once ready.
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Should have logged on her at 1.10 am this morning when Harrison threw up so violently that our whole bed including old lady electric blanket needed to be stripped. Thank you Harrison. ::)
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Awake before 6, almost got up but made myself stay there, and woke at a much more reasonable 8am when hubby brought me a coffee :) I may stay up 'late' today with the grown-ups :D rather than dropping off mid film.
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If my brain is going round at 100mph overnight, I usually put the radio on very quietly. Usually R5 but sometimes R4 instead. I find that my brain engages sufficiently with the speech to be distracted from my thoughts, but it's quiet enough to allow me to drop off without disturbance once ready.
Snap Yorkie. I also plug my self into Radio 4 which turns into the World Service at 1 am. There are some very interesting programmes on....but I don't usually hear to the end!!!!! ::)
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Morning all. We are going to a nursery today and the excitement has got to me! We tried getting in the other day (It's a miracle we even found it tucked away off the road) but you have to go to a certain gate and there were too many to choose from, so someone is coming with us today to show us the ropes. There were tantalising glimpses of polytunnels full to bursting with healthy looking plants. :D
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Sounds more exciting than my garden centre visit! I only managed to buy some cell trays, snips and yankee candles!
(Oh and some bulbs!)
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Good morning, it's the first time I've slept through to nearly 7 this year :D ,trouble is I've now got a headache :(
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Good morning, it's the first time I've slept through to nearly 7 this year :D ,trouble is I've now got a headache :(
Ah yes. The' had enough sleep for a change' headache. You wait for the luxury of a sleep in and it's spoilt by a thick head reminiscent of a hangover.
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Good morning, it's the first time I've slept through to nearly 7 this year :D ,trouble is I've now got a headache :(
Ah yes. The' had enough sleep for a change' headache. You wait for the luxury of a sleep in and it's spoilt by a thick head reminiscent of a hangover.
Feels just like that, the morning after feeling is one of the reasons I don't drink anymore ,that and spending most of the night hugging the loo. :lol:
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Well I'm on 4.30am getups this week for work, and not back until around 8pm, between a bit of cooking, eating and sleeping I shan't do much else apart from work!
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Well I'm on 4.30am getups this week for work, and not back until around 8pm, between a bit of cooking, eating and sleeping I shan't do much else apart from work!
Snap only difference is I'm up at 5am :(
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Morning - not been able to sleep for over an hour now...
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Had a lie in this morning as up half the night....but we wanted to go out early with the cameras! Hey ho.
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Had a lie in this morning as up half the night....but we wanted to go out early with the cameras! Hey ho.
Cor - the day is wasted now! ::)
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5.50am today, love it- I can get to the 6am alarm and switch it off as I hate it going off- It jangles me up and ruins my morning on the very rare occasion it gets to sound. How does my body keep the time whilst I'm asleep?
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knock Knock --- Anyone about ?
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Morning all. Feeling fed up because we keep being promised rain and they keep moving the date. Only spring and the garden is parched and we are watering every day. I expect I will live to regret this moan! ::) :lol:
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Morning all. Feeling fed up because we keep being promised rain and they keep moving the date. Only spring and the garden is parched and we are watering every day. I expect I will live to regret this moan! ::) :lol:
Its been raining here :nowink:
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knock Knock --- Anyone about ?
I actually was! got woken up by 19yr old (!) who complained was feeling unwell- she's underweight so I thought 'hypo gylcemic' and she asked for toast but didn't eat it (my husband goes 'ooh toast?'- ITS 2 am!) and was then sick on her carpet :ohmy: got back to sleep at 4 but eyes open at 5.50am. as usual ::)
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Tired and fed up and headachy. I thought once I didn't have to get up at 4am for work I wouldn't care about not getting much sleep, but after a few nights I still feel bad even though I don't go out to work. Bah! Grumpy.
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Busy busy at work, so I was tired last night and went to bed at 9.30 last night. Wide awake at 5.00 am ::)
Did the same the night before and was in work just after 7.00 am yesterday. May go in early today, but not as early as that. Plotting a stop off at Costa to set me up for the day ;) :lol:
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Been awake sines 5.45 but stayed where I was until now,I've got up to see DD off to fire training again,I'll be glad when Fridays here as that's the last day until a week in April.
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I was listening to The News Quiz at 2.15, and afterwards, still chuckling, there was Hamish and Dougal, which was hilarious - even at 2.45am...
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Quiet here this morning :-)
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I've been awake since about 5.00 am, but have been watching catch up TV ;) Might have a nap after the chickens have been let out :)
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Morning folks, it seems that even the cornish sea air does nothing to make me sleep longer. Been awake every morning between 5 and 6 am. Went to Heligan yesterday really enjoyed that even though there wasn't much veg to see plenty of flowers and other things. Weather has not been too bad though its forecast rain today and tomorrow.
I am missing my garden and allotment. Even resorted to buying 2 gardening magazines.
I am surprised I can get on here coz the internet is absolute rubbish down here.
Right off to get some brekky and plan today.
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Belated good morning. Went out early to see if we could see anything interesting at the river, but nothing much would pose for the camera. It is so lovely though in the early morning before the shepherds and cowherds get there. Shame about the rubbish.
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Mmmmm Can't sleep again >:(
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Mmmmm Can't sleep again >:(
2am seems to be the new wake up time for me. It's the 7th day in a row that I've woken up around 2am and been wide awake. It's going to be a long couple of hours before I have to get up and ready for work....
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Still buzzing over here too.
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Likewise
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Well I am up before the alarm again today ::) At least I will be in tune for the clocks changing on Saturday night and getting up for work on Sunday :lol:
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Here again.
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Has anyone tried this? www.sleepio.com ? Heard about it on Inside Health on R4 this week. I realise it's now so late, no one will read this until tomorrow morning, but .....!
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Has anyone tried this? www.sleepio.com ? Heard about it on Inside Health on R4 this week. I realise it's now so late, no one will read this until tomorrow morning, but .....!
Just had a look its a Bit expensive, they should do a free trial first.
I'm going to see my GP about waking up during the night , but she will probably say the same as last time, cut out the caffeine and go for a walk before bedtime.
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It seems pricey at £50 ish, but a face to face CBT consultation can cost that for one or two sessions.I suppose it depends on whether you like being awake in the middle of the night, or if you fret (I'm a fretter!).
Got up early today to send OH to his mum's. Got loads done before lunch, but now I'm spent......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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I do find herbal sleeping tablets help - there are 2 big brands - they contain hops, passionflower and valerian ;)
I need them before a long day at work or I don't sleep - I thik I worry about oversleeping and missing the alarm!! :wacko:
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The beauty of early retirement. Have a moan then enjoy a nice long day doing what I want. No need for pills and potions. :D
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This is becoming a habit :lol:
I have the opposite problem. Can't keep my eyes open after a long day at work then wake up early ::)
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The birdsong has been brilliant here, and I've been up over half an hour!
Big weekend ahead, Elder Daught's big birthday party..;0)
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Blooming cats again.
Let's hope they don't put their clocks forward tonight!
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Blooming cats again.
Let's hope they don't put their clocks forward tonight!
I was staggering around at midnight when the dog decided to want to go out for some reason...
Hmphhh...
But she's forgiven me now!
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Blooming cats again.
Let's hope they don't put their clocks forward tonight!
I'm hoping mine aren't intelligent enough to realise either!
Although I'm getting up early to watch the race anyway! ::)
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in the same boat Ma hubby can suck the room in at times , I get up and have a tidy or get stuff ready for baking .
chrissie b
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It is 05.08 Been wide awake since 3.10. went to bed at 21.30 so just over 5.5 hours sleep. all you are supposed need really. Not Shure about that :lol: :lol:
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I suppose 've done quite well, although it's only 0540 GMT"
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Well I'm up. Slept like a log after a long day at work. I've been waking at around 5.00 all week, but the clocks have changed, so I feel like I have had a lie-in today :lol:
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mothers day-who decided that was a good idea? :mad: 5.30 in old time. I need to be up for church, it's usually very busy today-otherwise I'd have stayed in bed.
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Well the clock said 6.15, couldn't remember whether we had changed it but got up. We had done that particular clock so it didn't matter. I'm like Newshoot, go to bed early and get up early as a consequence.
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Have been up for a while now, just been to the shop for a newspaper. Will be a busy day today, kids will wake mum up shortly with pressies. I will go put flowers on mums grave later, then do dads shopping, then sow more seeds, then go to the plot. But before all that, I will sit down at 8am to watch the grand prix, on my own.
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Well I'm so glad I came on here, though I have just had a bit of a yikes thinking that 8.30 on the computer meant it was actually 9.30, so it's really 7.30 but I need to put all the house clocks forward... quite good really as I am itching to get going to the tip and the MiL, drop the boys off with their dad and go to Morris practice! Having been woken at first light by the cat puking in the hall. First have to wake the teenager up without actually going in his bedroom from which i have been banned the last two days as it contains my "surprise" Mother's Day present!
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First night back in our beds last night and I actually slept right through without waking at all until 7.40 which meant it must have been 6.40 but then I didn't put the clocks forward forgot and looked at my Ipad for the time when I woke which I think updates by itself so it must have been the right time of 7.40. That's a record for me. :)
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First night back in our beds last night and I actually slept right through without waking at all until 7.40 which meant it must have been 6.40 but then I didn't put the clocks forward forgot and looked at my Ipad for the time when I woke which I think updates by itself so it must have been the right time of 7.40. That's a record for me. :)
Did you have a nice time? :)
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Morning All. :)
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Morning Tosca100 :)
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5.38am. Body knows the clocks have changed :tongue2:, but don't like it being dark in the mornings.....again.
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First night back in our beds last night and I actually slept right through without waking at all until 7.40 which meant it must have been 6.40 but then I didn't put the clocks forward forgot and looked at my Ipad for the time when I woke which I think updates by itself so it must have been the right time of 7.40. That's a record for me. :)
Did you have a nice time? :)
Had a great time thank you though the weather could have been better. Back to reality now.
I have tossed and turned all night and now have a migraine which will just get worse as the day goes on. :(
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I finally managed to get a nights sleep :D. We got a dog play pen for the pup and she seems to have settled better in it than she was in the crate for the past two weeks she went right through until 7.30 and I think the only reason she woke then was because my daughter was up to start studying.
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It's very mild here, and the dog usually pops out around now, if I'm up and about.
Yesterday, she wanted to go out at around five.fifteen, and while she was out, there was a huge 'hoot' from an owl nearby, and she went berserk..;0)
Nobody wants that racket at that time of morning!
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First day back at work today after ten days off. Don't really feel like it but never mind, needs must.
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Morning all. Heavy rain last night kept me awake for a bit.
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Do I take it that everyone had a lie in this morning :D
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Morning all. Been sleeping better lately, not waking properly till around 5, but being kept awake by duet snoring and itchy leg...the biters were out in force by the water yesterday. So here I am talking to a computer at two twenty our time and at a guess a dog has taken my place on the bed. Ah well, he'll probably not notice! :lol:
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Twin foghorns? :D
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Just waiting for the sun to come up so I can run off and get an hour's digging in. This is a sentence I would never have dreamed of typing 2 years ago!
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Also waiting for daylight.
Have a load of peas that have a date with the soil!
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Twin foghorns? :D
OH doesn't snore nearly as much as he did when he was office bound, so it's noticeable now, then on the floor by the door Bonnie lab is getting on a bit with resulting snores....and worse! :lol:
Good job I can't hear myself, I'd never sleep!!!! :ohmy: :lol:
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Twin foghorns? :D
OH doesn't snore nearly as much as he did when he was office bound, so it's noticeable now, then on the floor by the door Bonnie lab is getting on a bit with resulting snores....and worse! :lol:
Good job I can't hear myself, I'd never sleep!!!! :ohmy: :lol:
:lol: :lol: Earplugs might be good
Normally if I can stay awake long enough I watch the 10 o clock news and then its tv off lights out and sleep, but for reasons unknown to myself we started to watch the film that was on after the news and you know when you know something is going to be rubbish but you still watch it and before you know it its gone 1 am and you think what a total waste of a few hours sleep that was then you sleep until 7 am don't want to wake up, which is a novelty, but have to and feel like s**t all day? .......... well that's me today :wacko: :wacko:
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Must admit I didn't get going with the 'chores' till 9ish today and so it is afternoon here and I am still on the bread! :ohmy: Usually we have fresh bread for lunch, but had to make do with cheese scones today, using some of our precious cheddar. Such a hard life. :lol: So now it is too hot to do much outside and weeding will have to wait till later when the bitey things will be out in force again, leading to more night tie scratching. Better up the garlic intake I think. Hey ho.
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I'm still up. It's a ploy to try and sleep for more than two hours in one go. Last night I was awake till about 2.30, up again at 4 something and then 5 something, etc. Can't face going online in the wee small hours, but maybe it's better than sulking?! >:(
On my own tonight, so may have a chance! No snoring to contend with and I can stretch out. :) (Will probably miss him, though ;))
Nighty night!
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I'm still up. It's a ploy to try and sleep for more than two hours in one go. Last night I was awake till about 2.30, up again at 4 something and then 5 something, etc. Can't face going online in the wee small hours, but maybe it's better than sulking?! >:(
On my own tonight, so may have a chance! No snoring to contend with and I can stretch out. :) (Will probably miss him, though ;))
Nighty night!
I found staying up seemed to help, & most nights at the moment I am sleeping much better. Years ago I used to fall asleep in the chair regularly & had no problem sleeping at night. :wacko:
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Just read through this thread.... what an amazing bunch of early risers you all are!
I hate early mornings. These days 9am is early for me. First coffee at about 1/4 to 10 and then the day has started. Oh the joys of early retirement (there have to be some)...I usually get to sit down at about 7pm so starting the day later suits me fine.
My day continues to end around 2 or 3am not so much by choice or necessity now more through habit having become very used to broken nights but I don't miss the early mornings at all. I'm sure, given the chance, I could sleep for England. What a shame it's not an Olympic sport.
I'm happy with 6 or 7 hours each night..... I feel so much more with it than I did with just 4 unbroken hours on a good day.
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Surely it's wakey wakey time for some of you early risers?
I can hear the gentle zzzzzzzzzz from here. ;)
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Weeell, I was going to get up a couple of hours ago as I had been clock watching for an hour, but gave myself a good telling off and managed to get back for a snooze. My computer then decided it didn't want to wake up.............Anyway, good morning to you Paul. :D
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And a very good morning to you too. :) Nice to natter.
But, to tell you the truth, I am gradually working my way towards a fit state to sleep... after all I have to be up and busy in another 5 hours. :lol:
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I am two hours ahead of you, so not that early today. Just read your other post about your compost heap. Can't really comment on that as no experience of allotments and their rules, but I am not surprised if you don't sleep that well with all you have going on in your world. :(
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Here again.
Off for a week away a bit later. Oddly my body clock resets itself a bit and says there's no point getting up ans there's not a lot you can do!
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Here again.
Off for a week away a bit later. Oddly my body clock resets itself a bit and says there's no point getting up ans there's not a lot you can do!
A pint of tea calls at this time of day, DD!
Great weather here now, and I hope your week away is the same!
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Thanks, bit damp here at the mo, but weather clearing north, which is the way we're heading! :mad: First stop Chester, then Blackpool for an amateur radio rally, then the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales.
Weather forecast is " variable", for want of a better word.
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Have a good trip DD. I lived in Chester before moving here and my sister lives in Windermere.I used to live and work in the Dales years ago. So lots of familiar areas to me, I'll think of you enjoying them. :)
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You see, you're lucky DD, because you can go away in all directions!
Down here, we can only really go West or North, besides a bit of East Kent!
And as the business/retail/leisure promoters always say when talking about coastal towns - 'Fish don't buy tickets'!
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Had a lie in today before I'm off to the Cake and Bake show in Manchester - hope it lives up to last year!
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It's got cake, how can it not be?! :nowink: :tongue2: :lol:
Hope you had a good day, Asherweef.
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Certainly did! Major downer that mum's dog was put down with Alabama rot but she still wanted to be out of the house... She'd only had him for 3 weeks :(. When I'm home I'll post some pictures because the cakes were amazing. I'm now 60 quid worse off for books, dough scrapers and acoutrements though!
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Thanks, bit damp here at the mo, but weather clearing north, which is the way we're heading! :mad: First stop Chester, then Blackpool for an amateur radio rally, then the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales.
Weather forecast is " variable", for want of a better word.
I am so jealous DD!!! Lucky thing. Holidays
I hope you have a great time. The Yorkshire Dales are beautiful no matter when (even early in the morning) or what the weather. Which part are you going to?
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Morning all, am I the first up? I had a bit of a lie in this morning which is a rare treat for me though I have to say that lately I have been sleeping a bit longer with just the odd early morning wake up where I can't get back to sleep.
Looks a reasonable day out there, time for coffee me thinks :D
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Morning all. Just saying hello before going off to a market, once it's light enough to let the chooks out. Answered emails and watched Casualty and about to pack the car up.
Have a lovely day everyone....we are hoping for rain, but hopefully a bit later. :D
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Woke up around 5 to bird song :) snoring >:( a pain in my hip :( and a dog cuddled in behind my knees :nowink: I thought I'd have some quiet? time looking at card tutorials on line :D I soon found one on 3D paper crafting :D However my :D soon turned to >:( someone was outside shouting 'Dave, Dave' on a loop >:( the dogs raised their ears, OH was still snoring away, as if that was bad enough, banging started, OH continued his not so gentle snoring until the dogs began barking ::) I'm no shrinking violet so off I went to see what was occurring. I opened the front door to find a chap sitting in my neighbours garden like a gnome ???
What happened next was reminiscent of the Full Monty car in canal scene.
Me, Hello :)
He, Hello :)
Me, You all right?
He, Yes :)
By the time OH found his glasses, slippers and trousers, the chap was gone. Now he thinks I was imagining it :ohmy: >:( :mad:
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Woke up around 5 to bird song :) snoring >:( a pain in my hip :( and a dog cuddled in behind my knees :nowink: I thought I'd have some quiet? time looking at card tutorials on line :D I soon found one on 3D paper crafting :D However my :D soon turned to >:( someone was outside shouting 'Dave, Dave' on a loop >:( the dogs raised their ears, OH was still snoring away, as if that was bad enough, banging started, OH continued his not so gentle snoring until the dogs began barking ::) I'm no shrinking violet so off I went to see what was occurring. I opened the front door to find a chap sitting in my neighbours garden like a gnome ???
What happened next was reminiscent of the Full Monty car in canal scene.
Me, Hello :)
He, Hello :)
Me, You all right?
He, Yes :)
By the time OH found his glasses, slippers and trousers, the chap was gone. Now he thinks I was imagining it :ohmy: >:( :mad:
The last bit was funny! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Hope your hip feels better :) I often find myself pinned in one position in bed by 4 cats ::)
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My feet are usually pinned down in bed by one determined cat ::)
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My feet are usually pinned down in bed by one determined cat ::)
Ours does that... but only in cold weather. Makes a great foot warmer.
But
When Mrs P is away kitty wanders up and down on top of me to wake me up for breakfact at 5!
It doesn't work so she tries the subtle approach... a cold nose on the tip of mine.
More successful when repeated every 5 minutes.
By the way. Good morning :)
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Up at 4:45 breakfast and now off to shave and get ready for a long day - go to be in London to start interviewing at 8:30 :nowink:
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I have been awake since 5ish and after hubbies alarm went off I couldnt get back to sleep thinking of my freebie greenhouse and where to put it. So pleased with that. The sun is shining yayyyyyyy life is sooo good when the sun shines don't you think :D
Up at 4:45 breakfast and now off to shave and get ready for a long day - go to be in London to start interviewing at 8:30 :nowink:
Good luck with the interviews :D
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Well, that's another day sorted and I can sit down at home, read, watch tv, surf or... go to bed I suppose.
I'm not going to be part of the early morning club today.
Interviews enjoyable and successful I hope?
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I haven't been here this time of morning for a little while. I must be excited at getting another greenhouse and thinking what I can grow in that one too. I wonder how difficult grapes would be to grow? Off to do a bit of research. :D
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There's a field near Matlock planted with grape vines. When my mum was young they grew grapes with the roots outside and the vines inside the glass porch. They lived in Dunbartonshire so I think you should be OK :)
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There's a field near Matlock planted with grape vines. When my mum was young they grew grapes with the roots outside and the vines inside the glass porch. They lived in Dunbartonshire so I think you should be OK :)
My dad planted a grape vine outside of his lean-to greenhouse years and years ago. My son lives in the bungalow now and made a great job of re-training and pruning it last year. It gives a good harvest with the minimum of attention. Inside the greenhouse lots of ventilation needed and protection from scorching sun. Outside the odd bucket of manure and plenty of water.
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I've been contemplating growing a vine on a pergola :)
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It suddenly dawned on me that maybe I'm following the wrong thread: "Early morning" when I should be hunting for: "Late night" :lol:
Sweet dreams everyone... ;)
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No it's after midnight so it is morning ::)
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Well? Where is everyone? 8)
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No internet access, It's raining and the internet is a trifle sensitive. However, it's lovely to see rain and the nightingale has not let it put him off, so all is well. :D
Now, will this post? :unsure:
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Yes it did!
Had a week away, but soon back into the old routine!
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Morning everyone.
DD hope you enjoyed your week away, the weather didn't seem to be too bad least.
Paul it's early the next day so it counts for the early morning club :D
I have tossed and turned all night with painful joints after an 11 hour stint on the greenhouse yesterday and all afternoon the day before. I have washed every single PAIN of glass and all the frame in fact the only thing not to get washed was the soil IN the greenhouse :( I don't see any other woman or man for that case spending 11 or 12 hours a day in their gardens or allotment so I have come to the conclusion that a) my hubby is a slave driver and b) I am stupid enough to do it ::)
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Got a skype interview to do at 9am so I'm panicing abit
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No internet access, It's raining and the internet is a trifle sensitive. However, it's lovely to see rain and the nightingale has not let it put him off, so all is well. :D
Now, will this post? :unsure:
Can you see the nightingale? Can you record him singing?
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Got a skype interview to do at 9am so I'm panicing abit
I'm sure you'll be fine MC just put the 'right' clothes on :lol:
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Got a skype interview to do at 9am so I'm panicing abit
I'm sure you'll be fine MC just put the 'right' clothes on :lol:
Just put some clothes on. :lol:
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:lol: :lol:
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No internet access, It's raining and the internet is a trifle sensitive. However, it's lovely to see rain and the nightingale has not let it put him off, so all is well. :D
Now, will this post? :unsure:
Can you see the nightingale? Can you record him singing?
Didn't see him as the leaves are out on the pear tree. OH recorded it but had to ask on a birder's group what it was as we are total bird novices. Can't put it on photobucket though, they spoke gobbledegook to me and said no.
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Oh what a shame, have you a blog of your move to Bulgaria you could put it on there.
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Got a skype interview to do at 9am so I'm panicing abit
I'm sure you'll be fine MC just put the 'right' clothes on :lol:
Just put some clothes on. :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
thanks feel better after a laugh
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My sis & I always think about the ' other' person sat on the toilet with their pants round their ankles just like everyone else in situations like this :lol: :lol: seems to work we tend to get the jobs etc we want.
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Oh what a shame, have you a blog of your move to Bulgaria you could put it on there.
It's on the blog, which is found by clicking on the world symbol on the left under my name. The video is on the second last entry (I think) :) No pic of the bird unfortunately, :(just the pear tree at the front of the house.
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Morning all. The world out there in the garden smells earthy and content after a couple of days of gentle rain. However, that didn't help me sleep! And it seems the nightingale has the same problem.
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Morning all. The world out there in the garden smells earthy and content after a couple of days of gentle rain. However, that didn't help me sleep! And it seems the nightingale has the same problem.
The nightingale, you and me too.
I was ready for an early night at midnight then decided to check my emails before bed....... a bad move. >:(
As a result I've spent the entire night sitting here completing some calculations and planning.
It's not a good time to go to bed now as I won't wake up in time to make tea and breakfast for my mother. No Mrs Plots around to give me a call if I over-sleep. :(
Hang-man anyone?
I think I'll hunt for 'The Singleton' to keep me going. :wacko:
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Ah well. Looks like an early start on the plot for me.
Can't blame the cats or the dawn chorus today.
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I didn't disturb you did I DD? :unsure:
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Don't think so, been awake since 4.00 am, but was trying hard to get back to sleep. Certainly looks like an early appointment with the last two rows of spuds this morning!
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Morning all. Looks like another decent day in store. Got to look at a couple of jobs then hopefully back to get my main crop in. I really want them out of the way this weekend. Then I can concentrate on tidying up the edges and also get some parsnips sown.
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Early spuds...
My 1st earlies went in then out again then in... not quite so early now.
Good luck with yours. What a wonderfully peaceful start they'll have. :lol:
Parsnips? Oh yes!!
I have some saved seed I want to try out..... but time is marching on.
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Early morning spuds at least. These are the last two rows of lates.
Next up - early morning carrots!
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How early can you plant late broadbeans?
Mine are sat sitting in pots outside the greenhouse. I could nip over and frighten the fox and plonk them before breakfast. :)
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Can ya keep the racket down you lot you gone and woke me now :nowink: jeez it's taken me
sheds ages(predictive text grrr) to get back to sleep then all I can hear is you lot nattering tut.
Not so early morning for me but I was awake at 2am until about 4am. If I could have a wish it would be for a full undisturbed nights sleep.
We are expecting some rain so a day in the greenhouse me thinks sorting all them pots out. Anyone want some pots? :D
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Got dustbins full of pots thanks!
Rain? We're only forecast a spot about 1.00 pm. Will be well home by then! Off now, toodle pips.
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How early can you plant late broad beans?
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About 548am; as soon as it gets light. ;)
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How early can you plant late broad beans?
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About 548am; as soon as it gets light. ;)
Too late around here!! With the use of an LED flash-light I can nip out when the squirrels are snoring so avoiding their beedy little eyes seeing what I'm up to. Lets the plants settle in before the blaze of the morning sun hits them too. :wacko:
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Morning all. Off to a car boot sale this morning, hate the things but needs must. Dreading it and weather does not look promising. :(
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Mornin, where's everyone then? Tosca gone carbootin & here am I on my lonesome. Hubby sounds like a freight train so I gave in & got up. 1 load of towels in the tumble dryer & another in the washing machine. Might make a cake in a bit. DD will be up in a bit off to fire training again but she was Mardy yesterday so I'll only speak if spoken to :(
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Mornin, where's everyone then? Tosca gone carbootin & here am I on my lonesome. Hubby sounds like a freight train so I gave in & got up. 1 load of towels in the tumble dryer & another in the washing machine. Might make a cake in a bit. DD will be up in a bit off to fire training again but she was Mardy yesterday so I'll only speak if spoken to :(
Hiyaaa Snows!
Dog wanted to go out, so had to get up, so here's a chum to chat with !
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Ok then Growster, what you got planned for today?
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Ok then Growster, what you got planned for today?
Sorry Snows, got led away for tea...
Probably doing all the edges down at The Patch, as the grass is far to long there. It does mean some serious Glyphos as it's mainly couch grass, which invades the beds, but once done that's it for the season!
Also, as it's nice and dry, I'll get rotovating too, and do some earthing up as the spuds have all shown this week, which is a bit quick!
What have you got planned?
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All being well Mr S is going to the plot with me & he's going to rotorvate some beds for me. I will make tea & generally flap about as he will go on about how untidy it all is. I've also got loads of weeding to do. Then if time do some on the garden & get the dinner done. Oh & change the bed,might do that when hubby get out of it,he objects vociferously if I do it with him still in it, he wouldn't object to a bed bath though ;)
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Ha ha ha - bed-bath; my foot!
We have a new mattress and have to turn it every week or something dire happens to it, so that's my exercise done for the week..;0)
It's odd, but everything does look untidy around now, as there's so much to do all at the same time. I reckon we never really get it all looking right until July and anyway, Patches and Plots don't have to be pristine do they!
Have a good one anyway, and hopefully a tincture or three, as it is Sunday!
(Isn't it..?)
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Morning all, lovely sunny morning too, I must remember to close the curtains at night cos the sun rises and shines right on me and wakes me up. By the way I don,t go to bed and just leave the curtains open we have verticals blinds so don't need to close the curtains just in case you were wondering like :D
Hoping to find a grapevine today and maybe a peach tree for the greenhouse then laying the slabs and gravel in the newly acquired greenhouse and then if time an hour or so on the plot putting the main crop potatoes in. Oh and more seed sowing especially tomatoes, it's all go here :D
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Ha ha ha - bed-bath; my foot!
We have a new mattress and have to turn it every week or something dire happens to it, so that's my exercise done for the week..;0)
It's odd, but everything does look untidy around now, as there's so much to do all at the same time. I reckon we never really get it all looking right until July and anyway, Patches and Plots don't have to be pristine do they!
Have a good one anyway, and hopefully a tincture or three, as it is Sunday!
(Isn't it..?)
You'll have to get Mrs G to bed bath your foot :lol:
Made a Victoria sponge, baking as we type :) ps don't tell them on HLC I'm not supposed to be having any.
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Up at 2:30 this morning as I can never sleep after a drink; decided to do a bit of minor DIY (putting the curtain rails back up and filling in some holes).
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Ha ha ha - bed-bath; my foot!
We have a new mattress and have to turn it every week or something dire happens to it, so that's my exercise done for the week..;0)
It's odd, but everything does look untidy around now, as there's so much to do all at the same time. I reckon we never really get it all looking right until July and anyway, Patches and Plots don't have to be pristine do they!
Have a good one anyway, and hopefully a tincture or three, as it is Sunday!
(Isn't it..?)
You'll have to get Mrs G to bed bath your foot :lol:
Made a Victoria sponge, baking as we type :) ps don't tell them on HLC I'm not supposed to be having any.
HLC have spies everywhere!! :lol:
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Well you have all been busy!
Me:- mother's tea and breakfast done, the animals sorted out, the broadbeans planted, a loaf on the go and now it's time for my morning to get started with the 4 Weekly paperwork chore.... :wacko:
It's odd, but everything does look untidy around now, as there's so much to do all at the same time. I reckon we never really get it all looking right until July and anyway, Patches and Plots don't have to be *pristine do they!
Our new plot warden thinks they do*. ::) My dad's old plot is weedless - clean weed-free soil and the path edges are trimmed. I'm keeping it that way and gradually emptying the shed ready for the final escape. That'll have to be either an early morning flit or a last thing in the evening flight.
(The compost heap can stay)
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Well you have all been busy!
Me:- mother's tea and breakfast done, the animals sorted out, the broadbeans planted, a loaf on the go and now it's time for my morning to get started with the 4 Weekly paperwork chore.... :wacko:
You say that as if you haven't done very much, that is more than I have done all day so far :D
Just got back form getting 2 grapevines a Lakemont and a Vitis Flame seedless also got 3 Bluberry bushes. I think we have more than enough fruit to be going on with now :D
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Ha ha ha - bed-bath; my foot!
We have a new mattress and have to turn it every week or something dire happens to it, so that's my exercise done for the week..;0)
It's odd, but everything does look untidy around now, as there's so much to do all at the same time. I reckon we never really get it all looking right until July and anyway, Patches and Plots don't have to be pristine do they!
Have a good one anyway, and hopefully a tincture or three, as it is Sunday!
(Isn't it..?)
You'll have to get Mrs G to bed bath your foot :lol:
Made a Victoria sponge, baking as we type :) ps don't tell them on HLC I'm not supposed to be having any.
HLC have spies everywhere!! :lol:
Ssh springy I thought you were my friend :lol:
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Ha ha ha - bed-bath; my foot!
We have a new mattress and have to turn it every week or something dire happens to it, so that's my exercise done for the week..;0)
It's odd, but everything does look untidy around now, as there's so much to do all at the same time. I reckon we never really get it all looking right until July and anyway, Patches and Plots don't have to be pristine do they!
Have a good one anyway, and hopefully a tincture or three, as it is Sunday!
(Isn't it..?)
You'll have to get Mrs G to bed bath your foot :lol:
Made a Victoria sponge, baking as we type :) ps don't tell them on HLC I'm not supposed to be having any.
HLC have spies everywhere!! :lol:
Ssh springy I thought you were my friend :lol:
I am, I am - just trying to keep you on the straight and narrow. :lol:
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Narrow being the operative word. Won't tell you what I'm having for pud in a minute then.
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Narrow being the operative word. Won't tell you what I'm having for pud in a minute then.
Well, I've just polished off last weeks' rhubarb crumble, and it's only Sunday evening...
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Have you been spying in my kitchen Growster.
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Morning all. I was determined to have a lie in this morning but chronic indigestion said otherwise. After an hour or more of discomfort gave in and got up....no sign of it now. Bah! >:(
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I'm the early bird here, but usually just lie about hoping to get back to sleep. Last night I was well asleep when OH leapt up and squashed me! "There's a fox in the garden!" He shouts. "It woke me up!" Well, it didn't wake me or the dog. >:( He ran out with the torch and says it just looked at him disdainfully and slunk off up the garden to the allotments. It was 2 am. :lol:
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Hello, anyone around??
Frosty here, hope no one's planted tender stuff too soon!
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Hello, anyone around??
Frosty here, hope no one's planted tender stuff too soon!
Yup, and we got a bit worried about the forecast last evening!
Seems OK - so far, but I'm not going down to the Patch yet...
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we had a frost forecast for last night,luckily OH was at the plot yesterday so fleeced the peas and beans
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I hope you're talking broad beans, not runner beans! Peas and broad beans would have withstood the temperatures we had last night.
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I wondered where that there frost went. :ohmy: I didn't think we'd get it even though the BBBeeeb tv forecast said 10C for us.
Another forecast disagreed.....
.........but in came my butternut squash and courgette plantlets from the cold-frame.
Right now I'm recovering from cramp. Does coffee help? We'll see.
Morning all. :mellow:
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Morning Paul. If it is muscle cramp - eating a banana often helps.
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Morning all. Not sure how cold it got here hope the seedlings I have in the greenhouse are ok. At least I have held off planting any of them out yet.
We are set for a beautiful day today so that means garden or allotment though there isn't much to do on the allotment. More seed sowing me thinks but first I have to put my greenhouse straight after emptying all the shelves and sorting through stuff don't need. I came across an enormous spider that would have eaten me alive if I hadn't run for my life. Went back in after I had calmed down and now can't find it so I won't be going in there until I know it's safe :ohmy:
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I hope you're talking broad beans, not runner beans! Peas and broad beans would have withstood the temperatures we had last night.
oh aye DD , it's broad beans, the runner beans are in the GH.
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We are set for a beautiful day today so that means garden or allotment though there isn't much to do on the allotment. More seed sowing me thinks but first I have to put my greenhouse straight after emptying all the shelves and sorting through stuff don't need. I came across an enormous spider that would have eaten me alive if I hadn't run for my life. Went back in after I had calmed down and now can't find it so I won't be going in there until I know it's safe :ohmy:
I can sympathise completely!!!
Huge black spider in my shed yesterday made me too scared to go back in!!! :lol:
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We are set for a beautiful day today so that means garden or allotment though there isn't much to do on the allotment. More seed sowing me thinks but first I have to put my greenhouse straight after emptying all the shelves and sorting through stuff don't need. I came across an enormous spider that would have eaten me alive if I hadn't run for my life. Went back in after I had calmed down and now can't find it so I won't be going in there until I know it's safe :ohmy:
I can sympathise completely!!!
Huge black spider in my shed yesterday made me too scared to go back in!!! :lol:
:ohmy: :ohmy: I don't do sheds too many of the blighters
We still haven't found our humongous tarantula with there'll like a shark so if I need to go in there it's a suit of armour job just in case it decides to attack :lol:
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Morning all, lovely damp and warm growing weather here. Nightingale has been singing all night but didn't manage to sing either of us to sleep. :D
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Must remember to re-set the bleeping alarm clock after and early morning start so I DONT GET TWO IN AS ROW....Doh! no point trying to get back asleep for an hour then feeling really bad al day, so I'm up coffee and computer time Ho Hum
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Today is a plot day.......lots to do, so no point laying in bed.....up and at them weeds.
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Today is a plot day.......lots to do, so no point laying in bed.....up and at them weeds.
We did our longest stint on 'The Patch' yesterday, and felt it in these ol' bones later on..;0)
Looks good down here too, but it's a Marks and Sparks/B and Q/Notcutts day instead...
Hope the weather stays fine for you Archibtm!
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Morning all, had a lie in this morning as I was so tired after all the hard work I did yesterday......... Sat on a train from Nottingham to Norwich and back. Decided to go to work with hubby and glide through the countryside. Boy is it tiring sitting there doing nothing but look at the lovely countryside on such a beautiful day.
Back to the grind stone today. Greenhouse no1 needs tidying after spider stopped job. Still no sigh of it so I will be tiptoeing through the greenhouse until I forget about it. Have a good day everyone. :D
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The new Notcutts in Pembury (Tunbridge Wells), was nowhere near up to normal Growster standard.
There's a regulated route though the place, so you have to pass the gnomes and silly, stupid garden stuff, and by the time you want a coffee (because you have a Sage card, and get it for nothing), you get a maelstrom of hungry/thirsty/awfully unpleasant people in some sort of queue which has no direction.
Naaah, won't go back there again, they've blown it!
Our village garden centre gets all our attention - Matt goes everywhere to try and find what you want, and we always get a smile, a laugh, quite a lot of friendly chat and a good deal!
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Morning Paul. If it is muscle cramp - eating a banana often helps.
Thanks for the tip. Shame there's going to be a shortage of the things it seems.
Why does cramp swap from one leg to the other? I usually get in my right calf but its moved across and up a bit. ???
Here's wishing all you early rises a lovely morning when the sun pops up later today. I'm off for a bout of cramp and a huge dose of beauty sleep which I really do need. (I avoid cameras these days :lol: )
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Taking an epsom salts soak in the tub helps a lot with muscle cramp. It gets more magnesium into your system, which helps keep away the cramps and the blood flowing.
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still dark here, cant get back to sleep. The magpie is chuntering in the tree outside my window and the blackbird is in fine voice
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Good morning everyone, looks like another nice day. More work in the greenhouse for me today sowing another magnitude of seeds :D
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Didn't that morning fly by!
Chores done and almost free for a few hours... just waiting for a visitor to turn up before I can set off.
Hope everyones day is going well.
Thanks for the tips Trillium but, unexpectedly, I had a good night with no sign of cramp. Here's hoping for two in a row.
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Didn't that morning fly by!
Chores done and almost free for a few hours... just waiting for a visitor to turn up before I can set off.
Hope everyones day is going well.
Thanks for the tips Trillium but, unexpectedly, I had a good night with no sign of cramp. Here's hoping for two in a row.
By the time i ate my breakfast the weather had turned grey and cold :(
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Hope the weather stays fine for you Archibtm!
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it sure did Growster, actually too fine as I think i ended up with sunstroke ::)
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Hope the weather stays fine for you Archibtm!
it sure did Growster, actually too fine as I think i ended up with sunstroke ::)
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You did better than we did, Notcutts was awful, so back to our friendly local garden centre, where we get a welcoming 'Hi', and a bantery chat when we all meet in a heap at at the checkout..;0)
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Morning all been awake since 6am. The sun is shining through the blinds which means it must be a nice a morning at least. :D
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Mornin' all :)
I am of course cheating! :D
I'm at work and therefore have to be up all night anyway ::) but I thought I'd pop in amd say hello to the earliest of risers :)
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I've been up early all week as the garden centre has been so busy. It is actually my weekend off, but here I am, wide awake and ready to go this morning again ::)
Oh well, good practise for Monday :lol:
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Here too.
I'd make another very early plot start, were it not for the outside temperature!
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Nippy here, but not too bad :) I need more coffee and then a plot visit is planned to plant out lots of stuff. Its raining tomorrow, so I need space in the greenhouse and seedling cloche to play with more seeds ;)
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Morning all been awake since 5.50 went down to let the dog out and make a coffee washed some stray dishes that were left around and here I am. Bit of a gloomy start here. I looking in the mirror just now and frightened myself (as I often do when looking in the mirror) my face neck and chest are bright red. Must have caught the sun while on the lottie yesterday :D
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Sat here in the shed having a brew thanks to the dawn chorus ::) not a soul around and its a lovely sunny morning. Just about to sow the parsnips
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As it's light by 6 we are up and out with dogs and chooks before coffee and computer, a bit chilly this morning and the ground is too wet for planting so a day inside today I think.
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Morning, a bit of a lie in this morning. Can hear the wind through the crack of the window and it looks very grey out there. No rain yet though :D
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Morning everyone.
Housewarming party last night and somehow - in my inebriated state - I managed to clean, wash up and mop the floors before getting in to bed...
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Morning everyone.
Housewarming party last night and somehow - in my inebriated state - I managed to clean, wash up and mop the floors before getting in to bed...
Wow you did do well. I bet it was more fun doing it and not really noticing! :lol:
I forgot to make a loaf last night so.. not that popular this morning when everyone had to wait for the bread to cool down for lunch ::)
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Been up a while and off to work in a minute.
Have a lovely bank holiday all :) My turn to have a day off comes on Thursday :)
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Morning. Foggy out there this morning. Doesn't look like a day for the lottie or garden :(
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Been up a while and off to work in a minute.
Have a lovely bank holiday all :) My turn to have a day off comes on Thursday :)
I didn't realise garden centres would be open today. I'll be staying well away though :nowink:
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Morning. Foggy out there this morning. Doesn't look like a day for the lottie or garden :(
Glorious here! Just a shame we need to do the family rounds… On the plus side only about 9 more hours until partner's sister & her husband go back home!
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Morning. Foggy out there this morning. Doesn't look like a day for the lottie or garden :(
Glorious here! Just a shame we need to do the family rounds… On the plus side only about 9 more hours until partner's sister & her husband go back home!
Hoping it will brighten up in a bit. Nice to have visitors but always nice when they go home too :D
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I hear you there! I might spend the afternoon re sowing some seeds that have sadly passed on... Leggyness is a real problem for me :(
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Still awake here. Dying of man flu. Joints really aching and can't swallow. Might go for a walk
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Morning all. Been a muggy old night here and we have been given rain, but hoping it holds off so we can get some weeding done.
The nightingale is singing it's head off in our pear tree, so there are compesations to being up early before the other birds, dogs, cats, chickens and other general rural life contaminate it's song.
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Still awake here. Dying of man flu. Joints really aching and can't swallow. Might go for a walk
Hope your feeling better soon :)
Been up most of the night with my dog poor thing. She has been snorting now and again the past few days but was still her usual self so kept an eye on her as we didn't know what it was. Yesterday afternoon she took herself to her bed and that is where she stayed. The snorting is worse and now there is a greenish discharge coming from her nose. It looks like she may have some sort of cold. I am just waiting now for the vets to open so we can get her there asap.
She is only a year old and has been on steroids antibiotics antihistamines up until a few months ago when she was given a new tablet called Apoquel. She is a Westie and has an allergy to something and we have been back and forth the vets every month almost since having her at 8 weeks old. The poor thing has been through a lot and now this. It is quite upsetting me :(
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Hi all, hope you finally got to sleep Jrko & feel better for it this morning. Just British garden bird song here Tosca. Ma, what's matter with your dog?
Been awake since 5, hubby sounding like a freight train was preventing me getting back to sleep. Plus I wanted to be up early as I'm off to Ragdale Hall for a spa day, so don't want to miss any. Was going to leave about 7.45 but might go earlier now, I can arrive from 8.30.
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Up early having had a thought about driving to pick up some decking tiles off ebay. Decided it was do-able after all and came down to put a Best Offer in!
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Hope she's OK Ma. :(
I'm back at work today after 10 days off; I always find that I want to stay in bed when I'm in work, hmm… :unsure:
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Sorry Ma we must have posted at the same time & I missed about your dog, hope you got something sorted. :(
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Can't sleep so sitting with the door open, two dogs beside me, lstening to the nightingale sing. Lovely. :D
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That sounds so peaceful and relaxing Tosca :D
Up early again, but not half such a lovely reason ::) Got a call yesterday from a supplier wanting me to meet a delivery at work early, so the driver can push on to his next stops. Bet he won't sound like a nightingale :lol:
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Back to the term time clock :D, up at 5.30 but the alarm doesn't go until 6am. It was nice being able to wallow until 7or 8 over the school hols :)
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That sounds so peaceful and relaxing Tosca :D
Up early again, but not half such a lovely reason ::) Got a call yesterday from a supplier wanting me to meet a delivery at work early, so the driver can push on to his next stops. Bet he won't sound like a nightingale :lol:
Went back to bed at 4.30 our time and slept lika a baby till 8. He's still singing. :D
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No nightingale here just a dog snorting from a blocked nose bless her. Have tossed and turned since 5ish.
Turns out Bluebell has an upper respiratory infection and raised tempreture. Her lungs are clear but it's all in her nose. More antibiotics and another visit to vets on Friday.
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Let's hope Bluebell get better soon, you have to keep an eye on Westies they suffer with allergies including hay fever and are known for their skin problems, we had problems with ours and he cost us a fortune to keep well, but he did last 15 years bless him.
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Let's hope Bluebell get better soon, you have to keep an eye on Westies they suffer with allergies including hay fever and are known for their skin problems, we had problems with ours and he cost us a fortune to keep well, but he did last 15 years bless him.
Tell me about it. We have had her from 8 weeks old and she was a year old on 15th april. We have been at the vets every month sometimes twice a month ever since we had her. She has had steroids no end of antibiotics and is now on a new drug called Apoquel which is an inhibitor. She has also had skin tests. It has cost us a fortune so far and we still have some more test to do which are £400. I know they say a dog cost money but in no way was I expecting to be paying tha type of money out in the first year.
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Be careful with changing food that you give her again they can be allergic to chemicals and preservatives in food stuffs - also get them to check for demodex which is a mite that lives in skin (we have them in our eyebrows - but if their immune system is low the population can grow quickly and they get very itchy and can lick their fur off and make their skins bleed
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Be careful with changing food that you give her again they can be allergic to chemicals and preservatives in food stuffs - also get them to check for demodex which is a mite that lives in skin (we have them in our eyebrows - but if their immune system is low the population can grow quickly and they get very itchy and can lick their fur off and make their skins bleed
The skin samples and blood test she had in February were for all different mites and that came back ok. It's a nightmare knowing what to do what food to give her etc :(
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Ma - has she been tested for diabetes - a friends Westie has it. It gets injections for it and leads a full life. :)
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Ma - has she been tested for diabetes - a friends Westie has it. It gets injections for it and leads a full life. :)
I am not sure Springy. Will ask the vet on Friday. I know she had bloods taken in February but can't remember what she said they were testing for altogether.
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Oh lord I'm still up.....again
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No point going to sleep now ::)
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Warm and muggy night meant keeping the window open, which means village noises, rain and nightingale waking me through the night. I will get used to it again but at the moment everything wakes me. I will be grouchy today and will not be able to get peppers and aubergines planted as planned. >:(Ah well, card making will keep me out of everyone's way.
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No point going to sleep now ::)
That's what I thought around 3am so here I still am and listening to the feathered flappers outside gradually waking up. St George's Day yesterday and what would have been my grandfather's birthday. A lovely chap he was.
I'm off to bed soon before it's time for me to make tea and breakfast for my mother. Not slept as I've been wrestling with the complications of managing my mother's finances and dealing with my little sister's latest performance.
"You won't stop me taking my mother on holiday."
Correct. Despite thinking it a completely mad idea - I won't.
If Mum wants to go I will not stand in the way. If she doesn't want to she will have to tell her daughter herself as I've had more than my share of rows with the woman. At 94 and none too robust I think it a mad idea for my/our mother to whisked away. Days out - Yes. Three nights away in unfamiliar surrounding and no chance to sleep for hours each day - No. Especially when my sister has no more than a 6 hour stretch of experience of Caring for her.
When, sadly, I one day find myself no longer a carer I think I may well write a book... no one would believe it. Sometimes I don't myself. :mellow: :wacko:
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Warm and muggy night meant keeping the window open, which means village noises, rain and nightingale waking me through the night. I will get used to it again but at the moment everything wakes me. I will be grouchy today and will not be able to get peppers and aubergines planted as planned. >:(Ah well, card making will keep me out of everyone's way.
Did you have trouble sleeping in England Tosca? Sounds like it's a long term problem, what sort of things have you tried to remedy it?
I woke throughout the night but was able to get back to sleep quickly. Awake just before 6 & last night decided I would start getting up when I wake then. I've been finding if I get cross I'm awake again but feel tired still I drop off into a deep sleep & then when I get up I'm groggy for hours & don't get started on anything until nearly lunchtime. I wanted to get another load of washing in so I can get all 4 loads pegged out before I go to the plot. It's bonfire day today 9-3 so I want to make the most of it :lol: I'll come back like a kipper :lol:
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No point going to sleep now ::)
That's what I thought around 3am so here I still am and listening to the feathered flappers outside gradually waking up. St George's Day yesterday and what would have been my grandfather's birthday. A lovely chap he was.
I'm off to bed soon before it's time for me to make tea and breakfast for my mother. Not slept as I've been wrestling with the complications of managing my mother's finances and dealing with my little sister's latest performance.
"You won't stop me taking my mother on holiday."
Correct. Despite thinking it a completely mad idea - I won't.
If Mum wants to go I will not stand in the way. If she doesn't want to she will have to tell her daughter herself as I've had more than my share of rows with the woman. At 94 and none too robust I think it a mad idea for my/our mother to whisked away. Days out - Yes. Three nights away in unfamiliar surrounding and no chance to sleep for hours each day - No. Especially when my sister has no more than a 6 hour stretch of experience of Caring for her.
When, sadly, I one day find myself no longer a carer I think I may well write a book... no one would believe it. Sometimes I don't myself. :mellow: :wacko:
Paul it probably won't be such a bad thing because then your mother will hopefully get a true glimpse of your sisters selfishness and your sister will see what it is like to have to look after your mum 24/7 . It's not ideal but some good May come out of it with you at least getting some respite and more allotment time :D
Had a lie in this morning which was must needed. Hoping to get some more seeds sown and then do an inventory of what I have sown altogether.
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Up and at'em...
* tea and breakfast done
* washing done and out
* lunch prepared and left ready
* phone calls and paper-work sorted
(my second morning)
Now some me time... :)
You're right Ma Lowe... it's now up to my mother. The best of British luck to her whatever she chooses.
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Re: Early Morning Club
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Should we rename this the Early Afternoon Club ? ;) ::)
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:lol: Aunty or it could be "The Early Morning/Afternoon Club" ;)
Not really early, but at least I am not waking at 3/4 o clock in the mornings. It must be all that work on the lottie tiring me out. Miserable day today so no lottie.
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:lol: Aunty or it could be "The Early Morning/Afternoon Club" ;)
Not really early, but at least I am not waking at 3/4 o clock in the mornings. It must be all that work on the lottie tiring me out. Miserable day today so no lottie.
In my humble opinion there's nothing so good as mucking about on the Lottie for cooling the blood...and aiding sleep.
Oh boy could I do with some Lottie time somewhere... a shed at the bottom of the garden is my aim for the future.
And my watch has stopped again! What time is it? :unsure:
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EARLY EVENING Paul :lol:
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Good morning all :)
Surely not all Zzzzzzzz....ing? ::)
I think I'll soon head off to the land of Nod and take my book with me. Tea and porriodge time will arrive far too soon.
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For months, I've wondered why a car parks at the entrance to the lane opposite 'The Turrets' at this time of day, and shines the headlights straight at us and waits for a couple of minutes! I've thought of so many reasons, like someone setting a satnav, or lighting a fag, making a mobile call, but I've never found out until now, on my way down to tea and TEMC!
A quick (bleary) glance out of the window and there was the chap, delivering the papers to our neighbours!
Simple really - never thought of that!
And so a good morning to everyone here!
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Cat alarm call again! Morning "all"!
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the pitter patter of birds on the roof....well makes a change from their chirping.
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Had a lie in til 7 this morning, long enough to make a nice change but not too long so that I feel groggy. :D
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Flaming teenagers, having promised me they would go to bed by ten, came crashing upstairs at 11.30. Then they couldn't find the key (they are camping in the garden). Then I had to shout out the window at them twice to switch the lights off and stop talking. Then I coudln't get to sleep because I was cross and worrying about getting them up this morning. We have to get out the house by 8.45 latest. Then of course the cat was restless and wanted cuddles every time I turned over.
Still I have had breakfast and the little one is up, so I will get everything ready to go out and wake them up at 7.30 >:( Morris dancing in Derby and rain forecast.
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Up at 5.30am, getting ready for our eldest daughters friends coming over at 12am for a bite to eat. As its her 16th birthday on Tuesday today's the day for her small party. Only 10 of them, all girls, think I might go 100 yards up the road to the pub for a couple of hours.
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Morning all. Another lie in for me and I would still be sleeping now if it weren't for neighbours slamming car doors. They must be out for the day lucky so and so's no need to rub it by slamming every car door they got :(
It's tipping down here again might just stay in bed :dry:
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Lay in till 6:30. Showered and brekkied, put bacon in the smoker, now off to get more compost in readiness to get tomato pots ready and top up the spuds in pots. Will mow later if it dries enough.
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Morning all. Another lie in for me and I would still be sleeping now if it weren't for neighbours slamming car doors. They must be out for the day lucky so and so's no need to rub it by slamming every car door they got :(
It's tipping down here again might just stay in bed :dry:
Oooo just read that back ...... Who's grumpy this morning ........... Not me surely :D
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Woke up about 5.55am. Tipping it down/foggy. Went back to bed. Slept til 9, very very very rare these days.
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I normally work Monday - Thursday, with Friday, Saturday and Sunday being overtime if I'm called in.
I get up at 6am every working day and go to bed at 10pm on "school-nights". If it's a Friday off I wake up at 7am, take Mrs James to work (and smile lovingly at her), and then head off to the allotment.
What time I get up on Saturday morning depends entirely on what I got up to on Friday evening; ditto Sunday morning.
Basically, I need my eight hours of beauty sleep. I worked shift for many years, so it's nice to have some sort of proper sleep pattern now.
I see some of you are writing on this thread at silly o'clock in the morning: not me . . . never in Europe!
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On a Sunday I should by rights be getting ready to go to the allotment, but I have work to do..... not what I was expecting when working for myself. But that's the nature of swings and roundabouts!
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Off to work today as well. In theory I could have had a lie-in as it is a later start today.
In practise, they were doing the dreaded pile driving over at Reading station (big re-vamp underway) and the noise drifted accross the river and woke me up ::)
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Lay in here having nice cuppa looking out at the rain. Got up earlier to take the bacon out of the smoker. I had visions of it having gone out, even though I got up to check in the middle of the night with the same feeling and was, gladly, proven wrong.
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Lay in here having nice cuppa looking out at the rain. Got up earlier to take the bacon out of the smoker. I had visions of it having gone out, even though I got up to check in the middle of the night with the same feeling and was, gladly, proven wrong.
Ooh, pictures of bacon and smoker?
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Been up a couple of hours now, had a breakfast I have not had for a few years. 2 smoked Manx kippers. Very nice indeed.
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Hi Rowan57 pic as requested :-)
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I'm off to bed as you lot are still sleeping ::) ... very quiet here.
My daughter is up and setting off to work.
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Off to pick up a couple of goslings for OH to raise for his end of year dinner. I can see them dying of old age meself! :lol:
As we are too early we will call in to see if we can find the bee eaters which are returning to BG at the moment, lots flying over already.
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Off to pick up a couple of goslings for OH to raise for his end of year dinner. I can see them dying of old age meself! :lol:
As we are too early we will call in to see if we can find the bee eaters which are returning to BG at the moment, lots flying over already.
Bee eaters! Brilliant. How big are they? I've not seen one in real life.
Signing out from the "very early" morning club. ;)
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Well I'll sign in as the first for the morning then Paul. Been awake on & off all night, hubby is very restless & that disturbed me I think so I've finally given in. Was too warm & had to open the big window & the birds were making a right racket :). Lovely as it is to lay listening when you don't need to be asleep, not so great when you can't get back to sleep before a busy work day :(
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Anyone around?
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Anyone around?
Hello sis what you doing up so early? :D
I have been good lately not waking much before 8am but this morning for whatever reason I am awake now :nowink:
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Blergh. Didn't get to bed until 12.30am after picking up daughter- she gets a lay-in late start (free period first lesson) I get to drive the youngest to the tram.....
In other news-today is going to be a GOOD day :D
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Woke up after a nightmare managed to get off again after 1/2 hour ok now got a Couple more hours.
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Woke up after a nightmare managed to get off again after 1/2 hour ok now got a Couple more hours.
Oh dear I hope it wasn't me giving you nightmares :lol:
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Woke up after a nightmare managed to get off again after 1/2 hour ok now got a Couple more hours.
Oh dear I hope it wasn't me giving you nightmares :lol:
Why would you give me nightmares? You have been kind to me!
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not much sleep last night.....OH tossing and turning, thinks she might have picked up a bug from Gkids.
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ooh me first? and I've been up a half hour already :D probably due to going early to bed whilst the football was on... <again!>
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Didn't get much sleep last night. I was worrying. What about? Nothing life threatening, I made some chutney for a table top sale and it doesn't taste right, how silly is that? It might be better if kept for a month. So have watched all yesterday's cookery programmes this morning and eaten home made bread with home made butter and now need some sleep! :lol:
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Tell people it needs maturing when you sell it Tosca. It will be fine I've done that myself.
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Well I've been up since 4:30 having slept right through from half eight which is a first for me. I kept quiet though as I didn't want to wake anyone else here ;-)
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Well I've been up since 4:30 having slept right through from half eight which is a first for me. I kept quiet though as I didn't want to wake anyone else here ;-)
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Morning all. 4.30 here in BG, been awake since before 3 when I got up to go to the loo. Feeling sluggish and fed up!
With all the gardening, cooking, card making and chicken keeping I should be sleeping like a baby. :(
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Morning! Been gassing with a friend till now and too awake to sleep...
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Morning! Been gassing with a friend till now and too awake to sleep...
Good job it's only 2.40 there then! Isn't there anything boring on the telly to put you to sleep? :D
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masterchef on iplayer. am loading it up now...
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masterchef on iplayer. am loading it up now...
:lol: :lol: :lol: GW...enough to turn anyone off!
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Hello!
Granted I'm forced not to be asleep by the powers that be but it counts!! :D
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masterchef on iplayer. am loading it up now...
:lol: :lol: :lol: GW...enough to turn anyone off!
Noooooooooo pretty food onna plate
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Mooooorning...!
Doesn't seem like the heavy frost we were forecast - yet..;0)
Mrs Growster and I covered all the spuds yesterday evening with debris nets, so fingers crossed!
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Morning. Just checked car roof and its very frosty. All my ground potatoes under a polythene sheet and my potted ones are covered with old blankets so hopefully ok. Should all be warming up again in an hour or so.
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Morning :)
Beautiful blue sky and sunshine here. Looks like there may be a bit of frost on the car windscreen, but not the total white-out we were predicted. We spent about 2 hours yesterday afternoon dragging trolleys of plants under cover and fleecing stuff ::) As you can imagine. we have loads of stock in for the bank holiday, so it was bad timing for us.
Knackered last night and in bed by 10 - wide awake now ::)
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Morning all, hubby up early for work so he brought me a cuppa bless him. Well the frost came as predicted which is a first :D good job I fleeced my peas yesterday.
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Morning early birds, harry had us up at 12,1,2,3,4,5, so we got up. Zzzzzzzzz I think he maybe cutting teeth.
Not sure why we bothered going to bed at all.
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Morning :)
Looks like it would be a lovely day to sort the garden out today but off to work I go…
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Morning all!
Off to Twickenham this morning to watch the annual Army v Navy rugby match. However, there were six of us rugby chums meant to be going, but that has now gone down to four.
I'm not sure why Chris isn't going - I'll find out later on.
But I do know why Tony isn't going: he was one of the fire-fighters that went to tackle the blaze in the engine-room of the DFDS ferry at Dover the other day, and was one of the ones that got burned. He burned his hands and his head, and today he's off to East Grinstead Hospital for specialist treatment. So, we'll be thinking about him going through all that.
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All the very best to your friend Tony. A brave man indeed.
And you enjoy the rugby Merf :)
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I'm sure we'll all be thinking about him. The emergency services are something we should all be proud off. Best of luck to him and enjoy your day.
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Best wishes to Tony. Frightens me somewhat as DD has 1more week before she completes her training to be an on call fire fighter. So let's all support them when they are on strike about their pay & conditions, they expect them to fight fires at 60, having heard what she has to do & carry they must be pushing it at 50.
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I was a lifeboat man for 10 years at Littlestone-on-Sea ( a fast reaction RIB capable of about 36 knots), and you had to come off the boat when you reached 45 years, because it was considered too rough when you get older (you could stay on the larger boats until you were 55 apparently.
So, fire-fighters fighting fires at 60? I don't think so!
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Emergency Services do the most fantastic jobs most definitely proud of them. Hope Tony makes a good recovery.
Snowy your DD is one brave girl I wish her all the best in the next week and in her role as a firefighter.
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Emergency Services do the most fantastic jobs most definitely proud of them. Hope Tony makes a good recovery.
Snowy your DD is one brave girl I wish her all the best in the next week and in her role as a firefighter.
Same here Snowy! The very best of luck and wishes to her.
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Thank you both we are very proud of what she has achieved so far, she is doing this on top her 40 hour week day job, in the aim she will eventually get in as a retained fire fighter. When people ask why she wants to be a ff she says what other job title has ff in it & where else do you get to blow sh@t up :lol: :lol: she goes not this next week but the week after next & should find out the following week if she's passed. If so it will have taken 2 years of trying since she first applied. :)
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morning all. Too many ideas in my head woke me up..... Looking forward to another productive day, polytunnel construction phase 2 :)
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Good morning. Don't know why I am awake this early on a Sunday it must be the excitement of yesterday. It's looking very gloomy out there nothing like it was yesterday :(
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It's the time of the season, Ma! Always so much to think about and do!
I've always got at least six projects on the boil, and today's is a seventh, so yes, plenty to do in this fine weather!
Enjoy your day eh?
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It's the time of the season, Ma! Always so much to think about and do!
I've always got at least six projects on the boil, and today's is a seventh, so yes, plenty to do in this fine weather!
Enjoy your day eh?
I hope it brightens up Growster cos it's not looking very nice out there. I think maybe I am letting tittle tattle amongst plotters about our path from garden fence to plot, bother me. Why are some people so vindictive. We are not harming anyone other than the person who now owns the plot next to us and he was ok with it especially as the council,had already told him about it but all this gathering of people whispering and pointing in our direction is starting to get to me and is making me think twice about having the damned allotment in the first place. :(
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'Nil illegitimi carborundum', Ma!
There's a spare plot right next to us, so you come down here and get away from all that! We'll welcome you with open arms!
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'Nil illegitimi carborundum', Ma!
There's a spare plot right next to us, so you come down here and get away from all that! We'll welcome you with open arms!
;0)
Awww thanks Growster, I would LOVE to be down your way but it's a tad too far to be wheeling me barrow and tools to :lol:
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Up and out early this morning to a table top sale with cakes, cards, fudge, chutney and paintings. Unfortunately most customers and sellers decided to give it a miss, partly due to last month's being a wash out and this time the weather wasn't great, partly because it was the first ever in the village last time and was quiet. Only five sellers this time, two left at 9, one left at ten and us last two felt sorry for the organiser and stayed another hour.
Ah well better luck next week. Different site, more established.
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Off out for lunch today so going to put a couple of hours now into getting the pots ready in the greenhouse for planting the seedlings into tomorrow.
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What a lot of chatter so early in the morning... good!! :)
I've had very confusalled mornings for the last two or three nights. Bed times started even later than usual and morning came around several times - left me feeling :wacko:
My mother stopped moving along with her walking-frame on her way to the batroom on Friday morning then... kerplonk! Fortunately I decided to move around behind her just in time so lowered her to the floor. Out like a light she was... Stuffed cushions around her and nine-nine-nined for help.
Paramedic arrived by which time she had come-around confused but OK. Blood pressure had dropped for unknown reason. Waited for phone call from the doc after paramedic visited them for speed but doctor decided not to visit but send in the District Nurse instead. Still waiting two days later as I suspected. I doubt if we'll see the district nurse until Thursday if we're lucky.
I trouped to the surgery.... and after two more visits and a possible confirmation have antibiotics for a urniary infection....but only after I asked if the surgery would accept a sample for immediate testing.
So... no sleep for the wicked. I stayed awake for two nights as my mother simply clambers / flops oput of bed rather than call me so I had to stay awake. Hard going when you have most of the day to cover too.
Better tonight (fingers crossed) and I'm leaving her to it until 3am when I'll nip over and then stay through for tea, pills and breakfast ready to look after her through to Wednesday when I have a few hours off.
Oh don't I go on when I'm tired!!! :ohmy:
Ma Lowe..... my dad had a wonderful saying when people talked rubbish on the plot: "What a load of c***" Normally he was a very patient chap but when someone cam out with something totally ridiculous he dismissed it with those few words and that was that.
Stop worrying about that there path of yours. Whistle as you go and ignore the gossips. ;)
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Well... that was good I nearly got to sleep..... nearly.
My mother groaned in the other room as her knees hurt when she began to get out of bed for the loo. Thank heavens for groans - as per usual she didn't call me and we risked another crash.
One a night is more than enough. :mellow:
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A bit late now but, good morning all. :)
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A bit late now but, good morning all. :)
Ever so late!! Some of us have done nearly a full shift on this Bank holiday Monday - ready for the day shift soon. :wacko:
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A bit late now but, good morning all. :)
Ever so late!! Some of us have done nearly a full shift on this Bank holiday Monday - ready for the day shift soon. :wacko:
I honestly don't know how you do it - I am full of admiration for people like you.
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What a lot of chatter so early in the morning... good!! :)
I've had very confusalled mornings for the last two or three nights. Bed times started even later than usual and morning came around several times - left me feeling :wacko:
My mother stopped moving along with her walking-frame on her way to the batroom on Friday morning then... kerplonk! Fortunately I decided to move around behind her just in time so lowered her to the floor. Out like a light she was... Stuffed cushions around her and nine-nine-nined for help.
Paramedic arrived by which time she had come-around confused but OK. Blood pressure had dropped for unknown reason. Waited for phone call from the doc after paramedic visited them for speed but doctor decided not to visit but send in the District Nurse instead. Still waiting two days later as I suspected. I doubt if we'll see the district nurse until Thursday if we're lucky.
I trouped to the surgery.... and after two more visits and a possible confirmation have antibiotics for a urniary infection....but only after I asked if the surgery would accept a sample for immediate testing.
So... no sleep for the wicked. I stayed awake for two nights as my mother simply clambers / flops oput of bed rather than call me so I had to stay awake. Hard going when you have most of the day to cover too.
Better tonight (fingers crossed) and I'm leaving her to it until 3am when I'll nip over and then stay through for tea, pills and breakfast ready to look after her through to Wednesday when I have a few hours off.
Oh don't I go on when I'm tired!!! :ohmy:
Ma Lowe..... my dad had a wonderful saying when people talked rubbish on the plot: "What a load of c***" Normally he was a very patient chap but when someone cam out with something totally ridiculous he dismissed it with those few words and that was that.
Stop worrying about that there path of yours. Whistle as you go and ignore the gossips. ;)
Paul you amaze me with how calm you stay with not even having a wink of sleep. You truly are a son to be proud of. Hope your mum gets better and yes I will heed your advise and stop worrying what others say or else I am going to stress myself out over this. Shame I can't whistle though but I can hum a good tune ;)
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Morning all. Just me, the dogs and the nightingale having some quiet(ish) time before the busy day starts. :)
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Paul, can you not access some sort of district visiting nurses for some evening relief? Everyone deserves a decent sleep, especially when you're also on day shift.
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Good morning (again) already! Two mornings today - 1st at 4am and a 2nd at 5:50 so can't complain as I slept in-between and before. :)
Paul, can you not access some sort of district visiting nurses for some evening relief? Everyone deserves a decent sleep, especially when you're also on day shift.
In the past I have been given this... a night-sitter.. but I couldn't even manage to encourage the doctor to visit last Friday. He contacted the District Nurse who, I was told, would visit the following day (Saturday). As I predicted.... we're still waiting so no further medical check-up and no chance of any support yet.
The antibiotics I persuaded the surgery to issue seem to have helped - less confused, not quite so tired and managing to stand-up without out falling (mostly).
I will be on the phone again this morning - several years of experience now. ::)
Ma Lowe how about singing and humming out of tune loudly. That'll keep the natterers at bay. :lol:
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Paul, just a small thing, but my old Mum used to get wobbly and confused if she got a bit dehydrated. Scared me at first but amazing how she would feel so much better after a couple of drinks. Although she always had water by her side I think she used to exaggerate how much she drank as she hated having to get up too many times in the night.
I feel for you having had the care of both parents, I know just how hard it is. I sometimes wish Mum was still here to push my patience though.
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Good morning (again) already! Two mornings today - 1st at 4am and a 2nd at 5:50 so can't complain as I slept in-between and before. :)
Paul, can you not access some sort of district visiting nurses for some evening relief? Everyone deserves a decent sleep, especially when you're also on day shift.
In the past I have been given this... a night-sitter.. but I couldn't even manage to encourage the doctor to visit last Friday. He contacted the District Nurse who, I was told, would visit the following day (Saturday). As I predicted.... we're still waiting so no further medical check-up and no chance of any support yet.
The antibiotics I persuaded the surgery to issue seem to have helped - less confused, not quite so tired and managing to stand-up without out falling (mostly).
I will be on the phone again this morning - several years of experience now. ::)
Ma Lowe how about singing and humming out of tune loudly. That'll keep the natterers at bay. :lol:
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Paul out of tune is what I do best and some would say loud too ::) but I would like to keep the nice neighbours near me and not frighten them and all the wildlife away :lol: I am going to be the better person and ignore it, the new neighbours we have a re nice and that's enough for me. :D
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Good morning, well it's raining,so not so good :)
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Mornin. Damp start here but a work day,well to lunch time but don't think I'll get out gardening this afternoon. The cupboards are bare so it might be a trip to the shops on my way home.
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Mornin' all :)
Considering going swimming on my way home from the hospital in 2 hours time - hmmm...
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A wet nurse ..... Costume or skinny drip ::)
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A wet nurse ..... Costume or skinny drip ::)
Calm down Cad :lol:
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Ha ha ha!!
You and nurses - honestly! ::) :lol:
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Its the uniform what can I say :nowink:
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It started
early late on Tuesday morning at 8am after I'd already been up a few hours:
The Nurse arrived (in uniform - she'd not been swimming ;) )... just what the doctor ordered.
Ours (Community Nurse) arrived on Tuesday morning and it only took me two calls to the Community Nursing Team (where I spoke to no one and couldn't leave a message even during office hours) and one phone call to One Call (who wanted to give me the Community Nurses' phone number.... which I already had) and a final call to the doctors' surgery again once One Call put me through to the Community Nurses who had no referral from the doctor who said he had made one on Friday morning.
I'm not confused, I did know what I wanted and who I needed it from and eventually got it.... A visit from the Community Nursing Team to take blood samples (that the doctor said he had organised), a blood pressure check (again) and to give me the go ahead to deliver another urine sample to the doctors for them to send to the lab.
Even then I had to explain it all to the doctors' surgery to get them to accept the sample for testing - results after 2pm today (Thursday)
In the mean time..... my mother is 99% better so my guess that it was a urinary infection and my request on Friday for antibiotics (short 3 day course) worked. Just as well as the doctor is doing nothing until sometime after 2pm on Thursday when the results are in.... too flipping long to wait when you're 94 and can't stand up!!
If I had waited that long I'm not sure my mother would still be around or even if I would for that matter!! :wacko:
A couple more early mornings for me and I'm hoping dear old Mum will be well enough to cope during the night on her own.. I miss my bed! :mellow:
At least now she's walking with her scaffolding walking-frame - she's making sense and staying awake during the day. :)
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Glad to hear your mum is getting better Paul. Hope you get the well deserved time in your bed now. :D
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Glad to hear things are improving Paul. It might be worth putting it in a letter to GP. They have to do something about it then. Someone else might not have a relative as on the ball as you.
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Paul, it all sounds so familiar. My late Dad had rheumatoid arthritis and ephysema and couldn't get out to see the doctor, so he used to diagnose over the phone and leave prescriptions for me to pick up. We used to have to resort to calling the on-call doc who covered nights and poor Dad would have to go into hospital to get his medications sorted out. Dad wouldn't let us change his doctor as he was so charming to him the odd occasion he saw him. Dad liked his own way. I wish I had been firmer but if I argued he would banish me from the house. Poor Mum.
Good on you for plugging away, your Mum is lucky to have you. I hope you get some decent rest soon.
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It's cr*p to hear what a struggle you had to get your mum seen by anyone! >:(
The NHS is very poorly managed - put in a written complaint detailing the whole thing - they should know their failings and act on it. Does the surgery do the 'Friends and family' questionnaire (it may be just the hospitals - I'm not sure) - its a national questionnaire asking if you would recommend that service and if not, why not. :)
A 3 day course of Abs is not unusual for a UTI (was it Trimethoprim?) - girls get 3 days of that usually abd boys get 5 days ;)
Time for you to rest and recuperate now Paul :)
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It's cr*p to hear what a struggle you had to get your mum seen by anyone! >:(
The NHS is very poorly managed - put in a written complaint detailing the whole thing - they should know their failings and act on it. Does the surgery do the 'Friends and family' questionnaire (it may be just the hospitals - I'm not sure) - its a national questionnaire asking if you would recommend that service and if not, why not. :)
A 3 day course of Abs is not unusual for a UTI (was it Trimethoprim?) - girls get 3 days of that usually abd boys get 5 days ;)
Time for you to rest and recuperate now Paul :)
3 days worth of Trimethoprim - you're correct. I was asked by Community Nurse on Tuesday whether I wanted a second 3 day course. I explained that I thought I'd leave the decision to medical staff as I was only going on past experience of my mother's symptoms. It seems to have done the trick... much better and brighter. I'm thinking of sleeping at home in my own bed tonight for the first time in six days.
Phoned for test results.... still not in. Bank Hols to blame I'm told. Hopeless really considering she collapsed last Friday and I was the one who asked for a urine test and then for the antibiotics. I think she would have been in hospital by now if I hadn't.
Considered making a complaint at the surgery.... might try a quiet word with the doctor involved as normally they do a very good job but I worry for elderly people who can't fight their own corner and have no one to represent their needs. Too many people on the books at our already enlarged local surgery... Stretched to busting. :(
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Morning all. Couldn't sleep past 5 as the noise out there is crazy. The cuckoo, nightingale, tits are all trying to drown out Sevi's crows. With temperatures set to soar and the windows having to be left open, we can say goodbye to lie ins for this year. The orioles are joining in now.
Bliss, I love summer early mornings! :D
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I woke at 3ish this morning to go to the lol couldn't get back to sleep was still looking at the clock at 4.30. I was going to get up and make a coffee and come on here but I got as far as sitting on the edge of the bed for 5 mins and decided that no I really need to just lie back down and try to sleep or I am going to be up all night. A long while later I must have dropped off in between the noisy birds and traffic passing the house. Left the window open which didn't help.
I don't know why I wake so early then can't get back to sleep other than I can't "log off" my head is full of stuff that I can't delete and it keeps running through it until I am exhausted :wacko:
Supposed to be going away to East Sussex today but not sure I want to go now.
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3 days worth of Trimethoprim - you're correct. I was asked by Community Nurse on Tuesday whether I wanted a second 3 day course. I explained that I thought I'd leave the decision to medical staff as I was only going on past experience of my mother's symptoms. It seems to have done the trick... much better and brighter. I'm thinking of sleeping at home in my own bed tonight for the first time in six days.
Phoned for test results.... still not in. Bank Hols to blame I'm told. Hopeless really considering she collapsed last Friday and I was the one who asked for a urine test and then for the antibiotics. I think she would have been in hospital by now if I hadn't.
Considered making a complaint at the surgery.... might try a quiet word with the doctor involved as normally they do a very good job but I worry for elderly people who can't fight their own corner and have no one to represent their needs. Too many people on the books at our already enlarged local surgery... Stretched to busting. :(
That is the problem nationwide with GP surgeries - far too stretched.
If your mum is better she shouldn't need a second course - better to save it in case she should really need it again ;)
Get some rest Paul :)
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In the day you went sat and took your turn, now you have to know you are going to be sick 2 - 4 weeks before you are so you can get an appointment >:( My old doctor saw more patients in a day than these modern clowns see in a week.
I have an appointment for 9:00 the Nurse turns up at 9:20, I get in at 9:30 after reading that I should be 10 minutes early and book in for my appointment, and how important it is to be punctual. On booking my next appointment the receptionist informs me that she is always late because she has problems with the missing the bus or train- would I like a later appointment, after explaining all that's going to do is push me back even more as she will still have top see those in front of me she is late for.
I proposed that the answer is for her to out of bed half an hour early so that you get to work on time - Doh!
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In the day you went sat and took your turn, now you have to know you are going to be sick 2 - 4 weeks before you are so you can get an appointment >:( My old doctor saw more patients in a day than these modern clowns see in a week.
I have an appointment for 9:00 the Nurse turns up at 9:20, I get in at 9:30 after reading that I should be 10 minutes early and book in for my appointment, and how important it is to be punctual. On booking my next appointment the receptionist informs me that she is always late because she has problems with the missing the bus or train- would I like a later appointment, after explaining all that's going to do is push me back even more as she will still have top see those in front of me she is late for.
I proposed that the answer is for her to out of bed half an hour early so that you get to work on time - Doh!
That makes me so mad!
Why offer an appointment that can't possibly be fulfilled because the nurse can't get to work on time! :mad:
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Morning all. :)
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Again a complaint is needed & then they will need to investigate. If necessary she needs to start work later, by turning up late every day she is saying it doesn't matter if my patients have to wait :mad:. I hate it when I am late for an appointment with my patients & always apologise. I f I make the appointment verbally I always say 10:00 or there abouts & explain I have got someone before so might run a bit late.
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Again a complaint is needed & then they will need to investigate. If necessary she needs to start work later, by turning up late every day she is saying it doesn't matter if my patients have to wait :mad:. I hate it when I am late for an appointment with my patients & always apologise. I f I make the appointment verbally I always say 10:00 or there abouts & explain I have got someone before so might run a bit late.
Its a bit different if you're already seeing a patient and you come across something unforseen. But for that surgery to basically lie to patients and make appointments that no-one is available to attend is so wrong. >:(
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Morning all, can't believe I'm first up! Thought I better get up in case I went back to sleep & was late for my trip to the Malvern show today. Need to be up in the village for the coach at 8:10.
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Morning all, can't believe I'm first up! Thought I better get up in case I went back to sleep & was late for my trip to the Malvern show today. Need to be up in the village for the coach at 8:10.
Hope you have a great day.... I'll be thinking of you and wishing the clouds away.
It sounds really interesting. We have nothing like that nearby.
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Thanks Paul, I had a lovely day & your wishes for better weather worked, we didn't get wet, but it was very windy at times.
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Thanks Paul, I had a lovely day & your wishes for better weather worked, we didn't get wet, but it was very windy at times.
Delighted to hear the day went well for you. I bet it was interesting with loads to see. :)
Quiet here on the southern-front - a few light spots of rain but an enjoyable hour in the garden complete with coffee followed by a sit down with a book.
(Oh I do love Sundays that end without having to read scrawled angry notes from my little sister. :mellow:)
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Morning campers! :D
Crikey, it's all been happening, hasn't it? I'm so glad your Mum has you to stick up for her Paul, and that she's feeling better now. Hopefully you're back in your own bed and catching up on your Z's. ;)
Looks like another changeable day today, so I shall be under the lean-to potting up some runner beans. :)
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Morning :)
Had a good nights sleep after camping this weekend and looking after the cubs on fri and saturday. I'm still a little drained though :(
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Morning :)
Had a good nights sleep after camping this weekend and looking after the cubs on fri and saturday. I'm still a little drained though :(
Up so early after camping with youngsters! You're doing well.
Long ago I ran 2 camps every year taking 60 Junior school children away on each camp. Loved it. The staff were amazing but it always left everyone (especially the children) absolutely whacked - loved it though. :)
Our school was a popular choice with many parents and children partly because of the annual educational visits, our heated indoor swimming pool.... and our friendly community of course.
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Up so early after camping with youngsters! You're doing well.
Long ago I ran 2 camps every year taking 60 Junior school children away on each camp. Loved it. The staff were amazing but it always left everyone (especially the children) absolutely whacked - loved it though. :)
Our school was a popular choice with many parents and children partly because of the annual educational visits, our heated indoor swimming pool.... and our friendly community of course.
I love camp and love the activities and chatting with the kids but you only realise once you're home how tired you are! It's amazing how much just talking about random topics can take it out of you. We did archery, shooting, fires etc :D
Good to hear that you have some of the same experiences though --> :wacko:
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Morning all, had a bit of lie in this morning after our weekend away to East/West Sussex. Got back yesterday at 2pm and by 2.30 was I the garden sorting bean poles out for the runner brands planting the Oca's and sorting the greenhouse. Another full day today in the garden and lottie before hubby returns to work.
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I love camp and love the activities and chatting with the kids but you only realise once you're home how tired you are! It's amazing how much just talking about random topics can take it out of you. We did archery, shooting, fires etc :D
Good to hear that you have some of the same experiences though --> :wacko:
Archery... excellent. My most memorable session was with an 11 year old lad (Joe) who was gradually losing his eye-sight but still could see light and dark shapes in the distance as well as highly magnified text close up.
"We" scored two bulls-eyes and managed to scare the daylights out of the rest of the group! Joe particularly loved the mountain bike course... tons of confidence and an amazing person. I had more worry-lines by the time he finished this third circuit. :ohmy: Abseiling was a doddle after that activity.
Bed time for me after a day in and out of the garden between nattering to my mother ensconced in the conservatory drinking tea. ::)
Here's hoping your mornings don't start too early. ;)
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4am today after a shredded day at my dear uncles funeral yesterday; planning some me time on the plot later today as the forecast looks good, so thought I'd get the ironing/some work done for tomorrow (3 back to back meetings :nowink:) so can go with a clear conscious when it warms up...I do so love the peace early mornings give me :)
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morning all, up before the alarm clock again this week, brain in overdrive with work stuff...so much to do. Hopefully will get a good chunk done so I can get to the plot for an hour later.
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Morning - Body clock has me up at 5:45 again - now reading new post here whilst having breakfast - down on the plot taking delivery of my brother-in-laws new shed today!
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Morning all. Birds have woken me up again.
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Morning Tosca :)
I'm off into work early again today, but enjoying a coffee and a browse on here before the madness starts ::) Well it isn't really madess, just the seasonality of garden centre life. Another couple of weeks and I shall be slipping down a gear ;)
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Good to get some quiet before the day to collect yourself. We have Ofsted in the school I clerk for Govnrs at, I have 3 meetings today :ohmy:, and it's sunny :( (sad only because I won't get to the plot)
Have a great day people
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I'm meeting my 2nd potential bride for a wedding booking next year at 3pm in a local tearoom.
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Been awake since 5:45. But stayed where I was. Off to hubby's aunt's funeral later this morning,so no plot for me today but I must go tomorrow as we go on holiday on Saturday for a week.
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I'm meeting my 2nd potential bride for a wedding booking next year at 3pm in a local tearoom.
What do you do then sis?
Been awake since 5:45. But stayed where I was. Off to hubby's aunt's funeral later this morning,so no plot for me today but I must go tomorrow as we go on holiday on Saturday for a week.
Will be thinking of you, a sad day but hopefully the sun will make it a tad brighter.
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Aww thanks Ma, it's a burial so better with a bit of sun. Our son is coming too & he's not been to a burial, I hope he's ok as he's a softie even though he's 27 I still worry.
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Hope it goes well for you today Snowdrops.
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Thanks MC
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Aww thanks Ma, it's a burial so better with a bit of sun. Our son is coming too & he's not been to a burial, I hope he's ok as he's a softie even though he's 27 I still worry.
I remember my first funeral around that age too it was my Grans. I was sat in the church with family (very small gathering) and my I caught sight of the coffin. I was inconsolable after that. Didn't like the thought that she was in there. We weren't a close family but it still upset me. I want to be cremated now. I hope too he will be ok.
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Thanks all. Back now he was ok, does get upset, remembers his grandad I think & then gets to thinking.didnt help he ended up right in front of the coffin.
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I think showing emotion is better than holding it in, its all part of ghe grieving process.
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Yes that's what I told him.
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Wow! :ohmy:
Fancy me being the first in here this morning!! :D
It's that time of year again when I have to go and water the lottie before my 12 hour shift starts ::)
Up at 05:35 (I'm a disorganised bunny at the best of times!! :D)
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I'm up as well and getting ready to start work at 0700. Not usually allowed anywhere near the computer in the morning but Paul has already left for work so a peaceful start for me this morning. :D
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Lovely morning here trying to get an hour on he lottie before hubby goes to work.
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Looks as if a few of us have been having some late mornings recently!! :nowink:
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Good morning on a new medication it says might cause some sleeplessness, this is only the second time since I started on them in a week so not too bad.
Are you on here Paul I know you are sometimes, late at night or early morning.
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I guess I am on my own, no use chatting to myself, going back to bed see if I can get off again.
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Hope you managed it Dugless. :)
Lovely morning here in BG so far. Had torrential rain last night. It seems GB and BG have swapped weather. Our first spring here and it's the wettest for years! Ah well. At least I don't have to get up at 4am to go to work, just to listen to the birds.
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I'm up for work and it's a lovely day which is :D
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I'm off work this weekend, but woke up early anyway ::) Its glorious here and I'm itching to get going, but OH is still sleeping, so creeping around being quiet :lol:
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Hope you managed it Dugless. :)
Lovely morning here in BG so far. Had torrential rain last night. It seems GB and BG have swapped weather. Our first spring here and it's the wettest for years! Ah well. At least I don't have to get up at 4am to go to work, just to listen to the birds.
Not really but an early start for the allotment, it is forecast for a sunny hot day so ill take advantage it. and use the cool of the morning
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Sounds like a good idea I'm off for a t walk once OH gets off to work.
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Morning all or should I say afternoon ;) looks like another lovely day on the plot 8)
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You should see it here in Newquay :lol: it's going to be a scorcher
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Good morning on a new medication it says might cause some sleeplessness, this is only the second time since I started on them in a week so not too bad.
Are you on here Paul I know you are sometimes, late at night or early morning.
Sorry Dugless - I missed you - I had a late night (normal). I do my best to avoid early mornings as it usually means I've stayed up through the night. Once asleep I could sleep for England! (Shame it's not an Olymic Sport :lol: )
(I guess I ought to be banned from this thread - a bit of a cheat really). :blush: :unsure:
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Good morning on a new medication it says might cause some sleeplessness, this is only the second time since I started on them in a week so not too bad.
Are you on here Paul I know you are sometimes, late at night or early morning.
Sorry Dugless - I missed you - I had a late night (normal). I do my best to avoid early mornings as it usually means I've stayed up through the night. Once asleep I could sleep for England! (Shame it's not an Olymic Sport :lol: )Iam trying not to make a habit of it :D.
(I guess I ought to be banned from this thread - a bit of a cheat really). :blush: :unsure:
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Good morning. :D :D
Another early start, I have been waking up around this time for quite a while, I usually get up make a cup of tea go back to bed and to quote a phrase " contemplate my navel" :ohmy:
I have decided to start looking at the weather forecast first instead so when I do go back with my tea I can plan my day better :D and of cause look in on here to see if anyone else is around.
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There is always someone around :nowink: Just having breakfast and looking here then manic day ::)
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Done that now off to carry out all that planning :lol:
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Got a 6.30 start Thursday with the election no probs only 5 mins walk from polling station.
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No chance to get on the computer today as the weather is good so out weeding and picking. Supposed to hit 30 here today so no work this afternoon.
So a belated good morning all. :D
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Forecasting rain here later I rushed to get some seeds in the lotty yesterday. Coffee morning followed by a private garden
visit. Work to do may Get up soon and do some before I go.
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Good morning, off to the lottie before it rains, I just might have some broad beans ready :D
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Morning all, I was awake at 5.30 to wish hubby a Happy Birthday before he went to work but I was so tired I went back to sleep for an hour or so after he had left :) weather is damp, a day in the greenhouse and washing the load of pots I have waiting for more seeds. :D
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I'm saying "good morning" now before I go for one last check across the road and then head off to bed.
I'm a little worried that I'll miss the morning chorous despite three alarm clocks as my hearing has dipped.. to say the least.
Deaf as a post due to a head cold (or something). A family trait. :(
Pardon? :unsure:
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Morning all. Had one of those silly nights when little niggling worries turn into massive problems and you have to get up to put everything back into perspective. Ah well, there will be time to fit in plenty of weeding befor the temperature soars.
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Quoting Victor Meldrew "I wish there was a switch on the back of your head where you could turn your brain off" been down here long enough to watch the latest 22 minute Rick Van Man video ...... and now reading post here HO Hum!
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Morning each, made my tea now back to bed to do my contemplation and planning for the day it appears it is going to be a good one.
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Morning all. :) Just going to get myself another cuppa and then toddle outside to plant some sugarsnaps. A lot of cloud cover this morning, so we'll see what the day brings. Hope you all have a good one. ;)
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Morning all, I am getting later by the day before long I will be starting and Early Afternoon Club :D off to collect some free slabs today then rest of day on Lottie weather looks lovely.
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Not such a GOOD morning :( though it has its good points I will have a quieter day and the plants will love it.
The bad bit is as usual when it starts it dose not know when to stop :lol:
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Wow first one on hear and first one to post on the forum today. not counting the ones that stayed up late :lol: :lol:
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Up and atom. blergh. Possibility of plot time today? <20% :( will go and play in greenhouse, but most things have moved out now.
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Good morning another dull day so yet again a quiet :D one
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It's been sunny here for the last half an hour :ohmy:
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Wow first one on hear and first one to post on the forum today. not counting the ones that stayed up late :lol: :lol:
OK so I cheat :lol: - slept in for the last few days... can't hear very well as I've had / got a cold I guess. The alarm clock could be exploding and I'd not hear it. :ohmy:
On the plus side.... it's lovely and quiet... everywhere. ;) :D
Some people would appreciate that. :)
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morning all another day I read that some teenagers are so bored they contemplate suicide I do not have time to be bored :lol: :lol:
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It's been raining hard since I woke up an hour ago & I have cabin fever - want to play outside!!!
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we are going to get it about 10 I think. Good job I got lots done Monday and Weds
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It's been raining here petty much solidly for the last three days, I'm currently an extreme case of cabin fever so much so I am being dragged off shopping with my sister. I may see if I can drag her around one or two garden centres...
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Just started raining again I got loads of seeds in Mon when i saw the for cast. Off to stay with OH for the weekend on my moped later when it drys up a bit. May watch another episode of Chelsea before I get up then some dressmaking.
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Morning all. Got visitors this weekend .............. Oops that it peace over grandkids are up byeeeeeeeeeeeee :D
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So where is everyone? Back from hols & can I stay asleep :wacko:. Actually think I'm listening for DDs pager now she's an on call fire fighter. I hope I get used to it, don't want to be like this every night again. Plus I was hungry ??? Must be missing the excesses of holiday eating. Never mind we're off out for champagne breakfast at 10am.
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Morning Snowdrops. Sorry, late up this morning. Didn't get to sleep till after two and it's now 6.40. Have had breakfast and OH has packed the car for another of the dreaded car boot sales. :( Weather might stop play with thunder forecast, and after many small earthquakes in BG I hope they don't travel to the centre of the country.
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Wishing you a safe good morning Tosca, what's on offer at the car boot stall this morning? Did you ever sell the lion picture?
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having some breakfast then off to the allotment Yippppeeee
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I'm having a coffee or two, then off to work - booooooooooooo :(
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Woke up at five as it is raining I decided to have a few more more minuets in bed.
snowdrops why can you now stay sleep you are not on Hols?
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Woke up at five as it is raining I decided to have a few more more minuets in bed.
snowdrops why can you now stay sleep you are not on Hols?
Not sure Dugless, seems like I am home & back to normality of not sleeping very well. Maybe I'm thinking about what needs doing on the plot,in the garden & in the greenhouse :wacko:. Really doesn't help me get things done when I've lost a few hours sleep as my energy levels tend not to be high.
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Had lovely breakfast and huge coffee - now fully wired and going to the plot till lunch, then....an afternoon of being at the plot. Yay!!
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Woke up at five as it is raining I decided to have a few more more minuets in bed.
snowdrops why can you now stay sleep you are not on Hols?
Not sure Dugless, seems like I am home & back to normality of not sleeping very well. Maybe I'm thinking about what needs doing on the plot,in the garden & in the greenhouse :wacko:. Really doesn't help me get things done when I've lost a few hours sleep as my energy levels tend not to be high.
Been there done that :D when I got back after a month away I just did not know where to start ::)
coming on fine now but then I do not have to go to work :lol:
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Wishing you a safe good morning Tosca, what's on offer at the car boot stall this morning? Did you ever sell the lion picture?
After a slow start we had a good day thank you. Sold orange drizzle and banana cakes and almond slices, two types of chutney, two types of jam and some cards. We still have the lion and we are going to find a place on the wall for it, not because we need another painting, we have too many, but because although we have had a lot of interest, it seems a hundred pounds is too much for a nice, original painting. It is just too nice to sell for less. One pair of bleached and extended women (hair of a teenager, face of a seventy year old) were really rude. They had discussed the painting, really liked it and both had somewhere to put it, but both though a hundred pounds was extortion. Their nails probably cost more, and their extensions certainly did! I was glad when they went, I would rather keep it than let them have it.
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Morning all. Was hoping for a lie in but the birds had other ideas. Got badly bitten by insects so itchy too. Had to leave the windows open due to the heat and the monotony of tit, redstart, cuckoo and oriole drowned out Sevi's crowing. Then the goslings decided I was a monster and wouldn't follow me out and the chicks went straight through the mesh to the veggie patch and.....and....well, I'm sure I'll feel bettr after coffee and sn hour's weeding.
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late on parade this morning Had to attend to Rosemary she had a bad turn it the night.
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Hope your morning has improved Tosca. Coffee makes most things better ;)
I've been up a while, but I am shuffling off to work soon. 2 cups of coffee have at least woken me up a bit, even if I have a distinct bout of lassitude :lol: Day off tomorrow :D
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late on parade this morning Had to attend to Rosemary she had a bad turn it the night.
Hope all is well now dugless :)
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Hello and good morning. It may not be all that early now but have been up for 2 hours ??? been trying read while drinking coffee but cannot get in to present book yet then I got stuck into F/B.
Weeding sounds a good early morning occupation but although I am good at getting out of bed I am not good at getting out of the house ::)
C/P Hi dugless know you from another thread I think
marg
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We've done some weeding, had more coffee, planted out cosmos and nasturtiums and some cannas and crocosmia bought yesterday. We have a very good, British grower and importer of very reasonably priced plants and veg such as asparagus and artichokes, he does a roaring business at car boot sales with plants ex-pats miss from home. Very rarely buy anything as grow and are given plenty, but he will insist on parking near us! So hence the crocosmia and cannas. ::)
Coffee time again, OH has just taken some pics of his new bees covered in pollen so is in need of a coffee as they were very buzzy. :lol:
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Hello and good morning. It may not be all that early now but have been up for 2 hours ??? been trying read while drinking coffee but cannot get in to present book yet then I got stuck into F/B.
Weeding sounds a good early morning occupation but although I am good at getting out of bed I am not good at getting out of the house ::)
C/P Hi dugless know you from another thread I think
marg
highly likely I do visit several sites.
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good morning another wet one :( my turn for a bad night could not get off to sleep finally dropped off at around two O- clock.
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Morning :) Damp and breezy here as well ::)
I really wanted to clear my overwintered onions off the plot today, but after all the rain yesterday, it might be a mud bath ::)
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'orrible here too - no point going to plot as it'll be swampy up there now.
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Morning all. We went straight out before breakfast to weed and tend the sixty toms, tying in and de-shooting. Short break for coffee and toast and back out to hand weed the far too many runner and French beans. How come OH always gets the hoe? ::) Legs now given up and temperature soaring towards the high twenties, so after a rest will make the bread and pickle some beetroot.
Retirement....don't you just love it! :lol:
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Wett here til Thursday. Inside jobs.
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Wett here til Thursday. Inside jobs.
Supposed to be wet here too but it isn't. Been waiting all day for the rain - loads of threatening clouds.
Sat with my mother in the conservatory through the afternoon (once the new blinds were in place) and... as I couldn't go far ended up cleaning the windows inside and out. ::)
Tomorrow's another day... hopefully a dry one from the start. :)
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The down side of being up and out really early here in BG is the bitey things. They are very active first and last thing and I am soooo tasty they just can't resist. So as I am slightly allergic, I am now covered in nasty red and itchy lumps and stink of tea tree oil, very attractive.
The point being they wake me at regular intervals through the night and sometimes you just can't get back to sleep, especially when it is so muggy and hot as it is. We need a few of the thunderstorms they keep promising us (sorry Bonnie lab)
So Sevi starts saying good morning around 3am, which I rather like. But the cuckoo started around 4.30 then another joined in. Now, at just after 5 even the OH has given up trying to sleep through the din. Not complaining, just explaining why I was here all alone with the dogs and bitey things.
So good morning all. :D
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still raining
Well a ceiling to fill and emulsion and a few scarecrows to make.
I hope the slugs haven't eaten every think when i get to the lotty tomorrow.
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Forecast is rain until Friday here >:(
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they keep changing their minds here i ll look in the morning if raining lotty friday.
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Still raining and cold good job I have not put out my sweet corn.
Decided to have a lye in this morning for once.
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A good nights sleep last night hubby woke me at 7 to ask if I wanted a drink >:(. I'd have preferred staying asleep :wacko:
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A good nights sleep last night hubby woke me at 7 to ask if I wanted a drink >:(. I'd have preferred staying asleep :wacko:
It is so lovely to be able to wake up, see the time, then roll over and sleep for hours..... just once in a while.
My last chance to do that was about 5 years ago. Oh well.
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Forecast is rain until Friday here >:(
My father-in-law wont be in the most positive of moods then. He's not far from Green Wrythe Lane... or is it Wrythe Green Lane?
(I always confuse the bus drivers!!) :lol:
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Forecast is rain until Friday here >:(
My father-in-law wont be in the most positive of moods then. He's not far from Green Wrythe Lane... or is it Wrythe Green Lane?
(I always confuse the bus drivers!!) :lol:
Well there are all the combinations around here plus Green Lane and Wrythe Lane so take your pick
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Morning all! Up with the sparrows over here and...... :ohmy:....it's not raining!
Not yet any way.
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Wet but not raining at the moment here
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dry here too till after lunch? May get on the lotty tomorrow
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Morning all. I got woken up by the neighbours rummaging in their wardrobe. Ever since they had the fitted wardrobes put in we can hear everything they do in them the doors banging shut even the hangers scraping against the rail and as our bed is against that wall it wakes me. :(
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good morning , still raining :( though I see the temperature is gong up to the seventies next week :D
My garage is the tidiest it has been in along time . Re installed the wood burner yesterday had to take it out to
sweep the chimney got nice bag of soot to use when I have looked up where and how to use it :lol:
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Woken an hour ago by thunder and lightening, torrential rain and two unhappy dogs. But checking facebook we have had it easy so far. Friend posted pics of huge hailstones which to the very poor rural community is a total disaster with fruit and nuts ripening on the trees and barley ripening in the fields. Those poor people depend on the little money they can get from these things which grow so well here. My friend has lost her garden for the second time this year but at least it is just a hobby for her. She is so upset for her neighbours in the small hamlet she has lived in for eight years. :(
Sort of puts things into perspective.
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Morning.been awake since 3 but finally given in & got up. Can't put up with hubby's snoring & snuffling anymore :ohmy:. Well just now at least. Tosca, that is just something you don't consider in England is it, how the weather can affect crops so much & your livelihood. Our farmers always have the government to turn to for recompense it seems.
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At last it is not raining here :) should get a shed load of jobs done :D
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Looking after a neighbours cat from today for the weekend so will have to be up earlier ??? It's not raining for a change so hubby wants to dismantle the shed off the plot two down from us and sort out the good wood to make a new one for our plot. He has had permission before anyone asks ::) no doubt some Nosey Parker on the site will have something to say to him.
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Looking after a neighbours cat from today for the weekend so will have to be up earlier ??? It's not raining for a change so hubby wants to dismantle the shed off the plot two down from us and sort out the good wood to make a new one for our plot. He has had permission before anyone asks ::) no doubt some Nosey Parker on the site will have something to say to him.
Good morning already! ;)
The warden on my site wanted to know why I hadn't told him that I was dismantling and removing my shed. :wacko: Having had the plot in the family for more than 50 years it was the first time anyone had suggested the need to keep the warden informed about moving sheds. ::)
When I burnt the old one know one batted an eye-lid nor were they needing to be informed when I put up the replacement. Amazing how a new warden can cause such change. :mellow:
Here's hoping everyone has a good day.... I've caught up with the paperwork so now I can go to bed in readiness for tea and porridge making later on.
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Morning all. Well, we needed rain and as the rest of Europe has had torrential rain and flooding in recent weeks it was only a matter of time before it reached us here in Bulgaria. And thunderstorms are set to continue for a month yet. Today we have wind, an unusual thing in our area with a breeze being the most we expect. With fruit and nuts being a huge market here I feel for those who have lost a lot of their crop after such a promising spring. Also it was looking like a bumper crop of roses in the rose oil industry after a few lean years. So sad for such a poor country.
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Gooood morning all
woken up by a bright light outside.....thought there was aliens, then saw the sun :D
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What a splendid morning only five deg's in the greenhouse though, good job I have not planted out the sweetcorn
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Been out and had a sit outside with a coffee, sunny potter in the greenhouse/patio already, shifted some toms outside into the sun- will go get dressed and pot up some things in a bit :D plot later, family allowing :nowink: :D
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Morning all, been up a couple of hours now. Had a coffee earlier, then washed the car. Took 30 Tomato plants out of the potting shed, put them on the lawn to give them a good water as they are going into the plot later. Just had a bacon butty, now going to dry of the car and give it a quick detail polish. See ya later. :)
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Might you and your bacon but ties get my taste buds going of a morning oh how I could eat one of them :D
That bright thing in the sky and he blue sheet around it has us up and on the plot at this unearthly hour for a Sunday morning well since 8am actually. Making the most of the weather today as it's forecast rain tomorrow and for rest of week almost. The neighbours must think we are mad :D had to be out earlyish though as I am looking after next door but ones cat so go over to feed her and let her out of a morning and then visa versa late afternoon.
Hope you all have this lovely weather. :D
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My morning started early enough for me.... but there's never time to come on here until my mother's tea is made, breakfast served and the other chores completed on a Sunday morning.... ready for my sister to stroll in for "the whole day" before vanishing to eat the dinner someone else will have cooked for her. :mellow:
Looked like a lovely start to Sunday's weather..... but cloudy now and the temperature has dropped considerably.
Morning all. Well, we needed rain and as the rest of Europe has had torrential rain and flooding in recent weeks it was only a matter of time before it reached us here in Bulgaria. And thunderstorms are set to continue for a month yet. Today we have wind, an unusual thing in our area with a breeze being the most we expect. With fruit and nuts being a huge market here I feel for those who have lost a lot of their crop after such a promising spring. Also it was looking like a bumper crop of roses in the rose oil industry after a few lean years. So sad for such a poor country.
So sorry to hear the weather outlook for you is not good. There seems to be no "normal" to weather patterns any more or perhaps the new "normal" is less favourable for us gardeners than it once was. Here's hoping you don't get too much wet and chill.
(Polytunnels seem to be becoming more attractive every year for some people.)
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Might you and your bacon but ties get my taste buds going of a morning oh how I could eat one of them :D
That bright thing in the sky and he blue sheet around it has us up and on the plot at this unearthly hour for a Sunday morning well since 8am actually. Making the most of the weather today as it's forecast rain tomorrow and for rest of week almost. The neighbours must think we are mad :D had to be out earlyish though as I am looking after next door but ones cat so go over to feed her and let her out of a morning and then visa versa late afternoon.
Hope you all have this lovely weather. :D
I like to get up the lotty early too best part of the day Ma
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Morning all. Been out weeding while the weather was good, now time for breakfast and Countryfile. :D
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Up & ready to go back to work.....not. Woke at 5.45 then dozed til 6.15 so thought I best get up or I might try to sleep until 8 like the last 2weeks while I've been off :)
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Good morning My weather forecast said it would be a cloudy day I am looking at sunshine so up and at um
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Looking like a mainly dry day, going to emulsion the walls before heading off to the lotty later to plant some kale and weed.
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Looking like a mainly dry day, going to emulsion the walls before heading off to the lotty later to plant some kale and weed.
Hope the authorities don't read that the wrong way! I'm currently stood at the station where my train has been cancelled... Only another 17 minutes to go...!
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Another full day on the plot for me it rained overnight but looks to be a reasonable day so far.
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Looking like a mainly dry day, going to emulsion the walls before heading off to the lotty later to plant some kale and weed.
I did a double take when I read that!! :lol:
I thought 'why are you planting weeds!' ??? :lol:
I obviously have a more innocent mind than Asherweef - that wasn't my first thought!! :lol:
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weed the verb. :D
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Blurry good morning to all. Kept awake by itchy bites, lots of bitey things getting vicious in the warm and damp weather. The dog knew I was awake and kept tapping her claws on the floor, wanting an early breakfast. Grrrr
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morning all, got some phoning to due this morning so will not be out and about so early.
heavy rain forecast for tomorrow my garage /workshop will get tidied out at last :lol: :lol:
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morning all, got some phoning to due this morning so will not be out and about so early.
heavy rain forecast for tomorrow my garage /workshop will get tidied out at last :lol: :lol:
If it pours I'll be in the garage too (different garage..... ::)). I have a wheelbarrow full of daff bulbs that need to be tied and hung up away from the squirrels who were busy grabbing them this afternoon and running into the bushes to replant them where I didn't want them.
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I'll be painting the window, skirting and trunk in spare room and working on my scarecrows.
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Bad start to the day. Two dead chicks, the last of the four parent reared, all gone within a week, one to predation, one to fade out and these two who were looking good and strong and very active yesterday. Very sad and possibly down to the very wet but warm weather. :(
Onward and upward.............
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Bad start to the day. Two dead chicks, the last of the four parent reared, all gone within a week, one to predation, one to fade out and these two who were looking good and strong and very active yesterday. Very sad and possibly down to the very wet but warm weather. :(
Onward and upward.............
Oh no that's very sad Tosca
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Just started raining here been dry since Thursday.
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Been down the plot following 7am school drop to tram stop to scatter more pellets in the rain (and my PJ's!) Pleased borlotties making it up thru the slugs n snails
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The rain must have addled my brain I an sure I posted here earlier.
Not a lot of gardening today
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The rain must have addled my brain I an sure I posted here earlier.
Not a lot of gardening today
You posted on my thread instead Dugless
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Rain rain and more rain nice weather for ducks :(
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Sorry to hear about your chicks Tosca :(, that's a blow for you. I was awake at 6 but quite happy to stay put until time to get up for work this morning :D
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Thanks Snowdrops. Such a blow when they were doing so well and were cheerful when they went to bed.
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Good morning all you early risers. :) A bit of a chilly morning so far but lovely and quiet at this time of the morning. (Apart from the odd fox screech)
I've, unintentionally, spent the last few hours reading through my old allotment diaries... I'm so pleased I kept them - helps me remember all the goings on over the last few years.... many of them nothing to do with the Lottie. ::)
Here's hoping the day doesn't start too early for you and when it does may the sun shine warmly on you. ;)
Sorry to read of your bad news Tosca... hope you have better results next-time.
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We are starting to forget what sunshine is! In January we were eating in the garden. Now we have rain every day. Good job we didn't move here for the weather!
Morning all. :D
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Good morning Tosca... nice to see someone around and about. :)
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Last coat of paint on the trunk today and the bedroom is decorated yes :D. OH has fitted the wall lights and will fix the curtain rail next week.
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On the right one this morning. Had a good night sleep went bed at 2100 and did not wake up until 03 45.
I usually have to get out at least once mostly twice sometimes three.
Now fit and rearing to go
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Hubby awake early so early morning drink brought to me in bed :unsure:. Nice thought but when I wake early I go downstairs. Never mind awake now & back in bed with my morning coffee & all of you if you know what I mean :lol:. Supposed to be sunny all day here,but I've to prepare for a sewing group on Saturday that I'm leading. Why didn't I prepare it all last week when it rained all week :blush:
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Good morning Tosca... nice to see someone around and about. :)
Bit of a cheat Paul as we are two hours ahead of you. Saying that I am rarely in bed after 5 and at this time of the year, by the time the dogs are fed and coffee made it's time to let the chooks out, three sheds full. OH does the geese, rowdy rabble, when he gets up. :lol: I am trying not to get involved as they are for Christmas and I am a non meat eater. He is getting a bit attached to them which is a shame as two are booked out. Ooo-er. :ohmy:
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Morning all, been awake most of the night with burning joints especially my wrist. I painted the whole shed yesterday and the fence panel by the side of it and am suffering now. In fact I suffer every time I have a day on the lottie. Old age don't come by itself that's for sure. :unsure:
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Ma,sorry to hear you hurt,but I feel I have read elsewhere your age,you are not old :). Just used some muscles you haven't been using like that for a while :D. Up at 6:15 here after sleeping solidly until 4:30, what bliss then dozing until 5:45. Sure does make you feel better.
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Arthur (itus) is constant companion to me but at last the doc has found a tablet that I can take without too many side effects. I did hear they have found a new one that is supposed to work don't know what it is called though.
I am off to the allotment lots to do so little time.
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Ma,sorry to hear you hurt,but I feel I have read elsewhere your age,you are not old :). Just used some muscles you haven't been using like that for a while :D. Up at 6:15 here after sleeping solidly until 4:30, what bliss then dozing until 5:45. Sure does make you feel better.
I don't think it's muscle pain snowy it hurts in the joints and I get a burning sensation I suppose there is no gain without pain as they say. Whoever said that first should be shot :lol:
Dugless I feel your pain hope the new tablets work for you :)
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Ma,sorry to hear you hurt,but I feel I have read elsewhere your age,you are not old :). Just used some muscles you haven't been using like that for a while :D. Up at 6:15 here after sleeping solidly until 4:30, what bliss then dozing until 5:45. Sure does make you feel better.
I don't think it's muscle pain snowy it hurts in the joints and I get a burning sensation I suppose there is no gain without pain as they say. Whoever said that first should be shot :lol:
Dugless I feel your pain hope the new tablets work for you :)
If you are having a burning sensation in the joints it might be a touch of arthritis. You need to rest for a couple of days. It might help to use one of the anti-inflammatory gels that you can get in chemists.
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I had burning and stiff knees after starting my Balance classes - glucosamine and cod liver+ evening primrose oil seems to be working a treat ;)
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Will try some of that Emma and see if it will help thank you ;)
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Will try some of that Emma and see if it will help thank you ;)
It's taken a couple of months to feel the benefit of the glucosamine and just watch how your are taking it - there have only been one or two cases of liver issues with it but I worried when I had my virus in April two weeks after starting it, oh and check if you're on other tablets. ;)
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Cannot stay long this morning must get the lawns mowed before it rains.
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Woken by the thunder & lightning this morning!
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Hubby brought me a cup of tea at 6am ... Very thoughtful ......... I was sleeping until I heard the cup go down :nowink: can hear the storms in the distance so won't be long before it is above us :ohmy: I don't like thunder and lightening, it feels like the sky is crashing down on you..
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Morning all. Been up a while now, so I have already done the weekly shop at Aldi. Getting our young daughter ready to go to swimming club later. :)
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Bit of rain overnight (road surface looks wet outside), otherwise cool and still.
It was really windy yesterday.
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Weelll, it' coming up to mid day here in BG. I had a lie in till 7 as totally knackered, but have paid for it since. It has rained heavily over the past week and we have been unable to do too much in the garden as the soil here is either so slippy and sticky you have heavy boots in seconds, or you sink! So this morning, with a break in the weather, had a wander looking at really healthy triffidy weeds and came across the potatoes, three plants smothered in Colorado beetles and larvae. Into the septic tank they went. >:(
Baking today for car boot tomorrow, and picked carrots and 6 of our lovely eggs for a large cake to sell in bits. Once it was cooking and smelling good I was tidying up and came accross the oil, 300mil should have gone in the cake. What a waste of our own produce! :ohmy:
What next? That is the last lie in I am having!!! :(
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Morning all. Been up a while now, so I have already done the weekly shop at Aldi. Getting our young daughter ready to go to swimming club later. :)
No bacon Butty this morning Miggs?? how disappointing was looking forward to remembering the smell and taste. I never seem to have bacon in the house. Must rectify that. :D
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Third drama of the day, we finished our lunch in the garden and as OH got up he looked accross the wall and yelled at me to get the camera. There, trapped in the wire of the chick run, was a five foot snake! He had to cut it out...it wasn't happy.
The cake looks great, but will be mega dry I expect, despite the carrots and fruit. Feeling a bit stupid.
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looking good Tosca, it happens to us all at some point, i forgot the sugar in a cake before now :nowink: not very nice
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I am going to cut it once cold and see how dry it is. Could market it as fat fee cake I suppose. :lol:
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Too hot and sticky to stay in bed this morning. I'm going to have a coffee or two, wake up gently and then toddle off to work and water the plants before the customers get there. I love watering, so its a nice relaxing start to the day :D
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Too hot and sticky to stay in bed this morning. I'm going to have a coffee or two, wake up gently and then toddle off to work and water the plants before the customers get there. I love watering, so its a nice relaxing start to the day :D
Have a good day, News! I agree about watering, it's almost therapeutic!
The dog wanted to go out at 4.50 this morning, but it's looking here good from now on!
Best wishes!
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Thanks Growster :D
It was a long, hot, busy day yesterday and expecting a re-run once the doors open ::) I have more minions in to help today, so a relaxed start and then some bossing about I think ;) :lol:
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Morning all. Going to try and get an early start on the plot today as we want to finish the doors and windows on the shed. It looks to be a lovely day so fingers crossed it stays that way. :D
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Good morning a full day at the allotment today, stuff to put in and a shed that needs the rebuild completing.
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Awake earlier & tea in bed, but up now,sat with a coffee for a relaxed start to today, hubby sounds to be preparing breakfast :D. Well trained you see :lol:
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will be up early to see hubby off on his boys holiday with his mate from the club , is away for the week and is picked up at 6 in the morning .
chrissie b
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I get this in reverse Rosemary goes off to my Daughter in Cumbria in July One week of peace :D :D
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Morning all. Fresh new week after a stressful weekend. :(
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Morning all. Fresh new week after a stressful weekend. :(
Good morning to you too.
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Morning everyone - raining again. Ho-hum off to work!
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Good morning the sun is shining do not know how long for so it's up and at um
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Looks like being a pretty good day... brightened after a dull start.
Surprised there's no one else up and about in the early hours - especially from around the other side where the time zones differ. :unsure:
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When it's fine like today we go out into the garden early before coffee and toast as it gets too hot by nine for me, 11 for OH, to do anything. Don't get on here till have my coffee.
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Good morning the sun is shining do not know how long for so it's up and at um
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I spoke too soon I had an injection in the knee this morning had to lay up all day and take it easy tomorrow :(
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Morning all. Nice cool hazy morning here in BG, more weeding on the cards.
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Going to a lunch meeting today wearing a vintage outfit
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morning all, warm misty morning today just waiting for the sun to show. Looking forward to the annual MOT with the Dr
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Morning, hubby up for work at 5.30 alarm woke me too now can't get back to sleep cos I got thus bright thing shining through the curtains ( must try and get blackout curtains). Will go make a cuppa green tea and let the dog out. Looks to be a lovely day and I am stuck in my workroom making Despicable me sugar models for a birthday cake. :nowink:
Cup of tea anyone?
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Morning, hubby up for work at 5.30 alarm woke me too now can't get back to sleep cos I got thus bright thing shining through the curtains ( must try and get blackout curtains). Will go make a cuppa green tea and let the dog out. Looks to be a lovely day and I am stuck in my workroom making Despicable me sugar models for a birthday cake. :nowink:
Cup of tea anyone?
Just had two, Ma, and the dog has been chasing something outside, so we're all up and dandy!
Thanks for offering though!
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Feeling better this morning, I will just do a bit of pottering in the garden today full on tomorrow
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Feeling better this morning, I will just do a bit of pottering in the garden today full on tomorrow
Glad to hear the injection is working Dugless, don't go doing too much now though :nowink:
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Feeling better this morning, I will just do a bit of pottering in the garden today full on tomorrow
Glad to hear the injection is working Dugless, don't go doing too much now though :nowink:
yes pace yourself
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Morning all. Market day today, time to feed the sad looking tomatoes first though.
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Morning off to the lotty the road bike has a flat tyre so I'll have to get the mountain bike out.
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Morning, work later but only til lunch time, in fact should finish at 11:45 as I was half an hour late finishing last night, then it will be shopping & home to get out on the garden weather permitting.
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Better now so no excuses up and at um again.
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Morning all - the ducks started quacking at six this morning and it was my turn to sort them and the hens. Better than yesterday - OH had to get up at five. Looks like another good day for the garden.
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Morning. Just had to chase a heron away from the pond...no way it is getting my fishies
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Helping my friend with scarecrows today.
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laying in bed listening to a cuckoo :D
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Eating breakfast reading about Madame Cholet in bed listening to a cuckoo
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Eating breakfast reading about Madame Cholet in bed listening to a cuckoo
Reading Cadalots post :lol:
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Morning MC :nowink:
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Eating breakfast reading about Madame Cholet in bed listening to a cuckoo
Reading Cadalots post :lol: get a room you two
:nowink: drinking my first cuppa and trying not to be busy too soon
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Think i might go back to sleep I don't normally wake till 6 had a funny dream :ohmy: Going to listen to GQT fell asleep half way through yesterday.
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good morning Going to be a very nice day. My visiting partridge bought her 12 chicks in the garden yesterday afternoon.
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good morning Going to be a very nice day. My visiting partridge bought her 12 chicks in the garden yesterday afternoon.
ahhhhhhhhhh :D
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Is one of them called Alan by chance ::)
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there is something magical early on a summers morning when it is still and quiet.
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And the wife is still in bed condensing snot ::)
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Is one of them called Alan by chance ::)
I did not ask :lol: :lol: :lol:
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there is something magical early on a summers morning when it is still and quiet.
I love it too
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And the wife is still in bed condensing snot ::)
Urghhh Good job I am not eating my brekkie Cadalot that is not a nice image you have left me with this morning.
Morning all, sat in bed waiting for hubby to wake up and make some tea coz I can't be bothered to go downstairs yet :D feeling lazy today for a change :lol:
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Sorry Ma - with her connected to her ventilator I would love to listen to Cuckoos or birds in the morning but it's like sleeping next to Darth Vader which I can cope with at night but not in the morning if it's 5:00 then I may as well get up.
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Sorry Ma - with her connected to her ventilator I would love to listen to Cuckoos or birds in the morning but it's like sleeping next to Darth Vader which I can cope with at night but not in the morning if it's 5:00 then I may as well get up.
Ahh now that's different, if you had explained that in the first place i wouldnt have had that image in my head :D
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Different routine this morning. OH gone off to do a bit of casual labour (in these temps...mid 30s...he's welcome) so have some tomato and apple chutney on the go (last year's bottled toms, last year's stewed apple) and some rhubarb and ginger jam, made the bee syrup, mixed two lots of bread dough and having coffee before picking yet more broad beans and anything else I can find.
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Bleary good morning to all....it's just before 2 here and I have come down as it is windy which means the old dog things it's going to get stormy and is stressed, we rarely get wind, Added to that it's 26 degrees in the bedroom even with all the windows open so hard to sleep anyway, but she was keeping OH awake and he needs to sleep as he's working today.
Bless her, she's much calmer now.
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Good morning lots of rain here in the night nice and fresh now :D
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Morning from cloudy Leicestershire. We too had rain overnight, so I might go & weed the parsnips & carrots in a bit.
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If i had know I wouldn't have got up at 6 yesterday to water :lol:
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Well, I have had a productive morning, picked probably the last big pick of broad beans, sorted into size, blanched and frozen apart from the bigger ones which are skinned and in a bean salad with sliced borlotti beans, the first of the French beans, some pea stragglers, baby carrots and spring onion in honey mustard dressing.
Done some weeding and tied up and de-suckered the fifty or so tomatoes. Picked a load of courgettes and sorted them into chicken pile and in-the-fridge-till-I-decide-what-to-do pile.
I think I need a snooze after Saturday Kitchen
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So it's fathers day Ive been up for 1/2 hour and finished breakfast and this Father wants to be at the allotment but,
Its fathers day and I have to wait for my daughter to wake up and give me my card and present.
Then the wife will want to go and take flowers to the cemetery, But it's fathers day......
Wouldn't it be good if you had a day when you could just do what you wanted without upsetting anyone or getting in trouble with the wife?
What would we call it I wonder, especially if you were a man and a father lets say ?
This father has hinted that the best fathers day present would be a day on his allotment with daughters helping .... is that likely to happen, I very much doubt it as one is away on holiday with her mate in Dorset ::)
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Oh dear Alan, I can sympathise, it's rather like that on Mother's Day too.perhaps you could have a day in lieu ?
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best I get up and out to the plot\garden centre before the hordes arrive this afternoon :)
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Oh dear Alan, I can sympathise, it's rather like that on Mother's Day too.perhaps you could have a day in lieu ?
I've never been to Lieu :nowink: is it nice there. I was thinking of having an imaginary site visit during the week that was really the allotment once in a while ::) what the wife does not know about can't hurt me :D
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Oh dear Alan, I can sympathise, it's rather like that on Mother's Day too.perhaps you could have a day in lieu ?
I've never been to Lieu :nowink: is it nice there. I was thinking of having an imaginary site visit during the week that was really the allotment once in a while ::) what the wife does not know about can't hurt me :D
Just make sure you wash the mud off before you arrive home. ;)
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Up and out early to a car boot sale, sold all my cakes and biscuits and lots of chutney after a very slow start and only four sellers turning up (still new, but luckily in a busy village with lots of ex-pats.)
Met up with Mosslane, member on here, who is over there on holiday (She used to live in the village) so had a good natter, lovely. And very strange as she also used to live fairly close to us in Cheshire and we met a few years ago because she offered me damsons for jam and chutney making. It's a small world. :D
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:lol: Oh very funny (in lieu). I hope she doesn't read your plot diary or you'll have to post your doings as another date :lol:
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The birds have been up for an awfully long time and I'm hoping the foxes have gone to bed.
Good morning everyone!! :)
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Morning Paul.
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hi Paul
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Morning everyone, looking like it's going to be a good day :-)
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Off to the plot soon looks lovely :D
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Morning Cadalot :D
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Hi MC it's late now I've been up for over and hour ;)
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some gardening at hone is afternoon Oh has day of for DIY
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About to start work now then when the wife goes around her sisters for a few hours off to the allotment for a couple of hours to see if I can get bed 13 started
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good morning back from a caravanning week end, Lots to do I think it will take me all of two hours to water
every thing ::)
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Sorry, forgot to say good morning. I started on my blog and it always takes forever (two fingers, far too many photos!) I can't believe its already 10.45 here!
We have rain and too many flies today, I hope it's better in the UK for you all.
Right, better get some bread on the go. I fancy a nice cheese and onion today.....
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Those birds need an alarm clock! Hell's teeth they are up early... and they're so noisy!
Here's hoping for a warm, relaxing day. :)
Morning all. :)
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morning Paul
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Morning both :D
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hello just had a snooze :lol:
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Afternoon MC
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Late on Parade this morning, how is everyone, I am going to have a quiet day today got to go into town changing my ISA to another bank.
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Off to the lotty soon dray day forcast loads to do.
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Morning all, just enjoying my green lemon tea in bed before I make a start on the wedding cake for this week. No lottie for me until Saturday :( weather is grey here but warm.
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Morning all. Not a good start....too many things going around my head...all work stuff. Now the tinterweb has died on the router....:(
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Extremely wet start here after a muggy night. Lucky we got up at five to let the dogs out as they will need water wings to go out now. They don't seem to want their morning walk. :lol:
Good job we didn't move here for the weather. Chutney day today I think, get rid of a bit of excess produce.
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No rain here, a little chilly but it's early morning or was when I sent out to look at the greenhouse
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Feels chilly here too but looks bright outside. I too woke early and couldn't settle back down as got too much going round and round in my head. Don't start work until eight this morning instead of the usual seven.
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Just pondering if to go to the allotment to water this morning :nowink:
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Couldy here at the moment, I few news letters to deliver later and some jam making with bits in the freezer.
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Just had to rod through the soil drains at 'The Turrets', about fifteen minutes ago...
Does this mean I can be a Vice President of the EMC?
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That sounds a bit too much like hard work this early in the morning Growster, so I would say 'Bien sur mon VP -isness' ;)
I've managed to get up and make a coffee so far, then log onto here :lol:
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on time this morning ,good job I have a lot of transplanting to do Before I am off to Belgium to see my Daughter. on Tuesday
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One batch of beetroot chutney on the go and just about to start a spicy tomato made with last year's leftover bottled tom sauce as a base, it worked really well last time.
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Bet your house smells lovely Tosca :) I love the smell of preserves bubbling away :)
I've managed to slice strawberries and they are in the dehydrator, plus get my new road tax on-line. Have had to retire to the sofa with another coffee to recover now :lol:
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Morning all, late check in though I was up showered & dressed by 7.30. Wedding cake has been doweled this morning and will be stacked in a bit then the decoration begins. Cloudy and cool here just right for the cake. Have a good one everyone :D
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Morning all too early need to go back to sleep. :)
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Morning all from a very soggy Bulgaria. Several people have died in floods out here so we have been very lucky to just lose a few plants and fruit. A friend who lives in an idyllic setting in the mountains has had her place wrecked several times by hail and rain, this time wrecking the animals' roofs. So very sad for those relying on their crops to feed their families, no help from the social here. :(
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Good morning all from a sunny Isle of Wight.
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Morning all!
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Morning all <stretch yawn> don't know why I am awake at this hour and don't know why I came on here first ::)
Doesn't look very sunny here :(
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Nice snooze overcast need to water before U3A at 10am and my sign language class
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Morning all, sat in bed with an early morning cuppa, hubby getting up to go to work, & I'll be up shortly to toddle off to the plot to plant out spare tomatoes & possibly the squash before yoga class.
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another good morning up at five ready to begin another days gardening home and lottie.
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Another day another dollar, where is every one this morning, off to do some watering newly transplanted veg.
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I'm here & have been for awhile, forgot to post on this one though, catching up with yesterday's unread posts
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GOOD MORNING :D
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Morning all, at last I can get out to the lottie been away from it all week besides the hour or so there yesterday evening. Have an important delivery to a posh Castle later today a chance to put my posh frock on :D
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Morning all. Done a bit of weeding and made pickled beetroot, just waiting for OH to finish skyping his mum so that I can chop the onion and apple for beetroot chutney. Busy busy.
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Did my early morning Solstice dance
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Did my early morning Solstice dance
Yes - so we saw. :D
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Anyone else still up?
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Morning all. No thunder last night for a change and is looking bright this morning. Let the weeding commence!
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Morning Tosca :)
I zonked out early last night - too much heat/sun and a busy day at work, so up early today ::) Last day at work to get through today before I have a week off :D :D :D
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Good cloud cover for a while off I go to the allotment
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oooof! very late to bed, early to rise - trying to muster the energy to get to the plot before it warms up.
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Morning all. Day off today but up at the usual time of 5.30 am. Going to England today to visit my mum in Hospital. Hopefully we'll get some answers today about what is going to happen to her.
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Good morning I wish every one well, off up the allotment more watering cannot do any weeding the grounds like concrete.
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Morning all, not doing much today probably on the allotment most of it even if we just sit in front of our shed and enjoy the view :) got some swede to plant out oh and maybe I should sow some more seeds of broccoli which I have been sowing in succession and more runner beans so yes more to do than I though :D have a good day everyone :D
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Getting on well with the weeding, nice cool breeze (we don't get much breeze) but OH having a rant about the weeds some of which are over five feet tall and is threatening to weedkill. Hoping he will calm down as I want to be as chemical free as poss and the only weedkiller available locally is roundup :ohmy: :ohmy: which is what the locals use to keep their patches weed free. He's wanting to know what is planted in the onion/garlic bed which HE pulled the fore mentioned alliums from as it is under a shagpile of self seeded fennel, grass and milkweed....that is why it is not a priority. The wet weather has meant we can't get on the land which is strangely gluey and super slippery all at once and means you come off the garden on stilts of mud! Ideal for growing triffids.
Onwards and upwards........
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Productive morning :) Up at 6am, house cleaned from top to bottom ready to go away for a week to South Africa on Wednesday, now baking in my living room watching Andrew Marr, then to do a couple of tip runs.
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Oooo lovely, have a wonderful time. I never got to go though OH has been a few times with work so I look at his pictures and dream.
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Have a great time rowan - South Africa is on my list of places to go to ;)
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I will be working, but very exciting none the less as my first time to RSA. May well get some downtime on Sunday so that will be nice, but get to visit some very interesting farms so looking forwards to it! Have been to Zimbabwe, thats the closest.
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Morning may have an early trip to the lotty.
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Morning all, lovely morning here again. Broody hatching chicks, sun shining, time to get outside.
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Hi Tosca
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Moring MC unless your already on the allotment :nowink:
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Morning all :)
First day of my week off, but woke up at 'work time' anyway ::) Never mind. I now have a good long day to potter about doing precisely what I want, when I want :D
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good morning Not a lot to report this morning Just the usual routine
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Morning all - the dusk woke me up at 6.30 this morning - much better than yesterday when they started to quack at 5.30!!.
A beautiful day and lots of gardening work planned. :D
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Dead headed the nicotiana before they closed up for the day and spent an hour or so tidying the 'cottage' border, planted some pot grown chive plants, cleaned out three chicken houses and weeded the seedling bed. Venka my neighbour stopped me to give me a plate of freshly made pizza and I managed to tell her where Dave was and what he was doing....in Bulgarian! Will not start again till tonight.
Now watching Countryfile and will be spending the rest of the day in the shade or indoors..pickled onions and cakes beckon.
And of course we are two hours ahead of you lot, so not that efficient! :lol:
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Morning all. The chutney is still bubbling away in the slow cooker. I'm on the rota todsy for coffee morning. Made chocolate butterfly cakes yesterday. Engineer coming pm to fix solar pannel and loads of jars to label snd cover for Sat and other stock to sort out. Tonight Im teaching a hybnobirth so I'm reading up only do about one a year.
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Hello Cadalot
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Hi MC ......Too late to find out you can't hypnotise yourself when baby comes :nowink: shame they didn't tell all those ladies on one born every minute that my wife loves to watch ::)
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Hi MC ......Too late to find out you can't hypnotise yourself when baby comes :nowink: shame they didn't tell all those ladies on one born every minute that my wife loves to watch ::)
:lol:
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Morning all from a soggy and battered Bulgaria. Already itchy and lumpy from being bitten when letting the chooks out and surveying the estate. Bit of a mess but there are still some fruits on the trees and some maize and sunflowers standing. :)
What a year it has been for weather out here. :ohmy:
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Hi Tosca. Windy is the worst- just beginning to see the difference where am using windbreaks on the plot.
Just got up and seen the promised rain didn't come in quantity, and there was me thinking I didn't have to water yesterday ::) Will be doing some bucket moving later I expect.
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Morning the couple saw hypnobirthing on one born every minute.
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Morning all. Hubby back to work today after his three weekly long weekend of 5 days which means we can all have a rest now ::) need to update my diary too.
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Good morning from sunny Brussels,I am here visiting my Daughter.
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Good morning from sunny Brussels,I am here visiting my Daughter.
Have a lovely trip Dugless :)
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Good morning from sunny Brussels,I am here visiting my Daughter.
How lovely, have a great time
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Don't forget to bring back some sprouts :ohmy:
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Don't forget to bring back some sprouts :ohmy:
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Morning. Feeling shattered after another stormy night...or rather morning. Started about two hours ago with strong winds rattling everything, gave up at 4.45 when I realised I was not going to get back to sleep. OH snoring away with Bella dog who uses stormy weather as an excuse to get on the bed. Bonnie lab is hyperventilating down here with me.
Ah well, won't have to water....again!
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Sounds really frightening Tosca hope you are ok.
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We're fine thanks, but I am Grumpy! >:( Few more branches from trees which
are were laden with fruit, more fodder for the wood burner. We are certainly paying for the mild winter. Never mind, there are a lot worse off than us. OH has gone to the glass merchant in the local town, but by all accounts he opens when he feels like it so you have to get lucky. ::)
One upside, we have only had to water once this year apart from pots (can't believe they are still on the outside steps) Water costs money here. :D
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Good morning from Belgium still sunshine here but rain forecast for Friday Saturday and Sunday
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Well, that was a bargain! OH took the whole window and came back from the glazier with all four panes replaced and sealed, but instead of plain glass it has tinted textured glass suitable for a bathroom which looks on to next door's garden.
And all for the pricely sum of.....less than £4!
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That's cheered me up a bit. :D
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What a bargain Tosca :D Hope the storms go away soon - sounds like Bulgaria has been well and truly battered :(
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Just had a weird dream I ended on the wrong side of the river and had to climb up the bank to re trace my steps.
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Ooo-er. :ohmy:
Good morning Madame Cholet. :D
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Hi Tosca is weather any better.
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Dull and cool today, and quiet as you like......for now. Suits me. :D
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Morning :) even though it's raining it's awfully warm here, either that or I'm having a hot flush :unsure:
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Morning all. Wet and quite cold here - not nice for sorting the hens at 6 o'clock. :wub:
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Chilly and overcast at 6:00 when I went out in my PJ's to open the greenhouse door and cold frame :nowink:
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Good morning, aittle rain last night fine this morning but forecast more for later.l
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Good morning, aittle rain last night fine this morning but forecast more for later.l
You sure you not sat at home pretending to be in Brussles Dugless ;)
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Spoke too soon. It started drizzling while I was doing my early morning weeding and is now coming down in stair rods. Amazing how warm the soil is though.
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Good morning just got woken by some idiots slamming a van door.
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Morning. We have a lovely pink sky at the moment, hopefully that means a nice day. Woke an hour and a half ago scratching, I have a whole new batch of lumps where the bitey things attacked while I was weeding yesterday. Now some rather large animal is scratching about and moving stuff around in the loft space above my head which is open ended.
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Forcast showers here not too hot though. I'm prone to bites too had two large ones up trouser leg last week.
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The problem is, I start to do something then move on to weeding or harvesting and forget to spray. The bitey things have been vicious and all day with the wet weather. When it's really hot they retire and the 'ordinary' flies take over. They joys of living in a close, rural community!
I am sitting here staring out of the window at the horror that is the courgette patch. I have never seen such huge plants, the local pale variety being much bigger and more lush than the dark ones grown from British seeds. I think a carrier bag of large courgettes left out on the lane is in order, someone will have them for their animals, our fowl are fed up with them.
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Good morning there!! Wow... look what I've been missing.
Cramp = reason why I got up early and then (foolishly) had a coffee (a strong one). :wacko:
I've been awake in the small hours several mornings but not up out of bed - just late going to bed. Now look what happens when I go to bed at a "reasonable" hour. ::)
Sorry to read of the bites tosca. I've had the same... red ants in my case. My fault for disturbing them when they were minding their own business a centimetre or two below the soil level. Boy do those nips make me itch and continue to do so for days!
Courgettes? My plants have flowers. I'm not complaining - happy to have a patch to grow a couple of plants in even though everything went in late it's better than nothing.
Here's wishing everyone a good day ahead (minus the itches!! ;) )
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Now I know six o'clock doesn't really count as early morning club. What does count is getting up to go to the loo after lying in bed for while thinking about dancing and cooking and housework, deciding to make a start and running a bath, and THEN realising it's only twenty past five! ::)
Glad to hear you are still growing, Paul!
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Decided to snooze too early before looking forward to my 1st courgettes.
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Good morning, aittle rain last night fine this morning but forecast more for later.l
You sure you not sat at home pretending to be in Brussles Dugless ;)
Had a thunderstorm late afternoon.
overcast this morning and I will send a photo so you can see where I am. :lol: :lol:
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Now some rather large animal is scratching about and moving stuff around in the loft space above my head which is open ended.
I'm rather concerned I hope it was one of your dogs?
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No, but I have seen a large tabby and white cat up in the eaves, and we have pine martens about. I don't think it's a rat as they are small around here...and dare I say it....rather cute looking. Have to say I get nervous if OH is too quick letting the chooks out in the morning.
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Morning, ok I know it's more the Late Morning Club than the early but I been tossing and turning all night one min hot quilt off then cold quilt on also up 3 times for the loo. When will I learn that the choc drink as lovely as it is, is no good at 11pm as I will be up all night weeing more than the cupful I drank. How does that work ???
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Photo of where am as promised
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Looks like some dry bonded retaining wall blocks by the steps :unsure:
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Morning all, only day off this week and I managed an extra half an hour in bed. What a lazy whatnot I am! Mind you I did manage to stay up until 8,30 last night before falling asleep on the sofa.
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morning off to the lotty :)
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Morning, got a birthday Bar bq today son in law's
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Morning fellow lotters! Thank you for the advice in clearing my new plot, I will be getting stuck in today.
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Morning all. Hoping to get a day no the lottie today but we have a few showers and thunder forecast. Will sit in the shed and watch it if it happens :D
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Morning fellow lotters! Thank you for the advice in clearing my new plot, I will be getting stuck in today.
Don't do too much,it will still be there on your next plot day :)
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Morning all. Beautuful morning here in BG for the third day running. Will be out with the hoe soon before it gets too hot.
Have a good one everyone.
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morning Tosca im off to the lotty once the fog clears a bit.
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Doh! I have work ........but want to be on the allotment >:(
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Good morning all, up at the usual time of 5.30 as it's of to work at 7am, volunteered to work an extra shift today to boost the 'holiday fund'. Only two weeks to go and then we are off!
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Morning all, sun is shining at the minute but that could soon change.
Feeling very smug today after bagging a big polytunnel for very little dosh :tongue2:
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Moring, the bar bq went well only we had to have it inside, fine this morning
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While weeding round the tomatoes found that two varieties are ripening, a cherry and a beefsteak. More worryingly there are a few rotting at the very bottom where they have been constantly splashed with mud. Hoping it's nothing more sinister. :(
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Morning - the sun is shining so looks like a good day for the garden. :D
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morning Cadalot :D Off to sell on the market today
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Morning MC have a good day it's going to be dry and warm
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lovely 20C with a fresh breeze
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Morning all, can't sleep with all the excitement of the past few days. Got plans running through my head like a motorway. Will probably make a start on the weeds that are on the new plot next to us today :)
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Third early morning in a row here- why did I choose nursing as a career!! :wacko:
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Third early morning in a row here- why did I choose nursing as a career!! :wacko:
I would suggest it's either because your a caring person or you like to see blood and gore
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Went out early to do a bit of weeding as usual, came in gasping for coffee....no leccy! So sat and podded a mountain of borlotti beans to freeze for those times when you forget to soak. Lovely breeze today, we don't often get wind here.
Right, a washing up bowl full of parsley beckons.....
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Third early morning in a row here- why did I choose nursing as a career!! :wacko:
I would suggest it's either because your a caring person or you like to see blood and gore
I'm a caring person :D
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Morning all, another lovely day here in BG and hopefully for another week.
Market day today, not sure I need anything but will go anyway just in case I miss out. :D
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morning sunny here too until Sat off to water lotty as out the the gardening group at 10am.
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Morning! been awake since 4am tried to go back to sleep but gave up at 5.30. been washing raspberries, blackcurrants and a full washing up bowl of gooseberries from just 2 plants, only half way through the gooseberries and starting to feel tired again ???<<yawn>>
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morning Ma off the the lotty now catch up later.
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Morning MC, have a good time at the lottie :)
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Morning all - up at six to let the hens out and feed and water them. Our blue sky has disappeared under a mist but it is really uncomfortably hot and humid.
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Good morning, last post from Belgium back home today :(, it is sunny here. :D
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Morning all, lovely start to the day again. Having a preserving day today, have windfall apples, pears and apricots as well as cherries and courgettes if I can't sneak them to the compost heap without being seen.....
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Morning Tosca. I love apricots so don't go throwing them on the compost heap :lol:
Well the polytunnel is up it just needs to be levelled and then tightened and door frames put on. It's MASSIVE :ohmy: :D
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Sounds great Ma how exciting what are you going to grow?
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Morning Tosca. I love apricots so don't go throwing them on the compost heap :lol:
Well the polytunnel is up it just needs to be levelled and then tightened and door frames put on. It's MASSIVE :ohmy: :D
I envy you your tunnel Ma, I would love to have fresh veggies over the winter, but everything is under snow for weeks usually and temps down -20 and below, so not much survives.
And we don't chuck the apricots. Don't go a bundle on jam, but chutney, curd and apricot fool is gorgeous. They are large too, as big as a small peach, lovely straight off the tree. Some of the pears will be bottled today or tomorrow, they are small but sweet and taste just like the ones in cans but with better texture.....and very early.
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Sounds great Tosca mouth watering :D
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How lovely Tosca, are the pears usually this early in Bulgaria ? Or is it the strange weather patterns you've been having? When does your winter finish?
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You could start a little business shipping to the uk your produce Tosca, I'd buy them :D
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Good Morning, Back home, can't stick around lots to catch up on.
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Well it was early when I hit the allotment this morning before 6:00 :ohmy: now back and having breakfast :nowink:
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How lovely Tosca, are the pears usually this early in Bulgaria ? Or is it the strange weather patterns you've been having? When does your winter finish?
Not usually Snowdrops, this one caught us out last year though we did bottle a few to see what they were like, they are very small. It's another couple of months for 'normal' pears.
You could start a little business shipping to the uk your produce Tosca, I'd buy them :D
I sell jams, chutneys and cakes at car boot sales Ma, as well as hand made cards. Bought mostly by Brits missing chutneys and jammy jams rather than the pectin set ones with little flavour. But I do have Bulgarian and Dutch repeat customers. Unfortunately I have been tipped off that a proper condiment company are going to be attending the sales so might have to adjust what I am selling. I don't want to try and compete as this is a hobby, not a business. Done business, don't want the pressure.
I have been approached locally about making ....er....seasonal cakes and puddings but not sure it will be viable yet as getting certain ingredients like treacle is costly to say the least.
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How lovely Tosca, are the pears usually this early in Bulgaria ? Or is it the strange weather patterns you've been having? When does your winter finish?
Not usually Snowdrops, this one caught us out last year though we did bottle a few to see what they were like, they are very small. It's another couple of months for 'normal' pears.
You could start a little business shipping to the uk your produce Tosca, I'd buy them :D
I sell jams, chutneys and cakes at car boot sales Ma, as well as hand made cards. Bought mostly by Brits missing chutneys and jammy jams rather than the pectin set ones with little flavour. But I do have Bulgarian and Dutch repeat customers. Unfortunately I have been tipped off that a proper condiment company are going to be attending the sales so might have to adjust what I am selling. I don't want to try and compete as this is a hobby, not a business. Done business, don't want the pressure.
I have been approached locally about making ....er....seasonal cakes and puddings but not sure it will be viable yet as getting certain ingredients like treacle is costly to say the least.
Could the customers supply those ingredients, thinking if they are expats, their visitors could bring them a tin over?
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That is an option. We can get most stuff here if you look hard enough, it's just finding out what things are called.
Feeling a bit woozy after a session with the neighbours, rakia and coffee and biscuits....hic... :mellow:
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Oops, may make the preserving day interesting :lol:
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Well, I don't qualify for the club this morning! Eight o'clock! It's years since I slept that long. But in my defence I was kept awake by itchy bites, then came down for a drink and antihistimine which knocked me out.
OH's sister landed in Bulgaria for the first time overnight and is staying at the beach for a day before heading out here tomorrow. And you know what? The heavens have opened and won't shut! Not predicted, it was supposed to be mid thirties and blazing sunshine for ten days. Oh dear. The neighbours both sides are getting so excited about her arrival, she will only be here three days, our first visitor. :(
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Morning all, Tosca how lovely to have your sisinlaw come to visit. I hope the weather improves :D
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morning all :D
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At this time of day it's afternoon :nowink:
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been busy on the net its called work :lol:
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Morning all, just having a cuppa in bed before I tackle the day. Was busy sewing all day yesterday foe DD, so with a bit of luck I should get to the plot in a while before yoga at 1. Tosca, I'm sure you will enjoy SILs visit regardless of the weather & it might clear for you all.
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morning Snowy hows the costumes coming on.
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All done, & gone to the dry cleaners to be pressed, just to sew the buttons on & cut the buttonholes through. Ready to wear on Sunday for the race. Pictures to follow on Are You Crafty, bound to be a YouTube link as well
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good morning, rain forecast for this afternoon so must get cracking.
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Started at 6.30am and haven't stopped apart from a quick coffee at about 1.30pm. Have collected 156 bricks, still about another 80 to go tomorrow. Also stocked the house back up with food and bought stuff ready to make a hyuge pot of bolognese for the freezer tomorrow.
List of places visited today:
House 1 - Bricks
Butcher - Meat
Waitrose - Dried Chili's ready for making Chili next weekend.
Sainsburys - Remaining food.
Garden Centre - Pond stuff & new orchid (whoops, fell in the basket!)
Mansion 1 - More bricks. 2 runs today, 1 tomorrow. To give an idea of the scale of the house, it took 100 tons of gravel to do the drive……………………………………………………………….
My weekends are far to valuable to be sitting around!
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Also had a busy day with our first visitors coming to stay since we moved here. Had a late night.....so why am I here at half three ? Grrr, feel grumpy and itchy after sitting outside all evenong.
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Garden Centre - Pond stuff & new orchid (whoops, fell in the basket!)
Funny how that happens isn't it!! :lol: :lol:
I'm on a night at work - so technically cheating on this early morning lark... :D
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Hi Devon and Tosca,
It's so muggy here, I just got up to try and finish a good book - 'Rat Run', by Gerald Seymour!
Keep thinking about the story all night so might just as well finish it now!
Enjoy your Sundays!
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Morning all, off to Lake District today until next Friday. Hoping to relax a bit and recharge our batteries after working so hard on the plot. Weather is so so but who cares. Need to do a last min check later on the plot and garden before handing responsibility over to daughter ???
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Morning all, off to Lake District today until next Friday. Hoping to relax a bit and recharge our batteries after working so hard on the plot. Weather is so so but who cares. Need to do a last min check later on the plot and garden before handing responsibility over to daughter ???
have a lovely holiday Ma.
Raining heavily here, so no plot work for me. :( Bored. Want to be outside!
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A really good morning free of back pain. off to see how much I can do, must not over do it though.
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The Lake District is one of the places in the world I Love.
I don't know if it is still working but I went to a Hematite Mine there and the nuclear power station as part of my Engineering Degree
Doh About to leave for the allotment and its started to rain ...... * I was looking forward to getting out of the house for the morning.
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It's our wedding anniversary on Wednesday and we honeymooned in Keswick so thought we would visit again but have been there many times. I love it up there. :D
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You could always stay in the allotment summer house :nowink:
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You could always stay in the allotment summer house :nowink:
Yep thought about that but then that would only give the other plotters something else to talk about :tongue2:
The only thing missing from that shed is a bed and loo :lol:
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Lidl are doing chemi loos this week :nowink:
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It's pouring here too, Cadalot, and there's all that fruit to pick as well..:0[
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Growster your blackcurrants look amazing, think of all that jam and tarts :D
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Growster your blackcurrants look amazing, think of all that jam and tarts :D
Hey, thank you, Ma! We really are having to get to grips with them this week, and that's only one bush, so we're incredibly grateful to the last tenant!
It's trifle time at the moment, and also our latest breakfast crush - Weetabix and blackcurrants!
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Morning all. I'm staying home today while the others go off exploring castles and monastries. me old lrgs need a day off from traipsing but I'm sure I will find something interesting to do here....like picking the poor nrglected harvest and making more jam.
I hope you have a good time in the Lakes Ma, love it there too....but only out of season. My sister lives in Windermere.
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Morning Tosca have fun jam making I'm off to the lotty this morning work at home this afternoon and evening.
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Morning Cadalot good week end?
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Hi MC - finally once I bit the bullet and went to the allotment Sunday morning :)
How's about you? - I may do a you today and spend a few hours on the allotment this morning and work tonight whilst the wife watches all her soaps
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The benefit of being self employed :D
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good morning another sunny day, need to lug some more water up the allotment.
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good morning another sunny day, need to lug some more water up the allotment.
Dugless are you waterless up there? No water mains?
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Well, I'm dripping with sweat, and no jam made. Went out to try to save some tomatoes then found I had three full sized cues needing picking. Add those to the two OH picked this morning and the eight in the fridge, started to prepare for cucumber pickle. Shout at the gate and my 80 year old neighbour gives me seven more cues....and the chooks don't like them! Now 32 in the shade and goodness knows what in the sun so time to retire to the house.
Don't envy the others traipsing round the city and castle! :ohmy:
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Delia online - cucumber soup - can be eaten hot or cold - I prefer it hot - It's delicious ;) ;)
If freezes well ;)
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good morning another sunny day, need to lug some more water up the allotment.
Dugless are you waterless up there? No water mains?
Yes we only have what we can collect off the shed roof but as I only pay £10 a year and I am only a quarter of a mile away. I only water new plantings till they get established.
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I'm the same I have 2 IBCS which fill up over the winter and last all summer.
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Good morning everyone. Looking not too bad this morning, a bit of rain last night, but not too much. Might get some raspberry jam on the go :)
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Good morning everyone. Looking not too bad this morning, a bit of rain last night, but not too much. Might get some raspberry jam on the go :)
Hi Archi!
I'm here because I heard this crashing on the door with the dog wanting to go out...
Looked at the clock - sans glasses, thought I saw 5.59, so got up and let her out, only to see that it was 5.39...
Hey ho, it's not such a bad morning, and at least I got a breath of fresh air into the bargain!
Have a good day!
G.
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Morning G
we have the birds using our TV aerial as a perch and they just love to sing. I remember those days with our old boy wanting to go out...no need for an alarm clock :-)
Arch
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Morning G
we have the birds using our TV aerial as a perch and they just love to sing. I remember those days with our old boy wanting to go out...no need for an alarm clock :-)
Arch
TV aerials are great for better entertainment, aren't they!
The other evening, I heard all this birdsong coming from somewhere, and it was a thrush on ours, just belting out everything from Aida to Zorba the Greek!
Marvellous!
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anpther good morning though they say it will rain about lunch time, or the more reason for an early start.
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Morning all been awake for past hour then decided to get up and make myself a coffee rather than toss and turn and not get back to sleep. Even on holiday I am waking early ::)heard the rain earlier and the clouds are looking a bit grey so not sure what we will be doing today, something indoors I expect :)
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Ma on holiday and still on the forum ..... that's addiction you know ::)
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Ma on holiday and still on the forum ..... that's addiction you know ::)
:lol: it's more like still waking early and keeping an eye on you lot = addiction :lol: you're right Cadalot :ohmy:
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Wife got me a tee shirt with Eat Drink Allotment on it, and it's true - I think once you get and allotment if you are going to stay the distance you have no choice but to become a little OCD
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That is so true. I am missing ours and when we are out on our travels I am looking for allotment sites so I can get a quick fix, unfortunately they don't seem to have many up here so I am now having withdrawal symptoms. I am going to ask the owner of this cottage later if I can see his veg patch just to calm myself :lol:
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Belated good morning early risers.
Just said an emotional goodbye to the OH's sister and BIL, after a pizza breakfast at the neighbours' house where they were treated like honoured guests, with the lady of the house even donning her best red, sequinned top for the occasion. They then sat out on their bench on the street waiting to wave them off in the taxi. Not quite sure waht brought a tear to our eyes. What a lovely place we live in.
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That is so true. I am missing ours and when we are out on our travels I am looking for allotment sites so I can get a quick fix, unfortunately they don't seem to have many up here so I am now having withdrawal symptoms. I am going to ask the owner of this cottage later if I can see his veg patch just to calm myself :lol:
Cavo ergo sum...am getting OH to design me a t-shirt ;)
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Tosca, that looks lovely. Am sitting looking at a thunderstorm at the minute...
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Feeling groggy after a very hot night, temp 28, dog panting and very close. Rain in the early hours didn't help, but the plants will be happy even though OH watered for an hour yesterday.
Market day today then OH delivering a comission of a tiger painting.
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Morning Tosca. Awake at five this morning - cos the ducks were quacking. It was OH's turn to sort the hens and ducks today so I am still tucked up in bed. :)
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morning all lots of rain yesterday evening so no watering :D long day yesterday 8 hours on the market and 2 hour hypnobirth class. need to tidy house today then and visit Dad poss some gardening at home too.
blood donar this evening.
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good morning :D though I have noticed they are More like Autumn mornings have been all summer.
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GOOD MORNING
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GOOD MORNING
Good morning to you another bright sunny morning here.
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its is going to rain here today lots off office work to do. :D
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Hoping it will rain....in fact storm here today, (sorry Bonnie) as long as we don't get golf ball sized hailstones as in the capital Sofia. After another hot and humid night we have no energy at all. But we have been lazy enough for a week and have prepared pears and tomatoes for bottling. Then I have apple juice waiting to be jellied and lemon curd and peanut butter to make for 'customers'.
Good job the blow up pool is filled and awaiting our hot bods........ah, I think I hear thunder.............
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Sound busy Tosca not sure i could cope with that heat I'm hot over 21C :lol:
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Huh! Best laid plans and all that. Set the huge bottling pan half full of water on the gas stove outside. Thought it was listing alittle but seemed steady enough. Peeled and packed pears, plum tomatoes and cherry tomatoes in tomato juice, clamped on the lids and started to fill the pan. List got worse so off came the extremely heavy pan and tried to tighten the burner on the bottle...no thread! So empty pan, move everything into the kitchen, on with pan, fill again and wait....and wait...for it to come to a simmer.
Running with sweat, stuck in the kitchen....wanna go back to bed! (But it's too hot.. :lol:)
34 in the shade, not a breath of wind and not a great deal of sun. The weather is mad!
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Huh! Best laid plans and all that. Set the huge bottling pan half full of water on the gas stove outside. Thought it was listing alittle but seemed steady enough. Peeled and packed pears, plum tomatoes and cherry tomatoes in tomato juice, clamped on the lids and started to fill the pan. List got worse so off came the extremely heavy pan and tried to tighten the burner on the bottle...no thread! So empty pan, move everything into the kitchen, on with pan, fill again and wait....and wait...for it to come to a simmer.
Running with sweat, stuck in the kitchen....wanna go back to bed! (But it's too hot.. :lol:)
34 in the shade, not a breath of wind and not a great deal of sun. The weather is mad!
Sounds lovely to me!
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Morning all anyone about yet?
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Morning Madame Cholet. Brisk and breezy and much cooler this morning, lovely. Been out and done a bit of weeding and picked a couple of buckets of tomatoes. Only half a bucket of rejects so not too unhappy. Getting anxious about my purple plums as they are dropping in the wind but still hard...a bit like supermarket plums! :lol:
Baking today, beetroot cake, shortbread and nectarine and almond tart as well as bread, and since I have some nice cheese, cheese scones.
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I'm out today in town to have a hair cut at the Salon when local children with learning issues gain work experience washing hair and on reception.
Then off to cash and carry to buy contains for my new line in olives on my market stall in 2 weeks followed by sign language class. Tomorrow a house clearance auction and then a run through for my first wedding in 2 weeks time.
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Good Morning, dull but warm.
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Good Morning, dull but warm.
What a thing to call MC :nowink:
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Good Morning, dull but warm.
What a thing to call MC :nowink:
:ohmy: behave!! :lol:
Tosca - won't the plums ripen off the tree in a window (like supermarket plums do :))
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They probably would, but the flavour will not be so good. I will pick up any that fall if I get to them before the chooks and try to leave the others. Got a lot of 'double' plums this year
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Good Morning, dull but warm.
What a thing to call MC :nowink:
:ohmy: behave!! :lol:
I love it when my nurse gets stroppy and bossy with me :D :lol: :nowink: ;)
Anything you say Miss Whiplash
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Hi Guys & Gals,
Thought I would join the club I get up at 3:20 every morning to go to work it's been 43 days so far without a day off, the joys of being a fisherman. Only a week to go then i'm having a well deserved weekend off.
Dan
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Hi Guys & Gals,
Thought I would join the club I get up at 3:20 every morning to go to work it's been 43 days so far without a day off, the joys of being a fisherman. Only a week to go then i'm having a well deserved weekend off.
Dan
Hey Dan, are you out of Sovereign Harbour then?
Getting better down there isn't it!
Best wishes! And good fishing!
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I'm not dull and warm i'm exciting (well at leastl weird) and warm
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Morning all. Fresh-ish start to the day though the storm many had yesterday almost missed us. Fancy a quiet day today after a few days baking and chutneying. Just need to fudge a beetroot chocolate cake , make shortbread and sort veggies and orders for the car boot sale tomorrow.
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Morning auction viewing from 8.45 then Wedding rehersal at 1pm
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Finish work today at 2pm and then am off for a whole week - can't wait. Going to Eastbourne to see my daughter and grandsons. Hope the weather is alright!
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My daughters just off to the Isle of Wight :nowink:
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Morning Cadalot and Wighty.
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Morning Madam Cholet
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Good Morning to you ALL off to put a cover over the shed and finally fit it out.
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Morning all, pa has at least another week off so it's going to be a busy one on the plot. Weren't back from our break at the lakes more than an hour yesterday and we got stuck into the garden then up on the plot until 10pm. No rest for the wicked ;)
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Had an exciting time so far. OH has just checked the beehive and it looks as if we might get honey this year as all the frames are filled and capped and another layer needs to be added. We only got the hive in May. He has made the frames, just needs the box whatever it's called. I can't believe how much they do in just a few days...but the sunflower fields are in full bloom which helps I suppose.
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Lovely to have your own honey Tosca :D
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I need to develop a taste for it! Quite like it on fresh bread with proper butter (not available here, nor is cream to make it) but don't really use much sugar myself, though OH has a sweet tooth. And he likes cake. will have to research. Luckily it didn't cost much to set up, not like the UK.
Can easily sell to other ex-pats though.
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Ooh sunflower honey sounds lovely :D
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Hi Guys & Gals,
Thought I would join the club I get up at 3:20 every morning to go to work it's been 43 days so far without a day off, the joys of being a fisherman. Only a week to go then i'm having a well deserved weekend off.
Dan
Hey Dan, are you out of Sovereign Harbour then?
Getting better down there isn't it!
Best wishes! And good fishing!
I was fishing out of Eastbourne but now working out of Brighton marina,
Finish work today at 2pm and then am off for a whole week - can't wait. Going to Eastbourne to see my daughter and grandsons. Hope the weather is alright!
They have got Extreme event on, along the seafront by the sovereign centre swimming pool, always worth a look.
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They have got Extreme event on, along the seafront by the sovereign centre swimming pool, always worth a look.
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That's apparently at the other end of Eastbourne from where my daughter lives, We are camping at Pevensey. The car is loaded apart from the freezer stuff. Dan, you never answered my PM.
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Morning all. Been incredibly light all night, the moon so bright you can read by it....guess who has been awake half the night! Ah well, more of the day to enjoy. :lol:
Car booting today. There needs to be a change to what I am doing though. There is too much variety of chutney and jam and it is looking like a business which I don't want. Trouble is people keep asking for things.........11 varieties this week. I am supposed to be retired!
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morning, a little cottage industry sounds perfect to me Tosca :)
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Morning all. Off for a week in Eastbourne this morning seeing the grandchildren (oh and my daughter and her husband of course) will probably be more tired and in need of a rest when we get back. :D
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Have a lovely holiday wighty :D
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Good morning, they said it would rain last night :D it didn't :(
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Maybe its on its way to you. We have had a fair bit overnight but it is slowly brightening up now :)
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It rained most of the night here in Notts.
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Wow what a lot of early mornings have drifted by since last I said "Good morning"..... I won't this time round as it's early afternoon.
Great to read that you are all doing well.
Me = poorly internet connection soon to be replaced so hopefully.... I''ll be able to drop in without a dodgy connection anytime quite soon.
As it's now morning again............ "Good morning all!" :lol:
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Good morning Paul. Mine used to be like that it is sooo frustrating because half the time you don't know if is the broadband or your computer ::)
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morning Dugless
just about to do some book work before getting up
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Morning Dugless & MC
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Good morning all. :)
Totty
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Off now to do some weed killing at the allotment the ground is so hard I can't dig them out and I find hoeing is a waste of time they are back within a few days
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Good morning all. :)
Totty
Good morning to you :D Have a nice one
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A bit of a late call in here but was up at 6 for my yoga session,just wish I was brave enough to go outside for it. A glorious morning,washing out,everywhere clean & tidy & off to work in a mo. Then back home to make gooseberry & mint jelly. Just wished I had enough home grown mint.
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Certainly looks a good morning... half over already but I expect I'll be up late as usual so it's early enough for me. ;)
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Went out early to go bird watching by the river. Poor weather by the time we got there so lots of fuzzy photos, but saw a lot of wildlife we haven't seen there before. Ready for a nap now.
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Tired, sore and irritable this morning. Left the sheet off after going to the loo around 1.30 as it was so warm and some little bitey thing started chomping at my legs and arms an hour later. Must be small to get through the mesh at the window. So covered in very sore but tiny bites and not happy! Now stinking of tea tree oil.
Never mind, I'll live. There are a lot worse off than me.
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Urgh this is early!!!!
The perils of going on holiday! :wacko:
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Morning all
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And jolly good morning to you. tripped up yesterday, a bit sore this morning ::) Rosemary says I should take more water with it :lol: :lol:
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And jolly good morning to you. tripped up yesterday, a bit sore this morning ::) Rosemary says I should take more water with it :lol: :lol:
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off on hols in 1 hour better get up and get ready :D
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Have a restful holiday after all that activity
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good morning, where is everyone this morning?
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Morning Dugless, I have been up since 6.30 sliced and filled a chocolate cake which is now in the fridge ready to cover in sugarpaste tomorrow morning or maybe later this evening depending how warm it gets, not the best time of year to be icing cakes but hey ho. Weather is fab here.
To all who are going on hols this week or already gone HAVE A FAB TIME :D
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Morning all. Sorry Dugless, went out without greeting you all. Been to the market which is stunning and buzzing at this time of the year, with stall holders from the larger growers to the chap over the road with his few cucumbers and tomatoes to sell. Makes you feel happy.... From our new home town
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I am not exactly sure but I think the market people over on the Continent do sell more local grown stuff rather than here where it seems no different to the supermarket stuff. except of cause where there is a farmers market
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I am not exactly sure but I think the market people over on the Continent do sell more local grown stuff rather than here where it seems no different to the supermarket stuff. except of cause where there is a farmers market
Most of the stuff is indeed local, much of which we grow in our own garden. I would say that apart from citrus and maybe mushrooms the rest is readily available from local sources and the prices reflect it. 80p will buy kilo of apricots, nectarine or peach. everything is sold by kilo, very little is above that price at the moment. There is all the mediterranean veg and fruit which we can grow due to our long hot growing season, though the likes of citrus and olives don't cope with the short bitter winters. A litre of local honey is two pounds equivelant, well grown veg plants 80p for twenty. Fruit trees only sold at optimum planting times are a couple of quid. If you don't want to grow your own you can eat extremely cheaply if you are a veggie! It's a lovely sight, the way they display all the veg so proudly, all different varieties, so colourful. You get stalls just selling ten different types of tomato, or pepper, or cucumbers. It needs to be seen to appreciate what I can't describe very well.
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Up at 4 after lying awake hot and bothered for a couple of hours....so boring. Will no doubt be grumpy today. Wish I could break the pattern. :(
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Good morning, it looks like it will be a hot one today I think I will tidy up my garage and stay in the shade.
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Good morning all. Could be set for another hot one. Off to spray all the potatos today. Hopefully to hold off the blight.
Have a good day all of you.
Totty
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Morning all, another warm one and I have a cake to cover in sugarpaste. Should have got up earlier but I am so tired lately. May set up the hose pipe on the lottie as a shower so I can just walk through it when it gets too hot :wacko: good job the inside of the poly was finished yesterday.
Lots of peas to pod today too it's all fun here :D
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morning all. Too hot last night for any proper sleep.
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Slept like a log room north facing very cool. Mind the long walk yesterday helped.
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Good morning, It rained in he night :D Slept ok, unusual for me in the buff. windows open cool.
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Nice thunderstorms and rain over night and the temperatures dropped rapidly making a hot sweaty night actually very comfortable
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Good morning, It rained in he night :D Slept ok, unusual for me in the buff. windows open cool.
Why not I do for 6 months of the year
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Good morning, It rained in he night :D Slept ok, unusual for me in the buff. windows open cool.
Why not I do for 6 months of the year
Naked Womble Alert .... Naked Womble Alert
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Good morning, It rained in he night :D Slept ok, unusual for me in the buff. windows open cool.
Why not I do for 6 months of the year
Naked Womble Alert .... Naked Womble Alert
lol :lol: :lol:
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Good morning, It rained in he night :D Slept ok, unusual for me in the buff. windows open cool.
Why not I do for 6 months of the year
don't know really, Rosemary puts out the Jim jams I put them on. she is not home at the moment off gallivanting in Cumbria with my middle Daughter, so am able to do what I want :lol: :lol:.
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Belated good morning all. We have been promised rain and thunderstorms for a week but it hasn't happened. Overcast but muggy, temp in the bedroom last night was 27, we get little breeze being in the middle of the country and protected by mountains, only bad winds with storms.
However, after a half decent night it is back to work on chutney this morning. :)
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Good gracious what have I walked in to here,
Good morning, It rained in he night :D Slept ok, unusual for me in the buff. windows open cool.
And
Good morning, It rained in he night :D Slept ok, unusual for me in the buff. windows open cool.
Why not I do for 6 months of the year
And then
Good morning, It rained in he night :D Slept ok, unusual for me in the buff. windows open cool.
Why not I do for 6 months of the year
Naked Womble Alert .... Naked Womble Alert
And if that wasn't enough
temp in the bedroom last night was 27
Sorry but that's too much info for this time of morning :lol: :lol:
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He should be so lucky!!!!!!
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Too hot can't sleep so doing accounts ::)
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I know what you mean. It's been like that for weeks over here. The heat is one thing but the humidity is unusual.
Good morning anyway. :D
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I didn't sleep till mid night too sorting out earings for sale
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Not such a good morning but then we need the rain here in Melbourne (Derby)
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Morning!
It's not quite as early where I am at the moment, but it looks like I'm an early riser on here!! :lol:
Just wish my bed had an ounce of give in the mattress!! ::)
Going to pinch some ham at breakfast and go and feed 2 tiny kittens we found yesterday :wub:
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Good morning, I have been wearing shorts all this summer I don't recall doing that in a very along time.
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Morning all.
Emma thought you were on holiday and abroad at that? Do you miss us that much :lol: where are you and what's it like?
Hoping to get on the plot today. Missed a day yesterday although we did have to pop up to water in the polytunnel.
At least it's direr today :D
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Oh I'm on holiday Ma - hence the solid bed!!
Tell you all about it later ;)
May buy an inflatable to sleep on ::)
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That's one advantage of having your own caravan you know what the bed is like.
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I loathe caravans :tongue2: :lol:
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That's one advantage of having your own caravan you know what the bed is like.
Yes mine has a very comfy bed too Dugless
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ive had early mornings with the birds , having the windows open to stay cool has its draw backs with the birds getting up a lot earlier than I.
chrissie b
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Oh I miss my caravan soooo much :( . We parted with it in April :( but we are hoping to get a new one in September :D can't wait, love the caravan just packing up some clothes and food and going away for a few days with your own little home from home. :D
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very nice too Ma
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morning off to the lotty hope the weeds aren't too big now ive been away
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I loathe caravans :tongue2: :lol:
In my work I spent years in B&Bs Hotels Guesthouses
ECT and you could not count on everything being right, at least with my Van I go when I want where I want and know things will be how I want :D
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Morning, back to work today after a week off. Can't get the oomph needed to get up and going though!
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Good morning , whos getting the kettle on , im off to our little house to do some painting soon will be glad when its finished and sold gong off magnolia .
chrissie b
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Just one of those nights cannot sleep got a bit of what they call restless leg.
I off to make a cup of tea, I will probably go to sleep when I have finished it. see you in the Morning
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Ah yes, restless leg, know about that.
Another sleepless night but at least I have internet which was down for a day or two. No internet, no telly so can be a bit dull being awake early. Been in the high twenties all night even with a fan going (so drying on the eyes and mouth) and the old dog panting doesn't help, but she won't go down stairs where it is cooler on the tiles.
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Poor you Tosca Off to the market today first time with my olives fingers crossed,
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A bleary good morning.
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Morning Dugless - I am a bit bleary also. It was too hot to be comfortable last night. :nowink:
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Morning all had a lovely impromptu day out yesterday. Had to collect a cake stand from Belvour Castle so decided to go get some sandwiches and a drink and take a walk round Rutland water. A beautiful day out in an outstanding area. Day on the plot today after a day of rest yesterday :D
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Morning all had a lovely impromptu day out yesterday. Had to collect a cake stand from Belvour Castle so decided to go get some sandwiches and a drink and take a walk round Rutland water. A beautiful day out in an outstanding area. Day on the plot today after a day of rest yesterday :D
As appoint of interest or not, I installed the pumps that filled Rutland Water.
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Morning all had a lovely impromptu day out yesterday. Had to collect a cake stand from Belvour Castle so decided to go get some sandwiches and a drink and take a walk round Rutland water. A beautiful day out in an outstanding area. Day on the plot today after a day of rest yesterday :D
Ahh those placenames bring back memories. I went to boarding school in Rutland pre Rutland Water days (and during...I'm not that old!) and stayed with someone who used to take me riding in the grounds around the castle during half term. Seems like forever ago.
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that's near me lovely :D
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Morning all. Had some much needed rain last night so once you get away from the chook area (humidity and chook area=pong) everywhere smells all earthy.
Off to market today, with a detour to the animal market as a friend has had her ponies stolen and all in our area are going to check while we are there. There is no routine sale as in the UK, they all pile onto the field and sell as people come along, like a regular market stall. Some people don't want to take stuff home alive, if you get my drift, so will be sending OH in. Lucky one is an unusual colour for BG.
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Good Morning, the computer is having on of those days ::) keep going off saying what ever I am on is not responding >:(
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Download CCleaner it'd free and will clean the cr ap out (that's what the first C is for)
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Morning all - Not too many days in work now for me before 2 weeks off...
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Morning all, had another day out yesterday this time to Carsington Water another beautiful day. Funny how the relaxing days out sightseeing and picnicking make you feel more tired than a 10 hr stint on the plot. Definitely a day on the plot today as hubby is back in work on Friday after nearly three weeks off for holidays. It's going to be strange not having him here :D
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Download CCleaner it'd free and will clean the cr ap out (that's what the first C is for)
thank you I am weary of downloading things, as a lot of the time the things they say are free, have strings attached.
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Morning off to water the lotty brfore it gets hot.
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Morning, a nice cool start, so heading off to water
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No need for watering here, had the most amazing storm last night so little sleep with having to keep the windows closed and fan on, so hot with a dry mouth and dog panic panting most of the night. Feeling a bit fuzzy and headachy...and it's still hot. :(
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Good Morning to everyone, busy day today Management is back home today. Back under the cosh. :D
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Early morning club? Today I qualify!!
I know it's late already but I was up at 3.10 this morning and I had been to sleep before then for almost two hours. :)
At 3:30 it was dark... by 3:40 I was out with the bike and trailer on my way to the local railway station helping my daughter with her bags. (Off on holiday she is... lucky thing).
By the time I set off towards home there was no need for cycle lights. The town looked lovely in the half-light and, as it did years ago, clean and peaceful. I even took some photos.
As the roads were quiet on the way home I cycled on past the turning for my part of the (once was) village and revisited the school campus where I taught. The old school has gone - demolished to make way for a "state of the arts" modern monstrosity on two floors.
It was good to see parts of the old campus surviving. The trees and native hedging we planted 20+ years ago looked lovely as do the new shrubs and planting. Sadly the old "large playground" is now a beautifully laid out staff car park but there is a bike shed at long last. I had kept asking for one for 36 years and knew the promised one wouldn't materialise until I had gone. ::) Quite typical.
So that’s my early morning done complete with a spot of watering, budgie feeding and aviary opening.
Now back to bed for a long snooze. (I’m allowed as I have my first whole day off this year!!!!)
Enjoy the morning everyone.
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Up early to pay my parking fine & then decided to appeal, so a lengthy email composed with 6 photos attached now sent. I'm sure I will have to pay as it was 'a jobs worth ' that issued the fine. :mad:. Now to have breakfast & get to the plot whilst it's still cool.
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Morning every one - phew it is hot already. Just about to get up and have breakfast and then lots of work in the garden but slowly!!
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Up early to pay my parking fine & then decided to appeal, so a lengthy email composed with 6 photos attached now sent. I'm sure I will have to pay as it was 'a jobs worth ' that issued the fine. :mad:. Now to have breakfast & get to the plot whilst it's still cool.
Sorry about your ticket Snowy - very annoying. :(
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I got my one and only speeding fine doing 35mph overtaking a road sweeper doing 20mph in a thirty zone in a village at 7.30 in the morning nothing else on the road only a policeman behind a hedge, another car went by doing at least 40 he was lucky, Mr jobs worth was too busy giving me a ticket.
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I got my one and only speeding fine doing 35mph overtaking a road sweeper doing 35mph in a thirty zone in a village at 7.30 in the morning nothing else on the road only a policeman behind a hedge, another car went by doing at least 40 he was lucky, Mr jobs worth was too busy giving me a ticket.
How did you overtake if you were both going the same speed ::)
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I got my one and only speeding fine doing 35mph overtaking a road sweeper doing 35mph in a thirty zone in a village at 7.30 in the morning nothing else on the road only a policeman behind a hedge, another car went by doing at least 40 he was lucky, Mr jobs worth was too busy giving me a ticket.
How did you overtake if you were both going the same speed ::)
Love it :D :lol: its a Captain Ye can ne break the laws of Physics moment :nowink:
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Ha, blooming Ha typo error too early in the morning not quite with it. :D rectifed
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Good morning Management got back safe good journey. I will after behave myself again now :lol:
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Up early again here, washing now pegged out, ready to go to the plot for a few hours before yoga at 1 pm.
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Morning off on the bus into Kettering later to cash and carry and to practice signing
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Busy busy so far, a load of plum jam re-boiled as it wouldn't set yesterday....and I realised when I went to bed that I had forgotten to double the sugar for double the plums....Idiot!
Made a couple of loads of bread. Brushed and mopped. Had someone come for five young cockerels.....they have them to scratch the spare land and keep it weed free. Suits us! Someone coming at 11 for the last one. Also managed to palm off a big bag of French beans.
Couple of cakes to make and some pastry. Then....
Lazy day :lol:
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Up at six to let the hens out then went for a walk along the beach - it was really warm and I was in short sleeves. :D Going to be another scorcher.
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Busy busy so far, a load of plum jam re-boiled as it wouldn't set yesterday....and I realised when I went to bed that I had forgotten to double the sugar for double the plums....Idiot!
Made a couple of loads of bread. Brushed and mopped. Had someone come for five young cockerels.....they have them to scratch the spare land and keep it weed free. Suits us! Someone coming at 11 for the last one. Also managed to palm off a big bag of French beans.
Couple of cakes to make and some pastry. Then....
Lazy day :lol:
Oh that's so easy to mix up on when doubling recipes. I've learnt the hard way to write it all down before I start,cos if I get interrupted it goes horribly wrong :wacko:
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I do with more complicated recipes, but jam is just sugar and fruit. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I do with more complicated recipes, but jam is just sugar and fruit. :lol: :lol: :lol:
True but I make even the most simple of tasks complicated :lol:
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Morning all. leisurely morning now the chooks are done as it is skypeing day today. :D
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Morning Tosca just been woken up by some idiots having a row in the street.
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Morning all - hens sorted but too lazy to go for an early morning walk today. The forecast clouds are gathering and it is slightly cooler so far today. We really need the rain - the grass is going brown. :)
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Good morning, getting a bit fed-up of the watering looked on the internet, no rain this week .
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Morning all, slow start with a cuppa back in bed having put washing on that I forgot to switch on last night :wub:. Don't think I'll have trouble drying it though :lol:
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Morning hubby on an early start so he brought me a cup of tea before he left, very thoughtful of him though a lie in would have been nicer :nowink: more watering to be done this morning which between the plot and the garden takes me about 2 hours, then it's more roses and blossoms while watching the commonwealth games. :D
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I know I'm not the first up as I've seen a post from Tosca :lol:. Awake at around 4am but managed to stay abed til 5:20. Will get the washing out in a minute & maybe reboil my gooseberry & mint jelly that didn't set the other week,last years didn't have a firm set either but it's kept well, so I've been putting it off.
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Yet another good morning :D
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Morning!
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Morning had a little rain in the night.
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Morning had a little rain in the night.
Just a bit here too, looks like it might be a drizzley day though as well...
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Belated good day to you all. Just got back from a car boot sale, temps mid thirties so dead on our feet and a poor turnout of paying customers for a record turnout of sellers means hardly worth it. Stll, had a good giggle with a friend who owns a nursery and that's worth a lot. The prices would make you weep, all home reared , very healthy perennials 70p ish each going up to £1.50 for large single plants. Good to have friends. :lol:
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Mornin' all. Looks like it's my turn to put the kettle on then... ;)
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Feeling a bit rough this morning but from lack of sleep rather than too much rakia. Had a lovely time next door, but some guests were not there till 9.30 and the family didn't get there till 10.30. They had driven back from Italy where they had been to a funeral and hit holiday traffic all across the journey back. The son in law and his brother looked exhausted and it shows their dedication that they came over to see Venka when they live nearly an hour away. Birthdays are not really celebrated as they are in the UK. I was right when I thought there would be more than rakia, there was salad, followed by a huge rice stuffed pepper, potato and for the others, very meaty meal with fresh bread, followed by the first melons of the year. (The fact that we gave them a melon before their's were ready was discussed :D) And rakia. Home by midnight.
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Morning Auntimogs. :D
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Good Morning, nothing to report today.
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Morning all, busy day baking cakes today just glad the temperature has dropped a bit :D
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yes me too off to water lotty I'll have to walk so I can carry my new shears.Then Sorting out preserves for stall tomorrow.
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Rather late again this morning, didn't get up till 6.40 after yet another sleepless night. Incredible storm again but this time it went on for hours so Bonnie was in a state and we kept each other company while OH snored and the other dog dreamed her way through the night. It's like living in a tropical rain forest this year, the humidity is very unusual in the middle of the country. Day in today, far too muddy to do anything in the garden.
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Good morning, just looked at the long range forecast , rain is on its way here on Friday, but it has said we would have rain several times in the last few weeks, but it must have missed the bus.
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Morning Tosca and Dugless - we had rain overnight but not as heavy as you Tosca. Just enough that I do not have to water the garden. Hens all fed and watered so just thinking about brekkie for me (and OH). :D
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Well as you lot were getting up, I was thinking about my bed!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
The holiday is over - back to work now :( Gotta earn the pennies for the next one ;) :)
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Well, I can't get to sleep, so am just wandering about, thinking of not much..;0)
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Morning Auntimogs. :D
I'm so sorry Tosca, must have dropped off and then life overtook me.. :( ::) :)
I hope you're not still awake Mr G?
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Morning all, another soggy morning. I can hear the weeds growing! The courgettes have grown into monsters.
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morning Tosca we are getting some rain Friday going shopping with my mum today.
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Ummm a couple of Wombles wombling free no doubt :nowink:
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Possibly Mum buys the new stuff I live in the charity shops :lol:
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Morning all. Having a lie in - OH is sorting the chickens this morning. :)
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Lucky you! Am off for a few hours watering, digging and general messing about before it gets too hot! Then will be stuck at a desk for the rest of the day - albeit at home so at least I can get the laundry done. :)
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I'm working so that next opportunity I can get to the allotment early :nowink: checking here whilst my reports print out - see men can multitask :D
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Good Morning everyone, Cooler now hopefully I will be able to catch up with the gardening, especially if it rains as promised.
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Just come back from market, it's a good year for peaches, 50p ish a kilo and some of them are huuuge with all the wet weather we have been having. One of our's weighs over 13 ounces!
Checked out the animal market again in case our friend's stolen ponies have turned up there but no luck.
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Morning all. Day of trying to process a mountain of produce, some mine which I am managing to keep up with, but most given by the neighbours. Main problem, not enough bottles or freezer space.
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I did the running out of freezer space one last year, I now have a overflow freezer in an outbuilding
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You sound busy Tosca off to water the lotty its too dry to weed but rain due soon so start again next week. Star sorting out stock from the attic too.
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morning all, Grey and cool which is good as I'll be in the PT putting up support strings.
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Morning all a tad late I know :D off to deliver wedding cake today then I have the rest of today and all day tomorrow to go on the plot. Have missed it this week not being able to go up there was torture :nowink:
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Have we all had a lay in this morning , I am late because my service was down.
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Ooops sorry forgot. Had a rather late night due to heat and it took me a while to come round, then it was weeding time....
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Morning all. Feeling a bit better this morning. Apart from sorting and reducing the courgette plants I have no idea what I am doing today.
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Morning Tosca, lots cooler here today but won't get to the plot :(. Sewing clubs annual garden party this afternoon, & a trip into town with hubby this morning,oh what joy :lol:
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Morning Tosca and Snowy. No gardening here unless the rain stops but lots of housework to be done. Just trying to persuade myself to get wrapped up to sort the hens. And nearly forgot - got an early visit from the plumber to fix our loo. :)
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Good Morning Hooray it has rained Now to get down to some transplanting.
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Morning all .... Its rained over night but is already drying up here ....
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So much for good intentions...though we have not been given rain all week it is raining now, big heavy drops. Unless the sun comes out there will be no gardening as the mud is like an ice rink.
Plan B...carry on processing the produce the neighbours keep giving us (as if we haven't enough!) and do something with the watermelon handed to us at 6.30 this morning!
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I'd make a start on eating that watermelon or I think Jamie Oliver filled it wit vodka & froze it then served in slices, could you do rakia?
I've made a courgette & chocolate cake, used the rest of the grated courgette in pakoras. Then will make a courgette frittata later to take to the garden party. Guess what I have a lot of? No prizes for 1st pm. :lol: :lol:
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I'd make a start on eating that watermelon or I think Jamie Oliver filled it wit vodka & froze it then served in slices, could you do rakia?
I've made a courgette & chocolate cake, used the rest of the grated courgette in pakoras. Then will make a courgette frittata later to take to the garden party. Guess what I have a lot of? No prizes for 1st pm. :lol: :lol:
Let me guess - same as wot I have a lot of. :D
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I'm going to try drying some of the watermelon if I can find somewhere to put the dehydrator where I won't forget. Last time it went in the back bedroom full of tomatoes and onions and I forgot it till three days later. The onions wer OK. :lol:
The courgettes are enjoying this weather so much they are galloping off like the squash have. Thinking of asking Tesco if they need a new supplier of butternuts :lol: :lol:
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Yet another good Morning. enjoy
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It may be august but its flippin freezing at night in a tent :( :( :(
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It may be august but its flippin freezing at night in a tent :( :( :(
Oh poor you. :( It might be August but it was very chilly in the rain and wind last night and I put the CH on. Spent an hour in the dark helping OH make the sunflowers more secure - they survived the night. Nearly forgot - good morning everyone.
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It is still technically morning and I'm much less grumpy now :D
I just met BSB riders Shane 'Shakey' Byrne, Ian 'Hutchy' Hutchinson and the only female rider Jenny Tinmouth!! So cool! :D
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Good Morning, woke up at Four made a cup of tea and coffee for Rosemary, then went back to sleep did not wake up again until seven fifteen. :ohmy:
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Good Morning, woke up at Four made a cup of tea and coffee for Rosemary, then went back to sleep did not wake up again until seven fifteen. :ohmy:
A lie in Dugless? :D I do hope you enjoyed it, you must have needed it. :)
I fully intended to try for another couple of hours (after dropping YS off at work at 6), but one cup of tea has led to another, and now I'm thinking of getting outside before it heats up too much...
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I had a lie in too, the geese woke me just after 7. In my defence I didn't get to bed till after midnight then sweated and scratched! Lovely. :lol:
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Morning all. Sneaked in to catch up (not that I am one of those poor, to-be-pitied addicted... :lol:) Had breakfast outside as it was relatively cool with few flies and were joined by three of the ex-batts, Tilly, Tansy and Tulip, who have taken to foraging for the last remaining cherry toms from the dead plants on top of the wall. We were going to remove them to the compost heap but they are enjoying them. (the tomato plants, not the Ts)
Better go and help with the weeding.
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Morning Tosca - Ive been catching up here, drinking coffee and sorting out seed for the seed circle this morning as I got up at 5:20
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Morning both, just sitting in the conservatory considering the day ahead,unfortunately it involves going to work so no playing today :(
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G'morning all. my first visit here. i'm usually running around like a blue **** fly in the morning, but it's blissfully tipping down, so just chucked hay at my menagerie and can relax with multiple cupas!
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Morning all, No lie in this morning.
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The rain woke me up then I needed a wee :lol:
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This is a bit too early for you Mme Cholet. At least I did stay in bed till 5, though I have to admit I had been waiting an hour....after going for a wee. I'll be glad when I can stop using the fan at night though it does mask the sound of the Babas chunnering away on their benches on the lane into the night. Makes my mouth so dry, but the heat is relentless at this time of the year. Could do with a windfall so we could have air conditioning up there.
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I don't think i could live in the heat Tosca I moan here if its over 22 degrees
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I couldn't cope if I had to work in it. I just do what I can when I can, if it's too hot to do my hour of weeding I don't do it. But the nights seem so flipping long when you can't sleep. Being British we have to moan, but when I think of the awful weather we had in the UK the few years before we left I stop myself. And we have so much more here. I would love to be able to afford this lifestyle in the UK, but it will never happen. If or when we do come back it will be a small rental somewhere where the OH can find a job. We don't intend to find out any time soon.
I'll put up with the heat, but moan about it occasionally! :lol:
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rained all night here. Butts will be full again. :)
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Mine may have been if I had got around to fixing up the guttering :wub:
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Up just after six to let the hens and ducks out. BBC are promising us a drier day today - would be lovely. :D I am taking them at their word and have curtains in the wash - so Carol had better be right!!
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Good morning , it rained heavy here last night but fine again this morning
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Morning guys - free day for me today so not sure what I'll be doing. Fingers crossed for a dry day though!
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off to Kelmarsh hall gardens today with U3A garden club.
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Been to the market, the veg market is looking stunning with mountains of mediterranean fruit and veg, all different colours, sizes and shapes. Honey, carp, spices, plants. Melons by the hundreds. Has to be seen to be believed in such a small town.
Then on to the animal market, horrendous with rabbits, chickens and guineafowl crammed into small cages in full sun (nearly 30 degrees already) transits being unloaded, with goats, calves, sheep and horses all crammed in, more horses arriving tied to the back of carts. But no sign of my friend's stolen horses. I just don't know what to say to her any more poor thing. :(
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My friend has horses too she would be devastated if she lost them.
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I was devastated having to leave mine behind when we came out here, and I know where he is and who he is with. I think what is really getting to her is not knowing. The cruelty is awful here and one of them came from an abusive person. It took her four years to get her to accept that she was going to be treated kindly, but she was never easy. So sad, she sounds so defeated and who can blame her.
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Morning all. :)
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morning.. theres a glimmer of pink lihgt in the sky, its going to be a nice day. :)
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A lovely fresh feel after 2 days of rain. :)
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Morning all - lovely blue sky this morning so looks like we will have a good day. Quite cold when I was sorting the Hans and ducks at six this morning. Need a yawn smiley thing for this time of day. ;)
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Off to the lotty to weed now the ground is softer.
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Morning all.
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Morning Ma
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Morning Rachel,
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It's Walton time in reverse I see :nowink:
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Morning Cadalot :dry:
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Good morning everyone Bit late posting been busy posting on another topic.
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Morning all or is it afternoon I managed another hours sleep today when hubby got up for work :lol:
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Tut tut late comers again ................. <marks register> :)
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I needed the rest :) Been having a stressful week :(
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I needed the rest :) Been having a stressful week :(
Sorry to hear that snowy I hope it gets less stressful for you :)
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It's Walton time in reverse I see :nowink:
i'm old enough to remember them Jim-Bob, John Boy, Mary-Ellen.................
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It's Walton time in reverse I see :nowink:
i'm old enough to remember them Jim-Bob, John Boy, Mary-Ellen.................
Ummm I had a thing for Hairy Mellon in you younger day :nowink:
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I also watched that series loved it used to call out to my kids at night like they did made us all giggle
They were the days of innocence <sigh>
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Morning hoping to get more sleep soon :)
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Morning, though I'm not sure if you are having a late night or early morning. :D
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Morning Guys :)
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Good morning, awake at two thirty sill awake at three fifteen, made tea for me coffee for Rosemary (awake with pains) Drank it went out like a light until six fifteen.
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Late this morning. one of the goats didn't want to be milked, >:(
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Morning again had a nice snooze after rescuing friend from a spider
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Morning all,
Rachel that must have been one big spider for you to have to RESCUE a friend :nowink:
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I now have the scene from lord of the rings in my head only it's not a hobbit doing battle it's a female Womble
Shelob the Giant Spider pA0ffVBw584
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Morning all,
Rachel that must have been one big spider for you to have to RESCUE a friend :nowink:
It was a good size but you know how some people are with spiders she was standing on a chair :lol:
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Morning again had a nice snooze after rescuing friend from a spider
Sounds like a scene from Harry Potter :D
WW 8)
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Morning again had a nice snooze after rescuing friend from a spider
Sounds like a scene from Harry Potter :D
WW 8)
This one? -64vAnXnoW0
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Big but not that big :lol:
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Big but not that big :lol:
Show your friend this bz3QiTBkunc
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Off to see mum and dad now catch up with you all tonight :D
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I would have been on the chair with her unfortunately ??? Have a good day with your mum and dad.
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Our arachnids were quite deaf when my daughter was at home :lol:
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I am getting better as I get older I can now tolerate the little spiders but still don't like the big ones. Maybe by the time they put me in the ground I will be at peace with them :D oh forgot I decided I want to be cremated :lol:
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Morning all,
Rachel that must have been one big spider for you to have to RESCUE a friend :nowink:
It was a good size but you know how some people are with spiders she was standing on a chair :lol:
I would have been too - and shrieking! :unsure:
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Morning everyone. Up and about by 4.30 again. I was doing well until OH switched the fan off and the cricket sounds could be heard. How something so small can be so loud.......
Still, hate the fan anyway so...hey ho.
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Morning all. A brief respite from the rain forecast today, so off to make the most of it. :nowink:
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Good morning this is the actual day we got married 58 years ago, the date was the 11th which is Monday.
I took a red rose up with Rosemary's morning coffee.
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Congratulations Mr and Mrs Dugless. That is a long time. :D
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Good morning this is the actual day we got married 58 years ago, the date was the 11th which is Monday.
I took a red rose up with Rosemary's morning coffee.
That is so lovely :)
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How romantic Dugless :D
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She did say thank you but its on Monday :D.
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After all those years a day here or there.....
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A least you remembered.
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I go to a couple every morning who are washed and I help them dress, they cook for themselves and only have 45 minutes help from me, he is 101 and she is 99, they have been married since he was 23. I've been going there four years now at 7am!
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I go to a couple every morning who are washed and I help them dress, they cook for themselves and only have 45 minutes help from me, he is 101 and she is 99, they have been married since he was 23. I've been going there four years now at 7am!
You are an angel m'dear :)
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Morning all. Off to the car boot sale now. It's going to be hot! :ohmy:
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Morning all - just got vey wet sorting out the hens and ducks.
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good morning, not a lot of rain here yet one of those days when you don't get a lot of work done
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Just drizzling at the mo in Devon- which is great as the whole garden could do with a nice soaking
Sure I can see the lawn turn green as I watch!
And the courgettes are growing as I speak!
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I've managed to get an hours work done down on the allotment before the drizzle arrived, it has to be said it was a lot windier last night, there is hardly any wind at all out there.
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It will be house jobs today, might even watch a film this afternoon or we really ought to fetch MIL over
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Morning all, am I the only one up :nowink: hubby on the early shift I didn't hear him get up what I heard was his car pull off the driveway and it's a quiet car too so not sure why that woke me up :)
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morning Ma
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Thought I wouldn't be the only one up :D Morning MC, it's a brighter looking morning here today.
We went looking at caravans yesterday. We are looking to get a new one maybe next month so are on the search now. The one caravan we really want is too long to fit on our front and the ones that fit don't look quite as nice so now we have to decide wether to put one in storage.
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Good morning MC and Ma, well today is the day, I like to think Saturday was a rehearsal, woke my Princess up with a kiss and a promise, have yet to decide where to take her for an evening out.
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Happy 58th anniversary Dugless. You old romantic you :D
Unfortunately I will never make that long married to my DH not unless they know how to extend life by then.
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happy anniversary Duglass
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Happy anniversary dugless
Have a lovely day today :)
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Happy anniversary :)
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Happy anniversary Mr and Mrs Dugless. :)
Been out with the cameras early, unfortunately the sun was just too bright for decent pics, but we saw lots.
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Congratulations on 58 years Dugless & Rosemary, hope you have had a lovely day.
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Morning all. Another blistering day in store. Only another couple of weeks and we should be down to bearable temperatures. Looking forward to getting some good sleep.
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Morning Tosca, I think we have more rain forecast but at the moment it's sunny but cool. Off to work in a while but I've got tomorrow off & I don't work the rest of the week anyway so a really short week.
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good morning and thank you, Rosemary was not feeling up to going out so I gave her the day off.
Prepared and cooked dinner ECT, But she did insist on going shopping, she will not let me do that :lol: :lol:
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Good early morning all!!
I know it's late... I've been sitting here since just before 5 this morning but had a couple of jobs to do and time has flown by!
Hope you are all well and fighting fit for another day........ looks like being a good one.
(Now to catch up on the gossip)
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Morning Paul - not usually logged on this early, but the bloomin' squabbling magpies woke me up again, although needless to say now I'm up they've stopped! :mad:
I'm assuming you have been very busy rather than on an extended holiday. ::)
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Good Morning everyone.
Hopefully a less windy day than yesterday. JayG you need to sort those Magpies I hear they are not bad in a pie :)
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:lol:
Morning all, been awake since 4am in hotel for a course. Just having breakfast - a luxury usually.
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Morning all, been awake since 4am in hotel for a course. Just having breakfast - a luxury usually.
Does that mean you will be snoozing at the meeting then Yorkie :D
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Back from another foray with the cameras, thought we might as well wander along the river by the feed merchant. With it being so hot and green it feels weird to see flocks of swallows, sand martins and bee eaters getting ready to leave. The weather has had me fooled, but not them. (there is not normally any rain to speak of in summer)
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Morning Paul - not usually logged on this early, but the bloomin' squabbling magpies woke me up again, although needless to say now I'm up they've stopped! :mad:
I'm assuming you have been very busy rather than on an extended holiday. ::)
Hi JayG.
I've had very little spare time recently. Not on holiday (life's one long one for me apparently) but it feels like a holiday as my sister has vanished to France for her 3rd break this summer so I'm relaxed!! ;)
Dead tired tonight after just 2 hours sleep last night and only a short nap during the day. Tempted to go to bed early... well, before 2.
Take care.... hope you're in the pink.
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Morning all. No let up with the heat so another nearly sleepless night, it is 30 in the bedroom with two windows and the door open and fan on full blast. We have been promised a ten degree drop in temperature to a chilly 25 by Monday. We will all be very grateful.
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wow that's hot Tosca it a max 20 here in the day very pleasant.
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We are up to nearly forty in the shade, which is OK for a week or so, but it has been a prolonged hot spell even with the rain we had a while back. There seems to be a constant grumble of thunder which is not good for Bonnie lab, with no rain at the end of it, just a hot, stressed dog and hot stressed and tired us. Bella is OK, she takes it in her stride, loves her life.
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Morning all. Tosca I would not be able to cope with the hot weather over there. I don't why but I thought Bulgaria was a colder country ::)
Looking grey again here hope it brightens up got some caravans to view this morning.
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good morning all, back to normal service. Good hunting Ma hope you bag a bargin
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Morning all. Tosca I would not be able to cope with the hot weather over there. I don't why but I thought Bulgaria was a colder country ::)
Looking grey again here hope it brightens up got some caravans to view this morning.
Haha, yes, and our first winter was mild and dry leading to horrendous mite and general insect problems, but a very rare ocurrence. The winters are generally extremely cold, down to the minus twenties and below, but short and generally sunny when not snowing. January and february are worst they say, though this year we were eating al fresco in january! We will not be as lucky (ish) this year and are laying down plenty of provisions for if we get stuck and can't get out. Luckily with the long summers we can grow potatoes and peas and even tomatoes still if you can get plants (there were some small plants in the market this morning) so although early crops were badly hit by very unusual weather conditions there is still time to stock up some things....as long as winter doesn't arrive early.
I don't like the heat either and work my days around it. But the hot weather has gone on so long without any respite that we are worn out with it. I am running with sweat already and it is still only 10.30. Why oh why did I buy raspberries for jam this morning? Hey ho, we'll live. :D Now, would I rather be here worrying about sweating but being able to do little....or be pushing a trolley round Tesco doing someone else's shopping? No brainer I think. :lol:
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Sounds great Tosca but I would say that having not experienced it myself!
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Morning all, awake early this morning probably from the excitement of getting a new caravan.
Might just go and add to my diary while I have a minute.
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Morning all, having a gentle start to the day today after all the excitement of my birthday yesterday, hubby glossing the paintwork in the downstairs loo as we speak, then we are going out for the day.
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Good morning A quite day today sorting out the strawberries, no e-mails to answer so off in the garden earlier.
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Off to Ramsey 40s weekend till Sunday Trading will be erecting a marquee today so all good fun :lol:
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Good luck and have a nice time MC
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Enjoy your weekend away MC
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Enjoy your weekend MC. :D
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Enjoy your weekend MC. :D
I second, third or forth that and keep your clothes on :lol:
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Enjoy your weekend MC. :D
I second, third or forth that and keep your clothes on :lol:
I will be dressing for the 40s :lol:
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Good Morning Same old routine water the plants collecting produce, weeding diging
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Typical Rain tomorrow on my allotment Sunday - Doh!
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Morning all, sun is just peeping out of the clouds here so should be an ok day but it's a lot colder of a morning already. Hoping to sow a load of seeds today for winter veg and stuff for the poly tunnel.
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Up before 7 today so I am in time for my friends to pick me up to go to the garden club's annual show. We are the booking in team for all the entries. There should be plenty with the good summer we have had,might need a lay down this afternoon :lol:. Then I will go back to look at all the exhibits & for the prize giving.
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Sounds good Snowy have a nice day.
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I'm. balancing this morning, swimming after.
Keeps me happy :)
Cooking a nice meal tonight too ;)
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Morning all,
Have a good day Snowy - I've got an exciting day of going to pick up the chickens! That's if everything will fit into the back of the car...
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Morning all,
Have a good day Snowy - I've got an exciting day of going to pick up the chickens! That's if everything will fit into the back of the car...
It all fitted in then as I've Just seen your pictures on your diary :lol:
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Morning :wacko: Been awake all night tossing n turning couldn't get comfy then indigestion (that will teach me to eat chilli heatwave Doritos before bed) finally gave in at 5.30 and had a gaviscon which of course you have to stay awake to suck cos if you chew they stick to your teeth :unsure:
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Up early this morning (usual time really) as on the 7.30am ferry to England to meet my sister and clear my mum's flat. Not looking forward to it at all.
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My thoughts are with you Wighty, my sister and I had to clear our Mums house when she passed away, so I know what you mean
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We had the same thing earlier in the year when my father-in-law died in Spain where he lived. Not nice at all but a job that has to be done :(
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Sorry for your loss Wighty .
A bit dull here this morning, going to finish scarifying the lawn this morning.
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Wighty will be getting on the ferry about now, so I'll answer for her. Her mum is moving into a care home as she has been unwell recently. Its a stressful time so I'm sure she will be glad to know you are thinking of her :)
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Morning all,
Have a good day Snowy - I've got an exciting day of going to pick up the chickens! That's if everything will fit into the back of the car...
It all fitted in then as I've Just seen your pictures on your diary :lol:
Yes :D and lovely they are too - if a little terrified of me! I'll keep bribing them until they like me though :~)
Up at 6 this morning to let them out!
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Wighty will be getting on the ferry about now, so I'll answer for her. Her mum is moving into a care home as she has been unwell recently. Its a stressful time so I'm sure she will be glad to know you are thinking of her :)
I'll just re quote this from New Shoot so there is no confusion.
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Sorry about that Wighty - got the wrong end of the stick.
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Thank you for your thoughts, appreciated. It went a lot better than I thought it would as four years ago we moved her from a house into a flat for 'over 65's', and so had cleared most of the 'rubbish' away then. Three trips to the dump today and two to the British Heart Foundation (Which is one of my Mum's problems) five miles away who take anything you want to give them. Anything I wanted to bring home here to the Island m y sister did not argue with, ( which surprised me). I have 28 Caithness Glass paper weights, 24 Caithness Glass vases, my Dad bought them each year for my Mum as a present. Tim from Shanklin Auctioneers is a very good friend of ours and he is coming round next week. I had to bite my tongue a few times because there could have been a row!
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I'm glad it went much better than you anticipated Wighty :)
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Good Morning Where is everybody ::)
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Well I'm not early - I've just had 10 hours sleep!! :ohmy:
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Good morning off to the market soon.
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Good Morning MC are you selling or buying?
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Back to work after just over a week off. Wish me luck. ::)
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Morning all, good luck Surbie it's never easy going back to work after time off. :)
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Selling Dugless bit slow last 2 weeks the 3 weeks previous were very good so fingers crossed in Sept.
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not sure if 2.10 am is early morning or late at night ????
can't sleep :closedeyes: so the house now smells of fresh bread , plumb crumble and apple cakes - will be putting the kettle on soon to sample
any one out there to join me ?
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Hope you managed to get back to sleep after all that Barley. :)
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Morning all, woken by the sun shining brightly through the blinds (which happens quite a few times this time of year) should have had blackout blinds I suppose. ::)
Barley wish I had know you were baking that time of morning, would have set my alarm :)
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Having breakfast and then getting ready for a hectic day of surveys
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Good morning all, getting fed up of the constant watering still no rain here although it has been forecast from time to time we just don't get it.
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Same here Dugless, couple of little showers that do nothing for the plants what part of derby are you in?
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morning all feel better today not tired anymore :D visiting Dad later and shopping a B n M
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My 7 year old Panasonic TV has been behaving very strangely lately, including randomly showing on-screen displays even with the zapper batteries removed! :ohmy: More worryingly, it sometimes appears to re-set with a blank screen and a nasty electronic 'pop' which I'm sure will be terminal sooner rather than later.
After a frustrating couple of days trying to find the best deal for my chosen replacement (including losing out on the best price on Monday because I was taking a friend to hospital on Tuesday morning and didn't want to miss the possible delivery) I finally managed to order it this morning from John Lewis - yesterday they were out of stock! Not the cheapest price but they do throw in a 'free' 5 year warranty which elsewhere can cost around £70.
Phew! Collect it tomorrow afternoon and am quite excited - it's a Samsung with Freeview HD which will be a novelty, and although it's probably quite small by many people's standards these days, at 32" it's bigger than the current one, and incredibly only about half the price I paid 7 years ago. :)
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Same here Dugless, couple of little showers that do nothing for the plants what part of derby are you in?
[/quote I am in Melbourne, I originate from Nottingham spent some time in Leicestershire, moved back to Beeston before coming here.
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My 7 year old Panasonic TV has been behaving very strangely lately, including randomly showing on-screen displays even with the zapper batteries removed! :ohmy: More worryingly, it sometimes appears to re-set with a blank screen and a nasty electronic 'pop' which I'm sure will be terminal sooner rather than later.
After a frustrating couple of days trying to find the best deal for my chosen replacement (including losing out on the best price on Monday because I was taking a friend to hospital on Tuesday morning and didn't want to miss the possible delivery) I finally managed to order it this morning from John Lewis - yesterday they were out of stock! Not the cheapest price but they do throw in a 'free' 5 year warranty which elsewhere can cost around £70.
Phew! Collect it tomorrow afternoon and am quite excited - it's a Samsung with Freeview HD which will be a novelty, and although it's probably quite small by many people's standards these days, at 32" it's bigger than the current one, and incredibly only about half the price I paid 7 years ago. :)
I refused to have anything bigger than a 27in flatscreen tellybox much to Ben's annoyance :D
We hardly watch the bloomin' thing anyway ::)
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I watch the i player on the laptop very rarely. :D prefer to listen to podcasts on radio 4 these days.
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Same here Dugless, couple of little showers that do nothing for the plants what part of derby are you in?
[/quote I am in Melbourne, I originate from Nottingham spent some time in Leicestershire, moved back to Beeston before coming here.
:ohmy: :ohmy: Melbourne Australia? ;)
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Morning, Kids :)
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Morning - I'm running about an hour late because I could not fall to sleep last night - Doh!
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Morning all :D
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Still not sleeping too well, still too hot (except one glorious night) but have been busy this morning, made three batches of bread, a batch of pastry and char grilled and peeled a bucket of peppers given by a neighbour and a handful of chillis from the garden. Also watched Bake Off and vet programmes.
Just having a cuppa before doing the chutney, then gorgonzola and fig quiche (another neighbour gave us figs) then start on making seasonal cards.
Not much really. :lol: Good job I don't lie in bed till midday!
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I am late because the dammed computer had disconnected to the internet for the fourth time this month.
although it showed I was connected I was not.
Anyway a belated good morning hello afternoon. :lol:
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Morning all. Still too warm here over night. Me and the old dog sitting by the fan sweating/panting. :(
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I hate this time of day!!! :wacko:
Mornin' - I'm going to work so it's not good!! :tongue2: :lol:
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No so bad if you aren't working I'm of to a 3 day steam rally at Earls Barton so a chill out weekend.
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Madam C = A Lady Womble and Steam Engines :ohmy: so who is the enthusiast they hubby or you?
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Oh has 35 stationary engines he will take one to show I just enjoy staying in the caravan any where. Its pleasant to look round the stalls and vintage vehicles and there are dog shows ect in the arena lots of good food and company too.
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Morning all, been up since 6. Hubby brought us tea in bed :), so now I'm up having my coffee before pegging out the washing. Off to Hinckley to buy fish & get my new specs adjusted in a while. Scintillating life I lead :lol:
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Morning everyone - seems quiet on here today!
Up at 6 to let chickens out (now looking distinctly moist) & need to pack for a canoeing expedition this week… I'm being picked up at 10 and think I should have been a little more organised.
I have the single malt though.
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A belated good morning, a long story but I am absolutely fed up with talk talk I think my router is faulty they do not have an engineer available until September >:( >:( :mad:
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Is it their router?
If so surely they will send you a new one - others do (with a returns bag in case it wasn't the router after all.)
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A belated good morning, a long story but I am absolutely fed up with talk talk I think my router is faulty they do not have an engineer available until September >:( >:( :mad:
Sorry to hear about your problems with TalkTalk. I've recently changed to this isp and couldn't be happier with them. Dead on time, did exactly what they said they would do and speeds 10x faster than previous company!
Such a massive improvement.
"Good morning" by the way. ;)
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Morning Paul. :)
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A belated good morning, a long story but I am absolutely fed up with talk talk I think my router is faulty they do not have an engineer available until September >:( >:( :mad:
Sorry to hear about your problems with TalkTalk. I've recently changed to this isp and couldn't be happier with them. Dead on time, did exactly what they said they would do and speeds 10x faster than previous company!
Such a massive improvement.
"Good morning" by the way. ;)
A fiend of mine told me to check on the phone filters I did and found one faulty. problem solved.
Just a pity Talk Talk could not have advised this when I rang them, but then as the call centre is in India and I could not understand half of what they were saying what do I expect? ::)
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BT's call centre is also in India and I have had mixed results using them, the main problem is they can only use the script and not their brains, if your asking for something outside the script of have informed them you have already tried the script they can't compute or adapt.
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Morning all. On the kitten run this morning as OH went out last night (he's sooo possessive) but he couldn't resist and came down before the little mite had even managed a wee. So we'll both be grumpy from too little sleep which is a shame as last night was the coolest for months.
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Morning! horrible greige morning it is too - just wondering if I can sneak out to the plot for a couple of hours before OH wakes up....
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Go for it Beryl :lol:
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Go for it Beryl :lol:
she's gone :D
Came back late last night a day early from the huge 'Greenbelt festival' (think Christian Glastonbury!), was sooo cold camping and didn't fancy packing up tent in the rain today (really pleased we did). Those farm tracks are going to be so muddy to drive out- there were thousands of cars!
Unfortunately, teenager had a driving trip for me early this morning 'as I was back..... '
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Good morning each, as you can see normal service has resumed.
never thought I would say this but it is raining and I am so pleased.
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Morning, no plot here as it is hissing it down, never mind my first born is 28 today :ohmy: :lol:, & I haven't wrapped his pressie so yet, also need to make him some scones to go with the clotted cream I bought him :)
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Woken by cat landing on our heads about an hour ago ::)
Tried to go back to sleep - failed!! >:(
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BT's call centre is also in India and I have had mixed results using them, the main problem is they can only use the script and not their brains, if your asking for something outside the script of have informed them you have already tried the script they can't compute or adapt.
Tell me about it I once had to transfer a phone from one room in a nursing home to another room.
I gave her the room No and she kept saying there is not a building with that No on that road that corresponds with the address. I kept saying no it is a room inside the building I got no where.
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Go for it Beryl :lol:
she's gone :D
Was out in the drizzle, decided to see if I could find any elderberries along the river for some jam. I have possibly enough for 2-3 small jars. Piero woke up when I came back in. Is now demanding coffee and I am sidling out the door again to play at the plot till the rain gets really bad. :D
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any body who dosn't like getting up on cold wet days should keep goats. Will they get up and go out? Not pygmalion likely!! Lady Grantham just gives me that disdainful look and turns her back. oh well, more tea I think. ;)
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Good morning, I sometimes get that look and I don't keep goats :lol: :lol:
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morning off to visit dad later :)
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Morning - Off for a couple of days in a hotel with my wife on a mini break later. An anniversary present from my two daughters who have instructions on what to water in the greenhouses :)
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have a lovely time
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Good Morning not so good for me I am still having trouble with my computer, what is so annoying is it is intermittent, If it was constant I know what to do.
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Good morning, I sometimes get that look and I don't keep goats :lol: :lol:
:D :lol:
Off too work until lunch then finish for the week :lol:. Very short week :lol:
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what a pain Dugless
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Morning - Off for a couple of days in a hotel with my wife on a mini break later. An anniversary present from my two daughters who have instructions on what to water in the greenhouses :)
Enjoy,where you going?
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Nice Hotel in Farnham - not far away but that suits the wife as she is very apprehensive about going too far from home since she has been on oxygen and later the ventilator at night, and her mobility isn't so good. The girls were great, they have made sure that there is a bedside cabinet for machine and a power socket, the room is on the ground floor and the hotel is on a large pond and surrounded by woods.
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Looks lovely. Have a nice restful time - and don't worry about the greenhouse ;) :)
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Go od Morning, off early hospital appointment at ten Got to catch the 07-45 to be able to get thereon time.
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Morning all, good luck at the hospital Dugless. Lovely hotel Cadalot hope your having a nice time.
Looks rather grey outside might stay in bed a little longer :)
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Nice Hotel in Farnham - not far away but that suits the wife as she is very apprehensive about going too far from home since she has been on oxygen and later the ventilator at night, and her mobility isn't so good. The girls were great, they have made sure that there is a bedside cabinet for machine and a power socket, the room is on the ground floor and the hotel is on a large pond and surrounded by woods.
Looks lovely,hope it does you both the world of good.
I'm not very early today, plot must have worn me out yesterday afternoon :D
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morning off for my 1st session of the Alexandra technique today
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Morning MC change the router Cross fingers it is working fine.
Had a change of plan. The local estate agent wants to sell my bungalow that I have on sale with an internet agent.
I am doing a deal over their selling fee. On a sliding scale as to how much they sell it for :D
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:) New (but old ) horse arrived yesterday, so up really early for a quiet ride.
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Sounds lovely Nannytroll.
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Sounds lovely Nannytroll.
Neither of us are teenagers anymore, so a sedate amble suits us both. I didn't realise what I was missing in the days of galloping around like a hooligan! :nowink:
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Sounds lovely Nannytroll.
Neither of us are teenagers anymore, so a sedate amble suits us both. I didn't realise what I was missing in the days of galloping around like a hooligan! :nowink:
Me too, not forgetting the comfortable gaits. How I miss it. :(
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Morning - Off for a couple of days in a hotel with my wife on a mini break later. An anniversary present from my two daughters who have instructions on what to water in the greenhouses :)
Sounds absolutely lovely!
We are still hoping for another break from routine - last one was 2 nights away from home a few miles along the coast in 2012.
This summer dashed by while my sister went off on 3 holidays but she did offer us a day's cover (as she is happy to look after her mother) if we wished to ask and see if she could manage it. Some sister... if only Ebay could be persuaded I'd try for a part-exchange.
I'll say good morning now as I'm off to bed having dashed back across the road when I saw my mother's light come on again. Happy days..... keep smiling. ::)
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Good morning last one for a while.
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Morning Dugless et al
Quick breakfast and off to the allotment .......
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Morning - Off for a couple of days in a hotel with my wife on a mini break later. An anniversary present from my two daughters who have instructions on what to water in the greenhouses :)
Sounds absolutely lovely!
We are still hoping for another break from routine - last one was 2 nights away from home a few miles along the coast in 2012.
This summer dashed by while my sister went off on 3 holidays but she did offer us a day's cover (as she is happy to look after her mother) if we wished to ask and see if she could manage it. Some sister... if only Ebay could be persuaded I'd try for a part-exchange.
I'll say good morning now as I'm off to bed having dashed back across the road when I saw my mother's light come on again. Happy days..... keep smiling. ::)
Must be difficult Paul, but on the plus side every time she looks in the mirror who does she see? And it her she has to live with.
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Morning everyone - a lovely day and the sun is shining - just off to check on my tomatoes. The have survived quite well whilst I have been on holiday but need a bit of care and attention!!
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Lovely cool morning for the car boot sale and nearly, but not quite, needed a cardi. Bit hot now we are home so time to hide indoors.
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Snowdrops...... thanks for that image... love it!! (not quoted my previous post as it was too long).
Certainly made my morning already. And... if you knew the lady in question "looking in the mirror" is a major preoccupation. :lol:
Douglas? No more good mornings for a while? What have I missed this time?
Hopefully he is ok? :unsure:
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morning all :) Off to see mum thankfully she is out of hospital now :D
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Snowdrops...... thanks for that image... love it!! (not quoted my previous post as it was too long).
Certainly made my morning already. And... if you knew the lady in question "looking in the mirror" is a major preoccupation. :lol:
Douglas? No more good mornings for a while? What have I missed this time?
Hopefully he is ok? :unsure:
Morning all. An early start for me - sorting out the hens. :D
Paul - Dugless is okay - just away on his hols.
MC - had not realised your mum was in hospital - glad that she is back out again.
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Thanks Springy she had a bad kidney infection and they are poor anyway so intrevenous antibiotics were in order.
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Back to school :nowink:
So why was I awake at 4am? It's not excitement that's for sure! But got some lovely 'sitting in the dark in the quiet time' pre-dawn, my favourite time of day :D
Make it a good one peeps x
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Morning all,
MC I also hadn't realised your mum was in hospital. Hope she is ok now.
Paul lovely to hear from you, I do hope your so called sister gives you that ONE day break that you so deserve, I expect that mirror has a crack running right through it too :nowink:
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Thanks Ma they are both over 80 so every day is a bonus my step mum is extra special because I don't speak to my mother.
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She came home Friday and looks better today very chatty.
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G'morning all. Swirling , misty, autumnal start to the day here.
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Thanks Ma they are both over 80 so every day is a bonus my step mum is extra special because I don't speak to my mother.
Pleased to hear she is recovering well M C.
Awake early here today when hubby got up to see if DD was ok, he'd heard her rush to the bathroom, yes she was ok but going on a 'shout', she's an on call firefighter. Just come back in now. Been at the hospital I work at for an automatic fire alarm going off. Thankfully the patients didn't have to be got out.
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Morning Snowy - the ducks were quacking at 6.45 this morning so they and the hens are fed and watered. Now I am just relaxing before starting to work in the garden.
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Morning Springy, lucky you, I'm feeling a bit hard done to today, hubby being retired now isn't going to work :D & DD has a day off & I've got to go to work.
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Morning Springy, lucky you, I'm feeling a bit hard done to today, hubby being retired now isn't going to work :D & DD has a day off & I've got to go to work.
I remember that feeling - my OH retired about six years before me. But he did have my dinner ready and waiting every evening. :D
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Yes my dinner has been ready most days, I do only work 2 1/2 days so I shouldn't grumble :lol:
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Morning quiet out there?
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Tumbleweed passes the screen ..........................
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No internet at home currently.....lovely unimpeded lie-in from 5.30am till it was time to come in here. Might have to make sure the router 'breaks' more often. :D
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Morning :) need to refill the gas bottle OH forgot to turn it off when we left the caravan 2 weeks ago.
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Morning, not up as early as I thought, I must have misread the clock as I got up, thought it was before 6. :)
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New mattress bought after our short break and a much better nights sleep as a result, thus awake at 6:00 been out and harvested all the tomatoes cut up all the plants as we have blight on the allotment and I'm not that far away from it.
Orange and green toms now sitting in the greenhouse to ripen off and turn red.
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Morning! Up early as part of the Daughter Of The Year training, taking Aged P to airport...(and then sneakily using her massive car to pick up my bargainacious T*sco water butts)
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Sneaky Surbie, Sneaky.. :nowink:
I too have to go and collect mine after 4:00 today... so glad I did no hesitate
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Good morning everyone. So pleased Ma set this up. I'm often up and awake during the night and its a little comforting to share that time. Mrs Robster asleep beside me always.
Very excited as this afternoon I'm going to harvest all my main crop potatoes and make that bed ready for onion sets to go in before the month is out.
Thanks Ma for setting this up
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Morning all,not so early but when I get the chance to sleep I grab it with both hands & feet :lol:. Must have been all the digging I did yesterday.
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Morning all :)
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Morning! :)
Not particularly early but as early as I get on a non-working day :nowink:
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Morning! :)
Not particularly early but as early as I get on a non-working day :nowink:
I seem to be awake earlier on the weekend :wacko:
Got a house to clean today and trying to psych myself up for it!
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Up early today to go to Wisley with the garden club, get the coach at 8:10 in the village. Really need to shake a leg & get ready instead of playing on here :lol:
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Enjoy your visit Snowy. I am having a little lie in - OH is sorting out the hens. :D
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I was up at 3.30am, but then I'd not been to sleep!
Drove across London to pick up daughter from an event, went a bit wrong and ended up on Westminster Bridge at 1.30am, drove down the embankment to Tower bridge- lights in the city are magical that time of night.
Loads of people out and about :D feeling old 8).
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A posse of friends and family over from uk today. They have promised to bring proper mature cheddar!!!!! Love French cheeses, but just sometimes get a craving for the bite of real cheddar.
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Morning Nannytroll - Years ago I had a list of could not gets for my Aunt in Canada when I visited :nowink:
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Morning all just off to the lotty
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Morning all, a bad nights sleep, I think due to overdoing the sun yesterday. I may as well get to the plot then and water the PT and GH :)
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it's going to be another hot day here too. :) Think we'll all be watering again.
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Off to the market,with the stall, today, wish me luck.
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morning where is everyone outside enjoying the weather? off to cash and carry today and see mum and dad.
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I nearly poked my head in here at 01:30 this morning when I couldn't sleep :)
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Morning troops :)
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Morning, 2nd one for me :D. Up at 4 for a cuppa with hubby who was already up :wacko:. Lots to think about. DD bought her first house yesterday :lol:
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morning all.
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Morning all. I've had the first proper night of sleep for what seems like months. Feel almost human. :lol:
Was it the linden tea? Who knows, will try it again tonight. :)
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Morning all - DD2 off to Leeds with her mate for a couple of days, why Leeds? The coach fare was a £1 each way apparently and she has never been there :nowink:
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Morning all. I've had the first proper night of sleep for what seems like months. Feel almost human. :lol:
Was it the linden tea? Who knows, will try it again tonight. :)
What's linden tea? & if it was the tea can you send me some :lol: :lol: I can't remember when I last slept through the night
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I've just bought some Pukka night time tea - there's no hops and valerian in this one and I swear they have a diuretic effect ::)
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Morning all. :D
Snowdrops, our Russian neighbour came round with a couple of branches of her lime tree and told me I needed to take off the flowers and dry them for winter tea. It is supposed to ward off colds. But on reading about it it seems it has other benefits, one being an aid to sleep so thought I would give it a go. Although I still wake up a lot, I can get back to sleep quickly. It might be coincidence or it might be psycological. But I feel better for it. It is very perfumy and not unpleasant, but I wouldn't choose to drink it as a regular drink.
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Well I'm up early (on my only day off over the weekend) thanks to a mog puking on the windowsill!! :mad:
She normally does it on the floor, so I was looking for it for 5 minutes as I could smell it :wacko:
Really don't want to be up this early today :(
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Tosca, thanks, I will look in a health food shop. DBG, I have night time teas, but they don't really help. I think it is now just habit, & with all I've got going on at the moment, once I am woken- like last night- 3 times, by people talking nearby outside until 2:40- my brain clicks into gear & it takes me ages to get back off. It makes me cross because I have no objection to getting up 4:30/5 ish if I have slept since 10, but if I'm awake during the night, I'm then sleepy & grumpy at 7ish when it's time to be getting up >:(
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alarm clocks at weekends should be banned...morning all (yawn)
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Morning all :)
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Morning - been doing the awake every two hours thing again, wish I could sleep thru anything like I used too :(
Off to pick up more compost daleks off freecycle then drop them off at the allotment
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Morning all, been up for about an hour now. Just washed the car, now sitting down to a coffee and a slice of crunchy peanut butter on toast. Later the car will get a polish, then off to the plot. Later this afternoon I also have an eye test, not been done for a few years now.
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Morning all raining here a part time job interview at 1pm in the local garage. need to print off my cv.
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Morning all. Been out with the cameras. Eeerily quiet by the river now most of the migrants have left.
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Morning all. Been out with the cameras. Eeerily quiet by the river now most of the migrants have left.
So upload some pictures for us to look at :)
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Morning all raining here a part time job interview at 1pm in the local garage. need to print off my cv.
Good luck MC ;) :)
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Morning all. Been out with the cameras. Eeerily quiet by the river now most of the migrants have left.
So upload some pictures for us to look at :)
I used to Cadalot, but someone didn't like it as they are not British birds. But we did get some not very sharp pics of marsh harrier, black stork and little grebe. Didn't see a single heron and usually we see purple and grey.
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Morning all. Been out with the cameras. Eeerily quiet by the river now most of the migrants have left.
So upload some pictures for us to look at :)
I used to Cadalot, but someone didn't like it as they are not British birds. But we did get some not very sharp pics of marsh harrier, black stork and little grebe. Didn't see a single heron and usually we see purple and grey.
Please just ignore 'someone' whoever they may be and upload the pictures for us. I used to love seeing them. :)
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Or perhaps start a thread for them...
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Thanks DBG I got the job :D
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Morning all. Been out with the cameras. Eeerily quiet by the river now most of the migrants have left.
So upload some pictures for us to look at :)
I used to Cadalot, but someone didn't like it as they are not British birds. But we did get some not very sharp pics of marsh harrier, black stork and little grebe. Didn't see a single heron and usually we see purple and grey.
But that thread isn't entitled British birds is it :lol:
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Thanks DBG I got the job :D
Well done MC. :D
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Morning all. Been out with the cameras. Eeerily quiet by the river now most of the migrants have left.
So upload some pictures for us to look at :)
I used to Cadalot, but someone didn't like it as they are not British birds. But we did get some not very sharp pics of marsh harrier, black stork and little grebe. Didn't see a single heron and usually we see purple and grey.
But that thread isn't entitled British birds is it :lol:
Exactly Snowy - why would anybody complain. It just does not make sense.
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Some people are just grumpy I'd like to see any interesting bird photos.
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I have getting up when it's dark in the morning and it's getting dark so quick at night - Done breakfast- Done Music Game - Watched some YouTube videos now off the water the grass in the back garden where I'm trying to patch in some bald spots.
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The hens and ducks were calling early this morning - sometimes I look forward to the darker mornings just to get a lie in!! :lol:
Nearly forgot - morning everyone.
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I'll say good morning now as not planning to be up before 9am if remotely possible :D
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Oooo a lie in would be nice. Went to sleep ok but woke just after 1. Was still awake at 3.30 but then woke in tears screaming just after 4, had a very real nightmare so had to get up. All is well, but l feel totally drained and upset and know it will be a c*** day. lt shouldn't matter as l don't need to go to work, but it does.
So hard to type with a kitten on your chest sucking on your hand! :D
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Does it count as the early morning club if I haven't been to sleep yet :unsure:
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Yes but I have and i'm going for a snooze in a minute
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Morning people another overcast day from the looks of things
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Yes forcast warm here though 23C I'm off to the lotty.
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Had a bit of a lie in this morning - OH sorted the chickens for a change!! Dull so far this morning - hopefully it will brighten up later. :D
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Had a bit of a thunderstorm here in Dartmouth, very overcast & thick mist up river.
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Whoops just noticed my last post. Wondered why I couldn't see my post in the weather thread :wacko:
Up early today :mad:. Last day before going back to work after a week off :mad: :wacko:. Just can't get back to sleep with all this brain buzz going on. Annoyingly I'll probably be able to sleep from 6 ish when I wanted to be up & in the garden early today.
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Morning Snowdrops. We had much needed rain last night so will be staying off the garden. Cards and painting for us today I think......and clearing up the mud the dogs bring in.
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Hi Tosca, I'm still up so had an early breakfast, put the washing on & done a few other jobs. Now it's light the washing can go out :nowink:
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Late to day hade to take ohs cat to the vet at 1pm last night he's ok now though.
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Bleary good morning to all. Flipping cat has found his way upstairs. Life will never be the same!
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Morning Tosca :D
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It's going to be one of tose days, I can feel it!
Went out to let the chooks out and as we are boarding someone's ex-batt chooks while she is away for six weeks all our's have been mixed and the strangers have been put in the shumen pen away from them. When I opened the door one of the newbies was on her back very dead! :ohmy: Messaged the owner who told me said hen has been quiet for a couple of days so she is not surprised! I have sixteen chooks of my own and am not amused! I feel she is just old and the shock of being moved was too much for her, but am cross that the woman has put my lot in potential danger when I am doing her a good turn. :mad:
Rant over!
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Oh dear Tosca, not surprised you are cross,hope your day improves.
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Good morning, I am back after three glorious weeks on the Gower, thankfully the weather is forecast is good I AHVE a lot of catching up to do in the garden.
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Morning all - I hate how dark it is now in the morning and early evening :(
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Morning Cadalot. Yes, too dark to let the chooks out when l get up around 4am, but they see the light go on when the dogs go out and start battering on their door. I'm sure the pine martens would be happy to be presented with an early morning snack! :ohmy:
First snow of the year here in Bulgaria in the mountains. Still in the 20s lower down where we are.
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good morning, I little late this morning, I sleep later with the dark mornings.
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good morning, last off first on were is everybody?
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I'm here, slept well last night for a change only woke up once :)
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good morning snowdrops its funny sometimes I have to get up several times and now and again only once.
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good morning, last off first on were is everybody?
I was up at 5:30 and I've been watching Beechgrove Gardens on BBC iplayer as its a BBC2 Scotland program and have to say it's a lot better than what we have on down here.
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good morning, last off first on were is everybody?
Busy. We have had a mouse in the spare/junk room so are going through all the bags and boxes again. Caught a mouse and sorted through some stuff for car booting. Now to wash all the winter clothes and bedding and cutains stored in the room. Refusing to believe one small mouse can do all that poo and wee, stinks once disturbed. Not happy.
When we moved here we were happy to have so much loft and cellar space, outbuilings and garage. But nowhere is rodent proof, they are even between the wall and plasterboard as the gaps between them at the top were never filled when it was 'renovated' Constantly catching rats and mice at the moment in the loft. Everyone is saying they have the same problem, population explosion after last year's mild winter.
Can't get the normal spring rat/mouse traps here.....may be a money making idea there....they have live traps and glue traps, don't agree with the way they use either, slow death. They also use poison, not keen with so many feral cats and chickens about, never mind the stink if they die behind the plaster board. Others are happy if feral cats are killed.
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I'm often on here about that time for one last look before I go to bed - it's the time difference, about 6 hours.
Hello Trillium *waves*
Miss seeing you about. Hope you're well :)
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Oh dear Tosca, what a job to deal with. I wouldn't like them in the walls, why can't people 'renovate' properly. We're house hunting today & I'm dreading what dodo we'll see. Hubby is a master craftsman so hates stuff not done as it should be. Good news is we've sold our house after 4 weeks on the market at the asking price if it all goes through, so shows he knows his stuff as we've gutted this house & want to do the same to the next one :D
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Oh dear Tosca, what a job to deal with. I wouldn't like them in the walls, why can't people 'renovate' properly. We're house hunting today & I'm dreading what dodo we'll see. Hubby is a master craftsman so hates stuff not done as it should be. Good news is we've sold our house after 4 weeks on the market at the asking price if it all goes through, so shows he knows his stuff as we've gutted this house & want to do the same to the next one :D
Snowy - that is good news. Hope you find something that you like soon. :)
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good morning, last off first on were is everybody?
Am still up early, but no internet at home for the last 25 days...am with you all in spirit, and it does give me space to focus on my plot plans/meal planning.
Congrats Snowy on selling the house! :) Hope you find something you like.
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Snowdrops congratulations on selling so quickly. Have you found another then? Hope it has a nice wall for the wildlife.
It's 'normal' to bodge building work here. Because everything is so cheap, including labour, it figures that jobs are done on the cheap unless a decent builder is doing it for themselves. No point on spending £5000 on a house that's only worth £10000 renovated.
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Thanks peeps, been to view 4 today, got 5 tomorrow & 2 on Saturday. I'm rather weary now :wacko:
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Wow Snowy! That was a quick sale!
Your lovely holiday must have been a good omen and put you in a positive frame of mind ;) :)
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Yes a very quick sale if it all comes good. :D
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Hope it goes smoothly for you Snowy.
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Thanks M C, I think we are going to struggle to find somewhere we like.
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Good morning, congrats Snowdrops, I am waiting for a buyer, ::) but like you will find it hard to find a replacement if and when we sell it.
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Thank you Dugless, it's going to be difficult to find something I think, & if we leave the village I would lose my allotment as they changed the rules this year.
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Morning all,
Snowy great news about the house, hope you find somewhere soon
Dugless I hope you enjoyed your weeks in the Gower. I so miss that part of Wales I used to take the kids there often on a weekend and me and the ex used to go regularly to an Indian restaurant there too. <sigh>
As I get older I miss places in Wales more.
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Morning all, up early again here with that well known brain buzz :wacko:. Lots to think about, had an offer accepted yesterday on a bunglehouse :lol:. Our buyers are visiting this afternoon to look round again, hope they don't change their minds ???. So a tidy up is required & a bit of flower arranging, plus a bit of subtle aroma needs to organised, ie a rast chicken dinner, with some baking in evidence to show what a lovely family home it is. :lol:
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Morning snowy, hope everything goes well and great about your offer being accepted. It will be both a stressful and exciting time for you. :)
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Good Morning, just booked a fight to the sun.
What a relief Snowdrops, finding a place, hope everything goes swimmingly .
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Good Morning, just booked a fight to the sun.
What a relief Snowdrops, finding a place, hope everything goes swimmingly .
Really Dugless :mad: at your age fights in the sun are not good :lol: :lol: :lol:
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going for a snooze to early to get up yet :D
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Well I'm up, so morning all you slug a beds😃
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Good morning, must have been half a sleep yesterday, fingers wandering all over the place and missed the typo.
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morning all
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Morning. And a stunning one it is in sunny Bulgaria. :D
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foggy here off to the market later.
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good morning, clear here. Off to the lotty must get the broad beans in before I fly away Thursday :D.
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Warm dry and bright - taking the wife to the hospital today for a check up
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morning need a snooze :)
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Morning. Market day today, look like being another gorgeous day :D
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morning all, been awake and up for about an hour but the dogs needed feeding and taking out before I could get on here. Looks like it's going to be a lovely day here too :)
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Good Morning Not feeling chipper this morning, flue jab yesterday.
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thanks for the reminder - just checked and mine is next Wednesday.
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I don't have the flu jab anymore - I think it makes me ill more often and for longer each time :)
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I have an annual one because of my asthma and luckily I have no side effects.
Jim and our eldest son had to have a different variation of the flu jab because they are both welders and a certain one off type was recommended as part of their work protection. Our Dr's had never heard of the type of flu jab and had to look into it before they would order it in for us but because it was government recognised thing they ordered and administered it free of charge.
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I don't have the flu jab anymore - I think it makes me ill more often and for longer each time :)
As a diabetic I get offered it free but that's exactly why I don't accept their kind offer - I had bird flu over Christmas a few years ago and managed to survive that so I take the risk.
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Oh I have asthma, but I still won't have the flu jab now :D
And no-one can make me!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Sitting here having breakfast at 6:30 and it's pitch black outside we are getting to the time of year I really hate, I think I may be one of those people that need daylight.... Ummm perhaps I'm solar powered and just didn't know it :( :(
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Off to Lidl as it seems they have lamb......LAMB!!!! Oh the excitement!
Not that I eat meat you understand. :lol:
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Good morning , off today to get some solar power :lol:
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off to the lotty soon busy day
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I was wondering if there's a "Late Night Club" anywhere here abouts.. ;)
Nice to see you are all around and about as usual. :)
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I was wondering if there's a "Late Night Club" anywhere here abouts.. ;)
I'm sure you could start one ;)
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morning lots of indoor jobs today washing jam jars ect.
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Morning,back to work today,really need to give that up,it's bad for my health ;)
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I need some work can we swap for a while :lol:
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Ooh yes definitely, I like the work when I get there but the politics of it all leave me exhausted. Your counselling skill would stand you in good stead in both camps :D
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Morning ;)
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Hi Paul
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Hi Guys n Girls
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Hi Cadalot :D
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Hi MC just getting light here - I've been awake on and off all night as usual but just cant be bothered to actually get up until it's starting to get light.
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Me too awake at 5.45 might show willing in a few minutes.
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Morning all - was up early looking to see what damage there wad after last night's storm. House and green house OK but some damage in the hen run which OH is fixing. Hens and ducks OK. :)
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Hi Paul
Good morning night everyone. Home at just gone midnight (my mother wasn't ready for bed until then) - no one awake at home so coffee and relax time for me.
I dare say you will all have had almost half a day by the time I emerge later in the day at 9!!
Here's hoping the sun is with you when you rise.
Lovely bright moonlight here ;)
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Night Paul!
Up at 5am... not nice enough to go sit outside and wait for the dawn anymore now, but was't yesterdays sunrise magnificent - all pinky yellow clouds and purple sky.
Rain forecast here today. Can't complain, I need to dig out some couch so by tomorrow it should come out very easily indeed!
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Morning, seem to be getting back to the habit of waking around 6 this week,taking time to adjust now OH is retired :). He seems to be fine up there til I take him a cuppa when I go up to get ready for work ::)
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Good morning already.... been up since just after 7. Too early for me after last night but my mother phoned... (by accident ::) ) so nowhas tea & digestives as she was fine. I'm off for a nap ....again.
Wishing you a good day rain or no rain.
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Has everyone hibernated?? :unsure:
I'm up. Not early, granted. But I'm up! :)
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YUp I'm but not long since, & I went to bed early, didn't feel very well & actually slept reasonably well.
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Am I alone in thinking that early morning Radio 2 has gone downhill this week since the end of Alex Lester's shoe (& Richard Allinson's show at weekends)? It's now repeats of earlier programmes (Sounds of the 60s's yesterday, 70's today), I'd much rather have the usual radio 2 mix of music.
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Can't answer that one don't listen to it :nowink:
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I've no idea either - radio 4 for me or 4xtra.
Good merry morning everyone (and I have been to sleep). Cold and dark out.
My mother has had about 1hours sleep since her alert alarm was pushed and the phone call came through. No wonder she sleeps all day!
Off to the doctor's in the morning.... when they wake up.
Have a good day. ;)
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Morning all! The weather looks a bit better this morning, hopefully it'll stay that way.
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Morning all! The weather looks a bit better this morning, hopefully it'll stay that way.
It's too early for weather here...... its just dark and cold.
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Not so chilly out this morning...... waiting for the rain.
Had tea - my mother's fine. Antibiotics kicking in :)
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I don't believe in mornings anymore :lol: :lol: :lol:
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>:( ::)
I don't believe in mornings anymore :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'm not that keen right this minute either.
One "morning" a day would be enough for me..... I'm heading back to bed.
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Sleep well,
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Sleep well,
Thank you. I did for a while......
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OMG - I hate the darkness of early winter mornings - depressing or what! - It's bad enough being awake at this time but the darkness just saps the energy out of you.
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That is the joy of retirement Cadalot - I can sleep until it is daylight and the ducks start calling. ::)
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>:( ::)I don't believe in mornings anymore :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'm not that keen right this minute either.
One "morning" a day would be enough for me..... I'm heading back to bed.
A lie-in!! I actually got a lie-in this morning!! :D
As a non-morning person, why the heck I went into nursing, I'll never understand ::)
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It's a lovely morning outside... silent, warm, dark and shining as the paving stones and roads are wet. No rain right now.
I'm wondering if going back to bed is worth the effort of having to wake up yet again... waking up, then staying still and drifting off is a wonderful experience...
But waking up and struggling to come to when you'd far rather snoooooze is altogether not my first choice.
AND
I ramble when I'm tired. :wacko: :lol:
Good morning everyoneeees. ;) My second wake up so far this night.
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Paul - I wake up every few hours during the night these days, how I long for the days when I slept through the great storm Growster has been recalling - for the sleep not the wind and devastation :nowink:
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I'm up earlier than expected after more red wine last night than was actually necessary :D
In deepest, darkest Cornwall for a wedding weekend and apart from the stormy weather, howling Bodmin moor gales and lashing rain, it's been great so far :D
Missing my BodyBalance class this morning so I'm going to freak everyone out by doing it here using one of the four DVDs I now possess ;)
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Thats not Bodybalance!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=i8wC1EaXeYw and if that doesn't work search for Bodybalance/Body flow in youtube ;)
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It's just like watching old fashioned breakfast TV with Mr Motivator all over again......
PS I knew that but you have to admit that guy rocks....
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No bopping about here at this quiet, lovely time of the morning just a "morning mother" and a cup of tea. She's fast asleep again already ::)
Now... do I stay awake through to porridge time or sleep and hope to resurface beefore my delightful sister drops in for her sometimes once a week visit to see her mother and moan? Decisions.
Oh for a relaxed stroll on the seafront or a sleep through to early afternoon. All pipe dreams
Excuse typos - cant see the screen very well and my digit is a big one / keys are very tiny.
Good morning all.
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Morning Paul , similar decision, I'm awake shall I go back to sleep for an hour and feel like poo when I wake up or come down here have a cup of coffee and surf the forum and tidy my office until it's light enough and hopefully dry enough for a visit to the allotment.
You can see what won :nowink:
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A Sunday lie-in , what bliss.! I can hear the old horse stamping his feet in the stable, Stamp away lad, you're warm and dry , breakfast can wait !
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I love mornings I know I'm strange, maybe because i work from home and don't have to rush out and defrost the car ect. I do often still get out early and go up to the lotty or do office work in bed :lol:
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off to the lotty now looks like the sun is coming out. :D
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Morning all off to the lotty again as rain tomorrow.
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Morning all.
I have been chasing sleep since 4 and am giving up, and getting up.
This is the third time I have been up this morning and I would kill for a complete nights uninterrupted sleep.
I have three so far this year. :(
So I will go and upset the chickens by letting them out early and go and make a start on the onion marmalades for the winter festival hampers.
I expect I will be falling asleep at 6 this evening. :wacko:
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These days I just do whatever quiet work I can while SWMBO is asleep. Often she finds her clothes washed and pressed and the downstairs rooms tidied.
Rather than fight it, I've come to accept that's just how it is.
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Just spent 45 minutes clearing a backlog of emails as I was out on site yesterday 2hour train journey there and two hours back again, next time Skype Video conference and save myself 4 hours but sometimes it good to meet in person. Now breakfast then shower change and lots of work to catch up on...
Too busy for a visit to the allotment :(
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These days I just do whatever quiet work I can while SWMBO is asleep. Often she finds her clothes washed and pressed and the downstairs rooms tidied.
Rather than fight it, I've come to accept that's just how it is.
Same here, but then I don't have to go to work any more.
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@tosca100 - lucky you!
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Lucky me too. :D
Though I have never been busier since retirement.
After making 34 jars of assorted jars of onion marmalade in the early hours this morning, it feels as if my new business is taking me and my retirement over. :wacko:
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But, in retirement - if you are doing too much, it can only be your own fault :D
I seem to have turned into an owl, nowadays :dry: so I must be a member of the late night club :wacko:
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I'm fed up of early mornings! >:(
Had one this morning, and got 2 more tomorrow and Thursday too :( :mad: :( :mad:
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Very early morning, woken by a weird dream, think i will have another snooze.
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May I have your recipe for the Onion Marmalade, ***super-please***? (No offence, if not!)
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:wacko:
That's my feeling at the moment!!
It's too warm in bed to get out!! :tongue2:
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:wacko:
That's my feeling at the moment!!
It's too warm in bed to get out!! :tongue2:
Agree with you there but the ducks and chickens had other ideas. :nowink:
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Super stressful morning. Went out to go to the market and found a box by the car. We knew what would be in it before we looked, and sure enough, there were two tiny kittens huddled in the corner, at a guess under two weeks old. The box hadn't been there long and the kittens were asleep so not cold, so we made a snap decision to leave them there as we would be gone only a short time. Our neighbour was watching from her gate and with builders opposite they would be quite safe. Off we went, first stop vet to see if he had baby kitten milk, fat chance. Give them raw cow milk he says, like this one has....little kitten in the shop.
Returning home, neighbour still there, box gone. Phew. Next worry...where? On questioning neighbour it seems someone came and took the box away. Strange how she knows everyone in the village but not who took the box! We have enough with the rescue kitten we already have, and if we ever had to return to the UK we would have trouble enough finding a rental with two dogs as well. And the last thing we need is a name for taking in all waifs and strays that no-one wants or will prevent! Obviously everyone knows we took Splash in when he rolled up at a few weeks old. Consolation is that they cared enough to take them away again instead of leaving them for village dogs, cold or pine marten to take them.
Feeling drained!
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May I have your recipe for the Onion Marmalade, ***super-please***? (No offence, if not!)
Of course you can have the recipe Kevin. :)
The recipe for my basic onion marmalade is here on the recipe page.
If you go to the recipes and food at the top of this page you will find the onion marmalade top of the list.
It is the basic recipe I use and then I add other stuff for more exotic variations.
PM me if you would like any extra ideas but this is the most popular variety.
Ikea sell lovely cheap preserving jars, the smallest size 80p which make lovely winter presents. ;)
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Oh Tosca - what a morning - but you made the right decision even if it was hard. :(
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Thank you enormously, Mrs Bee.
I haven't yet trawled through this very large forum yet - but I'll be making a Bee-line for your recipe!
I'll do it this weekend and post some pics.
By the way, I'm afraid I'm tight/frugal - my jars come from coffee, etc! I'm amazed that shops dare sell empty jars for more than the same size jars with stuff in 'em!
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Tosca a tough decision but I agree with Springy. You would soon be having every waif & stray left at your door. This used to happen to my sister, it got very expensive, often the poor animal was very ill & needed a vet or to be put to sleep. People can be very cruel.
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Super stressful morning. Went out to go to the market and found a box by the car. We knew what would be in it before we looked, and sure enough, there were two tiny kittens huddled in the corner, at a guess under two weeks old. The box hadn't been there long and the kittens were asleep so not cold, so we made a snap decision to leave them there as we would be gone only a short time. Our neighbour was watching from her gate and with builders opposite they would be quite safe. Off we went, first stop vet to see if he had baby kitten milk, fat chance. Give them raw cow milk he says, like this one has....little kitten in the shop.
Returning home, neighbour still there, box gone. Phew. Next worry...where? On questioning neighbour it seems someone came and took the box away. Strange how she knows everyone in the village but not who took the box! We have enough with the rescue kitten we already have, and if we ever had to return to the UK we would have trouble enough finding a rental with two dogs as well. And the last thing we need is a name for taking in all waifs and strays that no-one wants or will prevent! Obviously everyone knows we took Splash in when he rolled up at a few weeks old. Consolation is that they cared enough to take them away again instead of leaving them for village dogs, cold or pine marten to take them.
Feeling drained!
Even I would have made the same decision - very very difficult, but people just can't have hundreds of animals without too much expense and hygiene standards slipping.
The 4 cats I have (especially Lotty and her random stress peeing) are enough to keep on top of housework/hygiene-wise believe me!! :)
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If they had still been there when we came back we would, of course, have raised them, and the little tortie was soooo cute (but of course I don't like cats!!!!) but by the twinkle in Venka's eye she was possibly in the know and certainly knows who put them there. But we have let her know that we do not want any more animals.
And to be honest, we can't afford any more. Things are pretty tight around here!
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That's the problem! They do cost a lot. Best put your foot down early and say you're not having any more ;)
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@tosca100 - lucky you!
I don't work either... no paid job anyway. Retired 3 years early four years ago. I leave home many times a day to cross a quiet road - on the otherside another garden, my aviary and my mum.
The late-night cats and skulking foxes and I are well aquainted.
Last night 6 whole hours sleep in one go! Tonight I'm hoping all goes well and I can sleep at home again.... followed by just one early morning.
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Hope you slept well Paul.
We may not go out to work but we do masses here, the difference being we enjoy the graft here! :D
Morning all. :)
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Well I been awake since 4am which turned out to be 3am and just can't get back to sleep. Been catching up on posts in the hope that it will tire me out but here I am 2 hours later still awake. You watch though come the time to get up all I will want to do is sleep :nowink:
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Likewise Ma. Good morning. On my second cuppa now. I find it easier to give up trying to go back to sleep. As its Sunday I will hopefully grab an hour this afternoon to catch up.
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Morning all oh forgot to change the clock so I was woken up at 5 instead og 6 and he went back to sleep typical. !
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I managed to get a few more hours sleep but feel worse for it somehow. Maybe I will get a better nights sleep in our caravan tonight who knows. A relaxing week ahead of us which we so need.
Rachel if it weren't for the iPhones and iPads automatically updating I would forget to turn my clocks back too. :)
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Morning all oh forgot to change the clock so I was woken up at 5 instead og 6 and he went back to sleep typical. !
Now I wish I'd just left my clock and got up early anyway ::)
That way it wouldn't have gone back 2 hours and made me late for work :(
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I hate changing the clocks my systems all out of kilter :)
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I agree MC,messes me up too >:(
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Me too - I always seem tired for days after. :(
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There was one year where it affected me really badly. Then I discovered a 'cure' that works for me.
Not only do I make sure I get to physically see the sun on the days when it can be done but the period of clocks going back and darkness is only now until 22 Dec - when it starts getting light again. This works out at around 92 days or so. I find I can manage this better and it has worked for other people.
The clue is physical and mental - I changed my perception of darkness and try to work outside.
I hope it helps people here.
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yes being outside helps i'll be ok in a couple of weeks its the actual change why can't we just stick to BST?
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Nope for me it the reduced hours of daylight that makes me less energetic, I feel better for the other 3 seasons but Winter really drives me mad, it's like being caged. I guess I may be solar powered :unsure:
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The dark really affects us too. I have to keep a special eye on Mr Bee during the winter or he can take a nose dive . Really don't like winter anymore.
We both try to work outside as much as the weather allows, and in the dark evenings light lots of candles to make it cosy with regular evenings with friends playing cards and games.
Depression is a nasty thing. >:(
However morning all. We have been up since 4 this morning and I have a load of fish to gut from Billingsgate.
I do like Billingsgate. :D :D :D
A box of herring for £8, :ohmy: not to mention the skate wings, bass, bream, mackerel, salmon that will need filleting.
And some turbot for a change.
And a busy day tomorrow smoking the herrings. :D :D
ANd to cheer us all up the weather for the next few days looks promising with some sunny days. :D :D
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OOooh...smoked fish! I wish you were my neighbour! :D
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OOooh...smoked fish! I wish you were my neighbour! :D
That would be lovely but I am not moving up North. Sorry.
Although I do love Alderly Edge.
You could move down here if you like. We live on the edge of Epping Forest in a small quiet little road with lovely neighbours all along the road and friends across the way and round the corner. Not too far to stagger after a good night until the very early hours. :lol: :lol:
You would fit right in. ;)
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I was an Essex boy!
Clacton, Jaywick and other villages in that area.
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Holidays were spent at Jaywick when I was little :) Now it's the most deprived place in England :ohmy:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/mar/29/jaywick-essex-resort-most-deprived
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I was an Essex boy!
Clacton, Jaywick and other villages in that area.
So what are you doing in the cold North. :D
I was at teacher training college in Warrington which is in the North.
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It was deprived in the early 70's when I was there. It was my first experience of trailer parks and families living in disused London double decker buses (the Routemaster).
All my family are Northern, except for me!
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We camped over a bank holiday weekend at the camp site at the far end of Jaywick Sands and Paul asked the security guard what the club house was like. All he was told was 'it's a Friday, so 'fight night'' we decided not to go and stayed in the caravan.
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Yes, I look back with sadness and fondness.
I've no idea why it became so, only that the economics in the town are very poor.
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Back to school we go!
How is it that I can sleep in during the hols but on a work day get up before the alarm??-is it the excitement I wonder....(no) :nowink:
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Well good morning all from 2.30 am Tuesday morning. I considered giving you all an early morning call this morning when I finally got back from A and E for the second time, at 6.30 but decided to get my head down.
Nightmare on legs since Tuesday 2.30am. No sleep from then until this morning when I finally got to bed at 7 am. 4 hour sleep in about 36 hours.
Poor DIL had no sleep in about 38 hours.
I am surprised more people do not die between A and E and getting the treatment they need. :(
Left hand right hand comes to mind, interspersed with lack of care interspersed with wonderful people and care.
Still finally got my son sorted out and operated on for an infected appendix. Thank heavens I am an assertive sort of person, but even tho' I am, one is left feeling totally powerless when dealing with the NHS.
I think my assertiveness ensured him getting the operation before the damn thing burst.
Everything works so slowly!!!!! And seeing your son writhing in agony while things grind exceedingly slowly is the most awful thing on this earth. God only knows what would have happened if DIL and I had not been there organising and caring for him. Mr Bee has just looked over my shoulder and said second rate service.
Thank heavens for the care and humanity of the staff on the surgical ward while we were waiting for news from theatre. The nurses and doctors in the main were wonderful; it is the procedures that need shaking up.
Rant over; under the shower and make myself feel human. 4 hours sleep in 36 is enough for to get me through today.
Won't be posting on the what's for tea as it will probable be more toast. Which will be marginally better than the apple and half a bar of white chocolate I had yesterday. :lol:
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Feel free to rant about the NHS Mrs Bee - I see it everyday. Some great care and treatment, other lousy treatment and very little care.
I am one of the caring nurses (and bl00dy proud of that fact) but I have a patient today who thinks we're all trying to kill her :(
It's both sad and horribly frustrating as we're doing all that we can.
Hope your son is better soon xxxx
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Feel free to rant about the NHS Mrs Bee - I see it everyday. Some great care and treatment, other lousy treatment and very little care.
I am one of the caring nurses (and bl00dy proud of that fact) but I have a patient today who thinks we're all trying to kill her :(
It's both sad and horribly frustrating as we're doing all that we can.
Hope your son is better soon xxxx
I absolutely agree with every thing you say.
I have nothing but admiration for the caring doctors and nurses working under huge pressure and constraints. And I seriously hope that I wasn't aggressive or rude in my dealings with those staff yesterday.
But I came so close to blowing my top! It was the feeling of powerlessness and nothing happening that really got to me.
I didn't doubt for a minute that you would be a wonderful caring nurse. Just glad that I did meet and was helped by nurses and doctors like you. :)Off to pick up DIL now and visit the patient.
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hubby started a new job this week
its a 4am start so we have been getting up at 3am :ohmy:
we live rural and use off peak electric so I've been in my element baking away on the cheap rate electric ;)
in my oven now I have spiced pumpkin cake , sausage and roast pumpkin and Yorkshire puds
at least I don't have to cook later in the day any more :lol:
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I thought I had it bad - getting up at 5am. What a lie-in that is!
I've started watching some really interesting programmes on BBC2 HD. It's aimed for kids, but by golly, they're good. Better than the grown up programmes - no joking.
Good luck with the new job - and the early cooking!
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I have to get up at 06:10 (at the latest) on a long day - and I thought that was bad!! :ohmy:
It still is bad - I'm not a morning person! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Good grief, 2yo grandson decides to get up at 5:15am! He's gorgeous, but, hey, get some sleep, eh, kid?
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Morning! :)
I've had a much needed lie-in :)
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Morning Troops
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8am What a lie in. Half the day has gone already!
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Morning all, 3rd night of insomnia approacheth. ???
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Forgot to make sure the kitten had food for morning and he let us know at 3.30 that this was NOT ON! Long day of baking ahead so thought I would stay up and sort internet and catch up on Masterchef before the day starts properly. :)
Morning all.
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Morning Tosca & all
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morning both
getting used to hubbys new shift of 3.30am start :wacko:
woke up to terrific rain & wind
went up to lock the gates after hubby went
dogs did mouse hunting in the garage whilst I dug up 2 celeriac by torch light for making a soup for lunch
soup is now simmering and I've sat down to finish making some curtains - realise how bad my eye sight is getting trying to sew by energy saving bulbs
just thought I'd pop in and say morning ;)
Morning all, 3rd night of insomnia approacheth. ???
hope you managed to get some sleep eventually surbie :closedeyes:
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good morning been without a computer just borrowing this one should be back in January in the mean time I will just have to pop in when I get my hands on someones computer :lol: :lol:
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Hi Dugless :)
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Hi Dugless & MC, been quiet on here is everyone sleeping longer? It's still like night here, so dark & very rainy today, no plotting today
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glad I did some yesterday :D crafting today for selling I think
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Very soggy here today too, nearly went AoverT doing the chooks this morning, our mud is very slippy. Had to send OH to get the kale for lunch....seeing he is using the very expensive wellies I bought myself for my new life. :lol:
Using up eggs in baking today, so far three batches of bread dough in waiting, cherry and almond cake made, kale and cheese pie in the oven (yes really, delicious!) and all the ....er.....seasonal cake weighed and ready for later. :D
Need to find a recipe for apple chutney...or jam...or something.................
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Our chook run is pretty sodden too tosca :(
We found some stray paving stones so at least they have a dry-ish paved area where their food and water is now :)
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Our's has been done with broken stones, but needs uncovering again as so many birds make heap big mess when scratching around! :D
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good morning been without a computer just borrowing this one should be back in January in the mean time I will just have to pop in when I get my hands on someones computer :lol: :lol:
Sorry to hear you have pc problems. You need to get one of those new fangled mobile phones and a strong pair of specs to see the text. ;)
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Good morning Paul, I have got on of those but the sceen is too smal to do anything on this site I am thinking of up grading to a tablet but there are so many out there it is bewildering.
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Morning all! up and ay 'em - am going off to tackle some hedging before the rains kick in again, as well as trying to sort out the mud bath that is my main path. Hope you have a good day. :D
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Morning all. Been awake since 5am. so got up and the beef in the oven. Might as well get on with the cooking for aged mothers birthday party. :lol:
I wanted to postpone after all the rushing around and chaos with my son's emergency op, but little sister said we could do it.
WE!!!! >:( She said she would do it. I just needed to tell her what to do! In explicit detail giving the page numbers of the recipe books............................ or she would do dome sandwiches. :wacko:
Decided to do it myself as it would be easier in the long run.
Thought I would have time but still having to run around after son and DIL becaue of their lack of heating and washing machine.
And I expect mum will find something to have a go at me about. Think I will just take the food and keep quiet. What ever I say is never right these days. I seem to be the one she takes out her frustrations and unhappiness because of dad being disabled.
Never quite sure whether I will get hugged or yelled at. Even Mr Bee notices and said I am very good not to resort to violence. :lol: :lol:
have a good day all.
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Hope it goes well Mrs Bee.
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I'm making party food myself today Mrs Bee :)
Best friends youngest' naming day ceremony at 3 pm. I cooked 200 cocktail sausage rolls yesterday and today when I get back from body balance I'm making about 200 sandwiches :D
Good luck with your day Mrs Bee :)
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200 sossie rolls and 200 sarnies...
Just how much can this baby eat? :lol:
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Hope it goes well Mrs Bee and you don't have to bite your lip too often.
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Hope it goes well Mrs Bee and you don't have to bite your lip too often.
So do I. I bite it so often t is permanently sore. :lol: :lol:
I am hiding here so Mr Bee will go and do the washing up and clear the kitchen while I give my ankle a rest.
I have to admit to feeling my age and despite it being only 10 past 6 I am ready for bed.
Thanks for all the kind wishes guys. :lol:
Devon you are a really lovely friend. 200 sausage rolls and sarnies. Respect. 8) 8)
You would have been in our gang in the playground. ;) Enjoy the day and don't spend all your time in the kitchen.
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200 sossie rolls and 200 sarnies...
Just how much can this baby eat? :lol:
There was about 80 mouths to feed at the ceremony :D
Mrs Bee - I didn't quite get to 200 sarnies, but I made a lot!!
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Wow that is still a great amount of work Devon. You can definitely join our gang. ;)
Morning all.
The wake up gnome has been biting at my toes since 6 am so had to get up. Really wanted to just have a lie in and listen to the radio on the headphones but too much to do this morning.
Back into the kitchen to finish everything for this lunchtime.
Any mushroom clouds sighted over North East London will be me not biting my lip. :lol: :lol:
Have a good day all.
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Good luck Mrs Bee! Can't stay in bed either, so am making the bean stew for tonight now. ::)
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Hope your day goes smoothly Mrs Bee :) *hugs*
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Hope your day goes smoothly Mrs Bee :) *hugs*
Thanks for the hugs Devon. Yes all went very well. And at the moment I am a wonderful daughter.
Although I bit the lip when Mum thanked my sister and I for all our hard work!
Full marks to my sister who said that I had done it all not her.
Just the S M A X dinner to do the weekend before S MA X and that is it for the year. It is easier doing a cold buffet and transporting than doing a roast and trimmings 'cos mum's kitchen.....................
I have to take a full battery of cooking implements as she just doesn't have any proper kit! her carving knife wouldn't cut butter. have suggested getting her a couple of decent knives but just get ranted at that there is nothing wrong with her stuff it does her. :(
Did you have a lovely time at your friends baby's naming day.
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there is nothing wrong with her stuff it does her. :(
I have one of those - the only thing that works properly on her oven is the eye-level grill, but will she part with it? hell no!
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I hope all the early morning activities, cooking & partying go / went well.
Tomorrow morning I have carpets to clean and a kitchen to degrease after my sister and her pals Sunday drop in to see my mother over the road. If I was paid as the hired help it might not seem so d*** unfair.
Anyone esle hate Sundays? :(
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I hope all the early morning activities, cooking & partying go / went well.
Tomorrow morning I have carpets to clean and a kitchen to degrease after my sister and her pals Sunday drop in to see my mother over the road. If I was paid as the hired help it might not seem so d*** unfair.
Anyone esle hate Sundays? :(
I don't hate Sundays, but if I were you I probably would. :(
Does your sister not know how to clean up? I might get the organising and work for the family get together at mums, but my sister always pitches in and helps when we are there and I never have to wash up and clear up there. And she will always do anything I ask to help, it is just that I am Mrs organised and know how to cook, and transport.
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I hope all the early morning activities, cooking & partying go / went well.
Tomorrow morning I have carpets to clean and a kitchen to degrease after my sister and her pals Sunday drop in to see my mother over the road. If I was paid as the hired help it might not seem so d*** unfair.
Anyone esle hate Sundays? :(
I don't hate Sundays, but if I were you I probably would. :(
Does your sister not know how to clean up? I might get the organising and work for the family get together at mums, but my sister always pitches in and helps when we are there and I never have to wash up and clear up there. And she will always do anything I ask to help, it is just that I am Mrs organised and know how to cook, and transport.
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My sister is excellent at organising from a sitting position with a coffee in her hand - I'm told, by people who have worked with her, that she could drink coffee for England. It's her youngest daughter that cooks lunch on Sundays but she has not got the hang of clearing up afterwards... takes after her mother I guess. ::)
Never mind I'm sure my sister will be off on another holiday soon and leave me to it with a clean kitchen. Every cloud has a silver lining. :unsure:
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Hope your day goes smoothly Mrs Bee :) *hugs*
Did you have a lovely time at your friends baby's naming day.
Yes thankyou. It was beautiful. Few too many children there for our liking so we escaped at 5:30pm :D
I'll put the pics up again tomorrow - they're in my HLC club thread!! I forget others can't see them :blush:
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Sounds as if your special day went off with a real buzz Mrs Bee - brilliant.
I don't blame you for nipping off when the swarm of little-uns (and bigguns too I expect) grew a little too noisy. You can have too much of a good thing ;)
"Morning everyone" by the way.
It's a bit earlier than I would have liked but my daughter has just got up for work and I was not sleeping well anyway so... early start.
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Good Morning, all. :D
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Good morning Kevin & all
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Good morning Kevin & all
Good morning Roger and Kevin and all and all. :)
I've had my first coffee and about 5 hours sleep so all I need now is some daylight. How about you?
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Breakfast finished, first coffee finished, lunch made .... that's me done for the day now ;)
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Breakfast finished, first coffee finished, lunch made .... that's me done for the day now ;)
Have a good day.....
I hadn't thought of breakfast until you mentioned it... but I can hear the bacon and eggs in the pan now... imagination I might add. :mellow:
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G'day cobbbers
hmm. I stuck it in bed until 5am, lunchboxes done but I think the outside fridge has broken down- putting off moving the food indoors for a bit longer, but I have a day at school followed by a meeting :wacko: it's going to be a long one!
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Morning all. Not at work today yippee, but working Thursday instead. The ironing pile will get my full attention today with a break to take lunch to hubby who is at DDs new house doing it up,soup & bread me thinks.
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Good morning, last day in Belgium and being able to post for a while.
See you in the new year have a good one
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I've always been an early riser...started in my school year, up at 04.30-ish, snatch a bowl of cornflakes and sugar in a tupperware thingy, 2 mile hike over the fields to start morning milking at about 05.30. Get the first lot washed off and get the milking machines attached and then over to the dairy for a couple of ladles of cream for me cornies!
Plus I've an angler from the age of 7 and often greeted the dawn from the banks of the local reservoir. Still enjoy getting up before my better half and getting a gentle start to the day with a cup of Yorkshire Tea and BBC World Service. Nice!
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Morning everyone - it is so dull and dreary here today that I slept in - even the ducks were late calling. :D
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Well I have been up since 5 but have been hijacked.
Not even had a cuppa. Call from son who needs dad to help move furniture 'cos he can't because of his operation. He has the plumber in to fix his boiler so needs stuff moved.
I had a quick gather of their washing to go. No washing machine because of the boiler.
Finished washing up and clearing away of the plates and dishes from yesterday, Cracked 3 plates.
Realised I hadn't picked up my repeat prescription and was out of the pills I have to take on an empty tum, so breakfast was put back.
Tried to find the name of the manager of the hospital and hospital trust on line so I can start my letters of outrage and upset, in the hope that no one else would have to go through what my son did. No joy there.
Took out the three plates that I managed to crack while unloading the dishwasher, to the bin.
Went to look at my newly planted tubs only to find that something had been digging the pansies up. Did a quick replant, cursing the squirrel/fox and came back in. :mad: :mad: :mad:Took shoes off as they were wet from the front garden.
Tried phoning the patient advice and liaison number for the information that I wanted, got a recorded message that they were experiencing high volumes of calls leave a message and they will get back to me in 2 days. :ohmy: :mad: >:(
Mr Bee arrives back from son and chemist, calls from the front door, ' Can you come to the door dear'. Oh gawd what now. :(
Apparently unbeknown to me it was a fox that had dug up the pots because I managed to step in a dollop of fox dodo and had walked it on the mat and along the corridor. Thank heavens I kicked them off before I went too far. SO then I cleaned and disinfected shoes, took stinking mats out to the back garden, washed the step and path, and the hallway and kitchen floor.
Actually I couldn't have missed stepping in the fox dodo as there were 4 large piles round the pot, one in front of the bedroom window, three more lots in the back garden, 4 more holes one with my leather BBQ gauntlet that had gone missing half buried.
So what next I ask myself. Hope your day is going better than mine. :(
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Oh dear Mrs Bee I should go & have a lie down in a darkened room til morning :). Are you sure DS & DIL are not pulling a fast one re washing machine?. Most new washing machines are cold fill these days, the machine heats water to required temp.
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Oh dear Mrs Bee I should go & have a lie down in a darkened room til morning :). Are you sure DS & DIL are not pulling a fast one re washing machine?. Most new washing machines are cold fill these days, the machine heats water to required temp.
No they aren't pulling a fast one. :lol: :lol: The washing machine had to be pulled out and disconnected. And they have just found out that the boiler is beggared. But we all thought that.
I did consider going back to bed and ignore today but I will risk staying up and having more things go chits up.
Finally had some marmite toast and hot chocolate so onwards and upwards. :D
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Mrs Bee - your hospital should have a PALS service - Patient Advice and Liaison - they canhelp you to complain and forward things to the right people as needed ;) :)
Here's the piccies I promised...
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And a couple more...
Their older little girl (she's 4) is my goddaughter - I'm her guiding parent, which is the non-religious godmother (although I prefer fairy goddess-mother myself! :D
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What lovely pictures. And Goddess mother is perfect. ;)
Thanks or the info on the PALS. I phoned them this morning. Answerphone but they got back to me this afternoon and it helped me get things straight in my mind and to get the names and addresses of people I need to write to as well as my local MP.
I am just taking a break from the letter writing. It is going to be a long one. I have so many other things I would rather be doing but we all think it is important to highlight what went horribly wrong to ensure that it doesn't happen to any one else.
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I used PALS when the hospital didn't look after my wife properly and I was being treated like a Mushroom, two consultants telling me completely different things and one was supposed to have referred the wife to the Brompton but hadn't.
They helped me from going ballistic and killing someone, plus managed to get the consultant to stop sitting on his hands with his thumb up his bum, and do what she should have five week earlier.
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I know exactly how you must have felt Cadalot. I would never condone aggression and violence against anyone especially the medical staff but I can see how people could be driven to it.
I am still at a loss to understand how I kept from going into meltdown and shaking the life out of some of the people I came into contact with.
one doctor says appendix; op; lets go then it is hand over time to the day team who says not 100% sure, we need a scan. 5 HOURS FOR THE SCAN. :mad: :mad: :mad:
Poor lad was in agony, scared and panic stricken for 24 hours, before he was operated on. And I won't tell you about the complications that set in afterwards for fear of making you feel ill. but he really was put through the mill poor little devil.
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And part way through the 24 hours after my DIL came from home with stuff son would need, she had had time to do a pregnancy test.
So there is my son in pain and discomfort at 10 pm, desperate for them to do the op and we are told he is going to be a dad and I am going to be a gran. I am too young to be a gran. :ohmy:
Still it took his mind off the pain for a bit.
I have finished my draft letter and so far it is 11 pages long.
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And part way through the 24 hours after my DIL came from home with stuff son would need, she had had time to do a pregnancy test.
So there is my son in pain and discomfort at 10 pm, desperate for them to do the op and we are told he is going to be a dad and I am going to be a gran. I am too young to be a gran. :ohmy:
Still it took his mind off the pain for a bit.
I have finished my draft letter and so far it is 11 pages long.
Wow!! What a time to break that sort of news!!
It is important to get that sort of letter right so take your time xx
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Congratulations on the good news :D.
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Have spent all afternoon on it and it is with Son and DIL now in case I have left anything out.
I am actually rather good with letters of complaint. Comes from years of writing reports of one sort and another. Mr Bee will cast his eyes on it tomorrow. He has trouble with spellings and the writing side of things being dyslexic but he has a withering turn of phrase verbally.
The lady at PALS was really good. it felt good to be listened to and she was definite that I should write the letter of complaint. She was horrified.
And as for breaking the news it perked Nick up for a few minutes, while I went outside for a bit of a weep.
All very surrealist. I was waiting for the man with the fishes head to walk down the corridor. :wacko:
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Thanks Snow. I think I am too young to be a gran but there you go. Just hope I will be more relaxed as a gran than I was as a mother. :D
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You look lovely Emma :)
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Congratulations on the news Mrs Bee........... I can see how you got the name. ;)
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Mornin' everyone :)
My week of annual leave isn't feeling much like annual leave ::)
Going in for my teaching day today :mellow:
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Mornin' everyone :)
My week of annual leave isn't feeling much like annual leave ::)
Going in for my teaching day today :mellow:
That brings back memories....... "holidays" and days off spent in school or at home working like mad and even when you can escape the work is always at the back of your mind...never ending.
Long summer holidays? Rubbish - it always took me at least two weeks before I could relax and way before the end of the "holiday" there was planning and prep to do, special needs plans to up-date, assessments to plan, materials to source, teaching & learning materials to prepare.... whilst liaising with other staff and preparing whole school docs / policies.. I forgot classroom display / decorating and organising.
Retirement? To be recommended when you eventually get there...... All I now long for is a proper holiday when I have two or more whole days off a year. Moaning completed for the day... honestly! :lol:
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Oh that brings back memories. You could never switch off. And it's even worse now. My ex colleagues tell me their woes.
And report writing time :ohmy: :ohmy:
And late evening parents meetings saying the same things to the same sort of parents who are never going to take your advice. :(
It takes a while to adjust to retirement but at least I am my own boss and no more pointless paperwork.
Er no, wait a mo I still have pointless paper work for my little business and filling in the tax return is really bad paper work too. :lol: :ohmy:
We try to stop for a couple of days and go out visiting interesting places or you just fill the time with lots of other busy-ness.
You enjoy yourself me love. You have a good moan. Sounds like you have the same scenario as we do. Others dump their jobs on you because you are retired now and have the time. ::)
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Mornin' everyone :)
My week of annual leave isn't feeling much like annual leave ::)
Going in for my teaching day today :mellow:
That brings back memories....... "holidays" and days off spent in school or at home working like mad and even when you can escape the work is always at the back of your mind...never ending.
Long summer holidays? Rubbish - it always took me at least two weeks before I could relax and way before the end of the "holiday" there was planning and prep to do, special needs plans to up-date, assessments to plan, materials to source, teaching & learning materials to prepare.... whilst liaising with other staff and preparing whole school docs / policies.. I forgot classroom display / decorating and organising.
Retirement? To be recommended when you eventually get there...... All I now long for is a proper holiday when I have two or more whole days off a year. Moaning completed for the day... honestly! :lol:
Well I'm on the senior team of a busy cardiology ward, rather than a school teacher but still I get messages and emails when I'm off about work, offduty requests etc. Plus I've got 2 nights overtime this week so it's really not feeling like a holiday!! ::)
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Some jobs are hard to put down aren't they.. :wub:
I'd forgotten about report writing & proof reading :ohmy:
I didn't dislike parents evenings.. takes all sorts
No night shifts thankfully.
In an hours time my caring role should be over until the morning...... then it's relax & playtime for me .....zzzzzzzzz :D
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5.30 am - good morning
already been up 2 and half hours - time for a cuppa me thinks ;)
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I'm up early and feeling a bit snotty - not sure if it's a cold or rhinitis :(
Don't feel particularly ill :unsure:
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I'm up early and feeling a bit snotty - not sure if it's a cold or rhinitis :(
Don't feel particularly ill :unsure:
Head, nose and ear problems? Try "Beconase" nasal spray... but I find "Pirinase" is better. Both are for hayfever relief. I don't suffer from this at all but they are brilliant for clearing your head and, in my case, ears!
Hope your day went ok. Mine is about over.... :closedeyes:
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Thanks Paul. :)
It's a cold, but I'm positively fighting through it :) ;)
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Ha! Signed in before Paul- he must be getting a ie in today :D
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Off to U3A meeting this morning
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Ha! Signed in before Paul- he must be getting a ie in today :D
Or maybe he's not been to bed at all.
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Ha! Signed in before Paul- he must be getting a ie in today :D
Or maybe he's not been to bed at all.
I think I have but woke this morning after 6 hours in bed and starting the day didn't seem an enticing option... I would far sooner have closed the lids and stayed there...... until I remembered work days in the past and suddenly the day ahead looked much more attractive. :)
Hope you all have a good snooze till the morning and wake up to a day full of promise. :)
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Hope you all have a good snooze till the morning and wake up to a day full of promise. :)
That's nice :)
But Red Bull aren't going to win the World Driver's or Constructors Championships so all hopes gone there ::) :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Well, I suppose it's technically early morning, it's 1am here and I can't get to sleep. There are owls screeching, creatures scuttling above my head, dog got a frog in it's throat, other dog on sofa with me and cat, husband gently snoring upstairs and snow forecast.
Thank goodness I don't have to go out to work! :)
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Morning! Up nice and early, full-throated dawn chorus going on outside my window which is a lovely alarm call. Was very cold last night so everything is sparkling with frost in the pre-dawn light.
Congrats on the pasta-making Tosca, it's so worth it, isn't it!
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Brrrrr! It's a cold and frosty good morning from down here :(
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It certainly is bracing!
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Mmmm loving the pasta the way I like it. Most pasta over here is quick cook which goes slimey easily.
Managed to get to sleep eventually for a few hours, then delivered some hand made cards and picked up flour (in case of emergencies) and most of the day has gone...somewhere.
We didn't get the promised first frost last night and our forecast has changed to more damp but mildish weather but that means nothing!
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The dawn light found me standing by the mini fish pond with a steaming cup of tea, contemplating the best thing to do with the fish, when a pair of beautiful hen and cock pheasants wandered into the garden! A rare treat...managed to stay totally still, while they rummaged around a bit and wandered on into the next plot. Nice start to the day!
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I am awake! :wacko:
Contemplating a lot to do this morning before I meet my friend for lunch: get a stew together in the slow cooker, change the bedding, hoover through and it's my chook day!! ::)
Currently too cold to get out of bed :)
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Morning all.
No frost here this morning, just that horrible fine drizzle
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Same. Waiting for the heating to kick in though :D Hubby thinks this is an unreasonable hour to have the heating come on!
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Too dark to get up but I've had to :wacko:
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laid in until it's light - I hate winter >:(
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Glorious start to the day! It's up for a bacon sarnie then on with the painting togs! Yay!
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laid in until it's light - I hate winter >:(
Oh yes. I am with you on that.
Got up at 4 woken up by the rain, but stayed in the pit 'cos it was warm and cosy. It was quite comforting listening to the rain in the warm bed.
Too miserable to go out in the garden, can't go in the kitchen 'cos of the dust from the builders; whose idea was it to have the work done before shhhhhmas. ::) ::) so we are off to the cinema.
We were sent off site yesterday because of the dust and ended up lighter in pocket because we found the Sony shop.
Will be safer in the cinema. :lol: :lol:
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Well I was knackered the second I woke up!! >:(
A shame though as I slept like a log after all my exercise yesterday ::)
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Morning all.
Well actually I haven't been to bed yet.
I have had a jolly time dealing with the first of my book cupboards. The ones the builders taped up and sheeted so the black dust from the breeze blocks wouldn't get into. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Well it didn't ********* ******** well work. >:( :mad: >:( :mad: >:( :mad:
All my cook books covered with thick black dust. Mr Bee scuttled for cover when I exploded and hasn't shown his nose since 7.30.
I have had to dust, vacuum and stack about 2 thirds of about 400 books, wash down the shelves, then strip off, stick clothes in the wash, get under the shower and then reorder and replace the books.
And I have 2 more book cases to do tomorrow. :mad: :mad: :mad:
And the shoe box and everywhere actually. 'Cos that ******** dust gets everywhere.
Well at least I have had a clear out and made a pile of books to go.
Will post the list later today in case anyone would like to give some a good home.
Off to bed with wet hair. DO battle again in the morning. They can get their own ruddy tea tomorrow.
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Morning. Chilly one here in BG. :D
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Morning, another wet one here. If you're reading this in bed, that seems the best place to be
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Misty and damp over here. Morning all.
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Morning all.
Well actually I haven't been to bed yet.
I have had a jolly time dealing with the first of my book cupboards. The ones the builders taped up and sheeted so the black dust from the breeze blocks wouldn't get into. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Well it didn't ********* ******** well work. >:( :mad: >:( :mad: >:( :mad:
All my cook books covered with thick black dust. Mr Bee scuttled for cover when I exploded and hasn't shown his nose since 7.30.
I have had to dust, vacuum and stack about 2 thirds of about 400 books, wash down the shelves, then strip off, stick clothes in the wash, get under the shower and then reorder and replace the books.
And I have 2 more book cases to do tomorrow. :mad: :mad: :mad:
And the shoe box and everywhere actually. 'Cos that ******** dust gets everywhere.
Well at least I have had a clear out and made a pile of books to go.
Will post the list later today in case anyone would like to give some a good home.
Off to bed with wet hair. DO battle again in the morning. They can get their own ruddy tea tomorrow.
That's very annoying but the plus is its all clean & reorganised now :D. What are you having done?
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We are having the living room at the back made wider with enormous patio doors and a very large side window. That is done and makes an amazing difference to the room. The previous owners had the extension done but instead of moving the soil stack and the electrics they left the room a metre less on the width. When we moved in we moved a wall between the bathroom and the living room to make the room bigger, moved the electrics to the garage.
The room is now squared off with enormous views of the garden and the chooks That was the clean job.
The filthy job was cutting a new doorway to the dining room and boarding up the old door. :(
That makes a real difference to the room too but of course it was the dust of the old crumbling breeze blocks that was the nightmare.
And the living room and dining room and hall need decorating. And the carpets probable need a clean.
And as soon as the plasterer has done I will be back in there hovering the remaining books.
Hope the dirty stuff will be done this week so we can get straight. The wood flooring and new upstairs bathroom can wait until January.
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Sounds lovely Mrs Bee & will be worth all the mess when it is over. I really don't like the mess any more. I used to take it in my stride years ago when we did alterations although as hubby was in the building trade he we always did our own & I think that makes a difference to the amount of mess when the 'builder' has to live in it. Goodness knows why I have agreed to sell up & downsize to a possible wreck :lol: oh I know why, I might just be able to retire if we downsize enough & consider that to be worth it. Well I hope so :lol:
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That sounds a good plan. ;) It is rather exciting to buy a wreck and do it up and modernise.
We have a retired couple moving in across the road to her mother's old house. They are doing it up. Said they needed a project. :lol:
I like a project too but regret not having started this one earlier. It is pushing the time frame rather. Especially as I have three markets to do next weekend. Really don't want bits of building rubble in the cakes. :ohmy: Will be running down the making for sale next year once I have sold the bulk of the stock.
Think it is time for me to retire properly. Besides, I may be needed for child minding in the future. :lol:
Hope your plans work out for you.
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Sounds like a plan for you too. :lol:
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MrsBee, you might consider doing a registered child minder course so you can charge (and refund...) creatively andfully within the law.
I know personally of two sisters who are registered child minders and each looks after the other's kids and get certain benefits for doing so and read of grandmothers doing likewise. Much more than that I don't know as I haven't had that opportunity.
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That is kind of you to suggest it Kevin. If I register as a child-minder I think I am correct in saying I would get Ofsted inspections too. And paperwork. :ohmy: :ohmy:
And do I want to do a course? I am too old to go on those sorts of courses. I am of an age where I can't help speaking my mind and upsetting people. ::)
Besides there are really exciting cookery courses I want to go on in the new year.
I had many years of trying to bite my tongue and keeping my hands firmly in my pockets during Ofsted inspections when I was teaching. :mad: :mad:
I would be most reluctant to repeat the exercise. ::)
I will keep it in mind tho'. Although I would put money on Mr Bee being more hands on with the baby than I. I am really not a baby person. More interested when they can string a sentence together personally.
Anyway it is all early days yet Kevin. I mustn't spit in the eyes of the gods before the nine months are up.
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Sounds like you and Mr Bee will be busy!
I and all others here wish you all well over the next year in all things. It's frightening how quickly it will come.
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Morning all. So bored of waking up too early and being grumpy all day. :(
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I was up at 4.30am and we've got a big night out later. urrggggh.
Wonder if I can fit in a nap later... :blush:
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Yaaaaawwwwn!!!!
Bleurgh!
Mornin' :wacko:
What on this earth possessed me to go into nursing?? ???
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from what we know of you a very caring nature ;)
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I was up at 4.30am and we've got a big night out later. urrggggh.
Wonder if I can fit in a nap later... :blush:
Big night out sounds good though. :D If naps don't work - mahoosive coffee!
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from what we know of you a very caring nature ;)
Bless you Alan ;) :)
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Morning all
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Morning Tosca & all, Pigguns is obviously having a lie in after her big night out :lol: or the machoosive coffee kept her awake all night & she's only just got to sleep :lol:. I've had a lie in,bliss.
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I've had a lie-in too - until all of 08:15!!! :wacko:
Lovely!!
Don't have 4 cats! :nowink:
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I've had a lie-in too - until all of 08:15!!! :wacko:
Lovely!!
Don't have 4 cats! :nowink:
Or hens and ducks. :lol:
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Lie ins seem to be the order of the day.
I got a lie in till 8. Now it is a massive clean up after the builders have finished all the dirty work. :(
But the living room looks amazing. Light, bright and airy. It was worth the mess. :D
Whether we will be straight and decorated by that .........day is another matter.
Mr Bee says he is sorry but he does need to sleep. I think that is a little unreasonable myself. ::)
We certainly won't be doing our Christmas decorating on the last day of November as usual.
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I was up at 4.30am and we've got a big night out later. urrggggh.
Wonder if I can fit in a nap later... :blush:
Big night out sounds good though. :D If naps don't work - mahoosive coffee!
Union Chapel, Islington. Awesome venue, rock-county gig. Really good- I'd had a whole pot of coffee by 5am, dropped kids off to tram at 7am, headed back to bed and slept till 10am (day off fri) so made the whole gig awake :tongue2:
Had to get up at 7.30am today though as hubby had arranged a church-roof builders appointment :mad:
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I was up at 4.30am and we've got a big night out later. urrggggh.
Wonder if I can fit in a nap later... :blush:
Big night out sounds good though. :D If naps don't work - mahoosive coffee!
Union Chapel, Islington. Awesome venue, rock-county gig. Really good- I'd had a whole pot of coffee by 5am, dropped kids off to tram at 7am, headed back to bed and slept till 10am (day off fri) so made the whole gig awake :tongue2:
The union Chapel is a brilliant venue. We saw Show of hands there a few years. The acoustics were terrific. The only thing I should have done was take a cushion. :lol: :lol: The seats were a tad hard on the derriere.
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I had a lie in till 5.30 this morning, after being woken at 1 when OH came in and then again at 3 when dear little kitten wanted to play. Now in my customary position on 2 seater sofa with two large dogs wedged in beside me and said small cat wedged in front of notebook on my lap. Why do we allow it? ::) Making a rod for our own back.
Oh, forgot, there are also the rats above my head. Lovely. :ohmy:
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1st up here again,hubby a huffing like a contented dragon :D
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1st up here again,hubby a huffing like a contented dragon :D
Aaawwww. My OH was beside himself with happiness when he discovered gold top milk in the fridge this morning. It was meant for tonight's rice pud, but nothing would stop him having some on cereal... ::)
Am happily ensconced on the sofa with some very strong coffee and toast. Off to the plot in an hour to finish making a path in the sludge. :)
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Aaawwww. My OH was beside himself with happiness when he discovered gold top milk in the fridge this morning. It was meant for tonight's rice pud, but nothing would stop him having some on cereal... ::)
I remember when I was a kid I would try to beat my Dad to the gold top for cereals, but he always had the advantage being a newsagent and therefore being up first. That's probably how I got into being an early riser, although had a lie-in this morning, didn't get up until 7
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Well my story of the day is that I thought I had the whole weekend off - how wrong could I be!! :mad:
Ignored the phone calls from work this morning because I thought they were ringing me for overtime.
Then I had a panic and briefly thought a family member had been admitted.
Then I logged on to the off duty and saw I was on duty! :ohmy:
Nothing in my diary, nothing on the calendar!!! :mad:
The irony of this story - I flippin' well write the off duty!! ::) :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Oh dear Emma,how late were you?
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Hour and half.
They were ringing me from 07:45 - I ignored it until 8am! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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It's Monday already :(
and only 3 weeks till Christmas :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
Dum Dee Dum :)
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I woke up at 12.30pm as I'd had a nightmare about not doing my homework :ohmy:. I do have a lot of business to get through this week! :D
Tried to stick it out but gave up at 4am. One pot of coffee later I'm set up for a Monday- Bring it on :tongue2:
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morning pigguns, am in a similar boat. Except I was jolted so awake that I don't need coffee. ::)
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Urrrgggghhhh :wacko:
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Morning, looks like the patio has dry spots on it :ohmy: :lol:. Shame I've to go to work :wacko:
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early morning slump - I DO need coffee after all!
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Hi Ho, Hi ho...off to the plot I go :D
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Awful morning here, freezing rain making pretty trees and frozen windscreens....and I thought I was just being pathetic sliding around in mud when I saw to the chooks and ducks. :ohmy:
Will be hibernating for the week I think, no point going out in bad weather, we have plenty of food and fuel for us and the animals.
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Good morning everyone, too dark to see what the weather is doing :)
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Good morning, all!
Been up since 5am. Done the ironing and now just about to enjoy chocolate porridge!
Tomorrow is supposed to be a bright, dry day with some sunshine, so I've re-arranged my day so I get a day in the garden. I'm hoping it will be productive. If it is, photo's to come!
Have a good day, all!
@archbtbm - we northerners are up early! :D Lazy lot darn Sarf....! ::)
@barley (below) - blimey! 3am! Good Morning to you, too!
@Admin - Ugh! Santa Smileys..... I won't be using any more smileys 'til Jan......
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morning kevin
been up since 3am - just stopping for a cuppa and catchup then got all the dishes to do from all the cooking I've been doing for the last 3 hours
chocolate porridge mmmmmmmmmmm
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I was awake at 6, but managed to get downstairs for 6:45. Made my lunch,sorted the washing out, just having breakfast before going to take hubby his cuppa & get ready for work
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The vaguest of lie-ins here - I'm off over to Cornwall for my cars first MOT ::)
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Can't remember that last time I've slept fully through the night. It's 3:20am here. Does that meet the requirements for the early morning club? ⏰💤
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Can't remember that last time I've slept fully through the night. It's 3:20am here. Does that meet the requirements for the early morning club? ⏰💤
OH Yes ;)
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Yep - welcome in, pull up a chair. :D
@Kevin - santa smileys not arrived in my corner yet. If you're not using them, please can I? :)
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@surbie & Admin - You certainly can - I've even thrown in a few of Santa's helpers...
http://www.sherv.net/Christmas-emoticons-3.html
(I used to manage several SMF forum's (fora).)
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@surbie & Admin - You certainly can - I've even thrown in a few of Santa's helpers...
http://www.sherv.net/Christmas-emoticons-3.html
(I used to manage several SMF forum's (fora).)
I like those I might adopt a few
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If you're ever up at 5am, like a few of us here, try having a look at BBC2 HD. Some of the kids programmes are better than the grown up tv. The one thing I do like is there is much less repetition.
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Thanks Kevin - I like this one: (http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/Christmas/reindeer-antlers-smiley-emoticon.gif) (http://www.sherv.net/)
My Forum smileys are slowly getting santa hats - 2 at the moment and one of them is decidedly grumpy. :)
Time to make my avatar more Christmassy....
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Good morning. I have borrowed a laptop it is a little hard to use. It acts differently to mine
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Hi Dugless
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I'm going to bed!! :wacko:
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Morning all!
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Right at this moment I am seriously thinking of re-homing the flaming kitten! Every morning he wakes us around three. I usually cope until four then get up...and the little treasure then falls asleep!
Felling extremely grumpy!
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Well - they are nocturnal!
I see your kitty kat is a boy. Is it time to get his wotsits seen to - which would help calm him down?
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Morning all. I think I qualify for the early morning club this morning having got up, showered, driven the 40 minutes journey to work and I'm at my desk, computer booted and ready to go. All before 8am.
Well may the last bit isn't strictly correct :lol:
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Morning all. Upwards and onwards.
Back into the kitchen for me for the last 10 cakes before a marathon weekend of Christmas fairs.
I am shattered all ready. I really must not do 3 back to back events when I have builders in.
And one of them has left a muddy footprint in the middle of my brand new door mats. >:(
I am having to relocate the cake cooling table from room to room at the moment and as for washing up the tea mugs >:( >:( >:(
I really do not like working in a muddle and am feeling rather waspish this morning! And to top it all the custard I made last night to make my custards cakes is not thick enough :(
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Well - they are nocturnal!
I see your kitty kat is a boy. Is it time to get his wotsits seen to - which would help calm him down?
edited for spelling and sloppy writing....
Yes, a boy, but the vets won't castrate before 7 months over here. He is just young and full of it, plus he gets proper food unlike the rest of his feral family. Love him to bits really, he decided to live with us after staggering down the lane at three weeks old with gummy eyes and starving (didn't poo for three days!) Unfortunately, in pre-kitten days we decided we didn't need heating upstairs as the log stove in the kitchen kicks out enough heat for kitchen, living room and up the stairs to the bedroom...so w have to leave the door open or freeze. Tonight we are going to try him in Bella's old puppy crate, lined and covered with fleece, which he seems to quite like..
(http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv100/tosca100-dog/icytreespasta011_zps95331b98.jpg) (http://s673.photobucket.com/user/tosca100-dog/media/icytreespasta011_zps95331b98.jpg.html)
Still tired but he is forgiven...again! :lol:
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They're always flamin' well forgiven! :lol:
My Jack is now forgiven for breaking a huge (and heavy) ceramic mixing bowl and a small ceramic dish (with my dinner in it) last week! ::)
Although I didn't speak or even look at him for 3 days! Not that he was bovvered ::) :D
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Good luck Tosca, hope he doesn't try pathetic mewling. Mine used to do that if he wasn't allowed in. ::)
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Trouble is OH kept coming down and sleeping on the sofa wjth all three beasties, but that is silly and once I am awake it makes no difference, just means I can't get down for coffee without waking them all. If it wasn't for the old dog I would be tempted to shut the door and use earplugs! And an extra duvet!!!!
He soon goes to sleep once you're up!!!! :lol:
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WAKEY WAKEY !!!!!!! :)
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Wakey wakey #1 completed. I expect 2,3,4 and 5 will come at 2 hour intervals. Uff 🙈
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Wakey Wakey completed here, morning all!
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It is indeed Wakey, Wakey here!
All I have to do is go down the road for about 100 yards and I'm in Wakefield!
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Weekend starts here! Late up but stove's lit, tea's half finished an a litre of coffee is filtering it's way through the machine ready for my BH to surface. (Have to smile at the initials BH...here in Scandinavia it means "Bryst holder" Literally translated "breast container" or bra....giggle :D)
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I'm up, been awake since 6 but too cold to get out of bed ;)
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Morning all.
I'm not as early as some but yet again I'm at work having already got up, showered, driven the 40 minutes journey to work and I'm at my desk, computer booted and ready to go. All before 8am :)
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Still in bed U3A meeting at 10am will get up soon and start decoration the tree
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Good morning had a little light shown we have an offer on my bungalow Ihave accepted just got wait whilst they sell theirs.
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Great news Dugless
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Good morning had a little light shown we have an offer on my bungalow Ihave accepted just got wait whilst they sell theirs.
Fingers crossed all goes well!
3 am here. I hate insomnia. 😖
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Oh LutoSeed - that is such a pain. Well it was more sleepy, sleepy for me as I did not wake up until nearly 8.45 this morning. :)
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@LotuSeed - my elderly aunt moved in with her daughter to break the selling chain when she moved only a few months ago. Could there be some chance that the people in your line might move into temporary accommodation to break the chain they are in? The benefit would be less in legal fees, etc, plus less headache of waiting.
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Well, I actually had a lie in till 7 this morning. OH started coughing at 1.30 and came down so he could cough without bothering anyone, so I had the rare treat of a king sized bed to myself. Took me an hour to get back to sleep but then had to get up as we had to deliver some hand made cards to a business...and I wanted a good nosey at his place. :lol:
Then we went to the supermarket for essentials and Lidl (would you believe) for luxuries. All shopping done for a couple of months. Long day.
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Morning all. What a horrible shock. Thick, thick frost :( :(
I am not looking forward to today. I have a Christmas event which is outdoors. :( :( :( :(
Yesterday was outdoors for 8 hours and wasn't this cold but I was still freezing cold. I expect today I will be really frozen.
Thank heavens tomorrows event is an indoor, afternoon jobbie.
Might get a bit of lie in and not suffer from hypothermia. Obviously a 2 hot water bottle bedtime tonight.
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Morning all,
I think we've had more frosts already this year than we had the whole of last winter .... at least it's dry though
Hope your Christmas event goes well today Mrs Bee
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It's supposed to be sunny though today - in the end...hope you have a good set of thermals. :D
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We are having a very soggy time of things, though we did have frost a week ago. Since then it has been very UKish, grey, damp and miserable. Went out yesterday and they had thick ice covering everywhere, been like that five days so I shouldn't complain. At dusk our solar lights came on so it seems we actually missed sme sun!
Today, up before 5, pouring with rain again so am holed up in the kitchen baking. OH is next door helping with slaughtering and butchering their two pigs. UGH! I was invited but declined. I am happy to integrate but having been (almost) veggie for over thirty years I draw the line and hope they are not offended.
So bread for a week, cherry cake and cheese scones made, cottage cheese lunch and a nap in front of the fire before wading out to see to the chooks.
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@Tosca - I would pay to have a holiday at your place! Really... Don't worry, it's not a hint as I cannot afford it but by golly you'd give a great holiday for someone similarly minded.
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We are having a very soggy time of things, though we did have frost a week ago. Since then it has been very UKish, grey, damp and miserable. Went out yesterday and they had thick ice covering everywhere, been like that five days so I shouldn't complain. At dusk our solar lights came on so it seems we actually missed sme sun!
Today, up before 5, pouring with rain again so am holed up in the kitchen baking. OH is next door helping with slaughtering and butchering their two pigs. UGH! I was invited but declined. I am happy to integrate but having been (almost) veggie for over thirty years I draw the line and hope they are not offended.
So bread for a week, cherry cake and cheese scones made, cottage cheese lunch and a nap in front of the fire before wading out to see to the chooks.
That weather sounds absolutely miserable 😟 It's been grey and drizzly here but thankfully nothing is frozen. Sounds like you've been pretty productive in the kitchen though!🍞
I don't blame you for not wanting to be witness to the butchering. I've been a vegetarian for years now and wouldn't want any part of that either. Yikes😧. Here's hoping you get a break in the weather sometime soon ☀️
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We don't like the weather, but at least we are used to it and as l have had horses most of my life weather makes me grumble but l cope. l feel so sorry for the Bulgarians who rely on their crops and live in houses with dubious foundatins and walls. They usually have a low rainfall, this year is a disaster, poor things. Our first year we had a dry hot summer, (apart from thunder storms in June) mild and dry winter (With a two week bitter and deep snow spell) so that is more normal.
Kevin, we would give a free bed to anyone, especially if they want to help out, but being three hours from an airport puts people off....even though those same people would be ok with arranged transfers from a package company. DIY puts them off.
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@ Tosca - I honestly cannot see why DIY would put anyone like-minded off. I see dozens of schemes here where people are happy to get stuck in.
Maybe if the DIY was presented as a skills/learning opportunity? For me, I would have bitten your arm off to slaughter a pig.
Maybe one day.... ;)
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@ Tosca - I honestly cannot see why DIY would put anyone like-minded off. I see dozens of schemes here where people are happy to get stuck in.
Maybe if the DIY was presented as a skills/learning opportunity? For me, I would have bitten your arm off to slaughter a pig.
Maybe one day.... ;)
You are a strange one Kevin, but to be fair although OH has never been involved before and knows there is a better way of doing the job with less stress to the animal, things are getting better in more....er.....modern :lol: villages like this. But my the screaming of pigs goes on all through the month as many households keep at least one. just the way things are. But despite everything he has had a great day once the deed was done and has learned a lot about how different the preparation of the carcase would be to the UK. Also that the only waste from two very large pigs fit into one carrier bag! They will now be processing the meat and other bits and bobs for the next few weeks and passing spicy sausages, mince, slabs of fat and bottles of stuff over the wall, bless them. They are so grateful for any help, the lady of the house has great respect for animals even if the care is a little misguided and was happy to keep out of the way.
I know a few people who have volunteer workers from various agencies come over and do the heavy work for them, all for the price of a bed and a couple of meals a day (cheap enough in summer) Some have so much to do that they would never manage without them. I have a couple of friends who keep and kill their own livestock, but there is a man in every village who will do the initial killing.
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Yes, Tosca, I think quite possibly I am strange! You're not the first to say it, either! I take no offence.
I have been involved in the butchery process with a fully qualified and experienced butcher and take pride in giving animals a great life with a quality death. I think it is the responsibility of every meat eater to fully understand what and how meat is put in his/her mouth. I now eat less than 10% of meat than some years ago and I enjoy it more and waste less.
I have to say, though, I do have zero waste from animals - and I do mean zero waste. I think that is the only kind of respect to pay.
I would like to think in years gone by I would have been that general small-holder. I'd like to do it today but for lack of opportunity of finance or successful bartering system that would literally ensure self-sustainability. I think everybody has a 'core passion' and that's mine.
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We were able to afford this on limited finance and though we thought it would take years to get going, thanks to those same neighbours who planted the garden before we arrived with plenty of veg (though limited variety) we had a good start and a very steep learning curve with regards preserving our food, and we have made mistakes and lost some money in the process. It is nice to owe nothing to anyone, but finances will be tight for the next six months. We will not starve though, that's for sure!
If you are interested check out my blog (globe under avatar)
And yes, I do understand what you are about. And although I am a veggie, my brother is a master butcher with a passion for good quality...though terrible businessman! :lol:
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I'm going to read your blog right now - with my glass of home-made Blackberry wine. Thanks for the tip.
Yes, I fear I am a poor businessman. I just don't know how some people who appear to be clueless stay in business but they do - and I don't.
edited to add:
Through reading your blog (a link of a link kind of thing), I came to notice the MAVRUD grape strain is grown exclusively in Bulgaria and is noted for being strong and possibly preferable to other countries' wines. Would you not think of having a go with this to raise additional funds? I have no idea - and the link did not explain - why it is grown in Bulgaria only. I do note, however, you do grow some grapes, but I don't know what kind.
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Morning all. It feels bitterly cold outside this morning, but no frost on the car (yet).
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Dry morning for the first time in ages here in BG. Late to the laptop as people have a nasty habit of posting results from shows we are watching to fill the wet and miserable days. So we have had to watch SCD and IACGOOH before looking. Gutted about SCD, :( she was really lovely to watch...if it hadn't been for the stupid camera work and crazy lighting. And the other one, great, I would have cheered for any of the three. :D
Just got to sit through flaming XF...detest that programme, but kitchen and living room in one and I daren't go off and make a noise! :lol:
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Morning all. Got a well deserved lie in this morning.
Just thawed out from the weekend. Frozen despite having so many layers I looked like the Michelin woman.
Think I am getting too old for all this lark.
Mr Bee made me a welcome cup of cappuccino so now I have to play Christmas catch up. :wacko:
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Damp and miserable. Hacked off. Might have to do some baking to cheer myself up. BG is not supposed to be like this!
Anyway, a cheery good morning to all. :D
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Tosca - Nice layer of ice on top of the cars here this morning
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Yup, definitely cold and crisp here. On my way to Solihull for the day. :)
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Work or Pleasure?
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Morning all, a good frost here too Tosca, sorry to hear it's still wet with you. Hi Surbie not far from today then,must be work Cadalot, not sure why you'd go otherwise :D. Not that I've ever been :lol: :lol:.* waves to Surbie
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sunrise just coming up in welsh wales is stunning this morning
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Just watched the same from my bedroom window, I love it when the red takes the clouds and it's all over way too soon
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hurry and go and look or you'll miss it
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Feels like months since I saw a sunrise. :( never thought I would wish for minus temperatures.
Just mucked out the chickens and ducks and given them extra straw in case I need to lock them in. Might start putting them in early as they have lights, they are hanging around on the path making a disgusting mess! Yeuck!
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Work or Pleasure?
Work. I saw that lovely sunrise from the train this morning. Thankfully I don't usually have to be on the train at 7am.
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Hold on to your hats, it's a windy one today (nothing to do with the now locked thread about men not growing up :lol:)
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The dogs have taken to telling me they want to go out for a wee at about 0430. Never a problem happy to potter for a while. I always get an uplifting feeling when anticipating the shortest day. As my Dad would have said "it's all down hill from here". I'll have to anticipate for a little longer yet
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'Morning Robster, that's the spirit!
Yup, only a few more days now, and the nights start getting shorter!
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Morning Growster,
Read about your colds. Miserable. Just had a pre festivity cold myself so I hope that's it done now. Cant wait to get growing next year
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Morning Growster,
Read about your colds. Miserable. Just had a pre festivity cold myself so I hope that's it done now. Cant wait to get growing next year
It's not a real problem, Robster, but I was lying in bed, wide awake, and thought that I was just wasting time, so went down to write something - anything!
Our dog is just fast asleep but will emerge soon no doubt...
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Most original reason EVER for getting up early:
Been battling with my broadband for the last few weeks (ever since I got a new router with Wifi so I could use my Hudl 2 tablet) and have been leaving the PC on 24/7 to run a program that monitors what's going on.
Unfortunately the PC is now showing signs of fatigue and one of the fans (I hope) has started rattling when it gets cold, so I left it 'sleeping' last night and got up early to put the heating on so I can have it running quietly again. ::)
Not completely lost broadband yet, but it's certainly been mislaid a few times, and at the moment 'we' don't seem much closer to finding out the cause (I'm already on my second new router and the problems are now worse if anything. :()
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Off to breakfast networking :)
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In many parts of BG the sun is shining at last. Alas we are being left out but at least it isn't raining!
No idea what I am going to do today, but if the sun shows itself it might be tidying the garden....the bits I can reach from the path!
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Morning all!
Seems like the strong winds that the north had yesterday have found their way further south.
MC - how did the breakfast networking go yesterday? Which networking group did you go to, there are so many around now.
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Morning all. ;)
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Morning all - wide awake so have decided to read for a while. Going to have a busy day and would much rather be sleeping for a while longer. Maybe if I read something boring I will drop off again.
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Wide awake here too. My cat has decided that knocking Christmas ornaments off of the tree and batting them around on the hardwood floor is really entertaining.
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Wide awake here too. My cat has decided that knocking Christmas ornaments off of the tree and batting them around on the hardwood floor is really entertaining.
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What fun :lol: :(
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A very good reason for not having a tree! He's getting better but lapsed this morning and started playing at just after three. Luckily the sun has come out and lifted my mood so not letting lack of sleep get to me. He's out with OH having a major tidy up, they should both sleep well tonight. I've taken some photos and sat on the wall in the sun watching happy chooks sunbathing.
Life is so hard sometimes :lol:
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A very good reason for not having a tree! He's getting better but lapsed this morning and started playing at just after three. Luckily the sun has come out and lifted my mood so not letting lack of sleep get to me. He's out with OH having a major tidy up, they should both sleep well tonight. I've taken some photos and sat on the wall in the sun watching happy chooks sunbathing.
Life is so hard sometimes :lol:
Tough, but someone has to do it & why not you :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Wide awake here too. My cat has decided that knocking Christmas ornaments off of the tree and batting them around on the hardwood floor is really entertaining.
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Give us a couple of days and we will be having 4 cats that do that! ::)
We shut them out of the front room at night now though, as Lotty-cat pees in the front room when then will takes her - which is usually at night! ::)
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Morning all. Good frosty start and the sun is out. Lovely. ;)
And even though I had a restless night the cat behaved well, which is getting more common.
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Good morning! A dry 2degrees C here this morning.
Just got back from a toddle over the road to check my mother's central heating boiler after the engineer's visit yesterday. All ok.
Back to bed... we shared an early morning cuppa. Toast or sleep? Can't decide.
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Morning! Present-wrapping, card-writing marathon started as I'm wide awake... :)
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I'm up!! It's not early mind you :D
But it was at 5am when Ben got up, put all the lights on and went downstairs to open the front room door (he shut Ollie-cat in there without realising before we went to bed!!) That made me a bit grumpy before I fell asleep again :)
Properly frosty outside this morning!
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I'm up & it's early >:(. Couldn't get back to sleep then realised I'd left the bathroom floor on when I poddled in there, then had to put my glasses on to work how to turn it off :(, then got to thinking how much it had cost since lunch time yesterday >:(. That was all at 3am. B@gger, wanted to be up & ready for action early today but not this early,as I've got lots to do. On the plus side I can hear the birds singing though.
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Morning all, Really frosty one here today. Dogs didn't want to stay out long
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Icy and very frosty this morning, but now have all the doors open and it's t-shirts in the sun. This is what BG is supposed to be like in winter (with snow too sometimes) much more bearable than rain and a half per day outside compared to a week ago.
Which all means the windows have to be cleaned and tiles washed down, the sun showing all splashes and fingermarks.
Splash kitten thinks it's great, in and out at top speed, skidding all over the tiles, inviting Bella to play. Happy days.
The mop will be needed later! :lol:
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I'm up & it's early >:(. Couldn't get back to sleep then realised I'd left the bathroom floor on when I poddled in there, then had to put my glasses on to work how to turn it off :(, then got to thinking how much it had cost since lunch time yesterday >:(. That was all at 3am. B@gger, wanted to be up & ready for action early today but not this early,as I've got lots to do. On the plus side I can hear the birds singing though.
I leave the bathroom floor on all the time Snowy - it's fairly energy efficient :D xxx
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Good morning from glorious Bulgaria. I have to admit the last few days of warm sun following frosty nights is doing my mood the world of good. :D
Ordering seed today....don't relly need them, just want! :lol:
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Good morning , reunited with my computer, I am amazed at how much we rely on them these days.
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Morning all. been awake for hours coughing and spluttering so have finally decided to get up and leave Mr Bee in peace.
Could cheerfully snuggle up on the sofa with hot drinks and hot wheatie bag but that is not going to happen. :(
Got a long, long list of things to do for Christmas. Roll on Boxing day.
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My day has gone totally to pot >:(
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Oh dear, mine's not so great either. :(
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Mine is really up the Shute, came on this morning it kept saying this page cannot be displayed every time I tried to post. and it is my last for a while, on my travels again :D :D
I wish you all a merry Christmas and a spanking New Year.
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Have a brilliant one yourself dugless ;)
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Good Morning from dull and damp Belgium treated our selves to First Class for once I could get addicted.
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Morning dugless, damp and dismal over here too. I imagine first class was properly swish! :)
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Happy Christmas Dugless & Rosemary, you enjoy life's luxuries if you can. :)
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Morning all!
Bucketing down here, but at least the wind has eased up.
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Hi Roger stopped here at last just woken by a weird dream :)
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morning both - ((((( yawn ))))) been up since 3am so excuse me if I don't look my best
thank crunchy its Friday
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hi barley
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Been up a while - got to get the house ready for Christmas (decorations and all that) and then grandchildren arrive for the weekend! I've got a smile a mile wide all day long for those kids.
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Blimey you guys were up early today - just having breakfast the kitchen light has blown, and I'm sitting in semi darkness and it's as black a death out there thru the patio doors. I hate Winter and short days, roll on the 21st and it's all down hill to spring
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Not too soon I want to finish the weeding before spring :D
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good morning. a wet and very windy day here won't be going for the morning walk just yet :lol:
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Beautiful morning here, but far too wet to get into the garden. There will be no hardship in going out for my ten minute 'bone' sun.
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I'm off to the U3A Christmas showcase soon Doing a display for the gardening group
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Well I'm going to bed now! :D
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Well I'm going to bed now! :D
And I slept until 5pm!! Precious (and should have been very busy) afternoon off ruined because somebody didn't wake me up at lunchtime!! >:(
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Can I join just for today? :dry:
I woke up just after 5 and couldn't get back to sleep - ho hum! rather than ho ho!
Got up to a cold house, before the heating cuts in, so not the best start to the day.....................
things can only get better * she thinks hopefully*
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Morning MoS and all.
I'm happy for you to join just for today, but I can't speak for anyone else :lol:
Been up a while, thinking I ought to make a start on Christmas shopping today, but distinctly lacking the enthusiasm, especially when I think of the crowds etc and I don't have even an inkling of where to start or what to buy :(
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I don't have even an inkling of where to start or what to buy :(
That doesn't sound too hopeful, then ::) Good luck!
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Could get a broken drum for my wife - can't beat it! Boom Boom (well, not boom boom as it's broken)
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The forecast is good here in BG and the sunrise stunning. Good morning all and good shopping to those who are going. Lucky for us Christmas passes with a sigh here, full of good will and gentleness and good friends.
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Can I join just for today? :dry:
I woke up just after 5 and couldn't get back to sleep - ho hum! rather than ho ho!
Got up to a cold house, before the heating cuts in, so not the best start to the day.....................
things can only get better * she thinks hopefully*
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Your welcome any time I don't think there are any rules :D
Good morning, every one looks a better day here off to the woods with my Daughter and her dog, they have an area fenced off here, in Belgium just for dogs so you can let then run about safely
Edited to separate reply from quote.
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Morning all but not early for a change for me. I slept until 5:15, what a treat & then after a short while went back to sleep until 7:45. What bliss my hour of yoga with lots of relaxation obviously did the trick :lol:
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Can I join just for today? :dry:
I woke up just after 5 and couldn't get back to sleep - ho hum! rather than ho ho!
Got up to a cold house, before the heating cuts in, so not the best start to the day.....................
things can only get better * she thinks hopefully*
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All welcome here MoS :)
I have my BodyBalance class this morning - not sure I have much balance after that last whiskey last night ::) :D
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Ditto :lol: several more to come
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Morning, I've been here for a while, I can't be the first up surely, I've just seen Cadalot,morning Alan :lol:
Busy day planned, picking up friends to go to the farmers market in nearby Market Bosworth, exchange gifts over a coffee. Pop to Trashcos to get the stuff I couldn't get at Lidl, then I would like to finish wrapping. Wrapping not rapping mind :D. Then I might just make some mince pies. DD is making dinner so let's see how that pans out :D
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Not so early good Morning, I had to wait to get a shower this morning.
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Morning .... awake since 4.30, listened to the radio in bed then up at 6. Crept around the forum as I didn't want to wake anyone ;)
Food shop at Trashco .... card shop .... write & post cards .... another attempt at present shopping .... make mince pies .... cook dinner .... aaaaagggggghhhhhh!!!!
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Watched the final of Strictly while waiting for light, showered, made mince pies (smell yummy,) which we are going to decorate somehow. OH has translated the ingredients into Bulgarian as they are for the neighbours but they are not known here, especially in the villages.
Now chatting to distant friends on Facebook and wishing we could afford the petrol to visit them. One is leaving Bulgaria after ten years after having her two horses stolen, dog dying and cat poisoned. I will be sad to see them go, they have been an inspiration to me. Also another lady who came out with her partner nine years ago, he left, she lives on her own in a stunning isolated hamlet in the mountains with varous fowl, five huge dogs, three horses, two donkeys and some cats...and no car! Wish she was nearer.
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Watched the final of Strictly while waiting for light, showered, made mince pies (smell yummy,) which we are going to decorate somehow. OH has translated the ingredients into Bulgarian as they are for the neighbours but they are not known here, especially in the villages.
Now chatting to distant friends on Facebook and wishing we could afford the petrol to visit them. One is leaving Bulgaria after ten years after having her two horses stolen, dog dying and cat poisoned. I will be sad to see them go, they have been an inspiration to me. Also another lady who came out with her partner nine years ago, he left, she lives on her own in a stunning isolated hamlet in the mountains with varous fowl, five huge dogs, three horses, two donkeys and some cats...and no car! Wish she was nearer.
Could you arrange to meet half way?
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Not really, she is very remote and has no car. She can be trapped for weeks as there is just a track to the village (pop 9!) They look after her but she does need to think ahead all the time and has friends who take her shopping sometimes and has stuff delivered to the next village where someone will pick it up for her. She is very happy generally and will not move, though her place would sell well. Just occasionally she gets lonely. She is good today though. At least she was until I posted pics of home made mince ies and cheese scones with butter and chilli jelly.....
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Morning all .... another windy start to the day, at least it's dry though
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morning Roger
well I'm busy cooking chicken leek and white wine pie on my off peak electric
being naughty and having a glass of wine myself :dry: I know its only 5am but it is only 3 days till Christmas :D
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Morning all. Bit of a change of plan today. I need to make some more mincemeat as the neighbours have taken a liking. Also for the other neighbours it will be just Christmas shaped shortbread after all so that's the first job once we have caught up with recorded telly. Then finish the cakes.
Government BG has issued a weather warning for tomorrow, but all on line forecasts say mild and sunny. Ho hum. What will be will be, but I hope it is the latter as we have a party in the city 40 minutes away.
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morning Roger
well I'm busy cooking chicken leek and white wine pie on my off peak electric
being naughty and having a glass of wine myself :dry: I know its only 5am but it is only 3 days till Christmas :D
My goodness that's true dedication to the Christmas spirit, & I baulked at an olive at 11am yesterday :lol:
Morning all. Very windy here, not sure my wreath will stay on the front door at this rate.
One load of washing in the machine & another in the tumble, don't usually use it much but want it all out of the way for tomorrow when mother comes. Might even do the ironing in a bit :ohmy:
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Morning all not up early as I am in company so out of respect I stay in bed to a reasonable hour..
Very windy here today.
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I was told yesterday that we would get up at the normal time ready to leave for the supermarket at 7.30 am. I got up but Paul is still snoring! I think we will be going later! :D
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Whooooeeee. I got a lie in. I must have been knackered yesterday.
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Roads lovely this morning, even M25 - obviously a lot of people not working today.
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Can't decide if this is late night or very early morning. A bit stressed at present - had a lovely day and then the dish washer flooded. :( Got it emptied and then later today we will see if it is just blocked or finished.
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Morning all. Had one of those nights when you can't sleep for no reason at all. Gave in at 4. Cat being a pain but don't want him to go out as there are two pine martens hanging about.
Going in to the city for lunch which is stressful, parking a nightmare and you can wait half an hour for an attendant to pay. Glad I don't have to drive. Hopefully it will be worth it.
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Morning Tosca & all,
A clear sky here this morning, but so windy again that I'm surprised the stars haven't blown away ;)
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Morning Guys and Girls
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morning all - last day at work before 2 weeks off. Hurrah!
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You enjoy your 2 weeks Surbie.
I am off to pick up the turkey, deliver the Christmas orders and then that is my lot till tomorrow when we are having our official Christmas.
Oops Mr Bee has surfaced and I am in the dog box for disturbing him. :blush:
Morning all. :D
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Can't decide if this is late night or very early morning. A bit stressed at present - had a lovely day and then the dish washer flooded. :( Got it emptied and then later today we will see if it is just blocked or finished.
That is so annoying. Hope you get it sorted. I blocked our waste disposal the other day, stinky smelly water all over. Rang Mr S to give him advanced warning so it wasn't the first thing I greeted him in when he walked in :nowink:
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Enjoy your time off Surbie. Mrs Bee how come tomorrow is your official Christmas
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Well, son and daughter in law are visiting her family on Christmas day and her sisters on Boxing day so they are with us tomorrow. Which is fine by me so long as I have them for a day.
However when baby arrives, future Christmas' are mine!
We are not doing presents this year but I have bought a silly Christmas game for the WII and we are going to spend the day playing silly games.
We were having friends coming on Christmas day but with both of us feeling rather fragile after the cold virus they have re booked for Saturday so we can relax for a couple of days and get our strength back.
I could pop round to mum's but she has got the hump with me.
That means that Christmas day will be my Boxing day. just Mr Bee and me, peace and quiet and time for us to stop and put our feet up. Like you it has been a mad few months.
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Have a lovely early Christmas day then Mrs Bee.
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Thank you. X X :D
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Sounds lovely mrs Bee enjoy :)
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morning all - last day at work before 2 weeks off. Hurrah!
First of 3 day shifts - thankfully this is a short one!! ;)
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Late on parade today did an early morning walking the dogs as we are helping a friend to move house
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Happy Christmas for tomorrow, Mrs Bee!
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Can't decide if this is late night or very early morning. A bit stressed at present - had a lovely day and then the dish washer flooded. :( Got it emptied and then later today we will see if it is just blocked or finished.
That is so annoying. Hope you get it sorted. I blocked our waste disposal the other day, stinky smelly water all over. Rang Mr S to give him advanced warning so it wasn't the first thing I greeted him in when he walked in :nowink:
Oh Snowy - just what you did not need. We are no further on but will keep on trying to fix the dishwasher but might just need a new machine - ours must be at least eight years old or possibly more.
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Morning all, last working day before you know what ;)
Springlands - hope you made some dish washer progress yesterday.
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Good luck with getting that fixed!
My dishwasher is hale and hearty and in good voice this morning. And has promised to clean the chooks out while I make him some washing up! :lol:
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Morning all, only 1 more sleep :lol:. Just got to go & get veg,some cream, pop to the plot for sprouts,parsnips,leeks & beetroot, make my orange Marsala pud,bread & cranberry sauce,get the turkey at 3pm from my friend Clive, entertain my mother & the MIL,make the dinner, wrap presents with said MIL then there might be time to have a nice glass of something :lol:
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Don't start on the pop too early Snowdrops, you don't want to be found chatting to the presents while wrapping the MIL! :lol:
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Don't start on the pop too early Snowdrops, you don't want to be found chatting to the presents while wrapping the MIL! :lol:
:D :D :D, love it :lol:, will only start after dark :mad:, gets dark early now though dunnit :D
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Good morning nearly there only one more sleep to Christmas. have a good one :D I know I will.
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Morning!
Christmas happens here in 10 hours - :D
7 more presents to wrap, red cabbage to braise and 2 more sets of biscuits to bake and then I am there...though Mum's new oven is not playing, so everything might be transported to here...
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Morning marzipan to buy a moped ride to OHs mince pies, sausage rolls and butterfly cakes to bake then a long walk in the fresh air.
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Thank you Roger and Tosca - machine still not fixed. We need a special screwdriver to get at the pump and are collecting one today. If that does not work, no helpy with dishes, no Christmas dinner. :lol:
Nothing like a little wine when the sun goes down Snowy - about 4.20 here at present - I will raise a glass to all the early risers. Happy Christmas to you all.
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Good morning and Happy Christmas everyone....... good to see you are all still chatting while I've been away.
Christmas mornig will be just like any other for me.. the usual routine then a break for a few hours. I feel very much like curling up in bed with or without a book and drifting off to sleep for the day but I guess that wont be a popular choice.
However you spend your day I wish you a good one.
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Happy Christmas all you Early Clubbers.
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It's still Christmas Eve here...all you people sending messages from the future LOL
Best wishes all!🎄
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Waiting for the troops to wake up here... Happy Christmas Early Morning Club
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Merry Christmas, Just making a large saucepan of porridge for everyone ready for when they get up, a few thick heads this morning :lol: :lol:
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Happy Christmas everyone. I am one of the thickhesds this morning Dugless, just about to make my own porridge and have some paracetamol with it. :) Enjoy your day everyone.
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good morning I suspect there will be a few bleary eyed people online this morning.
A good time was had by all here.
looking at a quieter day today.
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Made another three dozen shortbread for next door, OH cuttung out flowers and leaves for decorating. Now on the mince pies. two dozen made, another dozen to go.
Shortbread a bit strange, could only get maize flour rather than starch, but nice all the same.
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Day off from work today ;)
The plan is 2 mince pies and clotted cream for breakfast; chooks visit; bit of a walk if it's not raining; pub and then home to watch cr@p and eat yummy things :)
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Careful there don 't over do it :lol: :lol:
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Sounds similar to my plans DBG - hens already sorted - now for a quite day after all the busy-ness of the last few days. Enjoy your day everyone. :)
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good morning, back to normality today just off to take the dogs a walk.
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We are going to have a lazy day Might take some photos of the snow if anything interesting happens.
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Morning everyone - very cold but no snow. Having a lie in until it is time to sort out the hens.
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Good morning all.
Tea drunk, walk in the garden to spy on the budgies done.. so now to snooze until my mother wakes again for breakfast.
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Morning all my ex-nursery HD seed modules have arrived ready for me to start off my onions great packaging wrapped in potato sacks :lol:
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I have woken up like a bear with a sore head >:(
The cats have been super annoying since 4am - fighting, peeing in the bedroom, knocking things off the dressing table and batting them about!!!
I blimmin' well wasn't giving in though >:(
I also have a very sore neck this morning which is painful :(
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Oh dear, they are a bit of a pain sometimes aren't they? Our's doesn't wee, but he does wake about 3am and has a fascination for the clock, feet, anything that moves, like toes (or snores) I get cramp trying not to move and usually last untill 4 before getting up as I have to move about.
Then he sleeps for hours! >:(
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Lovely soft colours this morning....and bitterly cold. The chooks were bashing on the door to get out, they soon went straight to the barn...brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Good Morning Tosca It is the same here in Belgium very Wight and cold.
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cold and stormy here in Italy - no snow yet though.
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We have a light dusting of frost here.
It was thicker at 2am, and still thick at 4am and at 6am. Gave up chasing sleep and got up to clear up after last nights party.
I expect I will fall asleep in the chair later. :(
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I'm working tonight now (I made a cook-up of the off duty and put the most junior nurse on shift in his own ::)) so I've fixed the problem with myself ::)
We're going to put on our base layers again and go for a walk along Downderry beach :)
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Pretty frosty here this morning.... looks lovely through the window.
Woken at 2:15am by Out of Hours doctor's phone call to tell me he's making a referal.... so more than 24 hours wait and no doctor coming out after 111 phone call
"Thanks for the early morning call doc. Skip the request for help.. my mother's heart is still working after 94 years. You go see to the drunken party goers and I'll visiit our GP for the day later in the morning and ask for his help. Her chest pains are no worse, her oxygen levels 80 so only about 10 or so down.... she' s no more confusef & unstable than she was.... Nice of you to apologise but harfly worth waking us at 2:15 to tell us you are too busy..
Our pet rabbit gets better treatment :(
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Blowing a blizzard here in BG, with internet and leccy threatening to die. Wind is unusual here. No going out for a few days.
Could be an interesting day.
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I read your note PP. That's a shocker. We had a similar set of experiences with my mother in laws treatment a few years ago.
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Paul that is disgusting treatment, I hope you will be putting in a complaint,won't help you or your mother but might change it for someone else.
Had to set the alarm today >:( just in case I overslept as I'm back to work today >:( >:(
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Benefits of less traffic mean I can get more done before setting off this morning - just having breakfast before having a shower whereas I'm normally leaving St this time!
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good morning Paul I understand your position I am in the bracket as old and I can tell you there is definitely a different attitude to the older generation. ,
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Pretty frosty here this morning.... looks lovely through the window.
Woken at 2:15am by Out of Hours doctor's phone call to tell me he's making a referal.... so more than 24 hours wait and no doctor coming out after 111 phone call
"Thanks for the early morning call doc. Skip the request for help.. my mother's heart is still working after 94 years. You go see to the drunken party goers and I'll visiit our GP for the day later in the morning and ask for his help. Her chest pains are no worse, her oxygen levels 80 so only about 10 or so down.... she' s no more confusef & unstable than she was.... Nice of you to apologise but harfly worth waking us at 2:15 to tell us you are too busy..
Our pet rabbit gets better treatment :(
* 111 - call an ambulance :ohmy:
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Totally agree with DBG.
Don't deal with the out of hours doctor service just ring for an ambulance.
Have had to do similar recently on a couple of occasions. And on both occasions after I apologised for calling them the ambulance guys told me that my call had been the only real emergency they had attended that shift.
And they agreed with my comments about the out of hours doctor service.
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Fun (?) in the early hours:
I did dial 111 and was told no docs available so ambulance on its way. Arrived speedily. Refused trip to A&E then 4 hours waiting on a trolley. ECG done at home... abnormal heart so low oxygen... told doc would call and decide to visit same day or Sunday.
Phone call 2:30am.... lovely... just got to sleep. Told doc on end of phone not to bother... I phoned own GP. They sent out a clinition..so still not seen doctor but promised our GP would be shown pint out of ECG and make decision about next step care...... not holding my breath about hearing from them tomorrow.
Meanwhile cat has same day appointment at vet... treated and home all sorted.
Pays to be a cat or rabbit.
Formal complaint considering it when I have the energy.
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An abnormal ECG and low oxygen sats should be admitted to hospital!! :ohmy:
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Paul, was it you / your mum who refused the trip to A&E, or the ambulance crew who refused to take your mum?
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Paul, was it you / your mum who refused the trip to A&E, or the ambulance crew who refused to take your mum?
My mother did not want to go and I fully support her decision. Therr would have been no emergency treatment just oxygen, blood samples & more monitoring.... maybe asprin. She has remained conscious throughout just very tired, a bit muddled with mild pain on occasions.
This evening the same chap from surgery phoned... a surprise. Consulting with doc they have prescribed asprin - suspect a heart episode / mild attack. No suggestion of blood tests but I will ask tomorrow when I go to collect transcript of phone call that I requested this evening. My mum is 95 in a few days time... surgery would not be an option. Managing the condition is.
She id eating well, not in pain, comfortanble at homr (ovrr thr road
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I wish you well with it all, Paul.
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Paul, I hope you had a better night. Been through it all so understand your frustration and worries. Wishing you all the best.
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Thinking about you and your mum Paul. I can understand your decision to look after her at home.
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Mods - I'm getting a McAfee warning about content on this page and I'm guessing its something to do with the adverts
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good morning, not much to report Life goes on
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Morning all, bit easier to get out of bed at 6:45 today. Made my lunch salad & leftovers 8). Something to look forward to at work. Enjoy your day :)
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Mods - I'm getting a McAfee warning about content on this page and I'm guessing its something to do with the adverts
Seems happy with the adverts at my end ???
I have 4% bonds?? :unsure: not that I want any 4% bonds :D
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No A/V warning s here on this site although I've had A/V warnings and issues with other sites. In fact, I need to re-install my laptop asap when I can find the backup discs.....plus I hate doing a re-install.
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Mods - I'm getting a McAfee warning about content on this page and I'm guessing its something to do with the adverts
I run an ad blocking programme - makes all the sites I use a lot quicker to load and flick through.
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Some beautiful white frost at 4am yesterday.... and another night of it today.
Calm on the home-front and lots of sleeping on and off.... on aspirin from tomorrow so hoping this will help.
Thanks for your kind thoughts & good wishes
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And we ARE thinking of you Paul ;)
Take care xx
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Morning all. Glad to hear all is calm Paul.
Not surprisingly it's flipping cold here, temps last night down to -15 so the snow will be well set and sparkly.
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Heavy frost here last night and it looks like snow when you look out
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Heavy frost here last night and it looks like snow when you look out
Just the same here cadalot. Still -3c at the moment.
Best wishes PP
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Morning, struggled to get up this morning when the drafted alarm went off, stumbled out of my pit at 7:10 am :(. Heavy frost here too.
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Another Good Morning last of the year, well I made it without too much trouble looking forward to the next one :D
and I wish the same to all of you thank you for your company.
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A rather late morning here, slept in until after nine. Got up just in time for the electrician who managed to fix my dishwasher. Yeah!!!! A real change in the weather - wet and windy.
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After the cats got us up for their breakfast, I managed to get two more snoozes in before getting up - I'm on nights tonight ::)
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Happy New Year everyone....
..a calm, quiet and not too chilly start. All is pretty good here.
Wishing you good health & laughter through 2015.
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Happy New Year everyone 2 ..... the Sequel
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Morning all and Happy New Year to all early risers. Sunny but incredibly cold here (-17) so another gay by the fire for me.
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Morning & Happy New Year all.
No frost, but quite windy here this morning, hopefully we'll see some of Tosca's sun later.
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HaHa Tosca. The things you get up to in front of that fire !.....Happy New Year everyone
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And a Happy New Year to all from a dark little Island off the South Coast! Off to work shortly until midday.
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And a happy New Year from me, I have not made any resolutions happy the way things are :D
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Happy New Year all :)
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Happy New Year to all in the Early Morning Club.
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Happy new year early risers.
I got a lie in today. must be the alcohol consumed last night. ::)
No thick frost here today making everything look pretty and seasonal.
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very belatedly happy new year! :D
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Good merry morning!
"Warm" out at 6... met my cousin & neighbour putting the recycle bin out.. rumbling wheeels will get the family a bad name as everyone else snoozing at that time.
Tea made for my mother so back to bed for a doze.
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Twas a chilly night last night, but up to a balmy -10 at 9.30. Someone forgot to empty the chooks' water dishes last night when locking up so that was the first outside job, lots of hot water and we are in business. They could drink from the duck pond, freshly filled from the well, but being bird brained......
Three lots of bread proving. OH watching Birds of a Feather,,,,I think it's had it's day. Kitten playing at being thuggish teenager (I don't want him to grow up!)
Keeping warm, only a couple more days and we will have temps close to 0 so should be able to get out a bit.
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Good Morning Dull wet and miserable, and the weather isn't much better :lol:
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Three lots of bread proving. OH watching Birds of a Feather,,,,I think it's had it's day.
I feel you are right Tosca!!! :D
But at least it isn't a murdery/screamy programme. I don't want to see many of them for a while - chap was murdered NYE outside one of our 3 pubs in the village and 4 or 5 others injured!!! :ohmy:
Seems 2 youths decided to go out looking for victims to attack!! My friend Ann was working in Majors in ED that night too :( she went home and cried with a stiff drink before bed after that shift!!
Very sad - popped down there last night to give her a big hug. Some people just bewilder me with their violent attitudes.
And we're quite a quiet village in Plymouth normally... very sad for everyone :(
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Three lots of bread proving. OH watching Birds of a Feather,,,,I think it's had it's day.
I feel you are right Tosca!!! :D
But at least it isn't a murdery/screamy programme. I don't want to see many of them for a while - chap was murdered NYE outside one of our 3 pubs in the village and 4 or 5 others injured!!! :ohmy:
Seems 2 youths decided to go out looking for victims to attack!! My friend Ann was working in Majors in ED that night too :( she went home and cried with a stiff drink before bed after that shift!!
Very sad - popped down there last night to give her a big hug. Some people just bewilder me with their violent attitudes.
And we're quite a quiet village in Plymouth normally... very sad for everyone :(
I wondered if it was near you DBG - how awful for the victims and their families. :(
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Three lots of bread proving. OH watching Birds of a Feather,,,,I think it's had it's day.
I feel you are right Tosca!!! :D
But at least it isn't a murdery/screamy programme. I don't want to see many of them for a while - chap was murdered NYE outside one of our 3 pubs in the village and 4 or 5 others injured!!! :ohmy:
Seems 2 youths decided to go out looking for victims to attack!! My friend Ann was working in Majors in ED that night too :( she went home and cried with a stiff drink before bed after that shift!!
Very sad - popped down there last night to give her a big hug. Some people just bewilder me with their violent attitudes.
And we're quite a quiet village in Plymouth normally... very sad for everyone :(
Terribly sad, and I don't understand why programme makers have to use such graphic violence these days. Can you imagine what those programmes must do to the families of real life victims like those on NYE? Entertainment! Huh.
The message used to come across quite well without all the gore and strangulated screaming. :(
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Three lots of bread proving. OH watching Birds of a Feather,,,,I think it's had it's day.
I feel you are right Tosca!!! :D
But at least it isn't a murdery/screamy programme. I don't want to see many of them for a while - chap was murdered NYE outside one of our 3 pubs in the village and 4 or 5 others injured!!! :ohmy:
Seems 2 youths decided to go out looking for victims to attack!! My friend Ann was working in Majors in ED that night too :( she went home and cried with a stiff drink before bed after that shift!!
Very sad - popped down there last night to give her a big hug. Some people just bewilder me with their violent attitudes.
And we're quite a quiet village in Plymouth normally... very sad for everyone :(
Terribly sad, and I don't understand why programme makers have to use such graphic violence these days. Can you imagine what those programmes must do to the families of real life victims like those on NYE? Entertainment! Huh.
The message used to come across quite well without all the gore and strangulated screaming. :(
In many ways the message came across in a more scary way - as your imagination took over.
I cannot understand why people say that violent images do not lead to crime when we are bombarded every day with advertising - if it has an effect on our spending why people insist that violent images do not have any effect.
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I continue to be amazed at the way individuals around the globe treat others.... what on earth went wrong with their basic ideas of humanity.
It is so sad for those who are caught up in violence and almost as bad for those who cause it.
A different species perhaps?
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Not a different species, but a very thin veneer of civility.
I honestly believe we are not far out of the cave - geologically speaking. In terms of ecological/evolutionary time, we have had civilisation for an extraordinary tiny amount of time.
A phrase springs to mind: "Man's Inhumanity to Man". I believe it will always be so.
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I think John Lennon had the right idea with his song "imagine"
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Three lots of bread proving. OH watching Birds of a Feather,,,,I think it's had it's day.
I feel you are right Tosca!!! :D
But at least it isn't a murdery/screamy programme. I don't want to see many of them for a while - chap was murdered NYE outside one of our 3 pubs in the village and 4 or 5 others injured!!! :ohmy:
Seems 2 youths decided to go out looking for victims to attack!! My friend Ann was working in Majors in ED that night too :( she went home and cried with a stiff drink before bed after that shift!!
Very sad - popped down there last night to give her a big hug. Some people just bewilder me with their violent attitudes.
And we're quite a quiet village in Plymouth normally... very sad for everyone :(
I wondered if it was near you DBG - how awful for the victims and their families. :(
150 yards or so down the hill i s'pose Springy. It's the pub we got to for meals, rather than the real ale pub we go to, to have a drink and play darts, but that pub is jus behind and above this affected one. :(
Very sad.
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Three lots of bread proving. OH watching Birds of a Feather,,,,I think it's had it's day.
I feel you are right Tosca!!! :D
But at least it isn't a murdery/screamy programme. I don't want to see many of them for a while - chap was murdered NYE outside one of our 3 pubs in the village and 4 or 5 others injured!!! :ohmy:
Seems 2 youths decided to go out looking for victims to attack!! My friend Ann was working in Majors in ED that night too :( she went home and cried with a stiff drink before bed after that shift!!
Very sad - popped down there last night to give her a big hug. Some people just bewilder me with their violent attitudes.
And we're quite a quiet village in Plymouth normally... very sad for everyone :(
I wondered if it was near you DBG - how awful for the victims and their families. :(
150 yards or so down the hill i s'pose Springy. It's the pub we got to for meals, rather than the real ale pub we go to, to have a drink and play darts, but that pub is jus behind and above this affected one. :(
Very sad.
It is so scary how easy it is to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. :(
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Good job we're boring and miserable sods Springy!! ;)
We never go out on NYE
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Good job we're boring and miserable sods Springy!! ;)
We never go out on NYE
Nor do we - I hate that false must have a good time attitude.
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Well we go out nearly every NYE. And we always have a good time with our friends. No false having a good time for us.
We may be old and on the way to being wrinkly but we still like a get together and will show up the offspring by staying up much later then they do. 8)
And we only have to stagger a few yards home. :D :D
There is a lot to be said for living so close to close friends.
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You don't have to stay up late to stagger around ;)
Waking up suddenly from a deep sleep does for me. My mother offered to lend me her walking frame as she headed back to bed at 5 this morning. Now wide awake.... she is sleeping. A good sign.. soon I can have a night in my own bed. :)
Morning all by the way.
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Morning all. Just managed to get down and let the dogs out when they asked to go out. No wee. A good start to the day. Rainy here. No outside action today. I'll make things all day today. A nice sort of day.
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The temperature has risen dramatically overnight, it is now just on freezing. Happy chooks and ducks as their fermented food doesn't freeze before they can eat it.
Morning all, have a good day
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Raining here, I glad I took down the outside Christmas decorations yesterday, today it packing up the internal grotto and putting it all back in the loft.
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Good morning wet and cold The family gathering is breaking up no 2 Daughter went home today.
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Well we go out nearly every NYE. And we always have a good time with our friends. No false having a good time for us.
We may be old and on the way to being wrinkly but we still like a get together and will show up the offspring by staying up much later then they do. 8)
And we only have to stagger a few yards home. :D :D
There is a lot to be said for living so close to close friends.
None of my friends seem to have house parties anymore. I love a good house party. I'm not going out out to pay inflated prices for club entry, drinks and taxis because we live out the back of beyond - so I work the night instead and get a little extra cash ;)
Difficulty waking up again this morning - this day/night shift thing really mucks my body clock up in the winter ::)
But I have Bodybalance this morning and it is so lovely - I wouldn't miss it :D
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Ooooo no. I am with you on the inflated prices. I am too mean to go out to drink, unless it is the occasional coffee from a decent coffee shop.
That is a shame that none of your friends have house parties. We regularly have gatherings at ours or friends. We are a right sociable lot. Good for you making things work to your advantage and getting extra cash.
I was awake at 4 this morning so lay listening to radio 4X until I fell asleep.
Now I am cooking for another gathering this evening.
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Morning all, not been around much due to having things done in the house and then a hectic Christmas. In fact it was October the last time I looked in here, shameful. Hope your all keeping well and A Hapoy Nwe Year to you all.
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Happy New Year Ma. Nice to see you back. ;)
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Grumpy good morning all. Had a sleepless night which set the cat off which set OH off and got up at 4 just for some peace. Cat and OH and two dogs asleep, me still grumpy and headachy! Grrrrr
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Morning Tosca and all. A more sleepless night than average here too - must be something to do with the nearly full moon (full moon is tonight I think) ;)
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Morning, sleepless night here too. Gave up and moved to the sofa at about 2am. Now my back has set in an awkward position and I have a headcold coming on. grump grump. :(
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Good Morning, two more departed home this morning we go tomorrow, My Daughter will heave a sigh of relieve
sanity will return. I have some piccies if anyone is interested I will post them. :D
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Mornin' from a happy person :)
You know we love pictures of anything dugless - post away ;)
Off to do the chooks weekly clean in a moment. At least the weather is dry - yesterday was horrendous!!
I slept like a log last night - might have had something to do with the bottle of white wine I had throughout the evening ::) :D
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Not morning but I've just woken! I needed a bit of catch-up if there is such a thing. After 6 or 7 nights on the settee at my mother's place and being woken every couple of hours through the night I wanted to snooze uninterruptedly so the cat and I
snored slept the day away. What a waste!!
Here's hoping those grump moods have lifted during the day. ;)
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Not morning but I've just woken! I needed a bit of catch-up if there is such a thing. After 6 or 7 nights on the settee at my mother's place and being woken every couple of hours through the night I wanted to snooze uninterruptedly so the cat and I snored slept the day away. What a waste!!
Here's hoping those grump moods have lifted during the day. ;)
It probably did you good
I was like that after nights before Christmas - ended up waking up at 5:05pm when Ben should have woken me at 12:30! I must have needed it - I don't normally sleep that late during the day when I'm actually on nights!!
I had so much to do that day too! ::)
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Well here I am home for once by 11pm as my mother was persuaded to go to bed rather than look at the football on tv (she hates football) And... Mrs Plots is busy watching tv with her eyes closed. I bet the minute I touch the tv remote she will wake up. ::)
One early morning (around 1:30am) visit across the road to see all is well and then off to bed again for me. Isn't having to go to sleep such a waste of time when there are other things that you could be doing? :nowink:
Hope everyone has a good early morning. I might be up and out so will send in my best wishes now.
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Morning all!
Only the conversations at work about seasonal things to get out of the way then back to normal at last.
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Morning! Not a bad one... quite mild out at 5am.
"Good morning Mum"......
"I'd love a cup of tea."
Just as well I wandered over the road I guess.;)
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Morning all, windy here, not common in this part of BG. Dog's a wreck, daft thing.
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Back to work today. I've made the youngests packed lunch dogs are good. Now need some enthusiasm for me!!
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Morning,no frost on the cars, so no ice scraping :)
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Morning, still curled up in bed, just trying to persuade my self to get up as nd start the day. :)
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Morning all I too am still snuggled up in bed with my Westie curled up beside me. Peace and harmony are due to be shaken up later today when we bring a 10 week old Cairn pup home. Now do I get up or stay a while longer decisions decisions.
Here's a photo of new pup who we have named Olga
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Awwww cutie. ;)
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Morning all. Another cold and frosty one this morning.Hopefully the prolonged freeze will be killing off some nasty bugs in the garden ;)
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Temps have dropped here and we're expecting snow. Likely just a light dusting if anything at all but hoping there's enough to stick as I would love to get some winter scene shots!
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When I moved Oop Norf in 1984 we had proper winters - brrr! Proper, proper cold! In fact, it was so cold I couldn't use the cold water tap when brushing my teeth! I'd love to have a good, old winter again!
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Morning all I too am still snuggled up in bed with my Westie curled up beside me. Peace and harmony are due to be shaken up later today when we bring a 10 week old Cairn pup home. Now do I get up or stay a while longer decisions decisions.
Here's a photo of new pup who we have named Olga
Ma she looks so cute
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When I moved Oop Norf in 1984 we had proper winters - brrr! Proper, proper cold! In fact, it was so cold I couldn't use the cold water tap when brushing my teeth! I'd love to have a good, old winter again!
My Grandmother grew up in Iowa; a state that has REAL winter weather, as in very cold and very snowy. I can't even begin to image living in a house with only a potbelly stove to keep warm! ❄️
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Blast, just deleted a long post! Anyway, we are having a lovely bitterly cold time here in Bulgaria Kevin, with dry sunny and very pleasant days and night temperatures up to -8...almost t-shirt weather! Haha But it will only be for two months rather than a miserable six months. The days are invigorating and the fire stoked, but we can't get out because the roads are still lethal from boxing day, sheet ice which thaws slightly in the sun. Contrary to popular belief, countries used to this weather don't manage better, they just don't travel and winter tyres and chains are compulsary if you do. Most citizens live near work, not many have two hour commutes here. The snow and rain has caused major problems with landslides, weeks of no power, massive lines of cars caught out in the snow and drivers trying to keep warm while help arrives,,,eventually, and collapsed roads making slushy motorways and cancelled trains look tame.
We are the lucky ones.
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I've found it so liberating working from home just need to make a living now.
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Blast, just deleted a long post!
I did the same thing just now on my phone!!
I said more than blast!!! :lol:
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If you do ctrl-z immediately, it often brings it back.
Give it a go! Type some text, delete and then ctrl-z.
Ctrl-z is Undo in Windows. In this case you are undo-ing your deletion.
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Thanks Kevin. ;)
Blast, just deleted a long post!
I did the same thing just now on my phone!!
I said more than blast!!! :lol:
I have to admit I said worse than I typed! :lol:
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In the early days of computers I remember formatting disks that had really important stuff on them - how my heart sank into my shoes... (early days enough not to have had recovery software then!).
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If you do ctrl-z immediately, it often brings it back.
Give it a go! Type some text, delete and then ctrl-z.
Ctrl-z is Undo in Windows. In this case you are undo-ing your deletion.
Can't do that on my mobile phone. Once you hit back there's no going forward again >:(
On the lappy it's easy to retrieve ;) ;)
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@ dbg - is it an iphone? If so, on your iPhone/iPad To undo something you just typed, just shake the phone. To redo, shake it again. If not, sorry!
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@ dbg - is it an iphone? If so, on your iPhone/iPad To undo something you just typed, just shake the phone. To redo, shake it again. If not, sorry!
Thanks but no. This is an Apple-free household - unless we're talking eating apples!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Any cure for a cat jumping on your laptop? :lol: I've trird getting rid of it but it keeps coming back! :ohmy:
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Any cure for a cat jumping on your laptop? :lol: I've trird getting rid of it but it keeps coming back! :ohmy:
Nope. :D
It's just another potential warm spot!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Any cure for a cat jumping on your laptop? :lol: I've trird getting rid of it but it keeps coming back! :ohmy:
It's after your mouse!
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Any cure for a cat jumping on your laptop? :lol: I've trird getting rid of it but it keeps coming back! :ohmy:
It's after your mouse!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Morning all!
Coffee done .... breakfast done .... better get going now! Not too bad on the weather front here today - no frost (not far off it though), no wind, no rain.
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Sorting out my seed tin yawn
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Now it feels like winter is really here. We got more snow than anticipated and it's lovely 28F/-2C now (just after midnight here). I was able to make it to the park to see the waterfalls and rapids. It was especially nice since there was no one there on account of the cold and snow. I guess the guy kayaking didn't get the memo!
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Any cure for a cat jumping on your laptop? :lol: I've trird getting rid of it but it keeps coming back! :ohmy:
It's after your mouse!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
nWa52nQEr74
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No pictures LotuSeed?
Morning all. Had a snow fall overnight covering the bits that had thawed so all looking pretty in the sun. Came down late (6.30) to find OH clearing the paths in his dressing gown and dogs and cat chasing each other about in the snow. Then they wanted a walk!
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No pictures LotuSeed?
Morning all. Had a snow fall overnight covering the bits that had thawed so all looking pretty in the sun. Came down late (6.30) to find OH clearing the paths in his dressing gown and dogs and cat chasing each other about in the snow. Then they wanted a walk!
The big ones are all on my comp at the moment. I snapped a few with my phone but I have no idea what they look like enlarged.
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That looks very dramatic Lotuseed.
Managed to stay asleep most of the night,yah any, waking at 12:50 & then 5 am, but going back to sleep each time easily, then up when the alarm went off at 6:45. Feels so much better :). Even managed a couple of little jobs when I got downstairs :)
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I was up early - 6am - that's early enough!!
Too tired and spent too long in the bath to have time to post!!! :lol:
Not the greatest of days today either, and tomorrow will be busy too ::)
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Am in my yearly bout of bronchitis. Not sleeping much, OH has moved into the spare room to escape. This year I am resolutely looking after myself and not going out till I am betterer. It is boring being stuck indoors though. Grump grump.
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Good morning. Surbie, I am having an attack of the wheezies at the moment too. But what is keeping us in is the weather, the roads are sheet ice and we can't get the car out of the drive which is up hill. Haven't been out since before Christmas. - 14c at the moment
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Goodness,Tosca! That's cold! Brrr!
Oh, I'd love to have a winter like that but I do appreciate living through it is another matter.
Did you know before you moved there that it would get so cold?
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Morning all. Look after yourselves Surbie and Tosca and get betterer.
We are fighting a cold virus here too. It keeps reoccurring and attacking the joints.
So I prescribe a few medicinal glasses of alcohol for us all.
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As if by magic I found some cherries in kirsch and some soothing ice cream. Hope you feel better soon Tosca, don't envy you that amount of chill factor.
Might just pootle off and sow some chillies...
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Goodness,Tosca! That's cold! Brrr!
Oh, I'd love to have a winter like that but I do appreciate living through it is another matter.
Did you know before you moved there that it would get so cold?
Yes Kevin, we did. The winters are usually very sharp but short. I am quite happy pottering in the house close to the woodburner while it's like this. But although it is still well below freezing out there, the sun is out and OH is working out there (building a cold frame) in a thin jumper. It's very dry so doesn't feel too bad, you can get caught out if doing the feeding as if you touch metal with a wet hand it can stick! Other than that it's just a bit inconvenient and any chook with a large comb is in danger of frostbite.
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I had a Respiratory nurse appointment myself this morning. Not had a cold, but my asthma has gone off a bit and I'm coughing constantly, so I have a different inhaler and some good instructions (for once ::)) Useless surgery!!
I'm off to Northern Finland (Lapland) at the end of the month - supposed to be -20 over there. My cousin lives in Finland near Helsinki and they are over -20 at the moment, so have to keep telling myself I'm NOT cold at the moment!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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thank crunchy it's Friday :D
can get up at 7am tomoz ;)
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Morning Barley & all.
A bit windy outside this morning here, sounds like it could be worse up north & get worse here later.
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Morning all - a howling gale is keeping me awake. :ohmy:
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Morning all, windy here too. :)
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Morning All,
I'm with Barley. Thank heaven its Friday. I have an enormous amount of work today but somehow the fact it's Friday makes it easier to contemplate. Tomorrow I can get in the garden and up the lofty. Then I can make lots of things in the kitchen later. Have a good day everyone
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I can hear the wind but have not looked outside yet as pitch black. I have a Hoop Iron Survey to do today so hoping its going to be dry as predicted.
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Cadalot, What is "Hoop Iron" It sounds like something to do with barrels!
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Brrrrr coldest night so far, but should be up to a balmy -4 today and it should be the last really cold night. My fingers stuck to the dog crate which is in the hen house with a lame hen in it when I did her water. (Took the block of ice out and put tepid water in)
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Robster
Yes it is, only flat and dipped in bitumen and used in brick walls since the Victorian era as an early type of bed joint reinforcement. It is positioned within the vertical height of the walls at intervals varying from 150mm to 900mm centres (most usually at 450mm centres).
On elevations where it has been placed towards the outer weather skin, and that get saturated by driving rain on a regular basis, or on elevations where the pointing has come to the end of its life and needs attention they rust.
As metal rusts it expands to 7-10 times its original thickness, and horizontal cracks start to appear in the wall which looks like cavity wall tie failure. Insurance companies would consider any problem occurring as a result of hoop Iron to be a latent defect and therefore it would not be covered by a householder's buildings insurance.
In the early 1990's houses in Carshalton and Morden could not be bought or sold for a period as Banks and Building Societies would not lend money on the properties containing Hoop Iron. I was at the time a Structural Engineer with the Local Authority who with a Building Surveyor did the research into the problem for a report on the subject.
As a result of the report and a decision made by Central Government, and meetings with the 5 major lending banks and Building Societies of the day took place regarding finding and establishing what form the bed joint reinforcement takes (as there are mesh versions as well) after which properties could once again be bought and sold with a Structural Engineers Report on the Hoop Iron.
I undertake surveys and produce a Structural Engineers Report on what I find so that purchasers can sent to their mortgage lenders to obtain their mortgage.
Below is a photograph from a typical report showing where it has been found and I removed a little of the pointing and you can see the Hoop Iron
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Morning all. I've been out and established that not only has a thaw started, but it was also raining. :D
Now hiding in the house as OH has gone across to next door to help with the killing and butchering of the steer. Tends to be rather a noisy affair so will stay in till I see bits of meat hanging in the rain. A bit much for this veggie's sensibilities. :ohmy: Anyhow, OH has been giving instructions to tell beloved neighbours I am busy baking all day and will not be partaking in the celebratory meatfest which will inevitably happen later :closedeyes: (I usually have cold fried eggs at these gatherings) :(
So large fig and almond tart in the oven for OH to take back with him for the happy butchers to keep them sweet. ;)
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Morning all, up early watching Ealing comedies and trying not to cough. The poplar tree next door is grating along the roof & guttering and downstairs were thumping on the ceiling thinking it was me. Exactly what they thought I was doing is beyond me!
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It's always an early morning when you had too much red wine the night before! :wacko: :lol:
Even 10am feels early!! :blush:
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I was late today 8:30 before I surfaced for the day,what bliss, slept well too :) :) :)
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Very little sleep here overnight then was reluctant to surface - the storms have now disturbed two nights sleep and I am getting cross!! ;)
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Good Morning, all!
It's so lovely to be the first up - peace and quiet before the family rises - a chance to have a quiet coffee, a sandwich and an uninterrupted catch up on the 'net!
After that, everybody has a piece of me all day long until it's bed time again!
I hope you all have a lovely Sunday. :D
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Just getting ready to go to bed. If I wake up at 10 I should be mostly back in sync with UK time
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Morning all. Another mild one today, snow forecast tonight.
Needing to sort out an area for seeds that the cat can't ruin. Might be a tall order.
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Morning all - Just having breakfast before a full morning on the allotment .... Yippppeeeee
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Central heating isn't working by the sounds of it. :(
Going out for a friend's birthday lunch today and then working tonight ::)
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Morning all! Hope everyone & everything is where they should be and not been blown away - it was a bit windy here last night (and still is) - and nowhere as near as bad as reported up north.
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Windy here in Bulgaria too, most unusual.
Morning all. :D
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Morning all,
Cadalot thanks for your fulsome Hoop Iron reply, thanks for the effort. What an interesting subject.
I'm working from home today. I like that occasionally i see more of the family and can get a lot done. I made a lot of leek and potato soup yesterday so I'll need to put that into portions and in the freezer.
Have a great day all
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Goodnight all! lol. Waiting for an I've storm, should make for an interesting morning commute.
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Morning all, up early before the alarm had time to wake me, after a night of waking every 2hours or so. Now to get ready for a busy day at work,the joys of 2 year olds :D
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The wind (weather not tummy) woke me up just before 6 this morning - so before the heating came on ::) it's blowing a hoolie out there, which I wasn't expecting obviously wasn't paying attention to the weather forecast yesterday.
Oh well 2nd cup of tea in hand and under the throw, til everything warms up :lol:
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We are now covered in snow again after our beautiful, sunny and warm day yesterday. Ah well, it was nice while it lasted. :)
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Morning all. Been awake since 4 listening to radio 5 and listening to the wind outside.
Planned on staying put but builders arrived early to finish plastering the back wall. Oh well the end is in sight.
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Wet and totally windy :(
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We're basically in a cloud here in Newhaven.
Oh and it's 0229 in the morning and I'm still awake, watching my way through House season 8 :)
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Ooooops!! I posted my weather thing in the wrong thread!! :lol:
I have a goox excuse - I'm sleep deprived too (at work all night and last night -3 hours sleep during the day ::) :wacko:
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Morning. I've workrd nights in the past, you are totally forgiven. :lol:
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Jrko I used to go fishing off a timber pier 25 - 30 years ago at Newhaven with my mate VK.
I've frozen my butt off many a night there, I'm guessing the timber pier has gone now looking using Google maps.
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I am by no means a morning person but I find a certain calmness in the quiet of the "it's so late it's turning into morning" time. And for some strange reason there are nights when I am wide awake and only start to drift off when the birds begin singing. Which would explain why my body is all confused during the winter when the birds are gone!
How's that transition back from AZ going jrko? If I misattributed circumstance with poster I blame it on lack of sleep lol.
Anyway, hope everyone has a good one!
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Looks like everyone's had a good night
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Not too bad Alan, awake a couple of times but straight back to sleep :) awake just befor the alarm this morning. Work until 12:15 & finished for the week😀
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What is it you do snowdrops?
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I'm a community nursery nurse,I work as part of a health visiting team. I work part time :lol: thankfully, I don't think I could stand the directives,targets & office politics full time.
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My eldest daughter is a nursery nurse in a hospital looking after the staffs kids whilst they work
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I'm still up after my night shift waiting for a CME meeting to start ::)
Bed is calling :D
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My eldest daughter is a nursery nurse in a hospital looking after the staffs kids whilst they work
I've worked in all sorts of nurseries but not a hospital nursery or in a hospital, mainly social services type so generally disadvantaged children or child protection cases
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I'm a community nursery nurse,I work as part of a health visiting team. I work part time :lol: thankfully, I don't think I could stand the directives,targets & office politics full time.
With you on that Snowdrops. I don't miss any of the targets and paperwork that no one ever reads.
I do miss the kids tho'. Kids don't take any notice of targets. :lol:
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Still awake. Been watching a street lamp wobble to and fro for hours. Such a lonely time of night
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Morning jrko & all. There's a question ... is this a time of night or a time of morning?
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Good question! How about this?
If your getting up, it's morning
If you've not been to bed yet, its night
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Depends if you have slept yet I suppose! Morning for me, thankfully.....
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Sounds reasonable to me .... just had breakfast and a coffee and a little sleep so must be morning for me. Off to work now, have a good day all
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Morning all. :)
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All these messages from the future! Hope everybody has a great day☀️
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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:D I wish mprning was the future......
Awful wind gusts, a car alarm kept going off all night.
Oh well, up n atom
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woken by the lodgers at 5.30 thsnk goodness they are leaving soon
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I was about in the early hours, what with the storm and a new pussycat whinging, I didn't get much sleep.
Feel like a zombie this morning :wacko:
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Now where are you going to find a Zombie :nowink:
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:lol: :lol: Trust you :nowink:
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I was about in the early hours, what with the storm and a new pussycat whinging, I didn't get much sleep.
Feel like a zombie this morning :wacko:
New pussycat,you knows the rules
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She's still a scaredy-cat and in hiding, so you'll have to wait 'til she's ready ;)
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Apparently bears don't get dementia due to their hibernation habits. :mellow:
Hibernation sounds like a good idea when you have no heating! !! :lol:
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Hibernation sounds like a good idea when you have no heating! !! :lol:
:ohmy: I'd deffo agree with that !
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Apparently bears don't get dementia due to their hibernation habits. :mellow:
So they sat a bear down and asked him the 10 questions to classify him as EMI - I can't see that really unless it was Yogi or Boo Boo :nowink:
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Apparently bears don't get dementia due to their hibernation habits. :mellow:
So they sat a bear down and asked him the 10 questions to classify him as EMI - I can't see that really unless it was Yogi or Boo Boo :nowink:
It was a random news story ::) don't take the p*** :lol:
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She's still a scaredy-cat and in hiding, so you'll have to wait 'til she's ready ;)
Is she a rescue cat? kitten age or less likely to climb curtains? Looking forward to pics!
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Morning all.
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Morning Tosca and all.
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What a bad night - the worst in ages. Good morning regardless!
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Morning, not too bad a night, didn't go to bed til latish so don't know why I'm up,must be cos I've not got work :wacko:
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I have got work today and I don't want to get out of bed cos its freeeeeeezzzin' :(
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Sorry Nurse, You're too far away to share body heat :nowink:
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Up & at 'em - plumber arrives in 30 mins to sort the wobbly boiler.
Morning all!
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Up & at 'em - plumber arrives in 30 mins to sort the wobbly boiler.
Morning all!
Y
You're very lucky!!
I've left messages with 3 gas engineers (who live in the same village incidently) and heard nothing back >:(
Just had a call from a friend of a friends' husband who could come Monday IF I can't get anyone else :( But he would have to come from Kingsbridge (which is a good 25-30miles away)
Day 6 without heat or hot water and I'm cold :( :( :(
EDIT BY AUNTY to remove asterisk swear word - shame on you DBG
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Apparently bears don't get dementia due to their hibernation habits. :mellow:
So they sat a bear down and asked him the 10 questions to classify him as EMI - I can't see that really unless it was Yogi or Boo Boo :nowink:
It was a random news story ::) don't take the p*** :lol:
If it was in the news Paper or the TV then it had to be true :nowink: :nowink:
And anyway how do they know that dogs only see in black and white?
Has a dog ever told them?
Whoever "They" are ?
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Up & at 'em - plumber arrives in 30 mins to sort the wobbly boiler.
Morning all!
Y
You're very lucky!!
I've left messages with 3 gas engineers (who live in the same village incidently) and heard nothing back >:(
Just had a call from a friend of a friends' husband who could come Monday IF I can't get anyone else :( But he would have to come from Kingsbridge (which is a good 25-30miles away)
Day 6 without heat or hot water and I'm cold :( :( :(
Crikey,that's rubbish. Hope you get one out soon. It's the wrong time of year to be without either, let alone both. Hope you've got good thermals!
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Up & at 'em - plumber arrives in 30 mins to sort the wobbly boiler.
Morning all!
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You're very lucky!!
I've left messages with 3 gas engineers (who live in the same village incidently) and heard nothing back >:(
Just had a call from a friend of a friends' husband who could come Monday IF I can't get anyone else :( But he would have to come from Kingsbridge (which is a good 25-30miles away)
Day 6 without heat or hot water and I'm cold :( :( :(
Crikey,that's rubbish. Hope you get one out soon. It's the wrong time of year to be without either, let alone both. Hope you've got good thermals!
Had to buy good thermals Surbie - going to Lapland in exactly 2 weeks for my burfday :D :D :D :D :D
Still flippin' cold.
Whatever the bloke did today (and Ben wasn't convinced he was ANY GOOD at what he did) it didn't fix it. The pilot light keeps going out when we light it :( :( :( :(
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OMG I'm so sorry you're without heat! We just had to replace our 40+ year old boiler when it kicked the bucket on the coldest day of the year! Space heaters saved our pets, but we were freezing! Hope things get sorted out soon *crosses fingers
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Still awake!! Heavy frost here.
Me wants sleep
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Morning all,
Very cold day here. Make and mend for me this weekend. Allotment shed window to replace, a blind to put up, I'll sort my seed onions out they are all up and need to go somewhere cooler. I think I'll sow a few things as well, cabbage basil chillies, clean the green house. That should do me. Have a great weekend all
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Morning all, Still getting heavy frost here too, but with the blue skies and sunny days who cares? Must be doing a good job hammering the bugs.
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Good morning, thought I would post instead of lurking. I do post on other threads. Sprinkling of snow here, blueish Sky so looks like it might be a good day, worth a visit to the allotment, need to pick a few veg.
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Morning all (even if no longer early morning) ... making marmalade today after picking up some seville oranges from the supermarket yesterday.
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Morning all (even if no longer early morning) ... making marmalade today after picking up some seville oranges from the supermarket yesterday.
Blimey are they in already. Must get down to the market.
Although I must check the freezer to see how many are left since last year.
Woke up at 6 but stayed put reading on my new kindle. Really loving it. One hand outside the cover, not as heavy and with its own light so I don't have to balance a torch under the pillow so I don't wake Mr Bee with the light.
Didn't think I would get on with it but it is brilliant. Love the built in dictionary.
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Morning all (even if no longer early morning) ... making marmalade today after picking up some seville oranges from the supermarket yesterday.
Blimey are they in already. Must get down to the market.
Although I must check the freezer to see how many are left since last year.
Woke up at 6 but stayed put reading on my new kindle. Really loving it. One hand outside the cover, not as heavy and with its own light so I don't have to balance a torch under the pillow so I don't wake Mr Bee with the light.
Didn't think I would get on with it but it is brilliant. Love the built in dictionary.
I love my Kindle for fiction Mrs Bee - but still prefer ordinary books for the garden, cookery etc. I have arthritis and the Kindles are so light and as you say you can read without disturbing your OH. :D
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Morning all (even if no longer early morning) ... making marmalade today after picking up some seville oranges from the supermarket yesterday.
I'd better start looking for sevilles too.
Planning on making more of the whiskey marmalade I made last year (it was scrummy :)) and a cranberry and orange marmalade for next festive season :D
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Blimey are they in already. Must get down to the market.
Although I must check the freezer to see how many are left since last year.
Woke up at 6 but stayed put reading on my new kindle. Really loving it. One hand outside the cover, not as heavy and with its own light so I don't have to balance a torch under the pillow so I don't wake Mr Bee with the light.
Didn't think I would get on with it but it is brilliant. Love the built in dictionary.
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I love my Kindle for fiction Mrs Bee - but still prefer ordinary books for the garden, cookery etc. I have arthritis and the Kindles are so light and as you say you can read without disturbing your OH. :D
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Absolutely, Springlands. I will only use it for fiction, you need a real cook book and gardening book to annotate. :D But for late night reading in bed it is brilliant and so light. I will be reading in bed late at night more now I have this.
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Blimey are they in already. Must get down to the market.
Although I must check the freezer to see how many are left since last year.
Woke up at 6 but stayed put reading on my new kindle. Really loving it. One hand outside the cover, not as heavy and with its own light so I don't have to balance a torch under the pillow so I don't wake Mr Bee with the light.
Didn't think I would get on with it but it is brilliant. Love the built in dictionary.
I love my Kindle for fiction Mrs Bee - but still prefer ordinary books for the garden, cookery etc. I have arthritis and the Kindles are so light and as you say you can read without disturbing your OH. :D
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Absolutely, Springlands. I will only use it for fiction, you need a real cook book and gardening book to annotate. :D But for late night reading in bed it is brilliant and so light. I will be reading in bed late at night more now I have this.
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And spending a fortune on books - although there are lots of free books available. And the daily deals.
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The kindle is really good for going on holiday, no need to take a load of heavy books.
I make a cranberry and red grapefruit marmalade for the festive season.
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Morning all. Stunning sunrise here in Bulgaria and the sun is melting the frost fast. After a sressful day yesterday we are going to enjoy the sun as the rest of the week is going to be dull.
Hoping to do a bit of garden planning and poking around to see what is coming up.
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Morning Tosca and all.
Some blue sky above here, but some angry looking clouds around as well - probably going to one of those days. At least it's not so windy today and no frost either.
So happy with yesterday's marmalade results that I plan to make another batch today (made Oxford yesterday, today's batch will be "normal" golden). Plan to get some garlic planted in the pt today and should really at least make a start on a seed order if I'm to avoid my "normal" disorganised start to the growing season.
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As it is still morning Good Morning weather a bit better off down to the harbour.
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Although I must check the freezer to see how many are left since last year.
Do they freeze well Mrs Bee?
And you can make marmalade with them from frozen?? :unsure:
I'm asking because we didn't realise the freezer was off from Friday (when the gas man tripped the electrics whn changing the central heating pump - which HASN'T fixed the problem :mad:) and my cranberries have defrosted, so probably shouldn't re-freeze them now :(
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Although I must check the freezer to see how many are left since last year.
Do they freeze well Mrs Bee?
And you can make marmalade with them from frozen?? :unsure:
I'm asking because we didn't realise the freezer was off from Friday (when the gas man tripped the electrics whn changing the central heating pump - which HASN'T fixed the problem :mad:) and my cranberries have defrosted, so probably shouldn't re-freeze them now :(
Yes, you can make marmalade, jam and chutney from frozen fruit. ;) In fact I find that marmalade from frozen fruit takes less time for the peel to soften and less time for fruit to cook and soften too.
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Morning all. No marmalade making today as back to work :(
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Morning Roger. Not sure what I'm doing, depends on the weather. :nowink:
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I've been up a while - reading up on photography!
I hope you have a good day, Tosca! I wish I was where you are!
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I've been up a while - reading up on photography!
That makes two of us!
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Along with growing, home-brew, jams and food drying, taking photos properly is something I wish I'd started years ago!
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Along with growing, home-brew, jams and food drying, taking photos properly is something I wish I'd started years ago!
I couldn't agree more! The more you learn about it the more you realize how much you don't know! Digital is great, but I'm also really interested in film. I have two cameras that belonged to my grandmother, an argoflex seventy-five and a polaroid land camera. The first was manufactured in the 1940's and the second in the early 1960. The second is still in working condition thanks to a new battery and new film. 620 film is no longer produced, but 120 film is and it can be respooled to fit a 620 spool. (Just a matter of getting the metal spools from ebay) Some places sell it respooled, but you pay a premium for it.
For my birthday my neighbor gifted me two of her old box cameras...and I mean old, the camera not her lol. She's in her seventies and one of them belonged to her mother. I hope to get them cleaned and make sure they're functional . One of them takes 120film, I can't recall what the other takes but it's no longer in production. Still it will be really cool to resurrect them!
I love how photography has changed my perception of the mundane. I got caught in a downpour at a park know for it's waterlilies and lotuses but instead of running for cover I simply opened my umbrella and kept shooting. Got one of my favorite shots that day!
I recently decided to try my hand at street photography. That will take getting used to (especially considering I don't like crowds...or people😜. Right now I'm really interested in landscape photography (oh darn, I shall have to buy another lens!)
I know you mentioned shooting with the intent to photograph people/weddings, but don't forget to experiment...
Astrophotography
Macro (giggle reversed lens technique)
Light painting
Infrared photography
Wildlife
Landscape
Street (know the laws for your country first)
Food (that actually is a genre lol)
Long exposure photography-really neat
The list just goes on and on!
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The sun is beating down, the chooks are making happy noises and l am about to take a chair outside and sort through my seeds....again!
l shall enjoy it while it lasts. :)
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Been awake since 5 but lay listening to the news. Too cold!
Going to make a pear and amoretti cake and possibly some quince or beetroot chutney.
Or use up the marmalade oranges in the third freezer.
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good morning a better day today off down the town Have made friends with a Spanish family, expanding my own ability to speak Spanish.
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@LotuSeed - I did see your reply but got pulled away - and I wanted to do your post justice!
Yes, indeedy! There's an amazing amount of scope within photography - although just now I'm concentrating on what I can do with what I've got first - mainly due to low funds. Plus I think it's a great way to start by maxing out what I've got then I will know what I need rather than want. I think I could get overwhelmed if I had too much gear - literally!
A job may be in the offering as a local farmhand - imagine the scope of possibilities there! My camera shall always be in my car ready to take out on my lunch break and after work!
Ultimately, I'd actually love to be a Wedding photographer. On another forum I'm being told of the nightmares of dealing with specific types of brides ... and their mothers! I better grow another skin!
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I would imagine that's the hardest photographer to be Kevin :)
Weddings cause much stress and fretfulness and the need for complete perfection! :D
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DVB - You're not wrong! Perfection does appeal to the ocd part of me which I try to manage. Aim High is what I say. However, brides to be will be told and shown my skill level so nobody is fooled.
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Yeah I wouldn't touch wedding photography with a 10 foot pole lol. People can get downright hostile at weddings and the stress would take all the enjoyment out of it for me :tongue2: As it can be difficult to get started initially, have you thought about being a second shooter? You could learn a lot and it would help you to build a portfolio.
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I have asked and the reply I get is one of fear that a second shooter might get the subsequent business instead of the main 'tog. In these economic times I can well sympathise with that.
For reasons I won't go into here, my life revolves around the deeper end of poverty and to build up experience I am offering people who couldn't afford a 'tog to have their event recorded. Small steps!
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Morning all
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A very early morning here :) hope everyone has a good one.
@Kevin I think that would be a very fulfilling job!
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Good morning all.
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morning :)
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Morning all. Lots of noise in the garden, pine martens paired up and having fun.
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Quiet here ... often hear pheasants, ducks, muntjacs but not last night
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Morning I heard a few birds chirping but don't know what they were.
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I'm still struggling to get out of bed it's so cold in here :(
Got to go to the bank with a begging bowl today :unsure:
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I'm still struggling to get out of bed it's so cold in here :(
Got to go to the bank with a begging bowl today :unsure:
Have you still not had your heating fixed? Blimey, how dreadful. Is there a shortage of good central heating engineers in Devon.
A friend of mine who has which magazine, has access to the which list of recommended builders etc.
It might be worth asking to see if anyone on the forum has this and could give you the details of some in your area.
It is miserable being cold and having no hot water.
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I'm still struggling to get out of bed it's so cold in here :(
Got to go to the bank with a begging bowl today :unsure:
Have you still not had your heating fixed? Blimey, how dreadful. Is there a shortage of good central heating engineers in Devon.
A friend of mine who has which magazine, has access to the which list of recommended builders etc.
It might be worth asking to see if anyone on the forum has this and could give you the details of some in your area.
It is miserable being cold and having no hot water.
There's no shortage Mrs Bee, just no-one returned my calls initially :( Then when Ben got hold of someone he did a cr@p bodge which cost us £60 :(
Now we've found someone we trust, we've managed to get the money this morning so hopefully next couple of weeks we can get it done :)
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Ooof, that is still 2 weeks of cold and suffering. :ohmy:
I have told our plumber/heating guy that I love him on many occasions. He is amazing. he busts a gut to sort out heating problems quickly so we aren't cold.
We have an address book of reliable builders, tillers etc. built up after years of moving and house renovations.
Mr Bee is amazing at all sorts of DIY and does perfect jobs, but he also knows when it is a case of GSI.
Hope it is sorted out soon and you can get warm. Let's hope the snow stays up North until it is.
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Thanks Mrs Bee :)
Ben is quite handy around the house and can do a bit of plumbing and electrics, as well as decorating (when I make him help me on occasion ::)) but he to knows his limits ;)
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Let's hope the snow stays up North until it is.
:lol: :mad: :lol:
My heater's been bust since Saturday! The chap says he might be here tomorrow - but then he might not!
As he told me yesterday he would be here between 9am-12noon and then turned up at 4:15pm while we were at work, I don't hold out much hope for his accuracy....Maybe he's a weather forecaster in his spare time - or is that a plumber in his spare time....?
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Thanks Mrs Bee :)
Ben is quite handy around the house and can do a bit of plumbing and electrics, as well as decorating (when I make him help me on occasion ::)) but he to knows his limits ;)
Oh yes, they need to know their limits. :lol: :lol:
Mr Bee knows the theory of taking radiators off to paint behind but all excursions into the world of plumbing have resulted in wet carpets and floods. Mr Bee and plumbing do not mix. :lol: :lol: :lol:
And some jobs these days are relegated to professionals. He is a really good tiler and I am brilliant at grouting but we are having a tiler to do the bathroom 'because he will do a better and quicker job' unquote.
I read that as I want to hurry up and get the decorating done and go and play on the allotment and on the extra plot he has acquired. :lol: :lol:
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Let's hope the snow stays up North until it is.
:lol: :mad: :lol:
My heater's been bust since Saturday! The chap says he might be here tomorrow - but then he might not!
As he told me yesterday he would be here between 9am-12noon and then turned up at 4:15pm while we were at work, I don't hold out much hope for his accuracy....Maybe he's a weather forecaster in his spare time - or is that a plumber in his spare time....?
I'm starting to think my broken down heating is catching!!! :ohmy: :D
You have my utmost sympathy :)
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Thanks Mrs Bee :)
Ben is quite handy around the house and can do a bit of plumbing and electrics, as well as decorating (when I make him help me on occasion ::)) but he to knows his limits ;)
Oh yes, they need to know their limits. :lol: :lol:
Mr Bee knows the theory of taking radiators off to paint behind but all excursions into the world of plumbing have resulted in wet carpets and floods. Mr Bee and plumbing do not mix. :lol: :lol: :lol:
And some jobs these days are relegated to professionals. He is a really good tiler and I am brilliant at grouting but we are having a tiler to do the bathroom 'because he will do a better and quicker job' unquote.
I read that as I want to hurry up and get the decorating done and go and play on the allotment and on the extra plot he has acquired. :lol: :lol:
Oh my radiators... When we replaced our old boiler we had to drain all the radiators and later fill them back up. Not going to name names, but someone had put the wrong radiator bleed valve in the wrong radiator, so when it came time to fill the system back up, Niagara Falls came spewing out of one! Normal people pay to have theirs replaced by a professional, but we here aren't quite normal anyway😜
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morning early birds ;)
so I'm ready to begin baking
can't decide which lemon recipe to make :unsure:
lemon drizzle cake / lemon shortbread or lemon slices ?
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Lemon shortbread sounds lovely ☺️
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then lemon shortbread it is lotu ;)
whats the time in Washington DC ?
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11:08 pm. Not quite early yet lol :tongue2:
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Morning all.
Lemon shortbread sounds good to me also
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Morning all. Watching some daft pet programe this morning, cat desperately trying to find the puppies squeaking on the computer (our TV goes through the computer) Good to have a laugh first thing....
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Bleurgh! Mornin' all.
It's insane to be up at this hour as far as I'm concerned!!! :lol: :tongue2:
Cat woke us up at 5:30am - alarm wasn't due for me until 6:15am!!! :mad:
Should have just got up then, but no, sleep is too precious and I probably zonked out again 10 minutes before the alarm went off! >:(
Day 12 no heat/hot water. Filled the bath last night with pans of hot water and kettles :(
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Back to strip down washes from a sink for the moment then DBG - Good that you can now get it repaired, I replaced ours last year with a newer Vailient Boiler as the old one had lasted nearly 20 years had had given great reliable service over that time.
The new unit is so quiet I have to strain to hear it working
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We have just had our boiler serviced. It was replaced about eight years ago, and is also a Vailent. The engineer did say this was one of the most reliable on the market and it certainly is economical.
Hope that is helpful DBG :)
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Hope it's fixed soon - that long without heating and water is no joke.
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We have just had our boiler serviced. It was replaced about eight years ago, and is also a Vailent. The engineer did say this was one of the most reliable on the market and it certainly is economical.
Hope that is helpful DBG :)
Thanks Sunny and Alan :)
He did say it would be a Vailant boiler - he said they were the best on the market.
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Morning All,
Working from home today. 0600 telephone call planned. I might try snuggling down again for a bit. Doubt if I'll get off though. Have a great day
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Morning Robster & all
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Morning all! :)
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Morning all. Amazing sunrise here in BG to lift the spirits. :)
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Sun's still firmly below the horizon here, though the birds are starting to cheep away.
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It's cold! :(
You're gonna get bored of me saying that soon!! :lol:
Off to work in a mo. Looking foward to Zumba dance class tonight :D
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Lovely morning sun colours coming up over the back fence
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Morning all. Cat had a blip and reverted back to wanting to get up at silly o'clock. So glad I don't have to go to work.
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Not sure if this counts as early morning, I've been to bed :wacko: & would like to be there now but my body, well mainly my brain has other ideas about that :mad:. Why couldn't I have slept til 4 or even 5 & then got up :wacko: :ohmy:. So good morning, said in best ' Allo,Allo policeman voice I can muster :D
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Good moaning Snowdrops, hope you've managed to get some sleep.
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Whoops! Put that one in the wrong place! Morning all 😊
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As the lyrics have been going round in my head, it's just clicked that as I was typing my last post, Walk Away Renee by the Four Tops was playing on the radio .... the Allo Allo link strikes again :lol:
Morning LotuSeed, although it's still yesterday for you ;)
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Bleary good morning to all. Went to bed as usual but was awake by 11.30, got up at 1.45. Not happy, but get so cross lying in bed trying to sleep which makes things worse. :(
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Bleary good morning to all. Went to bed as usual but was awake by 11.30, got up at 1.45. Not happy, but get so cross lying in bed trying to sleep which makes things worse. :(
I so know that feeling :mad: :wacko:
Well I went back to bed at 3:30 & eventually went sound off to sleep about 5. To be woken by the phone at 6, it was my uncles care home telling me he was much worse & if I wanted to see him I should go. Once I was up I rang them back & on discussion that it would take me 2 hours or so I decided not to go. I rushed up on Saturday & came back yesterday afternoon. They rang 3/4 of an hour later to tell me he had died so I wouldn't have got there. A sad day. Now to go to work & find out how the powers that be think it will be alright to make me & my colleagues redundant :(
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Aw I'm sorry about your uncle. What a rotten day you have ahead of you. :(
I've got nothing to moan about, don't have to go anywhere or see anyone, just pity my OH.
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Good Morning, my deepest sympathy snowdrops, :( it is strange how bad things always seem to come together ::)
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My best wishes are with you, snowdrops.
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What a night and morning Snowy!!
Only hope it gets better for you :)
Lots of love n hugs xxxx
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Thank you all, it really helps having all those kind wishes. I got through it & I'm back home ensconced on the sofa & that's where I'm staying until I go to bed early ;)
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Condolences from me too :(
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Thank you Yorkie.
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Big hugs from me Snowy. x x
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Thank you kindly Mrs Bee.
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Sorry to hear your news Snowdrops.
Morning all!
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Thank you Roger. A better sleep last night,thank goodness,hope it was the same for every one who is often on here before me & haven't made an appearance yet this morning :D
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A cat nearly puking on your bed is better than any alarm clock!! ::) >:(
Just managed to knock her off the bed in time!! But then, you're awake - over half an hour before the alarm is due to go off!! ::)
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Oh dear Emma, worse than my early phone call of yesterday I should imagine. When I lived at home with M & D our cat slept on my bed & when he wanted to get up he used to walk on me to wake me, if that didn't work he would tap my face with his paw,sit on me & sniff my nose, & if that didn't work he would walk on the dressing table & gently knock things off ,on purpose. That always got me up :lol:
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Oh dear Emma, worse than my early phone call of yesterday I should imagine. When I lived at home with M & D our cat slept on my bed & when he wanted to get up he used to walk on me to wake me, if that didn't work he would tap my face with his paw,sit on me & sniff my nose, & if that didn't work he would walk on the dressing table & gently knock things off ,on purpose. That always got me up :lol:
Sounds familiar! What about kneading the cover so you can hear all those threads pulling and purring at top volume at the same time. And surely our little blighter should have stopped trying to suck fingers at six months? . I got up, OH went back to bed. The cat played and made a nuisance of himself and has worn miself out.
Morning all. Glad you managed to get some sleep Snowdrops
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best night sleep for ages 10.30 til 7.30 in one lot :D
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I wish I could do that, I'm awake on and off all night
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best night sleep for ages 10.30 til 7.30 in one lot :D
I would kill for a night like that.
I feel lucky if I only get up once in the night. :(
I had 2 nights like that last year.
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2 nights of good sleep.... you lucky...carrot!
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Oh dear Emma, worse than my early phone call of yesterday I should imagine. When I lived at home with M & D our cat slept on my bed & when he wanted to get up he used to walk on me to wake me, if that didn't work he would tap my face with his paw,sit on me & sniff my nose, & if that didn't work he would walk on the dressing table & gently knock things off ,on purpose. That always got me up :lol:
Sounds familiar! What about kneading the cover so you can hear all those threads pulling and purring at top volume at the same time. And surely our little blighter should have stopped trying to suck fingers at six months? . I got up, OH went back to bed. The cat played and made a nuisance of himself and has worn miself out.
Morning all. Glad you managed to get some sleep Snowdrops
Yep all of the above, plus Jack either paws the bath side panel which bangs, or he sits on the wooden head of the bed and paws the picture frame, so it knocks against the wall.
Pawing the cover, or pawing Ben's face (never mine oddly), knocking stuff out of the wardrobe or off the dressing table... ::)
What we put up with eh! They're so cute when they're asleep :lol:
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Thanks Tosca, the day looks so much better when some sleep has been achieved.
MC, how lovely for you, did you do anything different to achieve that effect?
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best night sleep for ages 10.30 til 7.30 in one lot :D
I always have to P** at 4-4:30am ::) Never get a full nights sleep anymore :(
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Morning all. Not much sleep thanks to dear little cat. He will grow up soon.....
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Morning Tosca and all,
Not a good night here either, but no cat to blame.
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Morning from here too. Another early waking here, finally gave up in case I drop off to sleep & am late for work.
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Thanks Tosca, the day looks so much better when some sleep has been achieved.
MC, how lovely for you, did you do anything different to achieve that effect?
No I have spells when I sleep better and spells when my mind is more stirred up.
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I slept right through - a couple of glasses of birthday wine might have helped!! :D
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I slept right through - a couple of glasses of birthday wine might have helped!! :D
I've tried that :D glad it worked for you :)
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Morning all
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Ey Up - I've been up earlier these past few mornings, but nowt to say! Have a good day, all!
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Know what you mean Kevin. I seem to have woken grumpy (I'm sure it can't be anything to do with the flaming cat again.....the sooner the warmer weather gets here the better, I'll chuck the little monster out the window!)
Mutter mutter...grump grump.....
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slept through again :) morning all
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Show off! D'you wanna cat? He's having his rabies next week so will be good to travel. :lol:
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Show off! D'you wanna cat? He's having his rabies next week so will be good to travel. :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Off for a walk before it snows got a client at 1.30pm
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I'd like to know why Molly cat needs me to get up, just for her to go to sleep on the settee :dry: She could do that without me couldn't she ::)
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Oh yes, little....darling has been asleep in the sun for hours. Dogs are so much easier!
(http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv100/tosca100-dog/Snowyroads021_zps886075fa.jpg) (http://s673.photobucket.com/user/tosca100-dog/media/Snowyroads021_zps886075fa.jpg.html)
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ahh love the photo :)
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Morning all. Tummy too full kept me awake so not best pleased when dear cat decided to sit on my head! All sleeping now except me. Ah well.....
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Morning all. Tummy too full kept me awake so not best pleased when dear cat decided to sit on my head! All sleeping now except me. Ah well.....
It really amazes me how easily they figure out the place you'd least like them to be and then take full advantage of it lol. Your head when you're half asleep, your keyboard when you're trying to type, and oh I wasn't really interested in that book anyway so sit to your heart's content. And omg have you ever tried playing a board game with a cat around?! 😜
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Morning all!
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Not wishing to overlap too much with the weather thread ....
Just started snowing again in this part of Bedfordshire. A little extra fell overnight, but not much. Hope not too bad for everyone.
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Morning everyone
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Here in Northants a very light dusting :D
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We got a hard frost here , hubby got me the
things you put on your boots which were good on dog walks as mine pulls all the time .
we are off to aunty dorises today do a bit shopping dishes ect and drop offthe washing thats my bit kevs on entertainment and changing light bulbs, shes 100 and still got all her faculties but carnt get out unless taken .
chrissie b
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Busy day today!!
Looking forward to my BodyBalance session this morning :)
With cake obviously!!
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Morning all.
DBG - the cake bit sounds good
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Morning all.
DBG - the cake bit sounds good
Red velvet cup cakes - and yes they're good!
I ate 5 yesterday :blush:
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Morning all.
DBG - the cake bit sounds good
Red velvet cup cakes - and yes they're good!
I ate 5 yesterday :blush:
:ohmy: :lol:
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Morning all.
DBG - the cake bit sounds good
Red velvet cup cakes - and yes they're good!
I ate 5 yesterday :blush:
:ohmy: :lol:
And I've had another 2 today!!! :tongue2: :lol:
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And I've had another 2 today!!! :tongue2: :lol:
(http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_images_n300/0110-0909-0208-4152_happy_little_boy_eating_a_giant_cupcake.jpg)
Please tell me this isn't you & cupcake to scale :lol:
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And I've had another 2 today!!! :tongue2: :lol:
(http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_images_n300/0110-0909-0208-4152_happy_little_boy_eating_a_giant_cupcake.jpg)
Please tell me this isn't you & cupcake to scale :lol:
:lol:
Not quite!!!
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So are all the cupcakes to warm you up from the inside.
Have you got your central heating sorted yet.
Our boiler stopped working on Wednesday morning and by Wednesday afternoon our lovely plumber had sorted it. Just before the snow hit too.
I love my plumber. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Hmph...2.50am. OH came in at 2 (He's normally in bed by 9, doesn't understand why i was worried at 1 and rang to make sure he was OK, torrential rain outside and a pack of large feral dogs living at the end of the lane.) and he has hiccups but still sleeping, which got the cat excited so PLAY TIME!!!!! So get up, leaving dogs and cat upstairs. Door not shut properly so now have playful cat, one dog snoring on one sofa, the other insisting it has to be with me. To say I'm fed up is an understatement! Not sure what the day will bring after only an hour of sleep, but it won't be pleasant for any of them!
Rant over.
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Aw Tosca I'm sorry. I hope you can manage to sneak in some quiet time for yourself later.
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Not holding my breath, he can sleep through a hurricane, the animals will want feeding in an hour, kitten still playing and the cockerel has started up. And the feral dogs are on the lane barking, give me the shivers, the mayor doesn't usually let them hang about. Life in the country eh? :lol:
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Hmph. Didn't get to bed until 1130pm and have been awake since before 530am >:(
I wouldn't mind so much if I didn't have to write a 2000 word assessment today :(
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Well we're playing the waiting game in the airport ::) :D
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Hi Emma, happy birthday,you've got cake here :lol:.
Tosca, might both of you have sore heads today?
Yorkie, always the case I find when I've got lots to do or a big day looming.
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Morning all
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Morning from still dark Finland! :D
It's 7:57am here but it still counts as early back home :nowink:
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Morning all! Hope all is well with everyone
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Morning Roger :)
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Morning both :). Just spent 15 minutes sorting out the washing so DD can peg it out to realise it's snowed overnight :(
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First lie-in of the week (it's 9:52 here ;))
Mind you, is it a lie-in if you went to bed at 3am after standing in the snow at the top of a steep hill for several hours staring at a cloudy sky?? :lol:
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First lie-in of the week (it's 9:52 here ;))
Mind you, is it a lie-in if you went to bed at 3am after standing in the snow at the top of a steep hill for several hours staring at a cloudy sky?? :lol:
Seen any northern lights yet?
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First lie-in of the week (it's 9:52 here ;))
Mind you, is it a lie-in if you went to bed at 3am after standing in the snow at the top of a steep hill for several hours staring at a cloudy sky?? :lol:
Seen any northern lights yet?
Nope! :(
It's been cloudy and snowing so they weren't visible unfortunately. But tonight's our last night and best chance as the cloud cleared a bit today and we saw some sunshine!! So everything is crossed and we're not going to get much sleep again tonight :lol:
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Fingers crossed for you :)
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Morning from still dark Finland! :D
It's 7:57am here but it still counts as early back home :nowink:
How lovely! Hope you're having a great time.
I content myself looking at the pages of holiday adds in the daily paper.... :lol:
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Morning all.
Just 2 hours sleep then body seems to think that's enough, had enough of laying in bed trying to get more sleep so have got up.
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Morning All. Had a half decent night last night due to little cat being castrated yesterday and sleeping till nearly five sleeping off the anaesthetic, I was still awake by 3.30, but hey, you can't have it all. :D
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Morning Tosca,
I hope you're not suggesting castration as an answer to all sleep problems :ohmy:
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Morning Tosca,
I hope you're not suggesting castration as an answer to all sleep problems :ohmy:
Hmmmm....didn't think of that! :lol:
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Morning Tosca,
I hope you're not suggesting castration as an answer to all sleep problems :ohmy:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
morning all!
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When is bed time, feel like I havent been to bed in days ???
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Feeling a bit fed up. Got up at 2am for paracetamol to find the fire out and the boots by the back door full of snow. Lit the fire to dry the boots, now properly awake, covered in animals and lab wanting her breakfast!
So glad l don't have to go to work!
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We have been woken by the '4 mog alarm' this morning! ::)
I kind of miss it when I'm away :D - not that I got many lie-ins while we were away anyway!! :lol:
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Morning all! Who's off to the lottie today? I'll probably spend a short while on my plot later, and most likely spend more time thinking about being on the plot!
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Having Breakfast and waiting for the daylight then I'm off for a few hours of building hoop frames and cutting joists to form raised bed edging
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Morning all! Who's off to the lottie today? I'll probably spend a short while on my plot later, and most likely spend more time thinking about being on the plot!
Our is so waterlogged their is no point. Going to start leeks at broad beans at home this morning instead.
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Not me,heavy frost today, but need to clean up before I collect my sis from the airport, do some shopping & cooking, retrieve the dyson from DDs new house :wacko:
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I would love to be gardening today but my plot is solid (it seems to have it's own microclimate!)
I've got the weekly chook clean today up there, then off to MIL's for lunch :)
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Morning all.
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Morning from snowy Bulgaria. A week of -10s and we should be creeping up a bit to plus temps during the day. Fed up now, need to get on. :(
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Springtime: the light at the end of the tunnel. 🌱
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Finally decided to brave the world after 2 hours trying to get back to sleep. Oh well at least I managed 41/2 hours straight through,long time since I could say that :wacko:. Busy day, off up to Doncaster to my mums with my sister for uncle's funeral tomorrow.
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Springtime: the light at the end of the tunnel. 🌱
Seems to have been a long tunnel this year though, rather like the UK. Supposed to be short and sharp, but every so often we have a t-shirt day then back to dismal. :(
Soon be complaining it's too hot though! :lol:
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Finally decided to brave the world after 2 hours trying to get back to sleep. Oh well at least I managed 41/2 hours straight through,long time since I could say that :wacko:. Busy day, off up to Doncaster to my mums with my sister for uncle's funeral tomorrow.
Trouble is, the more you try the more cross you get...me anyway.
Hope tomorrow goes OK and the roads are clear.
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Thanks Tosca, will travel at leisure today, need to be at church for him to be received into church today at 4 pm.
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Morning all - up early to get through the enormous pre-holiday to-do list. Eeek.
Snowy, hope today goes well for you. xx
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Thanks Surbie, where you off to this time?
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Amsterdam for a couple of days. I haven't been for about 30 years so am looking forward to it a lot.
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Amsterdam for a couple of days. I haven't been for about 30 years so am looking forward to it a lot.
You be careful :lol:
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And no eating their Hamster Jam over there which they use to assist growing flowers
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good morning, Back home after 7 weeks away, it is surprising how much things get disorganised, so much to do to catch up.
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Making marmalade today :)
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Making marmalade today :)
Not Jam made from dead Hamsters then :nowink:
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Making marmalade today :)
Not Jam made from dead Hamsters then :nowink:
No
My hamsters died too long ago - they'd be dust by now! :D
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Making marmalade today :)
Not Jam made from dead Hamsters then :nowink:
No
My hamsters died too long ago - they'd be dust by now! :D
You should have done what the Dutch do and made Jam out of them then, a great fertiliser for flowers but I don't know about vegitables
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And no eating their Hamster Jam over there which they use to assist growing flowers
Urgh.. :nowink:
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Morning all. :)
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Morning Tosca and all.
Have you still got the snow in Bulgaria? Seems a bit misty here this morning
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Morning all 🌞
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Good Morning Tosca, Roger and LotuSeed! I've been up a while sorting the house out for her Ladyship to come down to have breakfast to and then it's the round of earlies and then 10 days off - with 8yo (going on 30) g/daughter in tow!
Let the battle day begin!
I hope you all have a great day! :)
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Morning everyone
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And no eating their Hamster Jam over there which they use to assist growing flowers
Urgh.. :nowink:
Morning all
Come on now Surbie you must have hear of Tulips from Hamster Jam
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Morning Tosca and all.
Have you still got the snow in Bulgaria? Seems a bit misty here this morning
We have been having a bit every day for a few days, mostly thawing then freezing. Not sure there will be much thawing today though or the next few as temps are not going to rise above -2 and -10 at night A day or two by the fire making cards I think.
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I'm back to work this morning after 12 days off :(
So difficult to get out of bed when the house is so cold!! I seriously want to hibernate! :D
A week from today the heating is being done ;)
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I'm back to work this morning after 12 days off :(
So difficult to get out of bed when the house is so cold!! I seriously want to hibernate! :D
A week from today the heating is being done ;)
Hell, fire and damnation is your heating still not fixed? :ohmy: :ohmy: Is there a shortage of heating engineers in Devon? :ohmy: Move to London and I'll share Mark with you. Fixed the same day.
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I'm back to work this morning after 12 days off :(
So difficult to get out of bed when the house is so cold!! I seriously want to hibernate! :D
A week from today the heating is being done ;)
Hell, fire and damnation is your heating still not fixed? :ohmy: :ohmy: Is there a shortage of heating engineers in Devon? :ohmy: Move to London and I'll share Mark with you. Fixed the same day.
Aww thanks for the concern Mrs Bee :D
It's not the fact there's no-one to do it - it's booked next Tuesday/Wednesday - it's me!!! I'm the problem!
I'm on nights this week s can't have somebody banging about while I try to sleep ::) Next week is the only day I have 2 days off together to get it done.
They said they'd jus have the keys and do it while we're at work but I don't think so! While we have nothing worth nicking, I don't know them well andthere's loads of documentation with bank details on etc, so I will be here!! :mellow:
I've properly messed up my off duty this week! I should have done my teaching day tomorrow - not today!
Now I have to get up for the clinical educators at 10am then I volunteered to help teach clinical observations to the new HCA's - all before a night shift tomorrow night ::) :wacko:
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So sorry things are so difficult for you. I worked nights for a year and can sympathise with having different hours to the rest of the world (it seems).It's a pain when things break at the very worst time....heating always seems to break when the weather is at it's coldest. I hope it is all resolved soon, meanwhile fill those hot water bottles.
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Yikes that's a long miserable time to be without heating! Hope that your body clock forgives you the shift mix up too.
Am sitting here doing the last-minute jobs before I go away and trying not to wake OH, who knows what I am like and has made the strategic choice of sleeping in the spare room!
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morning :tongue2:
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Morning all. A bit of a lie-in this morning for me :)
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Morning peeps off on the school run in 13 mins ::)
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Morning all! Hope everyone is OK
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good morning, things have been a bit hectic after so long away.
A bit of bad news , the buyer for my house has dropped out, he cannot get the price he wants for his.
apart from that all is well thank you Rodger.
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Belated good morning all. Having to put up with bright sun and blue skies here, but with the night temperatures down to -10 it's bitter out of the sun. Lovely, the sort of day I used to love to ride in back in the day....................
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Why can I see BQs little boy in a ball pool in with the emoticons?
A bit late up this week, having a bit of a rest to help me get over all the comings & going so of the last couple of weeks. Also got some new herbal tablets so will see if they help
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Hi guys - is there a reason half of your avatars appear to be missing?
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I can see them all, must be the site upgrade, I've just posted about the emoticons in the site upgrade thread to let John know
Edit,no I can't see them all,BQs,rodgerbodgers arent there
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:lol:
BQ's is one of the few I can see :nowink:
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I can see them all, must be the site upgrade, I've just posted about the emoticons in the site upgrade thread to let John know
Edit,no I can't see them all,BQs,rogerbodgers arent there
I don't think I've set one up, which would explain not seeing mine
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Morning all. Hope everyone has a good Saturday :D
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Hi Tosca - I'm going to try but it's raining and not allotment weather at all >:(
Now off to the weather channel to see what is in store for me tomorrow as I really want to crack on down there :nowink:
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Blinding sun and blue skies here....but flipping cold! Ground too hard to do much but who cares?
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Grey Amsterdam here...all dreary at the moment, but hopefully the sun will push through. Yesterday was glorious.
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Good Morning dull rain promised later working in the garage de cluttering ::)
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Morning all,
Hope to get some time on the plot this weekend, in the tunnel at least, but loads of other stuff I need to do. I think my wife is confused about Valentines day, she seems to think it means that she can ask me to do loads of stuff around the house for her ::)
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Mornin' :)
Now I'm planning on stripping out the greenhouse and Jeyes-ing it today - whethet I actually get that done we will have to see :lol:
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Morning all, late to the parade again,but I have had breakfast, I shall be mainly ironing all day I think.
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Well, the sun didn't help the morning run smoothely. Took the dogs for their rabies boosters (shock horror, 80p each!) but had to wait for the vet. OH noticed a leak on a pipe sticking up in the 'lawn' which we have just found is a water pipe because of the leak. Can't imaine what it's for. Anyway, no idea how to fix a lead pipe with corroded joints, neighbour got visitors, builder friend out. Water on-off-on while I am making special meal and requested cake, chook ripped a nail off, stressed and rushed meal....we planned a restful day..... :lol:
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Mornin' :)
Now I'm planning on stripping out the greenhouse and Jeyes-ing it today - whethet I actually get that done we will have to see :lol:
It didn't get done! :D
We broke up and deposited a home made radiator cover to the tip and went for a walk around Saltram instead
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Morning all. How did everyone get on with their lottie plans at the weekend, the closest I got was looking through the seed catalogues.
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Managed 4+ Hours over the allotment Sunday then sowing seeds in the afternoon - well happy :D
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Morning all. How did everyone get on with their lottie plans at the weekend, the closest I got was looking through the seed catalogues.
No gardening plans here. With a windchill of -7F, below freezing temps for the coming week, and snow in the forecast, no gardening related activities will be completed in the near future. It's just too darn cold ❄️
Morning all :)
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Good morning no gardening here today rain forecast for all day.
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I stripped out and cleaned my greenhouse thoroughly yesterday.
Jeyes fluid and sulphur candles stinking the place out - including me!! :D
I can still smell Jeyes in my hair!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Morning,survived work yesterday so I'll go again today ;)
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*waves from underneath a blanket of snow
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* waves back at you & thinks very pleased I don't have to go to work in thick snow :D
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Hi Lou
How long are you expecting the snow to stay?
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Good Morning Hospital appointment today.
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SNAP
Good luck Dugless
I'm going with the wife to day for her annual check up at the Royal Brompton
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Hi Lou
How long are you expecting the snow to stay?
It's supposed to keep falling for another 4 hours. Federal government is shut down for the day, as are most schools. It's been really cold lately and it's actually too cold for the road treatments to melt the ice. I hope to go shooting in a few hours. the city is quite peaceful when everything's closed!
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Have you got far too go and is it target practice or game ?
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National Mall (not the shopping type, but where most of the monuments and museums are located, is less than 8 miles from my house, so it shouldn't take too long to get there, despite the snow. If I get really ambitious I'll head over to Great Falls National Park. That drive will be more of a challenge because of the hilly, winding roads that like won't have been plowed. Not shooting bullets, but photos, though I can do both lol.
http://www.nps.gov/grfa/index.htm
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Camera not Gun :nowink: :nowink: :lol: :lol: :lol:
The image of you I had in my mind is now fading :nowink:
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I have the gas men in ::)
By tea time tomorrow - I should have heating and hot water! :unsure:
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Hurrah!!! 'Bout time too! :)
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I have the gas men in ::)
By tea time tomorrow - I should have heating and hot water! :unsure:
I think a celebratory bottle or two will be in order this evening then. :D
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I have the gas men in ::)
By tea time tomorrow - I should have heating and hot water! :unsure:
I think a celebratory bottle or two will be in order this evening then. :D
It will be drunk in bed then!
We now have no gas fire which was our main source of heat. I have 2 borrowed oil filled plug in radiators, but they only give off heat in a small room and if you're sat on them (I'm hiding in my study - can you tell :D)
So we may be mega cold tonight :unsure:
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Morning all
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Good morning, Roger!
Even 4:30am is a bit early for me! I hope you have a good day!
I think mine will be busy with as-yet unannounced (but hinted-at) house-remodelling plans by SWMBO.... :ohmy: ::) :D
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Did somebody play "Taps?" Morning future-dwellers 🌞
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Morning all. Bit late getting going as have a new computer to learn about. It has cyrilic as well as normal letters on the keys, very off-putting!
Very cold out, hopefully for the last time, should be coming up to something more reasonable, like -5 Hoping so, wood is getting low.
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Good Morning each all clear from the hospital visit yesterday :D
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Good news there dugless ;) :)
I've another day hiding in the only room I can get warm (my study) while the central heating is finished.
Hopefully it will all be warm tonight - hope so because the gas fire has been removed from the front room. I may not ever sit in there again until the new fire is bought and fitted.
Not sure how long that will be... ::)
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Good Morning each all clear from the hospital visit yesterday :D
Good News there Dugless so did Mrs Cadalot :)
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Oooh good news all round :)
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Good Morning each all clear from the hospital visit yesterday :D
Good News there Dugless so did Mrs Cadalot :)
Congrats to both of you - that's nice news for a sunny morning.
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Good Morning each all clear from the hospital visit yesterday :D
Good News there Dugless so did Mrs Cadalot :)
Well Done, all round!
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I'm nice and waarrmmm 8) :D 8) :D 8) :D 8) :lol: 8)
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That's excellent news. Enjoy the warmth :D
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That is brilliant news. You waited so long to be warm. Now of course the weather will become unseasonably warm. :lol: :lol:
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That's good news DBG, although judging by the weather here today I think Mrs Bee might be right.
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That's good news DBG, although judging by the weather here today I think Mrs Bee might be right.
YAY!!
I don't mind! :D
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Morning all, Hope you coped with the unaccustomed warmth last night DBG :D
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Morning Tosca & all.
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Morning all, Hope you coped with the unaccustomed warmth last night DBG :D
I'm flippin' boiling right now and I woke up with cramp in my thigh! ::)
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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It's not funny Tosca!! :tongue2: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Cramp is horrible. I get it loads and it is nasty to watch the toes curl up on their own.
I got it terribly when I was potting up tomatoes last year; from ankle to hip. It was agony. I was screaming but couldn't move or get up to alleviate the pain. It was worse than childbirth.
Mr Bee watched helplessly as he tried to help me up while I screamed at him not to touch me. :(
You have my sympathy DBG. But I hope you are now cosy as the weather has changed for the worst today.
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Morning all, Hope you coped with the unaccustomed warmth last night DBG :D
I'm flippin' boiling right now and I woke up with cramp in my thigh! ::)
You have my sympathy - I get it loads too and it stops me completely in my tracks.
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Ooops sorry DBG, didn't mean to laugh at the cramp :ohmy: :blush: I am also a sufferer and it ain't funny, especially when the pain can linger for days. It was the irony of being too hot. Hope you are now used to the warmth.
I really should take the time to let things sink in before replying. :(
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Good Morning I missed yesterday I took my Son to catch an early morning train.
Busy day today greenhouse to clean and propagator to set up
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Ooops sorry DBG, didn't mean to laugh at the cramp :ohmy: :blush: I am also a sufferer and it ain't funny, especially when the pain can linger for days. It was the irony of being too hot. Hope you are now used to the warmth.
I really should take the time to let things sink in before replying. :(
I was only joking about being laughed at!! :lol:
I thought you were laughing about me being too hot now!! :D I can't win!! ::)
No more sad faces *hugs* :)
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I was! I've been moaning the bedroom is too cold in the morning so himself started to go down and stoke the fire so much I had to get rid of the duvet. I had to tell him to keep an eye on the wood, bless him. :lol:
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Ooops sorry DBG, didn't mean to laugh at the cramp :ohmy: :blush: I am also a sufferer and it ain't funny, especially when the pain can linger for days. It was the irony of being too hot. Hope you are now used to the warmth.
I really should take the time to let things sink in before replying. :(
I was only joking about being laughed at!! :lol:
I thought you were laughing about me being too hot now!! :D I can't win!! ::)
No more sad faces *hugs* :)
I sometimes get bad cramps if I have to take my asthma reliever - and I find that eating a banana really helps. :)
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Banana??! ???
I get horrendous cramps as a result of all the specialists faffing round with my back and none of them have been able to suggest anything for it. I like bananas too. :D
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My cramps have always been in my foot and calf and have normally followed a period of overindulgence ::)
This is new though - it's down the front of my thigh and I struggle to stand. I don't get the residual pain in that muscle (like I had in the calf for a day or two after.
I am wondering whether its' exercise related?? :unsure:
Not that I'm stopping any of my lovely classes :D ;)
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Banana??! ???
I get horrendous cramps as a result of all the specialists faffing round with my back and none of them have been able to suggest anything for it. I like bananas too. :D
Some cramps are caused by low potassium levels and the bananas are supposed to increase them. :)
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G/son has chicken pox and so we all went to bed early (8pm) to watch Thomas the Tank Engine Movie and now my body clock thinks it's 4:30am and it's only 1:30am....
Just enjoying breakfast of coffee and toasted sarnie!
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Been having better sleeps lately but cat had an off night and I gave up at 4. OH had put him out at 2.30...so I was listening out for him. Daft I know....
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Oh Joy. I had a proper nights sleep second one this year. Feel like a new woman.
Mr Bee probably feels like a new woman too. :lol: :lol:
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Lucky you, Mrs Bee! Want a poorly 3yo with chicken pox? :lol:
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No thanks Kevin. I will have all those joys to come when I become a Grandma. :lol: :lol:
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But practice makes perfect! :lol:
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Good morning, late posting, been busy ordering mice poison the little beggars are in the house some where.
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I slept so badly last night. Proper clock watching :(
And I'm at work all day today :( :(
Oh and my elderly chinchilla might have died :( :D :( so I might have my utility back (which is a very quiet but respectful Yay!) ::)
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DBG, chinchilla might have died, can't you tell? Or has Ben imparted the news?
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DBG, chinchilla might have died, can't you tell? Or has Ben imparted the news?
Ben imparted the news via text this morning ::)
He then said he may be 'undead' - I said why? Was he not breathing but moving?? ::) But since getting home, I've examined him and he has indeed passed :(
But I get my utility back - job for Tuesday ;) :)
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Morning all. Nice and mild here this morning. Hope nobody is too affected by nasty weather today.
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Morning Tosca and all. We had some very heavy rain during the night, but it's so windy that it's dried the patio already.
Hope everyone is well and got as much done on the lottie over the weekend as planned ..... I'd not planned to do much and I managed that
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DBG, chinchilla might have died, can't you tell? Or has Ben imparted the news?
Ben imparted the news via text this morning ::)
He then said he may be 'undead' - I said why? Was he not breathing but moving?? ::) But since getting home, I've examined him and he has indeed passed :(
But I get my utility back - job for Tuesday ;) :)
Sorry to hear your news but know you will enjoy getting your utility room back, how long had you had him for?
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Good Morning Looks like being cold and windy today good job I have some thermal coverage :lol:
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DBG, chinchilla might have died, can't you tell? Or has Ben imparted the news?
Ben imparted the news via text this morning ::)
He then said he may be 'undead' - I said why? Was he not breathing but moving?? ::) But since getting home, I've examined him and he has indeed passed :(
But I get my utility back - job for Tuesday ;) :)
Sorry to hear your news but know you will enjoy getting your utility room back, how long had you had him for?
We have had Charlie for the 18 years we've been together ;) :)
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Good morning, all!
I'm hoping for a drier day today - to do some garden work!
I bought a pear tree and plum tree yesterday and so I'm hoping to get these out in the garden by this weekend. I've soaked the rootballs for a few hours in Babybio solution and they have now drained off.
Hopefully, in a few years I shall be almost self-sufficient in fruit!
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Morning Kevin, sounds good to me
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lol! I'm just catching up on my youtube garden videos!
I wish you a good day, roger!
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good morning (yawn), hope everyone has a great day
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Morning all. Been up most of the night so late up after eventually getting a couple of hours in. Also watched a good few gardening vids. Now drab and damp outside so a day of card making is on the books.
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Good Morning cold and windy and rain sometimes Never mind it gives me time to clean up my Garage got a lot of stuff to get rid of the hard bit is deciding what to keep and what to get rid of.
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Good Morning cold and windy and rain sometimes Never mind it gives me time to clean up my Garage got a lot of stuff to get rid of the hard bit is deciding what to keep and what to get rid of.
Whatever goes you will need one two weeks later :lol: :lol: :lol: :nowink:
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Good Morning cold and windy and rain sometimes Never mind it gives me time to clean up my Garage got a lot of stuff to get rid of the hard bit is deciding what to keep and what to get rid of.
Whatever goes you will need one two weeks later :lol: :lol: :lol: :nowink:
Good Morning yes I have done that before but this is a necessity with the house on the market I must tidy up.
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Morning all, sunny and mild after a foggy start here in BG. Been to market, the seeds are in so bought some which I'm sure we don't need, and some red onion sets, only half a kilo (just over a quid) Don't need that many, just seemed churlish to buy less!
Birds are dragging me outside..... :D
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Good Morning cold and windy and rain sometimes Never mind it gives me time to clean up my Garage got a lot of stuff to get rid of the hard bit is deciding what to keep and what to get rid of.
Whatever goes you will need one two weeks later :lol: :lol: :lol: :nowink:
Good Morning yes I have done that before but this is a necessity with the house on the market I must tidy up.
You need to be ruthless dugless - ask yourself "am I really going to use that?"
I'm being ruthless with the stuff in the utility since Charlie chinchilla finally died on Monday :D
The end of the utilities we've cleaned (and i've painted) has never looked so clean!! :)
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Poor little fellow isn't even cold and you have re decorated his home :unsure: :nowink: :lol:
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Poor little fellow isn't even cold and you have re decorated his home :unsure: :nowink: :lol:
He was stone cold when I got home that evening ::) :lol:
The room is looking amazing already. I've had my eye on a good bit of storage furniture for in there for about 2 months now ;) :)
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Morning all. Rain stopped sleep at 1.45...then an earworm, a song I don't know/like/who sings. Pointless waste of sleep time.
Grumpy!
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Morning
grumpy Tosca and all,
Those earworms are annoying aren't they?
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morning all
just got a mention on venesa feltz show radio 2 ( 5.28am )
she asked what you got cooking so I emailed her to tell her that I just removed gluten free cake & cookies from the cooker and she read it out !!!!!!!
feeling chuffed !!!
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Hope the cake and cookies taste as good as you feel after Lady V reading your email.
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Fame at last Barley :D
You were an early bird baking at 5.30 in the morning. I'm on my second cup of coffee and still trying to get the energy together to do anything :lol:
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Can't say I baked early but I did ice a coffee and walnut cake at 7am. :lol: Three lots of bread on the go and floor washed, washing on the line and I am going to take my card making stuff outside and sit in the very warm sun that has made an appearance. :D
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Good Morning nothing to report that anyone would be interested in.
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I'm going to bed! :D
Night night :)
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Can't say I baked early but I did ice a coffee and walnut cake at 7am. :lol: Three lots of bread on the go and floor washed, washing on the line and I am going to take my card making stuff outside and sit in the very warm sun that has made an appearance. :D
Sounds like a fabulous day :lol:,I woke with a headache,it's rainy & blowy,but hey I've not got to work so not all bad ::)
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Phew, had to come in, too hot even with a t-shirt. Even the cat's moved in to the shade.
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Phew, had to come in, too hot even with a t-shirt. Even the cat's moved in to the shade.
Now you are just showing off. :D :lol:
It is wet, grey, miserable and freezing cold here. I just can't get warm even sitting in front of the fire. :(
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We have plenty of cold weather to come, but these little times just lift the spirits
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GOOD MORNING , Just made a mistake Missed out the second O in good morning it reads GOD Morning rather appropriate really :D
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Did no-one get up yesterday at all then?? :unsure:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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That would have been nice :lol:
Up at the usual stupid o'clock but thought I'd let someone else start the day's postings ::)
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Did no-one get up yesterday at all then?? :unsure:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
I woke up at stupid O'clock and then drifted off back to sleep.
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Morning all. Lovely mild start to the day. Hoping for a bit of sun later
Chestita Baba Marta, a big day in Bulgaria. Welcome to Spring
http://www.inestravel.bg/tour_164.html
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Morning all. Doesn't look too bad here at the moment (mostly clear skies with a bit of a breeze), although the forecast is for it to cloud and showers later. A couple of chores to do, but hoping to get a bit of time on the plot later.
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Sky looks a funny yellow here. Hubby had le me in bed but florence decided at 6.30 to come in and open the curtains for me. Thanks Florence.
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Good Morning computer has not woke up yet it is very slow this morning.
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Good Morning, last post and now first post, not that I think you are all still in bed :D just that you have not got around to it yet ::)
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Night night!
I'm off to bed :D
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Had to go out early to deliver some cards, had a mooch along the river to see the birds and came home to find the cornel tree alive with (hopefull our) bees and warm sun. All change tomorrow.
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Good morning from wet and miserable (but mild) Bulgaria. Cat got me up early with a smelly event, luckily the litter tray is still available for emergencies. Not what you need before 4am. :ohmy:
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Good morning Tosca from a wet Bedfordshire (not sure yet if also miserable)
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Good evening from the frozen mid-Atlantic ❄️
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morning all! sleep is a bit elusive at the moment so I'm playing with the seed sowing chart...and dreaming of spring.
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did i dream it or have i heard a dawn chorus? morning everyone
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Good Morning, Just back from taking my son to the airport, meaning a 4 O-clock rise.
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morning all, up with the birds and tidying here. Found another small bag of seeds I'd meant to put in the pass the parcel. D'oh!
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Morning surbie & all,
Been up a while but had a website issue to resolve first, now able to get on with my day. Hoping to get some seeds sown today, my order arrived the other day, now I can see just how carried away I got when placing the order :ohmy: :blush: ::)
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I WILL sow seeds today!!!
Haven't done any sowing yet! :blush: I feel so behind!!
Woke up stiff as a board!! Every joint needs oiling! :D Went to a 3 hour yoga workshop yesterday AFTER Bodybalance ::) :D
Amazing experience but oh do I ache today!! :lol:
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OK .... after seeing DBG's post, I'll change from "hoping to sow some seeds" to "will sow some seeds", I get her hint that I'm not sufficiently committed ;):lol:
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OK .... after seeing DBG's post, I'll change from "hoping to sow some seeds" to "will sow some seeds", I get her hint that I'm not sufficiently committed ;):lol:
I really HAVE too! I have not sown any this year at all! :ohmy:
Going to the pub to play darts first - bit sore around the shoulders though :unsure: a good real ale should help relax that ;) :D
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Morning all.
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Morning
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Monday morning again,it seemed it came round quicker this week,I suppose it's cos I had a busy weekend,hey ho it's off to work I go :nowink:
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Morning all, not been on here in awhile. Sun was shining here earlier but it seems the clouds are taking over. :nowink:
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Morning all. been up a while, sorting out seedlings and snowdrops that the ********************ing fox has dug up. >:( >:( >:( :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Not a good start to the morning. :mad:
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Morning all - a house bound day today as the weather is AWFUL.
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Monday morning again,it seemed it came round quicker this week,I suppose it's cos I had a busy weekend,hey ho it's off to work I go :nowink:
Well that didn't happen,ended up not going in as I have diarrohea :(
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Monday morning again,it seemed it came round quicker this week,I suppose it's cos I had a busy weekend,hey ho it's off to work I go :nowink:
Well that didn't happen,ended up not going in as I have diarrohea :(
Oh Snowy - what a horrible start to the week. Hope it eases off soon. Sending you {{hugs}}.
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Thank you Springy, don't feel too bad until I have to make a dash ;). I have an elderly friend who has had the same for weeks but worse, she was taken into hospital on Friday & is still in :(. Means I can't go & see her tonight like I was going to :(
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bread in and baking smells delicious
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Woke up to snow this morning, that wasn't supposed to happen! Totally fed up of this long, damp winter. Like being back in the UK, except I don't have to go out to work.
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I'm happy to report no snow here in Bedfordshire ;) Morning all!
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Morning all, Hope you are all well,
I read somewhere once and it may have been in one of JH's books about sowing. That it's one job you really should not put off. The seed will never get back the day that you delayed.
A useful thought
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Morning all, Hope you are all well,
I read somewhere once and it may have been in one of JH's books about sowing. That it's one job you really should not put off. The seed will never get back the day that you delayed.
A useful thought
Thanks for that!! ::)
I still haven't started yet!! :(
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Nor me ???
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Nor me - think that it is still too cold for some seeds. Well that is my excuse and I am sticking to it. :lol:
Morning all - the sun is shining but it is very cold - we had quite a hard frost this morning. Plans are to finish off tidying the greenhouse.
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Morning Gang, awake on and off all night, what with Mrs C and her ventilator and me getting dry every 1.5 - 2 hours during the night at the last time I woke up at 5:30, I decided to come down to my room and have a coffee. Wireless temperature gauge informs me that the greenhouse is a healthy 2.4 degrees C so no frost out there last night it would appear.
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Up early and watching the birds on the window feeders with a coffee - the parakeets are doing slow acrobatics and are very funny. There are some starlings and robins waiting for them to leave in the tree next to the block.
Lovely morning. Feels so much better than winter!
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Morning all, flipping dog woke me up at 6.30 with a barking frenzie cos she heard another dog barking outside. Frightened the living day lights out me.
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Belated good morning to all. The sun is out and a trip to market revealed shrubs in leaf, fields gone green and people looking happier. Got some stuff to make chutney, beef tomatoes still rather expensive at nearly a quid a kilo :lol: Three ex-commercials (hens) to replace a couple of ex-bats that faded, these ones in good condition but refusing to come out of the duck house into daylight. One of our old hens is complaining loudly as she can't get in and she likes that shed as her own, special laying shed....but she has already laid! ::)
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Morning all!
The lights are out for the 2015 Formula 1 season .... watching qualifying as I type this.
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Morning,not very early really but as I've not checked in for a while. Bit of shopping to do for Mother's Day lunch tomorrow then if the weathers favourable I might continue tidy the garden :)
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Morning all!
The lights are out for the 2015 Formula 1 season .... watching qualifying as I type this.
DON'T tell me!!
I've been on nights and I'm off to BodyBalance shortly and I won't get to watch it until I've had some sleep around lunchtime! :D
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Good morning I am posting this from the librbary, my computer is messing about. I have an intermitant problem it is the very devil to find out what it is.
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DON'T tell me!!
I won't ;) Good luck at avoiding hearing about it before you've seen it, I know what it's like ... radio off in the car, careful not to inadvertently see a news web site and things like that.
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DON'T tell me!!
I won't ;) Good luck at avoiding hearing about it before you've seen it, I know what it's like ... radio off in the car, careful not to inadvertently see a news web site and things like that.
I'm an expert at that!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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DON'T tell me!!
I won't ;) Good luck at avoiding hearing about it before you've seen it, I know what it's like ... radio off in the car, careful not to inadvertently see a news web site and things like that.
I'm an expert at that!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
So is my OH - it gets to be like that Likely Lads programme when they were trying not to hear the football results. :lol:
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Catching up with posts on here as it's raining and look like no visit to the allotment today >:( :(
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Raining here too. :( Computer problems, hate it. Have had to take everything off and it's supposed to be bigger and better than my old little net book with no battery. Money wasted as far as l can see.
Hate change.
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I did manage a visit in the end :)
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Morning all!
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Morning all. Computer in hospital, they would,'t chnge it so will have to hope they can't fix it. :(
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Morning all, back to work again,this week I might get there :unsure:
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Well I'm up at 8am and I'm NOT even working today ::)
Don't have cats! ::) :lol:
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Up since 6:00 sorting seed packets - now listening to the album 10cc - How Dare You! it's that kind of mellow rainy day :nowink: Lazy days ....
CyXeDqQEdKs
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My husbands fishing trawler put into port in Waterford at 1 am this morning. I left home at 9.30 pm to drive down with the fresh crew and got home at 5.30 this morning. I thought I would have slept for the day but I am awake since 8.30 and now have a thumping headache. :ohmy: I am going to go up to the plot for a couple of hours to try to clear my head.
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Up since 2:00 am been working to try and make me knackered enough to go back to bed and actually get some sleep :nowink: Ummm may try again, perhaps Darth Vador will be facing the other way if I'm lucky :nowink:
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Morning all, we have decided spring is here whatever the weather does. Onward and upward... :D
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Good Morning Back on line, after 12 days Talk talk finally got round to send an engineer
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Morning all, we have decided spring is here whatever the weather does. Onward and upward... :D
Indeed it is! :) A very merry Eostre to you all :)
I'm off to the gym in a bit - going to sneak a peak at the new Bodybalance release and then I've been invited to participate in the Bodyjam and Sh'bam quarterlies which should be fun - bit of dancing is good for the soul ;) :)
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So is sitting out in the sun with your lunch....bliss. :D
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been up since 2am
really having trouble sleeping lately :(
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Morning Barley, know that feeling well. Let OH go down first this morning, around 4, and he found the kitchen flooded from a perished tap hose.
So I stayed in bed bit longer, with two worried dogs and a cat! :lol:
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Up early but for once I don't mind, want to be ready to set off early to watch the Richard III cortege. Lots of road closures so don't want to miss my steam train ride from Market Bosworth :)
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Good Morning, Snowdrops enjoy your day , steam the real engine modern trains just don't have it.
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Morning all - am up early for messing about on the plot but it's very, very nippy out there so I might just have a leisurely brekkie and coffee till the sun's made it warmer.
Hope you have a great day Snowy. :)
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Morning all. Pottering around since 5am. A wee bit cool, but hoping for some sunshine later
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Morning everyone. Off out soon for a trip to England to visit my Mum who is back in Hospital. Ferry is booked for 9am. It's a bit windy here so hope the crossing won't be too bad.
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Off out soon for a trip to England to visit my Mum who is back in Hospital.
Oh dear :( I hope she is OK wighty and that your trip over to the mainland isn't too bad. Its breezy here but not that windy.
I was woken by the chicken alarm clock in the garden and am contemplating a plot visit. I went yesterday and did a lot of digging, so I am a bit creaky this morning ::)
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Morning all,
Been up a while trying to get things out of the way to free up some time to work on my plot later.
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Morning everyone. Off out soon for a trip to England to visit my Mum who is back in Hospital. Ferry is booked for 9am. It's a bit windy here so hope the crossing won't be too bad.
Hope your mum is ok - as I recall she's fairly frail *hugs*
My Spanish junior nurse has been visiting the Isle of Wight this week with a friend of his. I thought of you when I saw his picture on FB :)
I actually had a bit of a lie-in this morning. but have since had a lovely sunny walk down Cardinham Woods in Cornwall and a yummy roast lunch with a gooey pud! :)
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Morning all! A bad night last night - aching too much after working on the plot
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Good Morning Got a rash this morning another pain killer gone wrong
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Morning all!
Radio alarm came on at what I thought was the right time, then thought I'd slept through 2nd alarm a few minutes later. Showered, shaved etc thinking I was a few minutes late only to get downstairs and find the kitchen clock showing 3.30, not 4.30 ..... must have moved my clock forward an hour last night when changing the alarm time ???
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Morning Roger, nice long day ahead for you then. :)
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Morning, on annual leave this week so not been up so early, but awake just before 6 today for some reason :wacko:
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Morning I have been like that since I retired Snowdrops, comes from years of getting up at 6 O-clock
Missed the last three morning posting computer trouble again :(
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Good morning all!
It's nice to see most of you are still here after my long absence.
As this is my second or third "good morning" so far tonight I suddenly decided to drop in to check that the mods are keeping you in good order. ;)
I'm still caring for my mother (now 95) and despite a recent 999 trip doing ok. She had slept most of Saturday so is now far from the land of Nod... as predicted. :(
It's not bad out... reasonably warm, slightly damp but not too windy...yet. Lovely and quiet.
Here's hoping that when your Sundsy starts it's a good one.
Best wishes, Paul
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Morning Paul, nice to see you here. :)
Cat trouble last night (thought he'd got over that!) so up too early, watched Casualty and wished we hadn't, now getting ready for the first car boot sale of the year, looking forward to catching up with everyone.
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Morning Paul and Tosca. Cold wet and damp here so having a lie in. :)
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Good Morning, it is supposed to be bucketing down here but it is dry at the moment.
Must say the hour on suits my life stile up and about instead of lazing in bed.
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Steady rain, but not bucketing down, here in this part of the country - looks as though it's set in for the day
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Morning all & especially Paul,nice to hear from you again,you're doing a wonderful job with your Mum :).
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Morning all & especially Paul,nice to hear from you again,you're doing a wonderful job with your Mum :).
Ditto from me :) it can be a tough life being a full time carer. You're obviously doing a fine job ;)
I was getting up at 6:30am to watch the maylasian GP - however, still pooped from one night shift, lost an hours sleep overnight and have 2 early starts the next 2 days so turned the alarm off and went back to sleep!! :D
Turned the telly on just before 10am to press play on the sky box, only to hear a familiar but great national anthem and what colour the driver was wearing... ::)
*!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Nevermind - he's my fave and it will be nice to see how he gets the top step of the podium ;) :)
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Morning all & especially Paul,nice to hear from you again,you're doing a wonderful job with your Mum :).
Thank you........ I'd never manage without the support of Mrs Plots.
I'm so pleased to see lighter evenings and brighter days. It's been a long old lonely winter one way and another.
Great to hear you are all ploughing onwards. ;)
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Good merry morning.
A late 1st morning today and 5 hours good sleep. I had planned to spend tomorrow night in my own bed but woke to catch a glimpse of my mum cornering in the hallway.... just got to her in time to keep her walking-frame in gear with no sideways skidding. She was 1/2 asleep. Now fast asleep again having topped up with a large mug of cold water ::)
The sky is rapidly turning orange as I lay on the sofa looking out through the conservatory.... beautiful. Time for another sleepytime. :tongue2:
Have a great day everyone :)
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Can't sleep been awake for the past hour listening to the gale force winds and have heard a few things crash down from someone's house in the past few minutes. Took a look out the window but couldn't see anything. I can never sleep if it's too windy always frightened something is going to blow down off our house and damage the car or caravan :(
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Morning all .....a bad sleep night here also; not sure if the wind is to blame or if it's just one of those nights for me (I think the latter).
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Morning all. Feeling cranky as so much to do and the weather forecast is spectacularly wrong yet again. Burning sun yesterday (wrong) rain and cold wind today (wrong) :(I had better concentrate on using a mountain of eggs up somehow with limited ingredients. :ohmy:
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I had a couple of hours awake listening to the howling wind,luckily no crashes were heard though,seems a bit calmer now
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urgh!
v little sleep last night, for second night running.
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urgh!
v little sleep last night, for second night running.
It's all that meat, your body's rebelling :D
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urgh!
v little sleep last night, for second night running.
It's all that meat, your body's rebelling :D
:lol: :D
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Good to hear from Paul Plots again. :)
Gave up trying to stay asleep after being disturbed several times by the wind and rain, an over-vivid dream, and the inevitable full bladder. ::)
Got up at 0710 and wearily made myself a cup of tea, tried to focus my eyes on the GH to make sure it was still all in one piece, then heard the binmen coming down the road (they start early round these parts!)
I had a nasty feeling I knew what was going to happen next and it did - my and my neighbour's now empty black bins blew over (who cares?) into the road (oh bother!) so had to throw some clothes on to go and rescue them.
Sun's out now and I'm having a nice cup of coffee and trying to ignore anything happening outside! ;)
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Sorry to hear you've all been suffering from the wind outside. I guess we've had a blast too. It was fresh when I wandered over at 2am but my mother's bungalow is quiet inside so it was only her that kept me awake on and off. ::)
Not sure how Mrs Plots slept up in our attic bedroom :unsure:
JayG.... nice to know you're ok too.
PS I still use a dust-bin for our black bag. So far the bin men have let me get away with it but the foxes are not so delighted ;)
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I'm the only one that slept through the wind then??
Herbal sleeping pills are amazing :D
Up early this morning for work, but no time to post here. Good job I don't wear any makeup or do complicated hair do's or I'd need to get up an hour earlier!! :lol:
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Morning all
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Morning Tosca and all. A little less windy here last night.
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Good morning not a bad start to the day here have a good one each
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I remember the days when a lie-in meant getting up around 10-11am ::)
7:52am these days is a record!! :lol:
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Morning all!
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And a good (sunny) morning to you Roger and all.
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GOOD MORNING not so bad here some rain forecast, at least the wind has dropped
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Morning all - the ducks had me up at 6.45 this morning - yawn. Worth it though as the sunrise over the sea was lovely.
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Day is reducing in quality. Little cat has been lame and a trip to our local vet (who I have no faith in) and two injections and manipulation has resulted in a cat who can hardly walk at all. Dreadfully upsetting and I am sorry that this has happened on OH's big day (and that's another rubbish story)
Feeling totally useless.
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Day is reducing in quality. Little cat has been lame and a trip to our local vet (who I have no faith in) and two injections and manipulation has resulted in a cat who can hardly walk at all. Dreadfully upsetting and I am sorry that this has happened on OH's big day (and that's another rubbish story)
Feeling totally useless.
Oh no!!
You need some of my BIG PINK HUGS (only the HLC see these regularly) :D
Hope things get better very quickly. It's awful feeling out of control :(
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Oh dear Tosca,I'm sorry you're having a rubbish day,really hope it gets better & Splash of course, maybe it's inflammation from the manipulation & will go down :(.
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Thanks DBG, it must have worked as the day got better. Cat moving a bit better today and the exhibition (ashamed to say I wanted to stay home with cat :blush:) went better than we thought yesterday. Waiting for links for BG telly as we don't have it. OH stood out from the crowd as he wore a suit and is tall, smartest person there and hopefully people will remember him. Sold a painting which helped towards two new tyres for the 4x4
And thank you too Snowy. No manipulation today so getting better all the time. We have a feeling he might have been hunting in the wood shed and got clouted by a rogue log.
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Good Morning I am so frustrated I have had internet problems now since the 7 th of March sometimes I can get on Like now but then it will just disappear and wont be back for hours. :mad:
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Morning Dugless. I thought it was looking as though your internet problems had gone away, sorry to hear that's not the case :( The intermittent problems are the worst to resolve.
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Belated good morning to all. Had a busy day so far doing washing as we have sunny wind, sorting plants in the coldframe, making goodies. Lemon drizzle cake with home made curd and yoghurt filling, three jars of raspberry jam. three lots of bread, home made mayo, sorted a chicken into several meals for OH (not a home made chicken! :ohmy:) and now having a sit down with a coffee. :)
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Good Morning, on again for a while don't know for how long ::) ::)
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Morning but not early,though I've been up a while,breakfast done, cake for pudding decorated,done, batch of bread rising done, sour dough sponging started done, sitting havering a cuppa before going out to jet wash the greenhouse. Oh forgot,load of washing on the line, towels in the tumble,next load in :lol:
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Morning! It looks like a cracking day - off to the plot after brekkie. :D
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Morning all, been up for age's now just forgot to log in here. As it look like being a really nice day later, will be at the plot probably after lunch. Got until next Saturday to get the plot in order, going on holiday next Sunday for a week. I want the plot all dug over, weed free and all the path's strimmed back to the bone before I go.
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You lucky lot, we have had torrential rain all night and it's still coming down. Still, it's supposed to be up into the twenties in time for our Easter next weekend
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Bad night been up seed sorting since 5:00 :(
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Morning Cadalot. Always a bad night :lol: and woke to rain for the second day. But once the light came it quietened enough to hear the first nightingale of the year. Lovely. :)
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Morning all. I am always up early, a throw back to the days when i went to the wholesale market every morning.
Gonna be another great day. Going to clean and paint the decking this morning. Did the chairs yesterday.
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Good morning a bit dull here but little wind will be able to get up the allotment a few spuds to put in yet.
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Morning all. Left the sunshine in west Yorkshire, its foggy here in Manchester today. OH has just txt me, she is on the plot sowing "stuff" while I'm stuck in an office... :(I'm not jealous, I'm not jealous, I'm not...
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Mornin' :)
I haven't just got up incidentally :D
Been up and seen to the chooks and now waiting in the Torpoint ferry queue ::)
Going to see the surrogate family :)
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Morning! Don't expect to see anyone at this stupid hour. My shoulder was really painful after a day in the garden I tried to go to sleep without taking any pain killers but every time I moved it hurt and woke me up. Forgot I had this gel stuff Regenovex that you rub in to the painful area and it works instantly. Its brilliant stuff.
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Morning Ma Lowe. Sorry to hear of your uncomfortable night. I hope it was worth it in satisfaction.
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Morning All :D
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Morning all. I suspect with the recent improvement in weather that Ma Lowe won't be the only one suffering from aches and pains after spending time in the garden or on the allotment.
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Good morning! A good one for us as 4am was my 1st wake-up call this morning so four hours sleep in one go. Pretty good. :)
It's been an eventful few days... as it often is here. Ambulance ride last Thursdagy night but , for first time ever, I was the patient!! Strange travelling at high speed laying down.
My sister was called to look after Mum. It lasted <24 hours. By the time I was back home my sister had dumped my mother in a nursing home and fled to France for her 2nd holiday this year. Priorities :ohmy:
My mother fell in the nursing home...as I thought she would..no bones broken. I brought her home again.
Now we are both getting over our problems... and resting (?) - I'm waiting to hear from GP... tests on the way :(
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Good morning! A good one for us as 4am was my 1st wake-up call this morning so four hours sleep in one go. Pretty good. :)
It's been an eventful few days... as it often is here. Ambulance ride last Thursdagy night but , for first time ever, I was the patient!! Strange travelling at high speed laying down.
My sister was called to look after Mum. It lasted <24 hours. By the time I was back home my sister had dumped my mother in a nursing home and fled to France for her 2nd holiday this year. Priorities :ohmy:
My mother fell in the nursing home...as I thought she would..no bones broken. I brought her home again.
Now we are both getting over our problems... and resting (?) - I'm waiting to hear from GP... tests on the way :(
Goodness gracious! I hope you both are soon on the mend!
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Thanks LotuSeed... slowly getting there but I'm not looking forward to hearing from the doc or hospital :(
Have had another hours sleep... until my mum's latest trip to the bathroom. Not making tea again until 9 or she'll be up again in 30 mins.
Cat napping? I'll have yellow eyes soon lol
Hope everyones aches and pains are little ones.
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Take care of yourself Paul :(
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Paul - your sister is a right royal pain in the rear!! :mad:
It's so difficult when you're the main carer to take the time to look after yourself but please try m'dear :)
I'm just about awake now (I have been at work for 3 hours already) but you'll be pleased to hear that all my patients are still alive! :D
Early mornings - bleurgh!! :wacko:
Why did I go into nursing - somebody please remind me!! ::)
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Good morning! A good one for us as 4am was my 1st wake-up call this morning so four hours sleep in one go. Pretty good. :)
It's been an eventful few days... as it often is here. Ambulance ride last Thursdagy night but , for first time ever, I was the patient!! Strange travelling at high speed laying down.
My sister was called to look after Mum. It lasted <24 hours. By the time I was back home my sister had dumped my mother in a nursing home and fled to France for her 2nd holiday this year. Priorities :ohmy:
My mother fell in the nursing home...as I thought she would..no bones broken. I brought her home again.
Now we are both getting over our problems... and resting (?) - I'm waiting to hear from GP... tests on the way :(
I'm sorry to hear of your trip to A& E & of course your ongoing troubles with your sister. Might it have been better for your mum to stay in the nursing home until you are fully recovered? Your mum might have changed her opinion of your sister then,just a thought. You need to be well to be a carer ;) :)
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Thanks for concern... I must not hijack the thread but.....
Snowdrops.. my mum had a fall at nursing home... couldn't risk another although I would have loved a few days rest & sound sleep.
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Morning all. Good and bad this morning, bad being our little cat who we thought was getting over his trauma is going backwards again. happiness because you can't fail to love a nightingale. Going to be a strange day.
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I hate mornings :wacko:
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I hate mornings :wacko:
They speak very highly of you my dear :nowink:
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I've gone to bed the last 2 mornings; I'm up this morning and after tomorrow I shall be going to bed in the mornings again!! :wacko:
Confused!!!
Mornings wouldn't speak highly of me because I'm pretty daft and useless the earlier I have to get up!! :lol:
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Morning all. Made two batches of jam before it gets too hot to be in the kitchen, trying to decide if I want to make chutney too. Decisions decisions.
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Morning all. Good and bad this morning, bad being our little cat who we thought was getting over his trauma is going backwards again. happiness because you can't fail to love a nightingale. Going to be a strange day.
Poor Splash! :( Hope he's bounding about again soon.
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Morning all. Made two batches of jam before it gets too hot to be in the kitchen, trying to decide if I want to make chutney too. Decisions decisions.
Just rub it won't you :nowink: Nice for you :)
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Haha. The warmth has done the cat good anyway, he's nearly back to normal. Little b*****!
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Haha. The warmth has done the cat good anyway, he's nearly back to normal. Little b*****!
I do love catching up on your blog :D
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Good almost morning...well, it soon will be.
I'm delighted to announce that, after a little over a month, I am just about to start my second sleep in my own bed overnight. Boy does it make a difference to how I feel during the day. Several hours of undisturbed sleep all in one go: Bliss.
Here's hoping everyone has a comfortable night's sleep until your morning arrives. :)
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Hope you enjoyed your sleep Paul
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Hope you had a lovely long un disturbed sleep Paul.
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Morning all, Paul sorry to hear of the recent events with you, your mum and that sister of yours. I hope you have the longest sleep ever.
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Morning all.
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Morning to all the early birds
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Forgot to look in. Morning everyone. Going to be a scorcher here today, will have to move seedlings into the shade
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Good very late morning... I was up at 2:30 but headed off to bed at 3am as my mother's breathing was fine when I checked in on her.
Then...the post arrived... hospital appointments at 9 and 10am next Wed. Not really my idea of a fun day out especially having read the accompanying leaflet. :wacko:
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Good Sunday morning all. Feeling a bit bleary this morning, cat couldn't play out yesterday evening due to thunderstorms, so played inside all night.
Garden;s looking refreshed so not all bad. And the birds are singing very loudly....we are sure we heard an oriole this morning.
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Me again... And good morning to you all...especially Tosca ;)
I thought I'd drop in here before heading off to bed having just got back for A&E yet again. :ohmy:
This time the trip was for my mother who developed severe chest pains at bedtime so off we went...
By 4am she was settled and comfortable in a ward after a battery of tests. I took a taxi home and, of course, I'm now wide awake.
Hopefully the nurses will look after her better than the nursing home. Can't be worse surely? They will, I imagine, have the pleasure (??) of my sister's company sometime during the day as Sunday is her visiting day for a few hours when she has no other comitments. I hopefully will avoid that by phoning the ward before I go back over to visit.
Does anyone think this on-going 5 year saga would be worth reading if I wrote a book and splashed a bit of humour amongst the pages? I've been thinking about a title: "Do I b***y care!"..... a carer's guide to survival.
Sometimes laughing can be a real tonic... ....if the people in the white jackets don't get you first. :wacko:
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Oh Paul, I am sorry. I know from my own parents how difficult it can be, though my siblings were not quite as bad, they tended to shout from afar.
I have been feeling a little guilty that I didn't appreciate how every day life can be made so difficult as arthritis really kicks in, I could have been a bit more patient with both parents (not that they ever realised) Now I have it badly enough to stop me doing things I love I understand. I would love the chance to talk to them both now and tell them I am sorry. But I can't. They both succumbed to emphysema which made us both give up smoking, but then I put on weight so no win.
But life goes on and I am happy most of the time. Just frustrated and missing Mum and Dad. They would have loved to have seen what we are doing here
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Me again... And good morning to you all...especially Tosca ;)
Does anyone think this on-going 5 year saga would be worth reading if I wrote a book and splashed a bit of humour amongst the pages? I've been thinking about a title: "Do I b***y care!"..... a carer's guide to survival.
Good Morning Paul
It could make a very good book!!! Definitely with added humour. :D
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I'll add a few pages - could you iron my hankies please, I find it keeps them cleaner! Or, could you cut my toast into squares rather than triangles because there is less crust!
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Morning all,
Paul I admire your humour and would certainly buy your book 😊 it would make very interesting reading. Hope your mum is well and can't wait to here what your sister was like on her visit, that's assuming she did visit. You deserve the biggest medal ever.
Weather is misty this morning which was a surprise hope it clears as we are supposed to have a beautiful day. Been looking at going away for a week or two to Zante, anyone had any experience of the place that they care to pass on before I make a final decision?
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Does anyone think this on-going 5 year saga would be worth reading if I wrote a book and splashed a bit of humour amongst the pages? I've been thinking about a title: "Do I b***y care!"..... a carer's guide to survival.
Definitely - I can see that path ahead of me and survival tips would be very welcome!
Up at 4 to get to Solihull to deliver a day's training - 17-hour round trip if all the trains behave and I may take a couple of hours tomorrow morning for R&R at the plot to recover. Same again on Wednesday, but at Heathrow. :nowink:
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Ma, I lived on Zante for a good few years, and it's a beautiful place if you stay away from the resort centres - full of screaming teenagers and discos :lol:
Especially I'd avoid Laganas.
Find somewhere like Aghios Sostis, it's a smaller resort and quieter - but a pleasant walk along the beach and boardwalk will take you into Laganas when you fancy the shopping/to book trips etc/noisier night life ;)
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Thank you Mum how lovley to have lived there it looks fab. I am hoping it will be quieter with it being 1st May we want to go. We have looked a t a place in Kalamaki and also Tsilivi and Limni Keriou. Are these any good? I am not a nightlife person but then I don't want to be out in the woods all alone either. As long as we are near the essential food shops it's ok lol. :D
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Ooo lucky you Ma, but as Mumofstig says, choose carefully as teenagers still travel to popular night spots even as the season just opens. We always went to Greece in the first week of May and there were tribes of teenagers going while it was cheap. We were always careful to avoid busy areas but still be near beaches and tavernas. Never been to Zante but been to plenty of other islands.
Now we just have to drive south and cross a border...but don't need to. We have it all except beaches here.
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Ma, I lived on Zante for a good few years, and it's a beautiful place if you stay away from the resort centres - full of screaming teenagers and discos :lol:
Especially I'd avoid Laganas.
I said that too in Ma's HLC thread!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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We can't both be wrong ;) can we :unsure:
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We can't both be wrong ;) can we :unsure:
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Not when it's been on English news programmes because it's so awful!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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We have booked a fortnight at Tsivili. Thank you for advise as to where not to go girls I just hope where we will,be going will be ok.😊
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Hope you enjoy your break Ma Lowe.
Up at three with stuffed up head and cough. Could do with a nice dose of sunshine this morning.
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Good morning all, up with the dawn chorus again after a sound 7 hours and ready for the day :-)
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Morning all. Was expecting a grey misty morning(according to the weather forecast) but it's sunny Yayyyy.
Hope you feel better soon Tosca 😊
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hello cannot join you in the mornings I am now in sunny Fuerteventura, at least I have an internet connection unlike at home where I have not had one for the last 6 weeks :mad: I will be changing my IP when I get home.
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Morning Dugless, you get around a bit don't you lol :D hope you're having a good time.
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Yes I do, thank you for your wishes I always enjoy my trips here.
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Nice to see you are all still here.. (or there :unsure:).
I'm intending to get my sleep pattern under control..eventually. Very little of it last night... too busy fussing about my hospital trip early Wednesday. It went well... excellent staff, lovely colour monitor although not the picture I would have chosen for inflight entertainment. Thank heavens the camera was a small one :wacko:
Up-shot: Me dead tired but given the all clear... drink plenty of water for then next couple of days.... and we'll write to your GP. (Waste of ink that'll be). Scans, x-rays and pretty pictures done.
I'm not sure why it took two doctors (one male and one female) and two nurses (one male and one female) to investigate the inside of my bladder. I said I didn't need holding down but I'd talk a lot to help me relax. :blush:
Got to return for scan of my kidneys next month but hopefully no cameras involved for that. :mellow:
My mother: bright, cheerful, cracking jokes, found a "toy-boy" as the porter is "tall, young, dark, handsome and single" and she is generally the darling of the ward according to the staff. She wants to come home for a roast dinner with pork crackling........ so getting better rapidly although the oxygen is helping at present. A few more tests and decisions about medication to go.
Hope your mornings show promise. ;)
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Morning Paul :)
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Morning everyone, hope you have a good day
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We have booked a fortnight at Tsivili. Thank you for advise as to where not to go girls I just hope where we will,be going will be ok.😊
I don't think it has changed hands since the last time I went, so I can recommend The Golden Fish for fish and chips and Gyros.
I also used to be silly/have a great laugh at the Fantasy Mini Golf - if you go in the late afternoon or evening make sure to use plenty of mozzie repellent as the holes are over water and waterspouts (all prettily lit up with coloured lights) There's a bar at the start of the courses ( I think there are 4 to choose from) and you are allowed to take your drinks around with you, if you like.( It always seemed to improve my scorecard if I did :blush: )
If you get a car there's a restaurant called Aeras on the road to Porto Vromi. It's built into the edge of the cliff and the view down to the sea and the cove below is truly amazing. I'll never forget the colour of the sea there.
I'm gabbling a bit so I'll stop there, although there are other places .............................. :nowink:
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Morning all, lovely sunny day here in BG
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Morning all. Ducks were calling at 6 this morning - let them and the hens out and went back to bed and did not wake again until 9. :lol:
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Morning all, Noisy start to the day with nightingale, tits, cuckoo, Sevi cockerel and the ducks all trying to outshout each other since 5.30 Going to be a nice one.
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Morning all, Noisy start to the day with nightingale, tits, cuckoo, Sevi cockerel and the ducks all trying to outshout each other since 5.30 Going to be a nice one.
Don't you mean "musical" start lol. Hope everyone has a good one today 😊
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Haha, Sevi and a pile of ducks.....no! Even a cuckoo sounds monotonous after a couple of weeks, but I wouldn't change it. The nightingale is just lovely, and so many of them about.
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Morning all. No "musical" start here this morning, I think the damp start to the day has quietened things a little.
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I've been up since 5:00 - done a little work - keeping the accounts up to date and catching up with all the activity on the diaries here - Raining so not going to get the grass cut today and the potting on of the tomatoes today then >:(
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At the in-laws and have been up for a couple of hours, waiting for the rest of the house to stir. I've likewise been catching up on diaries and wondering whether I can sneak in a visit to a garden centre...
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Good morning, just lazing about might go down the beach this afternoon.
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I know it's not good morning time but......
An early night on Saturday for me.. in bed and soon asleep at 10pm. Sunday morning up and refreshed by 6am then coffee and toast. I felt great... but by 8:30 having completed a few early morning jobs, I clambered back to bed just because I could :)
A whole Sunday to myself... the first one for a couple of years.
Back to normal tomorrow. ::)
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Morning Paul, your last post oozes contentment. Hang on to those memories. :)
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Morning all. Another beautiful morning here. :)
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Morning Paul, your last post oozes contentment. Hang on to those memories. :)
What a shame there isn't a 'like' button on here :)
"LIKE" ;)
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Bless. Morning Paul. :)
Nightingale singing his little heart out. How can such a little bird make such a loud song?
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Not even a blackbird singing here yet. Probably very soon though as the light whispers through the trees and the day wakes.
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I had a bit of a lie in this morning (despite Ben making all the noise in the world as he got ready or his overtime shift ::) - I'm never that noisy in the morning when I get up early >:()
On a couple of night shifts tonight then looking forward to a week off next week ;)
But today - I'm visiting the tip (sorry - recycling centre :D) and cleaning the oven!! ::)
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Why are you cleaning an oven at the recycling centre?
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Why are you cleaning an oven at the recycling centre?
Note the and in between.
I've been to the tip - now my oven at home awaits :D The cleaning stuff has been sat inside it overnight so it should come out looking pretty good ;)
I hate this job!! :mad:
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A small fluffy thing is twittering away at the top of its lungs in the pre-dawn. Looks like there was a fair amount of rain last night. :)
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Dry as a bone here over night :nowink:
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morning all, the birds have started early this morning, typical and me with a day off ::)
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looks miserable out there :(
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I'm only awake cos the cat jumped on my head ::)
and yes, it's miserable out there :(
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It's a bit dull and dreary looking here too - but then theres a bank holiday coming up, so we should expect nothing less really!! :lol: :lol:
It feels really early right now - I finished nights yesterday and I find it really difficult to wake up the first morning after :wacko:
Off out to lunch with the 2 other ward sisters today - lovely Greek restaurant on Sutton Harbour :)
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I'm only awake cos the cat jumped on my head ::)
and yes, it's miserable out there :(
Our cat walks up and down on Mrs Plots until she gets up, lets it out and then feeds it. When Mrs P is away I get a gentle touch on the end of my nose from the cat's nose. It works. :)
The cat knows better than try the rough stuff with me. >:(
Not many early mornings for me recently... too many hospital trips to be bounding about when the birds get up... but I'm making up for it in bus journeys. :mellow:
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Haha, with the better weather our little terror is using more energy with trying to rid the world of crickets and other delectables, so when he does come in (sometimes have to let him in in the early hours) he sleeps, rather than crawling all over me.
Morning Paul :)
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Morning all. Just mustering the energy to do some light housework :( before going off to the plot.
Tosca, I bet watching the tiny terror stalk crickets could be very amusing. How good is he at it?
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He's very good Surbie, and relishes what he catches, I can watch him for hours and luckily have the time to do so. Also the little duckling being raised by our broody chicken is highly amusing, I can't believe how high he can jump after those flies. He's a proper little forager and so quick. Poor 'Mum' can't keep up with him.
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Morning all, it's p...ing down up here, no chance for the lotty today. >:( >:(
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Raining here too, but it's supposed to stop between 10 and 11 so there will be a drop off stuff and little tidy visit later morning, but for now I'm printing labels and getting the next lot of packets of seeds together that need to be sown.
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I'm at work all day today - extra shift because I'm so poor :(
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Not had many very early mornings recently apart from this morning.. couldn't stay asleep... Mrs Plots was sat sitting propped up in bed on a pile of pillows with our pussy-cat sitting on her purring away like a buzz saw.
It was the cat's row that woke me up.
It's taken me until now to flick the pooter on to tell you. ::)
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Not had many very early mornings recently apart from this morning.. couldn't stay asleep... Mrs Plots was sat sitting propped up in bed on a pile of pillows with our pussy-cat sitting on her purring away like a buzz saw.
It was the cat's row that woke me up.
It's taken me until now to flick the pooter on to tell you. ::)
Nothing like loud, sudden noises to usher in a new day😐. I was awakened by my dog, paws on headboard, barking at something. Fun😑
Here's hoping you have a restful rest of the weekend.
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Morning all. Off to a car boot sale soon, more of a social occasion this time as not much made with being ill. Weather set to be cooler, around 23c, so more bearable than of late
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I got up early (for me) 8am and went and did an hour of BodyJam at my gym! :wacko: :D
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Good morning all. A brightening sky here at 5:30 when I hung the first lot of washing out.
My mother home from her 3 week hospital stay so back to normal but not a bad night - only up three times so feeling OK to face the day.
Might get something done at the far end of the garden on my veg plot if all goes well.
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It's one of those nights, I just can't sleep.
Come down here for a drink and a surf and will go back to bed in an hour and try again
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It's one of those nights, I just can't sleep.
Come down here for a drink and a surf and will go back to bed in an hour and try again
I hope the surfing and supping worked?
I went cold turkey and it worked. I slept till now
:)
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Going to be up to the thirties here today so we have been out weeding before sunrise. OH went off to get fresh milk from the farm and came back really worried as the farmers, who are in their eighties, were not up and he's never known the gate locked. I pointed out that 7.30 is a bit early (10 is more normal) ....he thought it was 8.30. :lol:
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Morning all. The rest of the family are now all emerging from their pits, as we taking our youngest daughter to swimming club at 9am.
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I know its not early but just to let you know I am now back home It looks like my problem with TALK TALK HAS BEEN FIXED, but they have made another one by changing my usage.
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Morning all, just got up. This must be the longest I have stayed in bed for years.
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Good Morning what a shock from 26 Deg to 13 Deg and rain ::)
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Don't get to say an early good morning at the moment. We are determined to keep up with the weeding this year so it's straight out with the hoes first thing....far too hot by 10
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I was up early again this morning for work - which with a bad back is a tough thing to do!!
Have to have tea and painkillers before I leave the house, so no time to bounce on here before I leave ;)
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Morning all :) Just had coffee and now back to bed. Dry out but chilly.
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Morning Paul...and all. Warm and muggy here
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Morning all, sat here with a coffee waiting for the rain :(
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Morning all, dry here with a hint of sun,but how long for. Never mind the garden needed all that rain & im off to work so no playing in the mud for me :)
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Morning all, sat here with a coffee waiting for the rain :(
Same here... splashes of sun with more coffee but thete's big black clouds up there.
Hope your day is a good one. :)
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I'm wondering if I can get a sneaky hour in on the allotment between dropping off the wife at her sisters and the rain coming :nowink:
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Clear blue sky here but boy, that wind is chilly. Decided to wait to open the greenhouse door or the cucumbers will wonder what is going on!
Hope everyone enjoys their day :D
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I have the chooks to see to today :)
Then birthday shopping in town for my man - he'll be 40 a week today :D
Bright but damp start here :)
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Dreadful night. Cat has been hyperactive, has found out about open windows on hot nights but we have a fly screen so he can't get in or out, but can sit and chirrup at us through the mesh, but if let in wants to go out. Good game...little beggar. He can open the door himself so it's not that he can't get in. Daren't lock the door with the pine martens rampaging through the garden. >:(
Dogs are sooo much easier! :)
Will catch up on sleep later, OH has to go help someone with a garden clearance so it's tough on him, especially if it's as hot as yesterday when it reached 34c :ohmy:
I will do as little as possible in the house...the cat will sleep all day! :lol:
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Tosca - I know how you feel ::) Cat has been running around like a mad thing, on and off all night, and then when I gave up at 5 - she went to sleep *sigh*
I feel like I've been through the washer :wacko:
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Morning all, early start trip over the Pennines... sunny in West Yorkshire and raining in Manchester
Morning all, sat here with a coffee waiting for the rain :(
Same here... splashes of sun with more coffee but thete's big black clouds up there.
Hope your day is a good one. :)
Morning Paul, yes I had a good day, thanks. :)
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Morning all, I sometimes wonder if it worth while going away with all the work you have to catch up on when you get back
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Tosca - I know how you feel ::) Cat has been running around like a mad thing, on and off all night, and then when I gave up at 5 - she went to sleep *sigh*
I feel like I've been through the washer :wacko:
He 'helped' me pick veg and is now fast asleep for the day. The wicker harvesting basket is a great plaything for a small cat, but I didn't really need the spinach shredded. :lol: Still don't like cats but this one's a character.
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Busy morning in the garden, blazing sun. First job...those pesky Colorado babies, The missed ones have caused so much damage the plant was lifted to reveal seven tiny taters. Plants either side sprayed with neem, plus two others and their neighbours. They will not beat us. Then pulled the first sowings of peas and beans (while still young and tender) and froze what was still on the plants. Weeds strimmed . Now shower before an all day party half an hour away. Could do with a kip
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I can be an official member of this club today!!
Woke up for a wee and I'm stiff as a board!!
Went to a chiropractor yesterday for the first time and boy, don't I know it!!!
How can one little T4 spinal joint cause so much trouble? And I wish I knew how I upset it in the first place?? ???
I am still blaming the planetary alignment of Mercury at the moment for all my woes :(
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Hi DBG - I've Been floating around the forum since 5:20 catching up on everyone's diaries, now going to make some breakfast
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morning all :)
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Morning,not that early but had a cuppa in bed at 7ish.
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good morning all Found time to post been running around like a headless chicken catching up.
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Morning Dugless, I know the feeling about running round catching up, trouble is then I find more to do :unsure:
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Good Morning Snowdrops I have cheated a little ;) I have found a lady who will come and do my weeding its the one thing with my knee problem I find hardest.
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That's not cheating Dugless, that's being sensible & not putting undue strain on your knee. Sounds like a good plan to me ;)
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where is everybody ???
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if by any chance anyone is interested, I am up at the moment the pain in my knee was so bas I had to get up for more pain killers, If I carry on like this they will not only kill the pain but probably me as well :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Haven't gone to bed yet here. I should be getting ready to but I keep finding fascinating articles on native plants and animals and I can't stop lol. Hope the pain subsides for you :unsure:
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I was up all night at work - waking up at 3pm (before the alarm set for 4:40pm) feels like an early morning to me!! :wacko: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Morning all, been up about an hour, thought I would say hello, hope you are all well today.
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Good morning a new routine My OH is away for fortnight, so I can get in here earlier.
Though I notice this site is not used much anymore.
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Good morning a new routine My OH is away for fortnight, so I can get in here earlier.
Though I notice this site is not used much anymore.
yes, it is a bit quiet in here.
I don't come here very often, I'm not up early enough normally, and when I am I'm usually off and out.
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That is my problem I get up early enough but have too much to do before waking up the computer.
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Good morning a new routine My OH is away for fortnight, so I can get in here earlier.
Though I notice this site is not used much anymore.
That's the main reason I replied, before I posted nobody had been here since 17th June. Far to quiet.
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Now that the health club has gone, there are not many sites for a chat without starting a new post.
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Now that the health club has gone, there are not many sites for a chat without starting a new post.
When did the health club go?
I saw a post recently telling somebody it would be a good place to go.
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It closed yesterday.
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Good Morning, I went to Trentham Gardens with a school trip :D it rained all day :( I am going again today and guess what ::) it is forecast to rain again all day ::) ::)
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Well I'm hoping to have my first lie-in for over a week tomorrow!!
Some hope - Ben's getting early for morning overtime! ::)
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That's the problem when you work shifts.
Good morning Looks like abetter day today.
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How were the gardens at Tretham Dugless, did you have a good day?
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Yes thank you I managed to get some Tundra cabbage plants , could not get mine started this year and there was none in the local Nurseries. Did not go in the gardens at £9-99 a bit over priced.
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Morning all. Here I am looking out at a horrible day weather wise, its still warm but very very wet at the moment.
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Morning Miggs and all (I know it's no longer early morning, but been up a few hours and just got back to the forum ;))
Hope it's the same in your part of the country, in Bedfordshire the weather's improved a bit since first thing ... the rain's stopped, just a few patchy clouds about and a bit breezy now.
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I was up until 2am this morning walking for a local charity on the Midnight walk.
I'm a bit tired now as I didn't fall asleep until after 4am and one of the cats decided it was time for me to get up at 9:30am ::) :D
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Morning all.
Back to the daily grind after spending more time than planned in the garden & on the plot this weekend .... it just means that those wet weather tasks I had planned are still waiting to be done .... oh well ;)
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Morning,back to work today for me too,after a busy weekend mainly weeding😊
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Good Morning, nothing exciting happening here today
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I was going to drop my daughter over her mates and have a couple of hours sowing beetroots and it's raining Doh! so it's stopped play and I've had to come home >:(
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Small Child had a nightmare last night so came in with us. Both of us have had v little sleep....coffee's brewing!
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Small Child had a nightmare last night so came in with us. Both of us have had v little sleep....coffee's brewing!
We end up with Harry in with us everynight. Funny how he sleeps so much better in our bed. Cant wait for him to go into a bed and we can swap.
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Checked on the plot a few minutes ago ... looks like it'll be courgette for dinner again and by the look of it won't be long before this season's runner beans & dwarf beans are on the menu. Just eaten my first ever home grown raspberry .... (http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/hungry/lick-lips.gif)
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Good Morning, Back to normal today the management is back from visiting my daughter in the lake district.
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All good things come to an end Dugless
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Last day at work today,roll on 12:15😃. So glad I work part time, picking a friend up who's had major surgery to bring her here for a coffee & chat & change of scenery, then get to the plot to pick stuff☺️, ready to take to my mums tomorrow til Saturday, then back home, ready to go to Hyde Hall on Sunday with the gardening club. Phew I'll be glad to get to work on Monday 😃
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Going to bed ;)
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night night :)
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Morning, as I was up about an hour ago, I decided to wash the car. It certainly needed it. I will do the inside later. Anyway, after washing the car I think I deserve the Bacon butty I am now eating. I know it's not that healthy, but once a week won't kill me, will it?
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No enjoy, I am out early up the lotty its going to rain later.
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That's another reason why I got up and washed the car, going out to polish it now. I heard about the rain as well, I did the lotty work yesterday.
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Morning! Last day in Oslo and it looks to be a fab one. Blazing sunshine already after yesterday's rain.
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Morning, it is more lake February here then Nearly August, so much for Global warming.
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Great.. water butts are all full again and the garden looks and smells fresh. Roll on summer.
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Morning all,
Just checked on things on my plot .... cucumbers in PT seem to think they're triffids, and blackfly have taken a liking to the runner beans.
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The cucumber beetles have gotten most of my cucumber plants. The deer got part of the remaining one but it's still kickin'. I might still be able to get away with a second sowing but tbh I'm really not all that pressed about it.
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Morning everyone, Looks like it'll be a nice day, bit cooler
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Right now is about as cool as it will get today, mind you it's 2:45am here lol
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Morning all,
Hoping to get out to the plot later and do some weeding. Picked the first of the french beans and runner beans yesterday - plenty more on the way by the look of it.
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Good Morning, Up here mine went out late because of frost, In flower now.
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Morning all,
A lie in for me today, hope to get some work done on the plot this weekend but first have to work this morning.
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Ah there you are! Searched for this thread earlier, couldn't find it!
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Morning all, not much gardening today after the rain, guess a trip to the plot for watering the pt is in order
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I will be doing the same with the greenhouse :nowink:
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Dry today some weeding is called for
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Have had a glorious morning - took OH to the car rental early and since then have been biking around in the sun, picking elderberries and buying over-priced artisan goats' cheese at the local farmer's market for a leisurely brunch. Heaven.
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Morning all. I am just finishing cleaning the car as I started last night. Giving it a really good clean this time as later today we are going to the RAF museum at Cosford. As well as seeing the fantastic planes they have Cosford also has a Citroen car club day celebrating 10yrs of the Citroen C6. I am in the C4 Owners club, can't have a dirty car can we.
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Have a nice day the weather looks good
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First morning I can vaguely term as having a lie-in for ages!! :)
Beenn working 50+ hours a week at the hospital lately as the ward is so short and I need the cash! :(
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Working 50hrs a week you need a lie in. Hope you enjoyed it.
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You have to put your life on hold doing that amount of hours been there done that worn the tea shirt.
Enjoy your lie in.
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Hubby up early for work , itsshis birthday so im doing his cake i asked what kind of cake ne wanted and he wanted victoria sponge with strawberry or raspberry jam and cream so that wont take long to do , he never likes a fuss , me neither i just try to keep my head down on my birthday im on holiday this year for it , well better get going or he will be back befor ive started .
morning all
chrissie b
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Too many early mornings have left me with a stinky cold!! :( :( :(
Still have to do it all again tomorrow though ::) :(
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Been Awake since 4:30 sorting out seeds as I can't sleep :nowink: sure sign the 50p seed sale is here and Autumn heading towards shorter days - Bum!
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Been awake for a while...planning next year's beds in my head and wrestling with wordpress. Am setting up a blog site and technology and I aren't currently on speaking terms. Time for an early coffee I think!
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Morning all. Only just woke up, which is a bit of a lie in for me really. Take my daughter to work later (10am) then we will see what happens. I will be going to the plot at some time today.
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Restless night up at 4:50, coffee and a couple of cookies and still sorting and cataloguing seeds from the Wyevale seed sale :nowink:
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Morning all,
Quite a cool start to the day, but a lovely clear sky. It was noticeable last night just how bright the moon is, especially as it shone through the open velux window right into my eyes at 2.30
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What ever happened to the early morning club?
I guess you are all sleeping late these days ;)
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Fat chance! Darling cat is still occasionally manic at silly o'clock and now has an accomplice.
Good morning Paul :)
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Morning Paul, Tosca & all,
I was also wondering where the EMC had gone only the other day - certainly no sleeping late here.
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Woke at 4, went back to sleep and then a jolly ready mix concrete lorry arrived at 7. :ohmy:
Decided to get up and get the gammon on for a smoke and get on with my list of Christmas cooking to feed the freezer.
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Hi there,I am at last sleeping later & as much as I enjoyed an early morning chat with you fellow larks,I'm happy to still be abed until a more respectable time😊
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Then I hope the excitement of Paul re-awakening the club doesn't wake you too early Snowdrops! :lol:
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😊😊, yes keep the noise down 😄
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Not so much early morning as late night! The wind was whistling down the chimney, keeping me awake till around 3.30. I decided to go into school late, catch up on some zzzs at home, and make up the lessons next week, but woke again at 6.30. >:(
Spent a rather dazed day, but the students are as tired as I am....
Just off to bed in a min.....large glass of ginger wine, 2 painkillers may just do the trick! At least I got to see some geminids two nights ago! :tongue2:
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Late this morning, up most of the night. Old age. :(
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Up earlyish at 7. Forgot we had reopened up on here, busy today, appointment at 9, yoga at 10, then meet friend for lunch at 12, might need a snooze this afternoon 😊
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Awwww....you got old age too? :lol:
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Not quite but creeping up fast 😄
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Morning all. ;)
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Morning, OK strictly speaking not early but with how dark it is still out there it feels like it...
I hate Winter and long dark nights with short days.
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A bit late clocking in but I as awake just before 7 again but stayed in til the heating had done its magic😊. I slept right through, can't remember when I last did that.
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Delighted to hear a good number of you are getting a bit of a longer lay-a-bed. Me too for the last few weeks.
More recently back to nights of hopping in and out of bed/the sofa as my mother needed help over-night then..... off she was whisked to hospital again.
Worry kept me awake through the small hours and then sleeping late when I should have been up and about.
It's a crazy life...
I wonder if I'll cope with a 'normal' routine when life throws me the chance.
Sunday - a day of no hospital visiting for me so...... up to sort out the cat, the budgies and the rabbit. (I should have stuck to tropical fish and the allotment).
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Morning Paul ;)
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Hello Paul, pleased to see you still get chance now & again to pop by. Hope your Mum is soon we'll again although I suppose when she's in hospital you get a sort of break.
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Morning all
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Morning all. One of the best things about these winter mornings is the amount of stunning sunrises you get to see. But we do desperately need rain....
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Morning all. Warm and windy round here, must be that Saharan stuff
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Ah you mean the deadly toxic smog? I mean sand. Should be OK unless you have chronic breathing problems, despite what the press say.
Good morning from a slightly damp but mild Bulgaria :)
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Good morning all,
Very clear skies in this part of the country this morning, yet still unusually mild.
I made a start on winter festival shopping yesterday evening, but after walking aimlessly around the shopping centre came away empty handed. I absolutely hate it .... roll on January and getting back to normal!
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Morning Roger. So happy we don't have to do that any more. Love our understated Christmas out here
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Is anyone out there tonight?
Trying not to wake other half, who is peacefully snoring, oblivious to the world.
Thought I'd look through the site and found these posts.
Think old age must be catching up with me as well.
I'm often wide awake during the night now :(
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Me too. Get so bored trying to get back to sleep. So here we are, woodburner lit, two cats on knee, two dog's eyes staring, willing me to get their breakfast cos they're STARVING don't you know. :lol: and those pesky cats have food nd it's NOT FAIR
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Hi Tosca
Haven't read through all the posts on here so you'll have to excuse me if I repeat stuff that others have covered
What's the time difference there to GMT
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We are two hours ahead....sorry, started catching up on the allotment channels on Youtube and you know what it's like....you give in ten minutes and two hours later you suddenly realise you have been on for half the morning! OH just come down for is breakfast and broke the spell.... :lol:
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Morning all. Looking forward to a day of brilliant sunshine again as we are off to pick up some new ducks nearly three hours away. Glad I'm not driving, not keen on all that glare.
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Good morning Tosca & all,
Too early for sunshine here! We have quite a cold wind blowing this morning, it seems the weather is getting back to how it should be for this time of year. Hope all goes well with getting your ducks.
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Found the place OK, lovely people, masses of fowl, stunning weather. Boxed up three female runners....then they started to open all the houses and a trio of young light sussex jumped into the car....not sure how it happened! :lol:
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a trio of young light sussex jumped into the car....not sure how it happened! :lol:
That sort of thing happens to me when I go bird buying as well :lol: Light Sussex are nice looking hens and good layers. It would have been rude not to take them ;)
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Too right! They are young so have some maturing to do. But seeing all the different breeds...it was so hard. I wanted lots! I have never seen so many ducks, geese, chickens of all sizes, turkeys in all colors, all mingling and happy. Good job they're so far away. :)
Got my first ever jar of pickled walnuts and a crate of seed potatoes too. Lovely people
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Morning all,
Glad to hear your duck collecting went well yesterday Tosca.
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Morning all. Feeling a bit rough, hoping it won't last
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Morning peeps, up early today overthinking what I need to get done today,now I'm up its too early to start on the jobs :(
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Morning all,
Trouble getting to sleep last night despite being very tired yesterday eve, finally got to sleep around 2ish now up again.
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I was just reading about the full moon this month being the first Christmas Day full moon since 1977, it got me wondering if anyone else has trouble sleeping around the time of a full moon (no need for the werewolf jokes, not noooooooow!). I've noticed it in the past, I'm not a good sleeper at the best of times but worse at full moon time.
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Morning all. Another beautiful day forecast here.
I don't sleep well, but I don't think that has anything to do with the moon! More likely old age and hormones. It is very light out at night at the moment as we are having a prolonged period of clear skies, but I only see it if I go to the loo.
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Good morning all
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Morning Roger. :)
Just sorting out cakes and mince pies for the neighbours and post office. Not planning on doing much today, if the weather is as it was yesterday I will be sitting outside in the sun, might pick and peel some sprouts and carrots.
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Весела Коледа....Merry Christmas to all early morning clubbers from sunny Bulgaria. Hope the day goes well and you don't have time to sit on the computer all day! ;)
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and you don't have time to sit on the computer all day! ;)
Nope :lol: Just popped in to see if I needed to clean up the party poppers and empty glasses from last night ;)
Its grey and mild here, so it sounds like you have much better weather than us Tosca. Merry Christmas and enjoy the sun :)
Have a good day everyone :D
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Just picked sprouts and leaks.. Guess what? Yes, its raining.
Have a happy and safe Christmas one and all.
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Hi all! ;)
I've been AWOL here for a while - been so busy with work and a course on top of that. Lots of extra shifts looking after the hearts of the south-west of England over the festive period too.
Lovely to see you all. Happy new year everyone xxxxxxxx
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Bleary good morning from Bulgaria. Fire went out and cat decided to go into hyper mode around 3am and woke everyone. Fire lit and everyone except me and the cockerels are snoozing again. Bah!
And it's snowing!
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Good morning Tosca and all. The last lie-in before back to work tomorrow, everyone else still snoring away but I've been awake for ages .
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Morning all. Neighbour's dogs finally stopped barking 1/2 hour ago, but now I'm too wound up to get to sleep. Not much point in trying now, due to get up in less than 2 hours.
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Lovely to see people at the EMC despite the lack of sleep someyou get.
I'm wide awake - did try sleeping but gave up - slowly recovering from op on 31st Dec so sleep pattern hopeless.
Hope you all have a good growing year ahead.... I'm just after a break from hospital visiting & stays.
Take care.
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Morning again,
Back to work today, finally start to return to normal after the break.
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Morning all. Knee deep in snow here this morning with a predicted temperature high of -5. A bit chilly. OH is stir crazy already after two days....he's not really confined to the house, just thinks he is. He's forever in and out leaving the door open.
I think it's a toad in the hole with thick onion gravy day!
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Morning all, back to work after the break and it's raining, would love some of that chill Tosca is having to help the garlic and fruit plants
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I'm wide awake - did try sleeping but gave up - slowly recovering from op on 31st Dec so sleep pattern hopeless.
Get well soon Paul :) I hope this year does give you a bit more of a break to enjoy your garden and your veg growing :)
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Morning all. Up early due to restless animals. Would love a couple of hours all on my own but hey ho. Wouldn't be without them :)
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Morning all,
Tosca - how's your snow?
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It started raining yesterday morning so we were confined to the house after putting a load of straw down for the ducks and chickens. Lethal it was, even the dog fell over. But then the sun came out and it thawed, still pretty, was still thawing at midnight....then froze. Good thing we don't have to go out for any reason (OH checks on the neighbours) especially to a stressful job we hate. Just cosy up by the fire. :D
Thanks for asking. :)
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I'm wide awake - did try sleeping but gave up - slowly recovering from op on 31st Dec so sleep pattern hopeless.
Get well soon Paul :) I hope this year does give you a bit more of a break to enjoy your garden and your veg growing :)
Thank you. A bit like the veg patch - feeling rather sodden at the moment but the pain is reduced and I'm back to being a carer on Tuesday.
The op was not a success so I have another date for a retry... just need to juggle everything to be there. Not sure how that will work so I guess I will be back to early mornings / late nights wide awake thinking about it. :(
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Morning Paul. Sorry things are not going so well. I hope everything gets sorted on the next try.
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Just one picture of our stunning sunrise this morning. Certainly worth being up early for
(http://i673.photobucket.com/albums/vv100/tosca100-dog/DSC01126_zps9s1auew1.jpg) (http://s673.photobucket.com/user/tosca100-dog/media/DSC01126_zps9s1auew1.jpg.html)
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Tosca - that's definitely worth being up early to see
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That is a stunning piccie Tosca. What a beautiful sight, but I hope it doesn't mean more snow for you. You seem to have plenty ;)
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Do you know, barring accidents, it makes no difference to me. OH gets stir crazy though so I let him do all the animals. We get amazing sun rises and sets here, you never get tired of them though :)
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Morning all, hope everyone's as OK as can be expected
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Yawn !!!
A late (for me) night last night ... a lie in would have been very welcome today
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Howdy. Am back (but jus' coz daughter has decided not to go to school as she is unwell, so I'm all coffeed up and no where to go since 5.40am :lol:
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Hi Pigguns :D Good to see you back :D
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Up at four, cold. The fire had gone out and it was -19 last night! Chooses it's time to go out!
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I'm wide awake - did try sleeping but gave up - slowly recovering from op on 31st Dec so sleep pattern hopeless.
Get well soon Paul :) I hope this year does give you a bit more of a break to enjoy your garden and your veg growing :)
Thank you. A bit like the veg patch - feeling rather sodden at the moment but the pain is reduced and I'm back to being a carer on Tuesday.
The op was not a success so I have another date for a retry... just need to juggle everything to be there. Not sure how that will work so I guess I will be back to early mornings / late nights wide awake thinking about it. :(
Ouch - not the best of news but good luck with it second time around. Hope your recovery is swift :)
I had my first lie-in of the week today but back to early starts tomorrow strainght through until Wednesday :( :wacko:
My fault - I write the off duty!! ???
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Morning all, hope all is well with everyone.
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Morning. :) Still a bit brrrrr here but only down to -14 last night so hopefully on the up. Can't wait to get out and about again.
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Morning all, and the rain is back with us
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Morning from BG. And we have more snow. Only a dusting and warmer temperatures so hopefully the sheet ice will start thawing. Should have had me peas and broad beans in by now!
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I am up, fed and watered and now ready for a few hours on the plot before it gets too hot.
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What happened to all of you early birds? Are you sleeping in these days?
Good for you if you are!! :)
Despite my change of circumstances and improved health I am still often wide awake at 3 in the morning. Years and years of a strange sleeping pattern is so hard to change but I'm working on it.
Hope you are all keeping well and enjoying the summer. (I prefer cool evenings to belting about in the morning)
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Morning Paul, this early bird is still here, as sleepless as ever
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What happened to all of you early birds? Are you sleeping in these days?
I am :lol:
My work circumstances have changed and instead of a full-time job with a good commute, that meant early starts, I now have 2 part-time jobs, 1 of which often means starting early afternoon and working on into the evening.
Its taken me about a year to adjust, but I'm not such an early bird now. The chickens are my alarm clock and even they aren't kicking off until about 7ish each morning.
Glad to hear your health has improved :)
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Hi Paul, pleased to hear from you again, I've been unwell & my tablets make me slow to get started in the morning. Hopefully I'll get get back to being me soon, I quite like being up & about reasonably early.
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Hi Paul, pleased to hear from you again, I've been unwell & my tablets make me slow to get started in the morning. Hopefully I'll get get back to being me soon, I quite like being up & about reasonably early.
Sorry you've not been well - hope you're on the mend soon.
Early mornings? I only do these if I've been awake all night.... I prefer the evenings as the sun goes down. Colours in the garden can be fabulous especially oranges.
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I so wish there was a "Like" button Newshoot....
Breaking away from the big commute must be a good thing in my opinion. A change in circumstances does take some getting accustomed to. I'm still working on it.
Hope life is more relaxed and there's more space for you. I like train journeys but that's only because I only rarely take them... (local train service is dire especially now there's a strike!!)
Happy chook keeping :)
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Morning all .... 2 hours lie-in this morning :) Hoping to find some time today to do some work on my plot, it's been a little neglected this year :(
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Morning all .... 2 hours lie-in this morning :) Hoping to find some time today to do some work on my plot, it's been a little neglected this year :(
Back on the plot...... it's easy to find there's always something else that needs doing.... but plotting is a great escape and the results of a little regular effort does so often look lovely.
My new tiny patch gave sweet-peas, beetroot, shallots (drying in the shed) and potatoes today - the leeks are looking good too.
Hope yours goes well Rodger ;)
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Morning all. Been up about 1hr now and I have just started to cook a Chicken and Leek Pasta bake for later.
We are being taken to Wetherspoons for breakfast by our eldest daughter's boyfriend today. Reason for cooking tea now is that when I get back from breakie I will be at the plot for most of the day.
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Sounds a good start to the day Miggs! :)
My day usually starts later as my "normal" bed-time is between 2am and 3 so...... I miss the best part of the day unless I make a real effort to get started earlier.
I prefer summer evenings - quieter. We eat late between 9:30pm and 10 so then it's time to relax. Can't do anything outside..... must try harder to get back to a better sleeping pattern.
Today: hoed between the leeks with my trusty swoe, cut courgettes, fussed with the strawberry bed (not as good as the ones I had on the allotment), worked out which beetroot to pull next.
Hope your plans went well. ;)
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Looks like it's just me again who tried to sleep but can't...... gave up and got up.. ::)
Hope those of you who are having sunshine later today enjoy it.
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those of you have rain don't get too much in one go but just enough to ease the chore of watering.
Have a great day whatever you plan to do. :)
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Hi
First time on the early morning club,just made a cappa tea,let the dogs out,now i am on here catching up,i am up at 5am not as early as some,but i have the animals and my self to do and get ready for work,looks like its going to be a better day weather wise,it could not get any wetter than it did at the week end,hopefully it will dry out a bit.
Have a good day everyone
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Hi Lillileaf, welcome to the EMC. The forecast is for better day today, hopefully it'll be right
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Morning all. Will have do go to the plot later s I have not been for a few days. I gave it a very good hoe and digging last weekend as I was in Yorkshire with our youngest daughter early in the week, hanging out in York for a few days. We went to the Train museum, Eden camp and the air museum, very nice.
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Good morning all
I am up at 5am on work days,summer is showing signs of leaving us,the darker mornings are here,i have to us a torch now to see where the dogs are,and the chickens are still sleeping when i go to check them first thing,still had a good weekend on the veg plot peas are finished,runner beans what i have left after the windy weather are still growing their bounty.
Also planted new rhubarb plant that a grew from seed,i look forward to rhubarb crumble :lol:
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Well having gone to bed at 9:30 last night I was up before the alarm, so downstairs for 6:45. Cats fed, lunch for work made, load of washing pegged out so yes I suppose I can class today as an early day. Time for a lovely hot coffee from my new machine & stewed plums & pl yog for breakfast.
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I was up at 6 so early for me :lol: Very damp and foggy this morning - Autumn may just have arrived.
Greenhouses and cat have been watered (she ran under the watering can, silly Molly!) and the cat fed for the day.
Off soon to my daughter's house for the last child minding day of this summer, I think.
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Rather looks as if everyone is sleeping in during these increasingly cold, dark mornings. Can't say I blame them.
Me: Late nights continue out of habit and late mornings follow most days.
Roll on the warmer brighter days once winter has passed.
Hoping everyone is well and enjoying those seed catalogues ;)
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Seeing as i started this thread thought it only right to start back here by saying HI to you all. Not been here in ages and am glad to see it hasnt changed much and the so many familiar faces. Hope you are well and your gardens and allotments are flourishing. It feels good to be back :D
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Hi Ma, good to see you, often wondered how you are
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Hi Ma. Nice to 'see' you again :)
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Hi Ma.... had you noticed these "early morning" clubbers are getting ever so late!! :lol:
Even later than me!! ;)
Good to see you back.
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Hi New shoots and Hi Snowy how are things with you have you moved house yet (i need to catch up now)
Paul i had noticed but i am months late so couldn't possibly say anything 😄 Thank you for the welcome 😊
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Hi Ma.... had you noticed these "early morning" clubbers are getting ever so late!! :lol:
I've made my excuses already on that one :lol: Change of job from 1 full-time to 2 part-time and I now start and finish later a few days a week. It's a nice change from being up and out at the crack of dawn :D
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Hi Ma, no we stayed put. But I'm retired as of 30/11/16, so still having a lie in to celebrate
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Early mornings due to start again here soon..... Mrs Plots is escaping for a few days to visit her dad but not taking the cat with her :( (or me)
So... I am bound to be up early to preserve the carpets. Precious Fluffy-cat will gently pat me on the nose when she decides I need to feed her/let her out/let her in/feed her again and if that doesn't work pdq she will try ripping chunks out of the carpet or furniture in the bedroom - That works!!
Lovely cat really just a bit demanding at times (early ones!!)
I would far sooner stay in bed as our central heating presently doesn't... heat that is. Must get that fixed for Fluffy!
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Good morning all,
Back on the early starts here after a short period of getting up later
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Good morning all,
Back on the early starts here after a short period of getting up later
Best of luck with those early mornings!
For me it's too cold to be doing much too early. I'd sooner lengthen the day of an evening but the cat doesn't agree. ::)
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Hi Ma, no we stayed put. But I'm retired as of 30/11/16, so still having a lie in to celebrate
A lie in is worth its weight in gold Happy Retirement. Hope your getting to do all the things you couldnt before.
Its very quiet on here where is everyone?
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.............................. I'm retired as of 30/11/16, so still having a lie in to celebrate
Nothing nicer than waking up and realising that you don't need to get up on a freezing cold, dark morning. It's good to wake up early just so you can go back to sleep for a good while longer ;)
Enjoy that retirement... I'm just beginning to work out what I am going to do with mine...
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Thanks both, so far so good, enjoying every bit of it
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Thanks both, so far so good, enjoying every bit of it
After a while you will wonder how you ever had time to fit in work with all there is to do ;)
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Off to bed so thought I'd drop in and say good morning to those early risers.
Hope your day is a good one and the weather treats you warmly.
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My goodness Paul you are really a night owl aren't you, have you always preferred to be up at night or is it left from caring for your parents?
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My goodness Paul you are really a night owl aren't you, have you always preferred to be up at night or is it left from caring for your parents?
I like late evenings as it's quiet - a great time to read or watch a movie without interruption but my late nights are an ingrained habit. Years and years of late-night marking, planning and paperwork.....then six years of caring...
The other night I spent ages writing and re-writing a letter to my dear sister... 3 months of waiting for her to sign and return completed probate and inheritance tax forms... Not the easiest person to communicate with.:( Several coffees later... Sleep was out of the question. :wacko:
In summer and autumn I love the peace and quiet outside on very late evenings. Orange coloured flowers can look amazing.... glowing. Camping out and clear fresh night air with sparkling star filled skies... those were the days.
I love very early summer mornings too... Can't have it all :lol:
Turned 60 and more often in bed by 1am these days then I try to read but soon give up....... I could (nearly) always sleep for England once my head hit the pillow.
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If my sleeping habits don't improve I will have to apply for membership
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You're more than welcome to apply and membership would be guaranteed in your case, but I hope that application isn't necessary and your sleeping habits soon improve
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If my sleeping habits don't improve I will have to apply for membership
You'd be more than welcome - it's a drop in group so no need to get up early on a regular basis :)
I fall in when my book is boring, I still can't sleep.... often thinking 10 to the dozen in the early hours so look in to see if anyone else is about.
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Here I am again then,nothing on the tele apart from channels that I'm not allowed to watch.
Kettle is on and a ginger biscuit awaits dunking.
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I would far sooner have stayed in bed this morning but.... as I wasn't sleeping, the cat was making me too hot, the room was warm and Mrs P was away with the fairies so I was having a brew at just after 4.
Cooler on the ground floor...
Read a book, plan the next part of the aviary extension or make a list of the seed packets I am gathering in and adding to?
I think the book wins for now.
Morning everyone!! :)
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Good morning all (if anyone is up)
A relatively warm night so I can't sleep any longer....... even the cat has chosen the floor to snooze on.
Quiet out, no wind or rain so maybe a good day ahead. Here's hoping.
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good morning just been out with the dogs,its dry but abit windy,the lighter mornings are on the way :)
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Morning all,
It's getting noticeably lighter in the mornings every day at this time of year .... I think of it a bit like a pendulum, the pendulum (dawn time) moves faster at the bottom (spring / autumn equinox) than it does at the end of it's travel (winter/summer solstice)
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Quiet bright mornings and evenings are lovely when there's been a belt of sunshine in between.
Glorious here for much of the day.
(No dog to walk but I do wander over the road to open up the aviary every morning and to check the veg patch.)
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Morning all, been up a couple of hours now and thought of saying hello as I have been mooching on here for a while.
Trying to build up the strength to go to the plot soon, just to see what it's like. Might even go to the potting shed later today, just to see what I can start off.
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Morning all, been up a couple of hours now and thought of saying hello as I have been mooching on here for a while.
Trying to build up the strength to go to the plot soon, just to see what it's like. Might even go to the potting shed later today, just to see what I can start off.
The weather's warming and daylight hours lengthening....so I wish you luck with the beginning of your plotting trips.
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It's me again.... not light yet and I am considering going off for a long snooze having been up for hours making the best of the peace and quiet.
Paper-work done and ready for a trip to the post office in the morning.
Here's hoping the day ahead is a warm and successful one for everyone.
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Morning all. Have been up since about 5-30am, don't know why, think it's these light mornings now getting me up. Think I might nave a bacon butty and a cup of Coffee.
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Morning Miggs and all.
5.30 is my usual time for getting up .... the sun, skylight window and bed are all in perfect(?) alignment for blinding me with the rising sunshine. The bacon butty sounds a good idea.
Hoping to make some progress in the plot today
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Morning Miggs and all.
5.30 is my usual time for getting up .... the sun, skylight window and bed are all in perfect(?) alignment for blinding me with the rising sunshine. The bacon butty sounds a good idea.
Hoping to make some progress in the plot today
Have fun at the plot today. I have been everyday after work this week, done so much work to get it looking as good as it does. There is not a weed in sight, the paths are all strimmed. looking good at the moment. I might just pop down later to water everything as it's not rained for ages now. Really need some rain.
PS: Well that's the car now washed and the front garden tidied up and hoed. What's next.
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Pleased to see you are all coping well with the early mornings....
My sleep pattern is slowly changing - more early nights (before 2am) and less very early mornings so rarely dropping in during the small hours to see how everyone is.
Enjoy the brighter mornings - I love them but they fail to wake me once I'm asleep.....nothing much does!
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Really need some rain.
PS: Well that's the car now washed and the front garden tidied up and hoed. What's next.
Hopefully, given that you've washed the car, rain will be next ... !!
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Rain due here tomorrow - a rarity.... and guess who has to be up and out tomorrow on the bike. ::)
The wabbit has an appointment with the vet for his fortnightly teeth filing so my taxi services are required along with the use of the cycle trailer.
It'll be an earlier than usual morning for me... lots to do before we set off.
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As I have been up for a few hours now, thought I would see who else is up. Morning all.
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Really need some rain.
PS: Well that's the car now washed and the front garden tidied up and hoed. What's next.
Hopefully, given that you've washed the car, rain will be next ... !!
I know what you mean, but sadly we never got any rain until Friday just gone. The plot was desperate for it.
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Morning all. So glad I planted out my Tom's yesterday as it rained overnight.
What are we all up to today?
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Morning miggs :)
I'm off to the plot in a bit to plant out sweetcorn, cabbage and anything else I can find that is ready to go. The cold frame needs to be emptied so I can shuttle the next lot out of the greenhouse.
We've gone from one extreme to the other - late start to mad catch-up. I reckon I won't be the only one madly planting out today :lol:
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We've had some gorgeous very early morning skies recently. The day before yesterday the sunrise was stunning and yesterday morning, before the first of the daylight appeared, the sky was split in two by an oncoming weather front. A black mound of cloud scrapped the ground rising halfway up across the sky like a solid lump of blue-black coal. Above it the sky was clear and the deepest blue with one lone star-spot of twinkling light.... as Skylab trundled across the heavens....then gradually the sun lightened the sky.
Don't you just love cool summer mornings engulfed in quiet?
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Well not early for some but I seem to be surfacing about 7 most days again, it’s taken a long time but I feel better for it. Now just to get some jobs done
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What on earth has happened here? Have the hinges rusted and the door seized up?
I wander off for a wee while to do.... to go and do.. Ok so I can't remember what it was I wandered off to do but I'm bound to have done it by now and then...…
……. I arrive back for a cuppa but, not only no kettle whistle, the rest of you have toddled off as well!
I'll put the kettle on and hope that someone might drop by with the biscuits (or a cheese sarnie).
Anyone joing me or are you all too busy?
Here's hoping..
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Morning all,
Looks like we could be in for the first dry day since last weekend, it seems almost summery outside (well, the sun's out at least)
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Same here Roger, thought perhaps we’d seen the last of the sun for the summer!
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So might that mean that the shed is going to be empty again?
Must admit there are a few jobs I should be doing... not a great deal of enthusiasm as the ground is wet but I suppose I better go and hoe hoe hoe…
Pleased to see you two dropping in though :)
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I was planning how to finish cutting the hedge at three o'clock this morning!
Crashed out, but did the job in the rain this evening...
Bonfire in the drive - no probs!
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Morning all, looks like it will be more showers on the cards again today, but since I’ve not got much time for gardening I don’t mind so much.
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Spent the morning re-planning what should or shouldn't go where in my shed - emptied the thing and now need to put it all back..
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Awake & up early, the sun is shining, the allotment is fully planted, cleaned out 2 of 3 sheds, just won £200 on the premium bonds, life is good 😂. P.s not done the allotment & sheds this morning 😂😂
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Great news, Snows! Very happy for you!
I always get overheated on the first day of every month, but when we have won the smallest amount, they tell you about four days later.
I guess that if you get the big one, they'll tell you right away! 'Agent Millionaire' must be very popular about then!
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Fabulous news snowdrops - cheered me up to hear of your good fortune!! Lovely.
On top of that you had a good day with everything else too. :)
I was up very early to see the sun slowly rise over the roof tops - boy does that thing move fast in the morning. I had thought of belting to the second floor to get a better and unobscured view but the best of the golden red glow was over by the time I had taken a few photos.