Jazz Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 of course she knows, shes been on enough talk shows about it getting housework done bit by bit need to order my shopping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantan Posted June 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 Well talk about being uninformed! Wouldn't anyone with an ounce of sense do some at least basic research into the pros and cons of having such radical surgery. We used to have a train station here in town that linked us to the main west line at Penrith and the west coast of Cumbria (or Cumberland as it was then) It was so easy for people to travel here or for residents to travel to jobs in Penrith, Carlisle, Cockermouth etc.. What a miss it is. Mr Beeching you were an arse. It would help ease our traffic and parking problems here in town if it was still on the go. There are very few visitors that actually come by train in comparison to those that travel here by car. Another reason which them shouting about how the lake district is unreachable because of the re-scheduling is just plain nuts. In any case it's temporary! So what's every one up to today? It's still quite warm here but somewhat overcast. The forecast for the next week says we have a good chance of getting showers. We can't complain, we've had a glorious 5 weeks. I asked Archie, as I was tucking him in last night, to please not get me up at 5am again. He was a good boy. He didn't get me up at 5. It was 4am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 Lol Yantan..well out didn't specify AFTER 5am!!! Been out for lunch with Steve, he has been back to the Dr and has to see a specialist for his foot, the Dr refused to sign him back on so he is off for a month...he isn't happy but I have tried to explain its better to rest it than go back too early and make it worse again and have to start all over again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 when the twins get me up at 5, im going back to bed. next thing, i can hear a child going past chatting, it must be nearly 9. nooo its 7am! 2 days on the trot ive fell for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantan Posted June 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 LOL Jazz. I don't know if anyone else has experienced this but quite a few times I've woken up and thought "Oooooh I've had a lovely long sleep". I've then got up to toddle off to the bathroom only to find, looking at the clock, that I've only been asleep for an hour-and-a half to two hours and it's still the same night I went to bed. Mind you that isn't going to happen at the moment as I am so knackered with Archie getting me at 4 and 5 in the morning that I am sleeping soundly from around 10.30/11.30 until he wakes me up. Has everyone still got good weather? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 Was a bit manky earlier but was nice sitting in the beer garden eating lunch...feeding the squirrels and it is very warm again now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantan Posted June 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 Are they grey squirrels Griff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 Yep..I know they are vermin, killed off the red squirrel but I love them..mind, I am a nightmare as I will feed everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzeanna Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 We have a couple of squirrels which come into the garden, usually one at a time but sometimes both. They scoff half the bird food then I let Candy out and watch the fruitless chase she has after them, she's not even close. Don't think I'd have risked it with Dyl in his prime, he was like lightning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 Deags is obsessed with birds, squirrels, bees butterflies and flies...I haven't seen a squirrel in my garden for ages.. I that's not to mean they don't visit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eve Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 Another hot sunny day here - can't believe I'm in Scotland lol. Hope we haven't used up our quota for this year. My son is getting married 4 weeks today so we're praying it's still nice then, or at least dry, we'll take dry. Still lots of red squirrels up here. They're so beautiful. Greys don't seem to have made it over the border, at least not in our bit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 I really hope you get a beautiful sunny day eve for your son's wedding 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackmagic Posted June 9, 2018 Report Share Posted June 9, 2018 Cloudy here tis morning but so was yesterday until the sun came out and the temperature spared again. We had a lovely walk along the beach all to ourselves. We have beautiful beaches around here but they are mostly empty. Sometimes there are surfers but they don't bother us. Last week there was a swimmer a few feet out swimming along the shoreline in the mist. Cleo was fascinated by this strange 'creature' in the water. Murphy is a demon for rabbits and voles but totally ignores the pheasants and partridges that come into the garden and the sheep in the field next door. He does put his ears up when the run and flock together when we walk passed the fields. Cleo runs and barks at them if she sees them through the hedge but is less interested in them when out walking. I think it is territorial ( my garden0 rather than sheep chasing. She has no prey drive and steps over the partridges if they get in her way. They just run under her if she is in the their way. When I was a teenager we lived next door to an old orchard. Grey squirrels came to feed on the kitchen windowsill. In due course they brought their babies as well. In the autumn we put out nuts for them and watched them burying them in the orchard. They always ate the last nut. One day we heard a banging noise from the kitchen and found a squirrel had come in the open window and was banging the bread bin trying to get some bread. We used to get rolls delivered in the morning and they were left in a shopping bag my mother left out. They started pinching the rolls out of the bag before we got up. So the baker said leave a tin and I will out them in the tin. That worked for one day but the managed to open the tin. So he said I will put them in the tin and turn it upside down. That worked for three days until they learned how to get into it. So no more morning rolls. My sister, who was up first, objected to a squirrel sitting on the kitchen windowsill eating her breakfast as if mocking her. Weather forecast for the west coast today was heavy rain and possible thunder and lightning. I hope you miss it Eve. This weather is unreal and it is not yet summer. We have loads of camper vans and motor bikes around now. The tourists are seeing the Highlands at their best. We live on a single track road. Yesterday there was a car and caravan coming up ( not recommended) and a van with a boat on a trailer going down. The van had to reverse back to the wide part outside our house so they could pass. Many passing places are not big enough for a vehicle and trailer. A lot of the camper vans are rented so the drivers are not too competent at reversing them. The tourist board do warn not to go on the single track roads unless they can reverse competently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl Posted June 9, 2018 Report Share Posted June 9, 2018 We did it again yesterday, went to track a missing dog and had just arrived, met owners, put walking boots on, and owner's phone rang. Dog warden had just picked him up 4 miles away. That is twice in a week, the other one being Tuesday. Both reasonably local. Wispa is getting used to the way the phone rings and people start jumping with joy as soon as we arrive. Have just posted this on Facebook: Shelley my giant African land snail 2005-2018, didn't make the world record which is 15 yrs old but still longer than average for species Archachatina Marginata. Proof of the benefits of a healthy diet of fruit and veg and a calm and peaceable attitude to everything. Or one could say, of slobbing your way aimlessly through life, stuffing face and sleeping for hours on end, and generally not giving a **** about anything. RIP to a top mollusc and a fun guy&girl. Enjoy the Big Allotment in the afterlife xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Posted June 9, 2018 Report Share Posted June 9, 2018 aww sorry about that xxxx my friend has some, but they have all died off all but 2. they are still small. she doesnt know what she did wrong, but at least they arnt breeding every day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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