Mundane News

[Reynard]

Right, that's the grass cut before the weather turns.

Damn sitting on the mower, it's not very pleasant out there. Prolly feels colder due to how warm and it was yesterday.

Now having a and a banana.

 

[Andrew_P]

Does she know what your forum name is ?

I didn't untill just now when I read it in a slow manner didn't get it untill I read it backwards.....

 

[MikeG]

Right, that's the grass cut before the weather turns.

Damn sitting on the mower, it's not very pleasant out there. Prolly feels colder due to how warm and it was yesterday.

Now having a and a banana.

Yeah, that's confirmation, as if any were needed. You're definitely in the Pyrenees. You should be doing your homework better. Your claim to be in Cambridgeshire, some 30 miles or so from me, needs to be seen through the prism of it being a baking hot day here, muggy and breezy.....but hot, hot, hot. You're clearly at altitude, and you're really drinking coffee........just pretending it's tea so that you'll fit in un-noticed. Game's up.....I'm onto you.

 

[MikeG]

I'm no expert but all of the chicks were trying to get rid of small parasites in their feathers and groomed constantly. That might have had something to do with the mortality rate. Of the last three survivors who made it out of the nest, one was eaten by a jay three hours ago, and the other two have not been seen recently. Right now, I'm not sure that I want to go through this again next year.

Nature: red in tooth and claw. It's hard out there.......

 

[raleighnut]

Yeah, that's confirmation, as if any were needed. You're definitely in the Pyrenees. You should be doing your homework better. Your claim to be in Cambridgeshire, some 30 miles or so from me, needs to be seen through the prism of it being a baking hot day here, muggy and breezy.....but hot, hot, hot. You're clearly at altitude, and you're really drinking coffee........just pretending it's tea so that you'll fit in un-noticed. Game's up.....I'm onto you.

Friday is one of your 'starve' days right.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Just a few shots of our glorious time in the Outer Hebs. Only 2 days left then we start the journey home. It's been hot, stunning and brilliant.

 

[MikeG]

Friday is one of your 'starve' days right.

Not this week. I'm away. All bets are off when on holiday.

 

[MikeG]

I'd just laid out a big bed of "Rapid-Set floor tile adhesive" over most of the downstairs loo, with all the limestone pieces cut and ready to lay, when my neighbour appeared at the door in a state. Veterinary emergency coinciding with a car crisis.....long story.........but could I rush him down to the vet. Twenty minutes open time on the adhesive. If it sets, it's an absolute pig to remove. It's quarter of an hour round trip to the vet. "Come on then Roger, we'd best get cracking...." Only I couldn't crack on too much as there was a friend's rotavator in the back of the van, not lashed down, and if that fell over there would be petrol everywhere and complete chaos.

Anyway, I got back just in time, the tiles went down without any great drama, and I was able to clean up buckets and tools before the adhesive set. Phew.

 

[Lullabelle]

Know what you mean. I like applying sparkly, girly nail polish, but I find myself scraping it off sooner rather than later as the feel of it drives me nuts. Some of my cat show friends have long nails with lovely art on them, but I don't know how they can a) stand it and b) do anything constructive. I keep my nails really short because a) if they get even just a bit long they annoy me, b) I get dirt under them and c) I can't type.

I keep my nails short, cannot do housework, gardening or typing with long nails. Apparently you get used to having them.

 

[Lullabelle]

Just a few shots of our glorious time in the Outer Hebs. Only 2 days left then we start the journey home. It's been hot, stunning and brilliant.

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All of your pics have been really lovely, beautiful part of the world.

 

[raleighnut]

I'd just laid out a big bed of "Rapid-Set floor tile adhesive" over most of the downstairs loo, with all the limestone pieces cut and ready to lay, when my neighbour appeared at the door in a state. Veterinary emergency coinciding with a car crisis.....long story.........but could I rush him down to the vet. Twenty minutes open time on the adhesive. If it sets, it's an absolute pig to remove. It's quarter of an hour round trip to the vet. "Come on then Roger, we'd best get cracking...." Only I couldn't crack on too much as there was a friend's rotavator in the back of the van, not lashed down, and if that fell over there would be petrol everywhere and complete chaos.

Anyway, I got back just in time, the tiles went down without any great drama, and I was able to clean up buckets and tools before the adhesive set. Phew.

High humidity probably helped to extend the 'open time' a bit.

 

[MikeG]

High humidity probably helped to extend the 'open time' a bit.

Quite possible. I did, however, work at the speed of light, and chucked my tools in a bucket of water the second I was done with them.

Four hours drawing today, and 9 hours working on the house. Is that what people mean by "work-life balance"?

 

[raleighnut]

Quite possible. I did, however, work at the speed of light, and chucked my tools in a bucket of water the second I was done with them.

Four hours drawing today, and 9 hours working on the house. Is that what people mean by "work-life balance"?

How long did you have to sit in traffic today (other than the emergency trip)

 

[MikeG]

Traffic? My office is 3 yards from my bedroom door. There have probably been more horses than motor vehicles along the lane today (and twice as many cyclists as horses). No, traffic isn't a big part of my life, fortunately.

 

[gbb]

Holby / Casualty.
jeez, what a load of old cobblers . Me mum never told me I'd have to endure that when I got married.