What a chatty lot you are... on to the fourth page already this morning!
Dove, that's ridiculous about the sandals - and really poor customer service. I think I'd take my custom elsewhere...
Glad the ear is getting treated, Clari, even if progress isn't evident at the moment.
Hope the nursery have got the waterlily you were wanting, Hosta, to exchange for the wrongly-labelled one. Bit of a PITA though...
I remember Johnny Canoe posting pictures of Chickadees from near the Rockies, on the "bird feeders" thread, and they appear to be nearly identical to our Great Tits. I wonder what those Russian ones are called?
Dacha, forgive the nosiness, but I'm wondering if you're a native English speaker living in Russia, because your colloquial English is perfect...
I'm making a list of "things to do before going to Ireland on Friday" cos there isn't much time. Now the cat is sleeping on the list...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
sigh. You'd get on well with my OH then. He is still sniggering at the article in New Scientist a few weeks back which announced NASA are looking for gaseous anomalies around Uranus . Apparently they've sent a probe (he fell off his chair at that point).
Dove - online shopping is great about 75% of the time and really really frustrating the rest of it. I'll tell you about Yodel and the new shower fitting one of these days when the sun isn't shining. (I'm just waiting for the grass trimmer battery to recharge).
I'm Tom Baker era Dr Who myself, but watched most of the David Tennant ones and thought they were great . I don't really care who the lead is, if the stories are good I may watch it.
I seem to be particularly un-imprinted with the gender stereotyping thing. OH and I do the h**work when we see it needs doing. Neither of us is fastidious but he gets migraines so is usually quick to hoover carpets whereas I have a lower tolerance for dirt in the kitchen or bathroom. We both cook, we both earn, we both do our own laundry. The only formal division of responsibilities is I load the dishwasher and he unloads it. I do the communal laundry (bed linen, tea towels). He looks after the water supply (from a spring - filters that need changing, pumps need maintaining, that sort of thing). I'm sure we have got an iron. Somewhere. We've been married 20 years, by the way, so this 'system' is well established. Maybe it's because Dad was blind, so he and Mum had a different split of responsibilities to many couples of their generation - she did all the driving, looked after paying bills and doing the gardening where a lot of women of her generation would have left all that to their husbands. If Dad COULD do it, he did and if he couldn't, she managed. You should see the shelves they put up together - talk about blind leading the blind........
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Liri ... the problem with taking my custom elsewhere is that for years I put up with uncomfortable shoes because of my wide feet .... then I found Hotter - their shoes fit and are comfortable .... nowhere else to take my custom to ..
To cap it all this morning I've had an email from Hotter with a link to their online catalogue with an improved version of the sandals I want ... click on my size and it says they're In Stock ... I phoned them up again and now they're even more confused than me ........ They'll ring me back ............
If I remember correctly, Dacha is a Brit married to a Russian and living in the Moscow area I took note of him when he first posted a couple of years or so ago as my son's ex is Russian. I had been planning a trip there with he before she became 'the ex'.
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Dove .....how could you ......I'm a bona fide Paddy.....but I forgive you of course.....
You've got great tits Dacha.......I would never have thought ......that accolade will now stay with me for the rest of my happy life
well apart from this one from Liriodendron
Dacha, forgive the nosiness, but I'm wondering if you're a native English speaker living in Russia, because your colloquial English is perfect...
OK, so maybe I should explain my background ...I was born in Dublin a long time ago .....so that explains the mastery I have of colloquial English
Like most of us gypsies with itchy feet ....I decided to spread my aching wings a bit .....my love of mathematics from an early age eventually brought me into computing .......so I had to flee from the agri nature of my homeland to .....yes the Empire ....then to Switzerland.....USA ......Saudi Arabia .......
I was about to embark on a big adventure in December 1989 ....a new life .....the Philippines ....but then something happend to the husband of a lady who liked shoes very much yep.....the coup!
That month I got a call from a senior official in the company I worked for at the time ......he knew I was an idiot and a risk taker ....and he said...' the Soviet Union is breaking up you know and a maverick like you could help us crack it "......I arrived it Moscow on a cold and miserable day in January 1990 and I just fell in love with the place .....I have been here ever since .
I honestly believe the Irish and the Russian people have a lot in common ....because of our ,seriously ,basic love of real culture ....literature , music , dance , nature and of course family ......
Hopefully I have not shattered anyone's thoughts that a budding Chekhov was within your midst
"sigh. You'd get on well with my OH then. He is still sniggering at the article in New Scientist a few weeks back which announced NASA are looking for gaseous anomalies around Uranus . Apparently they've sent a probe (he fell off his chair at that point). "
I actually had to stop ready at that point for laughter.
Interesting Dachalover. I first got into computing after seeing a job advertised in the Philippines paying ludicrous money for a COBOL programmer so off I went and trained. Then I worked for a software house but always in the UK. Moved locks, stock, barrel and 5 cats to Belgium when OH was assigned to run a project for Swift.
It's hot here again but not sticky and there's a breeze but it's too strong for even the mad Brits to be out in the midday sun. I have spent a couple of hours this morning gathering up all but the two biggest pots of roses and moving them to a new, shadier location after deadheading, weeding, top dressing, repotting and feeding as needed. Can't get them out in their new home until we've laid the terrace stones and had lots and lots of rain so we can level and improve the soil for them to get their roots down deep.
Had a little tickle of some other pots and then retreated out of the sun. OH has helped me move the bigger pots and then gone off to oil the planks we'll be using to make raised beds in the potager. He's a good garden labourer but pretty clueless about plants so we divide the tasks as we both like to have healthy plants and fresh produce.
Possum has just got home from her second surfing lesson and is happy. Good.
Hosta - with you on Dr Who. Gave up in the David Tennant years and left OH and Possum to watch it while I pottered in the kitchen. Gave up on James Bond too till Daniel C came along. Good choice.
Liri - hope you have a great trip to Ireland and no excitable seas this time.
Busy - family gathering sounds good. Glad you've had a good trip up.
Raisin - sounds like a good balance to me and I can see why your OH was giggly.
I suppose I'd better see about some lunch. OH is learning to drive the new BBQ...........
Enjoy your day everyone.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Dacha ... forgive me .... but I did say 'if I remember correctly' ...
Well ... Hotter rang back full of apologies ... it seems that the website is totally out of sync with their warehouse ... they don't have any left and are not making any more of the new improved version of the sandals I want .... I had a tiny strop - after all I did order them back in early May ... didn't get me the wedge sandals I want but I am getting some other wedge sandals in a similar colour, at the sale price less 10% with free delivery ... that's £22 rather than £69, so at least I won't have to go barefoot in the cobbled streets of Cornwall ... rather ordinary sandals rather than the stylish ones I wanted but I don't suppose many people will be looking at my feet .......
Have never 'got' James Bond ............ 'Our Man Flint' was another matter
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I find shoe shopping a nightmare Dove. Very happy at the mo since I can wear flip flops all day. I have the ordinary rubbery ones plus leather ones and sparkly ones and all blessedly flat. I liked Flint too. Get dragged to most films by OH and Possum but I draw the line at anything with Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise or Tom Hiddleston. Horrible lot.
Dacha - I was always more commercial than scientific. Flirted with Fortran for a while but COBOL just seemed very elegant and logical for business use. Lost my way when things moved to C and Unix. All Greek to me but by then my organising skills had been recognised so not a huge problem. We now have 2 dogs aged 10 and 8 and 2 kitten cats.
There is a yellow warning out for storms here tonight and tomorrow. Heard that one before! Fingers crossed we actually get some rain this time.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Obelixx ... I was wearing flat Reef sandals when I fell ... they have those stiff nylon? straps with no give in them ... it may well be the strap that caused my metatarsal to snap ... don't think I dare wear them again. Can't be doing with flip-flops 'cos I can't bear the thong between my toes I'd rather be barefoot in the garden, but then I get fallen arches and plantar fasciitis ... I mentioned at the hospital that the only thing I ever have wrong with me is ligament/tendon problems, and only since my thyroid packed up ... since then it seems I get one problem after another .... he nodded and said it might be worth looking at ... but if that is something to do with it what can be done? I'm already on a high dose of levothyroxine.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Morning all.
What a chatty lot you are... on to the fourth page already this morning!
Dove, that's ridiculous about the sandals - and really poor customer service. I think I'd take my custom elsewhere...
Glad the ear is getting treated, Clari, even if progress isn't evident at the moment.
Hope the nursery have got the waterlily you were wanting, Hosta, to exchange for the wrongly-labelled one. Bit of a PITA though...
I remember Johnny Canoe posting pictures of Chickadees from near the Rockies, on the "bird feeders" thread, and they appear to be nearly identical to our Great Tits. I wonder what those Russian ones are called?
Dacha, forgive the nosiness, but I'm wondering if you're a native English speaker living in Russia, because your colloquial English is perfect...
I'm making a list of "things to do before going to Ireland on Friday" cos there isn't much time. Now the cat is sleeping on the list...
sigh. You'd get on well with my OH then. He is still sniggering at the article in New Scientist a few weeks back which announced NASA are looking for gaseous anomalies around Uranus
. Apparently they've sent a probe (he fell off his chair at that point).
Dove - online shopping is great about 75% of the time and really really frustrating the rest of it. I'll tell you about Yodel and the new shower fitting one of these days when the sun isn't shining. (I'm just waiting for the grass trimmer battery to recharge).
I'm Tom Baker era Dr Who myself, but watched most of the David Tennant ones and thought they were great
. I don't really care who the lead is, if the stories are good I may watch it.
I seem to be particularly un-imprinted with the gender stereotyping thing. OH and I do the h**work when we see it needs doing. Neither of us is fastidious but he gets migraines so is usually quick to hoover carpets whereas I have a lower tolerance for dirt in the kitchen or bathroom. We both cook, we both earn, we both do our own laundry. The only formal division of responsibilities is I load the dishwasher and he unloads it. I do the communal laundry (bed linen, tea towels). He looks after the water supply (from a spring - filters that need changing, pumps need maintaining, that sort of thing). I'm sure we have got an iron. Somewhere. We've been married 20 years, by the way, so this 'system' is well established. Maybe it's because Dad was blind, so he and Mum had a different split of responsibilities to many couples of their generation - she did all the driving, looked after paying bills and doing the gardening where a lot of women of her generation would have left all that to their husbands. If Dad COULD do it, he did and if he couldn't, she managed. You should see the shelves they put up together - talk about blind leading the blind........
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Liri ... the problem with taking my custom elsewhere is that for years I put up with uncomfortable shoes because of my wide feet .... then I found Hotter - their shoes fit and are comfortable .... nowhere else to take my custom to ..
To cap it all this morning I've had an email from Hotter with a link to their online catalogue with an improved version of the sandals I want ... click on my size and it says they're In Stock ... I phoned them up again and now they're even more confused than me ........
They'll ring me back ............
If I remember correctly, Dacha is a Brit married to a Russian and living in the Moscow area
I took note of him when he first posted a couple of years or so ago as my son's ex is Russian. I had been planning a trip there with he before she became 'the ex'.
Last edited: 18 July 2017 10:32:32
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove .....how could you ......I'm a bona fide Paddy.....but I forgive you of course.....
well apart from this one from Liriodendron
Dacha, forgive the nosiness, but I'm wondering if you're a native English speaker living in Russia, because your colloquial English is perfect...
OK, so maybe I should explain my background ...I was born in Dublin a long time ago .....so that explains the mastery I have of colloquial English
Like most of us gypsies with itchy feet ....I decided to spread my aching wings a bit .....my love of mathematics from an early age eventually brought me into computing .......so I had to flee from the agri nature of my homeland to .....yes the Empire ....then to Switzerland.....USA ......Saudi Arabia .......
I was about to embark on a big adventure in December 1989 ....a new life .....the Philippines ....but then something happend to the husband of a lady who liked shoes very much
yep.....the coup!
That month I got a call from a senior official in the company I worked for at the time ......he knew I was an idiot and a risk taker ....and he said...' the Soviet Union is breaking up you know and a maverick like you could help us crack it "......I arrived it Moscow on a cold and miserable day in January 1990 and I just fell in love with the place .....I have been here ever since .
I honestly believe the Irish and the Russian people have a lot in common ....because of our ,seriously ,basic love of real culture ....literature , music , dance , nature and of course family ......
Hopefully I have not shattered anyone's thoughts that a budding Chekhov was within your midst
raisingirl
"sigh. You'd get on well with my OH then. He is still sniggering at the article in New Scientist a few weeks back which announced NASA are looking for gaseous anomalies around Uranus
. Apparently they've sent a probe (he fell off his chair at that point). "
I actually had to stop ready at that point for laughter.
Quite made my day.
Cuppa, shave, change then off to the coal face.
Enjoy Tuesday one and all.
Interesting Dachalover. I first got into computing after seeing a job advertised in the Philippines paying ludicrous money for a COBOL programmer so off I went and trained. Then I worked for a software house but always in the UK. Moved locks, stock, barrel and 5 cats to Belgium when OH was assigned to run a project for Swift.
It's hot here again but not sticky and there's a breeze but it's too strong for even the mad Brits to be out in the midday sun. I have spent a couple of hours this morning gathering up all but the two biggest pots of roses and moving them to a new, shadier location after deadheading, weeding, top dressing, repotting and feeding as needed. Can't get them out in their new home until we've laid the terrace stones and had lots and lots of rain so we can level and improve the soil for them to get their roots down deep.
Had a little tickle of some other pots and then retreated out of the sun. OH has helped me move the bigger pots and then gone off to oil the planks we'll be using to make raised beds in the potager. He's a good garden labourer but pretty clueless about plants so we divide the tasks as we both like to have healthy plants and fresh produce.
Possum has just got home from her second surfing lesson and is happy. Good.
Hosta - with you on Dr Who. Gave up in the David Tennant years and left OH and Possum to watch it while I pottered in the kitchen. Gave up on James Bond too till Daniel C came along. Good choice.
Liri - hope you have a great trip to Ireland and no excitable seas this time.
Busy - family gathering sounds good. Glad you've had a good trip up.
Raisin - sounds like a good balance to me and I can see why your OH was giggly.
I suppose I'd better see about some lunch. OH is learning to drive the new BBQ...........
Enjoy your day everyone.
rasingirl...
You crack me up
Obelixx....I'm an ALGOL guy,,,,,sorry ....never got to COBOL
5 cats sounds seriously familiar ....I wish the only Swift I knew was the bird
Dacha ... forgive me .... but I did say 'if I remember correctly' ...
Well ... Hotter rang back full of apologies ... it seems that the website is totally out of sync with their warehouse ... they don't have any left and are not making any more of the new improved version of the sandals I want .... I had a tiny strop - after all I did order them back in early May ... didn't get me the wedge sandals I want but I am getting some other wedge sandals in a similar colour, at the sale price less 10% with free delivery ... that's £22 rather than £69, so at least I won't have to go barefoot in the cobbled streets of Cornwall ... rather ordinary sandals rather than the stylish ones I wanted but I don't suppose many people will be looking at my feet .......
Have never 'got' James Bond ............ 'Our Man Flint' was another matter
Last edited: 18 July 2017 11:40:02
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I find shoe shopping a nightmare Dove. Very happy at the mo since I can wear flip flops all day. I have the ordinary rubbery ones plus leather ones and sparkly ones and all blessedly flat. I liked Flint too. Get dragged to most films by OH and Possum but I draw the line at anything with Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise or Tom Hiddleston. Horrible lot.
Dacha - I was always more commercial than scientific. Flirted with Fortran for a while but COBOL just seemed very elegant and logical for business use. Lost my way when things moved to C and Unix. All Greek to me but by then my organising skills had been recognised so not a huge problem. We now have 2 dogs aged 10 and 8 and 2 kitten cats.
There is a yellow warning out for storms here tonight and tomorrow. Heard that one before! Fingers crossed we actually get some rain this time.
Obelixx ... I was wearing flat Reef sandals when I fell ... they have those stiff nylon? straps with no give in them ... it may well be the strap that caused my metatarsal to snap ... don't think I dare wear them again. Can't be doing with flip-flops 'cos I can't bear the thong between my toes
I'd rather be barefoot in the garden, but then I get fallen arches and plantar fasciitis ... I mentioned at the hospital that the only thing I ever have wrong with me is ligament/tendon problems, and only since my thyroid packed up ... since then it seems I get one problem after another .... he nodded and said it might be worth looking at ... but if that is something to do with it what can be done? I'm already on a high dose of levothyroxine.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.