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Hello Forkers - SEPTEMBER 2018

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  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Have a good trip Obxx and Possum ......great to be experiencing the joys of responsibilty 😳🤯

    Littlest chicklet and I are on a daytrip to Brum today - sorting out things she needs for her new place - which is a room in a house she is sharing with 6 friends.  Deep in the heart of Selly Oak, which is student land.....in fact closer to her lectures than she was when she was in halls last year.  Gonna be a busy day 😝

    LG - cycling is partly fitness regime (I try to cycle in the summer and swim in the winter once it is too cold and dark to be on the roads).....but also in training for a cycling trip MrC and I are taking in about 6 weeks time.  5 days cycling down the Moselle valley requires a rear that is used to a saddle and legs that are ready for pedalling 🚴‍♀️.

    Everything crossed for Yvie and family today 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

    Miss you too Pdoc 🤓
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Morning, 

    Any news yet Yvie

    Chicky I think you must be very brave the cyclists round here take there life in their hands regularly   Mind you they could use the cycle lane🤔

    poor Hosta, you have been bombarded with so,unions! I feel you have no choice now but to get a thingy

    dont see Pat this morning , hope she’s warm and inside
    over 4pts dripped from the apples last night, jellies should be good.  Making mint and Apple and rosemary and Apple. 
    any other ideas?
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Thanks Dove I will.
    Obelixx theres no sleep for me... no rest for the wicked! Were already all up washed and dressed, OH has gone to work. We've read books, drawing, played musical instruments...I've got lots to do today. First on the list is wrestle my nearly 3 year old in the car to take her to nursery (the only day she goes, loves it when she's there!)
    Were off to east Sussex to my dad's tomorrow for a week, so usual washing/ packing. Also have crates of plants to prep to fit in the car to take with us. Hopefully will manage a sneaky nap with the little one 😂. 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Morning all. 
    I didn't get to sleep until gone 3am. grrrr. 
    I did manage to sort out mail: filing , recyle, rubbish .
    Fippin' grass needs cut again already. I hope it's not the 9 hour marathon I had last week.
    Devon.
  • Hosta  :(  shame about the sleep thing ... If you'd mentioned your grass my OH would've done it when he cut ours on Sunday  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Hosta  :(  shame about the sleep thing ... If you'd mentioned your grass my OH would've done it when he cut ours on Sunday  ;)
    I'd even have let him use the ride on. 
    Devon.
  • Hmmm .... not sure that I would ... you know he doesn't drive ....  scared

    You need my little old grey Fergie and a gang mower ... 
     https://picclick.co.uk/Ransomes-Triple-Gang-Grass-Mower-suit-grey-Ferguson-332686409363.html

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all.
    Grey and horrible here, but if I say so myself, the garden is still full of colour here.
    Got to take Moira for an Ultrasound today, she has been getting lots of tummy pain for a while now. Unfortunately the GP and I think it is gallstones.
    Had to pay in some cheques yesterday, there are no Lloyds branches open any where near, so had to drive to town. 10 mile drive, £2 to park, 20 minute walk, and when I arrived at bank, no indication of what to do, no paying in slips or envelopes.
    Joined long queue, eventually told had to use a cheque reader machine.
    In all the round trip and lengthy queue took over 2 hours.
    How are the old, infirm, or poor supposed to cope with that, I was apoplectic.

    Very pleased your surgery went well @Lily Pilly
    Hope your "delivery" goes well @Yviestevie
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Beautiful sunny morning here.

    I paid in two cheques to the bank a few weeks ago. Where there used to be ten desks with tellers there are now two with long queues. I suppose we are fortunate in still having a few banks open.

    Obelixx, a rugby team from the school where I taught used to go to Namur for a week every summer to play rugby.
    SW Scotland
  • The little town where I lived and worked in the early 70s will have no banks after November ... it had at least three and a couple of building societies when I lived there ... it's a busy little market town with lots of small businesses and shops that use cash ... what the heck are they supposed to do?  The next nearest bank is 12 miles away!!!  http://www.becclesandbungayjournal.co.uk/news/last-bank-to-shut-in-town-as-barclays-announce-closure-1-5656813

    The village where we live now (right on the edge of Norwich) is losing its only bank in November ... it'll be an inconvenience but we'll manage ... at least there are plenty of banks in the city centre and we're only a 15 minute bus ride away ... but for those in rural areas its going to cause real problems. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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