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Hello Forkers! October 2018

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Lovely though Dove. I quite like a blustery day  :)
    Forgot to say - Hi P.Pam  - hope you're fine. Can you see me waving all the way from  here?  :)
    I forgot I'd taken photos of the wood pigeon today. He was having a lovely feast..


    what a greedy little guzzling boy I am... :D



    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    We have just watched tonights Dr Who. I forecast a lot of stamping on Spiders in Sheffield, especially around the Park Hill flats.
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Morning all. I’ve just woken and feeling a bit dopey. Lovely photos everyone. 

    S. E. NSW
  • flumpy1flumpy1 Posts: 3,117
    Morning Pat and all, it’s very frosty here -1 and clear sky’s bbbbrrrr 😬, my car has gone in for its MOT today so wish us luck 🍀
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Morning all. 
    Lovely photos @chicky.
    I love the fact that in Europe you can fly a couple of hours and find such variations in language , culture, food, architecture etc.
    Devon.
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Thanks @Hostafan1, and everyone else too.  Our cycling took us from France to Luxembourg to Germany ......all very different (united, strangely enough, by the constant presence of pizzerias 🍕).  We had a great time.  Learned lots about champagne yesterday too .....who knew it was made with black grapes 🍇😳

    But now, back to the rat race.  Wish Mr C could come to the office with me.....it’d be nice to have someone there I like 😀😀😀😀
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Morning all/afties Pat  :)
    I love that chicky - 'united by the constant presence of pizzerias'  :D
    Back to work for me too - boo hiss. I get nervous going back to work - don't really know why. Stupid mare.
    Hope the car's ok flumpy. They're a drag aren't they!
    It's shaping up to be another stunning day once the frost defrosts itself. Minus 3 just now. Sun appearing over the houses. Gorgeous.
    Birds are going mental for their food. Took some cheese out for them and broke the ice on the pond, so that's them sorted for now. I'll get to test out the heated windscreen on the car properly this morning too. 
    Have a good day all, whatever you're up to.  Keep cosy :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good morning all  :) not sure why they sent the gritters out to wake me in the wee small hours  :o the only sign of frost here is a little on the car roofs ... NDN has driven off without needing to get her scraper out ... the road has no overnight traffic ... it’s a dead end ... and the buses don’t start running until past 7am and today at least the sun was well up by then ...  Really no need to wake me  :/

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





  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Bit of frost on the garage roof, but the dahlias still unaffected. I dug my Bishops babies up from my friends house as she is moving on Wednesday. I also gained a load of Asparagus seedlings, which I have lined out. They have two chances, If they look like they may produce next Spring they will stay. If they do nothing, then I will dig them up when I need to plant out other stuff. I have also gained two large daleks compost bins, and I can fetch a dustbin with a lid that can be used for soaking seaweed in. I already have one dustbin for nettle tea, and another for comfrey.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited October 2018
    That sounds like a good haul FB.   Chicky - really no-one nice at work?  Sad.  My longest standing friends are old work colleagues, including OH, so going back 30 or 40 years now.

    Hosta - you can drive 2 hours and everything changes n the UL too.  No need for planes.  Countryside, architecture, stones and bricks and yes, pizzerias.   Sad lack of decent Indian and Chinese sur le continent.

    Chilly here and gery and a bit blustery.  We had 19mm of rain last night and it seems that's our lot for a while.   Not up in time for check for frosts.
    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)."
    Plato
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