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Reasons to be cheerful 2019 - the antidote to Curmudgeons' Corner

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  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Hello all , Christmas Shopping all done , have to do it early as on holiday end of November / December 
    Watching TV , with a glass of wine 🍷 and fire lit 🔥 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Granddaughter loved her new bedroom look and the cakes are nearly all gone. Son is happy because of the rugby results. We're happy because they're all happy.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Fairygirl said:
    B3 said:
    Oooh @Fairygirl you are awful!

    You're supposed to add 'but I like you' to that.... ;) 
    Can you imagine the reaction of the snowflakes if The Dick Emery Show was repeated!
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Reasons to be cheerful - I'm not a postie.  My brother-in-law is and he was out delivering for 7 hours today in that weather.  Soaked to the skin but still completed the delivery.  Some letters and packages were somewhat soggy, but there is no way to stop water getting into the bags in the pouring rain.
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Thought the Dick Emery show , clever & funny 😉 Cheers everybody 🥂
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    KT53 said:
    Reasons to be cheerful - I'm not a postie.  My brother-in-law is and he was out delivering for 7 hours today in that weather.  Soaked to the skin but still completed the delivery.  Some letters and packages were somewhat soggy, but there is no way to stop water getting into the bags in the pouring rain.
    I popped into store yesterday and some deliveries had already been brought back due to road closures, and the manager was on the phone placating someone whose order couldn't be delivered. 
    I wonder how many will be waiting for me when I get in this morning.
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    You'd think people would show a bit of common sense @Hostafan1. Oh I forgot - it's the 21st century....

    @KT53 - I was watching something the other day, and I thought to myself - that would never get commissioned now  :D
    It was completely harmless too, just like Dick Emery. You're right @GWRS :)
    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
    Shafts of sunlight lighting up the Amelanchier with its autumn frock on

    What a reason to be cheerful 😀 

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Lovely @Dovefromabove.   The recent rains seem to have put a stop to autumn colour for now and eveything is clinging on to green for as long as possible and the weed seeds in our gravel are behaving like the desert flowers after a storm but not as colourful.
    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
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited October 2019
    Really lovely @Dovefromabove :)
    The light at this time of year is glorious. Lots of trees bare here, but also some only partially turned. It was wet and mild through September, so that's likely the reason. 

    There's a rowan I pass quite often, and I've been watching it slowly change. It's been stunning. It's just creeping past it's best now, but the foliage is a flaming red, and the berries are dripping from it.
    I'd take a pic, but I don't like to, as it's in a front garden, and it wouldn't be right. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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