Is it worth having them redone Dove? My kitchen floor has been done with the wrong grout, so it constantly removes itself.. Glad things are improving LP. I feel for you. Lovely moon Pat. It's difficult to get good pix of it - there's all sorts of things you have to do with exposure and such, but I've never mastered it. Should really make the effort sometime, but I'm not sure I would 'fit' into a camera club. Blustery and showery here, but I managed a little walk this morning without getting soaked, so it's all good. I've put washing on so it's bound to rain again. Curses.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
One of these days we’ll need new units @Fairygirl ... it’ll keep until then ... just as well I’m not very pernickerty about such things. I am thinking about getting a proper floor steam cleaner rather than the handheld jobby.... any recommendations anyone?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I had that green one that was alwasy advertised, but found it a bit poor. I got a new one last year - Russell Hobbs, and it's been much better. Cheaper too.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm intrigued reading about your dogs educating each other. Presumably it's because they're pack animals, so one of them will be top dog? Is the top dog always the first one you own? Or are YOU top dog, and they all do what you say???
No - dogs are dogs, people are people. Both people and dogs are well aware of the differences. They've done lots of studies of wolf packs, but there's no clear cross-over for behaviour in groups of dogs - a wolf pack will mostly consist of family members, for example. My dogs are all unrelated to one another. They are social animals though, like people, and they will co-operate with and form bonds with other animals, including people and cats and ferrets and any others that are regularly integrating with them.
There are a few places in the UK that use 'teaching dogs' to help dogs that have not been properly socialised and which therefore can be either very fearful or overly aggressive. Some dogs - and my old guy is one such - are very fluent in canine language. They can inform, educate and demonstrate how to behave to other dogs in a far more direct way than can people, who lack tails, hackles, the necessary side-eye range and stance options that dogs deploy as warnings. My old dog only has to look at the newbie when he's doing something he shouldn't and the newbie will quit.
Top dog in any group is usually a bitch. Top dogs generally don't do anything to enforce their status, they just are and the others know it. The notion of 'alpha males' (or females) in dogs has been thoroughly debunked. Pack dynamics shift with time. It's always fascinating to watch, but little understood in terms of the details.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
@WonkyWomble has a Vax and loves it ... I see that Vax do one that has a scrubbing function for the grouting on tiled floors but the reviews I’ve founc so far are pretty mixed ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fascinating @raisingirl .....lots of myths debunked there. Love it that your old guy has “that look”. I had one of those that I used with the chicklets in days gone by
Very excited that we have just had a baby woodpecker on the bird feeder 😀😀😀
Had a great weekend walking the last two sections of the South Downs way with my sisters- although weary and achy today (14 miles Sat, 16 miles Sun). We have now done the whole thing .....over the course of two years. Wild orchids and poppies were highlights
@Hostafan1 your floors are immaculate 🍴. Which model is yours? Does it scrub the grouting?
it's got various attachments including a tiny "jet" one which is great on grouting. It's about 7 years old and I can't see anything really similar in their current range.
Chicky that sounds a great weekend ... I used to love going for a proper walk, although 5/6 miles was probably enough for me. Flippin’ joints won’t cooperate nowadays 🙄
I steam cleaned three quarters of the grouting on the tiled kitchen floor while the bread was baking ... then OH took pity on my aching knees and hands and finished it off for me ... and did the cupboard fronts and the wall tiles as well ... after he’d cut the grass in the back garden and hung the washing out ❤️
I made a pie for supper from the remains of yesterday’s pot roasted brisket, carrots potatoes and onions ... and very tasty it was too, with a dish of broad beans and parsley sauce 😋
Now he's washing up and I’m just going to get the knitting out ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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My kitchen floor has been done with the wrong grout, so it constantly removes itself..
Glad things are improving LP. I feel for you.
Lovely moon Pat. It's difficult to get good pix of it - there's all sorts of things you have to do with exposure and such, but I've never mastered it. Should really make the effort sometime, but I'm not sure I would 'fit' into a camera club.
Blustery and showery here, but I managed a little walk this morning without getting soaked, so it's all good. I've put washing on so it's bound to rain again. Curses.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
There are a few places in the UK that use 'teaching dogs' to help dogs that have not been properly socialised and which therefore can be either very fearful or overly aggressive. Some dogs - and my old guy is one such - are very fluent in canine language. They can inform, educate and demonstrate how to behave to other dogs in a far more direct way than can people, who lack tails, hackles, the necessary side-eye range and stance options that dogs deploy as warnings. My old dog only has to look at the newbie when he's doing something he shouldn't and the newbie will quit.
Top dog in any group is usually a bitch. Top dogs generally don't do anything to enforce their status, they just are and the others know it. The notion of 'alpha males' (or females) in dogs has been thoroughly debunked. Pack dynamics shift with time. It's always fascinating to watch, but little understood in terms of the details.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Very excited that we have just had a baby woodpecker on the bird feeder 😀😀😀
Had a great weekend walking the last two sections of the South Downs way with my sisters- although weary and achy today (14 miles Sat, 16 miles Sun). We have now done the whole thing .....over the course of two years. Wild orchids and poppies were highlights
I steam cleaned three quarters of the grouting on the tiled kitchen floor while the bread was baking ... then OH took pity on my aching knees and hands and finished it off for me ... and did the cupboard fronts and the wall tiles as well ... after he’d cut the grass in the back garden and hung the washing out ❤️
I made a pie for supper from the remains of yesterday’s pot roasted brisket, carrots potatoes and onions ... and very tasty it was too, with a dish of broad beans and parsley sauce 😋
Now he's washing up and I’m just going to get the knitting out ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.