Forum home The potting shed
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

HELLO FORKERS 😎 August 2019

1757678808191

Posts

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    @Fairygirl, I spent 2 nights at the Currour bothy, to enable me to do the surrounding peaks.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Tasty treats Dove. Always nice  :)
    doc - I was chatting to a nice young lad, up for the holiday weekend, who'd come in from the Braemar side, had been bivvying and come over from Ben Macdui. He was hoping to camp again overnight on Cairngorm, but was wondering if he would get anywhere quiet with so many people coming up the 'pony track' to the summit. There was a nice tor just to the east which would have been good I reckon. I thought about including Macdui, but that's one I can certainly do from the same approach as yesterday.
    Did you read about the chap who's just compleated on Slioch? His name is Hugh Munro, and it's happened during the centenary of Munro's death. All very fitting. I thought of you when I saw which hill he'd picked for his final outing  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've got a grasshopper somewhere and I can't find it. Just hear it every now and again. 
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hadn't seen that fairy. Nice story and what a great hill to finish on. I always assumed I would save Lomond till last, as it was the hill I had driven past the most.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Ben Lomond was my first, mainly because it was the nearest :) Did it in winter (1969) too. I was behind the camera.


  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2019
    Interesting discovery this evening ... because their eyes are at the top/sides of their heads, you can steer a frog using the same techniques as herding sheep ... ie standing behind them and moving slowly forward, sticking out your left arm to turn them right and your right arm to steer them left.  

    If you ever have to encourage a frog to leave your sitting room, cross the floor, then cross the dining area and leave by the back door without going under either the bookcase to its  left or the sideboard on its right, you might be glad you know that 😊 😂 🐸 

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





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2019
    We also removed a Shield Bug from a bar of soap in the bathroom this evening ... what with the invasion of flying ants in the sitting room yesterday, our home is becoming a jungle  🙄 🤣 

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





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Now I’m in bed and there’s a female tawny owl kewick-ing very close by ... 🦉 😃 

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





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    Sleep well, Dove, and everyone.

    Another hot day. We went to Wells-Next-the Sea, explored the village and harbour and had lunch in a pub. Crab salad for me and pizza for him. Stopped at Tesco on the way home.

    The driver's window of the car has stopped working. It was wide open because the air conditioning has also stopped working. OH will take it to a garage tomorrow.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Tea and toast anyone? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

Sign In or Register to comment.