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HELLO FORKERS šŸŒž August ā€˜20

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @Obelixx Ā do you have Blackcaps? The male has one of the most delightful songsĀ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-n_eA4S-has



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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That's the one!Ā  Never seen one but certainly heard it.Ā  Ā Thanks @Dovefromabove
    VendƩe - 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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2020
    Hurrah! Lucky you @Obelixx 😊  It’s the most gorgeous song isn’t it šŸŽ¶Ā 
    one day I was sitting at my desk feeling carp after a ā€˜difficult’ phone call with a parent ... the window by my desk was open andd D.C. by the window was a choisya ... on the choisya not more than 4 ft from me was perched a male blackcap singing his heart out Ā ... nature is a wonderful healer. 😊 

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





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2020
    Back to square one ... oven fan works but element doesn’t. šŸ™„Ā 

    Top oven works tho’ šŸ‘Ā 

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





  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    The Devil's Pulpit has been overrun recently after it became famous from film and TV, used to be just a locals secret.

    I see that the police booked 70 cars illegally parked on the Balmaha to Rowardennan road at the weekend. Times must have changed as I don't ever remember seeing more than a dozen cars at best on that road and I don't think I ever saw one parked on the road. OH did her PhD at the field station near Rowardennan so we both knew the road well.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I wonder if your OH knows my BIL @steephill? He still did some 'stuff' there until quite recently, as he was a lecturer at Glasgow. Like you, he was from the area.Ā  :)
    That's the ones I was talking about - those 70. What's worse is that some folk on the walking site were defending them!
    I think there's just been a huge influx of people to that side - they were having problems even during the lockdown travel limit. As someone said at the time - 95% of the Scottish population doesn't live within five miles of L. Lomond, so why were they there.Ā 

    It wasn't a spot I was familiar with [ D's Pulpit ] as I don't go there much to walk. It was only so that I could combine Dumgoyne with Earls Seat. The Campsies aren't really my favourite place to go to. I hand't realised they'd used it, so that's why it's a problem. Glen Etive has become hideous since they filmed there :/ Ā 
    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
    edited August 2020
    My heart bleeds for him
    https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/outrage-after-wells-beach-car-park-wait-1-6776265
    What a whinger.Ā 
    Why should a lot of money be spent to install a system that won’t be needed when he and his pals are back in their usual holiday haunts of the Algarve or Tuscany or Provence or wherever? Ā 



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





  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    St Johns Wood? Surely his chauffeur would be queuing for the ticket?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2020
    Precisely @steephill ... it’s like the folk we saw the other day, driving alongside Southwold Harbour in a new shiny Landrover Defender with personalised plates and the logo of a Mayfair car dealership on the spare wheel hub. You know that’s the nearest it’ll ever get to off-roading ... repeatedly driving up and down through what is a working harbour and boatyard pi$$ing off the fishermen and boatwrights.🤬 





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





  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Got out on the bikes this evening - Hampshire countryside at its best in the evening sunshine. #lovewherewelive. Ā Which is just as well, as we’ll be going nowhere else anytime soon 🤣.

    Sorry to hear your Possum plans have had a Covid spanner thrown in the works @Obelixx .... maybe restrictions will be eased by September? Ā Or could she come and stay in France and self isolate when she goes back? Ā Think we are all going to have to get used to COVID spanners šŸ”§. Ā This autumn and winter might be quite tough. Ā Hoping I will re-discover my ability to get lost in a novel. Ā I’m normally a voracious reader, but haven’t been able to settle to anything since this pandemic started 😳. Ā I don’t think I’m alone (thinkĀ @Liriodendron was having similar problems). Ā 
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