Morning all. Wise words @Dovefromabove, you often say what I think but I can't express it so well.
Thank you for the belated birthday wishes @Obelixx and @Pat E I hope that when Possum lives in her new place she will settle in well and enjoy her independence. I was going to say what others have already said about 16 year old boys. However, I have 2 sons, one has always been chatty, the other has always been fairly silent but now he's over 40 and a managing director he is more talkative.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thanks for all the support, folks, however I’m seriously p....d off and I’m thinking twice about Christmas gift. I’ve just had a call from my other Daughter and she a has had the same experience with him. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 I’m getting too old for this rubbish.
Lovely pix @chicky. You've had some nice outings. Glad the 'learnin' is going well too No - not running @Biglad, although I did do that for a while. I'm a hillwalker, but I walk every day for about 6 miles or so now that I've retired. Knees are rubbish too. Hope to get out tomorrow [hill] for the first time in a year. My thighs will not thank me! I hope you aren't like the people I keep encountering when I'm out, who think they have right of way over everyone else and plough through folk. Literally Get you, with your coffee machine @WonkyWomble . You'll not want to mix with us plebs and our cafetieres.... Lovely here, so I've had my shower, and a cuppa, and I'll get some more painting done too. One of those jobs that takes ages lily pond edging] but is tiny. Those water lilies still haven't opened. Ungrateful s*ds. I might get some of my narcissus into pots too, now that the sweet peas are out of them.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Coffee machine only moved in when brother did @Fairygirl, there has to be a plus side He was addicted to Starbucks the tax dodgers but covid meant he had to rethink!
No - quite the opposite @fairygirl. I'm the chap who crosses over or runs in the middle of the road so that the yoofs riding bikes 3-abreast on the pavement (whilst staring at their phones) can carry on their merry way
For the first time in a long time I've managed to sit down over a lunchtime shift and drink coffee. I hope that doesn't make me a pleb, 😅☕I leave the fancy coffee for the customers to pay for, probably where most of my profit is made. New chef is turning out to be a superstar, fingers crossed he stays that way. @Pat E, I'm sorry to hear about your grandsons attitude, I'm sure he doesn't mean to upset you, it is awful being a teenager and actually phone calls themselves can be tricky, you've no body language or facial expressions to work off.
Hopefully it'll all work itself out. @Biglad, I'm an ex marathon runner, although I do keep hoping to find time to get another couple in, one training description I always had trouble taking seriously was 'fartlek'. ☺️ Keep on running though, that was motto.... Right off to make more cakes. 🥞
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Us plebs have to stick together @D0rdogne_Damsel Don't start me on the folk staring at phones @Biglad. I watched a woman walk towards me [with her dog on one of those endless leads ] and her face glued to a phone. I kept walking straight towards her to see when, or if, she would eventually notice anyone else was there. I got to about ten feet from her and had to jump onto the road. She only noticed because I did that. She did at least have the good grace to apologise. Not a teenager either. She was at least in her forties. Hopeless. I've found older people far worse than the youngsters though. Especially the dog walkers. They're among the worst.
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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Wise words @Dovefromabove, you often say what I think but I can't express it so well.
Thank you for the belated birthday wishes @Obelixx and @Pat E
I hope that when Possum lives in her new place she will settle in well and enjoy her independence.
I was going to say what others have already said about 16 year old boys. However, I have 2 sons, one has always been chatty, the other has always been fairly silent but now he's over 40 and a managing director he is more talkative.
I have pasties to make ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
has had the same experience with him. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
I’m getting too old for this rubbish.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No - not running @Biglad, although I did do that for a while. I'm a hillwalker, but I walk every day for about 6 miles or so now that I've retired. Knees are rubbish too. Hope to get out tomorrow [hill] for the first time in a year. My thighs will not thank me!
I hope you aren't like the people I keep encountering when I'm out, who think they have right of way over everyone else and plough through folk. Literally
Get you, with your coffee machine @WonkyWomble . You'll not want to mix with us plebs and our cafetieres....
Lovely here, so I've had my shower, and a cuppa, and I'll get some more painting done too. One of those jobs that takes ages lily pond edging] but is tiny. Those water lilies still haven't opened. Ungrateful s*ds.
I might get some of my narcissus into pots too, now that the sweet peas are out of them.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
He was addicted to Starbucks the tax dodgers but covid meant he had to rethink!
New chef is turning out to be a superstar, fingers crossed he stays that way.
@Pat E, I'm sorry to hear about your grandsons attitude, I'm sure he doesn't mean to upset you, it is awful being a teenager and actually phone calls themselves can be tricky, you've no body language or facial expressions to work off.
Hopefully it'll all work itself out.
@Biglad, I'm an ex marathon runner, although I do keep hoping to find time to get another couple in, one training description I always had trouble taking seriously was 'fartlek'. ☺️ Keep on running though, that was motto....
Right off to make more cakes.
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Don't start me on the folk staring at phones @Biglad. I watched a woman walk towards me [with her dog on one of those endless leads ] and her face glued to a phone. I kept walking straight towards her to see when, or if, she would eventually notice anyone else was there. I got to about ten feet from her and had to jump onto the road. She only noticed because I did that. She did at least have the good grace to apologise.
Not a teenager either. She was at least in her forties. Hopeless. I've found older people far worse than the youngsters though. Especially the dog walkers. They're among the worst.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...