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🏖 HELLO FORKERS ☀️ July ‘23 🍦🍦🍦

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  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Good afternoon everyone,  we took our visitor to Whipsnade zoo as he is interested in suchlike and it was supposed to be dry today, rain tomorrow.  Well after about an hour the drizzle started,  luckily we were back in the car when the real downpour started, a bit later. As we came back down the M1 it was obvious the rain didn't even reach Hemel Hempstead,  let alone south of Watford. Dry as a bone here.
    AB Still learning

  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Evening everyone.

    We’ve had a bit of rain today - half a water butt. 

    Full moon tonight - The Buck Moon 🦌 

    Take care all, particularly those with nagging worries. 
    Swear by a podcast for sleeping - the bedtime stories help me - although it has to be a voice I find relaxing. 


    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I have podcasts on BBC Sounds chuntering quietly at my bedside all night @AuntyRach .., if they stop I wake up 🙄 
    Which bedtime story podcast provider do you use?

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





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh dear! It seems that Venus Williams’ right knee and mine have more in common than is immediately apparent 🙄 

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





  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    Hi @punkdoc and @Hostafan1
    The Grandduke who was against it was politely asked to abdicate by Junker for the duration of the passing of the bill. In the end this reduced permanently the Granduke's powers to oppose a law. It's all here if you are interested.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_on_euthanasia_and_assisted_suicide

    I am very much in favour of it and people have largely come to see it as a good law but at the time there was a lot of debate - normal, given its importance.

    Luxembourg
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Debate is good, and safeguards are paramount, but at the moment in the UK some terminally ill people are treated worse than animals, as my friend @Hostafan1 knows only too well.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    edited July 2023
    I have podcasts on BBC Sounds chuntering quietly at my bedside all night @AuntyRach .., if they stop I wake up 🙄 
    Which bedtime story podcast provider do you use?
    I like “Get Sleepy” - the stories are usually more of a description of a walk in the country/journey on a boat rather than a story but lovely to drift off. The ‘story’ is usually preceded by a very short exercise in relaxing by deep breaths. I access via my Podcast app on phone. On bbc sounds there’s one called the ‘Sleeping Forecast’ which is the shipping forecast with relaxing music - I keep meaning to try that one. 

    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2023
    Ah yes, I sometimes listen to the Sleeping Forecast, but even better is a months’s worth of Shipping Forecasts … end to end 😊 

    I tend to listen to lots of The Countryside Hour, or Open Country and things like that … but believe it or not some nights I find episode after episode of ‘Just a Minute’ gets me off to sleep and keeps me that way really well. 
    There was an English/Swedish sitcom that I listened to a lot in lockdown but it’s not available now. 

    Sweet dreams all 🛌 🐑 🐑 🐑 

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





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    OH listens to the first bit of Lord of the Rings. He goes to bed before me. Sometimes he wakes up to switch it off, sometimes I switch it off.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2023
    Good morning all 😊 ☕️ there’s some cloud up there this morning but some blue patches too … there might be enough to make a sailor a pair of trousers 😊 
    I’m meeting up with a former colleague for coffee this morning … it seems a very long time since I’ve done anything like that 😎 
    Son has a friend visiting … and this afternoon I’m taking OH to a medical appointment. I’ll record the tennis … 
    Good luck to @punkdoc for his medical appointment today 🤞 

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





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