Someone gave us a box of Betty's Tearoom Blend teabags as a present - I suspect they're very pricey. Good stuff though, unless you let it stew, in which case you can stand the spoon up in it
I'm with you on my attitude to strange herbal mixtures, Fairy. They're just Not Tea.
GWRS, hope you enjoy using your bus pass. I've had mine since March, and use it a lot; I think if you're in a rural area with few buses (like where we used to live in Northumberland, 2 buses a week) it wouldn't be of great benefit. But here, with a 10- or 20-minute service to most places I want to go, it's fab. Yesterday OH and I had a day out in Skipton, involving 5 buses. A Grand Day Out, including a pub lunch (sticky toffee pud, oh dear... ), and a trawl round the market (new socks, how exciting!). We had a rather extended return journey due to an accident ahead of us. (19-year-old in a BMW lost an argument with a lorry, it turns out.)
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Hosta - that's just wrong. There's a place for 'phones and cameras but fewer people seem to realise any kind of protocol. I blame the press.
Hope you manage to secure your mil's garden and have it looking nice for her Wonky. Good for you.
Rb I'm sorry to hear about your car but happy for you that GS is coming to visit. Also sorry that I laughed about you wetting yourself at the GC.
Archie you looked as though you had a lovely evening. Onwards and upwards now.
If you look in Pdoc ((hugs)) for you and your OH. Horrible situation to be in.
There is too much to catch up on, and remember, so I'll try again later. Ohh but leave me out of the tea debate - can't stand it as it leaves my mouth dry
Hosta: your post just reminded me of a conversation I had with a wedding photographer. The happy couple spend £1,200 for him to record the day.
He sets up a beautiful pose the sun in the perfect position and as he takes the image he sees three camera phones being waved in shot ruining his efforts. Thus happens throughout the day. Some people he never even sees their faces. He watches the "I do" with care and passion yet through his camera sees people fiddling on their phones missing the important moment.
What do they remember of the actual wedding? Do they remember the colours the smiles the way the sun shone on their faces? I rather doubt it.
When I get married I will have a sign that will read "anyone who cares more for their phones than for us is asked to leave now. Anyone who cares more for us please put them away; we've paid a lot of money for the photographer to do the hard work. Enjoy the moment!"
I may also anyone found playing with their phone before the speeches will be made to put enough cash behind the bar to buy a round for ALL the guests.
Just watching the wheelchair tennis. The first prize is £6000 each. Might just cover the cost of the wheels, but not enough to cover the frenchmans carbon fibre set up. is it just me, but I think that anyone in that situation, should get funding for that, but we should stop giving extra money in the form of incapacity benefit to alcoholics and drug addicts. Because , guess what, they just buy more drugs or alcohol with the extra money.
I see they have a big crowd. You have to admire the skills involved, all the usual rules but allowed an extra bounce. Somehow it makes for a more relaxing match, more skill and less bang, bang, out. Wouldn't it have been nice to put them on one of the larger show courts, with more seating.? I realise that the chairs will churn up the grass, but they will be stripping off all the grass tomorrow night anyway, to prep for next year. Obviously I realise centre court is kept for the major finals.
Have read back about 5 pages. RB made me laugh a few times, especially "Will 'go for it' and get a bus pass. Then I can turn the heating off in the winter and get on the bus all day to keep warm."
The French are always taking photos during what I think are unsuitable moments.
Just come back from visiting my little grey mare who I've lent to a teenage girl. Now old Archie horse has died and my daughter wants her horse back (I've been looking after it) I need my mare back to keep my other retired mare company.
Feel so sorry for punkdoc. Do you think if we all wished very hard that his awful NDN would move house that it might happen?
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Hello folks We're in Sir Alfred Munnings garden in Dedham Vale waiting for the gallery to open. Just had a lovely lunch in the little cafe now we're on the lawn under a huge lime tree listening to a song thrush and being watched by two horses in the meadow.
I know there's a tennis match on but we've been wanting to come here for ages and this is the first time it's open on a day that OH isn't working. ....... but I have got my Dunlop Green Flash on and I've set the TV record the match - wood pigeons are cooing and a green woodpecker is yaffling in the distance
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Someone gave us a box of Betty's Tearoom Blend teabags as a present - I suspect they're very pricey. Good stuff though, unless you let it stew, in which case you can stand the spoon up in it
I'm with you on my attitude to strange herbal mixtures, Fairy. They're just Not Tea.
GWRS, hope you enjoy using your bus pass. I've had mine since March, and use it a lot; I think if you're in a rural area with few buses (like where we used to live in Northumberland, 2 buses a week) it wouldn't be of great benefit. But here, with a 10- or 20-minute service to most places I want to go, it's fab.
Yesterday OH and I had a day out in Skipton, involving 5 buses. A Grand Day Out, including a pub lunch (sticky toffee pud, oh dear... 
), and a trawl round the market (new socks, how exciting!). We had a rather extended return journey due to an accident ahead of us. (19-year-old in a BMW lost an argument with a lorry, it turns out.)
Good morning all, hi Pat
Hosta - that's just wrong
. There's a place for 'phones and cameras but fewer people seem to realise any kind of protocol. I blame the press
.
Hope you manage to secure your mil's garden and have it looking nice for her Wonky. Good for you
.
Rb I'm sorry to hear about your car but happy for you that GS is coming to visit
. Also sorry that I laughed about you wetting yourself at the GC
.
Archie you looked as though you had a lovely evening
. Onwards and upwards now.
If you look in Pdoc ((hugs)) for you and your OH. Horrible situation to be in.
There is too much to catch up on, and remember, so I'll try again later. Ohh but leave me out of the tea debate - can't stand it as it leaves my mouth dry
Lesley - I blame the referendum. Might as well - it'll get blamed for everything else anyway....
Rain has gone off so I'm taking advantage for the foreseeable...
Not sure if the grass is suitable for cutting tho'...
chciky - I dare say it's the same when they start to drive too
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hosta: your post just reminded me of a conversation I had with a wedding photographer. The happy couple spend £1,200 for him to record the day.
He sets up a beautiful pose the sun in the perfect position and as he takes the image he sees three camera phones being waved in shot ruining his efforts. Thus happens throughout the day. Some people he never even sees their faces. He watches the "I do" with care and passion yet through his camera sees people fiddling on their phones missing the important moment.
What do they remember of the actual wedding? Do they remember the colours the smiles the way the sun shone on their faces? I rather doubt it.
When I get married I will have a sign that will read "anyone who cares more for their phones than for us is asked to leave now. Anyone who cares more for us please put them away; we've paid a lot of money for the photographer to do the hard work. Enjoy the moment!"
I may also anyone found playing with their phone before the speeches will be made to put enough cash behind the bar to buy a round for ALL the guests.
Great idea, Clari!
Just watching the wheelchair tennis. The first prize is £6000 each. Might just cover the cost of the wheels, but not enough to cover the frenchmans carbon fibre set up. is it just me, but I think that anyone in that situation, should get funding for that, but we should stop giving extra money in the form of incapacity benefit to alcoholics and drug addicts. Because , guess what, they just buy more drugs or alcohol with the extra money.
I see they have a big crowd. You have to admire the skills involved, all the usual rules but allowed an extra bounce. Somehow it makes for a more relaxing match, more skill and less bang, bang, out. Wouldn't it have been nice to put them on one of the larger show courts, with more seating.? I realise that the chairs will churn up the grass, but they will be stripping off all the grass tomorrow night anyway, to prep for next year. Obviously I realise centre court is kept for the major finals.
Have read back about 5 pages. RB made me laugh a few times, especially "Will 'go for it' and get a bus pass. Then I can turn the heating off in the winter and get on the bus all day to keep warm."
The French are always taking photos during what I think are unsuitable moments.
Just come back from visiting my little grey mare who I've lent to a teenage girl. Now old Archie horse has died and my daughter wants her horse back (I've been looking after it) I need my mare back to keep my other retired mare company.
Feel so sorry for punkdoc. Do you think if we all wished very hard that his awful NDN would move house that it might happen?
Busy I worry for punk too
what about we open a thread for "visualisation of neighbour disappearing"!
the owner of thought and all that?
anyone think I am mad?
A A Milne
That should, of course, have said "power"
A A Milne
Hello folks
We're in Sir Alfred Munnings garden in Dedham Vale waiting for the gallery to open. Just had a lovely lunch in the little cafe now we're on the lawn under a huge lime tree listening to a song thrush and being watched by two horses in the meadow.
I know there's a tennis match on but we've been wanting to come here for ages and this is the first time it's open on a day that OH isn't working. ....... but I have got my Dunlop Green Flash on and I've set the TV record the match - wood pigeons are cooing and a green woodpecker is yaffling in the distance
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.