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Hello Forkers - February 2017 Edition

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    I've done a good bit of tidying this weekend too chicky - never know when the weather will turn again, so making hay and all that  image

    T'bird - I've just watched The Adventure Show (it was on at 7pm BBC2 here, but probably just Scotland) and the next one has an item on Colin Prior, the landscape photographer, so if you're able to series link or download) you might enjoy it. It's always a bit random as you never know when it's going to be on though. Tonight's was good - the guy trying to break the record for the Ramsay Round (24 Munros in 24 hours)in winter. Makes me ill just thinking about it!  Good winter to attempt a record though - less severe than usual!  image

    Did my duty today - took the girls to Xscape (Braehead)  for 'laser quest' with some of their friends,and then went back and collected them. image

    I've no idea what it is....image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Fairy, I was exhausted just watching the Ramsay Round  and the Galloway Hills race. Not the best terrain.

    SW Scotland
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410

    Chicklets have had laserquest parties in the past Fairy .....I've no clue eitherimage.....but I remember providing the cake ???

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    I've never fancied the 'southern hills' Joyce. They always seem a bit hummocky and featureless somehow. I dar esya I'm doing them a great disservice,  but I'm not attracted to them. image

    The Ramsay Round is utterly mental - under any conditions.  After being on The Easains and seeing Jasmin Paris on her record breaking run, I still can't get my head round it!

    I think it's a bit like paintballing but less messy chicky  image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ClaringtonClarington Posts: 4,949

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    Sweet dreams all!

    Yup that's Reggie fast asleep, snoring like a truck, with his head resting on the step below.

    His memory foam bed untouched just our of sight.

  • Hope im going to be more comfortable than that image

    Sweet dreams all image


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





  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254

    Obelixx says:
    "Lunch at Vouvant followed by a stroll around.  Ithas one of those lovely rounded Roman style churches and ots of old stone buildings and someone has been doing interesting living woven willow sculptures in the lake at the bottom."

    That's my birthplace and the village where I spent all my youth. Have not visited it for many years now. I'm told it attracts many tourists.

    Last edited: 19 February 2017 22:28:46

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    Quiet today Papi Joe but still plenty of people walking arund and the restaurant sounded busy inside.  We had lunch on the terrace.   Some pics so you can see if it's changed much - http://s211.photobucket.com/user/Obelixx_be/library/170219%20Vouvant?sort=2&page=1

    Vendée - 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
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254

    Thanks for the link to your pics, Obelixx. Things have not changed that much in all those years. I do recognize the old Roman church (where I was a choir boy), the old castle tower, the river where I went fishing and even the old wash-house by the river where my grand-mother used to go to do the washing!

  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355

    Fairy - Thanks for the heads-up about The Adventure Show. I'll download tonight's and set it to record the next one.image

    I've recorded a stack of the Landward programmes which are showing in England on weekday afternoons. I think they might be from 2015 but we're enjoying the scenery. Watched one featuring Gairloch & Applecross tonight - glorious.

    Sorry you didn't get into the hills. Fingers crossed for next week!

    Bedtime now - night allimage

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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