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Hello Forkers - February 2017 Edition

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Evening all.

    wet and windy all day, so have been studying, think I might finally be getting used to concentrating again, al

    Sorry you are not well, as your doctor I would recommend a medicinal brandy.

    I know where you are at LP. Tomorrow will be better.

    Yes we are serious Fg. OH still feels Scottish, even though she has not lived there since she was 5, and I am never happier than when I am up there, so who knows?

    JKR came up with a whole load of brilliant replies to the malicious tweets she received, intelligence and wit defeating ignorant morons, lovely to see.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    LP - hope tomorrow is better.  

    As for Scotland, I'd have thought north-east would be perishing with all those North Sea and Arctic blasts whereas the north west would benefit from the Gulf Stream but be wetter.   Midges either way.

    I had a clump of broad leaved snowdrops that always came out in November and were taller than the ones I had elsewhere in the garden.  I'm quite happy with my little flock of ordinary ones in their pots.  Just need to find a good place to plant them permanently.

    Chappy who came to see about building a shower room and finishing off the extension for us got very excited when he saw my Rangemaster lurking in the annex.  "Oooh, you have a piano!"  So I said no, it's a real cooker.   Discussion about terminology followed.  Apparently in French French, tiles on walls are faience and tiles on floors are carrelage.  In Belgium, faience is earthenware pots and a tile is a tile is carrelage except when it's a tuile cos it's on the roof.   So much to learn..

    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
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    Not in Dordogne! Faience tiles are earthenware, carrelage is on the walls and dallage is on the floors. Tuiles are the same, on the roof.

    A piano is a range cooker.

    Bedtime, nighties.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    The rain is tipping down.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Has anyone seen the movie I Daniel Blake.

    Watched it tonight and it made me cry. It is a Ken Loach film.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    I knew what he meant about the piano Busy but I think of my Rangemaster as the real cooker compared to the gassy disaster currently plumbed in.   Odd about the regional variations for tiles.

    No rain here.  We have fuzzy stars so the air is moist but not precipitating.

    Haven't seen that film.  Off to bed now.

    Sweet dreams all.

    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
  • Good morning all image

    Still coughing and spluttering here. OH will bring something home from work for our supper. 

    Haven't seen the film Pdoc, but I've read about it. Sounds great. Big Ken Loach fans here b


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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    Morning all/afties Pat if you're there image

    Not seen that film either but I heard it was brilliant. Not a cinema visitor though, so I'll have to wait till it's on TV

    Lots of pots and all sorts of things blown around the garden after the weather last night, so I'll have to do a quick run round gathering before I head out.  It's a bit calmer now and hopefully no damage. It'll have to wait till I come back from work anyway.

    Hope you're a bit chirpier today Dove.

    Gairloch for you eventually perhaps, doc? 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

    Morning all.  Hope the temperature is cooler Pat.

    Very windy here too last night Fairy but to be dry and sunny today......good for the washing image

    Dove, more rest for you!!

    SW Scotland
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    Morning all. 

    Hugs for poorly peeps. 

    The calm between the storms here. Quiet last night , but another one due to roll through later.

    I haven't lived in Scotland since 1984 but I will never be anything other than Scottish. I have to confess , I couldn't go back and live there. I'm too much of a softy and the long winter nights wouldn't agree with me ( punkdoc?? )

    Devon.
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