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Susan, :-)))))))

Our lovely Sue has gone on a cruise.

I hope you feel better soon, passes a tissue through the screen:-))

Carole xx

Morning Carole....

a cruise where?...how dare she? tsk!

Hello Susan with all those numbers (keeps hand over face - no germs thanks keep your not well to yourself if you please)

Hi there Carole

I just came on to do my book reviews and recommendations for Ann - so thought I would pop in and say hello.
I have not been in here for ages even the print has changed - well it has on my screen. I am not going to plough through the pages like I normally would - I will be like Pat and just look at the front page - though I did have a quick gander at the preceeding one.

Perspicacious. Now that is a discerning name thanks Allan.
Maybe I will go with Practical Perse...

Well, hello there Persey:-) I was about to send out search and rescue for you:-))

How have you been, I suppose you have had a lot to catch up on while you've been immobile. How is your foot?

I left you a message a couple of pages ago....I went to see Jimeion last week. He did a skit about kiwi's in his show, made me think of you and smile:-))

Carole xx

Hello Perse - we were becoming anxious about you! I was worried that you might have fallen down one of those long drops! Why not Perspicatious Perse? You have plenty of perspicacity. I think it's a good name for you - but don't expect us to type it correctly if we have to use it all the time!

Hi Susanwithnumbers. You interest me. What time of day/night do you do your sleeping? SueMaid is doing a Pacific cruise - but she left us in charge of Allan and Tec - so although she only left a couple of days ago, I hope she returns soon! If you find them on another thread, just guide them gently back here, will you please?

Hi Carole. I know what it's like to be without a car now. My power steering seems to have gone so I can't use the car until I get it fixed. After not being able to use my legs much for so long, I now feel like that have been taken away altogether! Oh, woe is me!

Right I will take a look Carole

The time change has also thrown be out a bit - I was 13 hours ahead and then the Brits changed and for a week I was 12 hours ahead and now it is 11 we changed ours back last Saturday.
My foot has its ups and downs (not just when I am marking time) gets tired and I am reluctant to drive still. I start out okay and then unlike the rabbit with the duracell battery I cannot keep on going and going and going.

Plus I am supposed to be doing all the end of financial year accounts and there is a lot to do on that and have been helping someone with his tree.

Persey

Hi Berona

One of the books I have recommended is one that Sue has read and I think maybe Carole has read him as well - Steig Larsson.

I don't think I will change my name Berona - I don't have that much clear thinking - tried to run the shopping trolley over my other foot today. The more I try to be careful the more I tend to walk into things.

Persey

Perse - you must be a very tidy person - trying to make both feet look like a real pair!

Cor Berona.....I am ferlattered that I interest you....sheesh....that really has got to be a first......but there is no secret....I am a lady of leisure and sleep whenever I like lol......as for Allan....yer have ter be havin a laugh....if we find him on another thread we tend to keep him there...... just in case don't yer know :-)))))

I have a membership with Doubleday Aust. and buy my books from there, but find that most of the books favoured by the Greaders, are not sold by them, so I have had an account with Angus & Robertson for a while now. However, when I buy from them, they mostly take at least a week to get here because they seem to come from Auckland! I recently cancelled one order which was about four months old! With so many stores in Sydney alone, I don't know why they don't carry more stock. My online order goes through Melbourne!

Poor little lost thread.

It has been a glorious day here, about eighteen degrees. I went out without a coat for the first time this year. I was wearing a woollen jacket, but OH took his coat off and was sporting a tee shirt. He even put his shorts on this afternoon.I told him not to count his springs before they are hatched, I follow the unwritten law of not getting my legs out before Whit.

The weather has been a help today because OH has continued with the decorating. He needed to do the inside of the front door with gloss paint,so we have been able to have it open without freezing. It will be colder tonight though because there is no cloud cover and that is what happens at this time of year.

Good Evening Linda,

Yes it was a glorious day here too - really warm at 18 C, and not a breath of wind. The sea was like a millpond, and I could see clearly across to the Lleyn Peninsular from my garden.
I spend the day in the garden, clearing up a "grot spot" where I'd dumped dead things in pots, including last years hanging baskets, and other garden rubbish. Been wanting to do this for ages, but it was always too cold, or wet. All tidy now. We lost a lot of things during the winter that have been there for many years, they didn't survive the severity of the frosts that we don't usually get here.

Tec.

I managed to miss half of last weeks Doctor Who CC, I forgot about it tonight. I was not keen on the new doctor,so I don't think I will bother.

We have lost some things in the garden as well Tec, despite the fact that we do get frost in a normal winter. I think that it was just so prolonged this year, so even the hardy things struggled

Good Evening CC.

I don't have a bird table as such anymore - we get such ferocious gales off the sea in the winter, that they never survive. Instead I use the lower branches of a useless damson tree to hang things off. The sqirrels love it because they can get easy access to the birdfood.
The damson tree has given us one damson per year for several years.

The only television programmes I watch are usually documentaries, travel, historical dramas. I recently watched a series about a guy who cycled from North Alaska, right down through America, Central America, and South America all the way to the southernmost tip of Tierra Del Fuego.
That was interesting. I will watch the new series of Foyles War that starts tomorrow night. I also enjoyed Spooks when that was on.

Tec.

I will watch Foyles war as well Tec. It was odd the way they brought the last series to a close so quickly. I usually only watch documentaries as well, plus the odd drama, I only started watching Doctor Who when my son came back to live with us for a while.

OH forgot to paint the radiator in the hall,so he did it a couple of hours ago. The paint smells dreadful, far worse than gloss does. Still it is worth it because it doesn't yellow like gloss paint does.

Yes it was strange how the last series of Foyles War finished. Apparently the new series takes place after the end of the war, and Foyle is talked into staying on in the force.
I must say I do have a soft spot for Honeysuckle Weeks.

That radiator paint smells awful, I hope the smell doesn't drift up the stairs for you tonight, although I seem to remember it dries quickly.

The lady next door made some very natty covers for her radiators - she built a box around them. then put some pretty material on wires on the fronts, and pleated it - looks very effective, and saves painting.

Tec.

I always wonder if those radiator covers stop the air from circulating, although as they convect the heat rather than radiate it, as long as there is a gap at the top and bottom, it should still work.

I asked my neighbour about that Linda, she said it made no difference - they look really nice the way she's done it - after all, radiators are not the most attractive features are they.

I thinking of looking for a period fire surround this year. This house is Edwardian, built 1911, and has lots of original features, but the fireplace in the lounge is a horrid 1950/60s monstrosity - it has annoyed me since I've lived here - the ones on the net are very expensive, but I know a place in Shropshire near my daughter where I might find one....

Tec.

Good evening/morning all

Too many people to mention by name, now that the woodwork has emptied!

If I missed a personla greeting to someone, they may be offended.

So Susanwithnumbers, if I'm found on another thread I'm kept there am I? Sounds like deprivation of liberty to me.

I would say kidnapping, but I hardly qualify as a child (except in my actions)

However, let it be known that there is not a thread being posted from which the Scarlet Pimple cannot escape!!

Allan

My sister lives in Shropshire and there are some good reclamation yards there. Her house burnt down about three years ago when the thatch caught fire. It has now been rebuilt. They got lots of stuff from the yards, we went with them a couple of times and there was some really good period stuff there. the prices were not too bad either. There is nothing like that up here, just a few small ones which are incredibly expensive