Lovely to hear that, I'm pleased bramble is great thank you, even though she is taking up half my bed lol I may Churchill soon moonie, but will try as long as I can to stay awake

Is it just the one tree you had to chop?

Fankoo 

 At Bramble, the bed hugger 

Sweet, be off to bed in case you nod off where you are, unless that is in bed  

Yep just one tree. And the council did it Sweet 

Nite nite, sleep well and have sweet dreams  

Hope you have a good weekend too.

Well done on getting the pressie

 

 Oh dear!

Apologies for not "liking" and quoting posts, as my stupid iPad is still freezing.

 

Moonie, your tree looks very nice after its trim.

 

Summer, well done on getting your tree up. I'm sure it will look great once you have finished decorating it.

 

El, I'm glad your boiler is working properly again.

 

Off to bed now, goodnight and sweet dreams everyone.

Hugs for the night owls.

It's shocking tbh Yogi 

Thanks Yogi 

Nite nite Yogi, sleep well. Sweet dreams. Have a great weekend  

Good morning everyone

 

At present it's sunny and cold here but forecast is to necome wet and windy.

 

Moonie, I would think that the council would swoop down on that shop.

 

Summer, will your tree look like this:

In the news that an Australian man has set a new world record of half a million lights on an artifical Christmas tree.

 

Yogi, I hope Apple get something done about your freezing problems as it's not good.

 

Good morning everyone.

 

It's pouring rain, up here.

 

What a lovely tree, but I wouldn't like to pay the electric bill!

 

El, the freezing problem seems worse at night, but perhaps I notice it more because I'm using the iPad for a longer period. Last night, I was getting so frustrated with it, I almost gave up.

 

Youngest and middle sons visiting today. Not sure who might stay for tea.

 

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning everyone, the weather is just awful and the forecast is for lots more of the same

 

That tree is very impressive EL but somehow I prefer the more traditional look, and I love the smell of a real pine tree

 

I do hope Apple come up with some patch to fix what is obviously a bug Yogi, it must be very frustrating.

 

Enjoy your day everyone

Yogi, I wouldn't want to pay that electricity bill either. I don't know enough about ipads to give any useful advice. If the problem gets worse when you are using it for a longer period it almost feels like a memory leak on a computer. On a computer the simplest thing is a reboot or clearing the browser cache.

 

Squiggle, I prefer tradtional Christmas trees as well

I see that Marks and Spencer have introduced a Christmas Pudding iced bun (packs of 2). There are no picures on Google showing this but they look like an iced bun with a greem holly leaf decoration. I thought one or two of you might be interested

The discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb was and is famous.

But it's possible that there's a hidden chamber there which may be have discovered. News article on the BBC about this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34952947

The archaeolgist who found this thinks that the chamber may contain the remains of Queen Nefertiti.

 

His theory has yet to be peer-reviewed and leading Egyptologists have urged caution over the conclusion.

 

Squiggle, I also prefer traditional trees. Mine is dressed in red, gold and green colours And I like traditional style baubles.

 I've cleared the cache and it seems to be running faster. Thanks El.

Good afternoon it started off lovely here this morning but is now colder & sleeting.

Aw I love red, gold & green too my tree is white, I can't decide whether to put gold, clear & white decorations on, or red & gold. I hope to get a green tree when they go on sale


That record breaking tree is amazing!

El, those pudding buns sound delicious! You could be our official M&S taster

Summer, I haven't bought any of those buns....................yet.

Although they are called Christmas pudding iced buns, they are buns rather than puddings. I wouldn't be surprised if you are passing a M&S shop that you pop in to investigate

 

Good early evening everyone  

Love those trees 

 

Yogi, I hope you have had a lovely afternoon your youngest and middle sons 

Any chance of a spare cake? 

 

squiggle, we have some Christmas tree decorations that are very old. Silvered miniature instruments and metal bells that actually ring 

 

El, you will have to get some of those buns for when your brother comes up again next 

 

Sweet, I'm sure your tree will look lovely when it's got all it's baubles on. Piccie?

 

Have a great evening everyone 

Moonie, I may decide to test those buns before my brother comes here for Christmas.

Strictly in the interests of research of course

Sounds like a sensible idea to me El  

Evening all.

 

Had visits from two of my babies today.

 

Been in the Strictly thread and will be in the IAC thread later.

Goodnight and sweet dreams. Hugs for the night owls.

Evening I'm just heading to bed, I've had a lovely quiet evening hope everyone's had a good day

Of course I will take a pic of my tree when it's finished. I've been experimenting with poinsettias on it, but I'm not sure if they'll stay or go yet

Yogi, isn't strictly getting so close?! I've never known the competition be so tight at this stage

We must have been posting at the same time! Belated sweet dreams yogi

night yogi and summer summer -love your wreath

Good morning everyone.

 

Still raining, although not as heavily.

 

So sorry I missed you last might, Summer. I didn't think anyone was here, so just hit post and went.

I agree with you about Strictly, it's very hard to call the winner.

 

Off to see my brother this morning as it's his birthday, then possible getting a PB visit in the afternoon.

 

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning everyone

 

Very cloudy and quite windy here. Forecast to become a lot windier as Clodagh passes over.

 

Yogi, I'm glad you had visits from two of your "babies" yesterday. I hope your brother has a very happy birthday and that you get your visit from PB

 Thanks El, and I hope you have a good day.

Thank you Yogi

Good morning I hope everyone slept well, I certainly did lol

Yogi, have a lovely day with family we'll hope for a PB update later

El I hope you have a good morning too

Good morning everyone, very windy and rainy here.  I hope it's better where you all are but somehow I doubt it

 

I am glad you slept well Summer, I think poinsettias would look lovely on the tree but would be very difficult to achieve I think.

 

I hope your brother has a great birthday Yogi and that PB arrives later and you have a great visit.  Is she getting excited about Father Christmas yet?

 

Enjoy your day everyone

Morning everyone

Rain, gales and as dark as night here 

Got the light on

 

Yogi, hope your visit to see your brother goes well and will look forward to hearing how your day with PB goes

I see the "big" babies came yesterday 

 

El, have a good Sunday

 

Sweet, glad you had a good sleep. Have a great rest day

 

squiggle, I may be able to turn my light off today, probably just in time to turn it back on later  

Have a good day

Back throughout the day  

 

 

Although this is quite an intriguing bit of scientific research it is about tarantulas and had lots of photos so not for thoswe who can't stand spiders.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...environment-34944735

 

*avoids link* 

I decided not to post a picture of a tarantula as I realised that it would scare some people. But the research is about the fact that many of the species of tarantula are BLUE.

Ooooh blue tarantulas, interesting...
Some black colours are actually blue aren't they

I've braved the weather and been out for a windy walk, luckily we didn't get rained on but Bramble sure got muddy. Now we're showered, dried and getting cosy for the afternoon. I've painted my toe nails sparkly red, just in time for advent

That was brave of you to go out in this weather. It's not very nice out here. Wet and windy.

 

Hi Sweet  

You and Bramble are to have gone out in this weather 

I see Bramble avoided the...well just got muddy 

Nice to see you are both tucked up and getting cosy now. Sparkly red toe nails? Wouldn't suit me   

Summer I am glad you are back home warm and cosy, I bet even Bramble was pleased to get back in the dry.  Your toenails sound very Christmassy.

 

I've had lights on for most of the day as well moonie.  I was running my grandsons about earlier on today and surfers were actually on those extremely rough seas, braver than me certainly.

 

There's a bit about Chatsworth at Christmas on BBC, I wish I was close enough to go it looks magical.

 

 

They were making this year's wreath and Summer they were using dried oranges in theirs.