Nite nite Yogi, sleep well. Sweet dreams  

awww PB sounds so sweet night yogi moons velvet

Good morning everyone

 

Dark clouds and windy here and rain around.

 

7ish hours to go before the world as we know it is scheduled to come to an end

I hope everyone has a good day

 Expect a few, "How do I.....? posts from me, El.

 

Good morning everyone.

 

Weather is still rainy, but not as bad as yesterday.

 

Out and about today.

 

Hope you have a good day everyone.

Good morning everyone, still very windy.  Moonie if you love to hear the wind on the windows you should pay me a visit.  It's so windy here that yesterday when I went to the cashpoint outside our local Tesco, which is up high and in a very exposed spot it took me quite a while to get the car door open and getting back in I got one leg in and had to struggle for a couple of minutes for the wind to die down enough for me to push the door open to get the other leg back in.  It felt like a strong person was pushing the door against me.

 

The small birds don't venture out and the big birds love it, they get blown sideways by the wind, sometimes even backwards.

 

Summer that bit about Chatsworth was on Songs of Praise, there were a couple of bits about it, and it should certainly be on catch-up.  Worth watching and I did wonder whether you were near enough to visit, I'm not sure how close it is to you.

 

So charming about PB, what a little sweetheart she is.  Oh and weren't the pictures of Princess Charlotte adorable?

 

Enjoy your day everyone

Yogi, I hope you have a good out and about day

 

Because of the timing of the forum change the chances are that I'll miss the fun and games when the new style forum opens. The only person who has had access to the new style forum is Lori which means that she is going to have to answer people's questions to start with.

 

Squiggle, that was Clodagh pushing the car door against you

 

Years ago I was in Birmingham. There's a pedestrian subway near the townhall. It was a windy day and as I coming out of the subway, it was as if I was in a wind tunnel and the only way to progress was by hanging on to the rail at the side and struggle along. The wind speed must have been something like 100mph.

 

Good morning everyone  

Gales and driving rain here. Cold too. Not venturing out today 

The big day has finally arrived then? 

Have a great day no matter what the weather is lik. Stay safe and warm  

Ditto 

Moonie, I'm staying indoors today as it's not very nice out there.

 

There's a couple of workmen at a neighbour's house. They've been taking up the concrete on the drive. In the last 4 hours they've removed a patch about 4 foot long and 5 foot wide at the back of that house.

They could be there for quite some time.

 

Sounds like those workmen have their job cut out El 

At the bottom our garden, my dad laid a concrete path around what used to be his greenhouse. That was forty or more years ago, he used to tell me. It's still there no cracks or nothing in it.

He also laid the crazy paving path down the left side of the garden. Still intact though in need of pointing now.

Good afternoon wet & wild here, Bramble refused her lunch time walk

Thanks squiggle, I'll look it up. Chatsworth is 3 hours from here, it's a trip that requires a bit of planning but I have been twice before and I love it there
I hope you're alright after your windy battle

Moonie, your dad must have been a good craftsman if the paths still look good

 Bramble, you sensible gal you  

He was good when it came to that type of thing and growing plants from seed, come to that 

 Everyone. 
Hope you all well and surviving the horrid weather. 
Rain here yesterday was awful, cant remember rain like it, and was caught it in with Granddaughter . Better today, still raining but not so wild. 
Will pop in tomorrow to see how the changes are. 
Have a good day all 

Hi Skylark 

I got wet when I shopped yesterday. So did todays shopping too 

Two birds with one stone 

Still chucking it down here and blowing a gale.

Take care in this dire weather and have a good day yourself  

For Bramble to refuse a walk She's sensible

 

Skylark, I think we've all had vile weather. At the rate they are naming the storms this time, they'll get through the alphabet and will have to come up with some new names. It will be interesting to find out what the forum looks like. I hope you have a good day

Hi moonie and El, was reading thru the Jungle thread. 

Yes sensible moonie, get yourself sorted with the shopping the days weather can be so unpredictable, keep warm and dry x
Hi El, yes are you ready for all the questions tomorrow??  I quite like the layout as it is, but will go with the flow , nothing else for it. 
Away this time, will see you all tomorrow.. hopefully.....

Skylark, I'm no more ready for the questions than anyone else other than Lori

She's the only person whose been involved with creating the new forum site and the forum moderators haven't had access to it.

So eveything I've posted about it has been guesswork based on what bits of info I found on the Social Strata site.

 

*hangs on by fingertips* 

joins moonie - I hope we can hang on - my fingers are already getting sore

We will squiggle   

A still from the 1946 film The Stranger starring Orson Welles and Loretta Young. She has gone into a clock tower and has climbed a ladder. She's almost at the top when Welles stops her from climbing any further as he has sawn a rung at the top. He grabs her by the arm and lifts her with one arm to safety.

 

It is on record that this is not a special effects job, that no stunt people were involved, that she really was dangling from the top of that very tall ladder held by one arm by Orson Welles.

Now that's really hanging on

 

Clicking on the attachment gives a better view and the chain which can be seen was not attached to her in case you wondered.

 

 

Brilliant El 

Evening all, flying visit before the big changeover. Hope to see you all on the other side.

Waves as Yogi flies off into cyber space  

Farewell old forum, I knew you well, a forum of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy, you hath borne my posts a thousand times.

Now cracks a noble site - Good night sweet forum, and flights of angels sing thee to your rest.

 

(apologies to shakespeare for taking liberties with his Hamlet )

 

He will be turning in his grave after that daylight robbery El