Good morning everyone, we've had rain for hours now, really quite a downpour last night. Sad news with so many campsites in the area, it must be really miserable.
The lions are great Yogi and the snowdogs looks like a fun experience Summer. I've only ever had warm milk on porridge but when I was a child I remember being given warm milk with bread floating in it, seems odd now.
Enjoy your day everyone 
Moonie and Squiggle, although there's bits of rain around today, I think it's supposed to be better for the rest of the week.
Squiggle, my father was very fond of warm milk and bread, though I'm not inclined to try it out. For those who want to try it, here's a recipe from Nigella Lawson:
http://www.cookingchanneltv.co.../bread-and-milk.html
You guys are making me hungry 
Just back from a trip to the shops. A few minutes walk there and back 
It's going dark again now so more rain on the I think. When I stepped out the front door, it was like stepping into an oven. So humid 
A breeze is getting up now getting up now, so maybe it will cool down a little 
*passes Sweet an early snack* 
Very strange this...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36948193
Take a look at the "reaction" at the bottom of the item...
I see that Benedict Cumberbatch is to produce and star in a film version of Geoffrey Household's novel Man Hunt. It was published in 1939 about a hunter who goes to try to shoot an unnamed European dictator (generally accepted as Hitler), misses, is captured, manages to excape, and ends with him setting off to try again. I've seen the 1977 BBC version (Peter O'Toole) and the original 1941 version (Walter Pidgeon and directed by Fritz Lang) which was called Man Hunt.
The Frirz Lang version is very good and exciting. It must be as it is the very first film I remember seeing on television when I was a child. I may have seen others before then, but that's the first one I remember,
Moonie posted:Very strange this...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36948193
Take a look at the "reaction" at the bottom of the item...
There was an item on Radio 4' s Today programme this morning:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07m5gwk
At 1 hour 24 minutes in.
There'a a lengthy article on The Guardian about it as well
https://www.theguardian.com/sp...oned-fellow-athletes
It does mention that she was tested one day after one of the missed tests and was found clean. Also that Ukad (the body responsible for the testing programme for UK sportspeople) only publish findings when the person has been found guilty, not when suspensions are provisional.
One can watch Man Hunt on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLA2lKcR-2k
The opening scene is as good as any opening scene ever made.
El Loro posted:Moonie posted:Very strange this...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36948193
Take a look at the "reaction" at the bottom of the item...
There was an item on Radio 4' s Today programme this morning:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07m5gwk
At 1 hour 24 minutes in.There'a a lengthy article on The Guardian about it as well
https://www.theguardian.com/sp...oned-fellow-athletes
It does mention that she was tested one day after one of the missed tests and was found clean. Also that Ukad (the body responsible for the testing programme for UK sportspeople) only publish findings when the person has been found guilty, not when suspensions are provisional.
Thanks El
Quick hello before I dash off to yoga, fankoo for the calorie free snack moonie I've walked 3 times today so I can definitely have some choccy buttons later tonight 
it's rained here all afternoon, but it's still a humid evening. I hope you've each had a nice afternoon. See you in a bit 
Evening all.
Summer, enjoy your yoga and do some stretches for me please.
Moonie, I'll help myself to one of those calorie free snacks too - thank you.
Squiggle, I hope the rain goes off and the campers get better weather. Camping isn't much fun in the rain.
El, I've never seen Man Hunt, nor read the book....but I do like Benedict Cumberbatch.
I'll be in the CBB thread at 9pm.
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros and Velvet.
Night owl hug in case Summer pops in.
Good morning haha moonie- i yawned through the first half of yoga, and fell asleep as I climbed in to bed last night- I didn't even get the chance to pick up my phone to log in!
i hope you all slept well what are your plans today?
I've got a couple of errands to run this morning and then I should be home all afternoon & evening
Moin! It looks like being another good day here too! After a day's gardening at m'son's we have today to ourselves! We are bronzed! Lots of jobs to do on his house mind. Tomorrow they are coming to change our meters and Friday the car has a service.
I hope you all have a pleasant and peaceful day.
GJ, if they are coming to change your meters to smart ones, I hope the installation goes better than mine which went on for over 5 hours and wasn't fully completed by then. That was in part due to the engineer being accompanied by an auditor who decided to make things as awkward as possible for the engineer. The process should have taken under 2 hours.
Good morning everyone.
It's raining up here. I put down a grass feed yesterday so the rain is quite useful
Summer, you must have needed that sleep.
Joe, your son is lucky to have you help with his garden and house.
El, I remember the hassle you had when the smart meters were being installed. I hope Joe's go more smoothly.
I'm out and about this morning and then ironing in the afternoon.
Have a good day everyone.
We had the same meters for years and years, nay decades. The new Leccy meter lasted two before the display went.
My son bought a house with prepaid and has been trying to change them over. We are getting somewhere now.
Good morning everyone, that sounds like a lovely sleep Summer. It's very blustery here and very changeable, one minute it's all blue skies and the next great grey clouds come lumbering past, but feeling more pleasant. I hope all goes well with everyone's errands and business and there is time in the day to just rest and enjoy a beautiful day
Enjoy your day everyone
Yogi, that sounds as if you timed the grass feed well
GJ, I hope your new meters last longer than a couple of years. My old meters had been in place for some 20 years which is fairly typical. The new smart meters only have a life expectancy of 10 years. I went for the smart ones, partially because they are coming in anyway over the next few years, and partially because there was a very slight gassy smell coming from a cupboard under the stairs where the back of the gas meter was indicating that a seal was wearing out. There's news today from Ofgem capping pre paid meters and it's been known for some time that those with pre paid meters pay at a higher tariff.
Squiggle, it's a bit like that here with dark clouds and some sunshine at times. I've been cutting the front hedge as it needed it and I don't trust the weather. Since finishing that, it has started to rain a bit.
If you hear any mention of a Dutch inventor called Bart Jansen on the news or anything, avoid it. There's a news item on the BBC site posted this morning about him. I won't post a link to it as it's disgusting 
If you are tempted to do a search about him, you'll regret it. His "inventions" serve no useful purpose whatsoever other than to be offensive and are likely to cause widepsread outrage.
It's possible in the future that people with diseases such as asthma, arthritis and diabetes could be treated in a very different way - electricity - by attaching tiny silicone cuffs which have electrodes around individual nerves. It's years in the future though.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36940755
Moonie, you sound as if you are singing the old Shaker song "Hinkum-booby" (which originated in Scotland but with different words). We think of that as the Hokey Cokey now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey_cokey
Afternoon all.
I got all my errands and housework done.
We had an hour or so of sunshine and now the rain has returned.
I hope you are all having a good day?
El Loro posted:Moonie, you sound as if you are singing the old Shaker song "Hinkum-booby" (which originated in Scotland but with different words). We think of that as the Hokey Cokey now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey_cokey
Love it El
Yogi19 posted:Afternoon all.
I got all my errands and housework done.
We had an hour or so of sunshine and now the rain has returned.
I hope you are all having a good day?
Hi Yogi
Well done on getting all your errands and housework done
It looks like the rain is on its way here too, for the umpteenth time today 
El Loro posted:Yogi, you'll be growing webbed feet
El, I have never seen a Yogiducky
Good evening I hope your meters went smoothly Joe
i used to have pre pay meters when I was renting and they were shockingly expensive! When EDF called me to ask if I would like them to supply my new home, I declined on the basis that I felt they had been ripping me off at the previous house. They told me that prices would no doubt be cheaper in my new house because my meters are not pre-pay, I still declined and told them that I would never ever choose EDF purely out of principle. They didn't have to charge the prices they did, but they chose to.
Meanwhile... Today I've ran my errands, found some extra ones to do, constructed 3/4 of my rockery, made some curry and some soup, cut the grass and had a spray tan!!!!! 
stand by for some pics...
I can already see how I'm going to edit some stones, but you get the drift
A frustrating day today. Whilst early on we managed to cycle to the other side of the county without getting wet, the rest of the day was spent hanging out washing, taking it back in, and cutting back the mock orange and kerria japonica.
