I wonder what the alpacas think of it:

A herd of alpacas have been given hilarious hairdos - including one styled to look like a poodle and another like a DINOSAUR. Helen Kendall Smith, 53, cut ten of the 30-strong flock's locks to celebrate her tenth year of breeding the animals. The mum-of-three, of Cirencester, Glos., sketched some whacky designs before professional shearers turned her ideas into reality using clippers. One of the alpacas was fashioned to look like a poodle, another was given a stripey coat like a zebra and three were given fluffy lion-style manes.

Good afternoon everyone  

Love the alpacas 

I hope you all having a lovely Friday 

Sunny here but cool and very windy 

Good to have you back squiggle 

See you later  

Good afternoon Moonie

It's rather windy here too.

Alpacas are shorn in the spring so the ones in the video won't miss the wool.

For those who watch Line of Duty, not only will there be a 5th series but a 6th:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39817290

El Loro posted:

Good afternoon Moonie

 

It's rather windy here too.

 

Alpacas are shorn in the spring so the ones in the video won't miss the wool.

Hi El

Pleased to hear that

I see the old fivers have become illegal tender after today 

Well shops won't be accepting them anyway.

You can still take them to your bank, building society or post office though...phew 

I managed to find £70 in old fivers 

Off to the bank tomorrow 

Evening all 

Summer, you are a very good friend.

El, the alpaca's haircuts made me smile 

Moonie, when I was in the bank last week, the teller mentioned the old fivers going out of circulation, so I checked our money in case I had any. I didn't.

I LOVE Line Of Duty, so that's brilliant news, El.

Goodnight and sweet dreams everyone. Hugs for the night owls.

El Loro posted:

For those who watch Line of Duty, not only will there be a 5th series but a 6th:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39817290

thank you EL - I love it

squiggle posted:

Good morning everyone, yes I have electricity and am back, what have I missed?  Hey everyone guess which numpty forgot to lower the footrest on her electrically operated chair before they turned the leccy off?

 

Enjoy your day everyone

nice to see you back squiggle

Yogi19 posted:

Goodnight and sweet dreams everyone. Hugs for the night owls.

night yogi

*night owls* oh my worrrrrrrd! Those alpacas are amazing thanks for the share El

I hope you've all had a good day, I've been very busy, but had a gorgeous short evening walk in an area that's new to me. Then I had the longest bath possibly ever, ok not really but it was lengthy, and I just finished preparing bolognese for the slow cooker. My house will smell amazing tomorrow morning  

leaving goodnight hugs for all I hope you all sleep well 

Good morning everyone

A cloudy day here.

Moonie, I had seen the news about the old paper £5 notes but I don't think I have any.

Summer, it's nice when you discover somewhere new to walk through

I hope everyone has a good day

A clip of some music I heard. It was written by Jessica Curry for a video game called Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. It's called The Light we Cast.

It's not what one might expect from a video game and I think it is a beautiful piece of choral music @Rocking Ros Rose may like this in particular.

Last match of the season today for Cheltenham Town in League 2. The final day of League 2 season (other than play offs) this year is rather unusual - Any one of 3 teams can be champions, the final relegation place is between 2 teams (not that unusual), and any 2 of 7 clubs can clinch the remaining undecided teams for the paly offs. So that's 12 teams out of 24 who have everything to play for today. Cheltenham isn't one of those teams but they are away to one of the teams fighting to be champions so they will be relieved to have won last week.

Good morning everyone.

Weather is sunny again.

No definite plans for today. Might potter about in the garden.

El, I'll have a listen to that piece of music.

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning everyone, much greyer here today and it still feels a little chilly.  I had hoped it would have warmed up a little by now but we've got that cold wind back again.

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning everyone  

Dark grey sky herewith drizzle. Very cold and windy, yet again 

I have been to my local post office and managed to change my old fivers into legal tender 

*thinks about moving to sunny Yogiland*

Have a good day everyone

I've had two lots of post this morning. I think one of them was things which I should have received on Tuesday (possibly Wednesday) as there were items which I should have received then.

I bought a new(ish) cake from M&S to try. You are welcome to try some though I know not all of you like passion fruit.

(that's the closest image I could find)

By the way, the video game I referred to "Everybody's gone to the Rapture" does not appear to have anything to do with the Christian rapture.

A car race with a difference
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/t...rs-compete-in-a-race

El Loro posted:

I've had two lots of post this morning. I think one of them was things which I should have received on Tuesday (possibly Wednesday) as there were items which I should have received then.

 

I bought a new(ish) cake from M&S to try. You are welcome to try some though I know not all of you like passion fruit.

(that's the closest image I could find)

*takes a small slice to taste*

Rather nice that El, fankoo 

Would you believe it?

My  centeral heating is playing up now 

It doesn't reach any kind of warmth no matter how long it is on for. I have tried altering the thermostat but that makes no difference. I have the gas fire but its very cold here and the rest of the house needs warmth too 

The council are gonna get a roasting from me on Monday 

Good afternoon grey & colder here today, I miss the sun! 

Oh no Moonie, that's soooo annoying! Is it connected to do with the work that's just been carried out? 

There's a buzz about town because they're filming some of the new avengers movie in Durham and Chris Hemsworth who plays Thor is here! 

@Moonie , if the boiler is firing and no heat is getting round the house, it could be that some air has got in. If you've got radiators and a radiator key you could try bleeding a radiator to see if it's water or air coming out. If it's air, that's what's causing it and once the air has got out of the radiator, the heating can get around. You may need to try more than one radiator and you'll need something for the water to drop into rather than just over the wall and floor. You only need to turn the key, say a quarter turn, to see what comes out. And if it's air, it's likely to be a bit smelly.

Summer, there was quite a lot of buzz when some of the scenes in some of the Harry Potter films was filmed at Gloucester cathedral and I posted some time ago about some of the Alice in Wonderland and its sequel being filmed at the docks and again when some of the Christmas 2015 special of Sherlock was filmed.

Hope you've all had a good day.

Off to watch Hinterland. Goodnight and sweet dreams.

Hugs for the night owls 

El Loro posted:

A clip of some music I heard. It was written by Jessica Curry for a video game called Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. It's called The Light we Cast.

It's not what one might expect from a video game and I think it is a beautiful piece of choral music @Rocking Ros Rose may like this in particular.

love it EL thank you

night yogi EL and everybody and summer if you pop in

Good morning everyone

Cloudy at present but is likely to becone sunny for quite a lot of the day.

Ros, I thought you would like that piece of choral music. The music to that video game has won awards which isn't surprising though I don't know if the rest of the soundtrack is similar. It's just over an hour long.

Yogi, I have recorded Hinterland but haven't seen it yet. The previous series have been good though not exactly cheerful.

I hope Moonie's central heating is working now.

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone.

The sun is shining.

El, I agree Hinterland isn't exactly cheery but it is good. The scenery is beautiful too.

Moonie, have you got your heating working yet?

Hubby has suggested a trip to the seaside but, knowing him, he might change his mind before I'm showered and dressed.

Have a good day everyone.

Good morning everyone, sunny here, chilly at the moment but I think it will heat up later.

Moonie I hope your heating is working now, it's been one thing after another hasn't it?  Yogi where is your nearest seaside?  When we used to live in Essex/Greater London it was a real pain trying to reach the seaside whereas living down here the children take it as perfectly normal to have the sea on their doorstep, almost literally and with one of the best beaches in the country a 25 minute drive away.

Enjoy your day everyone

Yogi, as you say, the landscape in Hinterland is beautiful and becomes almost one of the characters in it, Much as in Vera and Shetland (though those are written by a different author).

Squiggle, as you say, there's a massive difference in the landscape between where you used to live and nowadays.

El Loro posted:

@Moonie , if the boiler is firing and no heat is getting round the house, it could be that some air has got in. If you've got radiators and a radiator key you could try bleeding a radiator to see if it's water or air coming out. If it's air, that's what's causing it and once the air has got out of the radiator, the heating can get around. You may need to try more than one radiator and you'll need something for the water to drop into rather than just over the wall and floor. You only need to turn the key, say a quarter turn, to see what comes out. And if it's air, it's likely to be a bit smelly.

Hi El 

Fankoo. I tries your solution but only water came out. I did try several rads but no luck. Thanks for your suggestion anyway. Much appreciated 

The hot water for washing up comes from the same boiler and it is boiling hot. So my guess is the thermostat is playing up. It is the original one from when he council modernised some 30 years ago 

Though the boiler is probably less than 10 years old 

Another job for the council to sort out

Good afternoon Buddies  

Fankoo one and all. The central heating does work but just about warm enough to heat the rads, no matter how high the thermostat is increased.

*adds to council's, list of to do's* 

Lovely warm sunny day here, at last. Hardly a breeze 

What washing I had is on the line 

Have a lovely day everyone  

~Sweet Summer~ posted:

Good afternoon grey & colder here today, I miss the sun! 

Oh no Moonie, that's soooo annoying! Is it connected to do with the work that's just been carried out? 

 

There's a buzz about town because they're filming some of the new avengers movie in Durham and Chris Hemsworth who plays Thor is here! 

No, Sweet 

The central heating system is separate from the gas fire 

I hope you and Miss Bramble are having a lovely rest day 

Moonie, it's a pity that bleeding the radiators didn't have any effect. It looks as if it's more complicated so it looks as if you'll need to wait for a heating engineer. A 30 year thermostat does sound rather elderly so that could well be the problem. Or there's a problem with a pump or the divertor valve, being a combi-boiler, (those are definitely for an engineer to sort out).

El Loro posted:

Moonie, it's a pity that bleeding the radiators didn't have any effect. It looks as if it's more complicated so it looks as if you'll need to wait for a heating engineer. A 30 year thermostat does sound rather elderly so that could well be the problem. Or there's a problem with a pump or the divertor valve, being a combi-boiler, (those are definitely for an engineer to sort out).

I never touch anything electrical or gas related El 

I would probably blow the street up or electrocute myself 

Moonie posted:

El Loro posted:

Moonie, it's a pity that bleeding the radiators didn't have any effect. It looks as if it's more complicated so it looks as if you'll need to wait for a heating engineer. A 30 year thermostat does sound rather elderly so that could well be the problem. Or there's a problem with a pump or the divertor valve, being a combi-boiler, (those are definitely for an engineer to sort out).

I never touch anything electrical or gas related El 

I would probably blow the street up or electrocute myself 

Good  neither would I

squiggle posted:

Good morning everyone, sunny here, chilly at the moment but I think it will heat up later.

 

Moonie I hope your heating is working now, it's been one thing after another hasn't it?  Yogi where is your nearest seaside?  When we used to live in Essex/Greater London it was a real pain trying to reach the seaside whereas living down here the children take it as perfectly normal to have the sea on their doorstep, almost literally and with one of the best beaches in the country a 25 minute drive away.

 

Enjoy your day everyone

We have several beaches within a forty minute drive from us.

Largs is the one we go to most often but it has a pebble beach.

Troon and Ayr have nice sandy beaches and I used to go to Saltcoats beach when I was a child. 

BTW, we got an unannounced visit from my parents just as we were about to leave.

By the time they left, three hours later, the notion had gone off us.