I'm from Manchester originally but have lived in North wales a few years now - son is welsh and OH i have never been to scotland but i must go sometime as well

Must.. Catch.. Bus..

Scotland is beautiful - when it's not raining.

The weather has been great this past month, I hope that isn't our summer over already.

Nooooooooooo, I will resist!

I said exactly the same the other day yogi

We're not exactly a pair of optimists, are we?

scotland always looks similar to snowdonia to me but a bit more craggy

Mr summer and I would like to do snowdon

I think there are a lot of similarities.

A couple of years ago, we went up to a place called Inverrary in the Highlands. The scenery was so beautiful, it took my breath away.

Its gorgeous - only been through in the car several times - but loads walking there

awww how lovely - i like looking at scenery - i really enjoy it

Me too, I find it really relaxing.

 

Signing out for tonight, hope to catch up with you again tomorrow.

Goodnight Ros and goodnight to Summer if she comes back.

Sweet dreams yogi hope you have a good sleep Sorry I've got various people texting me and my mum talking non stop..

awww night yogi - lovely to chat with you as always

Good morning everyone. Another sunny day up here.

Hope you are all well and also enjoying some lovely weather.

Good morning everyone

 

A gloriously sunny morning, though windy. Woke to the news we've been waiting to hear for years, so it's a good day.

Good morning El, we must have been posting at the same time.

Morning el & yogi Just watching the news during breakfast..

Good morning everyone.    Lovely sunny day here but very windy!!

 

Hope you all had a good weekend.  I've been out and about with hubby.  Made a nice change from staying inside.  Walking getting better by the day.  I can actually walk without any crutches for short distances so my bad leg must be getting stronger.

 

Yes it was the very best news this morning El Loro.  However I fear there will be some form of backlash in due course.

 

Will try and get back later if I can.  Enjoy your day whatever you are doing.  Love you all. 

Good morning, Summer.

Good morning Joyron, your recovery seems to be moving on a quite a pace now.

Sounding good there joyron *thumbs up* How are you this morning yogi?

I'm fine Summer, still in my jammies though. I need to get dressed and get some housework done.

Congratulations Summer, you caught the bus.

Morning everyone, we had rain overnight which I am pleased about (for grass germination reasons )

 

Interesting news about Osama but I am of a cynical mindset about this sort of event happening just as the Presidential Elections loom onto the horizon.  Time will tell us more I am sure.

 

Someone explain to me sometime the concept of the bus thread its gone completely over my head at the moment

 

Have a good day everyone, hope the weather stays fine for everyone and we get a nice little drenching on the North Devon Coast roughly in the vicinity of Ilfracombe

aquiggle, the last person to post before 10.00 am and 10.00 pm (so typically 9.59) is the person who has won on the bus thread. I do not know the significance of this time though.

Morning Squiggle, glad you got the rain you need to germinate your grass seed.

I think the idea of the bus thread is that the person who makes the last post at 9.59 (am or pm) is said to have caught the bus. All other posters have to walk. It's just a bit of fun.

Morning all   Big news indeed this morning, cant say it will make much difference really, there are many trained to take his place, unfortunately. I am fearful for the backlash tho....
Now we know why Kate and Williams honeymoon was so strangely postponed at the last minute.
Anyway, nice to see you are on the mend Joyron and getting out and about

I've had my church magazine round extended a little bit due to the man who used to do it being too frail now. So I went round to the houses to deliver the magazine, to introduce myself, and to collect this year's sub. No-one there at the first house, the man at the second house said he no longer wanted it, the man at the third house said they had stopped taking it a long time ago, and the woman at the last house said she didn't take the magazine.

 

So I rang the lady who is in charge of magazine distribution. It seems that the man who has given up is not totally with it, so it is more than possible that the numbers she was given are wrong or that he has been delivering the magazines for ages without collecting the money and just giving the church the money out of his own pocket. The lady will have another word with him and will let me know if she can get any sense out of him.

Morning Skylark. Yes, I think we now know the real reason that the royal honeymoon was postponed.

 It does sound like the old man has become a bit confused, El.

I really must go and get dressed and then throw a duster and hoover/vacuum cleaner around. Be back later.

Pleased to hear of your progress, Joyron

 

As you say, there is likely to be a backlash from al-Qaeda, but their figurehead has gone, and they have lost a lot of support from Muslims through their indiscriminate killings.

 

Less widely reported was that a week ago the Afghan number 2 al-Qaeda leader was killed, and that it is estimated that 25 al-Qaeda operatives out of 125 in Afghanistan have been killed in the last month.

Oh the poor man El, he must be getting a bit doddery

Aw hope the old man has someone who can watch over him and make sure he's ok El, poor fella Hehe yes the last poster at 9.59 catches the bus it is just a bit of fun, I love it Yogi, you throw your duster & Hoover around is that safe?! I'm all showered & dressed and ready for the day now Hope to pop back a bit later

Yogi,s practicing for the Highland Games...tossing the caber  Going to get off too, want the bedcovers changed xx

I don't know the old man, but I can see on the 192 site that there is a woman who lives with him, and there is someone else from church who lives a few doors away.

I have found some photos of bluebells posted on the BBC website. For copyright reasons I can't post them here, but this is a link to them.

Thanks for explaining about catching the bus, sounds fun.

 

Lovely pictures of bluebells EL thanks.  There are some white bluebells growing in my garden which look lovely.

 

 

 

         

Nice white bluebells, squiggle

 

Re the old magazine man. I was a bit surprised when I was given the 4 house numbers (the road in question. Without giving them away, if you think about the most famous cheerleader chants ever, you can guess them. I suspect he just said the first numbers that came to him.