Oh i miss Morrisons since i moved    Yes he has had his op, and my goodness talk about drama! He likes a bit of attention, shall we say! Thank goodness he hasnt had a baby !

Sounds like my eldest son. When he is ill, we get updates every 15 minutes on his improving or deteriorating condition. It's a good job he's rarely ill.

Little one has fallen asleep, i knew she would, she has been at nursery so tired. Just put a nappy on her, incase of accidents thru the night. I am not working tomoro, so its fine. If its not raining in the morning we shall go and see the ducks!

That'll be lovely for her. Mine used to love feeding the ducks and swans, when they were wee.

There were two swans last year down where i stay, but no sign of them this year   Its a battle to get the ducks fed as the seagulls come from everywhere!

My son just sent me a txt, he was giving his pal a chum to vote, as he has just turned 18, but his name isnt on the voters roll! He is so disappointed, what a shame

There are always a pair of breeding swans in our village pond - but not so far this year.

What a shame, I bet he was looking forward to voting for the first time.

It is a shame Yogi, and i am thankful my son has friends at that age that take an interest, to be honest
Isnt that strange about the swans??

It is strange, I wonder what could be going on?

Every year, the swans in our pond have had 4 or more sygnets.

They are so cute when they decide to take them for a walk up the village Main Street - right in the middle of the road, of course. The traffic grinds to a standstill as the swans go for their wee wander.

Awww how lovely. Wonder whats happened this year???

I might have a look on the rspb website and see if there has been a problem with swans this year.

I'll also be keeping a close eye on the village pond in case they make an appearance.

I will too x
How is your son and girlfriend settling in their new home?

They have settled in really well. The flat is nice and it's in a quiet area. Their neighbour across the hallway is friendly and not noisy, so it's all good so far.

Thats good, i wish them well

Skylark, you have a PM.

I searched "where have all the swans gone?" and some other people are asking the same question, so it looks like there are fewer swans around this year.

I bet you are dead impressed by my fantastic search techniques.

I am very impressed , your Yogiship
Well where are they then ???
You do know that there will be a huge search now!

I don't know - and nobody else seems to know either.

 

@ your Yogiship.

 Have to get off now
Goodnight all xx
Hope you are fine Joyron

Goodnight Skylark, I'm going to sign out too. Speak to you soon.

 

Hugs for Ros and Summer.

hi skylark and yogi - sorry to have missed you

Good morning all   Not a very nice morning here, wet and dull
Going to get the wee one ready, have a nice day everyone xxx

Good morning everyone

 

I did a search on swans on the BBC website looking at recent news items and it looks as if there is a mystery virus killing them off, and there seem to be rather a lot of swans being shot by thugs around the country.

 

Cloudy, but dry at present.

 

Good morning everyone. It's still raining, and I think it's here for a while.

Thanks for the info on the swans, El. Your search techniques are obviously more sophisticated than mine.

I hope this virus doesn't do much more damage to their numbers, and I can't tell you what I think of the vile individuals who shoot swans.

 

Hope you have a nice day with the wee one, Skylark.

Good morning everyone, I have put down the lawn feed so I am ready for the rain

 

My research technique consists of typing into the Google search bar . 

 

How could thugs go round shooting beautiful creatures like swans, personally I would ban air rifles air pistols etc and I have thought that way since I was about 10 and my brother got one.  What are you going to do with the blessed things?  Kill small animals and birds that's what We had gardens backing on to ours from the side in our old house and believe it or not they had fixed up a target on their back fence ie our side fence   Our grandsons regularly walked down there to our garage and when my hubby found a hole in the fence he stuck his head over the fence and gave them a mouthful.  And my hubby was the most mild mannered of men.  They didn't use the air rifle after that, well not at home they didn't.  Wildlife have enough to put up with viruses and the like.

 

Have a good day with the wee one Skylark, any chance of a photo in a PM I would love to see what she looks like?

 

Hope you are improving every day Joyron

 

Catch you later

 

My technique was to type "where have all the swans gone?" into the yahoo search bar.

 

I agree with you about the air rifles, and those pellet guns can cause some damage too.

 

Joyron, hope you are continuing to improve.

Hi we are back, too rainy for adventures today.
Yes squiggle, i will post pics, and i have been trying!!! Maybe if you could be so kind as to explain how to me, i will get them on tonight
Going off to make some lunch xxx

morning all Hope you're having a lovely day, it's mild but cloudy here, I'm hoping for a little more rain because the garden needs it!

Hi Summer. I love the way you find the positives in everything.

The way I do it is to open up a Photobucket account.  Its fast and free to do (and you don't get loads of spam emails or anything).  Then you simply tell it where to upload pictures from, either your computer or online somewhere.  On FF there is even an 'update to Photobucket' option when you right click.  It stores your pictures and then you just go into your account and 'share' your pictures (you left click on the Image Code and it copies it automatically) and then come back and do Control V (paste) your pictures on here or in an IM.

 

Enjoy your lunch.

When I want to post my own pics I do it this way and I think squiggle does it this way as well.

 (I created this post whilst squiggle was doing hers so didn't see it before I posted )

You need to sign up with photobucket. Signing up is simple and there is no cost.

 

When you've done that log on to photobucket. You will see a screen showing your album of pictures which at this stage will be blank. At the top of the screen there is a green button called Upload now. Click on that. Then click on Upload photos and videos. This opens the typical screen for opening files on your computer. Find and select the pictures you want to upload. Then click Open. Wait for the picture to upload. If it loads successfully you will the message in green Upload complete! Click on save and continue to my album. You should then see the picture you have uploaded in your album, but shown small.

 

To post the picture you have uploaded you need to stay in photobucket and have the normal Post Reply screen open here. Single click on the picture in the album. You should now see the picture at the larger size. Right click on the larger picture and select Copy Image Location (not Copy Image). Come back to the Post Reply screen. Click on the Insert/edit image icon (the little tree immediately to the left of the smiley icon). Press Ctrl V in the Image url line, then press tab. You should see the image appear beneath. Then click insert. If the picture is large you may need to edit the picture in the Insert/edit screen by clicking on Appearance and changing the dimensions (horizontal at 680 I find is the maximum size which fits here - the vertical should automatically change).

 

 

Thanks yogi yes I do try to keep a positive approach to life, my mums very negative so I think it's made me the opposite..! I keep forgetting it's Friday because it's my first day back at work, what are everyone's weekend plans? I'm relaxing at home and really looking forward to it

Seriously Summer, your positivity shines through - it's lovely.

My eldest son and DIL are visiting tomorrow, and middle son and his fiancee are visiting on Sunday, so it will be a busy weekend.

Is Mr Summer pleased to have you back home, i bet he is?

I see we post our pictures in a slightly different way EL, yours is a little more complex as I would expect since you are much cleverer than me.  Either way Photobucket is certainly the answer (I believe other image storing applications are available )

I am definitely the class dunce when it comes to computers.

I just do it that way as that's the way I worked out how to do it. There could be other ways but as long as it works, that's the important thing.

 

 

Yes he is yogi, he made me his mouthwatering lamb curry to welcome me home! Sounds like you've got a busy weekend coming up! Do your son's live locally? El Loro certainly is good for technical help and some, I found lots of the posts very helpful

I have a confession to make to you all - I suffer from mild chiclephobia, and have for as long as I can remember. I want to reassure you that it is not fatal and is only a minor inconvenience.

 

Other people have chiclephobia, and some of them suffer very badly. Possibly the best known sufferer is Oprah Winfrey, and for her it is so bad that it affects everyone who goes into her television studios.

 

The chicle part of the word is pronounced to rhyme with tickle.

 

Although I knew I suffered from chiclephobia, it was only a few hours ago that I discovered what this condition was called.

 

You may wonder what chiclephobia is. The word chicle comes from Manikara chicle. This is a tropical tree native to Mexico and Central America. The Manikara chicle secretes a natural resin which is called chicle. So what connection is there between this Mexican substance and me?

 

If you were Spanish, you would have already understood what the connection was. Well, the chickle resin is used in the manufacture of chewing gum. I cannot stand the sight of people chewing gum, it really irritates me. Ordinary chewing doesn't matter, it's because the chewing never stops. It's even worse if the person chews with their mouth open.

 

For Oprah Winfrey, it's a lot worse as she cannot stand the sight of bits of chewing gum stuck elsewhere. She has a complete ban on anyone chewing gum in her television studios.

Nice one, Mr Summer.

The eldest son stays 5 or 6 miles from us and the middle one is about 6 or 7 miles away, so they are both pretty close to home. We tend to see them at least once a week, and they keep in touch regularly by phone.

El is a great help re the techie stuff.