Hoardings put up oustide a medieval church in Gloucester whilst restoration work is going on have been decorated to attract business for a nearby cafe. The resulting mural is high quality street art.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-44545780
Good morning everyone, another beautiful morning and I think it's going to be a hot one. It was cooler last night, much easier to sleep.
Enjoy your day everyone 
Had a phone call from a woman saying that she has moved to named country, was operating an online business and wanted to transfer some money to a bank in town here. Wanted to know what to do. (no name given and a withheld phone number). I said she needed to talk to the bank as this wasn't the sort of question accountants would answer. She then clarified things by saying she wanted to know what were the tax implications. I told her that I was semi-retired and didn't take on new clients so try elsewhere but also told her that accountants were likely to be wary about giving advice of this nature over the phone.
First time in ages. Woman with Asian accent ringing just now "Good morning, this is Windows Technical Support, how are you?" Too busy to spend time in wasting her time. I wouldn't be surprised if I get more of these calls over the next couple of weeks as I think the scammers concentrate on a locality for a period of time trying to convince people that there is a real problem if they get several calls.
El Loro posted:Yogi, if I went out to cut my grass it would take less than a minute as there's been zero growth since I last cut it on 6 June due to the lack of rain
We left the front lawn as, it has a few daisies but, there was no length to it at all. We cut the back lawn though 
El Loro posted:Hoardings put up oustide a medieval church in Gloucester whilst restoration work is going on have been decorated to attract business for a nearby cafe. The resulting mural is high quality street art.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-44545780
Thatâs lovely
squiggle posted:Good morning everyone, another beautiful morning and I think it's going to be a hot one. It was cooler last night, much easier to sleep.
Enjoy your day everyone
Always better when it is cooler during the night 
El Loro posted:Yogi, well done on cutting the back lawn
i wonder if the mural on those hoardings will be kept intact once the scaffolding work is done.
Would be a shame if they werenât
Another musical clip for @Rocking Ros Rose
This is the choral version of FaurÃĐ's Pavane, the words being optional in the orchestral version. The lyrics were written by Robert de Montesquiou,
I know you've sung the Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine but wasn't sure if you've sung this.
Yogi19 posted:El Loro posted:Yogi, well done on cutting the back lawn
i wonder if the mural on those hoardings will be kept intact once the scaffolding work is done.
Would be a shame if they werenât
By the way one of the people shown on the mural is Robert Raikes. He was instrumental in the Sunday School movement spreading and financing them across the country. The original aim was to provide some schooling for children on a Sunday as they were working in factories during the rest of the week. This was at a time before state education started on a national basis. He was a publisher and also became propietor of the Gloucester Journal newspaper (which his father had started) - the publishing and newspaper were based at his house known as Robert Raikes House. His first Sunday school was held in the garden and his wife gave the children plum cake.
The house is immediately opposite the church where the mural is. It's now an inn but has retained it's original external appearance.
El Loro posted:Yogi19 posted:El Loro posted:Yogi, well done on cutting the back lawn
i wonder if the mural on those hoardings will be kept intact once the scaffolding work is done.
Would be a shame if they werenât
By the way one of the people shown on the mural is Robert Raikes. He was instrumental in the Sunday School movement spreading and financing them across the country. The original aim was to provide some schooling for children on a Sunday as they were working in factories during the rest of the week. This was at a time before state education started on a national basis. He was a publisher and also became propietor of the Gloucester Journal newspaper (which his father had started) - the publishing and newspaper were based at his house known as Robert Raikes House. His first Sunday school was held in the garden and his wife gave the children plum cake.
The house is immediately opposite the church where the mural is. It's now an inn but has retained it's original external appearance.
Got the tiddlers tomorrow so Iâm heading to bed.
Goodnight and sweet dreams, everyone 
El Loro posted:This one is for @Rocking Ros Rose as you are the person most likely to be able to detect this. In the BBC World Cup song they've been using, do you think that the man singing is fractionally off key in places:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44141852He does to me.
It was dreadful EL-he seemed to be singing under the notes for most of the song which made it sound very off key in parts -very unpleasant sound
night yogi summer if you pop in
El Loro posted:Another musical clip for @Rocking Ros Rose
This is the choral version of FaurÃĐ's Pavane, the words being optional in the orchestral version. The lyrics were written by Robert de Montesquiou,
I know you've sung the Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine but wasn't sure if you've sung this.
yes I have - at Easter with the Requiem-gorgeouslove Faure
Good morning everyone
Another sunny and very warm day here.
Yogi, I hope you have a good day with the tiddlers
Ros, like you I found the BBC football song quite painful to listen to. It's sung by Sir John Tomlinson so he has no excuse. Like you I find FaurÃĐ's music gorgeous
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning everyone, a beautiful cool morning and I think it is going to be slightly cooler than yesterday. I'm hoping for a slightly cooler night as well. I hope everyone is managing in the heat.
Enjoy your day everyone
Leaving a and a for Velvet if you glance in.
Back in November I posted about Oumuamua which was thought to be an asteroid with an unusual shape. It's now thought to be a comet:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-44630125
Went shopping at the local Co-op. Total came to ÂĢ11.11 and because locally they give a 10% discount on Tuesdays to students and to over 60s, the cost came to a nice round ÂĢ10. Quite rare for a total to be a round multiple of ÂĢ5 (not including shops will only sell items at an exact ÂĢ1).
Good afternoon!!!!! Iâm back from holiday and have had a wonderful time 
what have i been missing? Are you all coping ok in the heat?
Welcome back Summer, I'm glad you had a wonderful time
I think it's been fairly quiet here over the last week. I've been busy with client work as I had a month's worth of work arrive in the space of a couple of days but I'm working through it. The heat doesn't bother me as much as it does some people. How does the temperature back here compare to where you've been?
Evening all
Minding went well
Yay, welcome home Summer, I missed you
Tiddlers and I made squirrel pancakes today
I hope youâve all had a good day.
Oh yayyyyy!!!!! Squirrel pancakes ððð Iâm very impressed! How are the little ones?
El, I hope that workload is smooth ðĪ the temperatures were around 25 degrees, with ideal humidity. Iâm a burner so I hide under my hat and an umbrella, but Iâve somehow got a lovely little glow with some freckles ð I didnât gain any weight either, we were very active and our room was on the eighth floor- I only used the lifts when checking in & out!
~Sweet Summer Holidays~ posted:Oh yayyyyy!!!!! Squirrel pancakes
El, I hope that workload is smooth ðĪ the temperatures were around 25 degrees, with ideal humidity. Iâm a burner so I hide under my hat and an umbrella, but Iâve somehow got a lovely little glow with some freckles ð I didnât gain any weight either, we were very active and our room was on the eighth floor- I only used the lifts when checking in & out!
They are good, thank you
Sounds like you had a great time
Was Bramble pleased to see you?
Oh she went crazzzzzzzy!!!!! I thought she was going to take off lol sheâs been following me everywhere all day
I heard itâs bssn very very hot up there yogi! Howâs your garden doing?
~Sweet Summer Holidays~ posted:Oh she went crazzzzzzzy!!!!! I thought she was going to take off lol sheâs been following me everywhere all day
I heard itâs bssn very very hot up there yogi! Howâs your garden doing?
Aww, itâs nice that she missed you
Garden is doing okay but Iâm having to water the veg garden and baskets and pots every day. The lawns are parched too.
How is yours?
Itâs been years since I saw dried out lawns! I love it. My alpines are very happy, my wisterias need some reviving...
im going to put more alpines in my pots, instead of perennials
~Sweet Summer Holidays~ posted:Itâs been years since I saw dried out lawns! I love it. My alpines are very happy, my wisterias need some reviving...
im going to put more alpines in my pots, instead of perennials
Alpines are a good option
Itâs been a busy day, so Iâm heading to bed. Goodnight and sweet dreams, Summer and Ros
glad you enjoyed your holiday summer
night yogi and summer
Good morning everyone
Forecast to be cloudier today than recently and a bit cooler, there's even a chance of a shower but only a low chance.
Summer, it's been warmer and more humid here than where you were. I'm glad Bramble was very happy to see you again
I deliberately misread your post as:
"Itâs been years since I saw dried out lawns! I love it. My alpacas are very happy."
Yogi, well done on you and the tiddlers making squirrel pancakes
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning everyone
Itâs dry and sunny again but doesnât feel as hot as yesterday.
Out and about today.
Have a good day, all.
That's very odd, I posted in here and then went off to do other things and when I came back there was no post from me at all. Anyway it's overcast and a bit oppressive today, I miss the blue skies. I love the idea of Alpacas in Summer's garden.
Enjoy your day everyone
squiggle posted:That's very odd, I posted in here and then went off to do other things and when I came back there was no post from me at all. Anyway it's overcast and a bit oppressive today, I miss the blue skies. I love the idea of Alpacas in Summer's garden.
Enjoy your day everyone
I wonder if there was a temporary server glitch here.
I wonder if Summer will get an alpaca for her garden so that she doesn't need to cut the grass and also what Bramble would make of it
Happy 147th birthday to a local man Hubert Cecil Booth, he invented the vacuum cleaner. It was powered by an internal combusion engine nicknamed "Puffing Billy". It was rather noisy as a result.
He came up with an alternative version, an electric one, where the electricity was created by a dynamo with a large treadmill in the garden where alpacas had been trained to run on the treadmill. I have not been able to find any pictorial evidence of this though 
El Loro posted:Yogi, I hope you have a good time doing the hokey pokey
El Loro posted:Happy 147th birthday to a local man Hubert Cecil Booth, he invented the vacuum cleaner. It was powered by an internal combusion engine nicknamed "Puffing Billy". It was rather noisy as a result.
He came up with an alternative version, an electric one, where the electricity was created by a dynamo with a large treadmill in the garden where alpacas had been trained to run on the treadmill. I have not been able to find any pictorial evidence of this though
Youâve got alpaca-itis