@Yogi19 posted:Good afternoon everyone
Just a flying visit to let you know Iām still in the land of the living and hope to be back at 8pm tonight.
Have a good day, all
Nice to hear from you 
Re that census letter. Nothing in the post today. While I was talking with my brother on the phone on Saturday morning I noticed the postman. He seemed to be going to every house. When he came here all I got was a credit card statement,
So this afternoon I rang someone who lives in the same road. They got their letter on Saturday morning. So that's why the postman was going to every house. Obviously my letter has been lost.
So I went ahead and got a replacement code through the census site and went through all the questions though haven't sent it off yet.
A four bedroomed terrace house in Bristol has been sold.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...and-bristol-56291578
It is quite possibly the only terraced house in the country to have a church organ built in. Joan Baker was a church organist and her husband Ronald built the organ so that she could practice at home. Whilst she played the organ, her husband would accompany her on the trumpet.
Not them:
There's 3 sections, the 2nd slow section is beautiful 
Evening gents 
Good job you chased up the census form, El
In Scotland, I think ours isnāt being done till 2022
Have you been back to the park at the weekend, Moonie?
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros
Hug for the night owls
@Yogi19 posted:Evening gents
Good job you chased up the census form, El
In Scotland, I think ours isnāt being done till 2022
Have you been back to the park at the weekend, Moonie?
Hi Yogi
Sorry I missed you 
I was on the phone 
I have been up the park 3 times out the last four days. All is okay up there 
The two swans and the nearly grown cygnet are all doing well as is all the wildlife 
Its nice to see you around again
night yogi moonsieee
Good morning everyone it's another chilly morning but it should be dry. I'll try to enjoy any sunny intervals before the wet and windy weather starts tomorrow.
Enjoy your day everyone 
Good morning everyone
Similar weather here as yesterday with some sunshine at present. Wild weather coming with tomorrow night being very windy.
Some of the meteorite fragments found on a driveway in Winchcombe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-56326246
I hope everyone has a good day
@El Loro posted:Good morning everyone
Similar weather here as yesterday with some sunshine at present. Wild weather coming with tomorrow night being very windy.
Some of the meteorite fragments found on a driveway in Winchcombe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-56326246I hope everyone has a good day
Fantastic El 
So what's behind your bathroom mirror
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/...d-us-canada-56324046
@El Loro posted:So what's behind your bathroom mirror
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/...d-us-canada-56324046
Good grief
I wonder if her landlord will charge her for two apartments now? 
I did get that census letter today. My elderly neighbour hasn't. I thought it unlikely that she would have online access so I asked her if she wanted me to request a paper form for her. I've done that. Quicker for me to request it online rather than for her to have to ring them.
@El Loro posted:I did get that census letter today. My elderly neighbour hasn't. I thought it unlikely that she would have online access so I asked her if she wanted me to request a paper form for her. I've done that. Quicker for me to request it online rather than for her to have to ring them.
Lovely that you care so much as to help your elderly neighbour El
@El Loro posted:Good morning everyone
Similar weather here as yesterday with some sunshine at present. Wild weather coming with tomorrow night being very windy.
Some of the meteorite fragments found on a driveway in Winchcombe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-56326246I hope everyone has a good day
Hi El and Moons
Loved the meteorite story - lucky though, could have caused some damage. Who claims ownership there I wonder, suppose it's the landowner? Wouldn't mind that 300g lump Heard the guy on the radio being the first to see it last night outside the finder - it was good stuff.
Hope all are well as always. Nice to see the park back up and running Moons
Hi Velvet
As you say, the meteorite fragments could have caused some damage. The area where fragments might have fallen was a bot over 30 square miles. The majority of the area is countryside/farmland. Winchcombe is one of the larger towns with a population of just over 5,000. (I've excluded Cheltenham as, although a lot larger, was right on the edge of the area so was less likely). The landowner has donated the fragments to science. The BBC article mentions that other people have found fragments. There's a photo there of another bit found in Woodmancote. That's a small village between Cheltenham and Winchcombe and not far from Cleeve Hill. Cleeve Hill is the highest point in Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds. There are no places higher than there in an easterly direction to the sea but, because Cleeve Common to the east is so flat it's impossible to see that far to the east.
You live in some area El flooding aside
@velvet donkey posted:You live in some area El flooding aside
Gloucestershire does have some very attractive places such as the Cotswolds (which do extend into Oxfordshire and some other counties). Gloucester itself has the main advantage of having relatively cheap houses. My house would be 50% more expensive if it was in Cheltenham
@El Loro posted:Gloucestershire does have some very attractive places such as the Cotswolds (which do extend into Oxfordshire and some other counties). Gloucester itself has the main advantage of having relatively cheap houses. My house would be 50% more expensive if it was in Cheltenham
I've always said house beats location but I'm surprised at that
As long as you're handy
@velvet donkey posted:I've always said house beats location but I'm surprised at that
As long as you're handy
The house price differential has been like that for as long as I can remember, Gloucester and Cheltenham are not that far apart in distance. I do my main M&S weekly shop at the food store on the outskirts of Cheltenham (the ship in the centre of Gloucester is a small part of the shop, the aisles are close together and the range is smaller). The Cheltenham one has an adjoining car park, the Gloucester one doesn't. There's another store in the centre of Cheltenham which I have been to but not for the best part of a year. Time from leaving home to getting home for the one on the outskirts of Cheltenham (which is under 5 miles geographically from Gloucester city boundary) is under an hour. I very much doubt if going to the Gloucester one would be quicker.
I'd do the same. Safety first
I'm online with Asda - easy to navigate and no probs so far (touch wood! ).
I know Cleeve Hill generally from the Cheltenham Festival - always referenced - but I've been out of National Hunt for a while. Gordon Elliot didn't help.
@velvet donkey posted:I'd do the same. Safety first
I'm online with Asda - easy to navigate and no probs so far (touch wood! ).
I know Cleeve Hill generally from the Cheltenham Festival - always referenced - but I've been out of National Hunt for a while. Gordon Elliot didn't help.
Yes, Cleeve Hill and Cleeve Common are less than 2 miles from the race course so are noticeable. Never been to a racecourse to see horse racing and don't watch it on television.
Been to Cleeve Hill. Also the other hill near Cheltenham - Leckhampton Hill. Cleeve Hill is higher but Leckhampton Hill is more interesting as it's got a disused quarry where the rock formation known as Devil's Chimney is. Used to be a path halfway up the side of the quarry towards the chimney. Many years ago we walked along that path but couldn't go any further as the path had erodes. So rather than walk all the way back we decided to scramble down the side towards the bottom. My mother was ahead. I was following when she suddenly told me to stop. I was just about to go into a nest of adders/vipers
Glencoe has a devil's staircase.
Funny choice of nomenclature.
Evening all
Heavy rain atm.
Really pleased youāve been able to visit the park to see the swans, Moonie
El, that was kind of you (Iād expect no less) to help out your elderly neighbour with the census form
Hope all is well with you, Velvet, and glad youāve been able to get shopping delivered.
Hope you're ok Yogi. Watching the staged Pawn programme on stv. And I know that for fact
@velvet donkey posted:Hope you're ok Yogi. Watching the staged Pawn programme on stv. And I know that for fact
Hi Velvet Iām okay, thanks.
I imagine the Pawn programme is staged. Iām watching a zoo programme with Ros and Dame.
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Velvet, Ros and Moonie
Hug for any night owls
@Yogi19 posted:Evening all
Heavy rain atm.
Really pleased youāve been able to visit the park to see the swans, Moonie
El, that was kind of you (Iād expect no less) to help out your elderly neighbour with the census form
Hope all is well with you, Velvet, and glad youāve been able to get shopping delivered.
Hi and bye Yogi
Fankoo, I was up again today and there was a huge nest on the island. You could just about see a swan above the top of it
So hopefully some new cygnets soon
night yogi moonsie velvet
Good morning everyone it's a wet and very windy morning with warnings in place for today and tomorrow.
I won a day at the races once in a radio phone in with Michael Aspel hosting in the early days of Capital Radio. It was at Lingfield and we were in the VIP marquee, very interesting to see the horses and jockeys up close. Our poor little car parked amongst all the Rolls Royces! Disappointingly the only people we recognised were Showaddywaddy you couldn't miss their colourful drape jackets.
Enjoy your day everyone