It sounds like a fitting service for your lovely friend, Squiggle.

Hi moonie sorry I vanished- work has been very busy today! I hope you're feeling brighter, is your nephew keeping an eye on you? El, well done, it is best to make sure you're fully recovered before you go over doing it and set yourself back

Thanks Summer I was half expecting to be called up for England for the test match starting tomorrow but decided against it as I thought I might be over doing it if I was called to bowl

I tell you Yogi, there is passing now a generation the likes of which I don't think we will ever see again.  She had a hard life but lived it close to the Lord.

Awww, it will have to be the next test then, you should be match fit by then

 Mr Yogi and I have said something very similar. I'm in complete agreement with you.

As the next test after tomorrow's is in Australia I wonder if the England team would pay for an all expenses paid 2 month visit there

We can chip in EL I will start saving 5p's

 I have started saving £2 coins. So far, I have £8 and I'm willing to throw it into the pot.

Doubles that £8 

 You're loaded!

Maybe  

 

 

Are you watching Lewis, on ITV? 

Nope, I have New Tricks on Alibi 

Crime dramas are popular with us tonight.

Yep  

 I just noticed -->  animates 

I never noticed that before. Maybe the animation is new - or perhaps we are unobservant.

In my case the later 

 Probably the latter in my case, too.

 

Got to sign out now, hope to see you tomorrow.

Leaving hugs for Summer and any other night owls.

Nah 

Goodnight Yogi. Sleep well and have sweet dreams   

Hoot hoot! Tonight's night owl is inspired by the return of the Great British Bake Off- which I thoroughly enjoyed I'll chip in to the fund! we save all year round, anything lower that 50p's in a giant cookie jar. usually it's used for the christmas food shop but I'll forsake that for you guys Btw, the cookie jar is a pig, so we refer to small change as "pig food"

Oink oink 

Lovely piccie 

Good morning everyone

 

A mix of blue sky and cloud here.

 

Great owl cake, Summer

 

I don't know if has always been animated or not but I think it probable has.

 

There is one of the smilies which are animated where the degree of animation is so small that it is hardly noticeable at all. See if you can find which one.

 

Good morning everyone. Overcast up here.

Great owl cake, and very colourful! I like that your cookie jar savings for Christmas food are nicknamed 'pig food'.

I have to take Keira to the groomers this afternoon. She is in need of a tidy up - her paws look like the hairy hooves on a clyesdale horse, atm.

El, I had a good look at the smilies/smileys (I never know which is the plural of smiley) and think it might be this one . Am I right?

Have a good day everyone.

Yogi, although the animation is subtle, that's not the one I'm thinking of.

 Off to look again!

Yogi, @ Keira's paws looking like clydesdale horse hooves.

 

Is it this one? The eye on the left seems to wink?

 

 That's how my eldest son describes them, when she's in need of a trim.

Yes, that's the one I was thinking of. I doubt if it would be spotted unless you were looking for it.

 

I had to stretch the page on my ipad before I noticed it - and only because I was searching for it.

Good morning everyone, goodness I have never looked at the smileys so much in all my life

 

I have the plumber coming later to fit a new bathroom basin, can't remember whether I told you the saga of the taps that wouldn't come out or not it's been a busy few days and my head is all over the place.  My daughter is then going to come up the dump with me to get rid of the old basin and pedestal.

 

Have a good day everyone

You didn't tell us about the taps, Squiggle, what happened?

 

I couldn't remember whether I had or not, the hot tap started leaking and I remembered last time the plumber came and changed all the washers he said the tap was worn out and would not take a new washer next time.  So I knew it had to come out but the plumber said when they used to put taps in then they put them in in such a way that it was like solid lead and they were very difficult to remove.  He managed to get the hot tap in but when he tried to remove the cold tap the basin cracked.  I am covered by insurance, I checked with the insurance company so he went off and ordered a new basin for me and, as I said, he is fitting it today.  So no more leaking hot tap, hurrah!  And I don't have to keep tightening the taps to stop them leaking.

Squiggle, I hope your basin replacement goes smoothly today

I bet you were  when he broke the basin! Good job you are covered by insurance. Enjoy your new basin and non-leaking taps.

I was half expecting difficulties Yogi, I fully expected to have to pay for a new basin myself so it was a pleasant surprise to be told I was covered.  I often don't think of claiming on the insurance, no idea why I must be daft, but the plumber suggested it, he goes to the same church as me so we know each other.  He is going to put a pop-up waste in for me and I have asked him to fit one to the downstairs cloakroom basin too as plugs on chains irritate me, they are such dirt collectors.

Squiggle, you are lucky to have a plumber who you know. Although I have clients who do a wide range of work, I have never had one who is a plumber.

 

I am lucky I know EL and of course I know he won't rip me off.