Evening all.    I see our lovely thread is slipping down the page!!!  

Hubby is on his way home so I won't be back tonight.  Will catch up with all you lovely people tomorrow.

I watched it too, wasnt it fabulous!     Hi all, hope you ok squiggle

It was Skylark. I have watched it so many times and it still makes me cry.

Hi Yogi, they dont make films like that anymore do they? Did you watch Madam X, saw it before but what a great film

I have seen it many years ago - and I wept buckets.
You're right Skylark, they just don't make them like that any more.

Picked a good week to be off sick, daytime telly has been great !

Every cloud has a silver lining, Skylark.
Glad you are feeling a bit better now.

Thanks Yogi, getting there  Hope your keeping better yourself x

I'm fine, thanks.
I hope everything continues to go well for your daughter. Give her a big hug from me.

Thanks Yogi, i am going to take the wee one on Friday overnight to give her a wee rest . Hope the weather gets a bit better so i can get her out and about

The weather has been terrible today, hasn't it?
I'm looking after No1 son and DiL's labrador this week, as well as my retriever. The dogs took one look at the pelting rain and decided they didn't need out after all.

Ha ha my dog is the same, she got all wound up this morning till she got outside, had a quick widdle and cried to get inside! I keep telling her she is a Staffy and has a reputation to keep up, but she isnt listening  Its been pouring here, stopped now tho, but very humid

It has stopped raining here now, but it's still really overcast.
No3 son has just phoned, to ask me to pick him up from the station - and the little darling will want his computer back, too.
Bye for now.

Bye Yogi, take care xxx

Good morning everyone

Glad you liked Imitation of Life. Not surprisingly considering I'm male, weepies like that don't particularly appeal to me, but I know that many women love them.

I hope that everyone is well today .

At least today, locally at least, is a considerable improvment over yesterday. There is a slight fog, but it won't last long and it seems to be quite sunny.

Good morning El Loro and all Ben's buddies.  The sun is shining at the moment but it was very cold first thing.  No.2 son has just arrived back at Gatwick from Tunisia and he couldn't believe just how cold it was.  I told him he was lucky because at least it wasn't raining!!

Hope to catch up with some of you later. 

Just to warn you that over next next week we can expect over 3 inches of rain, over 2 inches the following week, and it is expected to carry on like that throughout October. It will be worse in the west of the country.

Good afternoon everyone.
This morning's fog has lifted and it is quite bright at the moment.
It looks like we are in for a very wet autumn, El Loro.
Joyron, I'm not surprised your son found it really cold, after his time in Tunisia. Did he enjoy the holiday?
Squiggle, hope you are okay.

Afternoon El Loro and Yogi.  I'm glad we will be out of this country for most of October.  I hope the rain doesn't follow us!!

Yogi, yes No.2 son did enjoy Tunisia but he said the hotel they stayed in was not that good.  As it was a last minute break you don't always know what you are going to get but at least he had a break away from work in a nice place, with some lovely weather. 

Hi all and cuddles for squiggle

Hi Skylark and everyone. and for you all and especially for squiggle.

Just to let you know that on October 3 and 4 Seattle will be doing maintenance work on each day. They have warned us that there may well be times where access is not possible, but should not last for more than 5 minutes at a time. The times at risk seem to be between 5 in the morning to possibly 9 in the evening. Lori will be posting a warning to us all in the next day or so, but I thought I'd give you advance warning. I'm not telepathic, I just saw a posting on the Social Strata help pages about this and confirmed with Lori that it does affect this forum.

Thanks El 

Just popped in to say night, night.  Will catch up with you all tomorrow. 

Nite Joyron x

Good morning everyone

I hope you are all well

It's a gloriously sunny day, not a cloud in the sky, and pleasantly warm.

(I suppose I better open the curtains, though. Oh!. Oh well, I can but wish )

Lori has now posted a sticky re the maintenance I mentioned yesterday, so ignore what I posted as it is wrong. This is what she says:

We will be doing infrastructure improvements and fail-over testing between 9:00PM October 2nd and 12:00AM October 3rd and again between 9:00PM October 3rd and 12:00AM October 4th (all times Pacific.)

I think these times translate for you as 10 hours later, so between 7am and 10am both October 3 and 4th.

Please expect intermittent outages during this period lasting for up to 5 minutes.
Translation:  Don't panic!  It'll be back very soon!!

I've just had a look at the Met Office rain forecast and I thought I'd post an untouched photo of it as it is quite spectacular.The colours in increasing order of heaviness are blue, green, yellow, light pink, then red. At least there is no white (ignoring the sea) which is the heaviest.

We could all do with some cheering up, so

Hello everyone.
Your forecast was right El Loro, it's raining heavily up here in Scotland.
Skylark, is it pouring on your side of the country, too?
Joyyron, I'm glad your son enjoyed his holiday but it was a shame the hotel was disappointing. We went to Tunisia a few years ago. We had a nice holiday but it isn't somewhere I am desperate to go back to.
Thinking of you, Squiggle.

Afternoon everyone.    It's raining here too, although not that heavy at the moment.  Supposed to be a little better hear tomorrow, which I hope if the case as I have loads of washing to do!!

Hope you are doing okay Squiggle.   

Oh dear.  No one about this afternoon.  You must all be sheltering from the rain!!!

Probably won't be back tonight but hope to catch up tomorrow. 

It has finally just stopped raining. It is still very cloudy but I can see a title bit of blue in the far distance.

Personally I blame George Bush jnr for this rain. I know he's no longer in power, but I can still blame him

It's not long now Joyron is it, before you flee this country and leave the rest of us to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous weather, or to take umbrellas against a sea of rain?

Yogi, I take no pleasure in my forecast having been right, I'd rather have been proved wrong. At least it's unlikely to have rained in Tunisia.

Skylark, thanks for your thanks, but if you look at Lori's new sticky, you'll see that I gave the wrong information.

squiggle, we are all thinking of you at this time.

Hi all, been raining all day today    Ok El Loro will have a look at the sticky . Cuddles for squiggle

Evening all.
Hubby has returned home from his travels, and so has his laptop.

Hi Yogi, i wont ask who or what you missed more

 It's a close run thing, Skylark - but I would have to say hubby.

Have you been looking after your little granddaughter today?

No change of plan, i have her tomorrow at 1pm till Sunday teatime, Hope this rain stops, she loves the park