I had angel cake tonight
Iced gingerbread sounds tasty though!

El, sometimes the customer isn't right, but we do have to keep our cool don't we I hope you don't have too much more of your time wasted.

Sweet dreams yogi, I hope you sleep well

Moonie, lovely to see you back- see you in the manor if you're still up

Hiya Sweet

Yep, still up and over in the Manor too

P.S. The photobucket app update has somehow disabled my copy & paste ability- I can't post owls now

Nor giraffes

Sweet, copy and then instead of paste try holding down Ctrl and press v. It works for me

I'm on the iPhone...

Awwww sorry Sweet, I cant help there Have you asked Bazzy? She may know

Good morning

Drizzle and cold here today, but who cares- it's Friday

I hope all slept well

Moonie, I'll ask the app reviews may be helpful too

Good morning everyone

 

Raining last night, and rain here this morning. May stop raining in a bit, more rain in the forecast for tomorrow. I wouldn't be surprised if this turns out to be the wettest January on record.

 

Summer, is this of any help to you re Photobucket:

http://support.photobucket.com...inking-IMG-and-HTML-

 

Good morning everyone, it's not raining at the moment, but still rain is in the forecast - again   Like you Yogi my garden is slowly turning into a swamp, I just took the binbag cover to put it back in its wheelie bin where it lives and nearly slipped over on a patch of mud, I'm fed up with it.

 

Anyway enough moaning, as Summer says, at least its Friday.  I've given up on Photobucket Summer, they have completely ruined the site, heaven knows why, it was working perfectly well, if it ain't broke why fix it?

Good morning, everyone. Weather is dry atm with rain forecast for later.

Squiggle, it's awful, isn't it. We actually have mud which is on the path, having been washed out of the lawn by the constant rain.

On a positive note, as Summer says, it is Friday - and I am going out to the garden centre with eldest son, then going to get my hair cut.

Have a good day everyone, see you later.

 

Some interesting photos of well known actors and actresses by Andy Gotts on the BBC website today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-25743240

Some of the photos are what you would expect, others are not .

 

Every week on the BBC, Mark Lawrenson predicts what the football results will be for the Premier League. There is also a prediction by a guest. Sometimes they may be connected with football but often they are not. Last week he had two guests - Robert de Niro and Sylvester Stallone. This weekend's guest is Vic Reeves who claims to know less about football than anyone else in the country. Judging by his predictions I think he could be right, particularly the last one

 

SATURDAY		Lawrenson	Reeves
Sunderland v Southampton	x-x	1-1	11-1
Arsenal v Fulham	x-x	3-0	5-5
Crystal Palace v Stoke	x-x	2-1	11-12
Man City v Cardiff	x-x	4-0	1-1
Norwich v Hull	x-x	2-0	0-0
West Ham v Newcastle	x-x	2-1	0-10
Liverpool v Aston Villa	x-x	2-0	0-0
SUNDAY
Swansea v Tottenham	x-x	1-1	12-0
Chelsea v Man Utd	x-x	2-0	2-20
MONDAY
West Brom v Everton	x-x	1-1	400-1

Can you imagine what my driveway is like with 2 grandsons up and down with motorbikes all the time?  I am hoping my eldest grandson can jetwash it for me.

 

I just want to look at the weather forecast and see long dry periods ahead and then we can start to get everything in order again.

Following on from the discovery of the remains of Richard III is today's announcement of the possible discovery of a bone fragment of an even older English king.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...d-hampshire-25760383

It could be from that king who would be a catastrophe in the Great British Bake Off.

 

El, thanks for that link. I can copy the links but when I return to gaga and open the "post reply" box, it doesn't let me paste. My only options are "select" and "select all" I have no idea why

Summer, I don't have an answer for you though it sounds as if the app hasn't recognised that you've copied something which is why there's no paste option shown. Has you seen if you are able to post it anywhere else besides this forum?

ie is this a problem specific to this forum or generally.

 

Summer, I can't copy pics on the ipad either.

Me too.

good evening you lot

Good evening, Pirate, how are things with you?

im ok ta yogi

just catching up on here

 

hows you?

That's good.

I'm fine, thanks. Had my hair cut today. *twirls*

oooh get yooooo lol

Ignore any grey bits until I get a chance to colour it.

I had a letter from my brother today. He mentioned that it is looking unlikely that there will be anyone redeployed from his libraries to other council departments before the redundancies next March. He and everyone else now accept that redundancy is virtually inevitable.

And those are likely to be the lucky ones.

Those who remain employed will be required to attend meetings when the next round of cuts will be the focal point. The council seem to think that the council budget will be cut by a further 40% approximately in the following financial year.

 

I dread to think what sort of council services will be left in that council or if this will be the case across the country or just in that council but I feel sorry for those who live there.

 

Sad news for your brother and his colleagues, El.

Those cuts sound pretty drastic.

When I was out with son today, we decided to go to McDonalds and grab something to eat (second time in one month!). Four teenage schoolboys, aged around 15/16 sat near to us. There was background music playing and the song Build me up buttercup, by The Foundations came on. One of the young lads started quietly singing along - I was surprised that someone so young would know the lyrics to such an old song but I've since found out it was covered by Busted. I was smiling and he realised I was listening to him singing. He blushed and stopped singing. I smiled at him and said "Don't stop!". He laughed and continued singing along. He brightened up a dreary day and put smiles on the faces of the other diners.

That's lovely Yogi, I still love that song - the original version of course.

I agree, these are tough tough times, and for those at the sharp end it's really hard.

We hear so many stories about rude, unruly teenagers, it's nice to have a bit of balance.

I love the original version too.

On Antiques Road Trip today they showed the Falkirk Wheel.  What a fascinating and ingenious piece of engineering

 

I have seen it from a distance but never been on it. Great piece of engineering though.

What especially fascinated me was that it works on the Archimedes principle, so that each boat displaces its own weight in water and therefore the wheel is always perfectly balanced.  Cleverest thing I have seen in years.

 Very clever.

The Falkirk wheel is awesome I'm sure it was featured in a walking magazine we used to get, one of the top 10 man made features to see in the uk.
I can only imagine what kind of brain it takes to invent such a thing

Yogi does your hair feel nice?

When I walked bramble tonight I saw the most beautiful moon rise;
It was in & out of clouds, had a red tint to it and was huge!
It was almost like watching a red sun rise, until it got higher, lifted above the clouds and turned blue/white. The man in the moon appeared then

My hair feels nice - and short!

 Wow, that sounds like a special moon!

Last night's moon was a huge one!