Good afternoon to all my lovely Freddie friends.  Hope you are all doing okay today.

Yogi I'm sorry that we keep missing each other.  I am fine, although it don't like this cold weather.  I didn't realise you were from Scotland.  That's my favourite holiday destination in this country.

What we need to do is agree a time which suits us all and arrive here together so that we can post like we did in the "old" days.  Mind you the system might not be able to cope with such a situation!!

Hope to catch up again later.  Until then take care of yourselves. 

Afternoon Fredsters Hope everyone is well..
Joyron, I'm glad you like coming to Scotland, it is a beautiful country (I'm a bit biased). My hubby isn't Scottish, he's from the NE of England.
We really should try to set a date and time for the Fredsters to post together, good idea, Joyron.

Good to see this still going

LL, it's lovely to see you back with us, I hope you are sticking around.

Yogi, fancy being able to pop up to the beautiful countryside around Pitlochry for the weekend, I am green with envy.

LL Great to see you here again

We are very lucky Squiggle, there is so much beautiful scenery within travelling distance. Our next trip is in March, we are off to Aviemore for a few days.

Hiya Squiggle and Yogi, good to see you both.  Yes, I shall be around, here, there and everywhere

Good morning to all my lovely Freddie friends.  Hope this finds you well.  It's bitterly cold here this morning and it keeps trying to snow!!

Will catch up again later.  Just thought I would give our thread a little bump as no one has been in here since LL yesterday afternoon. 

Spring is on the way!

Good morning Fredsters
It's pretty cold up here this morning. I must admit, I love it when it's freezing cold at night and you can see the frost twinkling in the moonlight.
Hope to catch up with you all later.

Morning Squiggs  ta for the hopeful piccie! been snowing here this morning and it's blooming but still spring will soon be upon us!  
Hi to all Fredsters and hope your day be ticketty!  

Hello FigtreeI love the little rabbit.

Hi Yoyo we must have been typing at the same time previously!Hope all is well with you and yours!  

Everyone is good thanks Figtree and thanks for the big hug.
I hope your chickens are managing okay in this chilly weather.

A little bump for the thread.

Afternoon everyone.  It's been really cold here all day and we had about an inch of snow in 20 minutes this afternoon!!

Probably won't be back later tonight but I will catch up with you all again tomorrow. 

No snow here Joyron but it is freezing cold.

Good afternoon to all my lovely Freddie friends.  Hope you are all doing okay today.  It's still freezing here, but fortunately no more snow.

Squiggle that was a lovely picture.  Where do you get them all from?

Hope to catch up again later. 

Hello Fredsters Had coffee with my best friend, who is hoping to sell her house and move out of the village. I will miss her when she goes.
No snow here but still very cold, hope you are all well wrapped up.

Hi Joyron, I am always searching for lovely pictures to brighten up the thread, I find them all over the place and keep them on my photobucket page.  Glad you like 'em

Good morning to all my lovely Freddie friends.  Just rescued the thread from page 2!!

Hope you are all feeling good this morning.  Wonder what picture Squiggle will come up with today.

Will catch up again later. 

Squiggle, I love it!

Afternoon Fredsters, where is everyone?

Afternoon everyone.  Been busy all day.

Yogi I've just been into that Essex lingo thread and was not very happy with what I read.  I didn't realise you had been in this area in your earlier days.  Small world.

Is this the missing link between us all?  I was born in Essex too

So Squiggle, we all have links with Essex.
Joyron, I loved my time in Colchester, as did my hubby.
I thought the Essex thread was just light-hearted, sorry if you were unhappy with it.

Yogi you are probably right about the thread.  I just get a bit sensitive at times.

Squiggle, if you don't mind me asking, where in Essex were you born.  I was born in Heybridge, near Maldon.

I knew there must be some reason why we all get on!!!

I understand Joyron.

Signing out for the night.  Hope to catch up again tomorrow. 

Hi joyron, I will answer your question although you won't see it until tomorrow probably.  I was born in Rochford Hospital as my parents lived in Wickford.  Dad had moved us all out from the East End because of the bombing and I was born there.

Good morning everyone
What a beautiful rose, Squiggle.

Hi Yogi, hope you have a good day today  I love roses, you can almost smell that one can't you?

You can almost smell it, Squiggle. I love the smell of roses, carnations and freesias.
Sadly, so many flowers today don't have any scent.

Good morning Squiggle, Yogi and all my lovely Freddie friends.  I hope this finds you well today.

What a beautiful rose Squiggle.  I can smell it too.  I also love freesias.

It really is such a small world Squiggle.  I lived in Billericay for a few months just after we got married and my number one son travels to Basildon for his work each day.  Yogi I live about 9 miles from Colchester and worked there for many years before I became a lady of leisure!!  My husband's company is based in Colchester too.

Hope to catch up again later. 

I agree Yogi, the smell of roses, especially after its been raining and I love the smell of carnations. I don't understand why people are so snobby about carnations they are one of my most favourite flowers. Smells are so individual aren't they? I mean the ones they like, I used to walk past a coalyard on my way to school, I liked that smell, I love the smell of hot asphalt (I know I'm weird ) but carnations I can sniff and sniff. My garden also smells wonderful, especially in the rain because of the huge great conifers (about 40ft tall) - they are not leylandii! By the bye there is a green woodpecker right outside my window having a good rootle in my lawn, they are such funny birds, they do everything in a great rush, he has found a little hole now and is sticking his long beak down it!

Squiggle, I agree about the carnations. My late nana had green fingers and her garden was full of scented flowers. She had carnations on both sides of her path and I used to stand in the pathway, breathing in the beautiful scent. Now, when I smell carnations, it takes me back to my nana's garden.
I love the smell of warm tar, too. We have a lot in common.
I am jealous that you have a little woodpecker visiting your garden. I need to go walking in the woods to see any woodpeckers.

Yogi I had never even seen a woodpecker until we moved here.  Now we have 2 sorts that come regularly, I had never seen a long-tailed tit, and I even heard a cuckoo for the first time last year.  Its lovely.

Yogi do you like the smell of Stocks as well, they are one of the only cut flowers I buy because I love the smell.  I can't stand the smell of lilies though, they make me feel headachey.