stoice Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Went on a lovely walk from Dedham along the river to Flatford Mill (The scene where Constable painted The Hay Wain) with my friend and her two dogs. Lovely day. Random thing though was seeing Michael Portillo filming for the BBCs Great British Railway Journeys near Willy Lotts house. He was wearing a particularly gross salmon coloured blazer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Have been stood outside the front of our house clapping and cheering on walkers as they pass. We are at the 55.5 mile point of a total 85 mile race, to be completed in under 24 hours. It started in Douglas at 8am, the first walkers reached us from 5:15pm-ish. I feel very wussy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j00lz_12366 Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 We have been for a walk and we saw the tiniest frogs hopping across the path-they were no bigger than my little finger nail. We had to be really careful to not stand on them as they were quite hard to spot, they seemed to be going both ways across the path, didnt seem to be any one way that they were all going in..very odd! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Sounds like they should be on the thread 'what spooks you' There's been plenty of big ones in my garden. I went down friday night in the dark and rain and counted 9 on the lawn and path! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted June 26, 2011 Author Share Posted June 26, 2011 One of my sons is going to see Glee at the O2 arena today, but as he's a grown man we've been teasing him & so now he calls it 'going to watch rugby at the O2 arena'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Oh I would've loved to have gone to see Glee but none of my girls would come with me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 I know a few people that went yesterday, they said it was brilliant! i would have liked to have gone ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Oops hubby and I had a little misunderstanding about how short our sons hair should be! Still - it will grow again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 My son managed to time a trip to the barbers perfectly on Saturday, they had all closed. He was told by his head of year to 'get a haircut by Monday' it took them long enough to notice it is shoulder length we had our own Battle of Britain Memorial flypast 3 times in 5 minutes yesterday. I don't know if they were just practicing or where they were on route too, but it was fabulous, so low over our house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 They may have been going to the Armed Forces Day display near Ayelsbury - they had a fly past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Youngest daughter was sent home from school after vomiting in spectacular style. She's five and the weird thing with her is that most of the time when she pukes she gets no warning whatsoever, she's fine, she pukes, she's fine again So today she appeared normal in the dinner hall, puked all over the corridor enroute to returning her lunchbox to her class, then wanted to play outside There's a nasty pukey bug going around, loads of kids are off with it, so I'm wondering if she's got that. The school insists that "Ooops, word censored!"ody goes to school until 48 hours after they were last sick, her teacher is on strike on Thursday, so it looks as if she'll be at home with me until Friday She seems perfectly normal but I'm being careful about what she eats just incase..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted June 27, 2011 Author Share Posted June 27, 2011 I think I'm melting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallyChook Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 I think I'm melting its cool now in cheshire, but im still liquid round the edges... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 DS1 seems to have got food poisoning from a school canteen panini. He's still not well 3 days after eating it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Found out that the fly past was for a local primary school, someone must know someone influential I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Has had confirmed this evening what wonderful friends my ED has. They have been super supportive since she developed a condition called CRPS in her left heel first and now in her right ankle so can no longer walk (short term we hope). I had a call from one of the girls mum saying they wanted to nominate her to carry the Olympic torch when it goes through our city next year! I am so overwhelmed. I know there isn't a huge chance to actually get to do it, but to be thought of for nominations is wonderful. She knows nothing about this yet so I hope she sees it as a nice surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Aw how lovely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 That's a really nice thing to do - I'm sure she'll be thrilled to be nominated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 I took delivery of a Egg Skelter today A cream one to match my kitchen I even took it out of the box to show the Parcel Force delivery man He is interested in Omlet products since he delivered my Cube last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted June 28, 2011 Author Share Posted June 28, 2011 Although it's an odd little programme I am watching Dear Ladies. I was speaking to my MIL about it once & she said "it's a shame how they ended up", I asked what she meant and she said "well, dead". That conversation has become bit of a family joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 I am itching from touching something in the garden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I've had a super productive day today. Put a load of washing on and hung it out by 9.00 this morning. Took the pillows and cases off the bed and put them through the machine too, so they are now out on the line drying with the laundry. I got grossed out by an article I read in the Times last week which estimated that the weight of an average pillow is 1/3 dust mites (dead and live) and their droppings Hopefully they are nice and clean now - I'll be cleaning them regularly from now on! Then mid morning my new vacuum cleaner arrived, as my previous one had a recurrent fault which I got fed up of the manufacturer trying to (unsuccessfully) fix. So that has been assembled and the downstairs and stairs hoovered. Oh and in between all that, I have even managed to get some work done! (I work from home). What a boring, but satisfying day so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickpea Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Was wondering what thread to reply on as my first 'hello I'm back' and wanting to be involved in the forum kinda thing, without randomly appearing in someones post after so long, so here it is! Hello! And now I need to cycle off back down the plot to finish tackling a lovely muddle of couch grass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I read that article in The Times too Cracking tennis today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Just had a call from UK Immigration , the Spanish girl coming to stay with us hasn't got a letter from her family about the trip so they didn't know if her trip was legitimate. They are letting her through though, phew! Just hope the Isle of Man Immigration people (if there are any ) are ok. I would have thought the school arranging the trip would have known the need for a covering letter Welcome back, Chickpea *waves hello* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
