patsylabrador Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Well, did you know it's World Sauntering Day? Basically slow down and enjoy the moment. Good advice for London at the moment which feels like bit of a maelstrom. Everyone should just saunter even just for one day, they can get back to fighting and being idiots tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Now that's a day I feel I can join in with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Goodness, the summer solstice already! Where did the first half of the year go? Only another four weeks till the schools break up too. Where is my life dissapearing to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Went to Romania for a Zoo and Exotics conference last week and had a great time! The lectures were really interesting and made some contacts for possible placements in the future. It's an 8 hour drive from where we are in Slovakia and we almost cooked in the heat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 I'm guessing it's even more hot in central Europe. At least we have the advantage of being an island. What are people using to share photos on here now? I don't like photobucket and have an android phone. I love sharing photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Sorry Jude, posting pix is not my thing, hopefully somebody else (CatTails?) will be along, I love looking at other peoples Its Friday night and I am watching Glasto, all very relaxed, feeling younger than I actually am . The son of my BF is playing tonight on one of the myriad stages I've never heard of, I feel so pleased for him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat tails Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Did someone call? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 A photo I wanted to share from the Lake District. It looks so calm. I need to work out making it smaller though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Sorted. I loved this little family on lake Windermere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 I absolutely love the lines you've got in the first photo. The sloping lines of the hills, mirrored through the field and even onto the ripples of the lake. Its a really pleasing composition, and colour, with a bit of human interest and scale. I know if it was me I wouldn't have set out to capture things like that, but its a really pleasing picture Actually one of the reasons I like it so much is that the lines of the hills are so like around here in Portugal, but you've got the luscious green of the grass and the gunmetal of the water, whereas here we have a different green from pine trees and bright blue from the sky. So your photo reminds me of England; its remarkably calm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 Did anyone watch the Foo Fighters at Glastonbury last night? I used to go to Reading every year, but have never wanted to go to Glastonbury - until last night. That was SO good. Really wished I was there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 Bit embarrassed to say sleep overtook me! However, my BF's boy was over the moon when he discovered they were headliners as they are his favourite band. Not sure he is awake yet to ask about how it went I have to say, when its not pouring with rain, it does look the place to be. In my youth it never attracted me, but now its clear you can be a bit more genteel and there is so much variety of things to do/bands to see. A friend of mine was most put out when friends of hers who were performing said she couldn't go with them as she wouldn't be able to put up with the toilets! This is a woman who has lived and worked in the Sudan..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 I know someone who went with her son and had wipes for everything so didnt have to use showers I didnt know deodorant wipes existed - I am not sure I could use loos but as someone with a weak bladder when u gotta go.... Love the pic of the swan family Patsy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 Last time we went festivalling, we slept in the back of my van - I'm not one for rowdy campsite and a sea of pee. We had a chemical loo, borrowed from friends, and some jerrycans full of water for washing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 If we can park by our tent we take our chemical loo but we are off to a small festival this coming weekend with no parking on the tent field so I hope the loos are ok. We went to a good one last year with very clean porta loos and one where they were clean in the arena but the campsite just cycled the same water for the whole weekend and they were vile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 I'd love to go to a festival esp if folky but am not good with noise (bit of a drawback really then ) more at night when trying to sleep. I think its the Asperger's as ES is the same. Now, if I could have my own field.......... We used to camp in a big canvas tent doing Living History before children and I got through lots of wet wipes and ear plugs! Co-incidentally YS (9) is away from home for the very first time tonight camping at Hill End, Oxford with school (brave, brave teachers!) and the forecast for tomorrow is foul....have just slung an extra pair of trousers into his suitcase along with a hand towel.......and wet wipes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Well isn't this a world of coincidences, this morning my friend from the Sudan told me she was going to a festival in Gloucestershire somewhere with her daughter at the weekend, might be the same one as you CC She also said that she was completely not bothered about toilets.....but couldn't find her tent I will tell her that wet wipes are the way to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 This was my companion in the garden this afternoon. Having a lovely dustbath and he buzzed a sleeping chicken. Thank you Daphne for your comments. I hadn't even seen all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Well isn't this a world of coincidences, this morning my friend from the Sudan told me she was going to a festival in Gloucestershire somewhere with her daughter at the weekend, might be the same one as you CC She also said that she was completely not bothered about toilets.....but couldn't find her tent I will tell her that wet wipes are the way to go One tip for night time loo visits is to get a wide necked plastic bottle to use.... saves having to traipse through tents and navigate the sea of wee in the public loos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Good idea - I will pass that on too! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Love the bird photo patsylabrador My bird skills are usually quite good but I can't decide if it is a baby robin or a dunnock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Robin, Luvachick. We have a couple of breeding pairs here - latest batch of chicks have only hatched recently and the parents look so tatty now. Edited to add that's a lovely photo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Yes, it was quite funny. I was relaxing in the garden with my daughter and the robin was watching. Then it decided to sunbathe too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 I've just watched a pick up drive very slowly and noisily up the road (unusual, we get about 5 vehicles a day!) with a long yellow hosepipe trailing for about 30 feet behind it First I thought somebody was going to do something naughty with the communal water fountain (you aren't allowed to attach a hosepipe to it). However, eventually a man appeared walking past the window with a sprayer on the end of the hosepipe, killing off the weeds at the roadside, for fire prevention. I am assuming this man has walked the 5km up our high hillside doing this, good job its overcast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patsylabrador Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 This is one of my favourite London photos. We'd walked to the barrier and back again towards London. Had a pint in a pub that sold jellies eels, pie and mash all that stuff. Great day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
