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She's a train planner working out of Manchester so she'll have a fun day tomorrow!
The younger little miss was in Manchester yesterday and got home to Shrewsbury on the 18:31 without any problems. The water must have accumulated overnight and today. We've only had drizzle here today.
Yes, it started raining really heavily here at around Tea-time yesterday and has rained pretty much non-stop ever since then. We are very lucky and should be okay here but we still often get made Village-bound by all of the main Roads being closed in the surrounding Villages who do suffer from severe flooding.
Saw this on Facebook this morning and it's stayed with me all day long ...
The rain has stopped and, for one day only (according to the weather forecast), the sun is back :)
We have a garden full of kamikaze Starlings - for some reason, they keep flying into every widow and door that overlooks the back garden, and I've just heard one fly into the glazed door on the shed!
In the past hour about seven or eight of them have done this, unless it is just the one very short-sighted Starling.
We have a garden full of kamikaze Starlings - for some reason, they keep flying into every widow and door that overlooks the back garden, and I've just heard one fly into the glazed door on the shed!
In the past hour about seven or eight of them have done this, unless it is just the one very short-sighted Starling.
It's really strange, I very rarely get any birds at the front of the house but at precisely this time of year for a couple of weeks, a gang of spadgers arrives on the cotoneaster bush (no berries yet) and thence into the front windows! No disasters so far but I hate the noise. Must be some special bugs available.
We get absolutely loads of Sparrows in both the front and back garden and even if you can't see them, you can hear them chattering away (in between the Starlings squabbling with each other) in the trees and bushes. I quite often see them clinging onto the brickwork of the house, obviously picking away at some tasty morsel they have found there :)
All I have at the moment are 2 plump pigeons sat on my fence. Yesterday they made a right racket, I didn't know if they were fighting or humping!
It'll be humping. Pigeons are peaceful birds but always up for a bit of humping, any time of year, that's why there are so bloody many of them 🙄
Lez wrote: "It'll be humping. Pigeons are peaceful birds but always up for a bit of humping, any time of year, that's why there are so bloody many of them 🙄"That would explain the post- coital cigarettes I suppose. ;-)
'tis odd how folks still use that well used phrase in deference to the 'after intercourse' habit. With the numbers of smokers declining every year, recent gov. stats showing the estimated numbers of smokers to be fewer than 1 in 6 adults today; plus, the UK goverment recently published a green paper on a proposed banning of the sale of tobacco products by 2030, effectively ending legalised smoking in the UK..this phrase 'post coital cigarette' will soon be outmoded.
I guess we should start saying..."post coital vape". Or how about "Post coital nicotine replacement product"? Or even...perhaps immediately after such a ban...most forced ex smokers, who still enjoy romantic relations..will simply resort to a "Post coital cold turkey"! But that just sounds weird!
Going cold turkey in bed? Sounds kinky! And that's just not British! Or perraps..one might feel peckish after a steamy bedroom session, and fancies a turkey sandwich afterwards! :-)
And while i'm on the subject...one nevers hears of a "Post coital cigar", do we? Or even a "Post coital pipe"?...a "Post coital Hookah (no..not that kind!), or a "Post coital snuff".....It's always a cigarette, isn't it?! ;-)
And speaking of odd phrases, there are some odd ones in common use, that i've often wondered about too. Take this one; "Into thin air" Why it's always thin air? Why can't it be "Fat air", or "Slightly chubby air" or ..."Mostly fit, but could stand to lose a few pounds air?!"
It's late....i'm on me own..me mind is in that kind of analytical frameset...gee..i really need a girlfriend! :)
Hmmm? ... yeah! - right! ;o>Please send any answers to all that to ... 'Mr Lonely Hearts of West Wales'
Applicants should be over 6 foot tall, into Dark Chocolate Bounty Bars, and like hanging out in homemade Man Caves whilst listening to Psychedelic Rock played at full blast ...
Did you know it's 'International Friendship Day' today? ...Hiyah Val! ... x x x ... ;o>
Well, this is how a couple of A Roads that are very near to us looked like yesterday and parts of them are still closed today and will remain closed for at least a couple more days ... and we are apparently set for yet more heavy rainfall at some point today and for it to carry on into tomorrow.
And my Hair appointment has just been cancelled for tomorrow - as the Salon was flooded out very early yesterday morning by a mini tidal wave of over two feet of water ;oO
Still it could be worse?! ... the Y Club Gym in Castlefield has managed with the Staff working non-stop in team shifts around the Clock since Sunday to get the water levels inside the Building down to around 5 inches now - but they currently have a contaminated Swimming Pool that also contains Fish swimming around in it from the nearby Canal Basin!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Did you know it's 'International Friendship Day' today? ...Hiyah Val! ... x x x ... ;o>"
Hiyah Suzy. Your weather is weird. Reasonably consistent here. No rain here today or tomorrow but it's going to be a cold night. 4 degrees. I spent the day gardening - removing three large roses from the pots they have been inhabiting for many years now at the back of the house, then digging holes for them in the front garden and planting them. Consequently I am very bone weary but still proud to have got it done. I thought just getting one out of the pot would be all I'd achieve today so am very proud to have done all three. I suspect I'll be taking it very easy tomorrow.
It is all rather weird, Val, as I could easily count on just the one Hand how many times any of the Villages around here have experienced any really serious kinds of flooding over my 51 year lifetime until about 10 years ago - and now we are experiencing quite massive Floods, and not just once a year either, but at least twice and sometimes up to 4 times a year now? ;oOThe main reason for the Roads though is that the powers-that-be built several A Roads and Bypasses (including a rather essential but extremely expensive A555/Manchester Airport Eastern Link Road) across a well-known Flood Plain areas with Streams, Ponds, and several Canals alongside it ... BUT the daft dipsticks didn't invest any time, effort or money at all into building any absolutely essential Drainage System into the Roads as they were being built?!!
It only needs to rain very heavily for a couple of days and they almost immediately get as much as 3 to 4 foot of water in various low-lying areas of the Roads - and they become unusable and dangerous and have to be closed for days at a time while Emergency Services work all around the Clock in pumping them clear again! And they can't afford to retrospectively try to put Drainage Systems in place so we are now left stuck with this soggy situation for the foreseeable future.
This was the Fire Crew carrying out the Emergency Rescue of a Driver of a Tipper Truck on the Airport Link Road close by the next Village to us yesterday afternoon. The Fire Service said the water was estimated to be one metre deep and so two Swift Water Raft Operatives used a Raft to get to the Driver to assess his welfare and they also called for Paramedics to attend as a precaution. The Driver chose to remain in his Cab to steer the Truck while the Emergency Crews assisted with the recovery ...
And this is an abandoned Car which was found floating in the water which flooded the A34 bypass between Alderley Edge and Nether Alderley at Lunch-time yesterday only just a few miles away from us ...
Val wrote: "Consequently I am very bone weary but still proud to have got it done. I thought just getting one out of the pot would be all I'd achieve today so am very proud to have done all three. I suspect I'll be taking it very easy tomorrow"Ohhh well done, Val! - you definitely deserve Tea and Cakes now as a special reward for all of your hard work ;o>
Got back to work today after a week or so off to find an industrial dehumidifier in my office, two carpet tiles lifted and several others stained. Evidently the roof failed to keep out last week's rain.
It's been raining heavily for the last half hour and showing no signs of letting up.I'm thinking about buying me and the Girls one of these for the Back Garden ;o> ...
Or maybe one of these? ;o> ...
A couple of miles down the road from us on the river is a lifeboat - shall I start it on it's way up to you? :)
I'm still waiting for some rain to come...it's been nearly two months now...even the individual blades of grass are cracking up!This is Wales for goodness sake...it's supposed to be rainy country!
You'll have to do a rain dance, Duke :)
do you know the words to go with it, GG?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zOWG..."DON'T PLAY IT TOO LOUD OVER THERE IN WALES!!!" ;oO
Our Back Garden is already under a couple of inches of water in places and the Birds are currently all practicising learning how to Water-Ski on it! ;o>
Grizzlygrump wrote: "A couple of miles down the road from us on the river is a lifeboat - shall I start it on it's way up to you? :)"Just a Lifeboat?!! - what about some Emergency Cake supplies?!! ;oO
OHHH YES! ... all of my beautiful brand new Mattress & Pillow Protectors and Duvets from Soak & Sleep have just been delivered - YAYYY!!! ;o>I absolutely LOVE their wonderful Protectors and their amazing All Seasons 13.5 Tog (4.5 + 9.0 Tog) Soft Hollowfibre Duvets ... I've had most of mine for many years now and they all still look like new and they always wash and dry so beautifully every time. The quality is simply in a class all of it's own and I wouldn't ever even think of buying any Protectors or Duvets from anywhere else.
The Black Friday in July Sale last weekend, plus a Warehouse Clearance Sale as well, has helped to save me almost £45(!) on my Order of Bedding for the new Gas Lift Ottoman Bed that we have just had installed in the Spare Bedroom ;o>
Oooh, I just love seeing things come together and work out so well!
Well, the Painted lady butterflies have finally made it to the Highlands! Spotted my first one on Monday.
WoW?!! - they certainly picked a terrible time weather-wise, Helen! ;oOI hope they stay well away from the torrential rainfall that we are having here in the North West.
The weather is ok up here, still hot but cloudy today, last few days have been very sunny & still 20°C+. I think there is another storm forecast for later on today but we're not getting too much rain.
It's still very warm here - it's stayed at around 21 to 23 most of the time over the last few days despite all of the rain and has only suddenly dropped for about an hour or so to around 15 to 18 whenever the rain has been torrentially bucketing it down between slightly lighter bouts of ongoing rainfall. The noise of the rain is SO loud that Mitz keeps panicking and hiding or demanding cuddles as she is convinced that Thunder and Lightening will also be starting soon.Half of the Back Garden is entirely submerged under water now and we have got tiny tidal waves of water about 3 inches deep rippling and swirling all around the Rockery at the bottom - LOL!!! ;o>
We have got a Daddy Long Legs on the Landing Windowsill ... (*shudder*) ... and it's been there since Sunday! I'd love to get rid of it by releasing it into the Garden but it feels cruel to do so with all of this relentless rain and so I am opting for trying my best to completely ignore it instead and pretend that it simply isn't there!If it so much as dares to move from there though - then I will be showing it absolutely NO mercy whatsoever! ;oO
Poor Yorkshire is having a truly terrible time of it!!! ;oO ...
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suzysunshine7 wrote: "Grizzlygrump wrote: "A couple of miles down the road from us on the river is a lifeboat - shall I start it on it's way up to you? :)"
Just a Lifeboat?!! - what about some Emergency Cake supplies?!..."
For all I know, it could be stuffed full of emergency cakes - I haven't peered through the portholes to see :)
Just a Lifeboat?!! - what about some Emergency Cake supplies?!..."
For all I know, it could be stuffed full of emergency cakes - I haven't peered through the portholes to see :)
theDuke wrote: "do you know the words to go with it, GG?"
I don't know the words but I can hum the tune :)
I don't know the words but I can hum the tune :)
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Poor Yorkshire is having a truly terrible time of it!!! ;oO ...https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti......"
I'm glad we left Yorkshire on Monday:-)
suzysunshine7 wrote: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zOWG..."DON'T PLAY IT TOO LOUD OVER THERE IN WALES!!!" ;oO
Our Back Garden is already under a couple of inches of water in places and the Birds are currently ..."
Well...it hasn't worked...the sun is still bloody shining.....how can clouds completely miss my bit of Wales, when this so called thunder storm came from the Altantic.....what blerdy thunderstorm??!!
Helen The Melon wrote: "Well, the Painted lady butterflies have finally made it to the Highlands! Spotted my first one on Monday."There are female butterflies that paint themselves, Lez?! Only in Scotland!! ;-)
Grizzlygrump wrote: "theDuke wrote: "do you know the words to go with it, GG?"I don't know the words but I can hum the tune :)"
Well could see your way to trying to 'hum' some the wet stuff my way...gee...we really could do with some! :)
Derek wrote: "I'm glad we left Yorkshire on Monday:-)"That certainly was great timing indeed, Derek!
I can't look at the Pictures anymore - my Heart just keeps on going out to every person and every animal who has been affected by such a shocking situation. Some poor folk have lost pretty much everything they own ;o<
theDuke wrote: "Well...it hasn't worked...the sun is still bloody shining.....how can clouds completely miss my bit of Wales, when this so called thunder storm came from the Altantic.....what blerdy thunderstorm??!!"There's been no Thunder here just continual rain - and although we are in no danger of flooding right where we live, several of the surrounding Villages and almost all of our main Roads for miles around haven't been quite so lucky ;o<
And, to be honest, it is actually rather un-nerving having it just endlessly keeping on with days and nights of raining ... and raining ... and raining ... and knowing that this is only really just the start of now getting to see close-up the truly terrible effects of Climate Change in action!
I'm SO very grateful for a dry Home, a Roof over my Head, and having all of my loved ones safe and with me tonight ... x
theDuke wrote: "Helen The Melon wrote: "Well, the Painted lady butterflies have finally made it to the Highlands! Spotted my first one on Monday."There are female butterflies that paint themselves, Lez?! Only in..."
It wasn't a Post from Lez, Duke? - it was a Post from Helen! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "theDuke wrote: "Helen The Melon wrote: "Well, the Painted lady butterflies have finally made it to the Highlands! Spotted my first one on Monday."There are female butterflies that paint themselve..."
Ah buggeration! I've already been to Specsavers..just forgot to put my readers on! Sorry Helen! :)
I've had a rather wonderful day with the Magnificent Moo today ;o>As you all know, she is always giving us back-chat and greatly enjoys muttering away to herself and to Tee as well - and whenever M&D go out and come back they get such a loud long and extremely indignant mouthful off her if they don't also take her and Tee with them!
She often says "Eh-Ohhh" ("Hello!") and so I've recently been actively trying to teach her to say "Ow-do?" ("How do?") as well - as I feel she really ought to know 'a bit of Yorkshire' as she and Tee were originally born in Barnsley before we came across them at 4 weeks old - on the very day that they were transferred over to the Puppy Unit at Chesterfield RSPCA.
She has always listened politely and intently to me but still resolutely chosen to refuse to respond ... preferring instead to only say whatever it is that she wants to say and whenever she wants to say it - LOL!!!
So you can probably imagine my absolute delight and amazement when I heard her wandering into the Kitchen, while I was brewing up and my Back was turned to her, and just after I yawned and said "Morning Mitz" ... I was SO surprised to suddenly get a quiet yet clearly spoken ... "Eh-Ohhh! - Ow-do?" in reply! ;oO
I spun around, laughing out loud, and could swear that she actually winked at me as she ever-so-nonchalantly turned on her Heels and sauntered past me out the Door!!! ... and then I also heard her in the Lounge asking M&D as well ... "Ow-do?" ... !
Well, I finally finished refurbishing the newly decorated and carpeted Spare Room yesterday afternoon ... and at 2am this morning a lovely elderly couple from Poynton turned up and have temporarily moved in with us! ;o>Howzat for absolutely perfect timing, hey?!! - LOL!!!
It's almost as if you were expecting company :)
I'm guessing that you have yourselves some flood refugees?
I'm guessing that you have yourselves some flood refugees?
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