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Feb 05, 2021 05:06PM
They all look healthy and full of character! You must be getting excited!
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cheeky bastid! my two know dinner doesn't happen if the dress code isn't met and approved!red or mauve? mauve or red? any leanings?
Tech XXIII wrote: "cheeky bastid! my two know dinner doesn't happen if the dress code isn't met and approved!red or mauve? mauve or red? any leanings?"
Not at the moment although Su is leaning slightly to red. We're going back to France on Thursday, covid test permitting. Then we have to isolate for seven days and have another covid test. The puppies swill be about six weeks old by then and we will be going to see them, and make our final decision.
Val wrote: "They all look healthy and full of character! You must be getting excited!"Very.
Animal situation not looking too bad at this end either. Looks like old Vlad The Maine Coon is finally seeking other lands to conquer. Only been putting in the odd cameo appearance over the last few days. Hardly see him at all. Suppose it could be down to the bitter cold mind, which could be keeping even a hard basket like him indoors. And it IS bloody cold. While clearing up our dawgs' droppings earlier I saw that some had frozen and... well it's put me off any future indulgence in chocolate ice cream! Must be said tho, it's a much less messy job when it's froze solid. Apart from those that have actually welded themselves to the concrete; they're a tad problematic...
... err, sorry people, maybe y'all coulda done without knowing that.
Blastronaut wrote: "Animal situation not looking too bad at this end either. Looks like old Vlad The Maine Coon is finally seeking other lands to conquer. Only been putting in the odd cameo appearance over the last fe..."Yes TMI, I think. The wind is really cold and picking up. Literally watching the gulls fly backwards!
Blastronaut wrote: "...Hardly see him at all.Suppose it could be down to the bitter cold mind, which could be keeping even a hard basket like him indoors. And it IS bloody cold..."
It's been retty chilly here too this winter, Blastro. It was still -16°C at 10am today in full sunshine. God knows what temp it got down to last night. I had quite a bit of ice on the insides of some of my windows. Brrrr. We have had thick snow (& ice) on the ground since Christmas time & no signs of it going anytime soon.
"dawgs' droppings"that's right, blastro, follow the science! did the same this a.m. - frosty weather is optimum time to pick up lux's logs (and the ocassional bobby jobby), and port them over the road to the keech bin!
it's weird, frosty but no snow - a satellite photo of scotland showed everywhere white except for ayrshire! mind you, they're probably filling the gritters with methadone.
"they're probably filling the gritters with methadone" - will they still be able to drive safely?
there's a driver?anyhoo, if i had a gritter, i'd call it 'A Salt And Scattery'
Tech XXIII wrote: "there's a driver?anyhoo, if i had a gritter, i'd call it 'A Salt And Scattery'"
That's an ice one.
Do they already have Gritter Thunberg?
Gordon wrote: "Do they already have Gritter Thunberg?"That Bitch got game.
My daughter gave birth today to a very little girl, 5lb 9oz. She has called her Nelly with Iris as her middle name. She wasn't due until the 21st, and my daughter Holly had an emergency cesarean as little Nelly hadn't grown for a while and they were worried that her blood pressure was high. Anyway both of them are fine which is the main thing, and I'm so proud and quite emotional at the same time. I've put her picture in my profile. Hopefully see them tomorrow but more likely see them on Saturday. Got to give her boyfriend David a mention too, as he's a really nice lad and will look after the both of them.On the subject of dog's, from Blastro's earlier post, I was working tonight at my local Lidl which closes at 10pm. We thought we had locked the doors, and bear in mind this was 10.30pm, until somebody over the radio said, "there's a dog in the store". It was an alsatian that charged about and barked a lot. It was only playing and not aggressive, though it did bite one of the managers on the lip. It charged up to me and put both its paws on my shoulder, I think it wanted a cuddle. Not going to lie, my heart was racing but it was just really hyper. Took a good 20 mins before the owner turned up, and still not sure what happened as we are situated on an industrial estate away from houses. Never a dull moment!
Ohhh WoW!!! ... I just thought that I'd bob in and try to catch up a bit ... and obviously couldn't have picked a better or a more wonderful time to do so than right now!!! ;o>Congratulations to Holly & David! - and Congratulations to you as well, Nick, on the safe arrival of your beautiful little Grand-daughter! ... x x x
Welcome to the World, little one ;o> ...
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Ohhh WoW!!! ... I just thought that I'd bob in and try to catch up a bit ... and obviously couldn't have picked a better or a more wonderful time to do so than right now!!! ;o>Congratulations to ..."
Ah, thanks Suzy. :-) I know it's late and I am knackered but I'm still buzzing!
I'm not at all surprised! - after-all it's not every day that you suddenly gain such an incredibly precious and perfect addition to the family, is it?!! - LOL!!! ;o>I'm raising a Mug of Hot Chocolate to Nelly Iris as I type! ... x x x
TheFoe wrote: "My daughter gave birth today to a very little girl, 5lb 9oz. She has called her Nelly with Iris as her middle name. She wasn't due until the 21st, and my daughter Holly had an emergency cesarean as..."Congratulations Nick..and to the proud parents. She's a cutie! :)
congratulations, Grandpa Broon!
Much happiness! Little girls are lovely.
Thanks a lot guys. :-) Suffering this morning with a hangover from hell, but they're hopefully coming home today, which is handy as I've got the day off.
Lovely little girl and sweet names! Congratulations!
TheFoe wrote: "My daughter gave birth today to a very little girl, 5lb 9oz. She has called her Nelly with Iris as her middle name. She wasn't due until the 21st, and my daughter Holly had an emergency cesarean as..."Congrats, Grandpa Foe. Glad mum & baby ok.
Congrats to the happy pair. Glad everything went well!
Thanks again! They came home early evening and are both doing really well, so pleased. :-)
Just in time to celebrate Nelly's Birth AND the Chinese New Year with a Takeaway ;o>
Welcome Nelly Iris,congratulations Holly and David and to grandpa Foe.
It's the start of Chinese New Year - the Year of the Ox - so we have 'celebrated' it with a Chinese Takeaway after watching the Dragon Dance up and down our Road thanks to our lovely local Takeaway who decided to bring the Dance all the way up and down four of our Main Roads and also down a lot of the Side Roads as well this year ;o>We usually go down to see it dance around the Village Centre every year - but we missed seeing it last year - so it was a lovely gesture to see them come and perform in several Roads worked out based around the Home Addresses of a lot of their regular Customers so that we could still get to watch it while under Lock-down this year ;o>
We also even got a little Goody Bag containing three tiny Moon Cakes and a Fortune Cookie each as well! ;o>
As Valentine's Day is on Sunday, the usual extra large Hand-tied Bouquet of Seasonal Flowers will be delivered to M&D on my behalf tomorrow. Mum and me don't ever order any standard kinds of Christmas or Valentine's Day Bouquets as we aren't keen on Bouquets that mostly, or completely, consist of red colours of any Flowers ... we prefer a mix of bright, bold and vibrant colours - and, if our Florists have got anything really unusual in, they always make sure to include a stem or two because they know just how much we both appreciate anything unique to the Season or a bit different ;o>
Then on Tuesday it will be Pancake Day! ... and so it would seem that good things really do sometimes come in threes! - LOL!!! ;o>
(Fours even! - if I include hearing such good news from Nick! ;o>)
Good news Foe, greetings from Leitrim! '0)
TheFoe wrote: "My daughter gave birth today to a very little girl, 5lb 9oz. She has called her Nelly with Iris as her middle name. She wasn't due until the 21st, and my daughter Holly had an emergency cesarean as..."5/9? Ah bless her. Jay had to have an emergency C-section with our daughter so I know of the trials of such an ordeal, only with us it was a case of baby not wanting to come out at all rather than before time. Typical female, our Faye - not putting in an appearance in until she wuz good n ready. : )
Mucho congratulations m'friend.
EDITED 15/2/21
Nice to see you on the forum again Suze. How ya doing m'dear?
Isabella/Helen - to top off these lovely summery temperatures that we're having, our abode's heating has now decided to give it up. Haven't even had a promise that they'll be out today to sort it out either. One of the many probs that come with being humble council tenants - they'll get it sorted... but only when it suits em.
Tech - if they filled the gritters up with meth around here it'd probably triple the going rate for a gritter. And go they would. : )
Blastronaut wrote: "Nice to see you on the forum again Suze. How ya doing m'dear?"I've managed to make it up and down the Stairs twice today! And am aiming for having a third go at it sometime around Tea-time ;o>
Exciting times, hey?!! - LOL!!! ;o>
Blastronaut wrote: "Isabella/Helen - to top off these lovely summery temperatures that we're having, our abode's heating has now decided to give it up. Haven't even had a promise that they'll be out today to sort it o..."Awww, no?!! ... I hope you all manage to keep warm?!! ;oO
glad to see you back on here Suzy,Good that you're on the move again.Thsnks for the reminder about pancake Day.ill get the beasties to work on pancakes.We are on half term next week and I have Thursday and Friday off.No home schooling .yippee.
😀😀 The trouble is not really the actual work or getting her to do it ,it's that you have a wild four year old bouncing off the walls who certainly doesn't want to try a bit of writing himself.
Here's an interesting idea for a Lesson Plan, Anita?!! ;o> ...
Blastronaut wrote: "TheFoe wrote: "My daughter gave birth today to a very little girl, 5lb 9oz. She has called her Nelly with Iris as her middle name. She wasn't due until the 21st, and my daughter Holly had an emerge..."Not just girls Blastro...i was born two weeks late! Me mum was so relieved when i finally 'decided' to make an appearance, as apparently i was keeping her up at night playing tummy footy! :)
Most played sport in the tummy stadiums around the world is that Duke. Our daughter wanted to come into the world a tad on the early side but when it got down to the push n shove, she decided that a change of plan was in order. Refused to tuck her head in so she kept stopping up against J's pelvis instead of straight through and out. Ordeal n a half that day. Bad enough for me n'mind J! : )When they brought in the epidural I was like "Hmm, I seem to've run out of ciggies, I'm off to the shop" - I mean have ya seen the size of those things? Ya could send folk to the moon on one of those bloody things!!
Ooooooooooooooh Blastro?!! - ya big wuss!!! ... (*giggles*) ... ;o>You were only just looking at it! Poor J was the one who was getting it!!! ;oO
Y'know Suze, that's exactly what our next door neighbour said when I told her of my... well OUR, ordeal when I returned home that evening... I mean I had to go home and get some rest, I'd been through a lot! : )In my defence I really had run outta ciggies. And that needle was the biggest I ever saw,. But yes, I'm afraid to say that I bottled it there. I did return tho.... when the screaming had reduced to the level of, say, a Motorhead gig.
It seems I only wrote half a post to Foe t'other day. It is now edited, for the sakes of anyone confused, that be including meself. Dunno what happened but I will state for the jury, I was NOT under the influence of any illegal substances or even so much as a drop of alcohol. I'm just a tad broken and it often shows, is all.
I prefer to believe that some of us have lives like Shooting Stars ;o>We may be badly damaged, and sometimes we may even feel like we have become broken beyond all fixing, but nevertheless - we can still get to shine brightly by giving out the most of ourselves and, by doing so, we can still get to light up our lives and the lives of all of our loved ones in the very best and most beautiful ways imaginable.
You're not broken to me, Blastro - you're a Shooting Star ... x ;o>
Sorry for not replying sooner to the wellwishers on here, but thanks a lot I am so proud! :-) Blastro if you're reading this I have meant to e-mail you for a long while, and can only apologise, as I am really rubbish at e-mailing people back. Will get in touch with you this week as I'm on holiday and will definitely have time.
A tortoise goes up a dark alleyway and is mugged by a gang of snails. When the police arrived they interviewed the tortoise and asked what he could tell them about the attack. 'I don't know,' said the tortoise. 'It all happened so fast!'***************
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