Colin
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Hi,
Thanks marlingardener. You are so right about weather forecasters; I'm sure ours would get it wrong if they were actually standing outside in a cloudburst.
They do say there are only two types of people; those living in Yorkshire and those wishing to live in Yorkshire; I'm Yorkshire born and bred from a very long Yorkshire family. Yorkshire (the largest county in England) is an absolutely beautiful place to live in spite of the dire weather and although I'll constantly bemoan our weather I'll never bemoan my birthplace. During our two day long summer Yorkshire is heaven on earth; the rolling hills; the smell of lush countryside; a gentle breeze coming up our valley; birds dawn chorus; squirrels playing in the garden; it's just the other 363 days each year with weather spoiling it. I've never been abroad and never want to; I love our bit of Yorkshire and neither Bron nor I feel the need to run away from it.
Blackie as usual is here and everything outside is soaking wet; our neighbours cat Max arrived at 6 o'clock this morning covered in sparkling diamonds so Bron dried him off with a towel then we both made a fuss of him; our neighbour is in Spain on holiday so every time we open our door a furry missile flies in; we love him though and he's most welcome.
Thanks alp; Bron never hangs washing out to dry but uses our tumble drier the year round; on the few days washing could be hung out birds do bombing runs from all our trees they also bomb the car especially after I've spent a couple of hours cleaning and polishing it; we spend a fortune on feeding the wildlife and this is the thanks we receive.
There is so much wrong in the UK these days as you refer to alp; footballers now paid £millions for kicking a ball around and if they actually score a goal they pull their shirt over their head; you couldn't pay me to watch football or any so called sport; people live in dumps whilst spending to make these sports personalities rich; our money is for our benefit not theirs. We don't touch alcohol either; most of our local pubs have now closed but we used to see the pubs being refurbished and wondered who actually paid for the work? I don't want to open a political debate because it would be wrong of me but so much does stink in the UK these days and it's getting worse. The UK in general though still has much in its favour; Bron and I have our own little bit of Yorkshire fully paid for through hard graft and we'll be happy to hang on to it.
It's taken ages to type this post because of our little guest wanting lots of TLC and to make typing rather more difficult he jumped onto my lap as seen in the picture below; I'm pretty sure Max can also email because he is forever walking across our neighbours keyboard.
Two new security cameras and an outside waterproof double 13A socket arrived yesterday but I'm undecided whether I really do need watering again?
Kind regards, Colin.
Thanks marlingardener. You are so right about weather forecasters; I'm sure ours would get it wrong if they were actually standing outside in a cloudburst.
They do say there are only two types of people; those living in Yorkshire and those wishing to live in Yorkshire; I'm Yorkshire born and bred from a very long Yorkshire family. Yorkshire (the largest county in England) is an absolutely beautiful place to live in spite of the dire weather and although I'll constantly bemoan our weather I'll never bemoan my birthplace. During our two day long summer Yorkshire is heaven on earth; the rolling hills; the smell of lush countryside; a gentle breeze coming up our valley; birds dawn chorus; squirrels playing in the garden; it's just the other 363 days each year with weather spoiling it. I've never been abroad and never want to; I love our bit of Yorkshire and neither Bron nor I feel the need to run away from it. Blackie as usual is here and everything outside is soaking wet; our neighbours cat Max arrived at 6 o'clock this morning covered in sparkling diamonds so Bron dried him off with a towel then we both made a fuss of him; our neighbour is in Spain on holiday so every time we open our door a furry missile flies in; we love him though and he's most welcome.
Thanks alp; Bron never hangs washing out to dry but uses our tumble drier the year round; on the few days washing could be hung out birds do bombing runs from all our trees they also bomb the car especially after I've spent a couple of hours cleaning and polishing it; we spend a fortune on feeding the wildlife and this is the thanks we receive.
There is so much wrong in the UK these days as you refer to alp; footballers now paid £millions for kicking a ball around and if they actually score a goal they pull their shirt over their head; you couldn't pay me to watch football or any so called sport; people live in dumps whilst spending to make these sports personalities rich; our money is for our benefit not theirs. We don't touch alcohol either; most of our local pubs have now closed but we used to see the pubs being refurbished and wondered who actually paid for the work? I don't want to open a political debate because it would be wrong of me but so much does stink in the UK these days and it's getting worse. The UK in general though still has much in its favour; Bron and I have our own little bit of Yorkshire fully paid for through hard graft and we'll be happy to hang on to it.
It's taken ages to type this post because of our little guest wanting lots of TLC and to make typing rather more difficult he jumped onto my lap as seen in the picture below; I'm pretty sure Max can also email because he is forever walking across our neighbours keyboard.
Two new security cameras and an outside waterproof double 13A socket arrived yesterday but I'm undecided whether I really do need watering again?
Kind regards, Colin.
