[linus]

sorry girls but a wee short quickie from me too !!! been in the garden all day trying to tame the jungle ,andy and craig did most of the work i picked up grass and emptyed the bucket well they shout at me everytime i do anything else but we now sort of have a lawn , andy has promised to show me how to resize my pics so i can send you all some photos ,the usual before and after shots sort of thing but you might have to wait a few years for the finaly looks like a garden shots anyway time for the bath and tv routine so im off bye for now
lots of love
kirsty+bump

[Shad]

Yep well definitely not OP this weekend. Last nights dinner turned into a feast - both of Rugby and food. We danced our way through the courses and the games and the resultant scale watch this morning is not pretty. Lots of water, lots of movement and lots of good things for the body today.

The Brits here (unfortunately we couldn't find any Irish) were a tad quiet towards the end of the game. Would have been a better game without the French referee, not that he did anything bad, but he certainly gave the pea in the whistle a good workout. And I was delighted to see that apart from the usual pushing and pulling, there was no fighting or violence in the game. I deplore violence in what is supposed to be 'sport'. I've even been known to put pen to paper (actually fingers to keyboard) if there is too much violence in sport. It gives a bad name to the game, whichever game it is, and sets a really bad example to the young. Not that many of them need an excuse really.

Anyway, we didn't get the rhubarb crumble for dessert, simply because I could get any rhubarb. None in the shops and we can't grow it up here. It's a temperate to cold weather plant. However the rest of the meal went down well. Judging by the number of bones piled up for the cat!!??? it was appreciated. Cat by the way only picks at bones once in a while, I will have to go rescue the bones before they are swarming with ants. A few bottles out there in the rose garden as well. No doubt it was too thorny to try to pick them up!

So today it is back to the painting, sanding and chipping of tiles off the floor. Only 7 more to go of those. I really should have hired a jack hammer but it seemed like such a small area to go to those lengths. Maybe mow the lawn as well. Lets just see how the day pans out. Siesta might be fun too.

Good to hear from you Teel. I was about to put the feelers out for you this morning then checked the time and thought - um no, I'll not do that again. You should have been in bed long since.

Linus, don't wear yourself out on the garden. Hey, you will have lots of time when bump metamorphisises (not sure of my spelling here) and you can sit in the garden together and pull the weeds and plan the next years Edinburgh Flower Show. Such fun setting up a new garden. Is it big - long and skinny like I see on the British Ground Force shows???

YP1 good to see you back. I really envy your tripping around the continent. We are so far away from most places that it takes hours and hours to get anywhere (9 to Singapore and 13 to LA). Can't go there for the weekend. I was just thinking after your Greece trip that the time it took you to fly to Greece was the same amount of time it takes me to fly to Cairns and I'm not even out of the Queensland State!!!!

Have a good day everyone. I'm off to enjoy my Sunday now. I'll be back later to start a new thread. Think I have the front and backyards about right now.

[Meadow]

Holly-I found this quote for you "There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder."
~ J.W. Curran, The Canadian Wildlife Almanac, 1981
Be careful on that thing!

Mel-Did those dirty articles sort themselves out, or are they still laying around making work for you? Get wet and use plenty of soap you limp fabrics you

Shad-sounds like your evening was energetic and fun!

Teel-Hey good to catch up with you, I hope your visit with Linus is a blast and you two get lots of nattering time in

Linus-so are you getting the yard ready for all those lovely evenings Teel and yourself will be spending outdoors enjoying the air and each other's company? Take it easy now, let the guys do all the heavy stuff.

YP-Hello happy wanderer! I hope you have an excellent trip and fingers crossed the gym clothes do get out of the case and you come home fitter and with a big grin on your face.

Nae-I hope your sons appreciate your efforts to connect with them on an adult level. It can't be easy for you but I hope you get a good response, maybe a few details about their lives written back

Our barbecue was attacked by Mother Nature last night. It was a beautiful sunny evening and just as my husband took the last of the hamburgers off the grill a black rain cloud drifted over, dumped a deluge for five minutes and drifted off and it was sunny again... but in that short period of wet the glass blew out of the barbecue like a bomb! Good thing the kids were inside eating their dinner. The entire front of the barbecue is gone and glass everywhere inside and out. We need a new barbecue now just when we started using it again

[Shad]

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