Yawn Yawn Wakey Wakey 2025

Good morning to you all!

Dismal, but the radio tells me that there is sun on the horizon - just for today!! Yayyy.

Red lace dress @Obelix-Vendée Sounds hot. How about a photo? I am sure you enjoyed the dance, but we love to hear the newsy bits. Won't it be difficult @Liriodendron for your OH to sing with his cough? I hope you get the vaccination @Ladybird4 if you have a persistent cough.

Giblets are yum for Fizz too @Penny_Forthem - this week, she has enjoyed the chicken bodies and sinews that I boiled up for soup. Their claws and necks plus 4 mackerel heads (cooked) - and we're only Wednesday!! That's it for now. I don't like keeping stuff like that too long in the fridge.

I am posting this photo today that I have just received, as I thought it appropriate with what happened this weekend.

I wish you all a good mid-week day.

 

Good morning all. Thanks for your messages about my OH - yes, he would indeed find it difficult to sing with a cough, and has decided this morning that he will declare himself unfit for Thursday's concert. And unfortunately I woke up this morning with a sore throat and no voice, so that's me out too...

Yesterday at 8am the temperature was minus 2. Today at the same time it was 10.3 and rising! What strange weather... the warm night didn't tempt the hedgehogs out again, though their food wasn't wasted - the one-eyed vixen and a fat cat polished it off. It's definitely time to reinstate the hedgehog feeder, maybe with the addition of an external tunnel to deter the ninja cat, though not needed to keep out last night's weighty visitor, who is owned by neighbours and definitely not in need of extra food!

 

What a shame, @Liriodendron. I do hope you are recovered by Christmas.
Sounds like some spoilt pets out there, @Tui34 and @Penny_Forthem. There is a black and white cat who regularly comes to check out the badger / fox supper. He looks as if he is well fed at home, so I’ve no idea what is appealing about peanut butter sandwiches.
Last rubbish bin collection before Christmas yesterday. They are only collected every three weeks, which is perhaps why a big toad has taken up residence underneath the bin! We have to be extremely careful to check before wheeling the bin out. Sure enough, he/she was sitting underneath. I retrieved a piece of terracotta pipe which we had dug up from the garden, wedged it in the corner with a big stone, and ushered him into it. I hope he’ll get the hint, and shelter in there in future.

 

Good morning.
Really pleased to hear that my 17 year old grandson passed his driving test first time yesterday.
He's a sensible lad and doesn't drink so hopefully will be ok.

I'm slightly annoyed as it is raining and cold so I don't feel like gardening as planned. Might have to do H/w instead.

That is such a shame @Liriodendron, I'm sorry you have caught it too - inevitable I suppose when it's two of you in the house. Hope you both get better soon. My OH met his old colleagues yesterday for their annual Xmas pub get together in town, then came home on a bus crowded with schoolkids - if he goes down with a cold before Xmas I shall scream.

I can't stand toads or frogs for that matter @Ergates, hate the way they suddenly jump which is the main reason why I don't have a pond.

 

G'day. I really like that photo @Tui34. Dreadful events for all affected directly but worrying too for others. Time for reasonable, rational folk to show solidarity.

I'll try and take a photo of the frock later. It is, of course, completely see thru so I wore it over a white petticoat/under dress i'd made for a linen voile dress last spring. Pretty broderie anglaise border and just as well as salsa is very twirly. Dance classes were good fun but not everyone had got the red message and even the teacher forgot! OH's red Xmas silk tie was much admired - lots of Santas elves and the French don't do ties so were impressed. One of the couples we saw competing in September is doing the salsa class but haven't a clue about all the armography, hand changes and spins so goodness knows how they manage to learn other routines for their competing.

Xmas prep h*work today and OH has already started emptying clutter out of the living room and clearing surfaces ready for Xmas toppers. He's also carried the enormous Syngonium podophyllum upstairs to take way for the Xmas tree. It's gone bananas since I started watering it with my banana skin and orange peel solution. Normally it lives in the dining room but its space is needed by the Bird of Paradise which is flowering so needed bringing in from outside.

Possum thinks you can have too much greenery indoors but she hasn't seen those overwhelming indoor jungles featured on GW this year. She finds GW etc very boring but likes things like Traitors and The Aprrentice and Graham Norton which I loathe so I don't know where I went wrong. The first 2 are definitely OH's genes.

I'm sorry about your concert and sore throat @Liriodendron. So disappointing and frustrating. Odd weather here too. Supposed to be sunny spells but we have deep mist instead. Very murky and damp.

@Ergates I haven't seen any toads this year and not a lot of frogs so well done for helping yours. Our dogs loved peanut butter - rich, tasty fats and proteins for critters. Haven't tried it on our cats but I expect they'd like it too.

 

That really made me well up @Tui34 . Thank you for posting it, it sums up the whole situation and the response.
I have relatives in Oz, and visited Bondi many years ago.