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The Compers Inn (part 49)

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  • 203846930
    203846930 Posts: 4,708 Forumite
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    Good Morning
    Snow flurries here this morning after the burning sun, thunder and hailstones of yesterday, it's some crazy weather at the moment.
    The Hub exchange went well yesterday and the new one seems to be working OK, we had a good 6 mile walk while we were in Kirkcaldy, saw lots of wildlife and some wonderful wood carvings as well.
    Shops today then a wait in for a Freegler to arrive to collect some stuff, she has been before so hopeful that she will be on time again this time so that I don't miss out on any walks.
    Must also remember to take Dad out to vote later.
    Take Care
  • indie
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    Morning
    I hope you worked out what to do on the mag dailies  Genie, good luck with the comps.
    I always have at least 2 weeks supply of meds when I go to collect my new script Duncan, I run out once and learnt my lesson as normal painkillers didn't work. Glad the hub is working for your dad and you got your long walk as well.
    I have an afternoon to myself today as DS and hid GF are both working today. It's my DS's last day at his 2nd job today as he gave his notice last week, he was going to leave in October but was fed up with customers threatening him over stupid things like a £2.00 lottery ticket. So he is leaving early. His manager asked if he could do anything to keep him as he was a doer where the other staff are lazy but his mind was made up and the cinema opens up this month so he will open the hours up there. He has also enrolled on a course at night school once a week to work as a counsellor, that's a year thing. It will be the beginning of 4 years of studying if he likes it but that is what the first year is about. To see if he likes it and decide who he wants to work with.
    The lockdown has been a pain but for many people, it has given them the opportunity to change careers so it's not all bad
    I hope you all have a good day
    Stay safe

  • leanfun30
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    Morning.  Wow to the weather this week Duncan. Sounds like all weathers in one day your way yesterday.  Hope that’s the end of the snow.    Sounds as though you had a good day in Kirkcaldy yesterday great new hub works.  We were lucky with voting no one there at school pickup time so that was great.  
    Indie so pleased to hear your DS has been able to use the lockdown time to think about a different direction career wise.  Sounds as though there are a lot of angry people out there to be threatening in the shops.   I saw cinemas are opening again soon.  Good luck to him.  
    FireFly thanks for the fairy dust I’ve won a book over on Twitter.   So luck has been changing.
    Take care.

  • indie
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    Morning, it's sunny and dry out there today. Charlie and Obi are both asleep on the rug at the moment after having an early start and winding each other and me up. Obi is like a naughty kid that touches things he shouldn't, but looks at you as he does it,lol
    I have nothing planned today other than some gardening if the weather stays dry.
    Hope you all have a good day
    Stay safe
  • fire**fly
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    morning, yay well done on the win leanfun  always good to hear/see people winning  :)
    sounds a great walk yesterday duncan,  
    sunny here but a cold wind, our little birds seem to have doubled in numbers here, no soon have i filled the feeders & they're half empty again especially with the suet pellets! 
    take care all x
    please be a responsible pet owner & spay/neuter your pets, too many strays & not enough homes for them sadly. k2u58ioz4c8e.png




  • leanfun30
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    edited 8 May 2021 at 11:00AM
    Morning Just lost my post.  Here goes again.
    I feel like a new person.  I went around my friend’s with some spare veg and in the way back called into the hairdressers to make an appointment for next week.  There was in hairdresser there by herself.  She told me the young woman who cut my hair last year was no longer working there so I said I’d think about it and call in next week.  I came home and then thought she was by herself I’d be much safer going then.  So I went back and no one else came.  My hair was so long way didn’t on my shoulder but it’s very thin.  Anyway she has given me a good cut and I feel like so much better.

    FireFly when GS came last Monday he was so surprised to hear the birds singing in our garden.  For years we had magpies, so the small birds stirred clear.  He has very good hearing.   Birdsong is one of the things I never learnt to identify.   I expect Duncan’s Dad is good at that.   I always collect any bits of fat off any meat we have, which isn’t often and usually let it set then put it out in the soil.  Last week I put some under a small tree out there and next day it was gone.

    Over on Twitter I’ve come across a photographer, who lives in Somerset.  He puts up lots of bird pictures.    https://www.carlbovis.com/gallery.      I had been thinking he manages to capture a lot of different birds then I just thought of Gilbert White.  He lived in a village in Hampshire and decided to do a study of all the wildlife in his village.  I think he was the first one to undertake such a study.  In the village church there is a stain glass window of I think it is over 80 birds he recorded in his village.   Just remembered I think it’s called Selbourne.  
  • indie
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    Morning, Snap leanfun I have just had my hair cut this morning. It does make you feel better.My hairdresser was telling me some of their staff are not coming back. We then had a talk about how the pandemic has changed a lot of people in their outlook on life.
    We have been to Gilbert Whites house, I won tickets a few years back and although it's not a big museum it was interesting. The gardens are huge and as we went in winter there were very few plants around but we did walk around them. It is somewhere I would go again.
    It's wet and windy here today, so different from sunny and warm yesterday, lol. That's our weather for you. I am going to Lidl's later for a few bits, as working tomorrow.
    Hope you all have a good weekend
    Stay safe
  • 203846930
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    Good Morning

    Dad went to Lidl on his own this morning as he was needing a lot of heavy stuff, he also went into the town centre which he can't do when I am there, Superdrug made such a who-ha about the number of blister packs he was trying to put in the charity  box that it has put him off doing it again.
    He did top up my supply of doggy treats so I now have enough to keep me going a few months.

    Lots of birds visit out garden in spite of all the cats that also hang around, if you put out big chunks of food in open spaces, that is what will attract the larger birds, best to use specific feeders and also spread some crushed nuts and seeds on the ground where the likes of blackbirds, dunnocks and robins can get it.
    Blackbirds are the songbird of choice for Dad but even the single chirps from the sparrows (did you know that Sparrows cant hold a tune?) and slight screech from the starlings help fill the air with music, our first walks are the best to hear them as there is little traffic noise at that time.

    Talking of noise, Dad has finally finished refurbishing his Victorian Wall Clock and boy is it loud, if the ticking was not enough, it chimes as well. He has been stopping it at night so that I get some peace but I dread the night that he goes to bed and forgets.

    Take Care
  • 203846930
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    we used to have a chiming clock duncan  i ended up selling it to a neighbour when we moved as she had a liking for it but boy was i glad to get rid lol

    This is a family heirloom, it was a wedding present to Gr-grandfather in 1894 and has come down through the family to Dad, it was valued some years ago at £400 but the valuer did say that the value to the family would be double that as the full history was known.

  • indie
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    Morning, lovely clock Duncan. Great to know the history and pass it down to the family. I hope your weather has been better up there than we have had, it's been wet and windy again. I didn't mind too much yesterday as was at work but I wanted to get some washing done today, looks like that won't be happening. Never mind there is always tomorrow.
    Hope you all have a good day
    Stay safe
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