What have you been doing today?

[conny]

Just got back from an evening session over the allotment. Go over there in the sun and you melt, go over at dusk and the gnats are about so it’s a fine balance. Anyway, I was laying some proper council spec flagstones down for my shed base that I had been gifted from another owner who had given up his plot due to illness. Moving them from one plot to another was absolutely knackering. I pedalled over there in my recently converted electric bike but I came all the way home on the thumb throttle!

You're getting to that age mate.

 

[crystal ball]

Eye test this morning, went to local independent instead of Specsavers 10 miles away, very good service, going back on Saturday to look at glasses with my fashion advisor

 

[Stivino]

I've been watching these little critters from the balcony forthe last week. I've been putting water out for them. Today, I thought I'd try to get a picture. There's no sign of mum but she must be around as their home was100yds from there last week.

 

[Mottie]

Over the allotment today moving more council sized paving slabs about, digging my new plot over and making paths. I’m a bit achy!

 

[Notch7]

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I've been watching these little critters from the balcony forthe last week. I've been putting water out for them. Today, I thought I'd try to get a picture. There's no sign of mum but she must be around as their home was100yds from there last week.

What on earth is that tree - looks like something on the Savannah in Africa

 

[Stivino]

What on earth is that tree - looks like something on the Savannah in Africa

I can’t remember what it is called, it will come to me. (Drago seems to ring a bell) It’s Tenerife so not far from Africa

 

[Mottie]

So not Midlothian then.

 

[Stivino]

So not Midlothian then.

Not for now. Back soon, glad you’re not here.

 

[Mottie]

I went for a game of golf today with an old mate I haven’t seen since he sold the MOT station just before Covid. We had a buggy to save our legs but I’ve still got an aching shoulder and a clicking left knee. They’ll probably take a month to get better.

 

[crystal ball]

Received holiday paperwork,tickets ,luggage labels ,covid instructions, got the suitcase out of the loft, looks like a goer this time after three postponements

 

[Takelitterhome]

Today...W...in....Allegedly good for prevention of prostate cancer.

 

[Mottie]

Having harvested all my beetroot from the allotment, I’m experimenting with different thicknesses, oven temperatures and baking times to make beetroot crisps. No joy so far but I think I’d best pee while seated later and not look before flushing!

 

[crystal ball]

A mate of mine will not eat beetroot because it colours his poo & pee

 

[Mottie]

A mate of mine will not eat beetroot because it colours his poo & pee

Yes, can be quite frightening together first time it happens. The first time it happened to me, years ago, I thought I had something terribly wrong with me. It wasn’t until Mrs Mottie said "Christ, that beetroot yesterday has really turned my wee red" that I had an overwhelming sense of relief. The dull pain in my bladder disappeared, the sun was shining, the birds were singing and I felt like I’d been born again!

 

[conny]

Sitting here with my arm in a sling after the hospital reviewed my shoulder x-ray from last week.
Consultant looked at it yesterday and phoned to tell me I have an AC splinter of my clavicle and need to have it in a sling. As my work consists of about 95-98% manual work, and the rest paperwork, my boss told me to go home and do as I was told until another x-ray on 11th October.