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Re: What are you all up to
Great photos, @moulesy hope you get decent weather for the charity walk on Sunday.
A good piece of work there @marchie looks grand.
Lovely sunny day again with just a gentle cool breeze. We had a very pleasant walk around Cocksburn Reservoir and then the short White Hill trail. Spotted these practice sculptures close to the path.
After a brew back at the van I went for a walk up to the Wallace Monument, past numerous more sculptures, and had a good view across the rally field and the distant Highlands.
Re: What are you all up to
Dug out overgrown borders aroung garage and alongside the parking for the M/Home; then 1700kg of Scottish Pebbles arrived [special offer at MKM Building Supplies, £30 cheaper than last year so grabbed them before price reeturns to normal on 1st May]. Started to lay the pebbles in the new trench alongside the parking then had a bright idea of using spare hexagonal slabs from last residence to make stepping stone path, so raked out the newly laid pebbles and started again - oops!
Steve
marchie
Re: What are you all up to
It's our favourite week of the year! We are on our way up to Matlock for the annual Irish Setter rescue walk on Sunday. Stopped off again for 3 nights at the lovely Moat House hotel near Stafford, just a stone's throw from the M6 (we can actually see the motorway from our bedroom window!) though you'd never believe it, it's so peaceful here. The swans have hatched 5 cygnets, very early, never seen that before. Will try to post some pictures of them if I can get close enough!
moulesy
Re: What are you all up to
Today we walked along the Stafford & Worcester canal and then headed to the NT Shugborough House (another reason for stopping off here). The gardens are looking lovely, particularly the view of the back of the house with the golden yew topiary. The tulips in the orangery garden are just past their best, but the tree peony is just coming into bloom.Just outside of the estate is the ancient Essex Bridge over the River Sow, it has 14 arches in all. A lovely day out.
moulesy
Re: Disappointed !
There really does seem to be a sense of entitlement - I will do what I want, no respect for other's privacy or space. This is one of the reason why we prefer CL sites.
I was reading an article this morning about people's experience at the cinema being spoiled by people using phones, talking, eating noisily etc. Cinema staff did deal with it, but it shouldnt happen in the first place. One of the people looking at the issue said it was easy to blame Covid and say people have forgotten how to behave, but their take was that during Covid some people broke the rules and the consequence of that was a loosening of social mores - rules dont matter any more. I think that resonates in the examples the OP outlined.
Hja
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Today has been rather mixed with the weather, periods of warm sunshine interspersed with short rain showers. We got packed up in the dry and had a trouble free tow through Glasgow up to Bridge of Allan and the Scottish Regions THS. Thanks for the route info @KjellNN & @Francis . There are about 30 units here tonight, split evenly between caravans and M/Hs but there should be many more arriving before the weekend for the AGM.
I spotted this unusual coloured, lemon yellow, Magnolia on my afternoon walk.
Re: Garden Snap Shots!
Spring has sprung here after a very wet few weeks early on. We have had some lovely Hellebores and Snowdrops, followed by Crocus and lots of Daffodils, some of which are still doing well. Other things of interest doing well now……
Trout Lilies, always put on a nice show, and don’t mind shade, so brighten up a dull corner.
Pieris Forest Flame, no frost this year, so it has done really well. It is a wonderful colour at dusk, really glows.
This is part of the big border that had the hedge removed and replaced with a fence last year. Almost all of the plants were taken out, all but two roses survived, and it’s really filled out now. I split a lot of the plants, filled any gaps and tried to colour co ordinate it a bit better. Looking forward to seeing it in the Summer.
Water feature all cleaned out. The new rose behind is a lovely peach coloured Lady of Shalot.
Cheerful tulips, replacing some different daffodils that have now gone over.
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The problem, if there is one @richardandros, is if he becomes so in demand from previous customers like yourself that his time becomes squeezed. I'd book your service early if I were you. People who provide a good service are in short supply.
Lovely morning here so we decided to go for a morning stroll through a local nature reserve before heading to Tesco. It was glorious. Filled with birdsong and Bluebells and Wild Garlic. All mornings should be like that
Lovely to hear from you @DEBSC.
Re: What are you all up to
After last night's shut down and ? Upgrade? I am finding CT very slow and clunky!!
Today it has not been as bright or sunny
to the previous few but atleadtvot has stayed dry. We returned to the Culzesn Estate this morning for a walk down onto the beach and along to Maidens. After lunch we walked around Swan Pond where we saw, appropriately enough a Penn building her nest, and another interesting plant.
This is Rodgersia Bronze Peacock I think
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We're in the 'Sunny Kingdom of Fife' where everything is green … And the spuds are plentiful . We rarely have to bother with suntan lotion, but WD40 is always in short supply, usually supplied for hip and knee joints that have rusted up … 😁
Steve
marchie