What are you all up to
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Thanks for the cattle photos Pliers and TDA, nice to see them, our locals are Holsteins, a dairy herd, they go in for milking at 3pm so we can set the time by them.
Moulesy, we have four new puppies near us, including ours and they've missed out a bit on the usual socialising. We'll probably take ours out of the village soon so that she can get used to the car again. Aiming for a river walk on the levels, hoping it will be quiet, not far to travel but a change of scenery.
OH has been inundated with calls for local fishing licences, backwards and forwards to the post box each day. He hasn't been out himself, waiting for the rush to end.
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Another lovely day. Hardly anyone out on our walk this morning. 3 people and 1 car in 2 hours. Heaven. Got home only to find a Woodpigeon had decided to fly into the side of my car so I was called upon to dispose os the body and clean the blood up. How come the women never get to do this?
Sorted out a problem I've been having with our Nemesis lock on the caravan.
Otherwise it was normal cooking duties. Cottage pie tonight. I like to singe the potato crust. Lovely crusty bits.
We used to have an open potato butty with any leftover mash when we were kids. Waste not, want not was mum's mantra.
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"We used to have an open potato butty with any leftover mash when we were kids. Waste not, want not was mum's mantra."
That brought back childhood memories, W. Mashed potato sandwiches with a dish of gravy to dunk them in! Happy (if messy) days!
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Mrs One thinks I’m weird as I make most leftovers into sandwiches.
Another lovely day here, the wind had reduced in strength so was quite pleasant. Walk this morning took me inland where I looked at a new small housing estate and then looked at a new detached house. Keep toying with moving but after 47 years in this house not entirely sure I can be bothered.
Back home and lopped more off neighbours tree 🌳. Painted skirting in the bathroom. Parcel delivered about 4pm so decided on a second walk, this time along the river. A few new ships in the harbour including another grain ship
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Got confirmation of our puppy choice - weird as we have only seen photos and videos. As you will see from the photo not much to choose between them looks wise!
Photo taken 3 May so 11 days ago and they've grown a bit but I dont suppose she can recreate the shot 😂
Thanks to the loosening/madness of new guidelines we can collect her and swing by our son's and catch a glimpse or as a friend says a stare, we need to collect puppy bits from him anyway. It will be our only outing for a good while regardless. So all training will be down to us, another few weeks and son would have collected and kept her so potty and basic training would have been their issue 😉. Hope our bladders can last 😱 if not well blame the puppy 😂
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They all look gorgeous, B! We've always missed put on the puppy stage, although we have a friend who used to breed Setters. When she had her last litter she asked us to go round to look at them and made Mrs M hold her hands out flat and put one of the pups on them. We already had George & Harry at the time so it was an easy decision to say very nice but no thanks. She kept that puppy - he's now 11 and, she always says, the naughtiest Setter she's ever owned. Close escape that!
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Gee thanks. With a friend like you who needs enemies?🤣
She'll be perfect 😉.
We were aiming to take a rescue but we weren't successful and where we were offered the dogs had guarding issues amongst other things, including biting. Too scared to take on the latter and if they had other issues they'd be hard work at 4 or 5 to address - sadly why they were rescued 😢.
I blame my DIL she sent a video of them at 1 day. It will be our last puppy I'm sure 🤔
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I have recd another email from NT adviseing that some of the larger manned car parks in open spaces,are to opened next week , but not their gardens and buildings, To keep the numbers of visitors to managable levels spaces will be by on line bookings only for now
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lovely pups,i am sure yours will be well loved
yet another lovely sunny morning with clear sky's down here on the south coast.
Spent yesterday running the cable for the split charger system, all the way from the engine bay back to the rear bulkhead, where my Leisure battery resides. I used every mm of the 7m of cable I ordered, mounted the splitter in the engine bay and also one of 2 fuse holders, the other is 'aft' by the other battery. luckily I managed to follow the route of the main power line half way then up under the fridge through its 12v wire grommet then followed the 240v line back which is through the cupboards and under seat (rear lounge), and down into the battery box.
So that's the Positive side complete, today I will hopefully wire up the negative side which is only about a foot of cable and a sensing wire.
The split charger is dual sensing so as well as charging the leisure battery from the alternator should charge the engine battery when on mains power unit if volts get above 13.3v.
I wonder if I should disconnect the original Zig charging relay that closes as soon as the alternator is turning?
enjoy your day all
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Moulsley wrote: " looked like everyone was doing the social distancing though the dogs don't seem very good at that sort of thing! "
CAMC ahead of the game for once with 2M leads then.
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I had the NT email as well. Doesn't do much for spontaneity on a day out though.
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The pitter-patter Of tiny feet(2 pair, 1 body)👍🏻😊
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As with Border Collies we are now on our third rehomed one second from Dundalk, Southern Ireland (she has her own passport
) as we have always been advised "just remember with collies make sure which end of the lead has the highest IQ" and they tend to want less exercise when they get to about 12yrs (human years that is)
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Congrats B2, the pups all look so cute, you must be feeling so excited.
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Just had a delivery from Morrisons with one of the friendliest drivers we've had. We had a spaced out talk (that doesn't sound right!) about cats (one hanging about ready sneak into the house) and farm buildings.
Tomorrow we're collecting a load of meat from a farm shop up the road. http://www.kitriddingfarmshop.co.uk/ It's possible the beef is "coming home" as they have in the past bought bull calves from us. I'm stocking up food for silaging - when I make up boxes for the workers. I tend to forget that it happens much quicker these days and I am overstocked. Never mind. It will all come in.
Just cheese to order now. We've plenty of "cooking cheese" but I'm ordering some different sorts from the Hawes creamery (to have for quick suppers etc).
P.S. - is anyone else having trouble getting glace cherries? A fruit cake is not complete without them!
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OMG, those puppies are lovely. Personally, I would go for the all white one on the left, a lot less hassle😂
I have to confess............I have been checking out if the person we have always got our Airedale pups from has any news..........and on the Airedale Rescue website.
HRH is fast asleep at the moment, but I am sure he would adore a puppy friend.
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Had our Waitrose delivery this morning, things had gone a bit awry so had to send off an email. Ordering for the neighbours too and trying to explain things to them makes it all a bit harder just now.
Silaging has been going on round here Goldie, whizzing around all day, hope yours goes ok.
When you mentioned the cherries it reminded me I spotted a nice cherry cake recipe online at Meg Rivers (the on line cake makers.) So I'd better check the cherry situation myself, think I've got half a tub left.
Anyway we've tucked into some large Waitrose danish pastries after our cleaning and storing efforts with the shopping this morning. We're on plastic bag overload, Morrisons are better with their strong paper bags!
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Tesco delivery man left part of my sister’s shopping out of sight on top of a bin the other day. Couple of hours later, she found it. Sadly it was the ice cream........😂
They did reimburse her.
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Wow Brue had a look at Megs website, stunned at the prices and then postage on top. Just told Mrs One to get to the kitchen, we can undercut Megs prices and still be millionaires in a month🤑
Lovely sunny morning so decided to walk to the caravan. The couple in the van parked in the van next to ours told us that during all the rain they went to check their van and the ground had collapsed under their near side wheel and their van was tilted at an acute angle. Anyway all sorted and our van is perfectly ok. Checked the village war memorial which will need some tidying and replanting so will do that next week.
There was a noticeable increase in traffic today and a lot of it thought they were at Silverstone.
Sky’s clouded a bit now so will spend the afternoon pottering
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Sunny here again.
Making an essential delivery of Aldi nappies for Callum this afternoon, plus a few other bits DD could not get from Asda, so hope to be able to wave to him through the kitchen window.
Our Waitrose click and collect yesterday went not too bad, no bread flour, as predicted, and no small sausages, but everything otherwise. All very easy and efficient.
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