What are you all up to
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Brue
I scroll through all the sections every day and when I see members awaiting approval for more than a day or two I always alert Admin. I tend to use the Report button and I am not sure what the system looks like from the Admin side so I don't know how things that are flagged up appear on the other side or what urgency is given to them. I suspect Rowena would have to enlighten us?
David
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I managed it a while back Millie, but I had to crank up our ancient Mac Book, leave a devotional offering to the Gods of Social Media, and wait three weeks, but it did eventually happen. I am hoping to schedule another change sometime in the next two months if I get the patience. 🤣🤣
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Yes, it's a mystery!
Millie if you change your profile photo you might need to clear your cache/browser history for anything to appear quickly and other people may not see the new pic unless they do the same!
Well it looked like rain today but nothing appeared. Wonder if we'll get a hose pipe ban soon? I've read about requests not to run long showers. Our garden help was here today and we've been outside all day, our grass has stayed green as we don't cut it too short but OH gave it a trim this afternoon. Enough work done, time for a rest now! 😴
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Downsized to Swift Conqueror 480, nearly 3/4m shorter than the Madrid we had, and a 2 berth.
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Hope all going well. 2 berth eh? Just you and Flyte then.😂
Feel sore everywhere! Full day of sorting out the gardens. Mrs WN much happier now. Still quite a bit to do in the front garden but it's mostly bushes there so a good tidy up underneath and a trim. Bit like going to the hairdressers.
The day was kind to us weather wise, not too hot but even so the recent rain really hasn't got in very deep. Some due tonight.
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Nellie
We had two Swift family caravans with that layout from 1998 to 2008 of the same layout. The Europa (the first one) was the first "modern caravan" with cassette loo and shower, absolute luxury! The Eccles Topaz that followed was the same layout but just a bit more up market.
Hope you enjoy the new van.
David
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ABM thank you 😉.
As with many things on this site it was odd, I could see my likes on the latest activity page, as brue and milliehull said too, but not my posts, but I didn't go to my profile so can't comment.
My posts appeared to me with a banner saying "" Your first three posts in the forum require approval from our Community moderators, please come back later". If I returned to the page later, both had disappeared but number of posts didn't tally. Who knows or understands????
Anyway eventually they appeared, in the place and time of posting. It took from Friday until Wednesday and DSB contacting Rowena. If this is how new posters are treated if they want to join I'm sure they'll be long gone before they're cleared. No wonder we lack 'new blood'. Never really sure if those screennames reappear unless they obviously follow up on a thread.
Regardless enjoy your day
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We are meeting up with friends today who we met on a French campsite many years ago. The original plan was for us to meet up at the Great Central Steam Railway near Loughborough but they are not running steam trains at the moment because of the fire risk (did they get a lot of fires when the railways were all steam?
) so we have hastily rearranged to meet somewhere between the 2 of us - they live near Leamington Spa - so we have booked to have lunch at a village pub in Northamptonshire.Hope you are pleased with your new van nellie. Lots of fun finding new places to fit everything in.
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We have been at our caravan for almost three weeks but it is now time to return home. Celebrated 3 birthdays and caught up with friends and family, bbqs and meals out. We were staying at our sons to celebrate during the hot weekend, thankfully. Since then not much sun, mostly high cloud but no rain, except for a shower we got caught in yesterday. We were at NT Baddesley Clinton, they have a lovely well kept, productive vegetable garden, I prefer the veg gardens to the flower gardens. I miss my allotment but it wouldn’t fit our present lifestyles.
Very quiet here, although the tourer field has been full all the time, our neighbour has been for a few days, and the lovely lady opposite lives here during the summer but not many apart from that. It seems that the even less used vans are some of the bigger most expensive ones, such a shame, but I expect their owners are taking long holidays abroad.
We need to go home now as going to be looking after granddog, she is lovely but big and strong and pulls like a cart horse on a lead so makes walking very difficult, and not good in the car either, perfect off the lead though. Also we need to visit our granddaughter, who was a few days ago rushed into hospital again. She is home now but still very poorly. She said it was dreadful, she was blue lighted in at 10pm and not seen by Dr until 9am, said due to short staffed and our population being tripled by holiday makers at present, so extremely busy in A&E. Sadly sounds similar to many other places.
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Neither of us are yet feeling great, as several of you warned us we wouldn't!!! We are probably a lot better than we were but perhaps don't notice. We are getting out and about having hardly been anywhere for two weeks. We went to Morrisons in CMK today. They have an understore car park which includes a car wash. I usually wash my own cars but decided to treat myself and let someone else give it a wash and polish, first time for everything! Probably hasn't been washed for six weeks! A tenner well spent and now in showroom condition.
David
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Well let's hope B2 thinks the same....
DK our car hasn't been washed for weeks either and when we parked up the other day I thought "an electric car with straw poking out of the back door just doesn't look good!"
The next excuse will be a water shortage.....
My neighbour visited yesterday still feeling the after affects of Covid, she is normally quite a robust individual but isn't at the moment. Do hope you both take it easy and let time do the rest.
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Oh Brue…..straw🤣One of the best selling features of old LR Defenders and Jeeps was you could simply jet wash the interior🤣🤣🤣 it has been done as well in this household. Please let us know if EV’s survive the treatment😉😁
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Yes, there were a lot of fires in steam train days👍😁 My OH completed his work bucket list with “spark from passing engine” just prior to retiring. It was a chartered special out of Doncaster, set fire to grass and trees along line👍
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In the days when steam locomotives were king and firemen were taught to make steam and became drivers it was almost a disgrace to allow sparks to be emitted from the chimney
Also the railway banks were then maintained to minimise the impact of fire but since steam was replaced by other forms of traction the maintenance of line side vegetation has not been carried out and also many steam engine drivers? these days in heritage railways would have the old timers turning in their grave or if still alive pulling their hair out at the way the steam locomotives are treated🤔
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Things were very different in those days, JVB !! I can remember the problems that arose when Main Line Top Link Enginemen were made redundant & went to the Job Centre looking for employment. So many, especially Firemen, were staggered to discover that they were ranked so very, very low in the scheme of things.
The one good thing about the Vintage Steam Preservation world is that most of the Traction Engine Owners nowadays are related to, or were trained by, the families that used to run them and so take great care in their usage !! Even to Baking Potatoes , stews and such in the front opening smoke boxes !!
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Enjoy your next trip DSB!
Didn't watch the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games as we were sat out outside in the old walled garden by Sherborne Castle watching the Pirates of Penzance! Performed by Illyria. A good evening out, local garden clubs get together, very nice food and drinks too.
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Sitting having my lunch on the south bank of the Tyne and I think directly above one of the road tunnels. Mrs C sister is visiting tomorrow so it's clean and tidy the house day. It's some form of competition between them and I'm well off out of the house. After a wet start it's fairly pleasant. Went up to Newcastle then along and under the river. Still too early to go home so South Shields next.
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The satire in G&S is applicable today, a policeman's lot is not a happy one ...
Strangely enough Illyria rehearse in a hall down at Sennen so Cornwall is all too familiar for them. The problem for me now is to stop singing about pirates and policemen in my head!
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Oh Brue, I could scream at you!
It takes me an age to get G&S lyrics out of my head. I'll be annoying Mrs WN with these this weekend. I think they would be rather pleased with themselves that their works are still pertinent in todays political and social climate.Green and dusty fingers after 2 more days of sorting the garden out. We are not the best lovers of gardening I have to admit and our garden would never win any prizes but it's looking a lot better and with a few more days of effort will make going away for an extended period easier on the mind. Even the usual soggiest area of the garden was dry as a bone today.
Glad to see the Brown bins emptied this morning.
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well... yes, good point. I thought I could help more by not being there
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I suppose it depends on whether you clean properly, and whose mess needed to be tidied!
Apparently, my cleaning skills need to be improved, but I am trying......very trying according to OH!
However the tidying was said to be needed mainly due to me being very untidy, so there was no getting away with that!
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