What are you all up to
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She didn't look that poorly last time I saw her, has she deteriorated that much, @Wherenext ?🤣 Please give her our best regards!😁
Hope you both are soon feeling a good bit better @KjellNN and you are fit to go to the craft fair at the weekend.
Today started off dull and quite chilly and it took until the afternoon before it brighten up. We went to Little Budworth Common for a couple of walks, and although there was not very many birds about we did see some Long Tailed Tits and had fleeting glances of a couple of Goldcrests.
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Did you know there was an earthquake up our way last night? We never felt it, but at 4:15 I did hear noises and rumblings- cows out! Somehow one had loosened a bolt on a gate. Nothing makes a farmer run than hearing “cows out”. It was supposed to be OH’s day for a lie in. Never mind. Worse things happen at sea. As they say.
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@Goldie146 Feeling an earthquake is a very odd experience. We do have the odd ones in the UK and I remember one where my computer monitor moved very slightly. However the worse I experienced was an after shock in Northern Italy whilst on a campsite. It is the strangest of sensations which is difficult to explain, not something you want to experience very often. All we had was the sensation the major damage was further south.
David
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Only time I have ever felt an earthquake was on holiday in Greece. We were staying on the coast quite close to Athens, all the Greeks were worried mainly about the Acropolis, hoping no damage to this revered site.
Loose livestock @Goldie146 😱 our horse was an escape artist, umpteen different types of door bolts, he’d have a go at them all. He even took his door off it’s hinges one time. Then he would let others out, for a good old gallop around. Cue worried owners following a trail of rugs, ropes and devastation. We have helped with the odd round up on farm based campsites, sheep and cows as well. But my favourite escapee was a huge show pig at the Great Yorkshire. She’d got loose, only off for a sedate grunt around. OH and I had a picture I had bought and along umbrella, so we just thought we’ed do what they do in pig ring, shepherded her into an empty stall🤭Here piggy, piggy🤭
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Thanks @heddlo, and thanks to all for posting the lovely photos.
Did the first of the small 'Christmas performances' yesterday, during the day. We only sang for around an hour, from around 2.30pm, but silly as it sounds, this sort of thing takes us a whole day, virtually, starting around 10.30am at home, and eventually finishing back at home, around 7pm.... then just emails to do, running orders to work out and send out for next week. It goes on like this now until Christmas Day. I keep saying that one of these years I'll have a December off!!!
Meanwhile, we won't be getting out in the caravan until January. At least I can read what everyone is up to here and in the thread that @Rowena started for 'Your plans for December', in the Caravan and Motorhome Chat section.
David
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@Takethedogalong - I wondered if you saw the article on this morning's national BBC Breakfast News - about the Sheffield Christmas Carols - and their featuring in a performance at the Crucible? It was all about the particular and unusual carols that each of the villages around (mainly the north of) Sheffield have. Many of them a sounding a bit like sea shanties! It brought back memories because I remember that when I was small, the Stannington ones were quite famous and I remember Dad coming back from the Hare and Hounds one evening and telling us kids all about the choir coming into the pub and singing these beautiful and unusual carols. Somewhere, amongst all the stuff in my study, I think I've got a booklet of the Stannington ones. The article featured the Loxley Silver Band and I'm guessing that the pub they were in was the Plough at Low Bradfield. It might still be available on iPlayer if you missed it.
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The earth stopped moving for me quite some time ago, no matter where I am/was.😂
Had 3 small, on their own, problems occur health wise over the last month so thought it best to seek medical advice about them to see if they were related in any way. So e-consulted the other day and off to see what's what this afternoon. Of course one of the problems has abated somewhat which is typical timing. Hope I'm wasting the doctors time but we keep hearing that you should get things checked out so I'm being sensible for once, or at least following OHs instructions!😁
Her cold slowly, very slowly, abating.
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We are slightly better today, colds were short lived, but the coughs are persisting. OH’s sciatica is variable, feels better for a few hours then returns with a vengeance. Pain killers do help a bit when it gets very bad. Only thing I have been doing when at home is turning spurtles, they seem to sell well on Etsy. Might also sell a few at the craft fair.
Only earthquake we have experienced was when OH and DD were in a supermarket in Switzerland. All the bottles on the shelves were clinking, but fortunately nothing fell off. They definitely felt the movement, and I, sitting outside in the car, did too. Quite a strange feeling!
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Hope the doctor was able to put your mind at rest @Wherenext , and it's good to read that OH's cold is abating, albeit slowly. Pleased to read that both of you are feeling somewhat better @KjellNN fingers crossed that you soon get rid of your coughs, they do tend to hang on well after one's cold has gone.
You certainly have a busy time at this time of the year @DSB however you must enjoy doing all the concerts or you would have stepped back from them before now. I hope Carol continues with her improvement and is fit enough to enjoy her Christmas fully.
Looking at our monitoring camera at home there does not appear to be any disturbance caused by the earthquake just before midnight last night. It has rained all morning here and it only stopped around 14:00, with just one short shower about 30 mins ago. It was full wet weather gear for most of our walks from the van today, as It was not worth heading off anywhere else as far as we were concerned. We did have a red sky around 15:50, but it didn't last very long.
Considering the rain and wind we have had over the last few weeks there is still a lot of colourful leaves left on some of the trees. This is from yesterday's walk at Little Budworth Common.
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