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Happy birthday to your grand twins Oneputt. We said similar earlier this year, amid the chaos 😂, when our eldest granddaughter become 5. She started school the following day, as they do in NZ, and adores it. Coming on in leaps and bounds 😉. Have your grand twins started school yet? I know they start them early here if they get the chance! More importantly enjoy the cakes. Are they having a party with friends while you're there?
Just started to rain here, washing dry, shopping done. Hopefully it'll be ok while we wait at the bus stop in a couple of hours!
Brue the gardens look beautiful even in the rain 😀
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Happy Birthday to the twins Oneputt. 🍰
We had 24 hours of rain yesterday so the garden looks like a jungle. 🌳I swear some of the plants have grown overnight. A brief respite this morning but the clouds over the back are looking very threatening. 🌩I'm using the time to plan my clothes packing for our upcoming tour of Wales.
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Our day started early. 1 am to be precise. Dog issues, internal plumbing playing up, just what you need in someone else’s cottage! (Dog owners will empathise with the walkies every half hour to vent one’s guts from either end). On the plus side, despite staying in a very rural location, two vets in next little town only half hour away. So that was our task this morning, explained all the meds our poor old lad has to take, thorough examination, got records from our home vet on line. Came away with a bucket load of other stuff after a one and quarter hour session with fantastic vet (don’t you wish your doctor was this good?)
OH has just recalled he crunched something on beach yesterday.🤔 So that explains the country’s most expensive rancid crab snack! 🙄🤢 Can only hope this is what it is, and nothing more sinister.
Dog and master now trashed, sleeping off a bad night.
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I know how the dog feels, Ttda.
We did some shopping on Monday including buying a Stem Ginger Cake from the Free From section in Sainsburys. Someone else there at same time buying one and recommended it. Had a slice with a coffee later that day. Lets just say I needed a decent Vet close by. When checking the ingredients it turns out that it is made from Rye flour, a big no-no for me!
Luckily the weather up here yesterday was as lousy as I was so sat in recovering. Went back to shop this morning and cake is actually in wrong place!!!! Shouldn't be there at all. After admitting my own personal responsibility for checking ingredients went awry, (this was the one time in a hundred as we're both obsessive about it), the manager and I had a nice discussion about shelf stacking operatives. At least I got a £20 voucher but would have preferred the nights sleep.
Plenty of hill mist and mizzle today. Still catching up with feeling well so an afternoon in. Nicely timed in a way.
Hope doggy ok and owners recovering.
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Hope the dog is feeling better now, TtDA, and you, W (no offence intended in the priority of that statement!
Van is just about ready for our trip to Putts Corner tomorrow - the weather looks a bit dubious for the first couple of days but hoping for an improvement after that. It's a few years since we've been there and we've got some new, to us, walks lined up. Also, of course, a visit to the donkey sanctuary - Mrs M's aunt left them a bequest in her will so we like to go to check out her place on the donors' wall there.
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Thanks WN and M. Very nasty experience for you WN, must be difficult at times checking everything out, and with the best will in the world, mistakes will happen.
Poor pooch isn’t very well at all. He’s had the odd drink, but won’t eat, and is at risk of dehydration of course. Just leaving him to sleep at the moment, hoping the rest improves him a little. Just praying it is something he has eaten, and not the drugs he is on attacking his organs. Times like this wish we weren’t so very far from home.😕
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Sorry to hear of humans and dogs feeling poorly. Very difficult to get all food ingredients right at all times. Just a thought TDA, metacam made one of dogs quite suddenly very ill, when it was stopped they just had paracetamol for arthritis and things improved within a few days. But as you say rotting crab won't be much good either and labs seem to love it! Hope things go well now.
Nice to hear the birthday news for the twins Oneputt, hope they like their cakes!
Enjoy Devon Moulesy, the rain has got to stop sometime!
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We had our monthly pensioner group meeting today. It was going to be about Owls but the poor chap is in hospital having a knee replacement. Our alternative speaker was a gamekeeper. Whilst you sensed in the room that not everyone was totally in tune with what he was saying, to put it mildly. However it was interesting to get an alternative perspective on country matters albeit the complete opposite of what we often get on TV from the other side the argument which is quite heavily promoted. He did not seem very keen on the reintroduction of various species, particularly birds of prey as in his view they upset the balance by attacking other species which in themselves are now becoming in danger. All this on a day when we found a dead fledgling sparrow at our back door which Margaret was convinced was attacked by a crow as she heard lots of squawking from up above on the roof line!
David
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Another beautiful day here ,starting to pack the car for our week away in the New Forrest , we are taking my Mum and staying in a chalet, somewhere in the car I have to fit 3 people 1 dog, mobility scooter ,walking frame and all the other bits we need , it's so much easier with the Motorhome!!
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It's always good, David, to get the other side of the subject, even if it's not totally in sync with your own !! The greatest part of the problem is getting the different views set in stone. That's the one problem I have with Chris Packham -- he is great in many ways BUT, sadly, he will not readily accept that other viewpoints have any validity at all.
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We have a two seater Jeep. Finally resorted to a Thule load carrier that fits on towball. Takes an ebike and dog’s chariot folded up, clothes are in custom panniers hanging from roll cage inside. As you say, a whole lot easier with MH!
Have a good time.
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Wishing those with tummy issues a more restful night tonight. Certainly must be hard to read every food label, I've given up - luckily not an issue for us but do have to for granddaughters, luckily they live in NZ so not too often 😉. Our grand-dog never bothered with lying about food but now spends her days with 2 labs and now scavengers and watches you eat too! A week or two ago DIL left recycling food bin on the floor overnight and grand dog had raided it 😲😲, she's never touched ours!
Wet afternoon but didn't get very damp waiting for the bus. Bumped into a doctor who'd looked after us both, yes I was having a bad time, whilst OH on respiratory ward and she was surprised at how well we both looked - OH catches the sun well. I also noticed how much faster OH walked in the hospital to the clinic 😃
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I know what you mean....looking out of the caravan window at the moment it looks and sounds more like November than June.....grey and misty, windy and drizzling!!
We did have a decent day after a rather windy night, although it was cloudy all day the rain didn't really start till teatime. Had a walk this morning along the front at Johnshaven before heading into Montrose and then onto the House of Dun. Took in the house tour and a walk in the grounds. We move on into Fife tomorrow, providing the wind's not too strong as we've to cross the Tay Bridge.
Hope that the vet's medication does the trick for your poor dog, tda, and that you're feeling better too WN. Neither of the conditions sound very nice. I hope that the weather improves for all those away at present and is fine for those just about to set off too.
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Thanks Nellie. I'm back to my annoying self (Mrs WNs words not mine). I was lucky in that I only had a small slice. We were thinking of having a large portion warmed and with custard so, looking on the bright side, I was fortunate.
Fingers crossed the trip goes ok. We move on Friday.
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Interestingly he sighted Chris Packham in his talk, suggesting that he and others who think similarly hold too much influence over Government at the expense of being able to manage the countryside to maintain a balance. I am not backing one side or the other as I don't have the knowledge but if you only hear one side of the narrative it is easy to be blinkered one way or the other?
David
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Rain stayed away today so I was able to get our neighbour's Leylandii trimmed back in the morning, and the rest of DD's hedge clipped in the afternoon while OH looked after Callum.
We now have 4 days to get organised for our trip, first job is to shorten several pairs of trousers as I have worn holes in the knees of nearly all my jeans while working on "the house".
Chilly here tonight, we had to turn the heating on for a while......unheard of before in June!
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I am in a murderous mood at this moment........already tired from doggy nursing, and some (expletive) fired up a seriously loud hedge trimmer at around 7.30am this morning cutting the hedge in the property across from us. If I had the chance to stick it where the sun doesn’t shine, I am sure most of this lovely village would help! We have the odd inconsiderate so and so like this at home, but they usually only do it once. Don’t mind 8.30-9am, that’s more reasonable...but 7.30, that’s pushing it.......😡
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TDA many years ago when living in our previous house we had a neighbour who used to cut his grass with a very noisy lawnmower at 7.00am on a Sunday morning.
In the end OH went out one morning (in his pyjamas!) and had very stern words with him and he then waited until about 9.00am. I do hope your dog is feeling a bit better and that you can have more sleep and less worry.
I am glad to hear that your are feeling better WN.
I hope you OH's hospital appt went well Bakers2 and that you didn't get too wet waiting for the bus.
Belated happy birthday to your grand twins OP. I hope you enjoyed the cakes.
It is still raining here and like everyone else I am getting very fed up. I sorted out clothes for our trip away next week and realised that most of my summer clothes haven't seen the light of day this year. It is such a shame - we are getting the long light evenings and we are sitting indoors with the curtains drawn to shut out the rain
. I hope all those away are managing to amuse themselves and have a good time despite the weather.
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Pleased to report dog is looking more like himself this morning. He’s got a look on his face that says “I am never eating seafood again” but we know he will.🙄 Just so glad that it’s not his meds causing the issues.
We are trying to work out a way home avoiding all flooding round here. Booked into a pub tonight, slap bang in a loop of the Dee, so going to be interesting. 😱
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Pleased that doggy is feeling better TTDA. I know the problems - Meg, our Cockapoo has to be the greediest dog alive and will eat absolutely anything - her latest delicacy are snails which she crunches with glee. Bit worrying since they can harbour all sorts of nasty worms.
We arrived at Carnon Downs, yesterday afternoon after a very easy trip down the A30 from Exeter - thanks to all the good advice I had on here. Rain held off long enough for us to get the awning up but it returned this morning 😂 What a lovely site this is - I can recommend it to anyone- it really is the gold standard that every site should aim for - especially the individual shower/toilet rooms.
Hoping that the rain will hold off this afternoon to allow my birthday barbecue - or else I will be getting very wet☔️
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Today we have cleaned the inside of the van ready for packing......and I am in trouble! I forgot to leave the fridge door ajar after emptying it after our last trip......the amount of black mould was surprising, to say the least! OH was NOT amused, there was much muttering and a lot of cleaning needed.
I have slightly redeemed myself by replacing the gas struts on the 2 front roof lockers, adjusting 2 cupboard doors and doing all the high level dusting, now off shopping for essentials as we are out of milk and butter.
Sky very grey but no rain at all yet.
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Glad to hear the dog is feeling better TtDA (and hope you are too, W!)
Good to hear you've made it to Carbon Downs, R&R and Happy Birthday to whichever R is celebrating!
We drove through atrocious conditions to Putts Corner this morning and managed to get set up reasonably quickly in spite of the rain.It's very busy on site - very few free pitches and I guess it will be full at the weekend. But very quiet even so. Actually sunny now, but I'm not sure it'll stay that way for long. Hoping to walk the coastal path to Beer tomorrow - if we make it I'll celebrate with one (or more) too.
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Richardandros glad you arrived safely and like the site. Many happy returns to the birthday person, not sure which of you is writing! 🎂🎊🎉🍹
KjellNN hope you're out of the dog house very soon, a very easy mistake to make! I have to say reading your posts I'm amazed at your energy and stamina not to mention staying power. I do hope those around you realise how lucky they are.
Delighted to hear your dog progressing well takethedogalong. If only they could talk and you could reason with them over eating everything.
Wherenext I trust you are also much more comfortable.
Seems like lots if folks have an excess of water! Showers here today but we've had plenty, more forecast.
Met with a friend for cuppa which turned into lunch, really lovely. I feel I'm beginning to exist in my own right again 😂😂. Tomorrow I'm taking, with the OH, our motorhome for its MOT haven't driven it for ages apart from a few laps of the storage compound so I'll be taking it slowly.
Stay dry and safe folks and enjoy yourselves home and away.
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