Bits and bobs No 17 Summer

[alan refail]

The low flying aircraft must be anticipating budget cuts and are getting their air miles in first, thought we were under attack this morning.

Probably our boys from Valley looking for a change of scenery - they were unusually absent from here this morning. This afternoon back to their usual chimney-skimming exercises on the way to the mountains and valleys.

[alan refail]

Dull and drizzly this morning. Not much to cheer about, just enough to wet the leaves and lay the dust.

[alan refail]

...oh yes: where's everybody gone? No posts last night, none this morning and the only visitors to keep me company are Googlebot, Yahoobot and MSNbot - and they never have anything to say for themselves

[oldherbaceous]

Morning my dear friend, i'm here.

Clear and hot here, already, another very hot day ahead i feel.

[Clive.]

Busy for 2 evenings scanning and printing my postcard collection of old views of the property where I work....I have printed both sides of postcard to A4 as a bit of extra historical interest for visitors and use on guided tours.

Some of the postcards are 100 years old..and have given extra clues to the time scale of the front garden planting...

I wonder if anyone will collect and print off a few emails in 100 years time.....?

Plenty hot yesterday....need Roses to hang on to their petals until after Sunday....

Clive.

[Geoff]

I'm here. Can just about see the bottom of the garden through the cloud but it is not putting down anything significant. I see hosepipe bans for the NorthWest are on the agenda this morning as the Lake District reservoirs are getting low.

[alan refail]

Sorry we can't send you any of our "rain" - all we got here was half an hour of the lightest drizzle
Hosepipe out before we're banned. North Wales rivers officially at their lowest since 1976 - and many of us remember that

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Clive, i think the place where you work, are very lucky to have such a dedicated employee such as yourself.

[oldherbaceous]

The Warmest of welcomes to the forum Galatea, looks as if you are finding your way around.

[Geoff]

We succumbed to the aerial photo salesman today - taken 22/05/10, includes me and the dog!

[oldherbaceous]

Morning Geoff, what a wonderful set-up you have got there.

Hope you haggled them on the price.

[Johnboy]

Hi Geoff,
There was the dog barking at you from the corner of the lawn to warn you, having a quick outlet lurking in the bushes, that the photo was to be taken any moment.
Am I right or am I right!
JB.
Great photograph though!

[Geoff]

Yep JB, I'm walking away half way down the pergola with my sun hat on. We have a series of these and it makes you realise how little or how much you have changed over the years. The dying grass covers the slurry pit that was there when the barn was part of an active farm.
Yes OH we did haggle but you always think they get what they set out for. It was such a crystal clear day and a good photo it was hard to resist.

[Monika]

Lovely photo, Geoff. Did the salesman insist that he could only sell it framed? We once wanted to buy the aerial photo of our house, and I mean just the photo, but the chap insisted that it could only be bought mounted and framed, so we declined!

We were visited by the Google Streetview people last August and I happened to be in he garden weeding - never saw the van passing. So t hat's my claim to fame: on Google Streetview. The camera also looked straight into our open garage to show all the garden equipment, but luckily my OH was on the allotment using the big petrol mower, so that could not be seen.

[Geoff]

Yes bought frame as well - immediately removed for scanning! We are just on Streetview but a bit too far from the road. I've been wandering round the country on it trying to find all the places I have lived in the past, found most of my student / first working abodes have been demolished and redeveloped.