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  • Started 13 years ago by brenda midgley
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  1. brenda midgley
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    Well, hello everyone. Just seen the items concerning istitch - er, think I'll give those a miss - technology and myself have never really seemed to have bonded!

    Well, just getting my feet back on terra firma after the shenanigins of last week. Prepare to be bored:

    The internet threw a wobbler - e-mails came in but nothing would go out.
    Central heating packed up
    Phone packed up
    Microwave packed up
    Light bulb on the 'glow' of electric fire packed up.

    I felt like packing up too.

    However, this week
    Internet is back on track
    A delightful lad from Liverpool fitted a new fan to the boiler - now back on track
    New phone purchased
    New microwave purchased

    The bulb for the fire is causing a search - they are all these wretched low energy things these days. All I want is a simple screw in 60w candle bulb. Will try Wilkos when next out shopping.

    Apart from that everything's fine. Had to wrap the cheque book up in bandages - in pain and trembling from over-use; could be worse. Just got to learn how to drive the new phone now - beloved husband has lost the instruction book (thank goodness it was him and not me!)

    Scotland's coming up - I bet you have already got the cases out and sorting out the stitching stuff to take with you - I do wish you all such a lovely time. Brenda

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  2. Barbara Stone
    Member

    Poor Brenda, I've had weeks like yours in the past, but hopefully not again. The case is half packed already and the stitching stuff is being sorted. We'll send you a postcard, cos I'm sure somebody will have your address.

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  3. Jean Strange
    Member

    Oh Brenda that sounds awfull but at least things are getting sorted out. We had the problem earlier this year when we were without Sky T.V. Broadband and house phone for nearly 2 weeks but that was because some nice person decided to strip the copper from the cables!!! I also had the problem with e-mail after this where I could recieve but not send. That eventually got sorted when I got my new mobile phone. They offered to set it up for e-mail and we told them the problem and the nice man in the shop told my husband how to sort it. Although his bussiness is ICT he had not been able to find out how to fix it. It was ofcourse my fault I must have pushed a button somewhere that caused it!!
    Well back to the work for school, even though it is half term still have things to do. Then there is the washing etc. No peace for the wicked as they say.

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  4. brenda midgley
    Member

    Honest to God - just re-read my first entry to this thread - what a lot of moaning - someone should ban this woman from the website! but thank you anyway Barbara and Jean for your commiserations.

    Despite the change of the hour I've managed to get a bit of stitching in the last two afternoons before the sun has started going down. I even had a bit of a ferret round in the garden this morning too. Not cold and with all the rain we've had it was just lovely to get the trowel in and be able to dig out weeds and dying summer bedding. I dug up a white Hellebore and split that and put bits in one or two empty places - I love white flowers. That's probably why I like stitching flowers - being able to recreate on fabric the lovely things we see in the garden.

    I have no doubt when you travel up to Scotland on Friday you will be able to see glorious things there too on the landscape - trees and bushes at the moment as they are changing into their autumn frocks of reds and golds are looking wonderful. We were out and about at the weekend and the countryside in sunshine is a feast to the eyes.

    No doubt Barbara you will have a little pair of 'bins' in your bag so's you can do a bit of bird spotting whilst in Scotland. Again as we were out at the weekend I could see a huge 'V' of something migratory in the sky - too far away to know what it was sadly, but very impressive. Having said that - a couple of years ago when I went to Ally Pally I was on the courtesy bus on that last stretch going up the hill and flying alongside us was a Jay! I was chuffed to little mint balls - how often do you see those.

    Anyway,you are all probably nodding off nicely by now so I'm going. Brenda

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  5. Barbara Stone
    Member

    From what I've seen of the weather forecast it seems we might be travelling up to Scotland in thick fog and driving rain!!! I'll have the bins handy and watching out for any nice birdies that I happen to see - Red Kites are a speciality up the M5 and M6, and the geese are coming back from colder climes. Actually round Bristol, you can see Jays fairly frequently, but in London you very rarely see them. But they are nice birds and I always like seeing them. Anyway, speak to you soon when we get back from the Highlands.

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  6. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    I'm taking what comfort I can from the fact that the weather forecast that far ahead is notoriously unreliable. All it needs is a butterfly flapping its wings and everything changes....

    Let's wait and see what actually happens on Friday!

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  7. Janet Nicholl
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    We had 4 Jays in our garden this morning and are lucky enough to often have Red Kites circling above. We can always be reminded to look up when we hear their whistling calls. We also have a family of 7 Collared Doves who are regulars - my birdy housekeeping is getting a bit hefty. I buy sunflower hearts and suet pellets in big bags to make it cheaper!!
    Looking forward to Scotland very much - though not thick fog and driving rain thank you very much!
    Had my Lakeland Christmas catalogue a couple of days ago so the shooping list has been started. I hope Jane has allowed a bit of space for shopping like she does on the longer trips!!
    Sorry you will not be joining us Brenda, let's hope we catch up in the New Year.
    See you others on Friday - nice and bright and early!!

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  8. Jean Strange
    Member

    We have Jays in our garden sometimes too, bur haven't seen the woodpecker who was an occasional visitor for sometime. We have quite a lot of bird visitors as although I live in Bracknell there is a wooded area at the back of my house and an arts centre near that has wooded grounds and a lake. The lake has Herons visiting in season. I remember a couple of years ago a friend said "Haven't you seen the Heron? He spends a lot of time perched on your roof." I did say that I didn't make a habit of going out and staring at my roof! I still like the comment from our "caretaker" (not allowed to call them that now they are Site Controllers) when we put some fish in the pond in the nature area, "That Heron is up there with his knife and fork ready!!" Hope you all have a lovely time in Scotland whatever the weather. Look forward to hearing all about it next week.

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  9. brenda midgley
    Member

    Oh - how interesting - all the lovely birds you see around the places where you live - amazing how it differs from place to place.

    Mind you I can top the little story about the Heron. Not personal expeience but a happening to a friend of mine. Dearest Gwen, with whom I work on the Sunday lunch time trains at the Severn Valley Railway, told me a few years ago that she'd opened her kitchen door one morning to find a monkey sitting on the top of her garage. The railway as it reaches Bewdley goes past the West Midlands Safari Park, and apparently someone had released the door of the monkey compound and they'd all run away! Gwen at that time lived close by. She did have us all in fits that day as she told us.

    Now there's just got to be a Guild member out there somewhere who also lives near the safari park and had a monkey in their garden too. Please make our day and tell us if you did.

    Put some Pansies in the garden this afternoon. Honest to God - the brain box wasn't working this lunchtime. I stood in the market place at Nantwich trying to work out (mental arithmetic - tuff stuff this for my brain) - was it cheaper to buy a box of 6 for £1.80 or (on another stall) 5 boxes of 6 for £10. I did finally get there after scratching my head a bit and came home with 4 boxes - £7.20. Got them all in and felt very virtuous so got the stitching out after that as a reward.

    Legs in the air at Yoga tonight - that means hanging onto my shopping trolley like grim death in the morning as I stagger round Asda like a 90 year old. 'S'funny, I thought yoga was supposed to be good for you.

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