Sunday, 3 May 2009

[Linda]

Well!
I have just peeked at the Minack Theatre and see that its bright and sunny!
...what have we here?...you may well ask!

...a heavy downpour of oh, no! not just rain! but ....HAILSTONES!!



:mad:

[gloria townsin]

Sunny and bright here in my bit of Herts. slightly chill wind but Nina is outside reading so can't be too bad.
Jeff coming back from Norway today after a gig, haven't had a weather report from him so will be interested to hear what it's all been like.:buba_phone:

[Kath Mulligan]

Quite bright and sunny here too, but a very chilly wind blowing - doubt Nina would be sitting reading outdoors here!!

Kath

[Linda]

I am pleased to say that following the 'outburst' the weather has since improved and we now have sunshine with a gentle breeze.
:D

[gloria townsin]

Discovered Nina was in the conservatory and not in the garden.........so guess we're about the same as you weatherwise Kath. :girl_wacko:

[jane jackson]

Same here in PZ. I've been gardening which was fine but when I tried sitting on my new swinging seat to have a coffee and a read, it was a bit chilly with the breeze eapecially when the sun went behind a cloud.

Did you ever get my message Gloria about my wooden swinging seat that has taken us over a week to construct what with the rain ~ not good with an electric drill ~ and the problems with bits not joining together properly? You sent me a friendship request and a message re the name of the Dressage Instructor shortly after the new Forum began and I thought I'd replied correctly but you said you hadn't found it and I can't find it now either. Not important really. I seem to have got the hang of looking for all the different threads going on at once now. I'm really enjoying all this corresponding and it will be nice to meet up again and to actually meet Kath and everyone else who has been posting. I used to have quite a few pen friends when a teenager (many moons ago!) some from "Pony" magazine so I suppose this is the modern replacement albeit a lot quicker and great that everyone can join in the conversation.

Hope the sunshine continues tomorrow.:dance3:

[Kath Mulligan]

Jane, I am meeting up with Patricia and Gerald and Jennie Murrish at Lamorna Pottery for lunch on Sunday 14 June to hand over all the books I have managed to get for Tangye Corner. You and Bryan would be very welcome to come along too if you fancy a mini FOMS reunion. Same applies to anyone else in Cornwall at the same time - the more of us, the merrier!

Kath

[Linda]

Jane, and anyone else who finds their messages 'missing', you need to check the box that you want to save a copy...otherwise it 'disappears' as it assumes you dont need to see it again.

:):):)

[Linda]

:hurt:


everybody is going to Cornwall......except me!

[Linda]

...but I do wish you all a TERRIFIC time!

:):):)

[Linda]

Kath...only four posts to go and you change!:)

[gloria townsin]

Sorry Jane.........no sign of the post.........into the mists it went.........so I didn't know about your garden swing.

Looked Emile Faurie up on the internet today to see what he is up to and he has begun a charity for disadvantaged/idfficult children to learn to ride. He still competes and is based in Oxfordshire. He went to look at a farm some friends of ours had when he was setting up a few years ago but it didn't work out for one reason and another. I still think Matt should have gone to work with him, but there 'tis.......actually I succumbed to buying H&H this week and Matt has been here looking through. He has seen a couple of 16.3's that look quite interesting, but I don't think he will venture back at the moment to riding. He is pursuing shooting, at targets that is, as he did a lot of that when competing in the Tetrathlon, which I ran for our branch.
Hope you get lots of nice weather to swing in your garden. If I'm in Cornwall at the time you mention Kath I'll pop along. :girl_wacko:

[Jeniwren]

It's cold windy and sprinkling here in Melbourne today and to make it worse I've caught one of those dreaded bugs....GGGRRRRr

[Janet Swan]

Poor you, dear Jen, hope you feel better soon.

Janet

[Kath Mulligan]

Hope you can join us, Gloria, be great to see you again.

Linda, I really do wishI could wave a magic wand and spirit you down to join us too!

Kath

[jane jackson]

Thanks Kath, that would be great to meet up on 14th June, I'll look forward to it. Bryan wont be able to come as he'll be fund raising on The Prom for NCI (National Coastwatch Institute).:israel:

Still warm here but sun wont come out which is disappointing but have been doing a lot of gardening.

Jane

[Kath Mulligan]

That's great, will look forward to seeing you Jane.

Last year, on the same day, the girls and I went to an RNLI Fundraising Day at Penberth Cove and there was a stall there in support of the NCI. I got chatting to one bloke on the stall and he asked where we came from. I just said North Derbyshire, being pretty sure he would never have heard of New Mills, and he asked whereabouts exactly. When I told him, it turned out that he used to live up here and worked at an old cotton mill in Strines, which is just a few minutes down the road from us - talk about small world!! I was able to tell him that his old workplace has now been demolished and a housing estate built in its place!

Will be in touch nearer the date with a time when I have spoken to Patricia and Jennie.

Kath

[jane jackson]

Thanks Linda, I'll remember to do that next time if I need to see my message again! As Gloria never received it I probably didn't press something correctly but hope I'm well into things now.

Did you watch Martin Clunes last night going to lots of Scottish islands? Does he make it to Arran do you know? I know I was surprised when a friend went to work in Lerwick that it wasn't very Scottish but tended to be closer in thought to Norway.

I can see you're going to give in Gloria and get a horse if you're not careful !! Perhaps if you can get the field behind Bryher.......................:flypig::llama:
Not sure if the first one is a flying pig but hopefully it's a pony and I know the other is a llama but it's nearly there.

[Kath Mulligan]

Oh look, I have just joined Gloria with the dancing cats!! They are cute, but I did love my clever moggy on the keyboard!

Kath

[Kath Mulligan]

I watched the Martin Clunes programme and quite enjoyed all the beautiful scenery, but somehow I ended up feeling vaguely disappointed - don't really know why, there just seemed to be something a bit lacking in the interviews. Looking forward to the programme where he visits the Scilly Isles though.

Kath

[Linda]

Yes I watched the Martin Clunes Islands and was also a bit disappointed as the interviews seemed a bit flimsy, like he wasnt really finding out about life on the islands. You can imagine I sat here shouting Yes or No, and in some cases quite the ooposite to what some of the residents were saying...they often only interview and portray those who meet the preferred criteria and not the likes of me who says its hard, expensive, 'unfriendly to incomers', and community is not a word properly understood, havign said all that I hope its only Arran.


Having watched the programme and listening to Lewis I thought thank goodnes we didnt go there! I would have been thrown off the island for I would have disagreed with padlocking childrens swings on a Sunday!

Other than that I did enjoy it and loved some of the scenery, and I am looking forward to him visiting SKye and Mull as well as here...which I hope he has /is doing. Having actually been to these two islands it will be more than interesting to see what is picked out from them.

On another front am I a bit late int eh day to say I have been watching the A Wild Cornish Summer...what a wonderful programme that is! Have watched it three times now and still want to see it again....what a wonderful light it throws on Cornwall....and spectacular scenery!! Much of it West Penwith!

[Kath Mulligan]

I've got A Wild Cornish Summer on a DVD that Vin recorded for me and must have watched it at least a dozen times now! In fact, you have reminded me, Linda that I haven't watched it for a few months - time to put it on again.

Kath

[Kath Mulligan]

It's absolutely tipping down with rain here today, and guess who's going to be out and about in it for much of the day!! Yuk! :mad:

Hope it's better for everyone else - at least it looked dry at the Minack a few minutes ago.

Kath

[jane jackson]

Dry here in PZ but overcast and didn't go below 10c overnight ~ not very cheerful but at least we don't have your rain for the moment. We've had enough of that recently to last us for a while. Hope you don't get too wet out and about.:rain:

[gloria townsin]

I must investigate A Wild Cornish Summer it's one that's bypassed me........
Weather yesterday bright but then rain, rain and more of it. Today bright but windy still. Must go to the allotment to do some planting so getting up the steam to go out in it. Felt rotten over the weekend, maybe had a touch of Jeni's bug. The weather is too up and down I think.

[Linda]

sorry youre not feeeling so good Gloria...hope you feel better soon!

Its been tipping it down up here today, bucket fulls! :rain::rain::rain::rain::rain: just to make the point! :)

[gloria townsin]

Got some planting done and a bit of weeding in the strawberry bed.......rain threatening all the while. Signs of berries on the fruit trees and the rhubarb is (as in the song) almost as 'high as an elephant's eye, and it looks like it's reaching clear up to the sky'.......I have already put lots in the freezer so I picked another big bunch and left it on the produce stool by the oddly named pavilion (it's nothing like a pavilion and no-one seems to know why we call it this) - which is what folk do with produce they don't need, that way someone else will take it and get the benefit rather than it goes to waste. :)

[Kath Mulligan]

That's a job I've got to do for Mum today, Gloria. Her rhubarb needs picking too, so promised I would do it as soon as the rain eased off. Her phone has given up the ghost so got to go there anyway and fix up a new one I've bought for her.

Feeling my age today! It's Claire's birthday, she is 32 and I just can't get my head around that!! I only feel about that age myself in my head - even though the mirror tells a very different tale!! :D

Kath

[gloria townsin]

43, 40 and 35........the ages of our 'kids'.........Help!! In my head I am younger than any of them, but after a session at the allotment I feel at least double the age of the eldest. :fie: