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Lullabelle said:
:rain::rain::rain::rain::rain::rain::rain::rain::rain::rain: yet again, is it really August :(
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It certainly is. It rains virtually every day here now and sometimes very heavy (floods up north). And it usually gets worse next month.

33 degC at present though so I can live with warm rain.

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Duck59 said:
Blue sky and sunshine on the east coast of Scotland, as it was yesterday.

Be fair, it's about time we had a look at the sun.
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I remember a quote from the "Big Yin" - "When Aberdonians go on holiday it takes 2 weeks sunbathing to achieve even white skin".
 
Yorky said:
I'm guessing that you meant "power". We almost bought a house there until our surveyor found that the area where the house was being built had a history of flooding. Ended up buying a place in Horsforth just outside Leeds.
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Not unless it's wrapped in cling film!
 
You've got to love the "new kids on the block".

Yesterday I received a letter from my bank in Jersey requesting that I give them certified proof of my address.

I have been a customer for 22 years and with the same address for the last 17 of those years.
 
Yorky said:
You've got to love the "new kids on the block".

Yesterday I received a letter from my bank in Jersey requesting that I give them certified proof of my address.

I have been a customer for 22 years and with the same address for the last 17 of those years.
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I know the feeling. Our local Council reckon I have only been living at my address since 1995. I moved into this house in 1976, so I asked for a refund on all the rates/council tax I paid before 1995. They were not amused.
 
I'm going to be scarce around here for about the next month. We're leaving on vacation in less than a week and I have yet to decide where we MUST stop en route to our first firm destination - not to mention laundry, packing, and a modicum of cleaning. I'd like to make a stop to buy hand-made kitchen tools like spoons and ladles that are made by a craftsman in PA, but I need to check if we must by them at the craftsman's partner retail store or if we are able to stop at his workshop. I'm hoping we get to stop where he works. Next, what sites do we want to see as we travel along the Shenandoah Park? Right now I'm heavily favoring a visit to Thomas Jefferson's summer retreat, Poplar Forest. We stumbled upon it in the early 2000s, when it was just starting to be restored. We stopped again about ten years ago and made a small donation in my Mom's name after settling her estate; she was a big admirer of Jefferson. Although it was a small sum, they treated us like big-buck donors and gave us a personal tour of special restorations going on, and a trip to an area on the site that was undergoing an archaeological dig. Now I'm interesting in seeing how some of these projects have been finished off.

After viewing the Solar Eclipse from an area that will be in the totality zone (about 2 minutes, 20 seconds of utter blackness), we'll head to spend time with our children in Ohio. When we leave there depends on how long our daughter tolerates us living with her. As we all get older, she wants us to stick around longer. No complaints from THIS mom! :love:

I'll still bop in from time to time, so you can't get rid of me completely. :D
 
We have spent the day in London, a mooch around Borough Market, squinted at The Shard, spent 2 and a half hours in the V&A museum looking at the Pink Floyd exhibition, Vietnames evening meal then to the theatre to see The Book Of Mormon. We are now relaxing with a glass of wine. A great day, sunny at long last. It was my husbands birthday and that is how he chose to spend his day.
 
Lynne Guinne said:
I'm going to be scarce around here for about the next month. We're leaving on vacation in less than a week and I have yet to decide where we MUST stop en route to our first firm destination - not to mention laundry, packing, and a modicum of cleaning. I'd like to make a stop to buy hand-made kitchen tools like spoons and ladles that are made by a craftsman in PA, but I need to check if we must by them at the craftsman's partner retail store or if we are able to stop at his workshop. I'm hoping we get to stop where he works. Next, what sites do we want to see as we travel along the Shenandoah Park? Right now I'm heavily favoring a visit to Thomas Jefferson's summer retreat, Poplar Forest. We stumbled upon it in the early 2000s, when it was just starting to be restored. We stopped again about ten years ago and made a small donation in my Mom's name after settling her estate; she was a big admirer of Jefferson. Although it was a small sum, they treated us like big-buck donors and gave us a personal tour of special restorations going on, and a trip to an area on the site that was undergoing an archaeological dig. Now I'm interesting in seeing how some of these projects have been finished off.

After viewing the Solar Eclipse from an area that will be in the totality zone (about 2 minutes, 20 seconds of utter blackness), we'll head to spend time with our children in Ohio. When we leave there depends on how long our daughter tolerates us living with her. As we all get older, she wants us to stick around longer. No complaints from THIS mom! :love:

I'll still bop in from time to time, so you can't get rid of me completely. :D
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So long as the eclipse isn't the start of the end!
 
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