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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 18 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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That really s some water Jam Lady, pity you can't use it to produce electricity. I hope it stops soon. If it was snow then all would not be carrying away soil and wood before it, but I guess it would be a few feet deep if snow! Hope all is well otherwise, and it stops soon.
If half you speak to, Cassandra, say they will be voting for you do you should be home and dry-dependant on how many you get to talk to! Shame that the candidate has got the biggest electorate vote going her way although it may fragment the rest of the vote it could just tip a lot of people off her in the rest of the area, never say till it is over; I can't hear the singing yet! You should always accept the tea Cassandra, you can pour it into a plant if you have to! With views like those you don't need to go into politics, just move!
I am so pleased the cats are getting along well, Poppet is well settled.
I managed to get the wood I wanted for today, and also went into the home stores over the weekend. I need to clean out my sheds which are full of wood of most types. I am starting to cut stuff I should keep for 'jobs', but it is no bad thing to be reducing stock, more will take its place, but I am a bit hand to mouth so to speak for fire wood and would rather conserve quality stock, rather than cut it for fire wood-but when you need it .....! I have to get enough for when I go away to the Cotswolds for a week, I am on target right now but will have to keep it up for another week at least to ensure my holiday week is covered. I am just hoping demand will fall off by the first week in May when I go, and temperatures soar into the 80's, ha ha.
Lucky you having light soil, MR; I am on heavy clay which conserves moisture in the summer and holds too much over winter. It is why when I do get excited over gardening I do it in containers so that I am in charge, I don't pretend to be a good gardener, but I get by OK. The way you are talking spring has sprung, not that good up here, today is pleasant but not warm. I aim to saw the pallet I have to night when I get back and chop it tomorrow, and cut another batch if I can. I need to do about 2 bundles a day from now to holiday, a tall order, but that is the plan 'A'; doubtless plan 'B' will come into force, when I can think of one. Swimming tomorrow, for a change from the wood!
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 18 7:37 am Post subject: |
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It was another day pounding the streets of Sorell today - lovely weather for it, and met some interesting people (albeit eccentric - a Polish chap who has lived and worked here for 40 years who thinks it would be a good idea to get rid of state government altogether (presumably since they, like you, do not have States and so do not have that middle layer of government). In some respects I am sympathy with that approach, but Tassie gets forgotten often enough in Government decisions without voluntarily isolating ourselves further.
Took a break at lunch time and visited the loos in the shopping centre before going to a shop to buy some lunch. Got back to the car with the lunch but could not find my phones (yes, plural). Panic! Dashed back to the loos (last place I recalled having them) but no phones, panicked and approached various shops, one very kindly started phoning my phones with no result and finally got back to the car to find I had popped them ot of sight so they did not overheat in the sun. Phew.
So lunch in the park and checked messages to find the Duke ('John the Duke' as he introduced himself) had called. I returned his call to find he had been the recipient of one of my flyers, was impressed and was now telling all his friends to give me their number 2 vote. Not terribly helpful as I am likely to be knocked out of the count before him, but you never know.
Now home, fire lit and looking forward to another lovely Autumn day tomorrow. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 18 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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I have cracked the disappearing 'phone problem I had; I don't have one at all! Saves hours hunting something I don't really need. However when my Aussie friends come over, they are bringing his old 'phone for me to try and I can have it if I can work it, we will see, but no one hold their breath, I am not heavily into technology. This phone apparently sings and dances to all the tunes, so why is he throwing it out? It is as much as I can do to get on the net! I usually find a spot to put my phone when I have one, and usually manage to forget where it was put. Glad you have found yours, Cassandra.
I think all is going well for you in the election, Cassandra, you are meeting all and sundry and I hope the Duke is as true to his word if you both get in, and he encourages others to vote your way. And you are now in touch with a friend from some time ago, so this campaign has spin offs.
I will be putting in a new sceptic tank soon, the old one being in the wrong place-don't ask!
The cherry blossom looks beautiful, really spring like Jam Lady, Even if cold, I think I could have managed some time sitting on the benches taking it all in! A good job picking them no doubt? Eat one, Pick one, etc!! |
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 18 7:24 am Post subject: |
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So sorry to hear about Monika Cassandra. I hope her husband gets his head round it quickly; different people react to that sort of thing in different ways, so perhaps that was the only way he could cope with it. The community rallying round seems a good practical way to help the family when they need them. I lost a friend a few years ago, my mentor on morris music, and it was very hard. As you are in the middle of a campaign, you have to carry on for her.
We have been in Newcastle the last few days. Son and DIL decided it was time we went to the place, and must say I was very impressed. We visited the Beamish Museum, which is north east 'villages'; reconstructed buildings of just before WWI in the colliery village and 'town' parts that we visited. We didn't have time to see the 1820s landscape and the 1940s farm, so hope to go again one day. Also went to Alnwick where the old station has been converted to a massive book shop. Husband and I walked down into the town, but the castle and gardens are supposed to be worth a visit. We also went to the market at Tynemouth, again in part of the old station with amazing cast iron supports for the roof. I bought a vine knife that I hope will be usable for splittint hazel. Had a good time, but rather citied out now. |
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 18 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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I am sorry to hear of your friend, Cassandra. A devastating disease; it took my mother. So painful, which my mother really did not deserve, as my brother and I had given her enough 'welly' in our lives! I was one of those kids who wanted to do what ever and was very determined and my brother was equally determined I wouldn't do whatever it was, with mother in the middle! My father died when I was 8, so mother copped it all! Must be better to die in a local hospital, Mother was moved several times over 5 years. In fairness my brother was good to mother and to me even if we didn't get on, though I am not sure why. In the end he and I don't see each other as he stole some on my things I had kept in mothers home before I married.
I hope all goes well with the press, Cassandra. You only get one opportunity, and so have to hope they have understood what you want to say accurately, and print it accordingly. Your comments regarding the development should put you in good books with the developers and those locals who could be employed on the building and running of the completed work.
I have never been to Newcastle, MR, always bypassed it on the other side up the M6. It is portrayed as being a bit bleak, with a good university and a lot of pubs! Glad you had a good time. I almost think all stations were done with the cast iron roof supports, it was all the rage of the era of railways and steam. I think they still have some at the Bridgnorth railway station where they still operate steam trains. I have a model railway and am still collecting things for it. I am keeping old windscreen wiper support arms to make some of those type supports for the stations, plan A!
It is raining quite heavily now after a very pleasant morning.
Disaster struck on Saturday; my cross cut saw broke the back fence so that cutting wood is having the wait till I can make another one, well a friend is cutting it and I am taking the machine apart in order to get to the back and replace the back fence. It was oak but snapped for all that, most annoying, but there we are! I have a replacement piece but it is hardish softwood, I just hope it is up to the task. I am out of blanks to chop and have to get some done 'in case' before I go to the Cotswolds to meet up with the friends from Aus. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 18 7:59 am Post subject: |
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It's been a long day today but not terribly productive. I partook of the one weetbix, and dribble of sour milk that was all I could find for breakfast (I forgot to buy supplies yesterday and the shops were shut till Noon because of Anzac Day), then headed to Sorrel for the service I wanted to attend. I was being a bit cynical about this as an opportunity to be seen and to mingle, but soon realised this would be totally inappropriate. The Liberal Party (conservative party) candidate made a fundamental error today in that she was presented to us as the Government's representative for the laying of the wreath. It was not well received and I confess to a certain smugness about that. After the ceremony I wandered over to shake hands with the mayor who I had spoken to the previous week and he introduced me to one of the local leaders of the farming community. Turned out he was the younger brother of a class mate so we chatted for some time and he intimated support for my candidacy.
Then I collared the young lad who had spoken on behalf of his generation of school kids as I had been particularly impressed with is demeanor and told him so. He and his mum came up to me later and agreed I could post his speech on my candidate's page.
From there, since I was wearing smart shoes, rather than walking shoes, I visited a friend and then another friend then finally got home to get my washing off the line (but unfortunately not before the dew settled). The person who loaned me her puppy cage came to collect it (what a relief as I have been walking around it for some time now) and now I have had dinner, I will catch up with a few posts on the candidate page and then read a report on voting patterns in the house, and head to bed so I awake dewy eyed for the radio interview (and probably presence of television crews).
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15539
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 18 6:05 am Post subject: |
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Sounds as if it could be quite constructive as well as a good Anzac Day. You seem to have got support from several people by just being you, which is always an advantage. It is always useful to know someones's brother/sister/aunt/mother, or even your mother to have known their grandmother. As a local person you definitely have an advantage there.
I had a bluebell walk planned for yesterday evening with a Horticultural Society. Luckily the bluebells came out over the weekend when it was so warm, and the mud had dried up well. Unfortunately we had several showers yesterday, including a sharp, but small thunderstorm which came directly over us, pelted us with hail to the extent the ground was white, and a lot of rain. The ground isn't too bad under the top surface, and a lot ran off, but puddles all over, and we had a river running through our yard at one point. Luckily we have shelter up there, but the noise of the hail was quite frightening at one point. Only about half the people expected for the walk turned up as they thought it was going to be too wet, but we only had a little shower as we went up the lane, and then dry. We found plenty of different flowers and a nice lot of bluebells anyway. I even found some moschatel without trying too hard.
I have another walk today, taking the local area Trefoil Guilds round. The weather forecast is good and looking lovely at the moment.
We were trying to fire the little retort kiln yesterday, using the brown ends (incompletely charcoaled wood) from the ring kiln burning, so hope after all that weather, that it worked. |
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cassandra
Joined: 27 Mar 2013 Posts: 1733 Location: Tasmania Australia
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