OneGuyFromBarlick

That sounds like fun Sue! When my brother and sister in law lived in York I bought them this book about the Snickleways of York. I don't know if they ever used it, but I would love to! https://www.waterstones.com/book/a-walk-around-the-snickelways-of-york/mark-w-jones/mark-w-jones/9781871125771 Tha...

Morning Its a nice sunny morning here just outside York, I hope the wind has died down. It was a typical cold wind for over her on the east. It was hailing when we picked up our shopping in Oldham Tesco, but the sun came out at Leeds which, often seemed to happen when we visited my brother over that...

Morning Bob suggested to me that it might be your guttering. Its a cold windy day, rain forecast here but not in York. There it is sun and cloud, 4 degrees feeling like -1. Tomorrow is due to be 10/11 and sunny. We live in hope. We leave after breakfast and will pick up a Tesco order on the way over...

Hope your builder arrives ok. We too had a suspect patch on the lounge wall, our neighbour Jacuzzi David had a look, he relaid the flashing but could find nothing else but maybe porous brickwork and will spray it for us…when its dry. Though he may be in the jacuzzi that day.

Morning After a good effort in the garden yesterday we managed to repot the drowning hydrangea. Bob drilled several more drainage holes in the pot, we tidied the root ball up and put it back with fresh compost mixed in with the old which smelt like bad drains. Bob then tootled off to the workshop an...

Sue, I wonder if the removal of the trees is causing the water problem in your greenhouse. A friend of ours took a big tree down and then had allsorts of water ingress they’d not had before. It will cause a water problem but in their garden. We think the water in the greenhouse is seeping under the...

Morning I think its meant to be a dull dryish day. If so this afternoon I will tackle removing the drowning hydrangea from its pot and replanting it in fresh soil, with trimmed roots and a better drainage, but this morning it is art at Haslingden Yesterday was busy , we started by visiting the garde...

I well remember those simpler camping days. Two man ridge tent with extra fly sheet as a porch extension. Great function

Morning Yes my flags need a brush now but of course its raining today. Our jet wash is out in France, Kev. I could do with it here as we have a lot of paved areas, though the hose pipe does have a power nozzle. This morning I may go and buy some new rockery plants for the newly refurbished rockery, ...

Morning I tackled the algae on some paved parts of the garden yesterday, I think washing soda may be a bit harsh here if it gets washed on to the borders which are full of plants. Anyway I shall see if the Aldi bio powder works.it was quite a pleasant afternoon yesterday so we both ended up potterin...

I agree Rochdale speech had some idiosyncracies, but from my own experience, I wouldn't think rankle was one of them. I think we decided in 2012 that 'hoo' applied only to females. :smile: Hoo It is certainly one I hear a lot, however the area of Rochdale I live in has a lot of incomers and the peo...

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Yesterday turned out drier than expected, it was raining when we did our walk so we kept it short. If I had known it was going to be so dry I would have done the flags but it today looks promising. Pilates first, thén flags, then yoga.

Have a good day all

I recently read `the idea rankles with me' in a newspaper. I hadn't heard `rankles' for ages.... rankle (v.) c. 1300, ranclen, of a sore, wound, etc., "to fester," from Old French rancler, earlier raoncler, draoncler "to suppurate, run," from draoncle "abscess, festering so...

Morning After our shopping the sun was still with us, so we had our morning coffee in the conservatory and I got one load of washing dried outside. I decided to clean and disinfect the bird feeders and was able to dry them in the sun before putting new feed in them . I then went to get changed in or...

Morning What a beautiful day. In answer to your question Stanley we have had Heron problem but not recently. We now have a large net that spans three quartes of the pond up to the shallow end. The fish tend to prefer the deeper end. However we have caught cats and bigger birds trying to get into the...

Morning What an odd day yesterday without our daily trip . After art, in the afternoon, the rain ceased for a bit or at least became a light drizzle so Bob took the opportunity to get the petrol hedge cutter out and trim the back hedge and branches . I swept up. It took some time and we were caught ...

Morning Its Art at Haslingden this morning, then I shall put on the slow cooker for tea and nothing else is planned. Yesterday afternoon we were back early from our last appointment, so spent some time booking a couple of short breaks in the UK. We have booked a cottage just outside York for a few d...

To be quite honest we tend not to think about it as a cancer we dwell more on organising the day and fitting in meals etc around appointments. We won't even need to think about that now. I suppose because Bob shows no sign of illness or bad side effects then he is just Bob in both of our minds

Morning Just lost my post so shall start again. Today is our last day at Christies. Its a lunchtime appointment so a packed lunch will be required. Then life will return to normal as we await the results of scans in May and September. No point dwelling on the results it won’t change anything, and ev...

Morning It’s a damp day but less so this afternoon when it starts to warm up. We shall see later whether Bobs greenhouse repairs have been successful. Yesterday we were away from Christies by 2.00 pm, it seemed strange driving home so early. We called at Sainsburys for petrol and clothes browsing, B...

Morning I wonder, Stanley, if everything going together reflects the timing of when they were bought when they moved back here from the States or when they had their kitchen extension. I await to hear this week what can be repaired. Todays appointment is lunchtime so its a day for taking sandwiches,...

Nice looking car Kev is it petrol or diesel? It's the 2.0 diesel, the 150bhp tdci. Returns 60+ mpg if you're not too heavy on the right foot. I think the Dyson would be in the bin, I looked at replacing the motor on my old DC08 but bought a Shark in the end. It wasn't much more than a replacement m...

After lunch I will be heading out onto Skipton Old Road, wearing a lot of warm clothing topped by a fluorescent vest, to pick up bags full of litter from the verges. It is Lothersdale's litter picking day but I like to join in as part of the road is within that parish. Good for you Wendy, Whitworth...

Forecast changed, now mainly dry all day and back to 5 degrees, and feels like 1 what a difference half an hour makes!

Morning Rain all day today but warmer. It was a bitterly cold wind yesterday, though less so down in S Manchester. Today should reach 10 degrees. It will be a busy morning, shopping at Bacup then over to the other side of Rochdale to buy a new vacuum cleaner. Ours died spectacularly yesterday and in...