COLD DARK ROOM

[JoesMum]

Its also in the 70s here.

* Looks at calendar and in mirror *

Nope. 2016 here. I was much younger in the 70s

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I just spoke to Ewa. @Pearly.
She is having some difficulties and asks for our prayers for herself and children.
She also says her tortoises are doing fine, she misses us all and that she will eventually be back.

Thanks, Ed.
Indeed, wishing her and her children all the best and hoping she'll soon be back with us

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I know it seems like some people run away. But their lives off TFO may simply have moved on. I came back after a break of about 8 months ... and it's not the first time that's happened... family, work and my moderator forum all got in the way.

I thought you'd just got lost searching for corner 9 .
People leave for all kids of different reasons.
Some I know, some I don't.
Lives change and life goes on.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

* Looks at calendar and in mirror *

Nope. 2016 here. I was much younger in the 70s

Well, I did ask him what year it was................

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I know it seems like some people run away. But their lives off TFO may simply have moved on. I came back after a break of about 8 months ... and it's not the first time that's happened... family, work and my moderator forum all got in the way.

It should be very flattering that we meet on a tortoise forum and end up caring about each other on a personal level.

 

[JoesMum]

It should be very flattering that we meet on a tortoise forum and end up caring about each other on a personal level.

I couldn't agree more

 

[johnandjade]

chilly and chips . jades away to splash about in the water. i'm too tired to bother going for a bath now, only 1915 and bed is calling!

 

[JoesMum]

chilly and chips . jades away to splash about in the water. i'm too tired to bother going for a bath now, only 1915 and bed is calling!

Sleep well.

I have a salmon risotto on the hob (sounds posher and more complicated than it is) JoesDad just came in with a look on his face that needed no words. I've opened a bottle of wine!

 

[johnandjade]

Sleep well.

I have a salmon risotto on the hob (sounds posher and more complicated than it is) JoesDad just came in with a look on his face that needed no words. I've opened a bottle of wine!

enjoy. no alcohol for me tonight for the first time in a long time!

 

[Lyn W]

There are lots! But the good ones tend to be in the west country

Anyway, it's time for me to turn in. The news is on and I've heard enough about the US election now.

Interesting facts for our American friends: Here in the UK no reporting of how people are voting, polls or campaigning is allowed on television or radio on voting day of an election or referendum. No votes are counted until all polling stations have closed across the country. It seemed very strange to hear results being announced in the USA before polling stations had closed on the west coast.

Yes we do have pretty Tea rooms in the more touristy parts of Wales, the general ones are more like the 'Greasy Spoon' sort.
Although a lot of posher places - hotels etc are doing afternoon teas now.

 

[johnandjade]

Yes we do have pretty Tea rooms in the more touristy parts of Wales, the general ones are more like the 'Greasy Spoon' sort.
Although a lot of posher places - hotels etc are doing afternoon teas now.

good evening ma'am! how has lola been today?

 

[Lyn W]

And it's Cold and Lonely
In the Cold Dark Night.
I can see Paradise.
By jellyfish light.

Good old Meatloaf - I love the Bat out of Hell album.

 

[Lyn W]

He was one half of Simon & Garfunkel an American duo from the 1970s.

Their big hits included

And don't forget one of my favourites that I love to play on the piano

 

[JoesMum]

And don't forget one of my favourites that I love to play on the piano

My first one was Bridge over troubled water (well it was supposed to be I haven't tested it ;D)

 

[Lyn W]

I'll quickly update you also with my household project of late.
I've already replaced the flooring and the whole A/C system, washing machine and a microwave....
last week I decided to remove the 1976 disco era drop ceiling in my kitchen. It was basically 6, 4' florescent lights with a frame work of aluminum and frosted plastic covers. Horrible.
I yanked it all down. filled in the holes. Stuccoed the ceiling and painted the whole kitchen and install LED pin spotlights.
Granted, I should have done the floor last, because it became quite a chore to keep clean.
But it sure looks a lot better.

Wow Ed - no wonder we've not seen much of you!
When you've finished practicing on your house will come and do mine?
I pay at least 50p an hour!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

chilly and chips . jades away to splash about in the water. i'm too tired to bother going for a bath now, only 1915 and bed is calling!

Night night, John.
Have a good kipple.

 

[johnandjade]

nos da friends

 

[Lyn W]

I loved cats.
I have super memories of a cat that was born the same day as me,Mielou Cher, that grew up with me and I loved very much. When it got run down when I was 17, I was devastated.
The wifey had a cat, Letitia Fuzzlebumps, who helped her though the tragic time of wifey's mum's death. A lovely cat who got old and ill during my time with wifey in England and got 'rescued' by some berk and I had to go and rescue it from the RSPCA (the cat and I both cried when we saw each other). I finally found it one day, lying in the hall, unable to walk. She died in my arms, purring.
Then I came to live in Morocco, we couldn't until the cat passed on.
Here the cats are badly treated, but mangy and often diseased and starving. Some have had designs on Tidgy, who is curious and unafraid, so I have to chase them away.
Once, for a couple of years a group of cats started using our front door as a toilet, and despite bleaching, putting pepper down, and later using violence they would not go away. i'm rather afraid that I threw one of them off our top terrace, for which I am still feeling guilty, especially as i must confess to actually enjoying the feeling at the time. But, after more excessive violence, they stopped.
Sometimes, we do things we are not proud of, but one can only take so much..

My next door neighbours cats (4) keep jumping on my flat roof which has plastic sheets on it as a temporary repair until it is all replaced. They use my roof as a means to get onto their own roof and in through their upstairs cat window; but the cats keep breaking the sheets when they grab the overhanging ends causing it to split and leak. So I use large kiddies windmills in that corner of the roof as they don't like the movement and it seems to have stopped them. I also stick kebab sticks in the areas of garden they like to use as a litter tray (points down) this puts them off crouching. I have low lying frames of chicken wire over areas like Lola's enclosure to stop them defecating on that, they don't like the feel of it under paws. I don't understand why people have cats yet completely pave over their garden so that the cats have to go and use neighbours land.

 

[Lyn W]

Well, hopefully she returned okay, but she never came back to the forum.
Another person wandering lost in the Dark.

She was having a hard time when her man left wasn't she? Hope she's OK.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Wow Ed - no wonder we've not seen much of you!
When you've finished practicing on your house will come and do mine?
I pay at least 50p an hour!

That's a fortune!
i'm in.