COLD DARK ROOM

[Tidgy's Dad]

We appreciate that you are our roommate, Todd. Glad that you have found us.

Hear! Hear!

 

[EllieMay]

That sounds lovely!

Well we didn’t take the boat to Caddo but we did put it in the little lake behind the house. I worked on the enclosure all morning. Breaker for lunch and a Walmart run .. Still a good productive day

 

[JoesMum]

So for those of you struggling with app notifications: It happened to me today and I appear to have fixed it.

I logged in to the website using the browser on my phone and had 832 notifications. I tapped the notifications and it showed me a list but just tapped on the web page and the number cleared.

The app notifications are now working perfectly again. It may be a coincidence, but it is worth a try!

 

[EllieMay]

YES PLEASE ! Pics !

I’ll have to substitute lake pics since we didn’t put in at Caddo.. but I will still endeavor to take some nice ones. The men are napping at the moment while I work.. figures[emoji848]

 

[EllieMay]

Hello, Ellie, and a very warm welcome to the Cold Dark Room.
I see you've become a bit of a regular.
Maybe in a while we can engage in a little bonding and do some Meerkat exterminating together?
Jolly nice to finally meet you.

Well that just sounds like a pea-picking good time!! Thank you for the warm welcome kind sir!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Yesv it was. But not to worry. I am so over birthdays at my age.

I'm not! ! ! !

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hope everyone had a great day. It's absolutely sweltering here in GA these past few days. Kind of glad I work in a freezer . My tortoise Murphy seems to be enjoying it outside though. I've been spraying him down with the hose every so often to keep him cool.

Tidgy stands under my outside tap and stares at me until i go over and turn it on. About three minutes and she's done and strolls off.
Until the next time!

 

[Lyn W]

HERE ???

That's the one!
Sad story but quite a jolly tune

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good morning all.

Let me introduce you to Billy. Billy is a Pipistrelle bat staying with my daughter for a couple of nights while his regular carer is away. He hasn’t been well, but is on the road to recovery.
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His story currently sounds very like Lola... he’s trying it on! He needs to eat live mealworms, but will only eat them if you pull the head off first! And Daughter was also told that he wouldn’t fly, but as soon as he arrived he started flying round the room. Fortunately Daughter had closed both the window of the room and the door before feeding Billy!

I love pipistrelles!
I kept one for a while once when it fell down our chimney (back in the UK) and injured itself.
Very lovely and gentle little things. (apart from the occasional biting) .

 

[Lyn W]

Greetings from Copenhagen!
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2B or not 2B — that is the question.
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I wonder if his name is Toby.....Toby or not Toby

 

[Bambam1989]

I like chicken sausage ![emoji33]

I like some chicken sausage. There is a sweet apple one that is really yummy!

 

[Lyn W]

The bacon is at the back between the mushrooms and the tomatoes.

We call blood sausage “Black Pudding” ... and I love it.

Some butchers don’t make it as a sausage. It’s made as a slab in a tray and you cut slices from it. There’s a particularly good but her in Masham (pronounced Massum) in North Yorkshire that does this. Masham is home to Theakston’s brewery - particularly good beers too, the most famous of which is a stout called Old Peculier

I used to love black pudding until I became old enough to realise what it was - never eaten it since!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Can't go wrong with nutella

Bleuch! ! ! !

 

[Lyn W]

Good morning all. The tide is in an we are enjoying our first cuppa on the balcony
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Last night’s sunset was stunning again
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Unfortunately there was a field fire on the Isle of Sheppey yesterday (where we went birdwatching) We can’t see it this morning, so hopefully it is out. This is what we could see yesterday
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Our children are joining us today which we are really looking forward to Have a great weekend all.

Those sunsets look like they belong on Mars - absolutely stunning.
Hope the fire is under control.
Have a lovely weekend with the family!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Not in the UK they don't [emoji23] It's not warm enough here!

Cricket is a slow game, I would say marginally more interesting than baseball (and yes I have been to matches in Baltimore and Boston), but with considerably less intelligible rules to those not used to it. I am not sure I understand the rules fully, but I have a better idea than many

It's a brilliant game!
This last three days and a session game against India was sensational!

 

[Lyn W]

Exciting news! (Ok, probably just exciting to me) hubby says he should have lights back in my art room within a day or two! Yay! I might get to work on that sculpture again soon!

Don't get too excited - you'll give yourself an art attack!

 

[Lyn W]

Ah, Lyn! Your sense of humor rocks!

I know - I'm absolutely marbleous and oresome - even if I do say it myself!

 

[Bambam1989]

Don't get too excited - you'll give yourself an art attack!

I'll draw the line before I get to worked up.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

One last pix of some bumblebees on the sunflowers..

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Beautiful!

 

[Lyn W]

Have you ever eaten them? They are not slimey!

Nope but they look slimy and slithery and I can't eat anything I don't like the look of.
Can't even eat mayonnaise, salad cream or anything in white sauce because it reminds of the time our dog was sick when I was a kid.
I know, I know Just point me in the direction of the nearest shrink!