COLD DARK ROOM

[Lyn W]

No, let's go out there!
It's in the "life zone" as well, where the temperature is right for liquid water.
Very exciting.
Proxima Centauri, here i come!

Proxima Centauri may be a bit hot - try Proxima b.
- pack an enormous bag for the journey, and they may not provide in flight meals so you'll need a big sandwich box too.

 

[Lyn W]

Off to Bath tomorrow (the city not my annual ablution)
Hopefully the weather will be OK - it's pouring down at the moment.
So I'd better say goodnight and get some sleep.
Hope you all have good Thursdays too
See you sometime tomorrow,
Nos da,

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Proxima Centauri may be a bit hot - try Proxima b.
- pack an enormous bag for the journey, and they may not provide in flight meals so you'll need a big sandwich box too.

I will insist that the cargo hold is full of cheese.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Off to Bath tomorrow (the city not my annual ablution)
Hopefully the weather will be OK - it's pouring down at the moment.
So I'd better say goodnight and get some sleep.
Hope you all have good Thursdays too
See you sometime tomorrow,
Nos da,

My favourite city in the UK.
wifey and i used to book the Royal Box the the theatre there at least once a month for several years.
And we got married in the Roman Baths there (not the actual watery bits, but the building, though we spent time down by the baths themselves)
Photos later this week.
We were the first to do this, and it was so successful they asked if they could use our special day as a model and sell it for couples getting married.
Wish I'd asked for a percentage. We said, "yes", and Harper's magazine this month named it as one of Britain's top 5 wedding venues.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Off to Bath tomorrow (the city not my annual ablution)
Hopefully the weather will be OK - it's pouring down at the moment.
So I'd better say goodnight and get some sleep.
Hope you all have good Thursdays too
See you sometime tomorrow,
Nos da,

Nos da, Lyn.
Hope the weather's good for you and you have a splendid day in Aquae Sulis.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

How about a new topic?
Kids?
No kids?
Why? (optional)
Me. No kids.
Though I have raised and supported five step kids during two marriages and currently have three step grandkids. (If there IS such a thing?)
I was always afraid of having children. I thought that I would be too selfish. Too immature.And most of my girlfriends I didn't think made very good "Mom" material.
I also grew up with no father and I wasn't in a hurry to pass down that whole ordeal.
As chance would have it, I married two of the three women that I fell in love with and both of them had previously had children and had had their tubes tied. So unless something very unlikely happens, (I'm 51) My family tree ends with a dead limb!
On a side note, I've only very recently started to regret not having kids.
At least I wont have someone telling me what a lousy parent I was.

No kids.
Dislike them (with a very few exceptions). Even when i was a child i disliked most other children.
Always was too busy and too self-absorbed.
Too late for wifey, now.
I too sometimes feel sad that my family stops here (2 brothers dead with no children either).
And i could have taught a child a thing or two.
Tidgy is my little girl but she will never understand convergent evolution.

 

[144 Grandpa Turtle]

But you have all of us ! Evan me a61 year old child !

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I've had the same job for 33 years, but as far as being married. 12 years. We've been together for 18.

Job ?
Married 115 years, together 236, feels like longer.
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! ow! Ow!
Ow!
wifey says its married 15 years, together 17 years, the time has flown by.
Ahem.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

But you have all of us ! Evan me a61 year old child !

True, Gramps, very true.
Bunch of delinquents
Let's all never grow up!

 

[144 Grandpa Turtle]

True, Gramps, very true.
Bunch of delinquents
Let's all never grow up!

Don't forget the Bud !
And your one of us !

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Don't forget the Bud !
And your one of us !

I will never forget the Bud.
or my buddies.
And I am, indeed, one of us.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I'm using the cool Morocco wallet that Adam sent me.
I tossed my other wallet with my pants into the washing machine and it flew apart!

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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Though they can't spell Morocco in Morocco.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

nice . did he send and money in it

it is illegal to send money out of Morocco.
The man at the Post Office who checked the parcel would have "confiscated it".

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

NO.
WAS HOPING FOR A FEW ANCIENT gold coins.

Never realized you were a numismatist, Ed.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

It is SO unlike an American wallet. There are no spots for a credit card. That speaks volumes!!

Do you use the word wallet in the US ?
Isn't 'billfold' used over there ?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I own six pair including a pair of bright lime green leather size 14 sport riding boots. (Something to behold!!) Two pair of black boots. Two pair of sneakers and some new hiking boots that I've never hiked in....But plan to.
Oh, also my work shoes. They are of the $10 variety. So 7 pair.

A pair of brogues to wear, a pair for best, a pair of sandals I never wear and three pairs of slippers.
My walking boots have fallen apart and need to be replaced.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

What he sent one with a camel on it!!!?
Hope he slipped a lump sum in it?
It's very nice!

One less camel in Morocco.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Fido likes to watch the sunrise View attachment 171206

That is beautiful!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

My daughter got some internet in Canada while we were asleep last night.

She sent some pictures - she's working every day with Black Tailed Prairie Dogs like this
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The pups are due to emerge soon, so the pictures should get cuter

Wow!
Super.

 

[Moozillion]

Thank you very much.
I shall be using baked beans as my substrate, as they allow for burrowing and are good for retaining humidity.