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Yvonne G

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Ah, it all makes sense now. I just read the Esio Trot thread. Very clever, Adam. I hope no one posts on the thread and leaves it pristine so we can follow along the new unabridged version without posting interruptions.
 

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Ah, it all makes sense now. I just read the Esio Trot thread. Very clever, Adam. I hope no one posts on the thread and leaves it pristine so we can follow along the new unabridged version without posting interruptions.
Thank you, Yvonne. :)
That is the idea, and if someone posts i'll reply in here and try to keep it to as few interruptions as possible.
Also, it is usually hidden behind Pretend Chat, and being in the Books thread is unlikely to get too many views other than the Roommates.
 

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While we were doing some photography for Esio Trot, I decided to shove wifey up onto the roof of my stairwell and take some photos of our view.
It's the first time she's been on the terrace for nearly three years and the first time on the upper roof in about six or seven.
While she was up there she took this video.
 

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While we were doing some photography for Esio Trot, I decided to shove wifey up onto the roof of my stairwell and take some photos of our view.
It's the first time she's been on the terrace for nearly three years and the first time on the upper roof in about six or seven.
While she was up there she took this video.
It sounds very peaceful up there... it also sounds like getting up to your roof terrace isn't exactly straightforward! :eek:
 

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It sounds very peaceful up there... it also sounds like getting up to your roof terrace isn't exactly straightforward! :eek:
The main terrace is easy enough, just a couple of short flights of stairs, but the two upper terraces are basically roofs, one on top of my lab and the other above the stairwell, you need a little ladder to get up and still have to pull yourself up, but with a bit of most undignified pushing and shoving, I managed to force her over the lip. getting her down was interesting, too, but she's a game old thing and was marvelous about it all. :<3:
 

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Views from the top of my house.
SOUTH
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Right at the very bottom in the foreground you can see the tops of the trees in our garden.
Then the trees in the old abandoned school in the middleground.
Parts of the old city wall and on top of the mountain, the Borj Sud, or South Tower, a castle built by the French to control the rebellious Fassi (men of Fez) there is a tower on the opposite hill to the South. These have cannons that are fired for special occasions and to mark the daily start fasting, finish and get up to cook times in Ramadan .
 

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I'm feeling sorry for myself. My hand has swelled again :(

I an keeping up with the antihistamines and now have hydrocortisone cream to use on it too. Fortunately my wedding is normally loose, so it isn't constricting my finger.
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Oh, dear!
I wonder why it's swelling again ?
How odd.
Naughty wasp!
 

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Views from the top of my house.
South-South-East
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Here, centre-left, we can see part of the old school that is still used sometimes and immediately above it part of the old city wall with modern restoration of the crenulations. You can also see the line of the road that goes around the outside of the old medina. No cars in most of the main median, 9,600 streets with no motor vehicles, not even motorbikes. (except for postmen).
 

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View from my roof
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Here we can see the edge of my neighbours house, be are separated by a narrow alleyway which is jumpable, but no one does.
You can see more clearly part of the older city wall as a thin grey line, above the inner wall, running along the top of the hill.
The tall fort like building is actually an electricity sub-station.
There's also a collared-dove on the TV aerial.
 

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My turtle just ate a tiny tiny crumb of chocolate will he be OK?
Yes it will be OK if it was a tiny bit.

But a tortoise doesn't get to chocolate by accident.

Sugar is bad for your tort's health. Your tort cannot digest it properly - it causes digestive and kidney problems - so fruit, tomato, carrot and bell pepper should only be fed very sparingly and very occasionally if at all. Banana and any foods with added sugars like chocolate must not be fed.

Don't let your tort out of its enclosure where it can eat things that can harm it.
 
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