COLD DARK ROOM

[johnandjade]

evenooning all, been a busy boy, working in the rain but hey if i didn't do it today someone else would tomorrow.

going to email mr ed, looks like he'll be getting hit hard. i have no doubt he's prepared and taken every and all precautions

 

[Gillian M]

evenooning all, been a busy boy, working in the rain but hey if i didn't do it today someone else would tomorrow.

going to email mr ed, looks like he'll be getting hit hard. i have no doubt he's prepared and taken every and all precautions

Hi John. Hope you are well.

Any news from Ed @ZEROPILOT ?

 

[johnandjade]

Hi John. Hope you are well.

Any news from Ed @ZEROPILOT ?

good evenooning ma'am, nothing yet but i will let you know when i do

 

[JoesMum]

The eye of Irma is pretty much over Naples, FL at the moment which is bad news for Greg aka Aldabraman


(Time is my local time in the UK!)

windy.com

 

[johnandjade]

ed is fine.

 

[Bee62]

Good evening CDR.

 

[johnandjade]

good mornooning all, thank tort it's monday! today begins the cut down on the beer.

nasty images on TV, thoughts go to all affected

 

[JoesMum]

good mornooning all, thank tort it's monday!

Good morning all. It's a chilly-feeling 11C/52F this morning. The sun is out, so hopefully it will warm up quite quickly.

JoesDad was up bright and early and he's driving to Cambridgeshire to work. He'll be home on Wednesday.

Son returns to university on Friday, so this week will involve laundry and packing.

today begins the cut down on the beer.

You can do this John. The tartan spartan has strength... I'd suggest Ir'n Bru as an alternative, but you would probably end up with no teeth! Tea is probably safer as long as you don't load it with sugar

nasty images on TV, thoughts go to all affected

Very nasty images. Irma is losing speed, but is still very nasty. It seems to have moved quicker in the last few hours than it did over the weekend.

Ed posted in the Hurricane Irma thread that he's without power and has lost a fence and has damage to the roof, but he's OK and his property is dry.

 

[Gillian M]

good evenooning ma'am, nothing yet but i will let you know when i do

Hi John.

Any news from Ed?

That hurricane seems to be a disaster!

 

[Gillian M]

ed is fine.

Thanks the info, John. He did get me worried, as he posted an alert saying that he has no electricity any more.

 

[Gillian M]

everyone at CDR.​

 

[JSWallace]

Morning all. Sorry I have been absent for a bit, my 82 year old Mum has just had major spinal surgery so my time has been taken up with hospital visits. I have been watching the progress of Irma, I hope you are ok Ed and not sustained too much serious damage?

Linda, did you find the missing tetra?!
John, I am in awe of your glass!
Hello Sabine, I hope it's warmed up a bit in Germany, is wet and grim here!
Hello all!

 

[Gillian M]

Morning all. Sorry I have been absent for a bit, my 82 year old Mum has just had major spinal surgery so my time has been taken up with hospital visits. I have been watching the progress of Irma, I hope you are ok Ed and not sustained too much serious damage?

Linda, did you find the missing tetra?!
John, I am in awe of your glass!
Hello Sabine, I hope it's warmed up a bit in Germany, is wet and grim here!
Hello all!

Good morning.

Sorry to hear your mother underwent an operation, and hope she is now better. Wishing her a very speedy recovery.

 

[JSWallace]

Good morning.

Sorry to hear your mother underwent an operation, and hope she is now better. Wishing her a very speedy recovery.

Thanks Gillian, she is in hospital but they are taking good care of her, I am just hoping she isn't there for too long.

 

[JoesMum]

Morning all. Sorry I have been absent for a bit, my 82 year old Mum has just had major spinal surgery so my time has been taken up with hospital visits.

Your poor Mum! Having had 2 major spine ops myself , I know how slow and frustrating recovery can be. And I was 40 when I had my ops, not 82! I hope she is back on her feet quickly and that she listens to the occupational therapists! Walking really does help.

It took me about a fortnight to get further than the end of the drive, but I went out every day without fail - regardless of the weather - and just targeted getting a tiny bit further than the previous day each time... Some days it was literally only a couple of yards further.

Oh, and the ironing board makes a good dining table while you're not allowed to sit in a chair.

Linda, did you find the missing tetra?!

Sadly, we found the corpse last night. So we have a very bewildered shoal of two tetras. They need company, but we don't want to get more fish until the water is fine again.

I am going to pop over to the garden centre later and pick up a different ammonia test kit as the one we have isn't being very helpful on the actual score. Nitrate, nitrite, etc in the water are all fine now.

That said, tetras are cheap so it might be worth getting some anyway.

 

[JoesMum]

Updates from Irma can be found here
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/hurricane-irma.160561/

Here are Ed's

Back fence is down.
Tree split in half and fell and I'm missing some roofing.
But no water in the house.
It's amazing how much foul weather is this far from the storm!

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My electricity is out.
I guess everyone's is.
I won't be able to get my generator fired up until the morning...If it's safe.
Then I can charge the phone and get things going again.
Speak to y'all then.

 

[JSWallace]

Your poor Mum! Having had 2 major spine ops myself , I know how slow and frustrating recovery can be. And I was 40 when I had my ops, not 82! I hope she is back on her feet quickly and that she listens to the occupational therapists! Walking really does help.

It took me about a fortnight to get further than the end of the drive, but I went out every day without fail - regardless of the weather - and just targeted getting a tiny bit further than the previous day each time... Some days it was literally only a couple of yards further.

Oh, and the ironing board makes a good dining table while you're not allowed to sit in a chair.


Sadly, we found the corpse last night. So we have a very bewildered shoal of two tetras. They need company, but we don't want to get more fish until the water is fine again.

I am going to pop over to the garden centre later and pick up a different ammonia test kit as the one we have isn't being very helpful on the actual score. Nitrate, nitrite, etc in the water are all fine now.

That said, tetras are cheap so it might be worth getting some anyway.

Although she is 82 she is very healthy and determined so nothing will stop her from recovering as quickly as possible. In fact I will probably have more problems trying to stop her from pushing herself to do things too quickly. Unfortunately she also needs a knee replacement so she has that to look forward to once she is recovered!

Once I got over the trauma of losing all my fish last year I really enjoyed restocking my tank. I spent a long time thinking about what I really wanted and decided to go for smaller fish, it ended up looking really good, I can waste hours watching them!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good morning folks. It has been unusually quiet in the CDR overnight.

Today JoesDad and I celebrate our 27th wedding anniversary with packing to leave here tomorrow, finishing off the cheese supply at lunch and a meal in the village restaurant this evening.

Hope you had a nice anniversary.
Points for the cheese mention.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good morning Adam,

hope the "lonely boy" is well......

Fine thanks.
Just computer problems and now my dvd player has broken, so out to buy a new one today.
Good afternoon, Sabine.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good afternoon Adam.

Don't tell me I'm not to "like" a post here at CDR please.

Okay, then.
Hello, Gillian.
I'm back!