COLD DARK ROOM

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hello peeps!!!
I have some pictures from the pier for you folks.
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Very pretty, but looks a bit chilly to me.
Unless that is sheets of plastic in the water

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I go to sleep for the night and had to catch up on 5 pages! Adam will have a hard time...

It's very amusing.
And it's my job.
I started this madness, so am entirely to blame for the reams of nonsense posted here.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Ask aunt google and the www and you`ll get all these pics and all answers....

That is horrible!
McDonalds has a lot to answer for!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

AAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMM !!!!
The yellyfish need you !

Jellyfish recharged.
Normal service will be resumed shortly.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

AAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMM !
The yellyfish need new Energizer batteries !

No, one just plugs them in to to the coffee machine electrical supply for a few minutes each.
One or two of them exploded, but we have plenty more.

 

[Bee62]

No, one just plugs them in to to the coffee machine electrical supply for a few minutes each.
One or two of them exploded, but we have plenty more.

Exploded ? I don`t want to see that mess !
Good afternoon Adam. Glad you are back. That was really only a short trip. Hope you and wifey had wonderful days in Spain.
Until you had been away we created some nice stuff for you to read. Enjoy !

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good evening all. So today we started at the Wallace Collection. Sir Richard Wallace was a collector from 300 years ago who turned his house into a museum. It’s just off Oxford Street - the main shopping street - and free. I don’t know why we haven’t been before; it’s brilliant.

I particularly liked this 17th century “ostrich”. I am not sure the silversmith had ever seen one before. Look at its ears!
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Then we went for afternoon tea at the Connaught Hotel in Mayfair (a very posh area)
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The Lumiere Festival of lights is on in London this weekend so we walked off a few calories admiring the lights
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And we finished at the theatre... to watch a play called The Ferryman. It was very good, quite funny, but as the plot was about the Irish troubles in the 1970s it got rather intense and sad at the end.

And then the tube back to the train station was a little crowded... I couldn’t move!
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We’re on the train home now. Our children travelled from Bristol and Southampton and met each other to see the lights then met us on the train, so we have them visiting for the night

All sounds rather lovely!
The ostrich is brilliant and the lights very pretty.
But I don't like crowds.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Lovely postcards, as always.
Does anyone know the story behind that ostrich? If so, I’m all ears.

Oh, goodness.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Just think, it would be like describing an “Adam” to an 18th Century sculptor... and having the finished item delivered to your doorstep.. what would be delivered?

I shudder to think!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I asked the www and I found the answer ( to my question too )
https://www.wallacecollection.org/whatson/treasure/188

Well done, Sabine!
Very interesting!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I don`t want to imagine ....

Ahem!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

That looks like the London Natural History Museum’s Blue Whale - named Hope - that’s moved to the main entrance while “Dippy the Diplodocus” has gone on tour.

I miss Dippy.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Yip it is bad. I have just spent the whole day doing laundry and carrying the water from the washing machine to water the garden. First load/cycle of water goes into the garden (I use an environmentally friendly washing powder). The rinsing water got recycled back to be used again in the first cycle of the next load and the last loads water has been bottled into lots of 5ltr empty water bottles I have saved and will be used for the toilet. When we shower we save that water as well and use it for the toilet and or garden. I buy 5ltr bottled water for drinking and save the empty bottles for the water we save from showering . Baby's soaking water goes into the seedlings I have planted in a planter box. They say from Feb onwards we are only allowed to us 50ltrs per person per day. And they are talking of day zero where we will have to queue for water and each person will only be allowed to take 25ltrs. How we are going to be able to do that and still put in a full day at work is what I want to know, nevermind the people who don't have cars. We will also have to pay for it as we collect, so for those who don't have money I don't know what they are going to do.

That is terrifying and horrible!
I so hope and wish that you get some rain from somewhere.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Oh no. Crying is allowed in the CDR. It is a place of welcome, solace and comfort. Points are never lost for crying

Only over spilt milk.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Personally, I think we wait for Adam for points. He is in charge of them

Other people can give points, too.
Otherwise I don't get any.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

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Home Contents Insurance not included.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I’ve put myself in “time out “ -

You can join me on the naughty step.
I'm often there.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I think by “crying” Mark actually referred to Carol’s disguised attempt to protest the score. I personally found it funny.
Crying in any other sense is welcome whenever one needs it.
I should get some minus points too, by the way. Didn’t know what on Earth that was, and I’ve actually been to the Natural History Museum in London.

They probably had Dippy there at the time.
The whale is quite new.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Coffee break!
In light of my recent reading (“A Cheetah’s Tale” by Princess Michael of Kent), here’s a cheetah on David Letterman’s show:

“Our” street dog from Turkey, the one who adopted us, was part Anatolian Shepherd:
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He’d follow daughter to the park and scare away any strangers. He was very suspicious of my visitors. He hated cats but never touched mine, even though it was clear he wanted to. One more dear friend we had to leave behind.

That's sad.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

... found a wonderful little poem to brighten your day, maybe for your husband / wifey too ???? ..... äähemmm .... Try .....

wifey was not impressed.