Wordless Wednesday

Easy Life for Sergeant Podge

Shame about the Lizards

Sorry guys, I should have looked at the terms and conditions (which I just have) but they do say "download", not that you can't watch it as a streaming video, but I guess they mean both. Bummer! It's sure to be shown in Mericky, Canada, Australia, and other countries, at some time in the future hopefully.

Some new friends have asked who Pinky is. Here is a portrait of him:




Handsome devil, ain't he? You'd never know he's actually a bean, ha ha!

Lizards!

For Daisy and All Other Lizard Catchers Likers

This is a programme I watched on TV last night. It was fantastic and you can watch on the innernets by going here. Enjoy!

A First for Sunday

Well I'll go to the top of our stairs, for the very first time Pinky has commented on my blog, yay!!!

Speaking of which, you were all right; both (a), (b) and (c) apply (and (d) and (e) which the lovely Diamond Emerald Eyes added, heh heh!).

BTW, Echo Falls wine comes from California and it's nice (or at least the red is, haven't tried the white or rose). JB asked me this. Storm's Bean has tried the rose and found it a bit vinegary. The red is a little that way too, but paupers can't be choosers, I have to go for cheap and cheerful, ha ha! There are three websites mentioned on the label but they're all sort of directory sites and don't have any info. on Echo Falls at all, as far as I can see.

Hope you're all having a fab weekend and will have a great week:)

P.S. Sorry the print's so big. I only wanted the first paragraph big but try as I might, Blogger insists on making the whole post big. Still, that might be helpful for other visually challenged people!

Easy Like Sunday Evening

Cheers evfurrybody!




Why am I drinking wine out of a tumbler?

(a) Coz I'm clumsy?

(b) Coz it's difficult to video while raising a full glass?

(c) Both?

No prizes I'm afraid!

Have a good week evfurrybody:) xxx

I can't believe it's Friday again!

Is time speeding up or what?!? It seems like just a few hours ago I was taking these videos through my (shut) bedroom windows. You may want to turn your volume down a tad...

I can't believe I took these on Tuesday! Anyhoo, this is what is going on in my street at present. New plastic gas pipes are being fitted to replace the old metal ones, which corrode. Usually the workmen arrive at some uncatly hour of the morning, like 8 or 8.30 a.m. and start drilling very loudly (much louder than whatever this guy is doing). Well, actually, they can't really drill quietly, now I come to think of it, but to add insult to injury they usually only work till about 10.30 or 11 a.m. and then they bugg bog off! By this time I'm thoroughly awake, though still feeling tired, and my head feels as though eleventy-twelve dentists have been drilling holes in all my teeth! Now I know this is necessary work, but where do they go after only about two hours' work? To another job? Home? Dunno, but it seems to me that if they did a whole day's work each day the job would be finished much quicker, but then who am I to question the working hours of the British workman?! I only know that if I'd put in so few hours at my job, I wouldn't have had the job for long... ::sigh::.

Anyway, I digress. On Tuesday they did work (almost) all day (except for a very long break at around about lunchtime) and they cut off my gas (which was probably a good thing, you can't be messing with gas when the pipes are being changed) and put a card through the door saying I needed to be "purged and relighted (sic)" with a number to call for this to be arranged. So I rang the number, only to be told I'd rung the number for another area. The lady I spoke to gave me the right number for my area, which I duly rang. When the lady who took my call had taken my details, I asked how long I would have to wait and she said anywhere up to four hours unless they got a call-out to a gas leak, in which case it could be longer. By this time the house was getting pretty cold. Anyway, to cut to the anticlimax, the engineer arrived about one and a half hours later, thank goodness, so I didn't quite have icicles hanging from my nose (ewww)!!

I don't know why I've rambled on like this, I can't imagine it will be of much interest to you, dear readers, but there you go, I'm obviously having a fit of the verbosities, lol!

On a completely different note, I would like to thank all those who have commented on mine bloggie and/or signed my guestbook. I really love reading your comments and looking at all your lovely faces and messages on the guestbook. I will try and catch up with you all over the weekend. One person who signed my guestbook but didn't leave a comment was Amanda C of Reno, NV. I don't know if she has a blog or website and I can't find anyone from Reno in my stats or through Google, so if you read this Amanda, please leave a comment if you have a blog or website so I can visit you. Meanwhile I'd like to thank you for saying my blog is nice:)

I hope you all have a super duper weekend:)

Lovely Lunch and Washed Up Wood

Hi there! I'm way behind on reading blogs and blogging myself. What on earth do I do all day that makes me get so far behind? Well, I sleep a lot, but sometimes I do actually get out of the house! For example, on Wednesday Pinky and Grumpy took me out to lunch.

There were meant to be four of us but Maggie couldn't come, unfortunately. She lives in Portugal so we will have to wait until she comes over again.

We had lunch in a pub restaurant near to where Grumpy lives. The food was delicious. I forgot to photograph it! I had rump steak with a Jack Daniels sauce. Actually, if I'd only thought about it, I should have videoed it because it arrived on a metal platter and was literally sizzling and still cooking; awesome!

Grumpy had a massive burger and Pinky had chicken carbonara.

After that we went down to see the wood that was washed up on the beach a week or so ago. It's amazing, it goes all along the coast from Southampton to Hastings or something. A long way anyhoo. We stopped near another favourite haunt, Carats, and took pictures. The public are forbidden from taking any of this wood (surely that must contravene maritime law? Dunno) and quite a lot of it has already been cleared by the authorities, but as you can see, there is still a lot left! In defiance Grumpy took a piece for his brother, who is building a new garden shed. I think he might need quite a bit more wood than the piece Grumpy took, ha ha!



After that we went to Carats and had a cup of tea (each, that is, not one between us, haha!).

Hope evfurrybody is having a great Sunday:)

BTW, there will be more about Grumpy in a future posting. He is a very talented bloke!