Good Morning Sunday, 29th June 2025

[Bruce]

Good morning all who follow here on this sunny winter’s day, only one more day and we enter the second half of the year and a new financial year. I remember a time when I would be madly getting ready to put my tax return in, not any more.

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend, I understand from the news this morning it is quite warm in Europe which must be nice. I wish it was warmer here.

This morning I had the wonderful idea of changing the lock on my garage door for the third set that I used for the front and rear door. That took up a fair portion of the morning because the old lock used smaller holes than the more modern locks (the garage is 45 years old) so the job involved a bit of chiselling and rasping. The door was a wooden frame with a metal skin, difficult to work with.

I was quite pleased with my afternoon efforts yesterday as I sprayed the fence line with my cheap Chinese Roundup and cleared up all the leaf litter from the recent winds.

Apart from that I have just been enjoying the sunshine this morning, some welcome rain is expected over the early part of next week as this East Coast Low forms off the coast.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend

Take care

[Rose2]

Good morning everyone, lovely and cool at the moment, only 22C, before we reach high 30s again later! It’s official, this Summer has set out to be one of those scorchers that we won’t forget. This is still better than having a “too” cool, rainy Summer like we’ve had in recent years. Living in the hilly countryside is tough during the Winter months, but it all pays off when hot Summertime arrives, inside we still don’t need any fans or A/C, while those living in town are struggling with trying to keep cool! I can’t wait to get all the grass cut and above all, the weeding! Our property looks like a jungle at the moment, our local “Mr Clarkson” will be coming soon to clean it all up with his big tractor. Speaking of which, I’ve started watching the 4th series, I’m a real fan of farmer Jeremy, I’ve watched him since the beginning. My husband used to love watching him in Top Gear, and even if we watched it dubbed in Italian, the British humour would clearly come through, and we would both have a good laugh!

I think I’ll pop outside now, to have some breakfast, take advantage of this lovely fresh air before the heat.
For Sunday lunch, roast pork , but in a pot, not in the oven. The oven warms up the kitchen too much!

Have a relaxing Sunday forum friends.

P. S. My little lemons are enjoying all this hot sunshine! So are the fig trees.

[mart]

Cool and grey this morning. I want to fix up a fence panel before the day warms up. It’s an awkward spot with the tree trunk at the corner of the garden but the panel I repaired and treated yesterday should bridge the gap between the other panels.

Have a good day everyone.

Edit: Better than it was…

[Chilliboot]

Good morning all!

What wonderful pictures Rose!
The very thought of being able to pick fresh lemons straight off the tree
It must be a totally different experience from using citrus fruit that has been languishing for heaven knows how long in a supermarket.

I’ll be off to the garden centre just down the road with Chilli jnr around eleven. The plants are ludicrously expensive so we’ll just be popping into the restaurant.

I’m just about all out of Coleman gas…

Since it’s impossible to source locally from a shop (remember those?) it’s being delivered by Amazon. I’ve also ordered a couple of spring loaded plummets, they compliment my wagglers. That’s angling talk by the way

Have a lovely Sunday people!

[swimfeeders]

Hi

Good Morning All.

A hot day forecast, so expecting problems with the water temperature in my Reef Tank.

I have a lot of TV recorded, so will be binge watching series today.

Not by choice, my heart is playing up again, so started on the maximum dose of Breakthrough Morphine and confined to my bed.

One such series is Murder 24/7, the trailers look interesting. a brutal murder, 5 convicted, 4 still on the run, in Shrewsbury, where I live, and a very nasty family event in Telford, where I worked.

They are mostly realtime, fly on the wall, bodycam footage, very little reconstruction.

The Shrewsbury one is partly filmed very local to me, and the Telford one includes scenes at Malinsgate Police Station, where I was based 3 nights a week for 4 years and I am told that I will recognise some faces.

I have never been Police, different role.

My coffee table looks like a drug dealers, in addition to my daily 4 slow release Morphine capsules, I now have 3 100ml bottles of Oral Morphine, and high dosage Pregabalin, 600 mg per day.

The Pregabalin is a Class C Drug, much in favour as a recreational drug now, involved in 1 in 3 deaths a year of addicts here in the UK.

Have a good day all and enjoy every minute .

[Tracyhello]

Happy Sunday everyone!x