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@dolmansaxlil
Super thread. And love your photography.
What camera did you use?

@Bernard said

@Steve-Miller Many the time I saw rats on the subway tracks waiting for the train in the NYC subway system!

Same on the London Underground. When a train approaches they vanish.

Jack Russel dogs are our ratters though any small terrier like Border or Patterdale or Fox will have the natural instinct.

We looked at a CofE house for sale in Normanby (needing major works) only a few weeks before buying this one.
Seen no rats, but they are everywhere.

I have natural yoghurt with blueberries, raspberries and banana, which makes a nice snack or desert

Don't be too envious Chas, even helping is tiring. And we're 3 years in.. These people who buy a (DIY) Château or a (Help I bought a )small village, need years of stamina and teamwork.

But thanks for the comments which are encouraging.
Seven days in on the three areas of cladding and we're about to start painting the third window area, which went from install new cladding to window restoration

Those cherry scones look delicious. With butter for me please.

A stormy day outside meant time to saw & glue an 8'x4' board of 12mm structural ply (into two full pieces and two half pieces) to make a 36mm base for our sofa project.

Cushions all round will take considerably more thought and time

We just had a moderate storm for about 6 hours. Steady rain but gusty winds over 60mph. Main action was over Scotland.

So garden watered nicely thank you, and a day off from our carpenter/cladding.

@wtg said in
programs to watch via Channel 4.

Trying to remember channel 4 stuff...
8 out of 10 cats
Timeteam
Drop the Dead Donkey
Father Ted (you'll either love or hate this)

Nothing currently

I read it hit 112f (44c) in Cyprus last week.

Chas,
There's not one place on the Sotherbys site I could afford.

Some gorgeous properties like this...
https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-494-6lbvm5/villa-katsura-virgin-gorda-vi

Daniel, man with as expensive taste as me, I've found you a London pad to complement your small country Georgian estate; possibly the most expensive place I've seen

https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-691-r9helm/one-hyde-park-knightsbridge-london-en-sw1x

PS.
Don't you love the way they converted the £175mil into dollars exactly

Our Town Hall a colourful gay display, with geranium pathways and hanging baskets of petunias

Sometimes our ongoing inventiveness, the beauty we are capable of creating, astounds me.

https://swisswatches-magazine.com/a-closer-look-the-van-cleef-arpels-midnight-planetarium-a-universe-on-the-wrist/

Ok it's also impractical, effectively useless; and an obscene price.
Who else would love to own one?

Mums (I think or dahlias?)

In the Library paying my fine today, my attention was caught by this

So I sat, read the dust jacket, intro, forward and afterward. Author picked a random day in US from 2013, found 10 youngsters had been killed in shootings (actually more if you count those who died some time after) and wrote about them.
Now I didn't borrow it (bit busy helping with DIY) , but it was interesting reading the gist:

Grand Designs 2007 March 14th
Series 7 episode 3
The Medway Barge

Friends (a time when our kids knew theirs) decided to get out of the insane London housing market and bought a barge. And use recycled sustainable materials. Don't think they had a design tbh.

It didn't go well.
The episode is highly entertaining as you shout "no no no", and "for gods sake get matching windows" etc

Massive amount of money lost (£100k). Boathouse a pariah evicted from moorings it is so ugly.
Think they split up. She Sze (pronounced szi) is a lovely person. Daughter is now a model.

Years later it was adrift. Another couple took it on and redesigned & built it properly...£200k

Such a moody & evocative photo, with the cloudburst

Fab house, lovely.
I know it's got a beach but an indoor pool would be nice to have.