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One last look, as we toiled up the steps to the Festival Theatre in the park to visit the loo before our journey home:

Ducks on the pond!





I call this one 'getting my ducks in a row'

Here's the bandstand, and some of the audience :) The park was full of happy families with kids playing and running around and doing gymnastics and football - nice kids who kept their balls/games out of the way of the older adults - many of whom looked well into their 90s - a true all-age event. [br...

Because of all the rain we've had, everywhere is the prettiest shade of greens from lime to deep fir green. And the sky was astonishingly blue all day with scarcely a cloud - oh - well there was this one [br] cloudflippedsmile.jpg [br] (That's avery poor version of what @adailycloud does on instagra...

Yesterday we decided to go to Great Malvern, one of our favourite places, about a 45 minute drive from Toddington, and if you go via Bredon, Eckington and Upton on Severn, a very pretty drive it is too. We stopped on the way to collect Juliet, and then onwards to the Waitrose in Malvern to buy picni...

I had to eat from a floorboard when we went to Tewkesbury Park for our brunch the other week. Did you have to employ the five-second rule? :rofl Nice one Eccs! I hope you get it back soon, OC :hugs We had a lovely day out in Malvern yesterday, one of the Picnics in the Park with a brass (or other) ...

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1 The OED’s first citation for “video game” mentions which Atari product? 2 Which river has Damietta and Rosetta branches? 3 Who were bribed in the 1950s payola scandal? 4 Which poet was nicknamed the White Myth of Amherst? 5 What athletics world record has stood at 7291 since 1988? 6 Which PM was ...

5/7 Loved the way the 'anna' question got puzzled out with teamwork! 9 Musical artist rainbow colours: Simply Red; Orange Juice; Yello; Green Day; Blue; Indigo Girls; Tessa Violet. 10 Punt definitions. 11 Chicago Seven activists on trial in 1969. 12 Books by Polish authors: Ryszard Kapuscinski; Olga...

Very good indeed - full house!!


1 King Arthur and Guinevere.
2 Insanity.
3 Bessie Smith.
4 Aramaic (scholarly consensus).
5 Deal or No Deal.
6 Christmas Day.
7 Bittern.
8 Seven Years’ war.

Oh poor old Dot - how could you ever live that down!

Wildrover wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 4:54 pm I didn't like the Swiss song or the singer's outfit but there's no doubt their flag is a big plus..

Oh my goodness, Eccles, what an amazing capture!

The big complicated ones can be £100. I paid about £45 for mine. Jacket potatoes are another good one. Microwave for 20 mins or so first then airfry till soft inside and crisp out. Much quicker and cheaper than a big oven, and taste Ovened rather than Microwaved. How's it going with your airfryer, E...

Are the pizzas served on floor boards. Yes - or sliced railway sleepers, I couldn't tell which. :devil :lol I had to eat from a floorboard when we went to Tewkesbury Park for our brunch the other week. I acted like it was the most normal thing in the world and we eat from floorboards all the time. ...

Interesting discussion! and I enjoyed hearing about Mum's Grand Tour of Iceland

Not a sniff of them for me again. I took a couple of hopeful pics but nothing :(

I can't believe how lucky Sam and Juliet are with them!

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Yep there's a few loons on Twitter all right @themetallicmoon · 15h Climate change is crazy, cannot believe this is happening, this is not natural! I’m an aerospace engineer and astrophysicist. The northern lights are very shy and only like the cold; the fact that they are straying this far toward t...

Imagine if its just me and merry left running the country. :bed :bed :devil [br] Eccles if you see that 'high cloud' again tonight, try pointing your camera at it! Juliet said at first they thought it was just high cloud in a pale sky they were looking at, but then realised that WAS the NLs, the Mi...

We seem to have got out of the habit of watching this which was a must-see every year, but no doubt we'll catch some of it.

Apparently the Dutch entry is in doubt owing to 'an incident backstage' (no details yet.)