Good morning MaJ. I think the North Eastern expression for the temperature is 'nithering' although I grew up calling it Baltic.

As my aunt used to say, may the best you've ever seen be the worst you'll ever know. Something like that anyway.

Have a good one.

Our back garden needs a load of work, it’s like yours, mostly wild but with a sun trap in the far corner where we get the sun most of the day.
We have a decent sized pond by the house, with a reed bed filter. It all needs sorting out, but can’t get together the energy to tackle it.

The front garden is more formal, it also needs a bit of TLC.

It would be easier with help, but that’s not forthcoming.
Maybe when it gets warmer I’ll get out there.

Oh dear, some deals are too good to be true 😆

All boys are like that when learning to drive I suspect 😆

And so soon after winding @NormanDunbar up, I feel terrible about that now.

That was a hell of a good emergency stop though, he did really well, I almost had to put a call out for a change of underwear, almost, brilliant reactions, no skidding and totally calm, on the outside, mum told me otherwise. I'll offer to go out again tomorrow, see if it'll boost his confidence.

Mr D. Won’t mind, he takes the mick all the time 😆

Good on the lad , emergency stops out of the blue are no fun ! Good on you for encouraging him !

MrD is indeed fine with being mocked, laughed at, having the piss taken, or wound up. Worry not.

I'm a firm believer that if you can't laugh at yourself first, don't laugh at anyone else.

And Morning all. Have a good one. I'm on doggy duties today as MrsD is off on a 10 mile walk! Madness.

Thank heavens for that.

I certainly think I've stumbled into my kind of weird with you lot though.

*COUGHS LOUDLY, I'm still here you know.

*wanders off, waving my arms about, muttering about the cats mother.

I called you by your name Rose, I have to use pronouns somewhere.

Anyway we were whispering , I didn’t think you could hear 🤦‍♂️ 🤭

There’s that magic word again ..

Cake.

Hey I swear I had a slice of cake in the pantry - where’s it gone ???

Paul …. ???

Hey !

I’ve heard of taking candy from a baby , but nicking cake from a Squirrel is taking it a bit far ! 🙄🤦‍♂️

Easier though.

Hey squirrel, look, a dog.

Squirrel runs away leaving all the cake unguarded.

I feel that it may be both but caused by the algorithms the platforms use which are fueling the aggression we see far too often from otherwise decent people.

We are told to believe catch phrases. Meta/WhatsApp tells us there is 'end to end encryption on all messages. Sure but then its backed up onto theirs or a Google server which is unencrypted. Why don't more people use signal or matrix?