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Title: Welocme to springtime!
Post by: oldspice on March 21, 2009, 09:02:42 am
For the last few days we have had beautiful, warm sunshine. Yesterday, I was able to cut my grass for the second time this year. This morning the birds are singing, daffodils are gently swaying in the breeze and a multitude of brightly coloured crocus are smiling cheerfully from the flower beds.

Welcome to the spring, the most uplifting season, with its promise of longer, warmer days, holidays and the enjoyment of nature's beauty.
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Post by: paulham on March 21, 2009, 09:27:47 am
How poetic, Oldspice.
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Post by: loulou on March 21, 2009, 12:18:50 pm
It is a beautiful day here today.
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Post by: wjp666 on March 21, 2009, 07:15:08 pm
yes, we had it nice here too. maybe this is an indication we'll actually be getting a summer this year too!
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Post by: loulou on March 21, 2009, 10:43:11 pm
I do hope so.
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Post by: wjp666 on March 22, 2009, 12:11:22 am
it would certainly make a nice change!
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Post by: goldencup on March 22, 2009, 09:03:06 am
Lovely words Oldspice!  Yes, spring is here and I'm starting to appreciate my new home at last.  I have an aversion to wearing coats and have now put them away until October.  I'd rather freeze!
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Post by: oldspice on March 22, 2009, 09:28:37 am
Another beautiful day here today. Yesterday, we went for a stroll around Stamford, a beautiful town a few miles up the A1. I took my coat off - and we saw a butterfly! 
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Post by: paulham on March 22, 2009, 11:53:03 am
Cold, windy and a spit in the wind today here.
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Post by: oldspice on March 22, 2009, 12:33:27 pm
I've just found a daisy growing on my lawn!
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Post by: loulou on March 22, 2009, 05:30:18 pm
Today is very cold and very windy. You southerners don't know you're born. Get yourselves up here and experience real weather.
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Post by: oldspice on March 22, 2009, 08:52:36 pm
Well, it's only a month ago since we had eight inches of snow on the ground!
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Post by: goldencup on March 23, 2009, 07:31:27 am
Today is very cold and very windy. You southerners don't know you're born. Get yourselves up here and experience real weather.

My lawn has had flowering daisies for a few weeks now and the daffodils have finished.  Na na ni na na!
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Post by: wjp666 on March 23, 2009, 08:51:02 am
another glorious day on the south coast! just drive up the sea front and there were actually people frolicking in the sea.
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Post by: loulou on March 23, 2009, 09:13:19 am
Today is very cold and very windy. You southerners don't know you're born. Get yourselves up here and experience real weather.

My lawn has had flowering daisies for a few weeks now and the daffodils have finished.  Na na ni na na!
Don't come crying to me when you are all sunburnt and me and pham are still walking around in the cold with big coats on.
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Post by: oldspice on March 23, 2009, 05:34:09 pm
It's bright and sunny now but there's a very cold breeze and we had a lot of rain this morning.

How's it been up north?
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Post by: paulham on March 23, 2009, 05:59:55 pm
Grim.
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Post by: oldspice on March 23, 2009, 07:25:42 pm
Aww. I hope you get some sunshine soon.
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Post by: paulham on March 23, 2009, 09:00:48 pm
It's always Grim up North.

(http://www.eafield.eclipse.co.uk/EllenroadBulk/Images/GrimUpNorthLarge.jpg)
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Post by: loulou on March 23, 2009, 10:11:24 pm
Blowing a gale here tonight.
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Post by: paulham on March 23, 2009, 10:23:35 pm
Not that Gale's complaining.....
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Post by: goldencup on March 24, 2009, 07:41:29 am
Today is very cold and very windy. You southerners don't know you're born. Get yourselves up here and experience real weather.
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My lawn has had flowering daisies for a few weeks now and the daffodils have finished.  Na na ni na na!
Don't come crying to me when you are all sunburnt and me and pham are still walking around in the cold with big coats on.

Nah, as you know I come crying to you when I want snow.
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Post by: oldspice on March 24, 2009, 06:13:57 pm
Not that Gale's complaining.....

She wouldn't. She's a honey.
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Post by: paulham on March 24, 2009, 07:02:53 pm
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Post by: drterror666 on March 25, 2009, 11:23:11 am
Time for a lovely springtime poem:

I can see the field from here
The trees are all in bloom
That plane is getting closer
I hope it's got enough room
What's all that screaming?
Oh my god! BOOM!

Lovely...
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Post by: netbuddy on March 25, 2009, 02:09:19 pm
LMAO, good one that, mind if I print it out?
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Post by: drterror666 on March 25, 2009, 02:16:50 pm
Go for it, I don't mind.
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Post by: loulou on March 25, 2009, 03:49:01 pm
I've just copied it into a Easter card. Will the recipient be impressed?
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Post by: drterror666 on March 27, 2009, 06:05:04 pm
You betcha!
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Post by: paulham on March 28, 2009, 10:03:15 am
Lovely sunny day here.
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Post by: loulou on March 28, 2009, 02:56:42 pm
Hailstones here at 3am then blowing a gale and lashing down when i went to work at 8.30. Now it is very drizzly and there's been no sun today.
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Post by: oldspice on March 28, 2009, 05:47:25 pm
Terrible, terrible weather today. Hail, rain, wind, rain, hail, wind, rain.... It absolutely killed the London march but I think we made a point.
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Post by: drterror666 on March 31, 2009, 05:49:27 pm
Move to somewhere near the Equator then.  I hear it's hot there!
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Post by: loulou on March 31, 2009, 05:50:47 pm
It's been a lovely sunny day here today but a little chilly.
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Post by: oldspice on March 31, 2009, 06:13:41 pm
It's a lovely bight evening here. I saw a huge bee on my way home!
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Post by: drterror666 on April 01, 2009, 05:38:35 pm
There are loads of bees in Bristol and they're massive.  I like bees.
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Post by: wjp666 on April 01, 2009, 05:41:26 pm
well, today is a scorcher! come on, summer - i'm ready!

as for bees, i chased a huge one out of my bedroom over the weekend. i don;t midn them but they send the gf into a flapping mess of screaming and flailing.
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Post by: netbuddy on April 02, 2009, 09:59:13 am
well, today is a scorcher! come on, summer - i'm ready!

as for bees, i chased a huge one out of my bedroom over the weekend. i don;t midn them but they send the gf into a flapping mess of screaming and flailing.
Which I might add is all the wrong things to do, noises attract them, flailing arms attract them... if she stood still, didn't make a sound, they would lose intrest very quickly.

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Post by: wjp666 on April 02, 2009, 11:52:43 am
i try telling her that - it just makes her scream all the louder.
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Post by: netbuddy on April 02, 2009, 07:41:15 pm
i try telling her that - it just makes her scream all the louder.
Crule to be kind. If it happens again, leave the room and let her get on with it. My ex was the same until I made her deal with it. Problem now solved.

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Post by: wjp666 on April 02, 2009, 07:51:12 pm
it'll probably take multiple stings, but she'll learn.
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Post by: paulham on April 02, 2009, 08:24:00 pm
Crule to be kind. If it happens again, leave the room and let her get on with it. My ex was the same until I made her deal with it. Problem now solved.

If she is your ex, I can see how the problem is now solved.
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Post by: goldencup on April 03, 2009, 07:52:00 am
So can I.  I once had a boyfriend who thought he could cure my arachnophobia by throwing a large spider at me.  He was so wrong......
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Post by: oldspice on April 03, 2009, 03:24:06 pm
So can I.  I once had a boyfriend who thought he could cure my arachnophobia by throwing a large spider at me.  He was so wrong......

Pity he wasn't phobic about huge buckets of green slime. You could have returned the favour.
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Post by: netbuddy on April 04, 2009, 06:28:20 pm
Crule to be kind. If it happens again, leave the room and let her get on with it. My ex was the same until I made her deal with it. Problem now solved.

If she is your ex, I can see how the problem is now solved.
::)

No, she is my ex for a different reason and she is the guilty party.
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Post by: netbuddy on April 04, 2009, 06:37:53 pm
So can I.  I once had a boyfriend who thought he could cure my arachnophobia by throwing a large spider at me.  He was so wrong......
Definately not the way to go about dealing with a phobia, leaving someone to "Deal" with a situation is best, forcing someone in to the situation is not.

If you read up on the facts about spiders, you will soon see how the few that are dangerous live in other parts of the world and what lives in our homes and garages and sheds are the good guys.

To splat them because your scared is IMHO utter ignorance.
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Post by: goldencup on April 05, 2009, 09:49:26 am
We all know that spiders in this country are (mostly) harmless and actually do a lot of good.  Unfortunately logic doesn't come into it when I see one running across the floor (it's the way they move).  I would never squash one though - I adopt the glass and card technique and put them outside, as far as possible from my house as I'm convinced they have a homing instinct!
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Post by: drterror666 on April 06, 2009, 05:57:10 pm
I try to catch them to put them outside, but they run away from my hand!  They're more scared of me!
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Post by: wjp666 on April 06, 2009, 07:03:17 pm
oh well, here comes the rain. i suppose we were lucky to get a couple of sunny days out of it.
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Post by: drterror666 on April 07, 2009, 05:46:46 pm
I need rain for my carnivorous plant!
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Post by: wjp666 on April 07, 2009, 05:50:28 pm
feed me, seymour!
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Post by: drterror666 on April 08, 2009, 11:34:52 am
Yes, Pete does seem to be getting bigger!  No fly is out of reach now!
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Post by: loulou on April 08, 2009, 02:45:17 pm
I adopt the glass and card technique and put them outside, as far as possible from my house as I'm convinced they have a homing instinct!
I adopt the hoover technique, one suck and up it goes to live amongst the dust.