winkie Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Not a cloud in the sky, easy fresh breeze, brightness, birds singing, bright colours of the daffs and tulips out.....Spring best season of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_out Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Indeed! Took a walk from Sansdsend to Whitby and back with the family. Absolutely beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One-percent Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 17 minutes ago, frozen_out said: Indeed! Took a walk from Sansdsend to Whitby and back with the family. Absolutely beautiful. Snap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehead Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Disagree. 'Tis the season of development. Plans, whose slow fermentation suspended their animation in the still of winter, suddenly burst forth, sprouting monstrous carbuncles, crawling with nailgun-wielding maggots, polluting the air with percussive pops and their raucous wails of "got any more four-be-twos down there Kev". And then the constant hum of mowers and powered arboreal butchery. Oh once more for a moment of frigid peace! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Quote What a lovely day I suppose so, if you like that sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 14 hours ago, Sledgehead said: Disagree. 'Tis the season of development. Plans, whose slow fermentation suspended their animation in the still of winter, suddenly burst forth, sprouting monstrous carbuncles, crawling with nailgun-wielding maggots, polluting the air with percussive pops and their raucous wails of "got any more four-be-twos down there Kev". And then the constant hum of mowers and powered arboreal butchery. Oh once more for a moment of frigid peace! Hopefully today will be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 14 hours ago, happy_renting said: I suppose so, if you like that sort of thing. I love lovely days, just as l love lovely people, only never enough of them. Tapping bluetit season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 1 hour ago, winkie said: I love lovely days, just as l love lovely people, only never enough of them. Tapping bluetit season. Bloody lovely people. *grumble* Edit to add: Bloody Blue tits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 49 minutes ago, happy_renting said: Bloody lovely people. *grumble* Edit to add: Bloody Blue tits. You feeling grumpy today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Winkie:"Lovely day!" HPC'er: "Raining somewhere, I expect.." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehead Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 4 hours ago, winkie said: Hopefully today will be better. humpf. Developers are taking a day off. Cue upsurge in mowers and strimmers. Mowers and strimmers are the devil's work. Not only do they disturb the peace, they also remind you of all the gardening chores mother (sorry, must try to be more gender neutral) parent nature is racking up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted April 9, 2017 Author Share Posted April 9, 2017 1 hour ago, Sledgehead said: humpf. Developers are taking a day off. Cue upsurge in mowers and strimmers. Mowers and strimmers are the devil's work. Not only do they disturb the peace, they also remind you of all the gardening chores mother (sorry, must try to be more gender neutral) parent nature is racking up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Bloody nice weather, it's making me feel half cheerful for once, can't have that. And it means I can't slob around indoors without feeling guilty (I've only popped back in briefly, I've not spent the day sat by my computer!) No lawnmowers though. That was yesterday's noise. edit: It's gone very cloudy and a lot cooler now, good, I can go back to being grumpy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 5 hours ago, juvenal said: Winkie:"Lovely day!" HPC'er: "Raining somewhere, I expect.." Scotland It was a day peculiar to this piece of the planet, when larks rose on long thin strings of singing and the air shifted with the shimmer of actual angels. Greenness entered the body. The grasses shivered with presences, and sunlight stayed like a halo on hair and heather and hills. Walking into town, I saw, in a radiant raincoat, the woman from the fish-shop. 'What a day it is!' cried I, like a sunstruck madman. And what did she have to say for it? Her brow grew bleak, her ancestors raged in their graves as she spoke with their ancient misery: 'We'll pay for it, we'll pay for it, we'll pay for it!' Alastair Reid http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/scotland-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehead Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 52 minutes ago, Scunnered said: 'We'll pay for it, we'll pay for it, we'll pay for it!' Alastair Reid Not so much as "we'll", rather "I'll". Having let my guard down to the glass-half-full lucky people on this thread, I thought , what the hell, let's have shave outdoors (it's a thing, trust me). Got myself all set up, shaving mirror clamped to tree etc, and what happens? The skies turn a nasty shade of grrey and a bitter easterly whips up. Brrrr. Had goosebumps on my goosebumps. Last time I listen to you lot! And then I find Robot Wars has been cast aside in favour of the "Masters". Even they've fallen for this lovely weather rubbish. You can keep your wind-swept fairways. Give me a hanger and artificial light any day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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happy_renting Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 3 hours ago, Scunnered said: Alastair Reid http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/scotland-1 Bloody poets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economic Exile Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 3 hours ago, Scunnered said: Scotland It was a day peculiar to this piece of the planet, when larks rose on long thin strings of singing and the air shifted with the shimmer of actual angels. Greenness entered the body. The grasses shivered with presences, and sunlight stayed like a halo on hair and heather and hills. Walking into town, I saw, in a radiant raincoat, the woman from the fish-shop. 'What a day it is!' cried I, like a sunstruck madman. And what did she have to say for it? Her brow grew bleak, her ancestors raged in their graves as she spoke with their ancient misery: 'We'll pay for it, we'll pay for it, we'll pay for it!' Alastair Reid http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/scotland-1 This life view is something I come across very frequently in Dumfries & Galloway. Im just enjoying a nice day and acknowledge that it is one in social exchanges but I bump into some locals who will utter a reply like that...we'll pay for this! FFS, what is wrong with them? IMO they are failing to embrace the present! It's like they're trapped in a mindset of eternal punishment if they dare to enjoy any nice things about life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EUBanana Posted April 10, 2017 Share Posted April 10, 2017 Meanwhile I was dying of hay fever... havn't had it that bad for years. Now the weather is a bit greyer it's fading, still got a runny nose though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheBlueCat Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 On 09/04/2017 at 5:52 PM, Economic Exile said: This life view is something I come across very frequently in Dumfries & Galloway. Im just enjoying a nice day and acknowledge that it is one in social exchanges but I bump into some locals who will utter a reply like that...we'll pay for this! FFS, what is wrong with them? IMO they are failing to embrace the present! It's like they're trapped in a mindset of eternal punishment if they dare to enjoy any nice things about life! I went swimming in Dumfries once. It was horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Eagle Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 On 09/04/2017 at 11:52 PM, Economic Exile said: FFS, what is wrong with them? IMO they are failing to embrace the present! It's like they're trapped in a mindset of eternal punishment if they dare to enjoy any nice things about life! Must have been Catholics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 11 hours ago, The Eagle said: Must have been Catholics... I think it has more to do with Calvinism in this case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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