Frogs, Fine Weather and Farmville

Facebook posts are thin on the ground during school holidays due to us going away and me not wanting to be bothered with laptops and wifi codes.  So this blog post is not on the appropriate date.

Also we’re away for a very long weekend so there’s little chance of a blog next week.

12 April 2009 at 12.31

I’ve just spotted 2 adult frogs in the garden 'pond' (thanks again Squireen) but they don't appear at all interested in each other.   

How do you sex living frogs?

Squireen  Don’t know just wait for the frog spawn..... thanks for the card

Bentonbag  In which case, according to Fester, we have two females

12 April 2010 at 11.46

What a glorious day, came back from Lidl with all the car windows and sunroof open.

12 April 2010 at 12.02

I’ve given up Farmville for good.   

It's a Facebook thing where you have a virtual farm, plant crops, tend animals, earn coins, give neighbours gifts.   

Takes ages to load or for anything to happen but can be addictive.  

Besides which I have enough trouble tending my own life without having a virtual one to worry about.

 

Coilspring Cheques

As I said yesterday …

Facebook posts are thin on the ground during school holidays due to us going away and me not wanting to be bothered with laptops and wifi codes.  So the next couple of posts may not be on their appropriate date.

Also we’re away for a very long weekend so there’s little chance of a blog next week.

11 April 2011

The f***ing car is f***ing broken yet af***inggain.

Coilspring driver’s front side.  

In Richard Hardy.  

Fortunately AA membership includes courtesy car for breakdowns.   

But if it's not fixed by Friday night we will have to hire car until after Easter to get down to Wales for Dad’s funeral and long planned holiday.  

Bugger.

11 April 2011 at13.41

And the good news is, having paid all the people who wanted their money back for the cancelled Woodlawn Xmas Pudding Fun Run, we have not made a loss!   

There were loads of people who emailed saying “it's only six quid (or whatever) it's not worth the hassle of writing out a cheque, take it as a donation.”

There was snow and ice on the day, and then we couldn't get an alternative date sorted out with the Poly Runners (and we really did try)

As is typical the one person, out of hundreds of runners, who didn’t give us sufficient contact information complained that we hadn’t contacted him to offer a refund.

 

Digital Detox

Facebook posts are thin on the ground during school holidays due to us going away and me not wanting to be bothered with laptops and wifi codes.  Without realising it I’ve been having a ‘digital detox’ for years; in fact before such a thing was invented.

So the next couple of posts may not be on their appropriate date, just an approximation.

Also we’re away for a very long weekend so there’s little chance of a blog next week.

8 April 2016

Doing final broom checks before heading off to the Coven.

Float  Have you not upgraded to a flying vacuum cleaner yet?

Bess Cavalier  I'm not even packed yet!  Very disorganised at the moment.

Mrs Jeremy  Where is the coven convening this time?

Bess Cavalier  With Paula in Richmond, Surrey

Mr E Twin  "Where the place...?" Is there a Richmond Heath in Surrey?

Bentonbag  Next time it's Dudley!

Erica  Enjoy your weekend.

9 April 2018 at 10:36

Feeling confused. 

I'm sat here. 

All the boys are out. 

I hear the front door open then, a few seconds later, slam shut. 

Shout 'hello' - no reply.   

Can't hear anybody moving about downstairs.  

Go downstairs to investigate and there's Felix, just come in.   

I'm sure the bloody cat hasn't got his own key.   

But there's no-one there or in the garden.

Easter Busy

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6 April 2023 at 08.55

I shall be up and out early tomorrow to see the Northern Cross pilgrims crossing the sands to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne.

I shall also be up and out early on Saturday to help at a Breakfast With The Easter Bunny event at LD:North East.

And I shall be helping at a Hippitty Hoppitty event at Springfield Community Centre on Easter Sunday afternoon.

So there may be no more Tales of Chateau Midden until Monday at the earliest.

10 April 2023 at 10.56

It's been a busy weekend with some lovely moments.

I think the highlight was yesterday afternoon's Springfield Community Centre's Hippitty Hoppitty where I'd volunteered to help on the children's craft stall.

"We've got an Easter Bunny outfit but nobody wants to do it."

"I have experience of this sort of thing ... I used to be TyneBridge's dragon ... if the suit fits..."