Yawn Yawn, Wakey Wakey..!! MK 5

Good morning all my friends,hope you are all OK,Penny my apologies for missing your anniversary yesterday hope you had a really great day my friendeveryone have a great weekend and please stay safe.

 

Good morning everyone,

Mrs Shiney is probably not a happy bunny at the moment. I took her to the station for her train to London for her course and she was told that she has to take a train north (away from London) to catch another train back to London . As it's -12C she won't enjoy standing on the platform waiting about.

Since then I've been out to the glazier to pick up some glass for her for her glass making and popped into the village shop for a paper and some lovely hot rolls. On the way back I saw a very unusual sight. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me.

The large field between us and the village is a vast expanse of frozen snow and, as the sun is now shining brightly, I could see a thin layer of ice on top of the snow. presumably from where the snow started to melt yesterday and then froze solid.

As I was watching, the comparative warmth of the sun hitting the frozen layer of ice and rebounding from the reflectivness of the snow was causing the ice to suddenly sublimate and a cloud of mist rose from the ice with a rippling rainbow effect coming off it. This only lasted for about a minute or two. I don't think my camera would have been able to catch the effect.

I think I shall stay indoors all day and do some lazing around, a bit of paperwork and cook a nice curry with some lovely shin of beef I've bought. I haven't yet decided which spices I'll use some I may get a load of them out of the cupboard, put them on the worktop, close my eyes and pick some at random. That'll be the base for whatever I decide

Have a great day and keep warm :D

 

Good morning Shiney and all my other friends,hope you are all OK and well,have a lovely Sunday

 

Good morning Woo and everyone,

The temperature has been rising all night and is a lovely warm -3 at the moment and they're forecasting rain.

The curry turned out really good and ther's enough left for another meal.

Last night Mrs Shiney and I had a good laugh at Sarafi. We have a conifer tree about 2' from the lounge window that has no lower branches for the first 6'. Sarafi was 5' up the tree hugging the trunk and looking in the window. He looked really funny with all four legs wrapped tightly around the tree with his back to us and his head turned right round, looking in the window

We may try and get a little walk in before the rain starts but we'll have to find somewhere that hasn't got snow and ice on the ground.

Have a great day :D

 

Good morning everyone,

The promised rain didn't arrive yesterday and although it's +1C out there I can see a sheet of ice on the car windows.

Moyra, I'm not sure about Sarafi. First of all, I'm not sure what sex he/she is and secondly 'he' allows us to stroke him but is definitely not a hugging cat. He doesn't fight if we try to pick him up but certainly lets us know he doesn't approve. He now comes to the greenhouse every day and sits on the top shelf for most of the morning. It's quite interesting watching him when he gets on the top shelf. He takes quite a long time settling down, turn round and round a number of times, whereas Oscar used to jump up there and settle down immediately.

The pheasants don't trust him at all and he seems to take an unhealthy interest in them. When he's near the lawn they have at least two of them on guard, standing tall and fluffed up. Oscar was their friend and we've seen him sitting about 6" from their water bowl whilst they've been drinking from it.

Unusually, today I have nothing in my diary so I'll start doing some research on quotes for insurance. Our household insurance and cars are all due for renewal next month. I do them all together because I can negotiate for a better price that way. With shopping around I've managed to get it lower than the renewal quote each year for the last five years . It'll take me half a day to do the phoning - unless I get a good offer.

Kandy, unless you've had a lot of rain I can't see the water level of the reservoir going up. The snow wouldn't have made much difference to it.

Have a great day :D

 

Good morning Kandy,Shiney and all my other friends here at Gardeners Corner,I trust that you are all OK and feeling good this morning,I am going to be a Grandad again this year,in June and August which is just great news for yours truly and Mrs Woo, have a good day and please stay safe.

 

Good news, Woo.

Congratulations.

 

Hi Moyra and Shiney ,many thanks for your congratulations my friends