Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place? 2023

Enjoyed a great day out in Lymington today. As it was our last day of Summer 23 we thought we ought to go somewhere nice to mark the occasion

We wandered through the large Saturday Market that occupied the entire lenght of the main road and stopped off to browse an Antique Fair.

We explored the cobbled lanes of the old Quay before sitting by the waters edge to people watch and make a couple of freshly baked pasties disappear!
We watched the tour boats coming and going, a little dog who seemed to love nothing more than swimming up and down the slipway. What really made my day was watching the children with their nets and buckets scooping up crabs, fish and much more, they shrieked with delight at their ' catches '

Spot the little dog.


The drive through the New Forest was beautiful ,as always. It was marred by the recent sad news of more deaths of ponies....particularly of a Mother and her foal

Pony killed just days after her foal died in crash on same New Forest road

 

Last weekend I was looking online to get some inspiration for a walk I hadn't done before. Then I saw that there was an airshow down in Ayr, had no idea there was going to be one. Over 250k people turned up it seems. Nipped down to take some photos, was completely packed

 

Excellent shots. Thanks for sharing.

 

Had some Amazon vouchers so bought a birthday present for our most adventurous Degu, Nepa.

She immediately appreciated a long dark tunnel leading to unknown lands and scuttled back and forth with gusto. We tried nearly vertical positions too, and up she came and then turned around and went down with perhaps slightly less elegant "skid and thump" sound... and then back again

 

Awww @Selleri ...soooo very cute. What a great idea!!

 

Booked our Covid jabs today....had a choice of any day this week but as we have a pretty busy week we decided on late Friday afternoon. We have already booked our Flu and hubs Shingle jabs for a fortnight's time.

 

Took a risk today. Purchased some Aldi butter mintoes. Time will tell...

 

@clanless , I don't want to alarm you but Aldi Butter Mintoes might be... foreign.

Our thoughts are with you, please report back first thing in the morning!

 

I finally decided on the pictures I'm going to make for my home made Christmas cards and the 2024 calendars I'm sending my friends. I will draw the outlines in a minute, after I've had a cuppa and then I can paint them ... but that won't be today.

 

Good for you, @michaelhewett !

 

Had my other knee done about 2 hrs ago, so got two numb legs and I feel sick.
Not sure why they gave me the hat?
But it's too small anyway.

 

Take care Pete, you soon be on your feet again.

 

Very becoming I must say

Here's hoping you'll feel better now both knees are done ...

 

Hope it was empty before you put it on Get well soon x