Reasons To Be Cheerful, Grateful Or Affected

[LadyCG]

1. OH has brought a couple more boxes down from the attic - books and DVDs. Among them the one and only series of "Come Fly With Me". It was one of the funniest series I've ever watched and now I can watch it again :-)

2. Our Carpenter is still coming on Monday and bringing another person with him because he aims to get the whole lot done in a day.

3. Miss E is very impressed with little one's mathematics skills. When I told her that he could recite the alphabet backwards and count backwards from 50 at the age of 3, she looked at me a bit quizzically. Now I think she can see what I mean.

4. It's Friday tomorrow - best day of the week at work. Last week was so eerie with the world reeling from the shock of HM's passing. For no patients, Consultants or Managers to call all day is unprecedented.

5. It's heartening to see all the people who lined the streets as the Queen made her way back to London, and all those who have queued to file past her coffin in order to pay their respects, and it conveys a sense of unity during this time of sorrow and mourning.

What are your reasons to be any of the above?

[douglas9401]

I've only ever met one other Answerbanker. I feel blessed.

[Atheist]

Doug, I've never knowingly met any Answerbanker. I feel thrice blessed.

[LadyCG]

I've met a few, Doug. I'm still psychologically damaged. ;)

[LadyCG]

Who was the Aber in question, Doug? Are you allowed to say?

[Canary42]

I've just planted out all my Winter Pansy plant plugs in my window boxes. All I've got to do now is fix some brackets on which to mount the boxes.

[LadyCG]

Good job, Canary! Our Garden is a long way off but OH and FIL have made a good start.

Do you grow any veg?

[Canary42]

/// Do you grow any veg?////

Yes. I'm getting a very good crop on my tomatoes at present (can't tell the young plants were a gift from a friend with surplus). I've also got a few spuds, and some kale, but the spinach has long run to seed.

[DTCwordfan]

my younget was multiplying by the age of 3 and a quarter and had the logic tied down, 'Dad, 35 is seven groups of five' - and I hadn't taught the elder one this way. Immediately, I asked her, 'and six times four?'

'Dad, 24, six groups of four.....' I had nearly crashed the car by the way. Today, she is reading Maths & Economics in Tennessee.

[LadyCG]

DT, we haven't taught the little one, he's taught himself on his V Tech Activity Desk, among other things

[DTCwordfan]

I am sure you will encourage the reading side of the equation - both of my girls enjoyed simple algebra when they were 5/6 - all comes down to problem-solving and the younger one loved to read as well, amassing quite a library from family and friends.

[LadyCG]

Canary, I would love to grow Kale. I love the stuff.

[DTCwordfan]

doesn't matter how they learn! It does take M&D to encourage them!

[rockyracoon]

1. It’s Friyay tomorrow.
2. It’s a three day weekend.
3. No work on Monday.
4. On Monday, I shall make myself a lovely brunch, take it up the bedroom and watch the funeral in peace, and most likely, also in tears.

[LadyCG]

I think many a tear will be shed on Monday, RR. Truly the end of an era. :-(

[LadyCG]

When do you go to St Ives, RR?

My in-laws are back on Saturday but they then go to Spain on Monday so I doubt I will see them.

[rockyracoon]

We’re going at the end of October. I’m hoping the weather is good to us as I really want to go to Tintagel, though not keen on that bridge they have there. It’ll be nice to have a break foe a few days.

[LadyCG]

Next time I go I really want to go to The Lost Gardens of Heligan and I really want to visit the Eden Project. I might have to put my foot down with a firm hand !

[emmie]

Mr Em and i visited the Lost Gardens of Heligan over 23 years ago, amazing place full of wonderful plant life. I would go again if i were fit to do so.

[LadyCG]

It does look a lovely place to visit, Emmie.

RR, I'm not keen on bridges either. I felt queasy about three years ago when OH and I went to Munich for our anniversary and visited Neuschwanstein and went on Queen Mary's Bridge. Don't Google it if you're scared of heights.

[emmie]

it was the tropical forest that got us, and the walkway around it, very David Attenborough if you know what i mean.