Today I've mostly bin...

[chazzie]

Fantastic!

Reminds me of a holiday with brothers/s-in-L's in Ireland many years ago - when we hid Leprechauns (the sort you buy from the tourist gift shops) on the beach/under pebbles and then got my 2 nephews - to go on a Leprechaun hunt....apparently leprechauns turn to stone if a human sees them!! We still talk about that holiday today!! Making memories

[Bunnylump]

Brilliant!

Although I'm still cross about the fox that stole the gnome. That cost me £8! I'd love to know where it went with it!

[LAT]

Sounds like you've had a much more exciting day than me!

[Laura]

We are gradually chopping down the hedge at the front of the house. It was originally going to be removing the one diseased plant from the hedge and replacing it, but it turns out that the plants on either side were dying too, so then there was a huge gap and as we have lots of time, it's all going!

But then they decided to stop collecting garden bins, so we've had two fires in my little £15-from-aldi fire pit, and there's likely to be several more. I do love a good campfire!

[Bunnylump]

That sounds like hard work, Laura. But I agree, a campfire is a splendid thing! Likewise we've been chopping down laurel, so will need a nice big bonfire soon. We don't have anything fancy like a firepit, we have the inside drum of the old washing machine!

[maisie ladybird]

Ah that’s so sweet, Bunny. It brings back memories of when my youngest daughter had an imaginary fairy friend, call Fairy. She lived in the kitchen for years.
Now a days, we get shouted up the stairs to calls that there’s water coming out the bathroom, both of us sprinting up the stairs thinking there’s a leak, only to find a trail of cups of water leading out the bathroom and two daughters standing there laughing at us or shouting that the toilet is smoking, running up and finding this...

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[chazzie]

Love it!

[Bunnylump]

That's brilliant!

[LAT]

Great!

I love their sense of humour!

[SparkOut]

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[Bunnylump]

That's very beautiful, SparkOut.

[SparkOut]

Not so much as it is in real life.

[LAT]

That's lovely SparkOut

[SparkOut]

I shall resize some more to show the other direction from Cow Hill to Ben Nevis, it was lovely up there, just me and P-Dawg.
The route up was fine and easy, basically a Land Rover track. 90% of it even Mrs S's mobility scooter could have done. Just that 10% is a shame, really because of the broken and rutted surface.
We decided to take the "short" route down. Which is basically a precipitous drop down, mostly along a (not very) dry water course, so as well as steep (about 200 metres vertically in 500 metres laterally), it's uneven, strewn with loose rocks, shale, slippery peat sediment, more crevice-ridden fixed rocks poking through, and needs a 4XPaw, not a 4X4. (A Land Rover would literally fall off the hill.) It took nearly as long for us as the 2 miles of track going up. When I say "us" I mean that's because P-Dawg didn't just leave me behind. Dogs make much easier work of "outdoors" than hoomuns.

[Bunnylump]

I watched the International Space Station going over this evening. I couldn't see the rocket, though. Did anyone else manage to see it?

[Scurra]

Grrr, I forgot. I went out the other night (when the launch was supposed to happen) and saw the ISS then - and was able to point it out to neighbours too.

[SparkOut]

I watched the launch stream but didn't see it overhead.
It would have been behind the hills in the background of the photo above.

[LAT]

We think we saw the ISS last night but not the rocket.

[Bunnylump]

I suppose it must have been an awful lot smaller.

[LAT]

.....being a support bubble. (well yesterday too!)