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The thread in which Gosie's mysterious adventures will continue. All women welcome to join us for a virtual tipple, fun, support and arcane knowledge. And tractors.

But a brilliant film.

Fuck mindfulness. You need an extremely strong gin with a high quality tonic, decent amounts of ice and a slice of juicy lime. x

Shhh! 😁

I think I had a drink in there many years ago. The name definitely rings a bell and I normally avoid Rose Street these days because of the tourists.

Yes, it was a chock-a-block yesterday.

Well i have dashed through all the post today and need a lie down now.

Gin please gerbils

Me too… lots of news.

I haven't seen it, might need to check it out!

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Someone, predictably, is being "argumentative " on one of Cake's threads, I'm losing the will.
...aaand..,
Standing water in the dishwasher again.

Bar gerbils, Oban, double, neat, please
I'm just going to sit in the corner of the Quilting Nook and have a little cry.

Grr…just lost a longish post. Will try again after I’ve finished my dinner.

So I’ll try a series of short posts in no particular order.
question re migraines and pressure changes - can flying be a trigger?

I just knew who it would be before I checked and I was right. I think many moons ago I told them to wind their neck in, or words to that effect! Don't think I've interacted much with them since.

Point of order - there’s no ban on TAATs, that seems to be a common misconception. What is banned in the MN talk guidelines is threads trying to rehash ones which have been deleted.

Sorry you’ve had such a rubbish day @MyrtleLion.

ok so not just me, then. Good to know because I'm really having to bite my tongue, although you wouldn't know it from my posts.

They always have to be the first, always have to be right, and if the thread is discussing something they don't want to talk about, they try to turn it into what they do want to talk about.

Tiresome.

Glad you’ve had decent news and a good day out afterwards, Cake. We went to a bird of prey centre last year where a wild kite showed up - it had apparently learned the time of a reliable meal. Perhaps it’s the same one

It was mobbed by a pair of buzzards. Perhaps they'd all learned.

Don't worry, Myrtle, sometimes the best thing to say is either nothing, or something like 'there,there' or better still, 'here's a large G&T'
So have a restful evening, a massage from the gerbils, a large G&T or three, and some time off from fighting and planning and achieving, all of which you do so well, but have to do too much

Meanwhile, we also have seen some bird flying displays today. We’ve had a long day out visiting Muncaster Castle, which is worth the long drive at this time of year for its wonderful bluebell woods plus many of their collection of rhododendrons and azaleas in bloom. They also have an owl and bird of prey collection and do really excellent displays. Today the main one began with a bald eagle, then a soaring buzzard eagle followed by an eagle owl. Then they had a falcon stooping for a lure and the culmination was their lovely trio of teenage vultures, plus a group of black kites.

They’re huge advocates for the vultures - critically endangered in the wild but a vital part of a healthy ecosystem cleaning up dead animals and thus reducing the prevalence of disease inc cholera and rabies. And unlike the corvids who do the cleanup here, they don’t do any predation whatever.

More flower shows, fewer gilets. And please god, hopefully no mullets!

I don't think I've seen them before...but I think I found the thread.

A bald eagle! Now, that would cheer me up 😀Lucky, lucky you!

Yup, you have!

I visited Muncaster Castle in May 1979. I remember that holiday because we sat in the car later in shades of gloom as the Tories under Thatcher had just been elected. My older DS was not quite 1. I mainly remember those glorious giant rhododendrons on the driveway - never seen any quite that magnificent since.

We had a white tailed eagle, a young one. More of a white-ish tailed eagle. They also flew a common kestrel who was adorable.