Pike and Ice Bars

 

 

Hello everyone,

Welcome to a very pleasant Sunday afternoon.  It`s been almost Spring-like today after a frosty start with some fog for a while.  Once it had cleared the sun shone for the rest of the day so Jim and I took advantage of it and went for a long walk with Jake, we walked for over an hour and a half and very enjoyable it was too. I could hear a mistle thrush singing away in the trees but I couldn`t see it, I had taken the camera just in case too.  I`ll bet that if I hadn`t taken it, the thrush would hop out right out giving me the perfect photo oppotunity...Oh well, Sod`s Law I suppose!  I took the above photo of one of my winter pansies, it is quite big, I would say about four inches across.  I thought it looked quite impressive so I snapped it for you to see.

The roast dinner yesterday came out really well, not a scrap was left uneaten, much to my satisfaction.  Danny said it was great to eat a roast and to go home with a full stomach, bless him.  That`s what Mum`s are for, can`t have my boys starving, can I? :o)  Whilst here, Dan told us about a visit to a an Ice Bar.  It`s in Picadilly, London and it`s made entirely of ice, the bars, the tables and even the glasses for the drinks that they serve.  When you go in they issue you with hats and gloves as obviously it`s freezing cold in there.  You can only stay in there for 45 mins and the staff change shifts very frequently also.  Go and visit the site, scroll right down to the bottom of the page to see what it`s like inside.   ICE BAR....click here

Last night Jim and I watched Tim Burton`s Sleepy Hollow starring the delectable Johnny Depp as Icabod Crane, it was both funny and scary at the same time and I spent a lot of the time with my face behind a cushion, the scaredy cat that I am...hehehe!  Jim saw it ages ago but I hadn`t got round to it but I`m glad I watched as despite the cushion, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Jim has finally finished stripping the woodwork in the hallway and landing.  It`s looking really good too, considering all the woodwork is over fifty years old.  Once it is revarnished in a light colour it will look smashing.  He has said it is going to take a few months as there is so much work to do but that has never bothered me.  I`d rather he took it slowly because he works long hours and he needs some time to himself.  For instance, on Tuesday he`s going Pike fishing...and good luck to him too, the thought of sitting all day on a river bank in the middle of February somehow holds little appeal to me, can`t for the life of me think why.....brrrr!

I`m going now, so I hope you`ve all been enjoying your Sunday. Take care and Bye Bye for now.

 

 

 

 Dog Quotes

Pet a dog where he can't scratch and he'll always be your friend.
- - - Orville Mars

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- - - Groucho Marx

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as a dog does.
- - - Christopher Morley

Dogs display reluctance and wrath
If you try to give them a bath
They bury bones in hideaways
And half the time they trot sideaways.
- - - Ogden Nash

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
- - - Ogden Nash

Thus every dog at last will have his day -
He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow;
The grub today's a butterfly tomorrow.
- - - Peter Pindar

I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
- - - Alexander Pope

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
- - - Eleanor H. Porter "Pollyanna" 1912

The more I see of men,the more I admire dogs.
- - - Jeanne-Marie Roland

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of fun out of owning one.
- - - Andy Rooney

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
- - - Andy Rooney

Thou callest me a dog before thou hast cause.
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
- - - William Shakespeare "The Merchant of Venice"

That indefatigable and unsavory engine of pollution, the dog.
- - - John Sparrow

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
- - - August Strindberg