Sat 12th July

[Mick]

mae all tis I back in the you kay!! how are we all today then?good..weekend plans coming together?.you know you dont realise how much we have got ourselves entwined with tecknologay....relying on phones puters tablets etc ..flick of a key and we are talking /writing to someone other side of the world..few months ago ..couldnt even spell it and now look at me! well thats it ..back home now ..sun is shining ..rabbits are out and the garden is like a jungle!!was up early and saw mr Fox trotting across the fields!!

ok enough yakking on we go ..brew time

hiya Sam ..hows you then ? sounds like my weather is better than yours at the mo!!how did the bee moving go then?

hiya ppqp ..hows you then ? how did the bridge building go?:H are you off to your dads this weekend?if so have a good time..in fact do that anyway ..brew time for you?

hiya sf ..wow long time no hear ma'am glad all is well with you..whats a yt place?guessing at yoga therapy?hey corporate America pays for your life and enjoyment thats it..keep in that perspective and you are sorted..

hiya Lav..hows you then ?all good ..gotta agree with you about overpaid and rated football isnt a sport its a business..Suarez..bit someone in the world cup..now just been signed on a transfer deal to Barcelona .for ?70 MILLION wtf is that all about??????it makes my blood boil..all the poverty etc that there is and we are doling money out to these morons!!I digress ..yes good to be home...and the wabbits are out now..big brew for you too..

hiya SL ..yep the bad penny has turned up again!!!here I am. so hows you today?any better?did you get out of your flat mood?if so ..how ..the you can use it in the future.Are you still on call?Kinda stifles any weekend plans...sweet peas are out ..they smell lovely.

hiya tt ..hows you in upside down land ...weekend is half over now for you ..been up to anything?

hiya pauly and everyone else not here..big shout to you all..take care and have a good one..

its pic time ..courtesy of bore you daft .com!!

sunset over Binivell



sand sculptures at bini vue



Binivell village



oh and guess who this is..if the kids misbehave ..show them this!!!




more to follow ...oh no they say!!!

Even at my advanced age I'm still a massive adrenalin junkie, always looking for the next big thrill.

For example, yesterday my wife asked me which Wiltshire Farm Foods ready meal I wanted heating up and I said, "Surprise me."

I was sh.tting myself when the maid opened my hotel door unexpectedly last night.

She shouted "I'm not cleaning that up!"

I received a letter in the post today asking me to support the helpless and unloved in their hour of need.

I wrote back and told them to f off and I wouldn't be renewing my Man Utd season ticket.

My old maths teacher was just sacked, which is a real shame.

He always gave 110%

The frozen body of missing Mont Blanc mountain climber Patrice Hyvert has been found after 32 years in ice.

The cruellest irony is, when he left his house in 1982 he left the heating on.

Barcelona have bought Suarez from Liverpool for ?75m.

They have also bought a muzzle from Pets At Home for ?7.50

Luis Su?rez has said "it's with a heavy heart that he leaves Liverpool for Barcelona."

I'm presuming heart in Uruguayan is "wallet."

The influx of foreigners is to blame for the lack of talented Englishmen these days. They take the places of our youngsters and stifle their development.

Well, that's my excuse for being a shit plumber anyway.

[Lavande]

Sat 12th July

Good morning Abbers!

Glad to see you back & true to form Mick
Great pictures, thanks for posting them!
I just cannot make myself support professional sports in any way. They receive way too much attention & money while too many are getting by on so little.
Have a fun day in the garden!

SF, nice to see you & glad to hear about your changes - moving forward!
My nephew's wife was just diagnosed with MS earlier this year. She's been having trouble finding a decent doctor to work with, shame. She has always been a healthy, athletic girl, a runner. Everything has changed suddenly for her. Wish you could make house calls in New England
Wishing you the very best with your new venture

Greetings to Sam, Pauly, SL, PQ, Det & everyone! Have we heard from Patrice??
Wishing everyone a great AF Saturday! I'll be outside trying to manage weed overgrowth :H

Lav

[porqoui]

Sat 12th July

Afternoon Mick and Lav....

Wow is it ever hot out there. Temp only showing 27 but it feels like 37!
Great visit with Dad, out in the sun and the heat.
Did manage to stop at the gardens for a little well needed watering.

You got that right Mick. It's always been a small world but nowadays it's even smaller. Would love to visit Binivell village but am ok with seeing the world vicariously through your pics. Thanks for posting them and love the selfie of you.

I am right there with you Lav. Can't believe what so called professional sports players get paid. There is so much and so many that could be solved/aided with that kind of money.
Sorry to hear about your neice-n-law. I too have ms in my family and it's a very frustrating disease to deal with.

Think I'm going to hide in the a/c house the rest of the afternoon. Will probably start feeling guilty and do some laundry/cleaning and that's ok.

:hallo: Sam, SF, SL, TT, Pauly and all else who stop by today......PPQP

[treetops]

Sat 12th July

Hi everyone - sorry I didn't post yesterday (which was Saturday but its Sunday here now). I have been feeling very down - not just flat but verging on mild depression. I don't think this is booze related and its not just a case of snapping out of things or looking on the bright side of life. Thats not how depression works. Yesterday took an enormous amount of energy to get anything apart from work done, that is to eat, to feel, etc. I couldn't even cook! :H I talked with my partner about it and that was helpful I guess - just the talking helped. He was all for having me back on anti-depressants but I am really against this. I am going to give myself time. I might also be exhausted from my cold/virus thingy. I don't think the weather helps - its been almost impossible to go for a walk the past few weeks. yesterday I made myself go for walk when we had a brief respite from bad weather but it didn't seem to help. I tried to think of something to do that might distract me (apart from watching a DVD, work or reading book) but I just couldn't come up with anything that would take me outside of myself. And I don't have time to do volunteer work.
So sorry its me again - wasn't going to say anything but thought I better. Absolutely no thoughts of drinking AL - guess what - I couldn't even be bothered?:H
As I said I think time will help and I will just do the things that have to be done and try to soldier on.

[Samstone]

Sat 12th July

Afternoon al!!
back from Charlottesville market and up from an hour's nap. Getting rejuvenated before going into my bees. Got pretty warm today, it was a good market but lort I have a hard time staying awake on the drive home! Beebusting tomorrow I hope. Got a feeling I'm going to get the ever loving bajeezes stung out of me. I hope not! Killed another dang copperhead on the porch yesterday afternoon, what the heck is up with that. Gonna have to start me a snake handling church, then I can become tax exempt.

Great pics Mick. Amazing how white the buildings look.
Lav, so sorry to read about your nephew's wife. It is becomes quite the adjustment.
PQ, hot one here as well, waiting for the polar vortex I heard about coming this week....
TT, depression is a hard one as there seems to be a difficult time to get out of it. I've read exercise is good for combating, but what do you do when you just don't feel like it? I get those bouts of extreme melancholy, especially in season change. Hang in there, this too shall pass.

Have a great rest of your day or beginning of a new one.
Sam

[scottish lass]

Sat 12th July

Back home - heck of a drive, oh well - girls had fun!
Yep, on call till Monday morning.
Jealous of the sweet peas Mick, I love that smell - I have to plant some next year!
TT - so sorry, I do not believe that I have every been depressed - I have been close, but luckily don't go over the edge.
Still in a funny mood here - would love to get back to more "normal" - it was tough being social, and little things make me teary...I went grocery shopping when I got home (too late in day, hungry and tired) - totally thought about getting some wine, felt that I had deserved it, went round the aisles looking - thought of you all, and thank goodness you all came shopping with me....I thought how sad I would be for Det if his trip this weekend wore him down (Det - we have not heard, and I am thinking of you lots) - and decided for your sake Det, I will not drink. It was relatively easy, but how nice it will be to not even be pulled in that direction.
I really don't want to be a whiner here - but I do like being honest with you.
So comfortable in my AFness, even after the meeting with cocktails by the pool, or cocktails in hotel lounge before dinner, or wine with dinner - or after dinner drinks - people are not even blinking an eye when I say no thanks!
So looks like a quiet Sunday here - may reward the three of us with our toenails getting smartened up (better reward than the wine I was looking at).
I know my holiday is niggling at the back of my mind....and thoughts of staying true to my mission...
Well, I am waffling now - too tired - off to get something to feed the minions....ta-ta all

[scottish lass]

Sat 12th July

Ok - got talking about myself again - sorry all!
Mick, photos are lovely - I do like the one of the wee street - I would love to be there.
Lav, sad about your nephews wife - there is so much more that can be done to keep the symptoms at bay than when I was in training - hope she gets some good help.
Sam - how were the honey bees? Bee stings could be better than snake bite me thinks!
PPQ - your visits with your dad appear to be so well just now, that's just grand.
SF - will drop you a line about fb, I have a couple friends from here and it does feel good to know I can stay in touch if the wobbles continue...
Pauly and Det, hope all is ok - Pat it was nice to have you drop in, come back???

[TheSunFlower]

Sat 12th July

Two days in a row! I really just need to get back in the habit of posting. It is amazing that after a week of not being able to log on.....I just kind of let it go. So easy to drop a good habit. Part of me really felt that this site will shut down soon. If she can't fund it I don't think it will continue.

Mick...Mr. Vacation! Yes, I am getting a better mindset that a job is just a job. I took a vocation I hated way too seriously for too long. Life is meant to be lived, not endured. And enduring it I was.

Lav-I am sorry to hear about your nephew's wife. MS really can be mystifying. However, send her a message to look up a guy named Eric Small. He has MS and has taught yoga therapy for MS for over 20 years. He has a great book and DVD. I think the hard part of finding of good doctor, is that MS really is mysterious. One thing to let her know....is that I have heard time and time again....how this hit them....then poof 8 years go by with no symptoms. So what will feel like a downward spiral.....can all of a sudden go away with no rythme or reason. I am learning so much of the fear of how one lives in of it returning or the fear it will just get worse. The whole mind shit can be way worse than the actual symptoms.

PPQ---Sports Players....I get they get paid x because they bring x amount of $$ to the table. However you have no idea what our politicians pay for their campaigns. On my one little TV station in Cleveland, OH....it was weekly that we got 1/2 a million dollar orders to run over 3 days for guy x. Just what one guy spent on my TV station alone...in one little city would end world hunger. And I agree it is so sad this is the world we live.

TT-not too long ago I was falling into a depression. It sucks. But, it does pass. I don't want to be the yoga junkie.....but, there are yoga poses for depression. And they don't make you magically happy.....but, something shifts. My go-to for this is hard to explain. I literally would come out of it and say....f-you...that did nothing. Do it again the next day. F-you. Then I would notice I was sleeping deeper....and somehow my perspective had changed. However, I am still clear that my bosses are assholes

Sam----Hello!

If Det is in N-Town and hasn't reached out....I may kill him

SL....yes, yes....send me a message and we will connect. I am not active.....but, I am very quick to react to a PM. Hugs!

Life is not a bowl of cherries. I am full of shit talking in my head space. But, I will tell you this....when I am making a plan for one of my YT clients or working with them....I am in the MOMENT.

Hugs to all!