Today I shall be Mainly...

[Sue]

Public holiday in Vancouver today. Taking a tour bus and then having a good look around.mwe have three nights here before we go to Vancouver Island. The flight was good, no problems. We managed to stay up until nearly 8 pm last night and woke at 5 am this morning, so we should be time adjusted now. Justin's having a cup if tea in bed. All is quiet outside still

[Wendyf]

Justin? What have you done with Bob??

[Sue]

Oh dear , good old predictive text. JUST HAVING A cup of tea in bed . Bob had a chuckle about that

[Stanley]

Good God! I nearly had a kniption! I don't understand this predictive text.... Come to that I don't understand mobiles either. I have been forced to admit to Talktalk that I have one so the engineer can call me. It is showering me with messages I can't open so I am deleting them all and trusting that he will come when he said he would, between 8 and 1 today.

[LizG]

Oh dear , good old predictive text. JUST HAVING A cup of tea in bed . Bob had a chuckle about that

Phew, I'm glad that's sorted.

[Wendyf]

I'm still chuckling about it. It conjures up a wonderful picture.....

[Sue]

It certainly does especially as Bob had made the tea!

[Stanley]

Mobile phones are funny.... I was leaning on the wall giving Hassan the engineer instructions how to get to me and he said I know you're close, I can hear you without the phone! He was stood at the top of the back street....
Good day in shed.... I shall be in there again today.

[Stanley]

I'm waiting to hear from Terry about my base plate for the shaper but I have another little project in mind....

[Stanley]

Terry came up trumps even though he is still on holiday and I collected my piece of steel plate yesterday afternoon. I can get my shaper mounted and working now! I shall enjoy the next few days as I get it going and fulfil a long held ambition by playing with it. Isn't it strange the things that excite people.....

[Sue]

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Off to Whistler today. Tomorrow we are meeting a distant Widdup cousin descendant of Macfarlane Widdup of Barlick.. I found Percy's grave, the half brother of my grandfather and son of John Roberts Widdup. Plus the house he had built in the 1950 s

[Stanley]

They look better this way Sue! Posted the old fashioned way on to the site gallery.... Ipad hasn't cracked images yet!
Exciting play in the shed very soon!

[Wendyf]

At the New Road Community Centre, in costume, for the launch of Stephanie Carter's new book " Maids' Tales". We are also celebrating the history society's 20th anniversary with tea & cake!

10.30 to 1.30 if anyone wants to come along.

[Marilyn]

Ooooo...THAT looks like an interesting book, Wendy.

And THAT looks like a nice house, Sue.

[Sue]

I admit defeat on this random turning of my iPad images. It makes no difference which way I hold the iPad when I take the photo

[Pluggy]

What happens if you take the picture on the iPad and then upload it with a real computer ?

Excuse the derogatory implication that an iPad isn't a real computer.

[Sue]

Defeats the object. I may as well use my camera. I hardly ever use my laptop these days apart from saving photos and word processing and dedicated programs like my embroidery program. However it is worth a try but as I don't see the upside down images it would depend on people telling me. The easiest way to transfer an image to my laptop is to email it to myself which may already have turned the image.

[Stanley]

It seems to be a general problem Sue and one which Apple haven't solved yet. It demonstrates how, though a splendid tool, the Ipad has limitations. Being a comparative dinosaur I do my pics on cameras and upload them to the gallery in the old fashioned way. This was fast before fibre but now is so easy you wouldn't believe it.
I am slightly unsure about today, my natural instinct is to head for the shed particularly after the revolt by the Design Committee last night! (See Shed Matters) but at the same time I only have one article on the stock pile at the BET and need to address that.... Retirement? Forget it, I am as busy now as at any time in my working life....

[Sue]

I have just spent a delightful evening with the grand daughter of John William Widdup formerly of Barnoldswick and latterly of Brantford Ontario. we share a common 5 times great grandfather. I am descended from the first son born in Rochdale and she from the second son born in Barnoldswick. We were put in touch by a mutual third contact. We chatted as if we had known each other all our lives.

[Stanley]

Well done Sue, that must have been very satisfying... All that research has paid off in the end! A lovely example of the benefits of genealogy....

[Marilyn]

Family BBQ at ours today, and the weather was lovely at 27C.
I'm glad they have left now, though we had a nice lunch. I just find it a bit tedious when people allow their children to run riot through every room in our home ( drinks and food in hand). We were never allowed to do such things when young and were quite strict with our own kids when we took them to people's homes, but modern day parenting seems to mean letting them run wild and basically ignoring noise, mess and damage.
It all ended in tears when the 4 year old fell down the stairs! Then I was a little taken aback that his Mum took her time to decide if she was actually going get up off her backside to check he was ok. ( a black egg the size of a golf ball on the little darling's forehead).
I also discovered my downstairs loo crammed full of at least three quarters of a roll of used toilet paper ( and unflushed).

I must be getting old....but I've got to the stage where I would rather meet them in a park for lunch than have them here...
I'd never suggest a pub or a cafe because they spoil the experience for other diners.

[Stanley]

Ah, the joys of family life Maz.....
I salved my conscience by writing one article for the BET and am off into the shed now.....

[Marilyn]

There must be others, besides me, who struggle with having other people' s kiddies running riot in their homes.
But how do you tell people "please control your children"? ( if they were my grandkids I wouldn't hesitate and I would soon find the words!)

Anyway...all quiet on the Southern Front now. We went for a long walk and I am feeling much calmer.

[PanBiker]

Today we have mainly been supporting our kids, Carla and Jack who were doing the Great North Run (half marathon). Newcastle to South Sheilds, they ran together along with 57,000 others. We managed to get onto the seated area just before the finish line and saw Mo Farah's sprint finish with Stanley Biwott to win the men's elite race in 59min 23sec. Frank Bruno passed by but we missed Prof. Brian Cox who was also running. Carla and Jack both finished, nowhere near as fast as Mo but both in one piece, neither are runners as such, Jack always says that if we were meant to run we would not have invented the wheel! All in all a fantastic day and an achievement for the kids that they can both tick off their bucket list.

[Stanley]

Running 13 miles is impressive. as for doing it in under an hour....! I don't do running these days, a brisk walk is all I allow myself. I know my limitations, it's the mileage.....
More playing out in the shed with my new toy.