What's on your agenda for today?

Ameriscot said:
Merlin, hope your wait isn't too long.

Doing all my muscle routines at home today as yesterday I got busy and didn't do the upper body ones. I was researching a self-catering house or flat and finally found one. We'll be staying in a small house in Oban - which those in the UK would likely be familiar with. Great location for doing long bike rides from. It's on the coast and has the main ferry terminal to islands. We can go in several different directions and also catch some ferries and go to a few islands. We'll just bring our rainsuits and hope we don't need them!
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I love the Oban area Annie been there many times, had a romantic fling there once :bigwink:
 

merlin said:
Yes must go again soon, how are your midges doing dare I ask :eek:nthego:
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OMG!!!!! Wee b**tards! On one of our long bike rides last week it was sunny except for a couple of miles when we rode under cloud and in the shade of trees. There was a WALL of midgies hitting us in the face and on our sunglasses as we rode. Didn't get bitten of course as they can't fight a breeze.

We live in midgie central! They don't bother me nearly as much since I've been on antihistamines, and hubby just finds them an annoyance. We've got our Jungle midge repellent so we're okay.

The reason we booked a place in Oban instead of in the countryside is because if it's cloudy we won't have an issue with midgies in town but they'd be a nightmare outside of town.
 
Finally made it to Finland and we have had a blow out buffet lunch at an Indian restaurant, was going to be a dry day but sadly succumbed to an Indian beer, soon time to return to St.Peter, back though border control 😟
 
merlin said:
Finally made it to Finland and we have had a blow out buffet lunch at an Indian restaurant, was going to be a dry day but sadly succumbed to an Indian beer, soon time to return to St.Peter, back though border control 
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We find it difficult not to sample new beers and ales when traveling.
 
Shalimar said:
Annie some of us difficulty not sampling while at home! Lol. Don't work too hard! You must be very fit.
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I am and work hard to stay fit! I'm fighting frailty! My husband brews very good beers and ales in the garage and we always have 2 or 3 kegs ready. But they aren't compatible with calorie counting. :(
 
Yes we like to go to as many bars as possible when we're away..just for the ambience you understand (well on my part anyway because I'm tee-toal)..o/h drinks but I love the people watching and in Spain the tapas which we often get Gratis with our drinks. :D
Glad you had a nice day in Finland merlin.. :)

Belive it or not although I've popped on and off here a lot today I've got quite a lot done around here.

It's been another gloriously sunny day, not as hot as yesterday but beautiful all the same about 70 degrees f.. I managed to get the last of the gardening done this afternoon , only took me about 45 minutes but it's all looking lovely again after 2 weeks of neglect..

It's coming up to 6.30pm now and I just popped out to the garden for a minute and it's beautiful, sunny, quiet and with birds singing in the trees...and I can hear the shooters out in the fields shooting clay pigeons a mile or so away .

My nephew who has been estranged from my brother and his ex wife (his parents) for some years has recently ( a few months ago) separated from his partner after her infidelity, and in the process has lost access to his children..and is now suffering badly with depression and is out of a job.

In the process of the break-up he lost everything including his computer with all the photos of our extended family..his father included..and his own children... and emailed me today to ask if I would send him photos of the family and his own children because his ex partner won't even allow him a photograph...heartbreaking isn't it. ?

I have to sort through over 28,000 photographs this evening and send him some.. :(
 
Got my car washed early this morning at the Car Wash. Will pick up a prescription from CVS, Gonna be 100+ today & early evening so time to just chill out, read, swim, relax and stay cool.
 
It's 9.45 Am here as I post, this ....I have to run , volunteering at museum today ..May take my iPad with me it gets a little boring in quiet times, so I will be sitting in front of the heater, the quite large building which was a school for 1200 children is very cold ......forecast temps today for our area 15c
 
Lon: This is weird - today I took in the car for detailing and later went to CVS to pick up meds, just like you did! In between, I went to two grocery stores for supplies. Usually, I just go to one store but they were out of my dog's favorite kibble so I had to go to the other one as well. I talked to hubby on the phone which we do every day and he said I should get my hair colored because he said my hair is getting too white. So now I need to figure out what color to go with - if it were anybody else asking me to do this, I'd probably tell them to take a long jump off a short pier.
 
Good Mornin' folks..

Having a trouble getting going this morning..feel very tired for some reason, didn't sleep well last night, and the sun has disappeared and we have a grey gloomy day today...I'm not a gloomy weather kind of gal so it affects my mood sometimes.

Kath, regard the hair I am a little less bold than Shali although red can be beautiful on some people not everyone can carry it off , but if you can it would be lovely especially a pale auburn...white can be really beautiful too, but if hubs isn't too keen why not just get a soft honey blonde..or a light ash blonde put through it? See what you think? have a look at some colour charts online. :D

Hope your volunteering day at the Museum went well Kadee and you weren't too cold, I keep forgetting it's winter in OZ. Temps are about 70 degrees here today, but cloudy!!

Shali don't get burnt. will you?.I am still suffering from quite bad sunburn on my shoulders..it's blistering now. I am so mad at myself because I'm pedantic about covering myself in Sunscreen even here in the UK, but on the day we went up to the mountains in Spain the forecast was for thick cloud all day so I only added factor to my face and nowhere else unlike every other day we were there when the temps were up to 30 deg C and the inevitable happened and I got badly burned...:(..even now 4 days after my return it's still stinging like the devil..oooh I'm such a whimp!! LOL

Annie , at last you have a day to enjoy a bike ride...have a lovely time hope you don't get attacked by the midges!! :cool:
 
A short time ago, I received a phone call from Caramel Newman's brother informing me that he had been killed in a car accident a few hours ago. No further details forthcoming at this time. Ooooh, there have been a lot of losses this year.
 
Holly, we did get attacked when getting bikes out of car and putting paniers on so I quickly applied Jungle. Riding bikes though creates breeze which midges can't handle.
 
Sounds like so many have good plans for today. I am attending a class at a hotel near the airport where I live and is being given by Learjet on the operation and safety of their newest line of business jets. I was invited and it includes a free luncheon, which is always pretty good, so I thought what the heck? I may as well spend the five or so hours adding some knowledge today. It can't hurt. Have fun everyone.
 
Holly: Thanks for your thoughts on hair colour - I was born with dark brown hair but I know that's too dark at this point. I love red hair - I remember that Maureen O'Hara was my Dad's favorite actress and she looked great. Love blond a lot and this is probably a good pick. Your idea about looking at color charts online is a good one.

Oldman: I hope your class is interesting today and also hope the eats are good!

Shali: I'm really sorry that you've lost someone important to you. I was thinking yesterday that it's painful enough to lose loved ones due to typical causes but I have felt furious and horribly sad about the tragic losses that just happened in SC.
 
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