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Well, Cheers - Had one - many years ago. Soon got used to it, though.
However - the video had me in stitches! thanks. Don

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What a great video!! everyone at work thinks that i have lost my marbles, I'm crying , laughing. :)

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Wow I didn't know you were from them parts. Do you speak Welsh?
Cheers

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I'm not really any good at it.

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cheers good video on the treadmill, very funny and the music was very fitting, thanks.

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On a different note - just read on the BBC website that Eric Sykes has died. Great comedian - absolutely loved his television shows, especially when he worked with Hattie Jacques. RIP Eric.

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Awwww...he was great fun;-(
Watching Andy Murray. I love Wimbledon.

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Does anyone know any people in this photograph?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18703604

I recognize a few.

Cheers

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Just to cheer you up. (not)

http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/...mo_code=F354-1

You may want to get on the first boat out of America.

Cheers

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Are this the lot that used to stand about on street corners with a sandwich board that said "the end is nigh"

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Bingo. Newsmax is just a bunch of birthers and Glenn Beck fans stocking up on gold bars to save themselves from the end of the world.

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I don't know where that came from.

This film I watched as I passed in front of the TV. It makes you think.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/bowling-for-columbine/

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Where is Bea????

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Raining and flooding all over the UK, right? So why is it when I look at the webcam of Abbey Road in London is it always as dry as a bone??

and further more why is the UK stealing all the rain when we need it here:D

Cheers

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:lol: True, I keep looking to see whats happening weather wise where my kids are and low an behold it's dry each time :lol: I just asked my son about the rain and he said it's not bad, on and off rain so far.

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Aerial Shots were taken while I was in the UK. They are several years old. All our rain is coming from your side of the pond. Please turn off the geyser! Don

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:):):)

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BBC news about Devon flooding etc. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18750430

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New photos - flowers in the gardens here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/islandw...7630531744488/

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Lovely pictures Rosie. The best gardens in the world are in England - probably because of the climate. I especially love the hydrangeas and roses. They are harder to grow here because of the extreme temperatures - very hot summers and cold winters. I must admit, I miss my English garden. I used to have beautiful roses.

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Despite the rain, the flowers are wonderful! Nice photos. I have created an English garden here in my home on beach sand, same flowers but I am now running around with the sprinkler twice of week to get them to stay flowering at their peak. Nothing like an English garden :)

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Twice a week, you are lucky. here we have to water twice a day.
I agree the pictures are lovely. When I clicked the link the colours just pop right out.

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You are lucky to be able to water twice a day. If we water more than twice a week we get a fine of $2,000

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Despite having more water and lakes than anywhere else in the world we are restricted to twice a week! Between 7pm and 10pm!

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There are roses bred in Ontario that survive very cold winters. I believe they're called the Explorer line and named after various explorers. Try them. I had one in Ottawa that did okay with a bit of winter protection.

Bev

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Great suggestion. I have the both Explorer and Pavement Series in my garden in Calgary. They repeat bloom throughout the season and are very low maintenance.

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Shhh no one knows, but no a chance in hell I'm letting all the trees die when we are wanting to sell this place, so everything is one drippers and a crop of trees down the lot is watered by the washing machine, so they get tons of water.:lol:

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Thats crazy, everything would die here on twice a week watering. Our friend got hers down to every other day but by the end of summer, her house was starting to look abandoned with the wilting and dried out vegetation.

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The three major water companies here has just canceled there hose pipe watering ban ----- after about three whole months of almost continuous rain,
but I dont think anyone will need to water there garden for a very long time to come as this relentless rain seems to have no end in site ----- according to the TV weather people :eek:
And for someone ---- me who has often said I love the rain, bring it on!!!!!
well I really didn't mean every freaking day :eek: :thumbdown: :ohmy:
I would absolutely love to see the Sun for a whole hour just every so often ---- that would really be something Huh!!!
But all I can do to cheer myself up a little is to google St Lucia and I can look at the balmy beaches and lovely sun and just pretend for a while that Im living there like one of those filthy rich people happily sipping my tropical drink ------- you know with the little umbrellas sticking out ;) :thumbup:

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Up here we keep having a few sunny days in between the rain. Yesterday and the day before were glorious. Last night after work we went up into the Yorkshire Dales for a drive around, a bit of a walk and a pub meal in Grassington. The sky was that lovely pale blue with little fluffy white clouds, and on the way back we got an amazing sunset.

I find those days are enough to keep me going through the gray (which is back again today by the way!). My strategy is that I take loads of photos while we're out - and we always go out when it's nice - and then on the bad days I paint what we saw. That way I don't mind the rain because I'm engrossed in what I'm doing :)

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What happened to Maggie Smith?:lol:

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:lol: I used to imagine she actually looked like Maggie Smith and spoke like Professor McGonagall. :confused:
Rodney go somewhere and order yourself a drink in a cocoanut with a little umbrella in, I bet that would make you feel better.
My Ds has only had a couple of rain free days since he got to UK. Dh said sell his bed quick so he can't come back, it's trial by water instead of fire. Good job he's an excellent swimmer. :D

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Just been on hols to the UK for 3 weeks, and it rained nearly everyday. But it didn't bother me.

I like weekends when it pours down, you know your not going out, stay in your jim jams and watch trash on TV:-)

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:rofl:

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I used to look for posts by "Maggie" - Sherlock? Lets have it for the return of "Maggie":rofl:

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Alas "Maggie" is dead. Long live Sherlock! :lol:

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She'a also not in the next series of Downton Abbey but then again, neither is Sherlock

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Say it isn't so:(

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Apparently she will not be in the next series, however Shirley MacLaine will be joining the cast.

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I was under the impression that was just a rumour that had neither been confirmed or denied. In fact the following story appears to confirm she is in series 3:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...difficult.html