Where I am today

[Moss]

One, two, a one, two, three, four
On the road again
Just can't wait to get on the road again
The life I love is making music with my friends
And I can't wait to get on the road again
On the road again
Goin' places that I've never been
Seein' things that I may never see again
And I can't wait to get on the road again
On the road again
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We're the best of friends
Insisting that the world keep turning our way
And our way
Is on the road again
I just can't wait to get on the road again
The life I love is makin' music with my friends
And I can't wait to get on the road again
On the road again
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We're the best of friends
Insisting that the world keep turning our way
And our way
Is on the road again
Just can't wait to get on the road again
The life I love is makin' music with my friends
And I can't wait to get on the road again
And I can't wait to get on the road again

[WelshGin]

I cannot beat that!!!
Well done......

[WelshGin]

Where I am?

It's not the place it's the time.
Not the date, but your age.

I am 61 years old.
I have 3 children and 4 grandchildren so far, not a distance, not a place but today, at this time.

I am eating my slow cooked pork belly, crispie, with many extras. The Dry Gin and lemon cuts the fat and cleans my palette.
I have cooked chilli chicken for my wife.
My youngest daughter is away with her boyfriend. He appears a good chap, we will see. Maybe more grandchildren.

I look out of my window as I eat my dinner, as well as watching 'The guns of Navarone''.
I have watched this film many times. I will watch it again, and again.
I cannot remember all of the words yet.

Out of the window, crows start to settle on a large willow tree.
The tree is perhaps 150/200 years old.
The crows have been there before. How long does a crow live for? They, most have them have visited before.

The tree will shortly be removed. That's what it says in the planning order.
It means, cut down. Gone. There will not be another willow tree in its place.
The tree is apparently damaging near by properties.

Where will the crows go? How old are they? Have they been in other trees?
Mmm. So me, 61years old, I have been in many trees. I am used to, familiar with the tree I am in.
I,am 61 yraers old. I have been married 4 times. Lots of change.

The only consitant parameter is change. Comforting really. I know it/everything will change.
I am used to it now. Expect it, ..change.
This gives me the opportunity to 'guide the change'. To my advantage/pleasure.

My eldest daughter has cancer, she will never grow old.
Unfortunately I can only marginally influence this. However, I can effect the consequences.
I will support my wife, her mother, and guide my daughter's little boys, 2 of my grandchildren.

I feel a need to plant another tree.
Mmm, finished my Gin now.
Interesting revelry.

Fortune favours the prepared mind.
I will plan what species of tree and where.
I hope the crows visit.

WelshGin

[Jennysgin]

Sorry to hear that about your daughter WG
However I admire your philosophical outlook. Best wishes to you and your family x

[WelshGin]

We are all good.
We like gravy baby, that how we roll.
Everything changes.

Thank you.

[WelshGin]

And, I have faith. Faith in change....
The crows will be fine.

[WelshGin]

Sorry. I have to leave this site at the moment.
We are in Navarone, sure we can blow the guns up.
The German garrison never learn, they let Peck and Niven in.
I imagine the result would have been different if the Germans had watched the movie.
Predictable, which is a suprise.

WelshGin.

[Easydrinker]

A Rowan tree is worth considering.
Some of our more mature ones are a veritable feast for birds in late summer.
A tad older than yourself WG, but tonight The Good, The Bad and The Ugly rolled past on freeview, and though I have had a copy of the soundtrack since 1966, realised I had never seen the movie.
That kept me entertained until 10 minutes ago.

Robert.

[Mash]

Fortune favours the prepared mind.

Very good indeed.

I have always liked the phrase.."it is how well you bounce that matters, not how far you fall"

Keep grinning. The crows will be fine and I reckon Navarone will good too.

[Icefever]

I hope the crows visit.

WelshGin

I'm sure they will mate, I've just read your post to my better half, and she says to send you & your family our sympathy and best wishes for the future..

Ice.

[WelshGin]

Thank you. I wasn't down. Just reviewing 'Up'.
Your comments help.

WelshGin.

[WelshGin]

Amazing.

I believe management meeting should be done with the participants standing. Minutes taken, hours lost etc.

So after many discussions, tree down. But no! It, the removal might damage services? What a f***** surprise!

So the crows are not moving on currently. I suggested/requested last November about near by supply to street lights etc near the tree, no interest. F***** local councilors, couldn't organise the proverbial in a pleasure palace.

Anyway for a laugh, I decided to scan around perimeter of tree. It must be fate, I found a copper pipe and a small Gin bottle, Gordon's which must have been initial supplied with cork. I will clean and post photo.

I am not going to report the heavy Kva cable. They can find that themselves. I won't be reviewing the RAMS, hope, don't give a s*** if they arrange them correctly or advice the participants.

Just wanted to assure you the Crows are OK.

WelshGin.

[Easydrinker]

I have been on a downer this weekend.
One of my bee colonies is failing/has failed, due to starvation.
If I had spotted it earlier, I could have fed them.
Of 9 eggs put under a broody hen to raise a new cockerel, one chick survives...
Nature kicks you in the teeth every chance.
On a plus note, Osprey seen flying overhead 3 times last week.

Robert.

[Mash]

Ouch.

Both of us don't agree with feeding. But I had found my own way. Which is... A bit.
I leave a little sugar cake in there as an measure.. If it dissappears its a sign. Easy enough to make and gives the girls a safety net.

[Easydrinker]

I have no objection to feeding back my own honey.
I had already fed 3 jars back to this hive, I stopped when they started bringing in pollen, assuming they were doing OK.
To be honest, it was such a small colony I did not expect them to survive the winter.
They proved to be too small to expand, no brood this year, all the workers too old and feeble to raise them.
On a lighter note, my colony containing the original queen is thriving, much busier than this time last year.
I am busy getting hives ready for the swarms that I expect.

I am also wondering at the health and abilites of the local drones that mated with my new queens last year.

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

Bit of a result today.
Out patient visit at the hospital, with the Neurologist that diagnosed me with Epilepsy, over the phone, over 18 months ago, today was the first time we met Face to Face.
He is going to write a letter to allow me to drive under section 88 of the RTA 1988, to circumvent the ineptitude of the DVLA in returning my driving licence.
Feck me!
The thought of getting in a car and driving again, To anywhere....

Of course, insurance, could, ( but should not, by law), be tricky.

Many open road songs running through my head.
Born to be wild, Against the wind,etc

Robert.

I forgot to mention that letters dictated by my neurology dept. tend to take a month to arrive.
I can do nothing before then.
But it has been so long,...

Robert.

[Mash]

I have no objection to feeding back my own honey.
I had already fed 3 jars back to this hive, I stopped when they started bringing in pollen, assuming they were doing OK.

Robert.

I have discovered, by chance, bee's suffer a "hunger gap" after spring and before summer. Spring see's a lot of growth in the colony with the warmer days and the early blossom, then there is a gap before summer blossom, with a lot more mouths to feed

[WelshGin]

Oh yes, I am teaching myself, learning me, ...Mmm like that
To play the harmonica.

I have a good instrument, the harmonica.
The conductor, me is shit, I need a lot of re-education.

I want to be able to play proficiently with lots of accolade ,
The theme from Midlight Cowboy.

We will hear.

WelshGin.

[Mash]

Is that the one with the torch in his pocket?

[Easydrinker]

I have no objection to feeding back my own honey.
I had already fed 3 jars back to this hive, I stopped when they started bringing in pollen, assuming they were doing OK.

Robert.

I have discovered, by chance, bee's suffer a "hunger gap" after spring and before summer. Spring see's a lot of growth in the colony with the warmer days and the early blossom, then there is a gap before summer blossom, with a lot more mouths to feed

The "June Gap" seems to be a thing in England.
Maybe my locale has a better overlap, due to shorter season.
I will have acres of gorse in flower locally for the next couple of months, until the real summer treats come onstream.

Robert.

[Mash]

Bought myself a proper suit the other day. A bee kindly reminded by flying up my sleeve.

No bee's were harmed in the making of this reminder.

[Easydrinker]

My new passsport arrived today, 16 days after an online application.
What is all the fuss about and the threat to privatise the passport office?
Politics, methinks.

Robert.

[gaza the instructor]

Passport ED!! You really don't want to use one of them ATM, at least not in my part of the world.
Ques at Dover so long that people are thinking of combining Spring and Summer hols as one.
Ques so log at Gatwick and Heathrow that the Spring hols will be spent in the terminal. The M25
and surrounding motorways and A roads are free car parks. No travel for me, A good chilled home
brewed Cider, the latest batch of Bitter Orange Gin and a Tandoori leg of Lamb on the smoker.
Final of the IPL, come on the double "R's" and the Monaco GP, feet up TV on I am stayin' put.
Till July any how.

[Easydrinker]

Sometimes you have to prove who you are, and while DVLA have been sitting on my licence since forever, my library and tesco cards don't swing it everywhere, hence the need for a passport.
Not planning on going very far, just happy to be driving while waving two fingers.
Good old section 88 of the Road Traffic Act (1988).

Robert.

[Mash]

Yes indeed. In this paperless world a passport is invaluable as ID... And it gets a much better reaction than a firearms licence in certain places