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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 22, 2024 19:08:15 GMT
That is a great friendly photo.
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Post by htmb on Jun 22, 2024 19:46:19 GMT
Hello Lugg and friends!
Whatagain, I am very jealous. Have a wonderful time in Paris!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 22, 2024 22:07:30 GMT
Have a great time in Paris, Whatagain, & please say hello to what's-his-name for me! Lugg, you all look like you're so happy to see each other. What ladies, too, with those fancy drinks!
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Post by whatagain on Jun 23, 2024 6:28:33 GMT
Bixa : the one whose name must not b Be said ? 😉
Lugg, great pic of the 3 Musketeers. Which one is you ?
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Post by tod2 on Jun 23, 2024 10:55:26 GMT
I can feel your enthusiasm Whatagain as I have it too! We will be jetting into UK, then speeding headlong into Gare du Nord on Eurostar during month of September.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 23, 2024 12:32:56 GMT
Excellent pic lugg....it's great to catch up!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 23, 2024 13:52:36 GMT
Bixa : the one whose name must not b Be said ? 😉 Yes, that would be he.Lugg, great pic of the 3 Musketeers. Which one is you ? I believe she is the beauteous blonde between the redhead & the brunette.
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 23, 2024 18:13:02 GMT
Drove through the Pyrenees into Spain yesterday. I was just going to bed just after ten when there was a lot of noise in the hotel. Kids running up and down and so on. I'd forgotten how late they go out for dinner. I slept through them coming back though so they must have been tired.
The weather's been shocking all the way down. Constant rain, thunderstorms in Toulouse and no more than 16 degrees. I'm now on a level with Valencia and lovely sunshine and warm, bordering on hot.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 24, 2024 11:50:53 GMT
More adventures Mark? I see you as a cross between Indiana Jones and Bear Grylls:D
We made an appointment for the dog to go to tbe doggy beauty salon (Emma Scisserhounds...I kid you not). The lady works from home and has a professional looking set up in her converted garage. Since he last went Emma has increased her prices (understandable considering her costs) and sent a number of automatic texts about some new rules, 48 hours notice of cancellations (with a fee if one fails to turn up) and a long rant about dogs with fleas, ticks or sick dogs. I understand anout the cancellation rule but asked about the fleas because most owners these days (including us) treat their dogs with a flea and tick preventive regularly. Apparently some owners aren't so careful...it must be a major headache for her because she herself has 2 dogs and she has a lot of clients.
I asked my next door neighbour and she said that her dog had been quite badly infested, so much so that she'd had to have the house fumigated and the dog treated repeatedly. Ew. So maybe there is a new super-flea out there, resistant to the regular preventives...or is it down to the mild winter?
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 24, 2024 12:36:53 GMT
Not Bear Grylls! Please..
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 24, 2024 14:57:47 GMT
Cheery, going down to Spain to the house is not so much an adventure nowadays but more like a commute I try and make interesting with diversions. I'll be here until the beginning of September when I will need to find an interesting way to go back to Germany. End September into October though I'll fly out to Athens, rent a car for two or three weeks and explore the mainland. Not sure where but I have ideas and a flight, car and first night hotel booked. I need to do more research on that. More adventurous will be November into December when I'm inclined to go and have a look at parts of India again but less driving around and more staying in one place a week at a time. Maybe Vietnam or one of the other countries in that area. Still thinking about it but it does depend to a certain extent on the cost of flights as there's no way nowadays I'd fly economy that far.
I'm really living dangerously the next day or two as I'm in Fuengirola and searching for fish and chips because my regular place/plaice has got new management and the reviews are now quite bad.
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Post by tod2 on Jun 24, 2024 16:24:47 GMT
I've always had a hankering to go to Andorra.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 24, 2024 16:48:34 GMT
I have actually spent nights in hotels there twice besides the times I just went for the day. Entering and leaving through France is almost the same as being in the Schengen zone, or at least it was. It might have changed as tobacco and alcohol prices diverged more and more. Entering Spain through Andorra is quite another matter. Every car has to stop in the huge shed and open the boot. But I did get the impression that I was of no interest to them with a Frencn car and a French passport.
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 24, 2024 17:09:02 GMT
I slipped around Andorra but have been through once before. With the amount of contraband I was bringing from Amsterdam I didn't want to risk being stopped.
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Post by lugg on Jun 24, 2024 18:54:34 GMT
Lugg, great pic of the 3 Musketeers. Which one is you ? Bixa got it right - 3rd from the left as you look at pic ....with the large Aperol Spritz. Hic
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Post by lugg on Jun 24, 2024 18:59:22 GMT
....looking forward to seeing more about your adventures Mark.
So maybe there is a new super-flea out there, resistant to the regular preventives...or is it down to the mild winter?
Ive heard that too - thankfully Dora seems to be free with just her normal treatment so far
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 24, 2024 19:43:42 GMT
I thought it was a tick.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 26, 2024 14:08:27 GMT
All I know is that a few dogs in the neighbourhood have had fleas very difficult to get rid of. Django's visit to the groomer went ok, she says that we need to take him more often (last took him in February) as his fur is very dense, he needs clipping twice which is time consuming. He looks beautiful tho. Like a little fat whippet with a bit of a beard and hairy eyebrows
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 26, 2024 14:26:09 GMT
Our spaniel in the Deep South would get covered with ticks, some of them very large and fat. We would pull them out regularly. The dog would whine and wimper a bit but seemed to understand that we were doing a good thing and would put up with the torture and then lick our hands when we were finished. On the other hand, my mother was the only person who could touch his feeding bowl. H would growl with great menace at my brother and me, which indicated that we were just rival dogs in the family and he was the alpha.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 27, 2024 8:46:23 GMT
Not Bear Grylls! Please.. Ray Mears then.... Mark I'm sorry but you can't shake off the hero adventurer label
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 27, 2024 8:51:46 GMT
We've managed to avoid ticks so far...but its only a matter of time I suppose. Django is pretty easy going with the three adults in the household. We are not allowed to hug each other (according to Django) but we disregard his barking. He doesn't like anybody touching his toys, but when our great granddaughter was here he allowed her to (they have two dogs so she's used to them)...mind you she did keep feeding him sausage rolls and cheese straws...
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 27, 2024 9:01:29 GMT
Not Bear Grylls! Please.. Ray Mears then.... Mark I'm sorry but you can't shake off the hero adventurer label That’s ok. I mean Bear Grylls is a weirdo. Hang on a minute though.....
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 27, 2024 9:07:47 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 27, 2024 14:07:33 GMT
Ha bloody ha.
May be a bit of truth in that though.
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 27, 2024 14:15:05 GMT
....looking forward to seeing more about your adventures Mark. The most adventurous thing I'll do for the next couple of months is to swim naked in the pool. I realised I forgot to mention next Jan/Feb I'll be ferry hopping in the Canary Islands then maybe March/April, sometime around there I'll drive to Hungary and Romania. I have a very understanding wife, or, she likes to get rid of me, but in any case, these two trips next year she will be with me for part of them. My proper adventures won't start until we are posted abroad again, wherever that might be.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 28, 2024 11:42:55 GMT
Difficult week ahead. Rammstein tonight. Dragonia tomorrow- a medieval party with elves and sorceresses. Monday dinner with friends. Tuesday Wednesday Paris. Then we shall see.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 29, 2024 20:59:01 GMT
Yesterday we met our Great Grandson for the first time. Granddaughter was staying with her other Granny to give her partner a break (he had some important meetings at work or something and NOBODY was getting any sleep since Torben had been born).
Little Torben is adorable, they had been struggling as he was failing to gain weight, constantly crying and struggling to feed..turned out that he had quite a severe tongue-tie. Anyway they paid for a private midwife and she spotted it straight away and performed a quick procedure to sort it out. (The hospital missed it, only one visit from the nhs midwife once they were home and she missed it too). Torben is much more settled and starting to gain weight thank goodness. Granddaughter still looks tired, but she has a 6 week ond baby and is trying to potty train a two year old! I went loaded down with gifts as you'd expect...had a long cuddle with Torben and a fascinating chat with Lorelei about poo.
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Post by htmb on Jun 30, 2024 0:12:43 GMT
Glad they were able to sort out the tongue-tie situation, Cheery. That must have made a major difference. I’m sure it’s an exhausting time for your granddaughter. Fortunately, we somehow make it through those challenges with little ones!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 30, 2024 2:26:34 GMT
How frightening that something so easy to fix was immediately spotted.
My middle sister (b. 1955, 3rd child in family) had pyloric stenosis. Luckily my grandmother saw something was wrong right away.
Poor granddaughter! She must have been so relieved to have great-grandmother there to insert love and practical calm into the household, not to mention having the Important Talks with little Loreliei.
❤️
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Post by whatagain on Jun 30, 2024 7:24:48 GMT
Lovely.
Glad the baby was settled. Will have to look.up what tongue tied means, i understand the words 🤪 but cannot imagine what it is.
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