[AlanHo]

Our Garden exactly 9 weeks ago




Times flies – this is it today 10th Dec 2017




We will not be having our lunch on the patio today




But the birds have a sheltered spot for their feeders.

[eye30]

The snow forecast of some 10cm never happened here.
Basking in sunshine!

[CraigB]

Very pretty, that snow looks inviting after a long day in 38c temps

[eye30]

Ps

Where's the snowman sorry snowperson or whatever in gender neutral

[Lakes]

looks like, a colour pic, then a black and white.
we are having nice weather now not too hot and have had good rain fall so all green.
alan , your lawn just reminded me , I was in Sydney on weekend for a party, they had grass like you put down as house blocked the sun from lawn so grass never grew. they had a lawn like yours put down. has a steel frame that grass stitched too around the edge then it has u nails to stake all around edge. then join joined like a carpet. then had sand put over it. only a small front lawn , they have a large rear yard normal grass out the back. cost them ten grand.

[Dazzler]

Snow is a bit of a noveltyfor us in Australia,  but I like the before photo better. 

The snow forecast of some 10cm never happened here.
Basking in sunshine!

Aren't you guys only something like 50 miles apart? 

[eye30]

Yes but i live on the coast and surrounded on 3 sides by water so it is slightly warmer than where alanho resides.

[Dazzler]

Yes but i live on the coast and surrounded on 3 sides by water so it is slightly warmer than where alanho resides.

Still amazes me how little you guys travel. If I lived in the Wirrel 50 miles from Alan,Steve and Asa I would try to catch up at least once a month. You have only met Asa out of those three haven't you?

[asathorny]

ya see Dazz. what it is is=  we don't have roads a thousand miles long with no bends 

Just kidding Dazz, calm down.  Although Lester and I are only aprox 25 miles apart (in a straight line)...  when I drive home from my Wales slave ship journeys I pass close to Lester's place and the travel time can be well over one hour of nightmare traffic, as I switch from the M56 to the M62 I am effectively on the Worlds biggets car park  <sigh>

I hope that this goes some way to enlightening you...   

[Surferdude]

ya see Dazz. what it is is=  we don't have roads a thousand miles long with no bends 

Just kidding Dazz, calm down.  Although Lester and I are only aprox 25 miles apart (in a straight line)...  when I drive home from my Wales slave ship journeys I pass close to Lester's place and the travel time can be well over one hour of nightmare traffic, as I switch from the M56 to the M62 I am effectively on the Worlds biggets car park  <sigh>

I hope that this goes some way to enlightening you...   

Absolutely no excuse. 

[John B]

Nice photos Alan  Sure brings back memories before I was a 10 pound pom. 

[Dazzler]

ya see Dazz. what it is is=  we don't have roads a thousand miles long with no bends 

Just kidding Dazz, calm down.  Although Lester and I are only aprox 25 miles apart (in a straight line)...  when I drive home from my Wales slave ship journeys I pass close to Lester's place and the travel time can be well over one hour of nightmare traffic, as I switch from the M56 to the M62 I am effectively on the Worlds biggets car park  <sigh>

I hope that this goes some way to enlightening you...   

What do you get for living in a place like that? Green stamps? 

Thanks for that ASA. I forget it isn't like our 50 miles/80 kilometres...   

[The Gonz]

Our year in Wiltshire was similarly enlightening. We would take every weekend away to Scotland, France, Spain, you name it, while the locals would maybe venture out to one of the two pubs in Shrivenham for a curry.

[AlanHo]

We are not hermits - the Niro has done 13,000 km since we had it in March.

It would have done more in the car had we not been abroad to Portugal, Croatia, Germany, Hungary and Austria this year.

[The Gonz]

We are not hermits - the Niro has done 13,000 km since we had it in March.

It would have done more in the car had we not been abroad to Portugal, Croatia, Germany, Hungary and Austria this year.

You had me at 'km'.

[Dazzler]

We are not hermits - the Niro has done 13,000 km since we had it in March.

It would have done more in the car had we not been abroad to Portugal, Croatia, Germany, Hungary and Austria this year.

But I think you are the exception rather than the rule. I'm guessing you find it uncomfortable to sit too long on that fat wallet of yours...