COLD DARK ROOM

CarolM

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Happy sunday to all. Rainy, very stormy weather in Germany. Not nice.:(
Torts, dogs and cats are warm and safe indoors.:D
I hope that sheep can`t be blown away ( they are too heavy because pregnant ):eek::D. When chicken will be blown away they learn to fly....:eek::D:D Hopefully they will return back home.:( That`s the short weather report from cold old Germany.
Have a nice sunday without storm.
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hey, Nice to see you Sabine. I hope you survived the stormy weather and that all the chickens have returned.
 

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More trouble for me - my boiler has stopped working!
It's too late to call an engineer so I've no heating.
I have a small fan heater directed at Lola's place but I will have to sleep downstairs tonight to keep an eye on it.
Oh No. I hope it worked out and can be fixed quickly.
 

CarolM

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Some big changes are coming in our back yard!!
I took a few pics.
This big pine is coming down on Wednesday and 2 pepper trees that I love! This sea container will be removed too. In the future we will add some sort of barn/garage will be added and the torts relocated where the container is. But we need to move some dirt and grade it.
Here are a few before shots.
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Why not leave the container there and make it a glorified tort heated room with an entrance to each paddocks (so to speak) for them? You could set it up really nicely with CHE's or heating panels which will work very nicely.
 

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Post first, catch up afterwards!

Last week ran away with me and this one isn’t looking to be much of an improvement. I am so much better health wise which is just as well!

I hope all is well in the CDR. I have around 350 posts to catch up with which might take a while!

I’ll post a few postcards from the weekend, so @Moozillion can add some more things to her bucket list :D

We went to a concert at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday evening
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On Saturday we were back in London, firstly visiting “The Old Operating Theatre” which was discovered in the roof of a church by a nosey organist. The church was originally part of St Thomas’s Hospital. They also found the Herb Garret up there... the roof space where medicinal herbs were dried and prepared... and this is now a museum about the hospital.
http://oldoperatingtheatre.com/

The church
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The Herb Garret/museum
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The operating theatre with its gallery for spectators
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Next we went to see a play at the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse. It’s a reconstructed Elizabethan indoor theatre built next to Shakespeare’s Globe (the reconstructed outdoor theatre). The theatre is entirely lit by candles
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JoesDad fully booked our day [emoji849] I do have to rein him in from time to time!

Finally we went on a Hidden London tour of a disused part of the London Underground. This tour was of the Aldwych Station which was on a little used branch line that hardly got used.

One platform was never used for trains and has had various uses over the last century including storage for museum artefacts and paintings during both world wars and a test site for station refurbishment ideas.

The other platform was used as an air raid shelter in the wars, but did at least have trains. If you ever see a vintage underground station in a film or on tv, it will almost always have been filmed here. Remains of Darkest Hour filming were evident.

The never used platform, blocked off at the ends when it was used as museum storage.
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The station was first called Strand and that can be seen in the tiling. The Way Out sign is from Darkest Hour
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Ghost train on the platform that was used
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JoesDad let me have Sunday off! We spent that at home while gales blew all day. Lots of trees down and several buildings damaged in our area, but we were OK fortunately.
 

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JoesDad fully booked our day [emoji849] I do have to rein him in from time to time!

Finally we went on a Hidden London tour of a disused part of the London Underground. This tour was of the Aldwych Station which was on a little used branch line that hardly got used.

One platform was never used for trains and has had various uses over the last century including storage for museum artefacts and paintings during both world wars and a test site for station refurbishment ideas.

The other platform was used as an air raid shelter in the wars, but did at least have trains. If you ever see a vintage underground station in a film or on tv, it will almost always have been filmed here. Remains of Darkest Hour filming were evident.

The never used platform, blocked off at the ends when it was used as museum storage.
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The station was first called Strand and that can be seen in the tiling. The Way Out sign is from Darkest Hour
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Ghost train on the platform that was used
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JoesDad let me have Sunday off! We spent that at home while gales blew all day. Lots of trees down and several buildings damaged in our area, but we were OK fortunately.
Glad you are all okay and better. Some awesome pictures. And very interesting about the hospital.
 

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JoesDad fully booked our day [emoji849] I do have to rein him in from time to time!

Finally we went on a Hidden London tour of a disused part of the London Underground. This tour was of the Aldwych Station which was on a little used branch line that hardly got used.

One platform was never used for trains and has had various uses over the last century including storage for museum artefacts and paintings during both world wars and a test site for station refurbishment ideas.

The other platform was used as an air raid shelter in the wars, but did at least have trains. If you ever see a vintage underground station in a film or on tv, it will almost always have been filmed here. Remains of Darkest Hour filming were evident.

The never used platform, blocked off at the ends when it was used as museum storage.
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The station was first called Strand and that can be seen in the tiling. The Way Out sign is from Darkest Hour
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Ghost train on the platform that was used
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JoesDad let me have Sunday off! We spent that at home while gales blew all day. Lots of trees down and several buildings damaged in our area, but we were OK fortunately.


Great set of class action adventure photos! Glad you are all better and back!
 

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The last couple years, the local school systems scheduled their spring breaks for the week immediately following the time change, which I thought was absolutely brilliant. Keep the sleepy school children, their sleepy parents (who often take the week of spring break off work to be with their kids), and the sleepy college students off the roads the first few mornings while adjusting to the time change. Unfortunately, I don't think that's the case this year. :(
 

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Here are about 35 blue agave that were planted today by my gardener. It only took him about 45 minutes! He is awesome!!
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Side view
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Another corner
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Can’t wait to see end results.. I just love new projects!! Especially the ones I’m not doing myself!!!
I was so jealous over your truck load of agave that I found a few myself. They have been planted. I have been restraint from taking pictures until my new grass grows in and things start blooming. Luv your place!!
 

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Ok I have a lot of catching up to do. Will have to try during the day.
My weekend was filled with Hockey matches for Jarrod and gorgeous sun rises and rain. Lovely lovely rain.

Jarrod played 7 Hockey matches and they did not do too badly. They won 4 out of the 7 they played. I got sunburned as did not have enough sun block on, so the next time I will have to make sure we are better prepared.

Now that we are in the month of March and we seem to be getting more rain, I am keeping an eye out for baby torts. There is one egg that I know of that I am waiting for it to hatch. It should hatch sometime this month or next month. That is if the egg is fertile and nothing went wrong. So hold thumbs.

Hopefully with the rain that we are getting, i can get some decent weeds again, as the dry spell made it very difficult to find anything this winter. Anyway chat soon.

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Congrats to son on the hockey match and I hope you have some Aloe for that burn!!! But did you say BABIES????? I will be eagerly watching for updates and may check out the flight options [emoji6]. HOW EXCITING!!!
 

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JoesDad fully booked our day [emoji849] I do have to rein him in from time to time!

Finally we went on a Hidden London tour of a disused part of the London Underground. This tour was of the Aldwych Station which was on a little used branch line that hardly got used.

One platform was never used for trains and has had various uses over the last century including storage for museum artefacts and paintings during both world wars and a test site for station refurbishment ideas.

The other platform was used as an air raid shelter in the wars, but did at least have trains. If you ever see a vintage underground station in a film or on tv, it will almost always have been filmed here. Remains of Darkest Hour filming were evident.

The never used platform, blocked off at the ends when it was used as museum storage.
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The station was first called Strand and that can be seen in the tiling. The Way Out sign is from Darkest Hour
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Ghost train on the platform that was used
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JoesDad let me have Sunday off! We spent that at home while gales blew all day. Lots of trees down and several buildings damaged in our area, but we were OK fortunately.

Luv traveling through your post cards! Beautiful & informative:))
 

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Post first, catch up afterwards!

Last week ran away with me and this one isn’t looking to be much of an improvement. I am so much better health wise which is just as well!

I hope all is well in the CDR. I have around 350 posts to catch up with which might take a while!

I’ll post a few postcards from the weekend, so @Moozillion can add some more things to her bucket list :D

We went to a concert at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday evening
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Beautiful place, but what's the last pic of? I can't make it out.
Is it a crucifix?
 

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And a year pretty much to the day that I first saw Mrs Bluet!t exploring our camera nestbox, we have the box being checked out again :)

Let’s hope it’s more successful this year
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I love live cams... I don’t remember seeing this last year but I’m excited to have my eye on it now through your eye:))
 
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