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JoesMum

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UMmmm, anyone here? Why would you be in a cold dark room? Heloooooo? Anyone out there?
Ahhhh, there you are... ooff
Hello and welcome to the CDR. I’m Linda and I live in Kent in South East England.

We’re an international bunch of idiots /friends here who sometimes talk tortoise and fairly regularly talk puns and nonsense.

Pull up an armadillo and the one-legged pirate will be along shortly to bring you your beverage of choice. The big armadillo is called Montgomery and is a very obliging coffee table, especially if you dust him or tickle him under the chin.

It’s rather gloomy in here, but the flying jellyfish glow a little brighter when you polish them. The blueberry ones seem to be glowing brightest at the moment.

Watch your step; it’s easy to stub your toe on the hedgehogs in the gloom. The wool spider, if she exists, seems to be in a better mood since we locked the leprechaun in a jellyfish tank. The snow leopard is very friendly and eats carrots :)
 

JoesMum

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CDR Virtual Vacations presents On this day 2020: we arrived home via Hong Kong.

We arrived to a deserted and scrupulously clean Hong Kong Airport at 4.30am local time which didn’t feel too bad because our body clocks thought it was 7.30am.

Our original plan was to stay a couple of nights here, but the flight to HK had been cancelled by the airline a couple of weeks back. We rebooked the flight for a changeover in HK and went to Tasmania instead. We rested in a equally deserted and clean hotel for the day, had an amazing lunch in their restaurant, and flew back to the UK overnight arriving in the early hours March 13th.

It was foggy throughout the day in Hong Kong so it was just as well we had nothing planned.

So this is the last day of this virtual vacation. Hopefully it won’t be too long before we are all able to travel again. The UK reckons that all adults should be vaccinated by June 8 which will be amazing ?


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Lyn W

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Good morning all.
We are still being battered by high winds here with gusts of over 40 mph and some very heavy rain showers, but the sun is trying to peep through in between those.
I felt a little bit fluey yesterday which I think may have been a side effect of the covid jab. Nothing drastic and quite normal - easily sorted with a few paracetamol. A small price to pay for protection from covid.
Everything is back to normal today.
 

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Good morning all.
We are still being battered by high winds here with gusts of over 40 mph and some very heavy rain showers, but the sun is trying to peep through in between those.
I felt a little bit fluey yesterday which I think may have been a side effect of the covid jab. Nothing drastic and quite normal - easily sorted with a few paracetamol. A small price to pay for protection from covid.
Everything is back to normal today.
Good morning to you. Glad to hear you made it through the winds. They high winds are the worst part. I grew up watching thunderstorms with my Dad and to this day I enjoy watching them. The wind storms make no sense!
 

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Good morning to you. Glad to hear you made it through the winds. They high winds are the worst part. I grew up watching thunderstorms with my Dad and to this day I enjoy watching them. The wind storms make no sense!
I like watching a good thunderstorm too and they clear the air.
We never used to get really high damaging winds in the UK as often as we do now - they seem to have started here in the late 80's and now they are a regular feature of our weather. Not on the hurricane scale yet though.
 

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I like watching a good thunderstorm too and they clear the air.
We never used to get really high damaging winds in the UK as often as we do now - they seem to have started here in the late 80's and now they are a regular feature of our weather. Not on the hurricane scale yet though.
I have had more damage to my grounds and house by high winds than anything hurricane related. The straight line winds and derechos have debudded the west side of one of my 70' Japanese cedar trees during a derecho. High winds not a huge branch down from my neighbors that killed my 1920's garage- I kept one of the two doors for my outside storage area. All winds, hurricanes have knocked out power, but I am ready for that now.
 

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Good morning all.
We are still being battered by high winds here with gusts of over 40 mph and some very heavy rain showers, but the sun is trying to peep through in between those.
I felt a little bit fluey yesterday which I think may have been a side effect of the covid jab. Nothing drastic and quite normal - easily sorted with a few paracetamol. A small price to pay for protection from covid.
Everything is back to normal today.
The wind was bad here overnight too. It has dropped a bit just now.
 

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Good morning all.
We are still being battered by high winds here with gusts of over 40 mph and some very heavy rain showers, but the sun is trying to peep through in between those.
I felt a little bit fluey yesterday which I think may have been a side effect of the covid jab. Nothing drastic and quite normal - easily sorted with a few paracetamol. A small price to pay for protection from covid.
Everything is back to normal today.

Good morning everybody!
Hey ,Linda?
Did you send me YOUR wind?
Because it came in the post last night and kept me up all night banging on my back door!! ??
Holy moly!!!
I thought the siding was about to come off.
I thought the windows were going to bash in!
I thought the roof was going to tear off and be in the neighbors yard today.....
and I wasn’t sure which tree me and my pets would land in?
And if I would ever find Gary in all the muck?
(This is Gary...)
(Sally my Sulcata is HUGE so I have no fear she will be exactly where I left her)?
 

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Good morning everybody!
Hey ,Linda?
Did you send me YOUR wind?
Because it came in the post last night and kept me up all night banging on my back door!! ??
Holy moly!!!
I thought the siding was about to come off.
I thought the windows were going to bash in!
I thought the roof was going to tear off and be in the neighbors yard today.....
and I wasn’t sure which tree me and my pets would land in?
And if I would ever find Gary in all the muck?
(This is Gary...)
(Sally my Sulcata is HUGE so I have no fear she will be exactly where I left her)?
Love Gary!! Would like to see Sally... hint hint
 

Lyn W

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Good morning everybody!
Hey ,Linda?
Did you send me YOUR wind?
Because it came in the post last night and kept me up all night banging on my back door!! ??
Holy moly!!!
I thought the siding was about to come off.
I thought the windows were going to bash in!
I thought the roof was going to tear off and be in the neighbors yard today.....
and I wasn’t sure which tree me and my pets would land in?
And if I would ever find Gary in all the muck?
(This is Gary...)
(Sally my Sulcata is HUGE so I have no fear she will be exactly where I left her)?
Not guilty - our wind is still here and making its presence felt.
We've also had hailstones and sleet this afternoon - very lively weather!
How long have you had Gary?
 

Lyn W

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My naughty torty made a dash for it today while I was cleaning his room and forgot to shut his gate behind me - I found him in the living room watching a gardening programme on the tv. Wish I'd had a camera - he looked as if he was enjoying it! Must have been the colours or maybe he thought it was a food programme, Short lived though and he was soon safely back in his own room.
 

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Hello and welcome to the CDR. I’m Linda and I live in Kent in South East England.

We’re an international bunch of idiots /friends here who sometimes talk tortoise and fairly regularly talk puns and nonsense.

Pull up an armadillo and the one-legged pirate will be along shortly to bring you your beverage of choice. The big armadillo is called Montgomery and is a very obliging coffee table, especially if you dust him or tickle him under the chin.

It’s rather gloomy in here, but the flying jellyfish glow a little brighter when you polish them. The blueberry ones seem to be glowing brightest at the moment.

Watch your step; it’s easy to stub your toe on the hedgehogs in the gloom. The wool spider, if she exists, seems to be in a better mood since we locked the leprechaun in a jellyfish tank. The snow leopard is very friendly and eats carrots :)
Well hello there! So nice to know someone is in here and I’m not all alone. For you Montgomery May I get a vanilla bean latte with a double shot of espresso, I’ll be needing it to not trip on the hedgehogs in all of this gloom.
 

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