The Weather

See you thought better of that one Stuey!

I got this last Christmas....and cold weather does not seem to matter to it!
 

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and your gift for her ? ... (don't worry, we won't tell)

No, we're actually not doing gifts this Xmas. We're spending enough going NYC for Xmas, Paris for New Years, London, then out to Wales (where the Mrs is from) with two teenagers in tow. Mucho $$$$$$$$$.

(I actually prefer stainless steel watches, but needed a pic of a Golden one) 🙂

Oh, and 36C forecast tomorrow, with my son doing bricklayer's labouring on his holidays. Hard work!
 
My friend and garden help weighs 400lb, 30'' biceps, decades of boxing at a gym.
Has a rap sheet the length of your arm, ranges from environmental convictions for dumping polluted soil, to several ones for assault and battery, even did some debt collecting for the local mob, iirc.
He started out as a road brick layer, went bankrupt, turned wheeler and dealer of necessity.

The entire family of four eats fast food 7/7.
His two sons look like replicas of Bob & Li'l Debil Valkenheiser from 'Nothing but Trouble', 6'4'' and >>300lb, with faces like they last saw fresh vegetables in the previous millennium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhjKNmgsQmM

A decade ago he survived a kick to his head by the largest of his dozen Belgian/Brabant horses, the world's heaviest breed, his biggest does nearly 3000lb.
After his recovery, he continued to stuff himself with huge amounts of snack food each and every day, till he snapped the surgically placed rubber gastric banding.
Instead of accepting he had to go on a diet, he arranged a different surgeon/hospital that was willing to surgically reduce the size of his stomach (Billroth II).
Right after the operation, he got a CVA, can't count anymore, has trouble speaking.

About a month ago, his wife had a minor heart attach. Chances are high either of his two sons will go cardiac before turning 40.
Upside of trailer parkies is that rare few reach the legal retirement age, the true heroes of every pension fund around the globe. :clown:

Stormy wind/rain weather's gone here, all quiet again at the Western front.
 

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Having spent the Summer moaning about the lack of water in the Tweed, things have now changed. We have had some rain and the first pic is the Tweed about .75 miles from home, the second id the Teviot - a tributary - also nearby. Only thing to be pleased about is that we are located on high ground.

The floods are doing a lot of damage and (from a purely selfish viewpoint) are taking out all of the salmon and other fish spawn already deposited.

WHY ARE UPLOADS FAILING?????
 
Tried twice today Cal - this morning and this afternoon.

I'll try now on this (other people - IF the pics stick to this they apply to two posts earlier!)

NOPE:
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