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I got mine at Comet roughly the same price

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Its just practice, and getting lucky with the droplets, and the light in the right direction. We get plenty of time to practice.

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I'll have to find some flowers and wickthings on the prom - might not be easy.

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Had a look at the Comet website earlier - not a singe Olympus camera to be seen, and I can't get to their store.

If I go through a special link on their website, by buying it at Amazon I am benefiting the funds of a choral society I used to belong to before I moved up here so I like to use them if the price is right.

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Sorry Susie I'm having a senior moment. It was pc.cworld.

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Gotcha... but they don't have a red one... :(

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Sorry about that you'll have to paint it

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No I won't - I hope the one that's coming from Amazon will be the right colour!

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Ouch.......I have a big tub of sudocrem here, do you want some for your BTM?(I'm not rubbing it on though :D)

Dianne nothing wrong with those pics......lovely.

Sue we are expecting great things from you now you are sorted...it looks a very neat bit of kit.
And if I know Amazon it won't be long before it arrives.

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here you go susie .. as promised the baby sunflowers and my gardener :D:D:D

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Should be good in a few weeks if they all keep growing and the gardener doesn't pull them up instead of the weeds...

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the gardener was threatened with death if he did ... so he didnt .. :D:D:D plus he had me supervising ... :D:D:D tho as you can see my brother took over the supervising ... :D:D:D

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These are out at the moment ... one of my favourites.

Love some of the 'myths' behind the naming of this flower. I must have a sick sense of humour .... found myself having to cross my legs when I read this one ..... :D:D

'In 15th-century Germany, it was supposed that the wearers of the flower would not be forgotten by their lovers. Legend has it that in medieval times, a knight and his lady were walking along the side of a river. He picked a posy of flowers, but because of the weight of his armour he fell into the river. As he was drowning he threw the posy to his loved one and shouted "Forget-me-not." It was often worn by ladies as a sign of faithfulness and enduring love.'

I know out of focus. :(

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there are loads of these growing on the canal bank Kate....but I daren't pick them...I'm afraid of ending up in the drink...and I don't have Davemacs inflatable underpants :D

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Today in pictures... I'm being silly...

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The identity of the innocent party has been protected...

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It allowed to be silly on here, I would say its a requirement, it may be the law, and you don't want to go to prison do you.

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Part 1. Today in Pictures. I was going on a short walk, anyway two hours later............

1. I was in shirt sleeves, I thought its another wet knickers day.
2. Just a couple of ends.
3. Hemeracallis, day lily, you should have seen it yesterday.
4. Out the other end of the park , quick look left as we went forward.
5. Out the other end of the woodlands.
6. Towards the priests walk. heading for Bell Lane.
7. Mooching around the woods.
8. Heading for the gate.
9. Looking at the steps to nowhere.
10. Up Bell Lane and into the field, wasn't looking for wickthings, but fell over this.

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Part 2. Today in Pictures, heading home.

11. Spot the dog.........No he's called Bob.
12. A mass trespass on the canal, their thinking , whats that little fat chap doing in that field.
13. Its tall grass.
14. Some more tall grass.
15. A lot of tall grass..........I like tall grass.
16. Were going to need a bigger boat.

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Phew! that's a relief, I don't have to dust off my ball and chain.

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Just for Katex.

A woodland guide.

1.Start point at the traffic lights.
2. Keep to the top path.
3. Keep to the right.
4. At the carved Owl, left path.
5. just down this path, not far, is the trunk, visible on the right.
6. It is round the other side, you go past a bit and turn around.
7. There it is, you are now facing the path you just came down.

And may the force be with you.

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That would imply previous convictions, anything you would like to share with the group ?

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You don't know what Richard and I may have got up to from time to time... and I'm not telling...

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I are bored... been playing around with some of my flower pictures using Photoscape (thanks Dave). Came up with these, using the colour engraving effect. I rather like them.

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some interesting effects there, keep it up. 5 is my fav.

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seems Dave has converted two of us to Photoscape...some very good results there Sue.

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Mine too Dave.

I also like the red hot poker and daisies - very dramatic.

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I like them all...they all have their own charm.

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Thank you, I was surprised how different they all turned out. I tried the technique on my sunflower avatar picture but it turned out like the moths had been at it - lots of black holes in the petals, not a pretty sight!

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I haven't been out with Max today so here are some older pics of him

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Been for a BBQ at my parents house earlier.... but first....

Earlier in the day. I shared my dinner at work with the resident doggy 'casey'

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As requested. More of Sally and the Pigs(sounds like a good band name)

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Dammit. I think it wants to come home with me!

LadyM's Turn. Shes in a mood with me again.

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Me thinks she's trying to hide from me

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Yep she was :)

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Love that last one of Sally - what a cutie!

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Can we please keep the photos to a minimum size and about say 5 per day this section is using a lot of server space up fast.
so please cut down
put your photos in rows accross the page not down the page
thanks for your help with this.

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I have been waiting for this announcement for some time. Doesn't come as a surprise.

Mick, think you might need to post a tutorial on how to do what you ask as some people don't seem to have the knack. On the other hand, I can't work out how they do what they do either!

Do you mean five photos in total per day on the thread or per person?

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A new member on a different thread(about the regeneration of the Woodnook area) asked how to post pictures...I posted instructions, and gave a couple of screen shots to help them work out how to post thumbnails.

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Yes I saw that Margaret, well done. I asked Frank why his pics always came out in a column rather than row and he didn't know, perhaps he should look at that post and see what he can do.

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I know when I first joined I struggled to work out how to post pics as thumbnails....and Len very kindly sent me a step by step instruction list...so I was only repaying the favour.
I can't remember how on earth I posted pics that took up almost a full page... I did, but only the once.

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Been playing again - I like this result (below). Can't believe how easy it was.

Anyway - will have to stop playing - my new toy has just arrived!! Only ordered Sunday evening! Can't believe how tiny it is - and it's very RED.
Don't expect anything for a while - I have to RTFM first (read the f....... manual) before I can safely ignore it....

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When you get snapping you will have even more pictures to play with on Photoscape.
You will be able to take you new toy out tomorrow and take snaps from the canal bank

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I have already done some pics like the one in post 1238...but I have framed mine and I will add stick on metallic greetings messages.

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could you please expand on this comment as I always reduce my pictures down to 500kb or less, but I do post more than what you are I think recommending.
Can I still post ten per page in reduced size or are you saying it should now be five ?

I also noticed you havent posted your day in pictures, whats the possibility ?

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Mick I'm using flicker now so not using server space

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Also. I'll figure out a way of posting them sideways

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Rob it is easy...I have put the details here...check it out.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...s-58290-3.html
With explanatory pictures a post or so later. Hope this helps.

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I will post a little guide later on how to place pics from Flickr when I figured out the size on the bb code so as not to fill the screen or. Disrupt the display of the forum.

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IMargaret. I meant so not to use accywebs server space whatsoever. I agree with Mic too much space.being used

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Was going to suggest they'd make great cards Sue when I saw your original ones.

I think I missed about photoscape -is it something to do with Flicka?

Some nice effects.

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Its very easy to get carried away -this is such an interesting thread.

Cutting down to just 5 photos a day each will be hard to do...

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Thanks Dianne - it's very easy to play with.

It's a free editing software which you can download from various sources. Just Google PhotoScape and see what comes up... Nothing to do with Flickr, which I'm not interested in.

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Will have a look see!

Just seen I wrote "Flicka" -who is of course a horse!:D

Perhaps we could try and persuade Mick to allow us 10 photos a day which is what the attachments pop-up is geared to - resizing them beforehand of course....I only learned to do that recently!

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Lots of folk won't go over and look at the Flickr pics.......we all spend idle moments looking at different threads on Accyweb, because we are on here, but navigating to Flickr may put some people off...it wouldn't put me off, but I'm nosey.

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I find it difficult to find peopl on Flickr - I know dave is Davemac43 but searching for Margaret Pilkington doesn't bring you up - and they have called Rob Restlesd which I can never find.

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Yesterdays pics I posted here are hosted from flickr. I found a work around to post them without all the links

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No...I don't quite know why it doesn't bring me up(I think there is another Margaret Pilkington on there)......Just look for purple pillar box...or a pint of O neg...these are two of my pictures....and once they come up you can check out what is new......if you want to.

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Yes there's definitely a doppelganger on there...

Purple pillar box didn't bring you up but I found the Dracula pics!

Actually what I usually do is find davemac's page and then click on you on one of his comments or as a contact. He seems to be building up quite a fan club!

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Flickr: margaret.pilkington47's Photostream this link will take you straight there, and thanks for looking at my page as well

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Part 1. Today in Pictures, almost a boundary walk, Clayton, Church, Oswaldtwistle Rishton and back to Clayton. I think I was in Altham as well but don't know which bit!

1. Start point.
2. Swing bridge as we hurtled towards Church.
3. Bindweed at Church.
4. Swing bridge at Church.
5. Church Commercial, and other buildings
6. Looking back as we barge on.
7.8. 9. 10. The next four are of the coke ovens, I was amazed at how they had fallen to vandalism and neglect.

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Part 2. Today in Pictures, past the halfway point.

11. Upon reflection a group of golfers.
12. Just as we left Ossy, a train on a bridge over the canal.
13. Heading for Rishton a pod of swans.
14. Made it to Rishton dip, and went mooching.
15. This fungapus was at the corner of Petre Road and Blackburn Road Clayton, and I was on my knees in rush hour traffic.
16. Another fungapus and in the same location, also on my knees.

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that is two plugs Dave...one here and one on flickr...many thanks.
Some good shots again today.
I have been doing a tutorial for Sue.......she was intrigued by the purple postbox.
And more playing with photoscape.

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for those who haven't seen it...this is my purple post box

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I could have posted twice as much, but until I get an answer to my question will keep it within reason.

No need to thank me for the plugs.

The colour isolation shots are as I have said, a technique all your own, and it comes with an eye for spotting a picture suitable for the process.

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Hosted from flickr

Small side by side
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Hosted on flickr
Mick would you say this is too big? this is medium 500(500x393)

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What do you think of this method. If you are interested in the picture click it and it opens flickr in the new window/tab and thats the same as I do anyway with accyweb attachments.... Its a lot of messing about for some. The bb code editing is easy though. It is just a case of taking away a couple of lines

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10 per person per day is fine if you do them like Davemac as thumbnails so when you click on them they open

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Which we don't like because when you decide to remove your pictures from flickr we will end up with blank spaces on your posts where the pictures were

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There is that. But for me personally I don't think I will be removing any pics as what I upload there I intend to keep on there. Then again I don't add 10-20 pics a day like Dave. He is a keen photographer :)

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Then again. If Yahoo decide to do to flickr what they did with geocities(grrrrrrR), I think a very large portion of the internet will end up with a lot of blank spaces :D

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Thankyou - five a day would be hard to stick to - when you're used to twenty or thirty...we'd all risk withdrawal symtoms.

We are addicted, like smokers to their fags!!:o:D

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Anymore than 10 photos per day per member will now be deleted by the mods
we have to keep costs down

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Fair enough - I'm sure everyone will take note, we don't want to give you too much work to do either. I'm sure you have enough already keeping on top of all us lot!:rolleyes::D

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Whilst ten a day is a small number to display your "Today in Pictures" especially if you have been out and about, I will abide by the recommendations.
Should at any time you think we could increase the number then hopefully you will get back to us

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Dave...maybe display ten on here and post a link to the rest on your Flickr page...those who want to see what you have been up to will surely visit...and it will do your viewing figures no harm at all.

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I'm happy with that, thank you Mick. And thank you for clarifying the situation.

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A few pics of my lovely cat Rufus who is sadly no longer with us. The tree outside my house was his favourite spot.

Note Milly peeping out from under the curtain at the door! She is still with us and is 10.

Milly is the big white/Tortoise-shell cat.

The little ginger and white cat was Chloe.

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After cats I have another passion which I have kept hidden till now.....Trees!:eek::D

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these are mine from yesterday .... :D:D:D

1. got up wi a pink cast on
2,3,4,5. trip over grane road
6.tor in helmshore
7. duke my sisters dog when i called for a brew home after the hospital
8 & 9 ... my arm minus the cast and the splint ive been given
10.took last nite about 8.45pm

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Thought I could hear a lot of noise coming from the Rising Bridge direction even though I'm here in Morecambe... it was you shouting YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!

Well done at last Jen, hope it's OK.

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Are you sure Rufus isn't related to the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland? A real cat - ginger - my favourite kind. We had one once and recently our neighbours here had one - he was always in our garden and one night he turned up in our bedroom about 2 am! sadly he got squashed on a nearby road - he was only young.

Was Chloe related to Rufus? It's rare to see a female with ginger markings.

Have posted the pic below previously - today it's just for you...

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I Love Rufus....I used to have a ginger stray cat that visted me......well, he almost lived with us...and he was the loveliest cat ever...very affectionate.
One day I will have a ginger kitten(he says NO WAY - but I will).

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Short walk up the lane tonight as light was falling
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Max's girlfriend came to tea on Saturday

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Good idea, although I am always a little behind on my flickr uploads, I have a folder on my desktop with 48 pictures in at the moment awaiting perusal and posting. Although I think a link as you said would assist.
On a separate note Flickr: f.griggs' Photostream Is someone we all know, hope he doesn't mind the link.

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Ah but Mick wants thumbnails - keep at it!

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I forgot all about that Dave I was just experimenting one night.Thanks for reminding me , I may put others on now

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Today in Pictures is a minuscule contribution, not due to the upload limit, more the time I had available, perhaps tomorrow!

1. I think it is a type of willow herb, to busy to identify properly.
2. Well what can I say about this, its a fluffy kitten, having dinner.

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You are down as a Pro account (that costs) so get busy and post, post, post.

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I've never paid anything

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i saw a spider catch another spider that invaded its space and i came running back into the house to get the camera .. and by the time i got back the spider had dragged the other one into its hole ... was too late .. i be grateful tho i got spiders close to the doors tho .. saves the fly spray ... :D

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No 1 looks like Rose Bay Willow Herb, I used to call it Bomb weed. When I went to Manchester or Salford it would be growing where jerry bombs had demolished buildings during the blitz's of the 1940's .

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How did you manage that, its a free account until you post 200 pictures then older pictures fall off the screen, unless you divvy up. But your account defo says Pro, is that jammy or what.

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Dont think its rose bay, I know the rose bay, and this was growing in the water on the canal side, I am guessing its willow herb only by the flowers.

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I'll have a play with that Dave. I've just posted a video on there.Have a look.

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No definitely not a willow herb, completely different family, it's purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria (which means willow-like leaves!). Common garden plant and likes wet places and ponds. I had some in my pond once...

Thought it was that when I saw the pic but had to trail up to the attic room to get my book out to be sure!

Willow herbs/fireweed/bombweed have flowers hanging from the stalks by short stems not right next to the stem like this one.

Flowers of the purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), taken in July in Devon, England

Rosebay willowherb on Aarhus campus, at Richard's mOblOg

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If Frank has his internet throught BT(which I suspect he does) then a pro account is free unless you move providers....then you have to stump up.

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Ha ha notice the untidy mutt doesn't close the drawer after himself!

Reminds me of a pub we used to go to - one of the regulars used to bring his labrador and the person behind the bar would open the door under the bar counter. The dog would go behind the bar and help himself to a bag of crisps from the box on the floor and bring it back out into the room. But he never worked out how to open the crisps and his owner had to do it for him! the dog then proceeded to eat the crisps all over the floor!

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I think he may have been a Cheshire cat -he was tuly the loveliest natured and sweetest cat we've ever had -and I've had quite a few over 25 years. He was rescued by my husband as a tiny little thing from stream nearby the farm all tangled in brambles. Shortly after him Misha arrived -almost pure Siamese with gorgeous blue eyes -they were completely in love and crazy about each other -to be seen - but i never took any pics of them together for some reason. We think she got stolen as she disappeared one day without a trace... I had 4 cats in the house for a while then -no trouble though.

Now it's just Milly and Teo -I've said I dont want any others as I get too attached... Chloe was not related to Rufus -came from the cattery -my son brought her when i was upset about Rufus. She brought a nasty virus with her which nearly killed the other two as they weren't vaccinated -Teo went into kidney failure and after 3 days in intensive care we saved her - I learned to put her on an intravenous drip and did it for 2 months till she was out of danger -a year on she's still here and Chloe isn't -she's 17 and made of stern stuff.

Sorry for the saga of my cats -they really are like family!:o

Will post a few pics now to keep on thread!

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No cats here at the moment as we lost the last two at 17. I've learnt to live with it -or rather without one. When we lived in the country we never had our cats vaccinated - but you do run a risk if you introduce another one from outside which we did on a few occasions fortunately without mishap.

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Some more trees -
1 Poplars in snow behind my house (note crows sheltering!)
2 Same day tree in front of house it's a Gerstroemia (pink flowers in summer)
3 English Oak tree near Pooley Bridge
4 Trees inside the stone circe Long Meg ad her sisters near Lakes(can't remember what they were - possibly Walnut!)
5 Plane tree (I think!) near Bolton Abbey.

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Attachments disappeared before!
No.4 probably Sycamore...