What made you happy today?

GPTV said:
Congratulations &
Happy Birthday! 🎉 🎁
Hope you've had a great day? :luv:

You share your birthday with another Valentines baby 💞 - it's my Brothers birthday today too!

I've had a lovely day today-a few things to make me happy...

I was driving into work this morning about 7am & ended up driving along side a beautiful, big, barn owl - it was flying right beside me (about 2ft away) for about a minute, parallel to the hedge&car at head height, it flew just across in front of me, then changed to the other side of my car for about 45 seconds, then up over the hedge & out of sight. I would have loved to have had footage of that. It was amazing! 🦉
Elegance in the sky! ♥

A wonderful friend & work colleague knew my birthday was in the not so distant past, so decided to surprise me with a home decorated cake.
This was the first time I'd seen her since my birthday.
This is her first attempt at a guinea pig birthday cake...

I love it, its amazing ❤❤🍰🐹
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Even came complete with piggy raisin poops!
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I think the piggy theme was picked up on from a few presents/cards..
Crazy guinea pig lady Apron...
Guinea pig socks (for me-not them).
&the other love of my life a cushion with my dog printed on it, a dog book, plus a few other lovely presents.
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Happy birthday to your brother. I hope he had a good day. I had a lovely day. Relaxed, homemade birthday cake which was YUM! I had my traditional birthday oxtail on Friday/yesterday.

That cake is AMAZING! What cake is it?
 
Siikibam said:
Happy birthday to your brother. I hope he had a good day. I had a lovely day. Relaxed, homemade birthday cake which was YUM! I had my traditional birthday oxtail on Friday/yesterday.

That cake is AMAZING! What cake is it?
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:cake: Your cake looked mouth watering too :drool: :drool: :drool:
Mine is a Swiss roll base, with a jam layer to stick the fondant icing on.
Mmmmm x
 
Siikibam said:
Oh no! 😬 well I hope you doze off soon. If it’s any consolation, I can’t sleep if I can hear mine talking. Even when I was tired from working a night. My husband can sleep through their noise!
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I must have dozed off fairly soon after. She didn't wake til 3am the first time, very impressed :)) it's amazing what dad's can sleep through isn't it!
 
Lady Kelly said:
I must have dozed off fairly soon after. She didn't wake til 3am the first time, very impressed :)) it's amazing what dad's can sleep through isn't it!
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Always amazed me what dad's don't hear! Even now- my daughter is 11 and she occasionally sleep walks and talks, she was up the other night but it was me getting up to make sure all was ok!
 
What me happy today. .
I was on phone objecting to a £45. Increase on my house insurance because I live alone. . When I had a partner it seems it's cheaper. . I ask asked many times why and got blah blah blah. .
I looked over to Mrs Dougal 20201213_102947.jpg
Who's bum was hanging over the edge. . She then did what I can describe as a very powerful wee. . Which was very very long.
I said outloud " unbelievable"
Which also summed up my phone call. :yahoo:
 
David Piggie Lover said:
What me happy today. .
I was on phone objecting to a £45. Increase on my house insurance because I live alone. . When I had a partner it seems it's cheaper. . I ask asked many times why and got blah blah blah. .
I looked over to Mrs Dougal View attachment 167881
Who's bum was hanging over the edge. . She then did what I can describe as a very powerful wee. . Which was very very long.
I said outloud " unbelievable"
Which also summed up my phone call. :yahoo:
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What did the person on the other end say? 😂
 
Spent 2 hours chatting with a friend on zoom, they have all been ill with covid but now all better thankfully, was just so nice to be able to chat, for one reason or another we've not been able to do it before now and we are so looking forward to being able to do it in person but for now a cuppa and a good old natter via the screen is better than nothing. 🙂
 
Hope it goes smoothly today @Merab's Slave

My daughter had her first Covid test (necessary because she had 1 symptom and works in a healthcare setting).
I was super worried about going to the test centre, but it was very well managed, totally deserted and the whole process took less than 10 minutes.
And the result was negative :D
 
I have 4 cactus on the kitchen windowsill. A couple of them must be nearing 10 years old (had them at uni) & the others are more recent ones. At some point in 2019 I repotted them from their original tiny pots into slightly bigger 5.5cm pots. They've now reached the stage of roots out the bottom of the pot. One is so tall it topped last week & one of the other ones is growing out & not up! So I trawled the internet & finally found somewhere that sells smaller pots. The postman delivered my new 7.5cm pots this morning. I now have to work up the courage to repot them!
 
Sar said:
I have 4 cactus on the kitchen windowsill. A couple of them must be nearing 10 years old (had them at uni) & the others are more recent ones. At some point in 2019 I repotted them from their original tiny pots into slightly bigger 5.5cm pots. They've now reached the stage of roots out the bottom of the pot. One is so tall it topped last week & one of the other ones is growing out & not up! So I trawled the internet & finally found somewhere that sells smaller pots. The postman delivered my new 7.5cm pots this morning. I now have to work up the courage to repot them!
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How do you repot them? Do you wrap them in newspaper or carboard? That's what my mother-in-law does for hers.
 
Sar said:
I have 4 cactus on the kitchen windowsill. A couple of them must be nearing 10 years old (had them at uni) & the others are more recent ones. At some point in 2019 I repotted them from their original tiny pots into slightly bigger 5.5cm pots. They've now reached the stage of roots out the bottom of the pot. One is so tall it topped last week & one of the other ones is growing out & not up! So I trawled the internet & finally found somewhere that sells smaller pots. The postman delivered my new 7.5cm pots this morning. I now have to work up the courage to repot them!
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A prickly job! It must be like trying to repot a load of needles.
 
Betsy said:
A prickly job! It must be like trying to repot a load of needles.
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Hubby is in charge of repotting all our plants, especially the cactus! (I hate gardening) :D Last time we were in America, hubby bought loads of cactus seeds and asked his dad to plant them coz for some reasons, we couldn't grow them properly. When it started to grow, DIL gave it back to us. It's now growing very slowly by our windowsill. 👍
 
I got my invitation to book to get a priority vaccine on Monday which was the first day that group was eligible and I had it today. I'm not sure why, as I don't think my asthma counts as they've changed the goalposts on that, but could be some other condition, I'm not questioning it!

I'm looking forward to going out to the supermarket any time as many times a week as I want, which will stop me from over ordering my click and collect. When things start opening up I should feel safe enough to participate unlike this last12 months when I've been extremely careful.
 
My conservatory roof has been replaced. That doesn’t sound very exciting, but in August we had a brand new conservatory installed with a glass roof to let light into our lounge. When it was installed we couldn’t believe that they had fitted a dark tinted glass in the roof. It has made my lounge very dingy and the light in the conservatory was blue/grey and very depressing,We’ve had months of arguing about it but finally they accepted it was their error and it has finally been replaced.
Goodbye blue roof, hello clear roof.5B5B9D6D-61B4-4C92-B077-975D1F47A103.jpeg
This was a piece of the blue roof.

When it snowed
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Now - let there be light
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VickiA said:
My conservatory roof has been replaced. That doesn’t sound very exciting, but in August we had a brand new conservatory installed with a glass roof to let light into our lounge. When it was installed we couldn’t believe that they had fitted a dark tinted glass in the roof. It has made my lounge very dingy and the light in the conservatory was blue/grey and very depressing,We’ve had months of arguing about it but finally they accepted it was their error and it has finally been replaced.
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This was a piece of the blue roof.

When it snowed
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Now - let there be light
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Gosh that looks lovely, bright and airy x
 
Sar said:
I have 4 cactus on the kitchen windowsill. A couple of them must be nearing 10 years old (had them at uni) & the others are more recent ones. At some point in 2019 I repotted them from their original tiny pots into slightly bigger 5.5cm pots. They've now reached the stage of roots out the bottom of the pot. One is so tall it topped last week & one of the other ones is growing out & not up! So I trawled the internet & finally found somewhere that sells smaller pots. The postman delivered my new 7.5cm pots this morning. I now have to work up the courage to repot them!
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My daughter really likes cacti & succulents and asked for an Aloe Vera which grew massive. It's an evil spiky thing that kept falling over and quickly outgrew her room and didn't really fit anywhere but of course we have to keep it.

Well, I managed to repot it and found space in the utility area out of everyone's way....

And now the blasted thing has got half a dozen spiky babies 😭
 
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