What made you happy today?

Qualcast&Flymo said:
Don't know how they could make a mistake like that @VickiA - can't be that many people who want a sunless conservatory!
Hope you'll have a really nice space to use when everything is complete!
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Walking in there was like walking outside with sunglasses on. I couldn’t read without putting a light on. But apparently plenty of people choose a heavily filtered glass to keep down the light and stop their furniture fading......

It’s lovely and light and bright and airy now, I can finally enjoy it.
 
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.
Goodbye blue roof, hello clear roof.View attachment 168061
This was a piece of the blue roof.

When it snowed
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Now - let there be light
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That is beautiful! I would be curled up on a couch reading a book if I had a beautiful room like that!
 
VickiA said:
Walking in there was like walking outside with sunglasses on. I couldn’t read without putting a light on. But apparently plenty of people choose a heavily filtered glass to keep down the light and stop their furniture fading......

It’s lovely and light and bright and airy now, I can finally enjoy it.
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Seems a bit pointless to have windows that make a room that dark - you might as well just have walls 🙄
 
RedLoredAmazon said:
How do you repot them? Do you wrap them in newspaper or carboard? That's what my mother-in-law does for hers.
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I struggled last time as obviously the first pots they come in are about 3cm in diameter & I didn't try using gloves or newspaper or anything. I will save the cardboard box the new pots come in & try with that I think.

Betsy said:
A prickly job! It must be like trying to repot a load of needles.
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anyar.dris said:
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. 👍
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This made me smile. I'm trying to imagine a cactus growing from a seed & it's not something I can picture!

Pigwhisperer said:
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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Genuine question here, how does an aloe vera babies? I thought you just took a cutting & waited for it to grow, like you would with other plants?
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
Seems a bit pointless to have windows that make a room that dark - you might as well just have walls 🙄
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Precisely. I pointed out that if I’d wanted to keep the light out I’d have had a tiled roof not a glass one. makes no blooming sense to me. I’m just glad it is finally resolved.
 
Swissgreys said:
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
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Glad the test was negative - that’s always a relief
 
We rebuilt the guinea pig c&c cage tonight and they seem much happier with the new arrangement which makes me happy. I also made some pretty awesome brownies. I think lockdown has finally got to me because I'm seriously considering giving myself bangs even though I've never cut my own hair before...
 
Reba8kn said:
We rebuilt the guinea pig c&c cage tonight and they seem much happier with the new arrangement which makes me happy. I also made some pretty awesome brownies. I think lockdown has finally got to me because I'm seriously considering giving myself bangs even though I've never cut my own hair before...
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Lockdown - my 13 year old is cutting my hair and I am totally satisfied with the result. :D
 
We landed on Mars! Safely and in the right place! This may find out where we all came from, there is a good theory out there that life was seeded on a very young watery earth by asteroids from Mars, which had life before it froze. (All planets are moving away from the sun and getting colder as they go, so Mars used to have water) I am so happy it worked. One person gave a good analogy for the difficulties involved: fire two rifle bullets, then the first one needs to slow down, land on the second, take a selfie and send it home!
Can you tell I am really really happy about this!
 
Sar said:
I struggled last time as
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Sar said:
I struggled last time as obviously the first pots they come in are about 3cm in diameter & I didn't try using gloves or newspaper or anything. I will save the cardboard box the new pots come in & try with that I think.





This made me smile. I'm trying to imagine a cactus growing from a seed & it's not something I can picture!



Genuine question here, how does an aloe vera babies? I thought you just took a cutting & waited for it to grow, like you would with other plants?
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They grow around the base.

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Blod is doing well today :) total piggy mummy joy :) its all anyone with a poorly piggy wants really isnt it, seeing the happy little face that survived the night tucking straight into breakfast and running about!
 
The sun is shining and it’s a balmy (if slightly windy) day!
 
Feeling a bit buzzed today. I started an ambassadors course on Thursday so I can volunteer as a breastfeeding peer supporter and on Weds my manager confirmed that I can have some funding to complete my PRINCE2 foundation course which I hope to do before I go back to work. Today I did my homework and then made some notes to prepare for a presentation I am doing Thursday evening as I am also volunteering for the local cloth nappy library. It's quite exciting having grown up stuff to do.
 
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