Yes ... You and JamesWhitehead round out the quintet of members with maximum trophy points.
And we all first logged in yesterday and recreated history!
The jay I saw was near (and flew into) some young oaks.
Good work!Miss Yith had her first proper swimming lesson today.
We've had a bit of a saga with this: I first took her into pools at nine-months (earlier than you're supposed to probably--I never read any books on parenting), holding her all the time obviously, but she loved it, and once a month or so we'd check into a hotel on Saturday night just to use the pool and relax: a bit decadent, but unparalleled for 'family time'.
So for a few years now she has had no fear of water whatsoever. I have countless videos of her bombing into pools at various resorts, but she still can't actually swim. Last year we sent her to a class with her friends, but half of the children their age were terrified of the water (full-on tears and shrieking), so although she had a lot of fun (once the shrieking was concluded), they never once had them out of their depth without armbands (don't Americans call them "water-wings"?). Anyway, in terms of learning it was a waste of time and we abandoned it after a few months.
Here in Korea, there's 'THE ESTABLISHED TIME' for everything (blame Confucius), and most kids don't usually try to learn to swim until they are at least five or six, so there aren't any 'lessons' she can easily take. Also, I've begun to notice that a surprising number of Koreans can't swim at all--which strikes me as incongruous given that they inhabit a long peninsula. Anyway, fortunately, my wife mentioned this to the instructor who taught my her sister to swim (as an adult), and he offered to give my daughter one-on-one lessons an hour a week, possibly more depending on how it goes.
This chap clearly knows what he's doing: zero floatation devices, immediately out of her depth, doing breathing exercises and spending time under the water. I can swim pretty well myself (it isn't pretty, but I can do it all day--ahem), but this chap is some kind of humanoid-dolphin and my daughter began to trust him immediately and loved the lesson.
That's my unwhinge.
Thank you for reading.
Sounds like a server problem at their end.I was drafting this as a plea for Technical Help:
"I have been trying without success to add my gmail mailbox to Apple Mail 5.2.
Some online reports suggest that Google have prevented gmail working with rivals.
I have enabled Google's "Less Secure Apps" option but the mailbox remains marked ! for nothing-doing."
As I was about to post it, I noticed Mail springing to life to download the 31 messages I had accrued on gmail, including a test message
I had sent two minutes earlier.
Now I suppose I have to answer the urgent Google ones, asking "Was it you?"
That'll be the indie band Noah and the Wail...
We had our annual pay review this week and much to my surprise I got a 4% pay rise for the second year running – I'm still under the national average so I'm not retiring yet, but having paid off the mortgage a couple of years ago, having no kids and two incomes we have nothing to complain about. I have loads of issues that weigh me down – at least financial woes don't add to the mix!
You could lag the pipe. It'd help in the winter, but it could be useful to soak up condensation.Another anxiety turned out to be largely groundless. The ticking in the cold-water pipe which runs over my back-door seemed to have got worse. It is boxed-in but there were a few signs of moisture having penetrated the thick plank beneath it. An investigation was called-for. I did not fancy calling out an emergency plumber. I dug out my insurance documents. True to form, I had not even opened the envelope with my latest T&C documentation. It became clear that I had not opted for Emergency Call-Out Cover and the excess for a water-leak would be £200 anyway!
Time to get up the ladder and prise open the box. On the hottest day of the year, the condensation along the length of the cold-water pipe should not have surprised me. I breathed a sigh of relief and assumed the noise was a drip that would cease as soon as the weather changed.
In any case, the ticking sound was one I had heard before without consequences. Maybe I was in free-floating anxiety mode.
When the weather turned and the ticking seemed no better, no worse, I decided a proper visual inspection was necessary. I armed myself with plumbers' tape and waterproof sealant, before the shops shut today. Then I had to prise open the front of the box again and use a mirror and flashlamp and papers to slip under the pipe to find out the worst.
Well the condensation was much reduced. What moisture there was could be ascribed to that. There was no obvious source of dripping around the joint to cause the noise. It soon became obvious that the ticking was within this joint.
I did learn how ancient the entering cold-water pipe looked - presumably the original. There was no obvious solution online but a joint between metals could be causing some differential expansion effects, maybe connected with the recent weather. I will keep an eye on it but I am certainly glad I did not call someone in. Thank God I can still climb a ladder - when motivated!
