Good weekend, 13-14th Sept 2024.

Friday the weather wasn't too bad so it was off to Reddish Vale Country Park for an hour before lunch at Morrison's.

Great Tit near to the viaduct.

Heron on the top mill pond.

The flasher, catching some ray's

Plenty of Cormorants about preening and drying out

Then off to Morrison's for a nice lunch of Gammon, Egg, chips and peas, very nice too and staff very pleasant.

Plenty of Terrapins on their favourite perch on the top mill pond. 

Saturday it was a day I'd been looking forward to for a while as it was the Steam Punk event at the Portland Basin and The bridge View Café. It had been very good last year and it was even better this year as they had a Ukulele Band with them this year

Chris my mate from next door was there with his usual Tuesday/Thursday singing kit, but didn't bother getting it all out he just joined in singing with the band!.

There were plenty of Steam Punk people in attendance, first I saw was Chris with a couple talking outside and he was getting the lowdown on what it was all about.

This lady with the teapot theme hat and parasol

I think it's a great idea to get people together and chatting.

This couple had a Spanish theme to their outfits.

This was a very dapper couple with his tall top hat

There was this stall of wood turned items for sale, and found out the young lady there was the daughter of Bill the artist., I bought a nice back scratcher the same size as the shoe horn on the far left there.

There were stalls selling items of clothing and Chris bought his Granddaughter a nice leather jacket which no doubt made her day.

That's me in the mirror!.

So it was a nice couple of days, can't say the same for today though as its chucking it down, don't usually go out on Sundays anyway so it's no problem.

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I got an odd job man in to help me do some  jobs round the house, I gave him a list of ten things.

He only did 1,3,5,7 and 9,

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A lorryload of Tortoises crashed into a trainload of Terrapins.

It was a turtle disaster!.

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I took an IQ test.

The results were negative!😂

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