Last of October 2026.

 Well, nearly another month ended!.

The past week me and the gang have been to the new refurbished Windmill pub in Denton, we had our usual carvery and very nice too!.

Just in case you've not been or not been since the refurbishment here are the pictures I took on our visit.

The carvery counter hasn't changed much, but not much can be done to that is there 

Looking though to the bar area.

This is where the noisy ice cream machine used to be, gone now thank goodness.

Main Bar area

My usual seating area, television gone off wall.

  So that's it, The only thing not changed is the awful music, there again 's for the younger end probably.

But looking round when we go, it's people that are older and perhaps they should change the piped music for dinnertime and evening!.

Yesterday, I went to the Bridge view café under Portland basin museum and as it was the Steampunk day there I was there on my own has the others in my group are not keen on it also it is very busy with all the punkers!.

Named after this.

Some of the visitors on the day.

One of the staff

Another staff member

The staff are all very nice!.

Invited these ladies to share my table as it was getting a bit full, they  were from Northwich I found out.

They even have their own band and singers!.

My friend is always telling me "You should ask before you take peoples photo" but these people were standing at my table if I hadn't taken their picture, there again if you dress up like them they want to be noticed don't they!.

This week I've finished another wooden jigsaw, this one was a bit more colourful, the one at the bottom.

Well this morning I got up and after making my breakfast wondered why my heating hadn't come on?, then realised my usual tv programme wasn't on either then it dawned on me I'd not changed the clocks last night, What a Plonker!!.
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Whats the difference between ignorance and apathy?

I don't know and  don't care.
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Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever 
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Back here again, 12.10.2026.

 Not posted for a while, but my sister in OZ reminded me to get my finger out!.

Since my last post I've been over to the Gorton lower ressers and the first thing to see was this young Blackbird.

Seemed glad to get some seed off me.

The weather has turned a bit chilly now, my central heating came on for the first time in month's last night.

The young swans are doing very well, but will only be safe until the parents decide to breed again in the spring, then will chase off the youngsters, lives not nice sometimes is it! 

Taking pictures to send home perhaps!

Big daddy!.

Looking up the resser to the Pennines in the distance.

Autumn colours starting to show now, behind these trees is Debdale park, so with the two ressers and the park it's quite an open area. 

Met a young couple and gave the lady some bird seed so she could get the the pigeons to stand on her.

I try to stop them climbing on me, you don't know what they are doing behind your back do you!!,

Back home my Yew tree has got hundreds of nice red berries on, more this year than ever before, perhaps all the hot weather we've had this Summer has something too do with it.!

Have a large family of sparrows in my garden, all eating me out of house and home, still they are nice to watch.

Been to the Costa at Sainsburys a few times lately, but its quite dear so swopped to KFC at Denton now not much cheaper, but you get more for your money, used to go there regularly when everywhere was shut for Covid, me and my mate used to use the drive thru and then sit in our own cars chatting!. 

My son, his wife and one of his daughters all ran in the Manchester half marathon this year, rather them than me, there again perhaps when I was in the army, might have felt more like it.

My son also has got into 3D printing and this is one of the two dogs they have lost in the last nine months.

Jessie and Max.

He also came and changed my bathroom sink taps for me!.

This is quite true too!.

Finished this jigsaw this week,  seems a strange subject for a jigsaw, still it was interesting and cheap!.

Hope to be a bit more productive in the future.

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If all the world is a stage, where do the audience sit??.

Don't you love nature, despite what it did to you!. 

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Sunday, 23.8.2026.

 Last week had  trip down Reddish Vale, now the weather has cooled down a bit,  the lower mill pond was still full of algae with the lack of rain.

The painting on the side of the info centre done by "Heart_Murals"  is still looking ok 

Cormorant laying down in the heat.

But these are going one better and getting in the shade.

Plenty of young mallards about.

Splash of colour on the Quinney bench. 

Heron on the top mill pond.

Swan family were all on the top mill pond on the day I went and all looking well.

Only the one Terrapin sunning itself. 

Young coot on the pond side.

The crow with the club foot I'd mentioned in a previous post came to see me and enjoyed the monkey nuts I'd brought for it.

Nice to see it's managing alright with the funny foot.

Gave it plenty of monkey nuts to store away for later.

Been going to my usual lunches at Morrisons and was joking with one of the young ladies there and said Can't you get a fellow to take you away from all this, and she said "I'm looking foe a millionaire" and I said "that's where your going wrong, millionaires don't eat in Morrison's"!.

The next day after visiting Specsavers to book an eye test, thought I'd visit KFC at Denton and there inside was this sign!.

So showed her the next time I was in, she had a good laugh!.

Still going to The Bridge Café in fact we have been going there on Tuesdays as well during August, only trouble is it's full of screaming kids, but I'm lucky enough to have hearing aids so I can turn them off, it just goes to show there is always a bright side to everything if you look for it!. 

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