Friday at Reddish Vale, 9.6.2017.

A quick visit to Etherow this morning but nothing much going on there once the breakfast club went home or about their shopping / housework.

This Baby gosling was wandering round the car park as we left!.

The inside of the car was like an oven!, so it was a No No for leaving Pepe in it whilst I went for dinner, so we went to the Butty Wagon in the car park next to Halfords on Lancashire Hill.

There got a Cheeseburger with two slices of Bacon and a coffee all for £3.90, and Pepe decided we will be going there again before long!.

So on to Reddish Vale.

A ski jump at Reddish Vale??.

There you have it, a picture in the new display cabinet in the info centre, Mate Bob went there to see it on his motorbike he said, bet the bike would be worth a fortune now hey, Bob!

The view from the Info Centre.

Round the Park today, it seemed to be Heron Day, with these three on the big lake.

The flasher!

The terror-pins were in full view 

In close up

Another part of the lake had this beautiful heron on the bank, but when they are flying they look like Terror-dactyls, you know those flying things when dinosaurs were roaming the earth!.

Didn't manage a picture of it flying though, perhaps next time!.

The young Grebes are doing well and fishing for themselves.

"Look Mum I caught one".

"Don't speak with your mouth full Freddie".

On the crummy bit of water just inside the gate there was a Mallard with 7 babies!

 

Don't suppose the babies know any different, but you'd  think mother would find somewhere more healthy, still perhaps its safer there.

A lot cuter than the Coot chicks in the last post aren't they

Found out who's the Phantom Raspberry Blower!.
Do you remember the series of The Two Ronnie's with that in?.


He was getting fed up because I was trying to snap the Kingfishers on the small lake, didn't succeed though they are too fast!, saw them flitting about and think they have a nest in the bushes!.

Flowers round the lake,

On one of the benches.

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Something for the ladies

Why do men call women Birds??.
Is it because they are always picking up worms?.

Only a man would buy a £500 car and put a £4.000 stereo in it.

Scientists have just discovered something that can do the work of five men,
 A Woman!
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New Camera 4.6.2017.

Due to the very wet weather we are having at the moment, we haven't been out shooting with the new camera very much.

Sunday

Still on Sunday, managed a couple of hours at Reddish Vale before going to John's for Sunday dinner, but the Swan's with 3 new babies were nowhere to be seen.

At first from a distance thought these were they, but on zooming to them found out they were White Geese!.

Sister Bab's was asking in the comments on the last post how I liked the new camera?, well showed this picture of a squirrel to friend Bob and he said 'It doesn't get much better than this!'.

Praise indeed from the master, who is a far better photographer than I, and I was quite proud of this comment.

Squirrel chewing his nuts!.

This one even has a flying bug in it!.

Isn't it a lot better way to shoot animals and birds this way, the next person who comes along can do the same can't they!!. 

The young Great Crested Grebes  are doing well and are diving for their own food now

Though it must be tiring because these two seem to be having an after dinner snooze.

While dad stands guard!.

I  think this Moorhen is doing the Hokey Cokey

Put your left leg out and shake it all about!.

Then put your right leg out, say's the white dove.

Young Coots are getting independent too.

As you can see the feet on these are a lot more webbed than the Moorhens in the earlier picture.

The Heron on the smaller of the lakes.

Got to keep the feathers clean and tidy or they are in trouble.

A bit more zoom added 

Are we going yet!!.

Last but not least we think this is a young Song Thrush.

So there you go, hope the pictures are a bit better for you!.

Monday

It was the cinema on Monday has the rain was still pouring down, went to see 'Wonder Woman', not as good as the original I thought but everyone to their own taste hey.

There again saw 'Bay Watch' last week and thought 'The Rock' was better than the original!, but it takes all kind's doesn't it.

What a strange world it would be if we were all the same!.

Tuesday 

Still heavy rain!, so it was a text to Bob and Joyce to see if they fancied dinner at the 'Windmill' our local watering hole,!, Bob said yes!, and Joyce had already made arrangements with her female family relatives for their monthly get together there, so it worked out well for us all.

Bob and I in one room and Joyce and family in another!, women don't want to talk about boats,  planes and other means of transport!.

Well there you have it, getting withdrawal symptoms for Etherow soon!.

The picture of Velda's truck that the driver sent me was very good of him, then Bob did these two pictures for me the other day adding Velda and myself and Pepe, many thanks to all involved.

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The good news about being middle-aged is that the glass is still half full!,

The bad news is that pretty soon your teeth will be floating in it!.

The thing about being a middle-aged woman is that when you go for a mammogram, you realise its the only time someones ever going to ask you to appear topless in a film.

Once over the hill you pick up speed!

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More on the Amelia Rose build.

More on the Amelia Rose build.

The bottom skin of the bow, this completes the outside skin of the boat!

As you can see you have to be a bit inventive to get pressure in all the right places. 

Then it was the inside edges of the bow

Slight sanding needed as with all the parts

More clamping on these parts and you might notice that I've made a hatch for a gas locker, that small square bit at the front.

An earlier picture of the bow construction showing it a bit rough!. 

That's all been sanded down and is now as smooth as a baby's bum.

This is the start of the rubbing strips on the sides and bow section.

This is the start of the rubbing strips on the stern section,

                                      

That middle one run's right round the boat, but the hard part to me is getting the stripes round the tight bend of the stern!.

Anything will do!

Nearly there!, one more to go.

Whilst all the stripes were drying, made a start on the cabin hatch, but then decided that if it was a hatch it should open, why do I do this to myself??.

so it was get the thinking cap on instead of the Tilley Hat and think about that. 

While I'm thinking how about this?.
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Had a meal out this past week at the 'Windmill' in Denton, with my beautiful youngest granddaughter Ruthie!, though the picture was taken a week earlier at the Church Christmas carol service where she was a member of the choir.
A future Civil Engineer!!.



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A sobering thought hey!.
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