NormanDunbar

NormanDunbar, 4 months ago to random

Good (?) morning fellow Mastos and hello to Tuesday. Following storm Isha, we have a couple of hours to get ready for Jocelyn. Back to back storm, such "fun"! Wesley is not a happy dog in this weather, he hates the wind and rain. Guess what the weather is today? Sigh.

Hopefully you will all stay safe through the next storm. Take care everyone.

Back on July, this fox came down to my pond for a drink.

NormanDunbar, 7 months ago to weirdfolks

Morning @weirdfolks . How many computer programmer's does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None. It's a hardware problem.

How many mice does it take to screw in a lightbulb. Two. 😉

Have a pun filled day. Not that those were puns of course.

NormanDunbar, 4 months ago to random

I've just been advised that my application to be an extra in an upcoming movie has been accepted! I will, apparently, be savaged by a dog. It's a bit part! 😉

NormanDunbar, 7 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to a miserable, stormy Friday. I've been awake since 1 AM thanks to wind and rain. Managed to get Wesley out for a wee/poo at 6 when it eased off for a bit. Much worse back home in Scotland though. Please have as good a day as possible and stay safe. Someone already drowned in a flooded river. 😟

Today's random photo is from 2019 and is a night view of the bit of Sicily as viewed from Taormina.

NormanDunbar, 3 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello Friday. It's almost the weekend but the weather is pants again. Heavy rain all weekend it would appear. Did you have much snow yesterday? We had a bit but not enough to worry about.

Enjoy your Friday everyone and make sure to have a few laughs along the way.

Today's random photo is from May 2022 and is our occasional boy fox visitor. He's a big, handsome fellow isn't he. Photo taken out of our kitchen window.

NormanDunbar, 5 months ago to random

Hmmm. Looks like it's going to stop raining here, hooray! But not until some time between 7--8PM. Boo!

Looks like I'm going to get wet when Wesley eventually has to go out---he's not too keen at the moment. For some reason, he refuses to go further than the door!

NormanDunbar, 3 months ago to random

Dear BBC News.

The king has been diagnosed with an illness. He has not died! We don't need everyone who works for the BBC telling us the same thing over and over!

Other stuff that is news worthy happened today, get on with it!

FFS!

NormanDunbar, 1 month ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello Thursday. And a special "welcome back" to the rain. Looks like we'll have doggy paw prints on the kitchen floor again today, after walkies! Oh well, not to worry, I treated myself to a new mop the other day!

Enjoy Thursday everyone. Make sure it's a good one. Have fun. Stay safe. Don't forget the laughs.

Today's random photo is from yesterday and is of a small group of local Flowering Cherry trees. The photo doesn't do them justice though!

NormanDunbar, 2 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to a somewhat moist "good" Friday. I'm not sure what makes the Friday before Easter Sunday any better than other Fridays, but what do I know? 😉

Enjoy your day folks, have fun, and don't forget, it's a bank holiday in the Untied Kingdom so everything will be shut and the roads clogged! You can tell I'm in a cheerful mood this morning, can't you? 😁

Today's random photo is from 31st December 2023 at Bingley Five Rise Locks. So called as there are 5 rises!

NormanDunbar, 10 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to a travelling Wednesday. We are leaving #Islay this morning and heading north. It's been wonderful here on the island and catching up with my brother.

Have a great Wednesday and don't forget to have some fun along the way.

This photo could be the view from our new house, if MrsD decides we are buying it! It's on Islay and the locals call Portnahaven, "the end of the world"!

NormanDunbar, 1 month ago to random

MrsD just saw what she thinks was a mink running across our garden! This is not good news.

NormanDunbar, 1 month ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello Wednesday. It's bin day! And today we are having a survey done on the house, which we may have sold! But, this is England where it's not sold until the money is in the bank. Buyers/sellers can pull out at any time without notice. As a previous buyer did, after 4 months!

Have a great Wednesday Everyone and don't forget to have fun too. Cheers.

Today's photo is a small group of red tuna crabs taken in a famous Californian aquarium whose name I have forgotten.

NormanDunbar, 6 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to a soggy Saturday. It has been raining all night again. Kept me awake since 02:00 -- I am not amused!

Have a great weekend everyone, starting now, weather permitting of course. Don't forget to have fun.

Today's photo is from July this year when a fox decided to drink from our pond's filter outlet.

NormanDunbar, 4 months ago to random

Not many people can spell diarrhoea. #UselessFact

NormanDunbar, 3 months ago to random

If this was a Scottish ferry ...... 😉

BBC News: HMS Prince of Wales fails to depart for Nato exercises
BBC News - HMS Prince of Wales fails to depart for Nato exercises
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-68268560

NormanDunbar, 2 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to Thursday. Hope you have a great day without me! I'm going to be out of contact today for a wee while. See if you notice! 😉

Stay safe everyone. Catch you later.

Cheers.

NormanDunbar, 17 days ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello Tuesday. Another warm but cloudy day forecast for today. Yesterday's was the same and it turned out to be blue skies, sunny and 6°C hotter than forecast!

Have an absolute belter of a day folks, enjoy what you do, have fun and stay safe. Bad puns and dad jokes are a bonus!

Today's random photo is from last week in the Strathclyde Country Park on the M74 motorway, near Motherwell. I called it "Chicken of the Woods? Maybe". See ALT for more.

NormanDunbar, 4 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to Wednesday. Midweek already? Surely not! Oh well, let's get today done and it's downhill to the weekend. Have fun and laughs and a belter of a day. Take care.

Yesterday MrsD and I took Wesley to York for a wander by the river. We had to change our plan when we got to the exit gates from the park to the walkway as the gates were locked for some unknown reason. 😉

NormanDunbar, 4 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello Sunday. A somewhat moist Sunday at that. It has bucketed down rain for most of the night. How do I know? It kept me awake battering off my window. And there's worse to come when the storm, Isha, get here later.

Have a perfect Sunday everyone with plenty of laughs. Weather permitting!

Today's random photo is one from yesterday. MrsD got some nice tulips from a not so secret admirer, me!

NormanDunbar, 4 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to a wet and very windy Wednesday. Howling gales all night kept me awake again. Plus, today is recycling bin day, so the streets will be covered in stuff because some people don't line their bin lids up with the hinge pointing into the wind. My drive is always downwind, so guess where it all ends up! 😟

Stay in bed today folks, and have a safe but fun day. Cheers.

Today's random photo is from August 2022 and is a hoverfly of some kind. I like hoverflies.

NormanDunbar, 3 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to the weekend, yes indeed, Saturday is with us again, for one day only. Make the best Saturday ever happen today. Don't forget to have fun.

Hopefully the damned wind didn't keep you awake last night,.like it did me. At 00:11 it sounded like a jet engine was running outside my window. And only stopped at 05:45. 😟

Today's random photo is from a café toilet in Haworth (pronounced How-orth) where the Brontë girls used to hang out. And poses a serious question!

NormanDunbar, 4 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to Wednesday. It's still below zero here and a wee bit snowy but nothing like they have back home in Scotland. Stay warm, have a great day, have a laugh!

Today's random photo is from June 2014 and was taken in the greenery in my pond. If you zoom in a bit, you'll find a Dragonfly has just emerged from its nymph stage. So that's where all the tadpoles went!

NormanDunbar, 4 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to the weekend. Yes, it's Saturday once more. Make the most of it though, it's a less well known fact that the hours that make up Saturday and Sunday pass twice as fast as weekday hours!

Have fun. Have laughs. And if you must, have friends round! (But keep the noise down!)

Today's random photo is from yesterday. This was taken near the Ripon end of the Ripon Canal. This is the first lock you pass through when boating the canal from Ripon.

NormanDunbar, 2 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to Thursday. Flying home today after MrsD's birthday bash in Tenerife. It's going to be a dreary, tedious, mind numbing day for me!

Hopefully you will have a much better day than mine. Take care. Have fun. Laugh a lot.

Cheers.

NormanDunbar, 2 months ago to random

Good morning fellow Mastos and hello to the weekend. It's Saturday and I'm awake early because, Wesley! He's been wandering in and out of the bedroom all night.

Hopefully you are having a better start to the weekend than I am so far. Have a belter of a Saturday folks. Don't forget the fun! You know the saying "All work and no play makes @NormanDunbar an even fuller boy than normal"! (Or something along those lines).

Today's random photo is a random lizard on a random rock. Enjoy.