Good Morning Early Birds!

[waterboatman]

Sunday. Outside is bit weird this morning. Out the back the full moon is so bright t's almost like daylight. Out the front is pitch black! Never seen it like this before.

On the canal today, in the Visitor Centre, I go to pick up my oppo and his wife from Yate first. They are treating me to dinner in a pub near their home on the way back. It's their way of saying thank you for doing the sixty odd miles to pick them up. They couldn't go if I didn't. They don't have to, I enjoy their company.

Other friends coming to me for dinner tomorrow, complete with snowflake. More fun. :o}

Have a happy day everyone.

[Buenchico]

Come off it, Boaty. We all know that you'll go almost any distance to find a good pub where someone else is paying ;-)

Good morning, BTW ;-)

[waterboatman]

arf arf arf. Morning Chris. There is that of course!

How are you this morning?

[Buenchico]

I'm fine, thank you, Boaty, but I'll be off to bed soon.

Are you well (even if you do appear to have a black hole in your front garden)?

[waterboatman]

I'm fine thanks.

It is rather odd. I've never come across it before. I thought I was dreaming at first, it can't be right, I thought. So I had another look.

[waterboatman]

I've not been to the pub we are going to, but I know of it. I've driven past it often.

[Buenchico]

I'll be visiting our usual Sunday 'regular' this evening, to join my fellow crossword-solvers. It's not a particularly great pub but it's the best we could find after Wetherspoon's closed our old 'regular'. I don't like the other two Wetherspoon's pubs in the town - and one of those is closing too soon anyway, so we've had to find a pub in central Ipswich which is open on a Sunday evening (most aren't), where I can walk from the station easily and the two other guys can get buses stopping nearby. That doesn't leave much! (The Greene King pub we use is an architectural gem, as it's an old theatre, but it simply seems to lack any real atmosphere).

[Buenchico]

PS: Here's a photo
http://tinyurl.com/hug75d3

Oh well, off to bed now, methinks!

Have a good day!

[waterboatman]

Always annoying when a good pub closes. Sadly, more and more are doing so. The competition from supermarkets makes it much cheaper to drink at home. A pint of Guinness in some pubs is about £4. A four pack in some shops is £4. No contest really.

[waterboatman]

That looks very nice Chris. I think I'd use it if I lived there.

Sleep well mate. :o}

[wendilla]

Good morning Wbm xxx just passing through . Looked out here and thick thick fog . Off back to bed .

[waterboatman]

Morning wendi. xxx Sleep well wendi. xxxxx

[ummmm]

Morning. I'm eating ice cream :-)

[waterboatman]

Morning ummmm. xxx How delightfully decadent! :o} What flavour?

[ummmm]

Vanilla. I was dreaming about ice cream so got up and had some :-)

[waterboatman]

Sounds reasonable! :o}

[Smowball]

Morning!! Last day here in Turkey and then fly home tomorrow x

[ummmm]

Has it been good?

[waterboatman]

Morning smow xxx Have you had a good holiday? :o}

[Smowball]

It's been good but quite humbling tbh. We had am amazing day trip yesterday with just 11 of us. Mini bus picked us up. We went on boat down the Delta which is incredible and where The Africa. Queen(Humphrey Bogart) was really filmed, saw turtles, had fresh fish cooked for lunch, swam in sea, saw ancient rock tombs. Tour host was amazing and at the end he stood up on bus and said he wanted to thank us all on behalf of Turkey for visiting here and trusting them. Said how they have had 40% less tourists than last year and how they are all struggling and this means a lot when people still come. Tried to make light for a second by saying I'm sure some of you have annoying neighbours too! But we knew what he meant. Really lovely people

[waterboatman]

I like that smow. It sounds ideal.