Marty

🎶MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark🎶 🎶All the sweet, green icing flowing down🎶 🎶Someone left the cake out in the rain🎶 🎶I don't think that I can take it🎶 🎶'Cause it took so long to bake it🎶 🎶And I'll never have that recipe again🎶 🎶Oh no....🎶

Have a great time, Tinkerbelle! If that's an app for your phone, just be sure (especially if any of the trails are remote or difficult to navigate) that the phone is fully charged before you set out. (P.s. What's a circus with waterfalls? )

Hey, Gary! 34°C sounds just a bit too warm for me.... Hope all's well with you.

Although I prefer a guy with a clean shaven face, that doesn't mean that I am against a guy growing a beard. And I trust that you all realise that I am really only joking every time I complain about one of the guys Gary posts on here needing a shave. Truth be told, I had a beard for around thirty years or so. Here's a photo of me from around 1986:- (It's not a very good one, actually being a scan from my old driving licence.) And here's another one taken at a day long music festival that I attended back in 1998 (The Verve were headlining):- You'll see that, not only was my hair a good bit shorter in that one, but it had also lost most of it's natural colour. I decided to shave the beard off completely just before christmas 2000, and have been clean shaven ever since. I've let my hair grow long again this past 18 months or so. It's actually longer than it's ever been, and I now usually tie it back in a ponytail. (And there's no colour left in it at all. Completely white.)

Morning, Adi! G'day, all! More blue sky than clouds here, at the moment. Currently 17°C/62.6°F with very little wind. May rise to as high (low?) as 20°C/68°F later.

Only if we can have a Fawlty Towers day later in the week... (Sorry, Page)

Ah, stop now, young Albert! You're getting worse than me. (Or do I mean better than me? )

Wot?

Wow! Thanks, Val! I hope his axe is sharp enough for me to be able shave his beard. I don't think my disposable razor would be up to the job....

Well, I count 23 words in just that single comment of yours, Val. And it's not the only comment you've written in here today.

Okay, guys & gals (and any non-binary persons who may happen to be here)... It's coming up to 1am here, and I think it's time for my beauty sleep. Not been too bad of a day. I finally managed to get another two hundred or so words written of Chapter 4 of my Fragments of Sean story. Mightn't sound all that many, but I've been stuck at a certain point in that chapter for a couple of weeks now. Those few hundred words look as though they'll get me past the roadblock I've been experiencing with the chapter. Night, gang!

That's grand, Page Would be a boring old world if we all laughed at the same things. I was only joking when I posted that particular image.

Aye, lad. Reckon that could 'appen 'ave been t'Lowton near Wigan..

Yup! Had me reaching for one of my disposable razors.

And one for all the cheese lovers. (For as it says in the holy book, "Blessed are the cheesemakers.")

One for Albert....

That's another 6 minutes and fifty seconds of my life I'm never going to get back... Thanks, @Valkyrie!

Hi again, Xan

Oh, gawd.... I've unleashed a monster...

Ooooh! Plaid? I can see @dughlas getting all excited already....

The Lumberjack Song was a classic in its day. If someone put out a song like that nowadays, the PC brigade would condemn them to hell.

And I wonder just how many drones were launched by a certain western government today? (Shut up, Marty! Before you get banished to The Pit.)