Marty

Good morning, dugh. All good here, thanks. Yourself?

Hi, Gary

Hey, Page

Hi all. Sorry I've not been active on here for the past couple of days. Been travelling and visiting siblings in England. My mother would have been 97 on St Patrick's day.We all met at her graveside, and then went for a meal to celebrate her life. Here's a photograph of the seven of us in the restaurant after the meal. The youngest of us is 62 and the oldest 78. I'm the middle child of 7.

All seems fine now. Probably a hiccup at my end.

I am getting intermittent "Timed Out" errors when trying to load certain GA pages today. Currently the Stories page isn't loading for me. Earlier the Forums page wouldnt. I can load other sites without problem. Just wondering if it's happening to anyone else and, if so, what the problem might be....

I am getting intermittent "Timed Out" errors when trying to load certain GA pages today. Currently the Stories page isn't loading for me. Earlier the Forums page wouldnt. I can load other sites without problem. Just wondering if it's happening to anyone else and, if so, what the problem might be....

Albert, mo chara! Cónas atá tú? (Albert, my friend! How are you?)

Good morning, Val My heart also goes out to them. I have just been reading some of the details. Apparently FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media sites (and even mainstream media) are struggling trying to prevent copies of the livestream video that some deranged individual streamed of this despicable act from popping up on their sites. There really are some perverted people out there. How can anyone want to share a video of such a horrific act? This is one of the reasons why, as I mentioned on here a few days ago, I have tried to step away from social media sites. I find some of the stuff that is shared, and said, on those sites not to be good for my own well being.

Hey, young Albert! Thanks, Gary! I fully intend to. I have plans for a series of vignettes about a dysfunctional gay character (based on someone I used to know). I have the first one about half written. I also have a text document containing 5 separate chapter "titles" - each title being a sort of memory prompt as to what that particular vignette may be about... Thanks, dugh!

Sound advice! I think I read it myself somewhere recently....

Welcome, Bruce! Always good to see a new face.

I said "under it" - not "below it"

dugh can have the shirt. I'll just keep what's under it.

Hi, guys and gals! Been a dry day today with a fair amount of sunshine. Still a wee bit windy - although my sister in the north of England tells me they are being battered with the wind today. The storms that come in from the Atlantic have to traverse Ireland before they get to Britain. Seems as though this one didn't lose too much strength whilst crossing Ireland. I'm gonna be busy for most of today and evening, and am heading across the Irish sea tomorrow for the best part of a two week holiday in England visiting family and friends over there. So I may be a little quiet on here today and tomorrow, but I'll try to at least stick my head round the door whilst I am on the road/sea and see what's happening in CoTT.

Now that conversation between Greg and Nate was definitely one that needed to happen! And I suspect it may never have happened had Nate made, what still seems to me have been not really properly thought out, the decision to try to break the friendship. But at least it has now happened. I think I asked in my comment to the last chapter whether Greg had let Nate know what the blind spot was that Richard had implanted in his brain. Now we know he hadn't. But he has now, and hopefully that means that the two of them can now at least stay best friends and rekindle that relationship. Another great chapter, Jason! I'm not going to try second guessing just how this will play out . Who will end up with who, etc. I'm confident enough in your skills as an author to let you finish the tale in your own words. Thank you. I'm in agreement with @FanLit on one thing at least. This is also becoming one of my favourite stories.

G'night all!

Hi, Wade. You Randy thing you!

*groan*

Yea, and willow and alder do it too around me - and even ash (although that seldom gets damaged by high winds).

Well mine was okay, thanks. Can't speak for the rest of the CoTTer's though...

Here's another funny Specsavers picture....

I also occasionally use Ventolin Evohaler. Schmoked and toked too much in my younger days...

Oops! Sorry, my mistake, I read that wrong.