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Gary hasn't visited GA since Friday at 5:30pm my time. That's three full days... Just hoping that everything's okay with him...

Greetings, young Albert!

Good to hear everything's fine. But you can thank a fellow American born on this day in 1900, for knowing it was 5.0.... NATIONAL RICHTER SCALE DAY National Richter Scale Day on April 26th each year honors the birth of the Richter Scale inventor, Charles F. Richter (April 26, 1900 – September 30, 1985). Richter was an American seismologist and physicist most famous as the inventor of the Richter magnitude scale, which quantified the size of earthquakes. While working at the California Institute of Technology, with Beno Gutenberg, Richter first used the scale in 1935. After publishing the Richter Scale in 1935, it immediately became the standard measure of earthquake intensity. Source: https://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-richter-scale-day-april-26/

If you really need £1,332 and have no other way of raising it, bro... (Although I think I detect a little more take than give there.)

There's a really useful thing you can do with Microsoft Excel to find the number of days between two dates. Just enter the two dates into separate cells, and then in another cell just subtract the two cells the dates are in. Excel automatically converts the answer to days. It's better to subtract the later date from the earlier one, otherwise you'll finish up with a negative number of days. So, as you can see, yours truly is 26,896 days old today. (I think I'll stick with saying I'm 73 - doesn't make me sound quite as old.)

In the time it would take me to use a calculator, I would have just worked something out like this in my head: Fall of 2017 to Spring of 2021 equals 3 and a half years (give or take) One year is approximately 360 days (give or take) 3 times 360 days equals 1080 days Half of 360 days is 180 days 1080 days plus 180 days equals 1260 days (give or take) Close enough to your 1332... Calculator, schmalculator!

Where is @Drew Espinosawhen you need him? I'm not sure. I'm just more confused by the fact that Page has been counting the days...

Greetings, young Albert!

Is it 2022 already?

Happy birthday. To both your Dad and to Thistle.

Perhaps... But I've never worn a bra.

For the day that's in it... ANZAC Day.

For the day that's in it: Today is ANZAC Day.

Obviously I should have gone to...

Can't decide if that's a boy with the mustard yellow top nearest us. If so, his jeans seem to be sagging somewhat...

27 Rolls... 3 day lockdown... I'd say you should be okay. Just as long as the lockdown doesn't last one or two days longer.

Greetings, young Albert!

Happy Saint George's day, everyone.

Today was a nice spring day. Mainly blue skies with the occasional fluffy white clouds. The temperature got up to around 17°C/63°F, although feeling maybe a degree or two lower due to a slight easterly breeze. But that didn't stop me from just wearing a T-shirt with no cardigan whilst out in the garden (and trousers as well, before any of you ask ). I now have a row each of parsnip, beetroot, and early carrot sown in the garden, as well as this year's onion sets. I also sown leek and celery in pots a few days ago. They will be planted in the garden when they are large enough. The broad beans were sown yesterday (I think they are called fava beans across the Pond), and I'm hoping to sow a row of early cropping peas over the next few days (the row of maincrop ones can wait for a number of weeks yet). The weather is promised to stay reasonably settled into next week. So I'm planning to at least start making the furrows for this year's potato crop. And I really must start sowing the brassicas shortly.

To be honest, I reckon they are probably both real gentlemen... (Although one may be a bit more gentle than the other. )

Cheers, Gary. I first noticed them yesterday when I drove out to look at my old place a few miles out of the village. They may have been here for a few days, for all I know. I'm also expecting the house martins to arrive shortly; they nest around the village. Not heard the cuckoo yet, but I'm expecting them any time now. And at least the birds aren't prevented from travelling, unlike myself at the moment. We're expecting an announcement from the government about possible easing of restrictions in about ten days time, or so. Hopefully it will be good news.

Don't you know you should never ask a lady how old she is? Tsk!

Erm... Because I'm me, and she's she?

The swallows return those aerial acrobats ~ heralds of summer.

Don't we all just know it.