Marty

Yes. But please don't tell clo.

Two chocolate sponges fresh from the oven, that will be sandwiched together with chocolate buttercream tomorrow. For a friend's birthday on Monday, who has a sweet tooth, and is totally addicted to chocolate.

Because of Zoom this afternoon, I didn't get as much garden work done today as I would have liked to... But the gap in the hedge is certainly starting to get noticeable. You'll see a lot of cut branches in the foreground that I'll need to gather up and burn eventually. And the view of the distant hills is a bit clearer in this photograph.

Well, I'm just in the house from the garden And, gosh, it's 6:15pm already! The days are certainly getting longer. Or, as we might say in this part of Ireland: "There's a fine wee stretch on the evenings!" Blithering Zoom starting in 45 minutes, so I'm defrosting a portion of homemade beef curry which, after reheating, will go very nicely on a bed of boiled rice for tonight's dinner. If I survive, I'll see you on the other side of Zoom.

Sorry about the slagging, Albert. I think we all knew what you really meant. Simply a case of....

Now he's calling me nuts! Talk about pots and kettles...

I know. But it can also mean walnut... "Walnuts are edible nuts which have a wrinkled shape and a hard round shell that is light brown in colour." https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/walnut Sounds a bit like our clo...

She's a walnut???

And I've another one starting in little over three and a half hours.

Greetings, young Albert! I'm just out of a two hour Zoom session...

Greetings, Gary! Two basically clean shaven hunks....

Beautiful! They had me in stitches at times - but my eyes were also leaking listening to some of the lyrics.

❤️

Well, it's 1:00 am, so cocoa and bed. Catch you all on the morrow! Goodnight, all. Here's a little known offering, but one that I quite like. And maybe it fits in well with some of my comments in here tonight:

I have. In 2017 and in 2018. And also in 2019, but that challenge was only for 24 photos (2 each month for 12 months). I have entered every one of these challenges since joining the club in 2013. Seven challenges in all.

Plummer starred in the Sound of Music alongside Julie Andrews in 1965 and went on to earn an Oscar, the oldest actor to win an Academy Award, for his role in 2010′s Beginners. Plummer starred in a number of box offices hits following the Sound of Music including The Man Who Would Be King. In 2010, he received his first Oscar nomination, for the Tolstoy biopic The Last Station leading to a late resurgence in Plummer’s career. He would go on to star in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Knives Out. He subsequently broke another age-related Oscar record as the oldest actor to be nominated, when he secured his third Oscar nod in 2018, aged 88, for All the Money in the World. Source: https://www.thejournal.ie/actor-christopher-plummer-dies-aged-91-5346879-Feb2021/

I'm not sure yet. This challenge is one that my camera club organises most years. It normally costs €5 to enter, with the winner getting a prize equal to twice the total collected from all of the entrants (the club pays the extra out of its own funds). With the fact that the monthly meetings are not in person, but via Zoom (*spit!*) for the foreseeable future, meaning that collecting the entry fees will be difficult, it may be a while before the next challenge starts...

My number 45 of my 52 week B&W photo challenge: I don't think I need tell you what and where that is... (And it's hard to believe there only seven more weeks to go. )

Bribery? Tsk! How about some corruption as well?

And a cherry?

On your knees, wench!

Well, I can... More so now I am cutting back the overgrown hedge. But as the hedge regrows, I'll keep it neatly cut and shaped, maybe to four feet high (1.2 metres). The garden is already around a metre above the ground those cars are parked on, so the hedge should hide the worst of the view when it regrows. Currently, with the hedge having been allowed to grow unchecked, I can see through the bottom of it, anyway.

What picture? I posted one a couple of minutes ago showing the view now I've started cutting back the hedge. What more do you want, wench?

Ditto!

And I'll be interested to see if you still think the same when I have opened the view up even more... So here's what the view looked like at the end of today, after opening it up a little more: Do you still think it's a "great" view?