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[turps]

castalie who's pretty nifty in general, is hosting a Daredevil friending meme right here. So if you love the show, go check it out. It's a show I intend to watch very soon, because it seems right up my street.

Does anyone watch Empire? I've only seen two episodes but am enjoying it a lot. The music is great too.

On Friday night The Fault in Our Stars was the preview movie on Sky. I'd wanted to see it at the cinema after reading the book, but never got around to it. James came in from scouts a few minutes after it started, and ended up this huge blubbering mess.

We've been geocaching these last few days. We've been meaning to for a while and finally got a good app and went for it. Mainly it's to add a little extra fun element to walking, and I have been enjoying it. We've found five caches so far, and it really is cool to think that you could have been walking past the caches without every realising. We need to work on being more stealthy though as a woman came out of her house and asked James if he wanted something from the church after he'd been lurking around for a while.

I'm about three scenes from finishing my bbb secondary piece, which could very easily approach the length of a primary work. It's been nice to consistently write again, it's been a while since it happened.

I've managed to crack my phone screen somehow. It's going to cost £90 for a phone shop to replace it, or £80 excess on the insurance. As it's only the one crack and the touch screen is still usable I'll just have to leave it for now. Or I'm considering getting one of those screen replacement kits which are around £10. I just hope they're not too fiddly.

It was the general election last week and yet again Houghton and Sunderland south where the first to declare -- go my little town. That's happened for a few elections now and includes such things as lines of students throwing ballot boxes around to get them to the counters faster. As for the result, disappointed doesn't even start to describe it.

This morning I got my appointment to see the psychiatrist at the hospital for the bariatric stuff. I don't think I mentioned before but I've got other appointments before that for other tests. These next few weeks are going to be busy. Btw, while I'm not doing so now if I talk about this stuff in depth I will be cutting in individual posts. I know it's a hard subject for lots of people.

Another thing I forgot to mention, my sil is pregnant again. Which means 6 people in a small two bedroom house and she'll have this new baby before Christmas when Amber is about one and a half. That's going to be one busy house.

The blue tits are still around, some photos James

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[coreopsis]

Those little guys are adorable! I wish I had some around here. I do get Cardinals and Blue Jays, though, which are pretty colorful, just not all plump and round. Of course, I don't have any birdhouses or feeders, just bushes and fences and things for birds to perch on and build nests in. Maybe I should put in some effort and see what happens.

Geocaching sounds fun! I looked up a website once that gives you locations inside particular post codes and there was one right down the road from me. I thought about checking it out, but it was under the guardrail on a one lane bridge and there's just some places I am not sticking my hand. :D

[turps]

I've just Googled Cardinals and Blue Jays, and they're adorable too. I like watching the birds so we've strung up fat balls and put seed on a bird feeder. This also means we have fat pigeons and crows who think their luck is in with easy food. You could maybe start with a small feeder and see what happens.

Ahhahaha, yeah, I get that about not sticking your hand in some places. We've taken to taking a stick with us as some of the caches are hidden in dark places and goodness knows what could be in there. The last one we went to was in a stream. That one was left too, though I suspect in that case someone had randomly found it and thrown it away.

[boozey]

I want to bring my girl scout troop geocaching, I've heard it's a lot of fun! I just have to figure out where to even begin with it /o\

[turps]

We just started by downloading a geocaching app on our phones. You can get paid apps but to be honest we're finding the free ones perfect for us at the moment. Just sign up, see where the nearest caches are and go find them.

I'm going on the assumption geocaching is the same the world over, so all we need is a pen or pencil to sign the log book in the cache, your phone, and in the case of some caches some very small trinkets to swap for what's in there. For example, the one we found on Friday we took a foreign coin and swapped it for another kind.

James is doing a geocaching night with his scouts, so I'm sure your girl scouts would enjoy it. He's going to go on a search with them but he's also got eventual plans to hide their own cache outside the scout hut for other geocachers to find. I think it'll be interesting for them to see who, if anyone, finds and signs the log book.

[pennyplainknits]

for your phone, most of those cheap phone cover places will replace your screen- I paid about £30 to have mine done

[turps]

£30 is much better than £90.

Thanks for the tip. Next time I'm in Sunderland I'll check one of those out.

[turlough]

It sucks about your phone. I'll keep my fingers crossed you'll manage to get it fixed without having to break the bank.

ALL the good luck with the upcoming appointments!

Awwww, the bluetits are adorable! They're so cute and have so much attitude.

[turps]

My phone still has the cellotape on it. I suspect it may be like that for a while

Thank you.

The blue tits are lovely. I'm enjoying watching them, though the tend to only be active in the sunshine.

[rikes]

Yay for writing!

We had general elections a couple of weeks ago too, with equally disappointing results. Clearly not a good time for elections.

Great photos of the blue tits. Love the fluffy hairdos. :D

[turps]

I've enjoyed writing regularly again.

Nope, it's not a good time for elections at all. The world is a scary place sometimes.

The fluffy hairdos are my favourite things about the blue tits. They're very stylish *g*