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[turps]

I don't know what's up with DW today but it's taking an age to comment, I suspect I'll have to give it up as a bad job and catch up tomorrow.

I also saw today that my crossposts to LJ hadn't been happening for a while, so sorry for the repost spam. I just hope they don't all get posted again at some point.

After nearly a week of beautiful sunshine and heat, the weather turned last night, becoming grey and rainy. Which was great for the garden and meant I only had to water the greenhouse plants. It was supposed to stay like that for a few days but it's back to being warm and sunny again, so, the weather forecast was lying to me.

Yesterday we went for a drive to the beach and saw the wild dolphins. I was so happy to see them, there had been reports in the papers for a few days and Kayleigh saw them three days ago, so when we saw groups of people looking out to sea we suspected what was out there, and it was the dolphins! So, after two years of seeing dolphins in the Canaries, this June we got to see them swimming off South Shields beach :D

Milo can't eat from midnight tonight, which means Pansy and Murphy will be cut off too. I suspect Murphy will think he's starving to death by the morning.

Mog on the Tyne is having to close for good, another victim of Covid 19. I'm going to miss the place and all the cats. I know they're all happy as I see them in their foster -- I guess, permanent homes now -- on Insta, but yeah, sad. While Catpawchino is still in Newcastle and up to now will eventually reopen, it just never had the same friendly vibes as Mog and somehow I suspect the one that was just starting to be opened in Durham may not happen now.

ETA: A go fund me to Save Mog on the Tyne has been set up and they have over 6k already. I've donated and hope it helps keep such a brilliant place open, and even if it doesn't, will help the rescue cats for as long as needed.

I've run out of Musketeer stories to read, the writer is still posting WIPs but I'm greedy and want more. I may have to reread all the Dragon stories again or move back to reading Winterhawk. I bet some good fic has been posted while I've been binge-reading Musketeers.

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[shadowhive]

That’s strange, it’s been fine with me. I hope you’re able to catch up tomorrow (i, for one, always love getting your comments)

Yeah I’ve heard there’s been some screw up with lj meaning that’s been an issue

Here’s hoping you get more rain, we really need it

Oh wow that’s amazing! I’ve never seen wild dolphins that must’ve been so wonderful

Oh that’s so sad🥺

[glitteryv]

Hmm, it's been working fine for me. But, you know, internet glitches at the randomes times. Re the LJ crosspost: I could be wrong, but I think DW has either stopped with them OR has slowed them down because of something on LJ's end? (I'm sorry for the vagueness, but I purged and deleted my LJ acct a decade ago, so I don't exactly keep up with the goings on between sites.)

It's been gloriously rainy on and off for about a week now over here. As you can imagine, I'm ecstatic abt this. To the point that that I've actually enjoyed the rare sunny morning even! ;)

Ah wow, wild dolphins! What a neat thing to see! I've never seen any (though I'm sure that there are pods in the open ocean areas).

*Pets Murphy and Pansy* I bet you those two are gonna side-eye Milo for the rest of the day...

Oh noes, it sucks that Mog on the Tyne has fallen into such hard times. I totes et you about one place been friendlier over the other (even if they both offer the same kind of service.)

Running out of fic is a serious problem. I've been there before and it's deffo the opposite of fun. THAT SAID, you do have some other choices, LOL. *pets you*

[frausorge]

Dolphins! That's amazing. How great that you got to see them!

All best wishes and fingers crossed for Milo. And may Pansy and Murphy survive this terrible hardship also! ♥

[turps]

I was thrilled to see the dolphins, especially so many of them. It was such a special moment.

Milo has to be at the vets for nine so I'm up and about early. As expected Murphy is running around sounding tragic. You'd think he hadn't eaten for days, when the reality is it was about six hours ago *g*

[turps]

Thankfully DW seems to have sorted itself out this morning. Last night it kept timing out which was all kinds of frustrating.

I'm happy to keep crossposting to LJ as I have friends who are only active over there, but no automatic crossposting makes it a bit more difficult. I guess if they have stopped working together I know now and will have to get into the habit of copy-pasting each post.

You attitude to the sun will forever make me smile, not because I don't get how relentless constant heat and sun must be, I mean, I was glad of the break after a week, but it's so different to the things a lot of people say as they crave summer.

I went on a dolphin boat ride on holiday so saw wild pods there, and that was amazing seeing them up close. But this was just as special as it was so unexpected.

We need to be at the vets in a few hours so right now Milo is sitting on the desk looking sad and Murphy is running around and wailing like he hasn't seen food in days. You can tell he's a teenage cat *g*

I always loved Mog and they've had some great donations to the go fund me, but sadly I doubt it'll be enough as it's a place that just won't work with any kind of social distancing. The whole point is to get in and interact with the cats, get on the floor, try and stop cats licking the cream off your cake and offering takeaway food like many other places are doing isn't really feasible.

I do have choices, though discovered the Musketeer writer has also written a few Picard stories so that kept me happy last night.

[turps]

Thankfully it seems to have sorted itself out this morning, last night most pages were timing out. Though, it could have been an issue on my end as no one else seemed to be affected.

Well it seems to be raining again here, whether it'll stick around again I don't know because you're right, we did need it.

It was so great seeing the dolphins, they were beautiful!

[turlough]

I noticed that your connection to DW seemed to be back in working order today. It's always so frustrating when you're set on doing someting but the net isn't cooperating!

We're supposed to get rain tomorrow and maybe Saturday and for all that I love the sun we really need the rain.

You saw wild dolphins?!! How totally awesome!!

[ephemera]

wild dolphins! How awesome!

[turps]

The wild dolphins were amazing to see.

[turps]

I really don't know what was up with my connection to DW the other day. No one else seemed to be having issues but I was timing out constantly.

I've really enjoyed the sun too, but we seem to have switched from blazing sun to constant rain. It's from one extreme to the other lately.

I did see wild dolphins, they were beautiful!

[rikes]

Dolphins!!! How cool is that?

[turps]

It was amazing to see the dolphins. It's not something I expect to see off our coast.