Morning Greetings!

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Bet in Fujisawa you don't get the frogs we do. They're everwhere

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True, in fact the only reason I have any is because we have a very small pond next to my house, and frogs always find their way their even although the river is a fair way off. I keep on emptying it but it'll fill up with rainwater and the frogs will move back.

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Soubs must be having a lie in today..

Weather here in Hakuba is cool but very sunny the 3000m peaks look great...not long now until they get some snow!

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Morning world. Cool with broken cloud, and a lovely cuddle.

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Brilliant here today. Sunny and mild with a gentle breeze and low humidity.

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was a lovely cool breeze this morning but it has warmed up a bit now.

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I needed a blanket last night. And surprisingly, there was a cuddly thing lying under it. I love coolth.

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hot water bottle tonight?

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Never. There's something much nicer to keep me warm!

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Apples, plums and mating dragonflies. Autumn is here, that's official.

 

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

with fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,

and fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

to swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

with a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

until they think warm days will never cease,

For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells."

 

Keats.

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Midnight. Frogs and crickets are in full voice. "Do you love me, I can do the twist".

 

The silence of an autumn country night hohoho.

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Amusing yourself there soub?

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Life is good bushy.

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pishing with rain again, with a lovely cool breeze on my skin

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Morning. Cool and cloudy with light rain. Left we windows open last night and my desk is flooded

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Cool this morning with heavy rain. Not even borderline 'should I put the aircon on' weather today

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Morning. Hazy and misty. Going to be warm today, but the humidity's dropped. A nice early autumn moning. I might go out and take some photos.

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what a fabulous, cloudy, cool day, probably the best in about a year I'd say

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Cool overnight yes - at last!

Sunny this morning looks like it will get fairly hot, hopefully without the humidity.

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"America is in mourning. Alex, the African Grey parrot who was smarter than the average US president, has died at the relatively tender age of 31. He could count to six, identify colours, understand concepts such as bigger and smaller, and had a vocabulary of 150 words. To his supporters he was proof that the phrase "bird brain" should be expunged from the dictionary.

 

'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' Choir Invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!"

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Cool and still with an atumn mist this morning.

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What were you on last night?!?

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Insomnia

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That is a very potent drug indeed!

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Good morning. Rooks are rooking.