Crack of sparrows' .... café Thursday 1st September 2011

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Crack of sparrows' .... café Thursday 1st September 2011

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Started 8 months ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_2605
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Good morning all. The café is open for breakfast. It's 07.45 this side of the pond and all breakfast materials are set out and ready.

We have: tea, coffee, juices, milk, water, yoghurt ... to drink
Full English cooked breakfast (or any part of it)
Continental breakfast (cold meats/cheeses/ selection of breads and pastries/ jams/honey ....)
Fresh fruit (and prunes)
Yoghurt/fromage frais/fromage blanc/stewed fruit/fruit puree
Selection of cereals and porridge
Anything else you fancy
All served by beautifully groomed tuxies

Pull up a chair and join in.

Posted 8 months ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_2605 #
MS swans in from the NS office with a large margarita in her hands,
Morning PM, may I have a coffee please.
How's your day starting? Good weather or it it the usual c**p that you've been getting there lately.
It's the first day of Spring here in NZ and we have another Antarctic blast on the way but hopefully not as bad as the last one. Typical Spring weather, cold,wet ,sunny, wet you get the idea.

Posted 8 months ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
It's actually a gorgeous day here so far. Completely blue sky, not a cloud in sight, and temperatures predicted to be good - around 22C. Well it would change to good weather now, wouldn't it? The summer holidays are coming to an end.
Coffee on its way through the wormhole.

Hope your Antarctic blast isn't too bad.

Posted 8 months ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_2605 #
Don't you just hate it when the weather clears up just as school is in again.
Mmmmmm coffee arrived thanks, smells wonderful too.
I'm off out tomorrow to look at a garden full of thousands of daffodils, at least I hope we haven't missed them as we did last year. The word is the last polar blast has delayed the flowering so we should hit it just right.

Posted 8 months ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
I did something similar in April, but I went to see the bluebells. They were early because we had such a warm Spring. I'll post some of the photos on FB so you can see them.

Just checked - I'd already done that. Look in "my photos" on my page.

Posted 8 months ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_2605 #
I'll do that PM, I'll try and get photos tomorrow and get daughter to help me post them too.
Must go now, dinner is ready. See you later and have a great day. Enjoy the sun.

Posted 8 months ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
Enjoy your meal.
See you later.

Posted 8 months ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_2605 #
Evening Jan and Morning PM :)

I do hope that both of you post the pics of the flowers :) Don't know if I will go anywhere soon to see flowers here, with the Nonsoon and the fires there may not be much this year.

Posted 8 months ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
Here is the link to my bluebells photos

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150163867373250.301279.516583249

Posted 8 months ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_2605 #
Going to disappear for a bit - help yourselves in the café. The kitties know where everything is.

Posted 8 months ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_2605 #
PM, have a good morning and hope that the weather stays nice. The bluebells are beautiful, thanks for sharing the pics.

Wish they had shown pics of Scout and the Samoyed puppy :)

http://goodmorningkitten.com/kitten/1252/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyKitten+%28The+Daily+Kitten%29

Jan, 1st day of Spring already, wow time flies doesn't it :)

Posted 8 months ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
Morning all. Can I have a full english please and a nice big mug of tea yum yum. The weather here is lovely this morning, love it first thing when there is a bit of a nip in the air. Really glad the weather is getting better, hope it holds out for the next few weeks as I am going down to Cornwall in a weeks time woo hoo can't wait, haven't been there for a good few years. Niece is coming to flat sit and Dave sit, it will be the first time we have left him.....gulp, hope he will be ok.

Posted 8 months ago by Davesmum #
Morning DM, sure you can have a full english and a nice mug of tea :) Dave will be fine, someone else he can wrap around his paws >^..^<

Why @ 1.41 am does Red think that the spare bedroom door should be open for him, lol. He sits at the door and hits it with his paw so I notice him, silly cat.

Posted 8 months ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
This article is on FB, after reading the article and the comments, maybe the mother should have the child ride with her siblings on the bus to school. This issue was addressed the previous year by DCS also, so it makes me think that it might be safer not riding the bike to school.

http://bicycling.com/blogs/thehub/2011/08/30/arrested-for-riding-to-school/?cm_mmc=Facebook-_-Bicycling-_-Content-Blog-_-bike-school

Posted 8 months ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
Realy makes you wonder how we managed to survive to the grand old ages that we are. I used to go to and from school when I was eleven on my own, I got the public bus, it helped me to be "street aware" and I knew not to go with anyone I didn't know etc. Some children are too mollycoddled these days and when a parent tries to help their children to develop they are accused of neglecting their children. My mum and dad didn't know half of what me and my sisters got up to when we were younger (nothing illegal I hasten to add!!), but we are still around to tell the tale!!

Posted 8 months ago by Davesmum #
I agree with you on how we were raised and actually lived to tell the tales. Scary now that one is afraid to let their kids play in the front yard, heck even play in the back yard without being afraid of some putz hurting the child. I remember my Mom or other Mom's calling out to any of us while we were playing in the neighborhood and one of us would answer.

Posted 8 months ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
Wish I had Strawberry Cheesecake ice cream right now, of course I don't so guess a grilled cheese sammie with spicy dill pickles will have to do :)

Posted 8 months ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
Goodness me, I used to walk the 1km to and from primary school from about the age of 6-7. There were other children walking but we didn't really walk in groups, just all going the same direction. Sometimes a teacher would give me a ride in his vintage car after he had done the bus route. Even that wouldn't be allowed now. Later I rode my bike and would go on adventures riding around local streets after school with friends. We had so much fun whizzing down hills and this was all before the days of cycle helmets too. We had cycle safety lessons at school, in fact the local schools have just had theirs recently, I saw groups of children out wearing Hi-Viz vests. Children still ride bikes here and schools have 'walking buses'. It's brilliant and keeps cars away from the school vicinity and ensures children get exercise walking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_bus

Posted 8 months ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
Love the idea of the Walking Bus, the kids in my neighborhood most walk, ride their bikes and/or scooters to school. The high schoolers have to take the bus since their school is further away. I walked to school for the whole range, kindergarten to senior high....from 2 blocks to 5 miles away (the latter thru an oil refinerary also).

Posted 8 months ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
Evening Deb, I rode my bike the 2km to Intermediate(11 & 12 years old) and walked or rode the 1 km to College(13-17). I was lucky that all my schools were reasonably close and our girls went to all the same schools too either walking or biking. It was good that they walked 4km a day.
Goodness me, through an oil refinery. Now that's different.
Just watching the latest series of Torchwood so I may disappear as I get engrossed in it.

Posted 8 months ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
The oil refinery was different indeed, walked along the railroad tracks. Guess the kids can't do that these days, its all fenced in with security personnel in there now, so they have to walk around which adds another couple of miles to the trip. Not that kids there now days would walk, they either ride the bus, drive or have their parents drive them to school. Most of the schools my kids went too were to far away so they rode busses most of the time.

Posted 8 months ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
I caught the bus (normal bus - we didn't have any school buses) to primary school, but often walked home so I could spend my bus fare on sweets. It was only a couple of miles, maybe 3.
I had to catch the bus to secondary school - it was 8 miles, but if I missed the bus home (there was only 1 an hour) again I would often walk rather than just stand still at the stop and get cold. If I cut across country (which I was strictly forbidden to do!) it was only 4 or 5 miles and I could often make it home before the second bus, which was frequently late.
I also walked to Church twice every Sunday - it was 3 miles each way. There were no buses on Sundays.

Posted 8 months ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_2605 #
Meegz lives very close to a primary(5-9) school and every day from 1.30pm the parents start arriving in their cars, they even sit on lawns and under trees in groups waiting for school to get out at 3pm. The street is totally jammed by 2.30pm and anyone who lives on it can't get in or out as the traffic is literally at a standstill on the road. By 3.30 it's all clear. I find it very disturbing that all those children are delivered to and from school. They really need a walking bus at that school, those parent would have an extra 2 hours in their day too.

Posted 8 months ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
There is a primary school behind my house in the village (our back garden backs onto the school field) and I have seen parents FROM THE VILLAGE drive their children to school. It's a tiny village, no house is more than 15 minutes walk away from the school ...

Posted 8 months ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_2605 #
There are two schools in my neighborhood, an elementary and a middle school. Most of the neighborhood kids walk to those schools, there are some parents who drive their kids in. That is a mess because they U-turn at the corner intersection where I live which is also a four-way stop and you know some people have trouble figuring out who goes next.

Posted 8 months ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
PM, I have seen that too. Besides my Mom never driving, can't imagine not walking to school when I was a kid. When I walked to elementary school, it was 3.5 miles thru fields underneath the huge power lines the entire way. It was better than walking the 5 miles on the streets, but I still think my migraines started because of walking under those things everyday for years.

Posted 8 months ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
We had a bus stop near the house, but only one bus stopped there and that bus only ran one per hour, so we often walked to the bus garage 1 mile away in order to catch a bus to go shopping. I remember doing that with my Mum so it must have been before I started school at age 5. We almost always caught the bus that stopped near our house on the way home so that we didn't have to carry the shopping as far, but if we missed it it was just too bad. Strong arms and strong legs!

Posted 8 months ago by Pollys_Mum_in_UK_2605 #
Oh I forgot to add that Meegz street is a short cul de sac, just to make it even more interesting and congested.
Hi PM, it really annoys me to see parents driving their kids such a short distance and it's not about safety either. I live near a school that is what they call a low decile school, it's pupils come from a low socio-economic background and those kids walk whereas Meegz neighbourhood school is almost the highest decile and it's all about kids driven to school and in mostly 4WD vehicles. They not doing their children any favours.

Posted 8 months ago by Moonshadow_NZ #
That was good to be able to catch a bus. We didn't have any bus stops close to our house at all, closest one was probably 8-10 miles away. The closest school bus for me would have been a mile away and I couldn't technically ride it because I lived in a different city from the city I went to school in, yes weird it was. When my Mom got a job at a fabric store, she would walk the entire 10 miles each way because we had no bus near us. She was a better woman than I for doing that, she didn't work until after I went into the military and my brothers were almost grown adults.

Posted 8 months ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #
Jan, no they are not doing their kids favors, more of the *you owe us* society growing up as we watch.

Posted 8 months ago by AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew #

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