Things That Gladden The Heart

The Bon Jovi Encore Night at the cinema last night; not quite the same but a bit of light relief, and it was nice to see they were missing us as much as we missed them.
 
Last week my Skycaddie threw a hissy fit..
Charged it up Monday evening for a game Tuesday morning - the green I'm Charged light came on, unit in the bag.
Got it out Tuesday morning and it wouldn't fire up..nothing at all.
When I got home I put it on charge and it had nothing in the tank.
Before you all say Ha you left it on -
A. I didn't and
B. It's set to turn off after 90 minutes of not being used so there should have been at least 70% left.
Charged it up, turned it on and it worked but there was a line of pixels that made a blue line on the screen.
Fired off an email to Skycaddie as the unit is 3 weeks I side the warranty period, a emailed label arrives shortly afterwards and it's in the post.
Email received yesterday saying the LCD is kaput and a replacement has been sent out and will arrive tomorrow.
Good work Skycaddie (y)
 
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Saw ducklings following their mummy on a pavement...right next to the A3 at Guildford. :eek:. Hope they stayed on the pavement!
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The same 2 swans return every year to breed on the pond at our 3rd hole .
We built small island nesting area for them covered by CCTV cameras.
A few years ago they had 5 signets, after a few weeks mummy and daddy swan decided to walk them down to a nearby loch, crossing the main Glasgow to London railway line.
The 5 signets were killed :cry::cry:, we've since fenced off the railway line.
But mum and dad still return every year and woe betide any strange swans that attempt to land anywhere nearby.
P. S. Lovely swans but bad parents and BTW the 3 hole isn't our signature hole :whistle::devilish:
 
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I'm now on holiday - away up North Monday to Friday this coming week and then back for a week of photographing pre-season training followed by first friendly match - then I'm back into wall to wall football - last three weeks since season finished have been doing my head in.
 
Gave Joe Biden a wave yesterday as his cavalcade drove past our cottage in Carbis Bay - and he gave me a wave back. Well I think it was a wave ?

Have to say that the security level and numbers of police from all over the UK in Carbis Bay is insane - an officer every 25m along both sides of the road from the delegates hotel to the venue - it’s over a mile. With groups of armed officers at important access points to the venue. They are all lovely, friendly and chatty (we have had Guy from Wiltshire police outside our gate all night) enjoying their few days at the seaside in Cornwall - though some spend all day in the exact same spot staring at the same wall or bush.
 
davidy233 said:
When the courses were shut just over a year ago my wife and I used to walk out to the pond near the tenth fairway on the Medal course every evening - I we did it pretty much because it was around an hour round trip and at the time we were only allowed an hour's exercise - anyway after a wee while we saw that the mallards had hatched ducklings - there were eight of them when we first saw them - a few days later there were only four - we stopped walking that route when it got down to two :(

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Great pic, but wrong - if understandable - attitude to Nature imo. The 'casualties' help feed other animals that are valuable parts of the 'balanced' environment.
Plenty of winged wildlife on our course yesterday, some seeming very young for this time of year (2nd clutches?). Swans, geese (Egyptian mainly now; Canadians are the only birds on my 'no thanks list!) moorhens, a couple of cormorants an herons and (too many) coots (also on my 'negative' list) on the ground and in the (6) ponds/lakes. Red Kites (love watching them!), Kestrels, Harriers et al in the air. Makes playing The Shire a joy, even when scoring badly, though yesterday was my best round in ages - even with the inevitable occasional collapse of my arthritic hip!
 
Two deer strolling through our car park Thursday evening ( mother and wean) not a care in the world-hope they stay safe--as have seen a knob-end on the course with what looked like some sort of Lurcher type dog on a long leash walking down wooded side of our 15th!
Couldn't make my mind up who was uglier-him or the dug-so kept the mouth shut re the trespass bit:whistle:!!
Roll on tomorrow--have to say that Engerlund looking v.comfortable--thought Croatia would have given them more of a game ( expect we'll now hear all the usual urine now in the media/T.V./radio/Twatter et al!!):(
 
toyboy54 said:
Two deer strolling through our car park Thursday evening ( mother and wean) not a care in the world-hope they stay safe--as have seen a knob-end on the course with what looked like some sort of Lurcher type dog on a long leash walking down wooded side of our 15th!
Couldn't make my mind up who was uglier-him or the dug-so kept the mouth shut re the trespass bit:whistle:!!
Roll on tomorrow--have to say that Engerlund looking v.comfortable--thought Croatia would have given them more of a game ( expect we'll now hear all the usual urine now in the media/T.V./radio/Twatter et al!!):(
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Probably Fallow deer, Fallow Fallow:ROFLMAO:
 
Foxholer said:
Great pic, but wrong - if understandable - attitude to Nature imo. The 'casualties' help feed other animals that are valuable parts of the 'balanced' environment.
Plenty of winged wildlife on our course yesterday, some seeming very young for this time of year (2nd clutches?). Swans, geese (Egyptian mainly now; Canadians are the only birds on my 'no thanks list!) moorhens, a couple of cormorants an herons and (too many) coots (also on my 'negative' list) on the ground and in the (6) ponds/lakes. Red Kites (love watching them!), Kestrels, Harriers et al in the air. Makes playing The Shire a joy, even when scoring badly, though yesterday was my best round in ages - even with the inevitable occasional collapse of my arthritic hip!
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Oh I’m not a 'poor wee beasties getting eaten' person - I'm not really a bird photographer by choice when I shoot wildlife either - this is what I'd be photographing again on my holiday this week if we were allowed to travel to the States - Sadly in this country we don't have any large predators. Supposed to be a pair of red kites hang around the house where we are staying in the Highlands from tomorrow.

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