How not to think about the referendum.

Phew, I can stop worrying about one of those scenarios now, anyway

That's a hard call, Maggie

I think I've moved on - I now need something to stop me thinking about a country with Boris or Gove as PM.

? elegran

That's all right then, Bellanonna !

specki - glad you had a lovely afternoon.

Ah no, elegran, I'm never sexist! The female - hen - blackbirds have brown plumage, wherever they're from. Male Blackbirds are black, but the Continental migrants who pop over the Channel to compete for food are the same as our resident birds with the exception of their bills, our males having yellow bills and the migrants having greyish ones.They only come in winter though. I had quite a few this year.

Bellanonna are you sure that the blackbirds without yellow bills aren't the female ones? Be careful not to be sexist!

I've had a European afternoon tea with British, German, French and Dutch friends here. And now I'm researching becoming a French citizen .....as soon as possible. My British passport can then be consigned to the bottom of a drawer - I'm ashamed to be associated with it.

Reverting to earlier posts, what shall I say to the many Belgian, German and French opportunistic blackbirds which come into my garden in the winter? I can distinguish them by their non- yellow bills, so I know who they are! They will, of course, continue to come along with other European species, long after we've left Europe, and I shall make them very welcome. Others migrate too, of course, but not always to my garden, and not always from the EU.

Already have dual nationality from marriage. Have suggested to DH that we should get Greek passports just in case, but Greece isn't in a very good state either!

Been to a musical afternoon at school!
Children singing in different languages which made me think of (oh never mind!)

I spent yesterday at a school reunion. Today I did some cleaning and gardening.

Life is back to normal.

hapgran if a strong solution of Vanish would work I would be willing to donate the necessary powder.

I agree with Stansgran. The World is a much bigger place than Europe.

Well, I spent yesterday drinking Apersol spritz and eating pasta in Sorrento. Today, back to rainy Belfast with a load of dirty washing.

Been working as volunteer at our local community gardening group at the farm with my super little GS. Been having fun times with my very international friends who are from all over the globe. Been trying to unblock a ghastly outside drain which was grim. Been eating a huge family sized bag of M&Ms ...all by myself because I had no intention of sharing them.....referendum?.... what referendum?

Turn on the radio and listen to the Glastonbury festival Radio 2- I have never gone but was dancing around listening to ELO and similar - cheered me up! Got some much needed exercise too ?

They may by now have interbred and their offspring can legitimately claim to be British slugs.

It depends if the Spanish Slugs have been here long enough Bellanonna and if they have National Insurance numbers. Some of them of course will claim to be naturalised British.

I'm researching how to become a Spanish citizen or at least have dual citizenship so that I don't have to leave my family and return to the UK

Bluecat

I find that looking at photos of Benedict Cumberbatch helps quite a lot....

We're allowed to be flippant Direne! God, I hope they do go. Might be harder to get rid of the Spanisg bluebells though. Much hated as they are, I think they're quite nice! I haven't seen any of those orange slugs round our way, just the horrible grey things, so maybe they have migrated to particular areas? Or I don't have much to interest them.
Well I've done my frig. It wasn't too bad. A few mouldy veg but on the whole not as bad as usual. Now smells nice and looks more spacious. I didn't go for my drive as it started to rain. So I went to waitrose instead, a five minute drive away and for some nice indulgent bits and pieces. Overpriced raspberries and cream for one thing. Scrummy. Good luck with the slugs. Wasn't there a celebrity chef who served them with ice cream? Certainly wouldn't appeal to me though .

Forgive my flippancy but does the Brexit leave vote mean that all of the Spanish Slugs will be going home in a couple of years (came back off holiday to find that they've decimated my seedlings).

Ps. Posted this on 'Will it really happen' forum before I saw this one but seemed more appropriate on here.