Wow! Surprise!

We've just been moved to a lovely little harbour on the Bay of Fundy! It's very picturesque, but if I'd had my choice I might have chosen somewhere with better weather. I didn't have a choice however, but I shouldn't complain because I'm still in my own house, and didn't have to pack a stick of furniture or hire a moving truck. This is the fourth move since we first came here almost 30 years ago! And we're still in the exact same house we bought all that long time ago. (Although for the first 15 years at least, it was always referred to as Dr Norman's house after one of the earlier owners.)
I know you're wondering how we managed this. We can't take any credit for it. This seems to be a collusion between the local council, the post office and couriers. The post office (or was it the village?) was responsible for the first one.
1. They changed the name of the road that we lived on.
2. Then they removed the rural route designation, so we became cosmopolitan. (Second move.)
3. Then we were informed that we no longer lived in the village into which we had moved, but to a village next door that we didn't know existed. Had never heard of.
4. Now, today, we had a parcel delivered to us and the courier asked us how we enjoy living on the bay. The address on the parcel was in fact to this lovely little Bay. I have to say it will take some getting used to, although the sunsets are pretty spectacular there and we don't get any here. So I'm looking forward to that.

I suspect that we may pretty quickly be moved back to the unknown village once they realize that we have planted ourselves in our house somewhere without paying the premium price of coastal properties. If this is too much for everyone to understand, you're not alone.
Enjoy Baxter's Harbour

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#silentSunday

Also #EllieKPosts #icetodon #spring

Good morning everyone!

I hope your day has you feeling as good as Ping Pong obviously is - she even tells us if you can listen.

From the whole gang here, have a great #caturday, all who celebrate, and a great day for those non cat people (are there any here?).
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I have a question.

Edit: Apparently I was misinformed. You can't call landlines from WhatsApp. So that piece of invasive junk is not going back on my phone.

Original post:
I just found out that you can use WhatsApp to make international phone calls to telephone lines. What's the downside of that? Assuming there must be one. I left WhatsApp years ago, but I'm now wondering if this is not a reason to install it, if only for this purpose.

https://www.androidauthority.com/free-international-call-whatsapp-3077436/

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#signalApp
@signalapp

#signalHelp

Edit: all done and restored. Easily, just took a deep breath, read the clear instructions and followed them, step by step.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Does anyone know how to recover a single deleted chat from my Signal app? I meant to delete a message I sent, having just heard of a sudden loss, and deciding the message was not a thing to send at that time, and accidentally deleted the whole chat history from one contact.

I have Signal connected on two other devices, neither of which have I opened since doing that. I also have backups enabled.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Ellie

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PSA about our hosting instances:

Just a quick reminder to folks, that the instances that host all of our content cost people actual money to maintain and run, quite apart from the owners', volunteers' and moderators' time and energy. If you can, don't forget to support them financially if and as you are able. Where would we be without them?

There will be information on how and where to do that on your own instance info, or a quick question to a moderator will give you the lowdown, I'm sure.

Please boost for visibility.

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Snowdrops missing

Following my snow post. This photo was taken yesterday.
I always feel that snowdrops look more authentic when they have a little snow around them, don't you? I'm sure they look even more authentic at this moment, covered in 3 inches of snow that's buried them this morning! But they'll be back when the sun gets around to them.

PS. For those of you who already have moved on to daffodils and tulips, I don't envy you really, as you now have to wait a whole other year to see these lovely little flowers! While we have yours to look forward to.

Happy Tuesday everyone.

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Okay.
Very funny.
Very pretty, but actually not very funny.

3" of snow in an hour? C'mon.

Let's be done with the snow and winter and move on to spring, why not?

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Timeline Cleanse - Spring Misty Morning

Sometimes we need to take a break and look at the world from the perspective of a mouse. I remember fondly this field as it was, on a misty dawn that May morning.

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Collection for a Cold and Rainy Day

These old bottles have been dug up out of our various gardens - from England, France and finally brought to Nova Scotia. Each one must have such a story to tell, if only we knew...!

Happy Monday, friends!

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