Hello everyone welcome to the garden we have a marquee and heaters, all the garden furniture has been washed and I have put out cushions for your comfort.

Well what do you think shall we chance it . Now as always we have tea and coffee from all over the world not to mention all our cakes and muffins and as Paul calls them sweets! Every single one is calorie free! Plus of course we now have spirits and liquors to warm the coldest of you.

If we were having Coffee: I would ask you what has been going on in your world this week, has anything deeply affected you, have you need a sympathetic ear, a shoulder to cry on or just needed someone to make you laugh! If yes feel free to talk it out here with us. We will all help if we can.

Lets join everyone here and all the other “IF WE WERE HAVING COFFEES”

If we were having Coffee: I would remind you that there are lots of other coffee mornings all shared and organized By Diana and Gene’O over at,Part time monster

If we were having coffee: I would have to draw your attention to Paul’s guest post this week as it is very interesting, I am not going to go over what he has written as he has covered it so eloquently! Now what has been going on here well the weeks flash buy so quickly and I am sure I shall meet my self going backwards one day!

So the usual vists to the gym and classes, then on Wednesday my friend L and I spent a cultural day in the local museum, it was really interesting …. luckily for you there was no photography allow !!We also enjoyed a pot of tea and a scone each. We had a lovely day.

If we were having coffee: Friday was interesting too as I was due to meet a friend who lives up the road but who I have not seen since before our River trip. My sister came over in the morning so I could help her with her laptop, this task took longer than either of us had expected and I rung my friend to say I was going to be half an hour late. ” Aha! she said that is fine as I want to kidnap you ” I was intrigued as ( touch wood) I have never been kidnapped and have no wish to be!

Well I sorted my sister out as best I could and she was happy because we had sorted her immediate problem. So I went along to my friend’s house. The kidnapping turned out to be a trip to Bisham (the place hubby and I visited the other week. ) Her son was doing the last of his duties as youth leader ( moving into the real world and a new career ) He had been incharge of a camp of young people and we had been roped in to help clear up the area an take two young lads home!

IMG_20150731_141749558_HDR — The camp site

IMG_20150731_142348381 — Goose with gammy wing

IMG_20150731_142531978 — Geese with lone duck cleaning up

When we arrived, there were pile of equipment everywhere and people loading cars with camping and cooking gear and children! We joined in and soon the field looked pristine again as in top picture ! There was a Goose there who had broken a wing , I asked about him and was told that he had broken his wing last year but the RSPB had fixed him up and though he has a strange protuding part to his wing he has happily survived the year!

As you can see the only evidence that there had been a camp there at all was the different colour patches on the field! That is shown in above with the lone Duck who joined the Geese in their clear up routine!

IMG_20150802_113551221 — Ready for dinner today

If we were having coffee: I would tell you how we have been eating our potatoes ( crop all gone! ) and our lovely green beans! It is so good to just pop out to the garden and just pick the amount you want for dinner. The tomatoes are getting huge and it looks like we will be making lots of chutney again this year! I say we but it is really the hubby’s domain.

IMG_20150802_113133688 — Green and healthy

IMG_20150802_113201779_HDR — Hidden among the leaves

Now see I slipped the garden report in without a warning !!

If we were having coffee : I would ask if I can fill up your cup, or glass or get you anything else to eat it is all calorie free! Now last night the hubby and I went to visit some friends and we had a great evening and today we are having hubby’s mother over for dinner we do most Sundays if we are here. So really I have to go and get on as the dinner will not cook itself!

I do hope you have not found my idle chitter chatter to boring but as I said Paul’s blog is very thought provking again this week! So with that said I must love you and leave you !

If we were having coffee : I say I was sad to miss the Annual Bloggers Bash info here

And of course the

IF WE WERE HAVING COFFEE: WEEKEND COFFEE SHARE

over at Part Time Monster and Gene’O’s

Intelligent Cats

Oh!! I nearly forgot my beautiful SunFlowers I bought them yesterday!!

Full of warmth

And Hope !

Plane Truth – No Droning On

Welcome to Willow’s weekly coffee and tea garden. My name is Paul; I’ll be your barista today. I’m happy to see you have come for a cuppa and a chat. Please come into the garden and make yourself comfortable. Willow fluffed the cushions on the chairs and set the tables in the garden so we can have a cuppa and chat as we soak up the sun and enjoy the beautiful plants. As usual, I’d be pleased to bring a pot of whatever beverage you prefer – we have a wide range of teas and coffees to satisfy our world-wide readership. Also available is a large selection of spirits for addition to your cuppa or in its place. We can relax amongst the flowers while we discuss the affairs of the week both personaland/or worldwide. How has your week been?

So the big news in the last few days has been the discovery of a flaperon (part of the wing) from a Boeing 777 that washed up on the beach on a small French owned island called Réunion just off Madagascar. It was covered with barnacles and appeared to have been torn from a plane. There are a few interesting things about this: first, there is only one Boeing 777 that is missing and that is Flight MH370 that disappeared about 20 months ago on the other side of the Indian Ocean; and second the modern composite material construction allowed the flaperon to float, which would not be the case for any older airplane.

Modified from: Wikipedia read here

The flaperon has been identified as definitely from a Boeing 777 but has not been uniquely matched to the Flight 370 plane. That said, there are no other 777’s or pieces of 777’s missing anywhere in the world. All are accounted for. That would suggest quite strongly that this is a part of the missing plane. Since the piece was found on French territory, it has been transported a defense ministry laboratory in Toulouse France. It arrived on Saturday and will be inspected on Monday when the officials come back from the weekend.

Officials match the parts number to Boeing 777

As much as this discovery has raised the hopes of some of the family of those who disappeared that they will finally get closure, officials are not so optimistic. The flaperon was found thousands of miles from where the plane must have gone down (given the fuel it had aboard and its cruising range) and the ocean currents obviously carried it there. They say that working the currents in reverse to discover the plane’s location could not be done after 20 months have elapsed. It is possible that the final resting place of the plane and its passengers may remain a mystery.

Would you like another cuppa? Perhaps a sweet? Remember all of our sweets are calorie free. While we are on the topic of airplanes, there was a scary occurrence Friday at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. At 2:24 pm Friday a JetBlue flight approaching JFK at about 800 feet had a drone pass by at less than 100 feet from the plane. Again at around 5 pm another jetliner had the same thing happen. By law drones are banned from being within 5 miles of an airport but there is little or no enforcement possible because the laws and enforcement authority have not kept up with drone development. A drone that is ingested in an engine could bring down a plane and a drone that hits a windshield could easily enter the cockpit and kill a pilot, which during landing could also crash the plane. There is another very bad possibility. With modern day 3-D printers, a drone could be constructed from explosive material and detonated close to a plane. Drones have always made me feel uneasy. They can be used for surveillance or they can enter private property without permission. There is no way to limit their travel or actions. And the laws to control them are weak or non-existent. They can fly over major highways and yet do not require any registration or safety inspections. They can hover and look into any window at any level on any building. Or they can be used by terrorists or criminals to carry explosives or poison or nerve gas. (As a worst case). They just have access to too many places that they should not and there is no way to stop them. When writing this post I checked E-Bay and there were hundreds of drones for sale from $60 to $5,000 with the average being around $1,300. What are your thoughts on the proliferation of drones?

On that note, that’s about all we have room for this week, so it’s time to settle in with another cuppa and enjoy the garden. Sweets anyone? Please join me in thanking Willow for her invitation to tea. We are all honored that you dropped by today to visit. I hope you’ve enjoyed yourself and the conversation and please look around at Willow’s other posts while you’re here. Willow is over there serving her guests and chatting it up. Let’s go see how she is today. Have a great week. We look forward to seeing you back here for sweets and beverages of your choice again next week.

And of course the

IF WE WERE HAVING COFFEE: WEEKEND COFFEE SHARE

over at Part Time Monster and Gene’O’s

Soon Afternoon Tea will be served by drones!

Ukrainian design student Herman Haydin has revealed his idea for flying robot bartenders (shown). Called Yura the concept is part of the 2014 Electrolux Design Lab contest. The flying drones would be capable of making hot and cold drinks and then serving them Read more: