Happy New Week! Last week's Weekly Chat thread is HERE.
The code for this week's Weekly Chat thread is WC110813 (in case you ever need to find it using the search box).
(WC stands for Weekly Chat. 11 is the day, 08 is the month, and 13 is the year. I will always follow this format.)
Don't forget to watch for the Perseid Meteor Shower tonight and tomorrow night. If you have cloudy skies, you can watch the online webcasts. See my post at the end of last week's chat thread.
Sending good energy to Margo, Patricia, NiteOwl, Buzz, and anyone else who is dealing with adversity.
I haven't seen Lynette posting for a while. Lynette, I hope you have recovered well from your operation!!!
Also, sending a shout out to Auntie in Finland, who's probably working very hard at her career, and to DJoanS -- also to Caerann in Chicago (I thought of her this week).
I hate to think, Mulberry!
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
"Slough-it"...
I wouldn't remotely have guessed that.
Ever been to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Clare?
Unknown said: Ever been to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Clare?
CLARE/AQ this one takes some beating. It is a town not too far from Glasgow. MILNGAVIE pronounced MULGUY!!!!
We also have FINDOCHTY much further along the coast and pronounced Finechty
Blimey, I didn't know that about Milngavie, dibnlib. We were there the other week as well.
Good Morning, All. "Another Day on Planet Earth", as they say on BBC Radio2 at breakfast time. A bit dull here, & damp. Might brighten up later.
Hope that OG & Eagle-Eye are safely on their way to their break in Fife.
See that there's been discussion on pronounciation - UK is famous for difficult to pronounce place names, I think. Suppose that Wales must top the list, though. What a difficult language. Where we go on our breaks in N.Wales there is a great deal of Welsh spoken everywhere as a matter of course, and its completely indecipherable. We pronounce the place names on the signs outside towns, just as we see them, as there is no way we are going to get it right!
Back on our diet today, after a weekend of 'naughties' including strawberries & icecream, and my scones of course (but I only had two...) My OH has nearly reached his goal and is thinner than he has been for years, but I still have a way to go, even though I realise that I will never be the same weight as I was in my 20's, so I have set myself a target somewhere inbetween then and now!
See that Diane is nearing the end of the Tree Saga, if I may call it that. Had to laugh imagining you hoovering the driveway, though, Diane!!! So glad it was all resolved in the end and that you can stop worrying about it now. I don't know how I would be if a bat came at me, normally I don't mind creatures except for spiders (urgh!!) - never seen a bat close up.
Annette: I do jigsaw puzzles but have not had time for them for a long time - probably since I got this computer in 2008 LOL!! I have put all the ones which I had stored in the house, into our caravan, so that in theory anyway, they can be done on wet days. I love Scrabble but have not played that for ages, either. Used to try and get the children into it so that they would use their brains and their vocabulary.
Buzz goes back for his check up today so expect he will be nervous when we pull up in the Vets car park again. They are very kind there, though.
Right, off to get dressed!!
How do you pronounce the SouthAussie Barossa Valley town Nuriootpa?
Why, Nurioopta, of course!