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Weekly Chat (Non-Osprey Topics), 1 March 2015

Diane in Indiana
01/03/2015 06:16

HAPPY NEW WEEK AND HAPPY NEW MONTH!

Last week's Chat thread is HERE.

Thursday, March 5, is the Full Moon.

Also,

On March 6, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will arrive at the dwarf planet Ceres. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The Dawn space probe will spend several months observing Ceres and sending back the first close-up images of a dwarf planet in our solar system. You can watch the spacecraft's arrival at Ceres on a special broadcast of the Slooh Observatory:

U.K.: Friday 6 March at 6:00 p.m.
Eastern U.S.: 6 March at 1:00 p.m.
California: 6 March at 10:00 a.m. 

Scientists have already detected mysterious bright spots on Ceres and are anxious to discover what they are. INFO

Everyone have a great week!

  • 04/03/2015 20:06 in reply to original goldfinch

    There are notices in airports OG about what you can import/export. I'd better check them:-)

    PS just looked, I think in EU you are allowed to take meat dairy, etc. Not sure about Tenerife but the supermarkets there are full of British chilled and frozen food. It's just more expensive and not always what you would want to eat LOL
  • 04/03/2015 20:22 in reply to Brenda H
    Unknown said:

    Linda, I wonder what the people at the airport thought when they saw bacon, on the X-ray, in your suitcase. Is it actually allowed ?

    Sssshhh!!!!.......
  • 04/03/2015 20:32 in reply to Lindybird
    Just taking time out, after washing my smalls....... We went to another town on the coast this morning, & enjoyed a coffee on the front & a poke around the shops. Another story, about my OH's shoe disaster! but I'll relate that later! The sun has now remembered that its supposed to be shining, here, and all is beautiful. Just watched from our balcony as a huge white & very fluffy dog went for a swim in the bay - when it finally emerged, it shook itself, then rolled over in the sand!! This was repeated about 5 times!! Maybe its their way of cooling him down on a hot day, plus freshening him up a little!
  • 04/03/2015 20:36 in reply to Lindybird
    Have been reading back, on all your news: just time to say, glad you had such a super few days off with your OH, Margo, and that all is well. Clare - glad you enjoyed the ditty, its the second one I wrote as I did the 1st one in my head and then forgot it! Urgh, old age. No time for more, my OH is impatient if I spend too long on here :-( Back later......
  • 04/03/2015 20:38 in reply to original goldfinch

    Blimey.  This is the Wikipedia entry on Bugis Street - that must have been quite a sight!

    Our herring gulls are red listed birds.  Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.

  • 04/03/2015 20:39 in reply to Lindybird

    Food imports, dairy, meat etc to UK  -Canary Islands count as EU so suppose that the reverse is true, haven't investigated.

    US is quite a different matter, as OG highlighted.

    I have sent smoked salmon to France via a smokehouse in the Highlands but the panic I felt about it going off before it arrived spoilt for me, the pleasure of sending it. It went by Airsure and arrived in perfect condition,thankfully.

  • 04/03/2015 22:25 in reply to HeatherB

    Can't bring a darn thing in here or they'll send you to Guantanemo!  On the other hand, sister did arrive with some Crunchie bars with no trouble when I met her in NY.

    Completely knackered this morning.  Went to bed at a reasonable hour, but daughter's dog, who was in the same room as Peanut, decided he wanted to sleep outside, so about 11 p.m. started barking (very unusual).  Daughter was in farthest bedroom and flat out; I lay there wondering why whoever owned the dog didn't DO something until I suddenly twigged that it wasn't coming from the usual directions, so got up and let him out. Went back to sleep until 1:30; then lay awake until daughter got up at 3:30, whereupon I cooked her eggs and toast while she packed the car (again!). She was off at 4:30 and is now somewhere near Palm Springs. She'll stay overnight at a motel that has a nice pool and hot tub before continuing to Gd's tomorrow.  I went back to bed after she left and slept for a whole hour before the trash trucks started doing their rounds, so am more than a little groggy today.  Don't hold up much hope for a snooze coz the recycling and garden waste trucks will be joining the show later, not to mention that Wednesday seems also to be "mow, blow, and go" day for local gardens.

    Will catch up later when (hopefully) I'm more coordinated.

  • 05/03/2015 00:18 in reply to Annette in SoCal

    Bumping the thread up - but no time to say anything!

    Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!

  • 05/03/2015 00:32 in reply to original goldfinch

    My page has changed on my phone...

    Hate it....

    Nothing to report here and as away end of March will miss EJs return:-(

  • 05/03/2015 02:03 in reply to Wendyb
    Annette - We don't expect to hear from you again, today, after a night like that!! Yeugh!