Weekly Chat Sunday July 11th

  • Thanks, margobird for that news of Lily & Hope - a happy ending to their tale, perhaps.

    Started putting the poetry on the new 'Poetry Corner' because I appreciate that they are not everyone's cup of tea, so don't want to clog up this thread with them unless they are short and/or funny.   Was already hoping there would be somewhere to put them on the Community Pages, when they obliged by adding the Poetry Corner.  If I do add one to there, I will make a note of it on here, so that folks can go have a look if they want.

  • Morning all:

    Diane: Didn't realize you were in Amish country. I've always imagined that would impart a peaceful quality to the area....  However, in the past you've mentioned neighbors who seem to be a tad on the redneck side of the spectrum.  I'm assuming they couldn't be one and the same?   Carrot Cake Whoopie Pie with Honeyed Cream Cheese Filling. Yum!  Probably my first choice but Gingerbread a close second!

    OG: Please let us know when to come to your place for tastes!  Off to find the elusive poetry page.

    Lindybird:  Lovely (free?) verse there. Reminds me of that poem written by WWII pilot John Magee, High Flight: Didn't realize he was buried not too far from where my sister lives in Lincolnshire, (which of course sent me off down the Street View on Google Maps for about 30 minutes!). Hope it's okay to copy a few lines here

    Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth 
    And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
    Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
    of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
    You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
    High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there....... 

    Must be marvellous to be able to fly (and I don't mean in planes)  :-)

    Margobird: Brilliant news about Lily and Hope!  And even more brilliant video - they were playing hide-and-seek round that tree trunk!  Thanks SO MUCH for keeping us up to date - I barely  have time to keep up with ospreys.

    TerryM: Now I remember what a wattle is, I wonder about our good friend in Sydney!  :-)

    OK. I'm off to Google Whoopie Pies (ha! I've seen those, but never knew what they were called) - and now going to start the (sunny!) day!  Take care all.

  • Annette:   That is a wonderful poem - I first saw it, engraved upon a bench put up on a high viewpoint in the hills near Macclesfield in Cheshire. The bench is there in memory of a young woman who died, & who must have loved the place where it is - they have carved the 1st two lines of the poem on it, and I cried when I first read it, & copied it down so that I could find out who wrote it.

  • Unknown said:

    Just caught up on all the fledging excitement :)))

    Lindybird - I find that dust shows MORE in the sunlight.   dibnlib - re printed pics, can you use your printer as a scanner? Several pics in my gallery were scanned in, not such good definition but if you want to show us something at least that gets it there.

    TERRY  OH persevered and this is the result of the first scan - this is a pic of Fingal who was put to sleep 3 years ago at the age of 14. What a handsome boy. Hadn't realized our scanner screen was so dusty ??? as the original printed image is clean - we will try and re-scan it later!

  • So, not much happening this afternoon, apart from printing out the Sainsbury's Whoopie Pie recipe. Don't really like cupcakes but these look interesting.

    Lindybird, I have a notebook of poems that have struck me and I had to write them down, going back to when I was an emotional teenager. Mostly they are ones that made me cry. Haven't added to it for ages now, maybe I don't come across many poems these days (except yours of course, which have their own place in my computer - perhaps I should handwrite them out for when the computer crashes completely...) 

    I was going to say, or maybe I'm just more cynical now, but there are still lots of things that make me cry such as watching young ospreys fly to Africa.  I quite like the way Roy Dennis catches birds returning to Scotland to ring, we know they have made it to Africa and back and are much more likely to be safe, so many die on their first migration (there, watery eyes again!)

    Terry in Cumbria

  • Ooh, lovely Fingal, dibnlib, well done! I seem to remember when I had scanned the pictures it all happened automatically, you'll be scanning everything in now!

    Terry in Cumbria

  • Oh!  yes dibnlib -  Fingal was so lovely.  What a smashing dog.  I might have a go at scanning now, I've got a fancy copier since last summer, but no idea how to use most of it.

  • LINDY     We can't get enough of your wonderful poems and I am sure I speak for all of us

  • Oh -  < BLUSH >  - I'm embarrassed now, dibnlib.

    I had to look for some of them this morning on the older pages here, as I have no record of them myself :  they are scribbled on scraps of paper & I do keep those, but no idea where they are at present!  I have a copy of 'Loch Garten Farewell' which I wrote last year when the Girls all flew off to Africa, so might put that up again, on the Poetry thread.

  • dibnlib, Wow, what a handsome fellow with such a happy face.

    Margo, I see you had a word with the chicks and so they didn't fledge when we were all out.  Thank you for the update on Hope and Lily, i haven't looked lately.

    Linda, It is now time you published a book of your poems. We could then all say that we knew you before you were famous. Seriously though, you should give it some thought.