Weekly Chat, Sunday August 29, 2010

Unknown said:

For those of you missing ospreys Skylar is on the Nova Scotia nest now:

http://museum.gov.ns.ca/osprey/

Hi

Just finished a lovely fish supper a few minutes since the start of this post (I'll admit my typing is as slow as it's always been) and have only just began to stop feeling like an Osprey chick after a really good feed.  Okay since I've mentioned what I had for breakfast and now dinner today, I might as well mention that I had a tin of Royal Game soup for lunch.  I'll admit something.  I've discovered that ever since watching Ospreys, I always think of them a lot when I'm eating fish.  No matter what sort of fish it is.  I don't replicate the calls though.  I'm affraid my vocal range couldn't manage.

Joan:  Sounds like your garden birds have sneaked up to my place for training from the local Starlings. :-)  Tommy Burns was a coach at Newcastle United, under Kenny Dalglish in 1997 before becoming Reading manager in 1998.  This was during Reading's last season at Elm Park (what a nice name for a football ground) before the club moved into the Madejski Stadium. 

Gary:  Hope your car's okay.  Honestly that wifi is a great invention.  Glad my posts make you laugh.  As a boy at school, I was always getting reports that said things such as:  "Paul tends to spend a lot of his time looking out the window."  Not once did they write: "Paul looks out of the window, so perhaps we could all club together and get him a pair of binoculars and a bird book."  I mean they could've said that just once or twice to humour me. ;-)

Brenda:  That sounds like a really busy day you had.  I'm always amazed at how quickly the price of books drop.  Sorry to go off in a mini rant but I think it's because there are some younger people who gasp in horror at the though of having to do long form reading.

Heather:  That's a really heart warming story about the poor wee Robin.  Your OH's actions were perfectly correct, and I'm sure the Robin will have many tails to tell his friends. :-)

Alan:  Thanks ever so much for the Nova Scotia nest cam link.  Seeing Skylar has caused a huge grin to appear on my face for some reason. :-)


Paul

‘Evening all.  OH is having to water garden yet again – but can’t complain, it means lovely dry weather still forecast.  I was standing at kitchen window preparing dinner veg and the sky went dark – not weather but a huge flock of Starlings, of which about 15 got onto the feeders and the rest went onto the roof to wait their turn – not that they queue politely, they just wait a while and pile in hoping the earlier ones will give way to them.  Busy Chat here today – so good to hear from everyone.

Paul – did you have soldiers with your egg? And are you a smasher or a cut-the-top-off person?  Thanks for Woodpecker.

Brenda – how busy you have been – even washed and ironed on the same day.

Heather –so pleased your Robin survived – haven’t seen one here for ages, but did hear one on the Caerlaverock car park.  Perhaps you should become Prime Minister and solve the broadband problems.

Well, I managed all that with no exclamation marks, but it doesn’t read the same, somehow!!!  Got to go listen to Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 – mainly about Swifts, but includes the Caerlaverock Tadpole Shrimps.  We missed it Tuesday, when we were visiting them live at Caerlaverock, so will listen to this evening’s repeat.

Lynette, good luck with the tapestry. That's a fair while to be going on with it. I would have chucked it against a wall by now! lol

OG, hope the programme was a good one. That's a lot of birds all at one time.

Paul, thanks, the car is fine but the wallet is dented! lol Just a routine service.

Not much else to report here, will update on Earl tomorrow:)

Just been looking at the latest on Hurricane Earl  - downsized now to Category 3 - still ferocious but at least its not quite as bad as first thought.

Lynette D said:

Catching up again.

Margobird - do hope you can fight off most of the chest infection before you go away.  Sinus infections can take a little longer but no doubt with the antibiotics you're taking, they should both clear up reasonably soon.  Hope you have a relaxing time in Cornwall.  Have visited there a few years back, lovely part of the country.

Alicat - thanks for posting the pics again, I had'nt got around to finding them, you've saved me the job.

All of you - too numerous to remember all the names,  love your chat.

BTW Diane loved your caption for the "furry animal" by the edge of the nest, quite humurous.

Now we have stopped our watching at LG I can at last resume my tapestry work that I'm doing  -  been at it for 5 years already and still not finished it. Have to do  it when in the mood to do so.

 

Hi Lynette, your welcome only to glad to help had nothing better too do while i was wating for the time to take my dog to the vets

Evening all:  Enjoyed reading all the blogs. Had a good chuckle at various comments.  :-)

Heather: I was an editor in a former life and really had to curb my predilection for exclamation marks, parentheses, and hyphens, which are just an awful substitute for real punctuation.  Now I indulge them all with abandon!

Had a long walk with a friend this morning, then a nice hot shower, then long lunch with friend, then yoga class, then two glasses of wine with dinner (not sure which of the last two events relaxed me more!). Tomorrow it's the annual poke and prod at the docs, then off to the rose garden and take-out for dinner.

Have a lovely  Friday all.

Good Morning All.

 Our morning has started very cool but with beautiful sunshine.

Very quiet overnight on here.

Margo, I hope you are feeling brighter this morning and the AB's have kicked in.

OG, we very rarely see any starlings in the garden. It sounded as if you were seeing your own murmuration of starlings.

Paul, I always look forward to reading your humourous, but also often informative comments.

Annette, Loved your description, 'annual poke and prod' by your Doctor. You sound very fit to me.

Off to the supermarket now, then hope to have a quiet day.

Morning, Everyone:   Not so sunny here but hoping it will pick up later:  at least its dry.   I came on here before 9.00 am and its taken me until now to read back over all those posts!

I thought the other day that I am using  w a  a  a  y  too many exclamation marks, so am actively trying not to.......

Relieved to hear on our Weather report this morning, that the Hurricane Earl is now downgraded, so only 100 m.p.h.  Hope that means that all of you in USA can heave sigh of relief & get on with life as usual.

margobird:  Oh Dear!   So sorry to hear about the chest infection - that's not a good move, so near to going away.  Do hope those AB's work quickly and you can get your mind around all the packing & preps for going.

Alicat:  Love the mugs!

Alan:   Hope to hear that Lady P is now improving, its no fun having these persistent infections. Also hope to hear that Hamish the Thunderdog is enjoying laying out on the lawn  in this fine weather.

Loved your mythical creature Diane!  Thanks for offer to doctor my poppy pic, I will have to find it now!

BrendaH;  As you are obviously such a whizz at housework, you can pop over here anytime & do mine, I seem to be running up the 'down escalator' with this one.

SheilaFW:   Glad you are enjoying joining in:  Its addictive, but not as addictive of course, as osprey watching! We once had a beautiful flowering  cherry but it was always looking for more water, and spread its roots all over the front lawn.  We had to sadly chop it down in the end.  It also meant that we had nowhere to hang our Christmas lights-  my friends said it was a good thing, as we had used little red lights which were meant to represent holly berries, but some of the neighbours remarked that it looked like a 'house of ill repute' shall we say!!!!  - we live in a different house now so have a big hedge to light up in December - with little white lights...

Laughed at Paul's use of "Iron Maiden" to drown out the childrens shrieks in the shops! - that should do it!

Well, have failed dismally as all the exclamations have crept back in again!!!!!!

Enjoyed a good evenings watching TV last night including a great prog. about the Drakensberg Mountains in S. Africa.  Great wildlife photography & lovely background music.  A memorable quote at the start to share with you :  "The local people say, that as the Vultures fly so high in the mountains, they can see into the future...."