Weekly Chat, Sunday August 29, 2010

Goodness Gracious, and 'my stars'  as Annette says!   What a lot of posts from you all.  Everyone is obviously missing their osprey fix at the moment.  Will try to reply to some of them later,  but sorry to glean from a quick speed read that both Djoan & Margo are still unwell - so sorry and hope today is the day you start to improve.

The sun is trying to come out, here, and last night the farmers came and spent most of the evening harvesting the wheat in the field behind our house - very dramatic scenes with the enormous machines rolling back and forth, using huge lights to see their way in the dark.

Sorry to see that there has been a bad earthquake in N. Zealand, but at least there does not seem to be loss of life this time.

Went to get my hair cut last night at the hairdresser's own home, she does a few of us a favour by cutting ours privately - & she is a great technician.  Was allowed to cuddle the 9 week old  stripey kitten they have just acquired - oooh! gorgeous.  Made me quite jealous.  Have to dash off out now for Saturday shop - 'see' you later....  Have a good Saturday.

Good Saturday morning, and thanks for overnight and early posts.  Will reply later today, but just one observation.

The “Webcam for Abernethy “ directions actually link to the SWT feeder cam at Loch of the Lowes in Perthshire – this is a live action camera and is where you might see the young Pine Marten early in the morning. 

To get to the RSPB Abernethy feeder cam (at Loch Garten Osprey Centre – LG is part of Abernethy Forest reserve) go to the LG Osprey nest (we all know where to find that!).  Click Webcams (before birds of prey in top strap).  Choose Feeders and then choose Abernethy Feeder – this is a “still camera”, updating every 2 minutes.

Good watching at either!

Hope you are all enjoying your Saturday. Plenty of cloud around today, so we haven't seen much sunshine.

OG. Hope you are enjoying Langholm and manage to buy all the food goodies.

Margo, If you look in today, I hope you are now feeling a lot better and ready for your trip tomorrow.

Patriciat, Pleased to hear your arm is healing so well. Yes, I do buy the chocolate mint and the chocolate Echo biscuits, but now I must try your Thornton mini caramel squares.

Alicat,  Lovely pictures of Casper. He is so huggable.

Just been asked by neighbours if they can come around to show off  their first grandson. Their daughter, ( the baby's mother) is not 'coping' very well with her baby and so it is felt that it is best if she stays with her parents. Not too sure what the problem is at the moment, but I hope the doctors can help her. I understand her husband is so upset and feels so lost, not knowing what he can do to help. 

Afternoon all ... I am feeling much improved today ... thanks for your good wishes! It is another lovely day here, althugh slightly hazy.

margobird - I do hope that you are feeling a bit better today and able to go off to Cornwall tomorrow.

Alicat - Casper is so cute ... lovely photos!

OG - your 'foodie' trip to Langholm sounds lovely .... I really enjoy Farmers Markets and local food events.

Diane - thanks for the link to the beach cam ... I watched for quite a while last night. I love watching the sea ... could sit for hours just watching waves ... am I a sad person or what???  :-) I hope your poor bunny got over his shock!

Thanks to everyone else for chat etc

We are out tonight, at a neighbour's 80th Birthday party at a local 'hostelry' .... supposed to be from 7 until 11, but I think we will be going late and leaving early!!

Take care

Hello all -We are still enjoying dry weather, quite warm (well, for us) so the pressure is still on in every sense of the word, I have been pressure hosing the garden paving this morning. I know it may sound as if I am a workaholic but our weather here has been so un-nice (?) this year that we have to make the best of every fine day. Like Diane, I seem always to be playing catchup and never quite getting there. Over lunch OH and I found ourselves remembering how much more we used to achieve years ago. He will be 80 later this year but still climbs and prunes trees and so on, so I think he must have been a kind of Superman in his younger years, before we met and married--------

Brenda- I hope that your neighbours' daughter gets all the professional help she probably needs. Is her husband also staying with his parents in law? He must indeed, be feeling very lost.

AQ - The book that you are reading sounds absorbing. I too, love reading anything which informs about our social history. So sad that the diary writer died so young, but I guess, not unusual in those days. What was healthcare like in Australia 150 odd years ago? TB was a killer then, anyway, wherever one lived.

Annette - Glad that your check up went OK.  Another year of living dangerously now ;-)))  I don't go near a doctor if I can help it, maybe two visits in 30 yearsapart from usual routine thingys like cervical cytology and breast screening.  I seem to have good health, well, as far as I know!!!!  I do appreciate that I am very fortunate.  Because of his health history, OH gets regular tests etc. Heart and GI system all very OK this year. So if he gets a pain, I am very unhelpful and probably quite unsympathetic. (See my mention earlier about him climbing trees----)

Everyone else - Thank you for your posts and pics and links. Because there are - happily - so many of us posting, I cannot reply to all but always read and enjoy everyones' contributions.

Morning/afternoon/evening all:) 

Well, we had a bit of rain last night but it's more windy today then yesterday. As they say here, "go figure" ! lol Sorted out the horses, in for a coffee and rich tea and then off for a bike ride with the OH. I "run" during the week but cycle with her at weekends.

Diane, I'm sure the rabbit forgave you. Good job you now know it's under there before you light the woodpile! I always buy my eggs locally and it's a good job at the moment.

Linda, hope the shopping went well and the kitten sounds very cute. It is dramatic watching the harvesters. I used to love watching when I lived there.

Brenda, hope you enjoy the visit from the baby. That sounds such a sad situation, when it should be a happy time. Hope things work out for the best.

Joan, glad you're feeling better. So, why the brief appearance at the party tonight? Still not 100% or other reasons? You're not the only one that could watch the sea for hours:)

Afternoon all ,

Thanks for all your posts and pics.

Took this screenshot earlier from the Glacier National Park webcam:

Alicat : Thanks for the pictures of casper. They are great. Hamish says woof!!

I hope that Margo manages to get away on her holiday this weekend.

Weather has been cloudier today but still quite warm. Not done a lot today , just a bit of gardening and dog walking. Last night I watched Scotland 'beat' Lithuania 0 - 0. Best result of the night was Northern Ireland beating Slovenia 1 - 0. With no football today its been a strange saturday. 

Hi Alan,casper says woof back to Hamish