Morning/evening all: Off to catch up on today's posts.
Blackwater Eagle cam up and running and a pair of eagles have been seen courting. Not streaming but nevertheless something to watch during the winter months. Probably means a few more eagle cams in the US will be on again soon.
Margobird
Hello auntie nice to see a post from you. Winter has certainly arrived for you so please take care when you are with your little car. It must be very dangerouns driving in thos conditions and you never know what other people might get up to. Winter has arrived here too. Not as cold as you yet but overnight temperatures dropping to minus 3 most nights and only staying a few degrees above freezing all day. Scotland has already had snow which is causing some disruption and according to the weather forecast anywhere in the UK could get some snow by the weekend. Keep warm and safe.
Alan: Oh yes as I spent 2 very happy and funny years there, it was not like real work. Came from a high street banking background so liked seeing customers and a bit like banking you never new who was going to walk up those steps. We had people from ALL over the world,as did the other distilleries I was at, we had experts and holiday makers at at The Glenlivet we had some hilarious coach parties.
Had arranged dinner at The Croft the local pub for the Glenlivet area this evening but that is now on hold as the roads have not been touched....council cut backs already. Talking to the people we were meeting they have had around 6ins. I went down to the Ballindalloch bridge that goes across the Spey for my walk to take pictures but nothing to see as a total white out.
No shopping expeditions and hooray for daily papers on line.
Morning/afternoon/evening all. Had a busy start to the day. Did the horses then dropped the car in for 3 new tires/tyres and now back home. Weather is sunny but cold and very windy. Sorry to hear of all the snow in the UK:(
Tiger, thanks, incredible pictures.
Annette, LOL on the horses going to Florida! A few of our "serious horsey" friends do send them down there but we are very small scale:) They are staying at home all winter, for the first time, hence to need for me to be a bit better prepared to move the snow around the place. As Alison isn't riding over the winter, there is no need to move to a place with an indoor riding arena. Hope the weather is Ok there today.
Linda, wow , that is VERY late for the stove. Hope it's in and working Ok today. Had a chuckle at the "oven ready" comment!
Hi Osprey, hope you get the gas bottles sorted out.
Brenda, that sounds so sad, about that case you mentioned.
Margobird, you are so organised and such a good shopper! I may send you my list.... lol
Wendy, I'm not laughing at you gardening in the snow. I'm marveling at it! That weather sounds bad where you are. Take it easy. What an interesting career you've had:)
Thanks Alan/Margobird about the Tv programme. Hope they let me use iPlayer by then!
Auntie, that sounds cold and very tricky. Sorry i couldn't help out. Next week hopefully, give me a call! lol. So sorry about someone backing into you. What a pain. At least it sounds like no harm done. Stay safe. Our winter hasn't really started yet..
GARY: Yes very interesting career!!! It is still snowing and the pheasants have stopped looking at me pleadingly and gone home to roost somewhere. Being vegetarian they know I am their friend.
ALAN: and all tennis lovers out there...is it me or is monied tennis becoming very boring? Where are the characters in the game nowadays?
Hello again - nice to hear from auntie - with a scary tale about driving in the snow! You all seem to take it more as an everyday occurrence there, where we all fall to pieces and close the roads, here. Glad to hear no harm done in the car backing up episode.
Cold weather and sounding cut off from civilisation from Wendy, too. Keep safe, all of you living out in the wilds!! Interesting about the jobs in the whisky industry, Wendy.
I think perhaps tennis is going down the route of many other sports out there, where the money involved has taken over from the game.
You may gather no baby news, yet - perhaps I dreamt it all and there isn't going to be one! Poor Son had a horrible journey to work, as I feared - 2 hours in the car this morning, due to hold ups on the roads.
The oven is now installed and we have admired it, and poked around in it, and wiped it down with a damp cloth. It took me about 30 seconds to work out which knob was which for the use of the hot plates and ovens, but as usual with these things, it then took over half an hour to work out how to set the time of day on the display..... also, there is an oven timer incorporated which I doubt I will ever use as the instructions appear to be in Mandarin or some other obscure language. ho hum. Have decided to try & put the top oven on tonight & cook a piece of fish, so will report tomorrow on whether we had to have sandwiches!
WENDY OH is from Berkshire and remember him being invited to a picnic lunch and him nodding very knowledgably when told to bring along his "piece". I was not surprised when immediately out of earshot he asked "What on earth did they mean by piece? for those not in the know it means a sandwich. strange but true!!!
Lindybird: Babies love to make their entrances at night...well my 2 did..usually when the hospital is on half staff.
Wooburner on curtains closed and won't look out again until the morning..well I might as there is a nice moon floating about at the moment.
OH reads instructions on the other hand I like the try and fail method...I was taught that you learn by your mistakes.
dibnlib: this could go on forever as our introduction to a piece was to have a fly cup with it. That came from the days the workers were in the fields and hid to have a cuppa when they weren't allowed to.
Another was Willie my now 90 year old farmer next door neighbour knocked at the door looking smarter than I had ever seen him and he asked me ...Did I have any messages...this went back and forth for a while. The answer was no Willie I didn't need any shopping from Elgin.
Evening all - the curtains have been closed for a couple of hours ... and I just looked out to a white world. It has been sleeting off and on all day, but seems to be snowing heavily at the moment :-(( I just looked at the Met Office severe weather warning for here ... says "snow will fall at all levels away from the coast" ... HUH ... we could hardly be nearer the coast!!
I hope all of you who have snow and ice are safe and warm.
Glad you have your new stove working Linda - I look forward to the report on the fish dish! I have had my new oven and hob since July ... and am still learning.
Haven't seen many birds on the feeders today ... poor things must have been huddled up trying to keep warm and dry somewhere.
Joan - avid bird and nature watcher in Northumberland!
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