HAPPY NEW WEEK!
I hope everyone has a wonderful week. Roll on spring!
Jacob's Ladder WildflowersGlacier National ParkU.S. National Park Service, NPS/Jacob W. FrankPhoto labeled Public Domain (Copyright Free)
Our herring gulls are red listed birds. Think about that the next time you hear some flaming idiot calling for a cull of them.
Morning all: Just went for first walk in a few days; always a positive way to start the day. Sounds like folks on both sides of the equator are having nice weather, except maybe for Diane and bjane.
I agree that the British gutter press is uniquely venomous; here we seem to specialize in political poison (thinking of Fox news, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch who brought the UK the huge phone hacking scandal of a few years ago). Time will tell how Harry and Meghan sort things out; meanwhile, I have enough family considerations of my own. :-)) But on the same sort of topic, OH and I watch the BBC news for the US each night and over the last week or so they've been including segments on such self-promoting celebrities as Kanye West and Kim Kardashian (good Lord, her name is even in spellcheck!). Apparently, the BBC in a misguided effort to provide what they consider relevant local coverage has contracted with a Hollywood reporter called Perris Hilton to explain what's going with these and similar Tinsel Town Twits. I mean really: Who gives a flying you-know-what!! I'm going to send them (the BBC) an e-mail and tell them to sort themselves out. Having got that out of my system, I'm now going in search of breakfast. :-))
Take care all.
It's been a mixed day, here - a little sunshine this morning but its also tried to rain a couple of times. I've been reading and also watching some stuff from tv which my OH does not enjoy, whilst he has been doing crosswords & dozing in the conservatory -- a really lazy Sunday! Much discussion with family & friends over the unfortunate drama of Harry & Meghan. Younger members of our family don't actually care much, they probably think the Royal Family are dinosaurs. But like a lot of anti royalists, they don't have any idea of how to replace the system (President Piers Morgan, anyone?!) All of our contemporaries think that it's a crying shame that all this has happened to Diana's much loved son, & that Meghan has a lot of explaining to do. The newspapers are a lot of blood sucking hacks, making guesses about what's really been said on both sides. But they do have a point that HM Queen has been really upset over this, at her age, and with enough problems on her plate at the moment.
Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. I blinked. Monday.
Who needs another day added to the weekend?
First five days after the weekend are the hardest.
Enjoying our snowdrops in the garden.
I tried a new recipe yesterday- Pear Almondine Tart. Ground almonds, butter, sugar & egg with pears set in it. It was tasty but I need to tweak the recipe as it wouldn't come out of the tin in a neat slice. Should have used a loose bottomed tin, which might have helped.