HAPPY NEW WEEK!
The Great Lakes has experienced glorious Auroras (Northern Lights) this past week. The photos have been breathtaking. Nothing to report from my patch, though, except dense fog in the mornings, icy rain during the days, and snow showers at night. I have no wildlife stories to report this week, because I haven't been outdoors at all.
I have some critically important paperwork to complete by Thursday. After that, I've solemnly vowed to resume being a regular poster on this site for the winter. Sorry I've neglected everyone. This year has been rough. I'll be glad to see 2023 in the rear view mirror. :-)
Hugs to everyone! Strength to Heather and AQ.
Thank you, bjane and everyone who enjoyed it. We are indeed very lucky to have such friends on here, as Pat says - you're a great crowd. My health is a mystery to even the medics. I strongly suspect now that I had some sort of virus (not covid) which affected my immune system. I was very weak for months two years ago and then made a long slow recovery. But its left me tired - just going out shopping means I have to sit down for an hour or two to recover. My children don't know and think I'm just slightly incapacitated by the arthritis I have. I don't want to worry then, & don't think anything can be done.
The highlight after that was to be taken to tour The Titanic Experience. This is a modern museum facility explaining the building and maiden voyage of the fateful ship. This is the 1st thing you see. The guide explained that it took about 3,000 men to build and fit out the ship, and they are remembered by all of the tiles fixed to the outside - there are no two the same.
It's a dramatic shape, too, from the outside. Once inside we were given earphones to listen to an explanation of what we were seeing. Plenty of rooms to wander through. My only bugbear was that eventually, I had to take the earphones off as there were speeches and sound effects in many of the exhibits, and I couldn't listen to both!!
At the top of the building there are some clear glass windows, looking down at what is adjacent to the building. It's where the Titanic was launched and is marked by several large poles which are the size of the original scaffolding. You may have seen concerts broadcast from this Titanic Slipway, such as The Last Night of the Proms. It looked very big and was sobering as we know now what a fateful life the ship would have