Morning; late nigiht here, just about to crash.
AQ/Teresa: See response to yours on the previous Weekly Chat. Thanks!
Hope you're all staying dry.
Thanks Djoans final score 2 - 0 to Scotland and I am off to celebrate in the garden with Hamish who is also english by the way.
Well done Scotland.
Congrats to Alan, the Scots have done better than the English it seems. Enjoy your celebrations,have just come back from a walk with my very wet tired 4footed friend. Kettle on already, saving hte strong stuff for later.
England won 2 - 1 tonight in a friendly. Their World Cup qualifier is on Wednesday at 7:30pm and I am not very popular lol. Do I care? Not at all. We are going to Skipton to see Roy Dennis and that is of more interest to me than football although I will be wanting England to win.
Use whatever talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sing the best.- Henry Van ***
Hi Alan, Did you watch the game. Gosh I was cringing AGAIN, but a better second half phew.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Spike Milligan
Annette; If you were wondering if we were all going to need to build an ark, well it has finally stopped raining here (at least, in the North West of England) and been an almost dry day for a change. Better weather is also forecast for the next few days, too, so hope everyone who was flooded out now gets chance to clear up. As my Grandma used to say "where does it all come from?"
Do miss it when there is no report from Richard, you get to imagining perhaps where the birds have got to, & hoping as Wattle says that perhaps it would be no bad thing if, like some of the other tracked ospreys, they stayed in France or Spain for the winter, without the need to go further south.
Hi folks. I just logged on about 90 minutes ago to see that Google Earth had updated - something you all knew hours ago. Wonder where our girl is now.
Lindybird: Glad ark construction has been put on hold! Would keep wellies handy though.
Alan: Congrats on Scotland's win over Macedonia. Thing is, I had no idea what they were playing, so Googled "Scotland vs Macedonia" and found out it was a World Cup qualifying match, but it never identified the actual sport! So, Soccer? Football? Conkers? If we watch only the U.S. network media, we miss a lot of what goes on in the world (if it didn't happen in the U.S., it didn't happen, right? Wrong. Thank goodness for NPR and BBC World News.) Anyway, the last I heard about Macedonia was back in school in the 1950s and Alexander the Great was involved....
Cooler temps here in SoCal, ocean influence back in control. Off to watch rubbish on telly.
Adelaide 4.30 pm. Fathers Day here and our chicks have just left after a short visit. So now I can check up on my birdie chicks and blog news. Great that Mallachie has successfully crossed her first "big water".
Delighted to see that Malachie has safely hit France.I am still sad that because of my leg injury I missed my last trip to LG to see her before she left. Still, down to one crutch now so a lot more mobile ;-)
I have not been around the site for while so glad to have the blogs to catch up with, and GE to follow the tracking. Isn't technology great (sometimes)?
We call Scoccer Football Annette. If Football to you is wearing all the padded armour ready for mayhem then the sport you need identified is Soccer.Sorry Alan and the male population is general but it's a sport I loathe. I've seen marriages almost come apart because of it. And I'm hassled most weekends with being under house arrest on Saturdays because it's impossible to park (especially in one's one street). Fortunately for me my hiking friend effects a marvellous IR type rescue and we get the hell out of Dodge to the fair green hills to hike all day and come back when it's all over.
Unlike some I support all the home nations in the World cup and other such events - England first of course. Even if an English team I don't particularly like is playing in European competitions I support them. I don't watch it very often these days though as I think it is more about money and too many foreign players in our teams now. I've said for years that our National teams don't do well because the local players don't get the chance to come through like they used to. I support Newcastle so we are never in Europe these days. Not likely to be either for some time to come.
Scotland, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland do still stand a chance of qualifying as do England who should qualify without needing to go into the play offs having won all their games so far. Unfortunately it looks like Wales are out.
Sorry to have rambled on a bit about football on here