Morning all: Late checking tonight. Back later...
Ooo, Alan, - great news for Aberdeen.
Quick look in before start the day.
FLashSadie: Good to see you over here - welcome again.
OG: Had to laugh at "spate" of "spare" roundabout building - sounds like a contagious rash. Have a nice few days away.
Alan: Saw that drought announcement on the BBC website; my sister in Lincolnshire says their garden is suffering but that the farmers are really worried. I guess homeowners can use gray water for plants...
Roseimac: Thanks for the update on Margo - she must be beside herself!!
Lindybird: Love "Margo's Big Adventure"! :-)
Diane: That video brought tears to my eyes! How sweet! Love the way Mother Goose kept looking over her shoulder as if to make sure no chicks were straying into traffic. And three police cars keeping the cars away. Love it!
Busy day ahead; first the Farmer's Market for the year's first peaches from great local grower!! Yum!!
What super pics of the Spoonbills Joan- lucky ole you, I'm green. I've never seen one.Love the garden bird pics OG and yes, a serious point, what did hold Odin up this morning. After all, he fished superbly in all that atrocious weatherGolly, Sheila it 's nice to have you back safe ! A super narrative Shiela, most enjoyable to read. It doesn't matter how long a post is !! It was such an interesting read. But what stupid killjoys 'elf and safety people can be. How many years was the gas ring used ??? How old are the staff and volunteers - 7 years old. OK, off my soap box.(Me too OG - a ton of chish and fips!) for dibnlib, ha ha. I am sure your garden looks a treat now dibnlip . Hot baths do indeed work wonders with a hard worked back.Go on Heather - do tell folk like me that just couldn't guess where all those welly booted people were going. Unless it was to check up on Nessie !I think Annette it's actually a reference to Yeild not to temptation LoL thanks for correct info about the fires. (makes mental note. : I really must watch a news programme)
OG I too enjoy aircraft - it broke my heart when they dropped the TSR 2 project. Now, there was an aircraft.Great news about Bruce. Such a gentleman.
Yes, beautifully loveley indeed Tiger
And welcome once more FlashSadie ( I think she's been a ''lurker'' and has now sensible come out of hiding :) )
Has anyone heard from Rachel recently? She seems to have dropped into a black hole. Hope all is well with her.
Have a great holiday, OG! Dibnlib - I laughed about the 'Doors 'roundabout. As well as being a wildlife virgin I am also a pop concert virgin :-(( Only ever went to one, Billy Fury. And that wasn't yesterday. Having said that, when I was doing my mental health nurse training in the early Sixties and living in the Nurses Home - we used to all get together in the Hospital Social Club and sing Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie songs, well, all the songs of that genre and era. Nurses 'Home was mixed sex so lots of boys aroung to sing with and play with---------- Those were the days.
PS Also keen to hear about Margo, I was watching the airport website just to check that all went well in that direction.
PPS - Not very organised today, forgot to answer Annette's question - My Army SiL is based in Edinburgh at present, not expecting to go back to Afghanistan or anywhere else just now, but that could all change of course. My Air Force SiL is based at RAF Lossiemouth, Morayshire, not too far away from Inverness, maybe 50 miles.
Well guys and gals Margo is now with her favorite birds. Plane a little early and we went across Dava Moor. Dry but so much cloud not one of the best views in the world so pointed out where the Cairngorms were.
We first stopped at the A frame lodges to check out the site. Down to the VC to get lodge key. Walked to shop and she had her first view of Odin in all his feathered glory.... I had a chat with Julie who runs the shop and then a quick trip back to lodge to drop off luggage and food then back to VC for induction and that was that. Margo went one way and I went home. As I did the heavens opened and I mean opened. She is on 6 til 10 tonight and I am sure she will amazed at the length of daylighthours up here at the moment.
Dibnlib I think she is looking forward to a badger encounter on nightly trips to thye loo but I did point out that they were the loos that Richard digs out at the end of the season:-))))
TIGER Can't remember who but I am sure someone on this site was at school with Brian Hanrahan. Concorde - another sad loss as indeed is Brian
Dibnlib: Agree with Concorde being a sad loss as late OH went to many places recording its sonic booms for the CAA and had a brilliant time. She was just so elegant and I am sure the rest of the world was jealous.Not sure I could have gone in it for travel although did walk through one as I would have found it a tad clostraphobic as it seemed to be just a tube.
OG I have a relative in her early 50s who lives in the central belt and has holidayed in Greece, Italy, Kenya Dominican Republic and many other overseas destinations, but never been to our glorious Highlands. "Is it nice up there?" she asked when I was talking of home!!!!!