Weekly Chat, Sunday, June 19, 2011

Hi to all - I will contact Margo and pass on all your good wishes. As I said to her, all of us were rooting for her as she set off for her big adventure, but I am sure that we all worried about her, feeling the cold and maybe catching one also. Thank goodness that she managed to get home before feeling really unwell. If not, one of us up here would have scooped her up from LG and taken her home with us, as I am sure you know.

Another pic of the young wagtail:

Cracking pics of the Wagtails, Alan.   Sorry you keep missing the butterflies - its not for want of trying, is it.

Heather, thanks for the news of margo - do hope she feels better soon, and also that she can get some help for the computer and join us all again.

We enjoyed our trip to Astbury Country Park yesterday, and when we arrived we were confronted at first, by a bear!    -  Here she is - up a pole.....

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--in the Visitors Centre, there was a List on the wall where you could put your guess as to why she was there! - it was of course to get the children involved.  I joined in, and put "she likes to watch the ducks fly past".

Buzz enjoyed himself at the lake, and plunged straight in:

I have updated the Pale Male thread.

Lindy: That bear is spectacular. Wish I had one like it for my garden! Looks like a beautiful park. Also looks like Buzz was thoroughly enjoying himself. :-)

Alan: Lovely wagtails. Tiger: Thanks for the Pale Male update!

Annette: I would've had some of those strawberries! Yum! Hope your fountain installation is going well.

OG: Glad your doctor was sympathetic, and I hope you will feel better now that you've had your jab.

All: A dozen more wasps hatched from my window wasps' nest today! And the nest is growing! It's now the size of a tennis ball. ;-O

Evening all. Have been absent for a while, being busy with choir concert a week last Saturday (Stanford and Bruckner motets, Schubert Mass and Dvorak Te Deum, or was it the other way around?) and then orchestra concert last Sat (British Light Music) and still catching up at work after hols.  Went to Prudhoe on Sunday for a study day on Rachmaninov's 2nd symphony, Joan, and saw several fields of poppies, but none over here that I've seen. Today I had a day off work as the orchestra was playing a short version of the concert at Carlisle Cathedral, part of their Lunchtime Live series.

OG, hope you are full of bounce again.

Margo, I look forward to your holiday thread, when you have recovered.

Who said they don't mention HW as much as some of you? Sheila? I only do it when someone comes to visit.  Looking at the way the pension age is disappearing away from me just when I thought I knew when it would be, I'll be too old to take advantage of the extra time when I eventually can retire - perhaps then I'll do HW!  (Must try harder...)

I will be on osprey duty at Bassenthwaite Friday and Saturday as OH is away.  His plan was to visit his mum and try to take her out of the house, but sadly he's just too late, she died Sunday having been taken in to hospital the evening before with stomach pains. His brother and sister were with her but we are 300 miles away.  We don't know when the funeral will be as the doctor wants an investigation, so OH will probably come back Monday and then we'll go down again. She was 92.

Just caught up again. Thanks for all the news.

Alan - the baby wagtail is adorable and you've captured it brilliantly.

Lindybird - just love the bear. Eyecatcher, as you say, for the kids.   Like your caption for it.

Oh TerryM I can empathise with you. My dau and I had just come back from a holiday abroad in 1997 when on the Saturday I received the news my dad had died. We are about 150/200 miles away so it was difficult to go up until the Sunday. Do hope he gets a chance to say goodbye.  92 is a grand old age as my mum, who died in October last year was 91. Take care and God Bless.

Had a fairly easy afternoon although managed to finish off the ironing, now all I need to do is put it away!!

Take care all.

Hey all!! I do keep an eye on what you are all up too, but this thread goes faster than my brain - no hope for the daily reports!!

Thought that you might like to see the thread that I've just posted to do with osprey!! www.rspb.org.uk/.../48534.aspx I'm just so delighted to have seen one so close to my home!! Yes fishing on the local river, spotted on the 'Beaver Scout' run!!

I know you all think they are wonderful, but this just is so brilliant, can't express my excitement properly!!

Hazel b said:

Tiger - I would want the one second from left, with the little spotty nose!