Hallo all. It's a brand new week!
Well, I've so enjoyed reading everyone's comments and following links, thanks everyone. I'd love a whale encounter myself.
It's grey and miserable here, warmer out than it but it's autumn enough for a light sweater and spitting with rain.
So hoping Mallachie is still staying put and feeding up. Anyone know what the temperatures are likely to be in Portugal currently. Oh, lazy me - standby - I'll just pay a visit online to the BBC forecast page.
This is what it says for Porto
Oh, posted then caught your poem, Lindybird so I did an 'edit'
Great poem on the theme ! well done.
Mallchie is flying on the group under this one. Purely beautiful. Ahh!!!!!
Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.
Hi Auntie.....in UK we say....."He only has to open his mouth and he puts his foot in it."
Hi Annette, Diane and Gary plus others.....I have put an image of BBC iPlayer, on my page/my photos to give you and idea of what it looks like on the BBC. The YouTube version will be a bit different I suspect, but our version consists of a download of the software and the programmes are either streamed or downloaded (better quality) and the technicalities are no problem, as they mainly consist of clicking on the programme that you want, then it gives a progress percentage done, then tells you when it is finished. I mentioned before I think that the programmes auto-delete and cannot be copied onto DVD. In the UK it is included in our licence fee, so on YouTube they will have to decide who will pay for it, maybe advertising? Also worth mentioning, one has to be a little careful as video files use up a lot of space on the hard disk.
RSPB members are mostly great fans of Springwatch and Autumnwatch, together with David Attenbourgh's series that are numerous and are similar in content to Discovery Channel. The BBC's drama series are well received and 'Little Dorrit' won a clutch of awards this week.
English students note: Plural of series is series! (Although it may look odd.)
ChloeB & Tiger's Osprey Data Site
Sat track schedule Spring 2014
LG 7 days; RW & SWT nil; LDOP varies
Morning all. Good grief; We're at page 7 already and it's only Tuesday, with nary an osprey in sight but lots of dogs, squirrels, whales, cats, and conspiracy theorists.
AQ: Hope you reset your coffee pot after the power outages; we always forget. Is HWKE related to SWMBO (She Who Must be Obeyed)? What's in an Anzac bikkie? Genuiine WWII army rations?
Alan: Have you tried using drinking straws to blow the leaves with? I find they give a much more targeted burst of air. Is it true that wind travels at mph in Scotland or was that a thoughtful translation for clueless colonials? Thanks for the link to the peanut-loving cat, but thought the apple-tossing squirrel had the right idea.
OG. To warn or not to warn - that is the question. I'm prepared to warn, but then the bird usually takes off in the nick of time.
Gary/Margobird: One nice whale story and one sad one. We have surfers present under the bluffs during our Gray Whale Count - sometimes they see the whale coming and hang back; other times they get a huge surprise.
Diane: Suspected you were joking re OS, but we are close-ish to Hollywood, so you never know. Years ago, one of my group of LA friends was an art graduate who, over a period of months at various get-togethers, talked more and more about this job he had building little models. A group of us were driving home from a dinner one night and I said, "Can't Lorne talk about anything else these days, for heaven's sake!" Turned out Lorne's "little models" were R2-D2 and 3-CPO from Star Wars, which was then in production!! Lorne went on to win two Oscars and moved to Industrial Light and Magic, George Lucas's production place near San Francisco, while the rest of us settled into mediocre jobs at places no-one had ever heard of! Did visit him though and it was on one of those visits that we went to a BBQ at Lucas's house, where the then-Mrs. L told me - and you heard it here first! - that the Indiana Jones character was named after their German Shepherd (Alsatian) dog, Indiana.
So wonder where Area 51 stuff has been moved to (under Mrs. Obama's veggie patch?) Could be....
TISH! Great to see you. Where have you been (apart from posting nifty shots of Tesco at Aviemore)??
Lindybird: Now all we need is a tune to sing the leaf blower's song to. :-)
Lindybird, just lovelovelove that poem.
I assume there must be somebody with a composing talent, so that we can get our own anthem ;)
And Lindybird, thank`s for that phrase ( I actually have big feet as well...) So if the shoe fits...
Oh, sorry! Thank You jsb about bigfeet ;)
my photos in flickr
Auntie: Glad you enjoyed the poetry. It was jsb who told you about "putting your foot in it", which I have always thought is a great description, but now I'll have to imagine frogs as well! (we also have a saying, something about verbal diahorrea, for people who talk a lot...) May have to go get the dictionary now to check on that spelling...
p.s. May have a go a our own 'anthem' sometime, although its a bit daunting to find something which rhymes with 'osprey' . Any suggestions, everyone?
jsb: Thanks for all that techy info re iPlayer. Little Dorritt was on over here earlier this year. I tend to tune in to all the UK produced programs.
Morning Auntie/Cirrus and everyone else I didn't greet in earlier posts. Off to work on Mastercard bill.