Hi all:
Lindybird: I responded to your post at the end of the last Weekly Chat.
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Being a member of WWT Slimbridge I get a quarterly booklet entitled ‘Waterlife’; I just got my October/December copy, and guess what? Well, you won’t of course so I’ll tell you.
Just inside the cover on page three is a gorgeous photo of Dumfriesshire’s first Osprey chick for 150 years ! :) And dad was actually teaching his youngster to fish in the merse (what does that mean?) Dad brought his fish in from the Solway so I don’t understand that sentence. I’ve tried so hard to scan an image from the book to put online for you but my dratted scanner does not have the ‘scan’ command under the menu for some reason that I can’t work out. Very fed up about it.
Ok, going to read the new blog now. Like Lindybird I am so cheered by the girls doing so well.
Yes, Diane, that’s exactly the programme I mean. It’s on our Channel Five and I am so enjoying it. Just hope they do a good finish and not ruin it like they ruined ‘Lost’ (which I never got ‘in’ to anyway) and have it go boringly on until we all forget why we began watching it in the first place.
Off out later so I’ll wish you all a good evening now, or a good morning(:) ) Annette Diane and AQ. Hello Wattle. Hi Tish if you are around and Maureen. ‘Lo there Alan and Gary.Hope I have not left anyone out - yes, Caeann - hope your day is going well. Please. anyone else consider yourelf given a hug.
Thanks, Cirrus.
Watched the 'Life' series last night & hope everyone is not put off by some of the violence which is a necessary part of survival, for animals at least. Some of it was really beautifully photographed and it covered a lot of different areas of the world & very different creatures. Don't miss the dear little red frog and her offspring, and near the ending of the prog., of a gorgeous orang-outan baby!
Had a drama ourselves in the last few days as Husband was stung on the head by a wasp: it seemed OK, then by next day his face began to puff up, so gave him some pills I used once when stung on my hand: they were anti-histamine, and we fell about laughing when we read the small print on the instruction sheet as it said "may cause drowsiness, or facial swelling!!" For 2 days his eye nearly closed & he looked as if I had knocked him about a bit, but now its going down thank goodness. (Won't go to a doctor unless its life & death, so no good suggesting it).
Ouch, Lindybird. Ouch ouch ouch.
We've had a lot of pink sky tonight but now that the sun has gone it getting VERY cold. I've put bubble wrap around my huge geranium and datura in case of a frost in the earlly hours.
A very good evening to you all. Gotta get ready now or I'll be late for where I am going.
Just thrilled about the girls.
"Just inside the cover on page three is a gorgeous photo of Dumfriesshire’s first Osprey chick for 150 years ! :) And dad was actually teaching his youngster to fish in the merse (what does that mean?) Dad brought his fish in from the Solway so I don’t understand that sentence. "
As a Sasunnach living on the Solway coast myself, my understanding of the Merse (or Meuse here in Annan) is the saltmarsh area which lies above normal high tides, but is flooded by the springtides (usually in November and February). It is very fertile land but too wet for arable use and is used seasonally to graze cattle. It is also ideal grazing for geese, hence the annual migration from Svalbard to the Solway Coast, among other winter visitors. It has special ecological importance for such species as Natterjack Toads and Tadpole Shrimps.
OH has just told me there is an official definition in the Local BioDiversity Plan, so here goes: ... well, it was the same as I said!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Evening all; well afternoon if you're in the States... Just back from errands with daughter and pleased to see Mallachie is still on the move - let's hope she catches up with Rothes pretty quick. I wonder if they'd recognize each other?
Lovely and wet and blowy here. Got soaked running to car; mostly because I was wearing summer cotton pants and allegedly waterproof jacket. Too wet for leafblowers. :-) Didn't fire up the computer at all this morning so missed the stags again.
OG: That is interesting about the jute trade. I wonder if the Calcutta trade is new and a threat to the Scottish trade?
Lindybird: Sorry your day was frustrating; maybe things will get resolved tomorrow? I hate that when you rush out with things to accomplish and end up accomplishing not much of anything. I find a nice glass of red wine helps with that.
Hallo everyone else - feel bad when I don't acknowledge everyone, but do read all the comments and enjoy them all. Back this evening to check on GE, Diane/AQ, Gary etc.
Hi Annette
Just watched a brilliant prog on channel 5 'Nature Shock' . tonights was about the Orka and the White Shark.. the first kill of White shark by Orka witnessed off Farallon islands in 1997 Brilliant stuff. Think the orka may have been CA2. Then the research that was instigated into the reasons for the Whites leaving almost immediately after the kill.
Susan
Susan: Where are you? In the US or UK? Orcas are real hunters - and killers; didn't know they'd go after Great White sharks though. (Two Great Whites were reported off the coast about 3 hours north of here the other week; not that common a sighting.) A couple of years ago - don't know if I mentioned this before - folks on a whale-watching cruise out of Santa Barbara were unwilling witnesses to an attack by a pod of Orcas on a migrating Gray whale and her calf. The cow positioned the calf between the boat and herself and tried to fend off the Orcas, which will separate a cow from her calf then drown the calf by blocking its attempts to surface. Never did find out what the outcome was.... :-(
Annette
Dundonians took Jute spinning and weaving to Calcutta, many going there to work, then left from Independence onwards until 1960s. The industry there is run by local people now. Old jute mills and factories in Dundee are either demolished or derelict.
Related fact: did you know that Dundee is famous for the three Js - Jute, Jam and Journalism?
I'll now stop talking like an encyclopaedia!
OG. Interesting about jute. I know Dundee marmalade. Yum!
I didn't know any of those things OG, thanks. What about Dundee cake?