Evening/Morning all: This week should bring more interesting news about Mallachie. Check the last few entries of the previous Weekly Chat for another photo of Queenie and other input from bloggers!
Hope you all got your clocks, microwaves, coffee pots, TVs, etc., organized for the next six months. And when did BST replace GMT, at least in the summer. In the US, standard and daylight savings time have had a long and fascinating (and apparently often confusing) history, given that we have three times zones for the contiguous states. DST is another matter, with most states changing but some not, but at least we don't have 30 minute increments like they do in Australia!
TerryM: The GE Help window is pretty clear re tours. I do recall that it took several "clicks" to get the thing started. Other folks commented on that and I had the same experience in the beginning but then it was okay. I tried to copy and paste some of the info onto your page, but it included boxes with images and they didn't copy. I'm sure other folks will have more helpful info. Good luck. Too bad lovely Queenie isn't around any more. When my daughter and I were away the other week, we stayed at a place which is a favorite "drop off" spot for folks wanting to "lose" cats. They had three cats when we were there, which hung around the garden entrance to the dining room waiting to be fed (by the staff). One night, the cats were served prime rib, all nicely chopped up for easy digestion!!!!
Alan: So. Are you treating us all to a trip to Loch Garten next year with your lottery winnings or will we be depending on the webcam again? :-)
Gary: Dying to hear about your English food outing (what was it really like?)
OG: We grow tomatoes outside here but my friends who do often fence them and other veggies in to keep various critters, including deer, from snacking on them; not to mention snails. My sister has expressed some frustration with EU rules - specifically not being able to buy French cheese off a market stall (I think that was it). Is following EU rules a bore or do you think it's generally for the good?
Afternoon folks! Been napping all day and feeling a bit better. Thanks to everyone for your kind words. I`m not sure if I would have got the piggy flu shot (H1N1=swine flu) if I didn`t work in the trenches. It is voluntary but recommended to the personnel in my workplace. But after all slight fever and sore muscles aren`t that bad considering that me getting the real thing and passing it over to some patient who might have serious and life threatening consequences...
Margobird, fortunately your bug didn`t find you before you got home :)
Alan, what a day you have had, lucky you!
my photos in flickr
sounds a lovely trip Margobird, and if my two are anything to go by, not being ridden and fed lots is what horses prefer!! LOL Sounds a magical place with all the animals roaming around. Yes, we need to be careful not to wish our life away wanting the family to get back together. I worry slightly that it will be difficult to beat this year for food supply/all chicks being healthy. Still, time will tell.
Alan, what a lovely picture and a great place to have a walk. Seeing all the birds.wildlife, super stuff.
Cirrus, sorry , I did mean the swine fly but got my letter and numbers mixed up!! Thanks Auntie for getting them the right way round. Hope you are feeling slightly better and as you say, best not to spread anything around to those who are poorly with other things.
Anyway, finished the horses, picked neighbour up from the local garage and about to start my day. Catch up later everyone.
<<OG - is your en-suite nearly finished?>>
Cirrus - no way! Floor man is also "tanking" man - making it all waterproof ready for the tiler - then will come back the joiner and the plumber and the electrician - and possible the joiner again - and then the project manager to inspect ... They estimated up to four weeks. This is all partly because we are taking three days out for other stuff (life goes on!), also because it is a liitle room, so not a lot of working space - basically one at a time or get in each other's way - and this guy today has to gradually gunge his way out through the door anyway!!!
OH has just gone to fetch daughter number 2 (in age, not importance!) from Dumfries where she has been at a meeting. She lives near Inverness and works for SNH, but doesn't get down here often, so she is taking tomorrow off to get two nights here with us before her Friday meeting in Edinburgh, where her boys are at uni. She has been warned about the plumbing arrangements, but still decided to come!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Unknown said: Gary, what on earth is N1H1? Thank you both for the encouragement about my new TV. I shall look forward to Autumn Watch this Friday then.
Gary, what on earth is N1H1? Thank you both for the encouragement about my new TV. I shall look forward to Autumn Watch this Friday then.
Hope Gary won't mind if I reply - H1N1 is the grown up name for what we have all been calling Piggy Flu!
Alan: really like the woodland picture - miss walking in the woods, but weather has to be very specific and midge-less for me these days. Today started bright with clear blue sky, then some light rain, and now sunny again - and, as everyone seems to be reporting today, very mild.
Margobird - pleased about the holiday - you'll need another one when you feel better!!!! Hope the bad throat doesn't stay too long - at least you don't need to try to talk when you are conversing on here!
Three messages in a row, so I'll shut up now, and be useful for a while!!
Thanks original goldfinch. Yes I am very silent at the moment but I am sure it will soon go. As it happens I am going away for 3 days at the end of November. My husband is 50 this year so we are going to North Cornwall for 3 nights to celebrate. Hoping to see a lot of rough seas on our walks along the coast path.
Margobird
Thanks OG!!!!! We have been told to try and call it by it's official name so we aren't put off eating pork. Take more than that for me........
Have a nice time with your daughter. Great description. I am going to ask my mum if I am "son number 2" , both in age AND importance!! LOL
hi margobird
hope you are feling better. we are lucky here and often see red kites
see you are from poole. don't know the area well but we have friends in wimborne and we have visited them. also daves has an aunt directly opposite the minster. add to that i did a course at hurn about 20 years ago so it is not entirely unknown
Good Morning/Day All!
We were talking about Redwood Trees yesterday and I found 2 videos of about 8-9 minutes together on the National Geo website as a behind the scenes look at their October featured article on the trees. The magazine included a 5 page gatefold of a 1,500 year old redwood that took some 80 or so photos to comprise, so great is the height of it. The first vid shows how they set up the shots and camera rig for the magazine and the second vid includes footage of how they captured a Barred Owl on film. It's amazing stuff, I'm sure you'll all like it. =O)
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/video/player#/?titleID=nichols-redwoods-gatefold&catID=1
We're off to the Peggy Notebart Nature Museum here in Chicago today. Never been there and I can't wait to see the Butterfly Haven!
Toodle-oo for now.
Thanks dibnlib I am sure it will go soon. Wimborne is a very nice place to visit and I love the Minster especially the clock. There is a good little theatre there as well which we go to often. My Dad lived at Hurn and loved it as it was very close to the airport. Aircraft noise did not bother him at all and he had a radio that could pick up the aircraft as they came in. The Red Arrows ofter stay overnight when they are giving displays through the summer as well.