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?
being from culloden it is scots gaelic spoken here, can't speak for the irish.
think you may know i have extreme wasp phobia so my muddle i a panic was to try to kill one with furniture polish. i kept wondering why it wouldn't die and it was only when dave came in for lunch and pointed out it was a very shiny wasp that i realized my mistake
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Whoops! Done it again, Alan. Liked your picture of what I would call a 'Real' wood, its nice to know that in some places Man is not allowed much so that nature can flourish in the wonderful way that she does.
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oh my goodness, what a mess it is obvious i didn't check it!!!!
It's been a summers day here, no need for a coat when out, and all the laundry dried on the line in the gentle breeze. We really are having very strange weather: I'm not complaining, mind, the longer that Winter stays away, the better.
Caerann: Thanks for the lovely explanation of your Gaelic name- its so unusual (and so feminine, somehow!)
auntie: also Margobird: sorry to hear that you're both ' under the weather' and hope it soon passes. At least its not real swine flu, someone I know has had that & its not very nice at all.
OG: So pleased to hear that you've had great progress with the plumbing! - these things can be so stressful, a houseful of workmen, and the mess etc., but yours sound as if they're doing a good job.
Thanks to those who kindly gave me some links to Trees sites- my list of Favourites is so long now that Husband will be saying ' are you on that computer thing again??! Have enjoyed exploring, what a just amazing thing Nature is when she does what she does, if you know what I mean? Rambling again, just going to add that in our house, its the opposite with instruction books - I read them from cover to cover, & Husband simply switches the thing on and starts pressing buttons right away without reference to anything- probably the best plan would be somewhere between the two, I expect.
Loved the shiny wasps story! Was harassed this morning, trying to get out of the house quickly, & spent 5 minutes looking for the right pair of earrings for the outfit, then realised I was wearing them already with no recollection of putting them on....senior moment had set in...oh well.
Thanks for all the blog notices! LOL
enjoyed the wasp storey as well Dibnlib:) Thought that may have killed it eventually
dibnlib: Hysterically funny bit about polishing the wasp! Eons ago I sprayed a cockroach with starch; that didn't work either.
Thanks for all the New Blog alerts! And thanks Alan for explaining SSSI.