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?
Have fun tonight Annette.
Funny about you calling those people. As long as you are "famous" at home that is all that matters:)
That's funny Annette because as a telemarketer in my late teens, I would lie to people about my name. I was selling newspaper subscriptions and if I had an elderyly person on the line I would say "this is Jeanette McDonald (or Dorothy Lamour) (or Lana Turner) from the Herald calling." I still never sold any newspapers though.......sigh!
Gary: Most folks say my name as Karen or Kieran and that's fine as long as they don't call me anything bad. lol!
Morning all. It is just 7.15 am here. I should be at work today but have a slight fever (due the piggy flu shot I got on Monday I suppose) so called in sick.
Liz from RSPB Headquarters: thank You ever so much about the Bird Identifier tip! I have had so much fun with it. I know very little about birds (learning all the time) and the birds that I know have Finnish names "in my head", so I`m learning English the same time!
my photos in flickr
Evening all - and a very good morning to you Auntie! Take care of yourself.
Gary: Don't know about being "famous" at home - you know what they say about no man is a prophet in his own country.
Caerann: Hee hee. Lana Turner indeed. On more than one occasion I called an older person for an interview or to respond to a letter they'd written, I'd identify myself and the magazine only to have them tell me they didn't want a subscription and then hang up on me. One time I had to call someone three times before I convinced him I wasn't selling anything. (Bet that never happened to Anna Wintour!)
Auntie: hope you will soon feel better - it's not nice when something intended to protect you - and others - makes you feel poorly. We still have piggy flu shots to come - me as "at risk" due to medication, my husband qualifies to have it too, being my carer.
Annette: love Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon stories - haven't heard them on the radio so much recently. Hope you enjoyed your evening.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Morning all,
Its a cracking day here on TI. Even the palm trees are loving it. Warm and sunny.
Temp 13.9 at 09:30. Expected high of 16 or 17c and becoming increasingly humid.
I am off to the woods to see what I can see.
Catch up later.
FAB
hi all
i am sure that our toast tasted better when done over an open fire
my solution to new appliances. i don't read instructions, i get my husband to read them and tell me all i need to know
the discussion at eden court was good. roy dennis had to pull out last minuit but the person who took his place gave a very good talk on the re-introduction of sea eagles
haven't the osps done well
Auntie, so sorry to hear you're not well,
Weather here is cloudy with some brightness but mild. I feel a fraud at having put my central heating on and chide myself that I could have left it till November, but warmth IS such a comfort isn't it?
Having spotted a great offer at Aldi's I've finally left the stoneage and with my sister's help now have a 26inch LCD digital TV. Bristol gets the analogue turned off next March and as my TV was on the blink anyway I decided that there was no point in getting the box thing one puts on top of the TV to make it digital. My new one has Freeview built in and is HD ready (not that I'll be using that) with 3 years guarantee. All for £249.99. Having researched up online this is a very good price indeed. Now I just need to tune in the 100,325,800 (just on a quick count :) 'extra' channels just in case I want to record a programme. My hiking friend set it up for me whilst I was cooking us dinner and mercifully, she created a short favourites list for me. Even I can watch CNN now !! (But I think not).
Caerann tells me the Cranes are finally migrating so I'm all eyes now to the cam when it gets lighter over there.
It's a working evening for me but I look forward to one of the last daily updates left when I get home from work. I'm convinced that Garten is also loafing about near The Gambia/Senegal area and LONG for next year to see EJ and Odin again.
Have a super day everyone if I don't get to post again.
OG - is your en-suite nearly finished?
Annette, I so hope you are actually using your great new kitchen.
gary a said: LOLOL Caerann. Do you get that a lot, people (like me!!) getting your name wrong? My surname is Silvester and everyone seems to spell it differently, even "Slyvester" I've given up correcting now unless it's on official stuff
LOLOL Caerann.
Do you get that a lot, people (like me!!) getting your name wrong?
My surname is Silvester and everyone seems to spell it differently, even "Slyvester" I've given up correcting now unless it's on official stuff
hi gary our surname is lewington, and we havn't come across another one in the area. when we got married telegrams were still around and we didn't have a single one spelled correctly. more recently a friend came to the door saying she had tried to phone but we were not in the book. she had only been looking it up as looington!!!!
forgot to say that the discussion at eden court the other day finished with about 1/2 hour of gaelic singing. it was wonderful and wouldn't have worked in english. we neither of us speak gaelic but decided it should never be allowed to die out. there aren't many gaelic speakers left and they are mainly in the western isles
Morning Alan sounds good there. It started off very dull and drizzly first thing but the sun is trying to come out. It is very warm and humid. What on earth is happening to our weather. Have a good walk in the woods. Is Hamish going with you?
Margobird