Hi all. Just got this started before zipping off to bluegrass concert. Check out the previous blog for nifty photos of alpacas from OG and more!
hello margobird
poor springer spaniel. Bang goes my theory and alans that gundog breeds even though not used as such are never afraid of fireworks or thunder.
george g
cannot understand why anyone would think to kill anything as glorious as a tiger to use for medicine, similarly there is an obscene photo of our royal family and others sitting beside a tiger they have obviously shot looking very pleased with themselves. should have been ashamed i would say. shouldn't think our queen would have been involved in the hunt as i know she doesn't actually shoot with princes philip, charles.william and harry although she will work the dogs. saw a programme once with a ghillie saying that even they couldn't work the gundogs as well as she does.
doom just broke a back tooth chewing on a chewy sweet,serves me right. thank goodness i have a dental appointment in a weeks time
thanks for the dog story gary. happy ending
George, good work on the fire work! Glad it is done now. Glad you, and Dibnlib, liked the storey. I only try and post "happy ending" stories I find:)
Dibnlib, sorry about the tooth. Often painful and nearly always expensive!
Annette, that is one of the best excuses for bad work I have heard!
Alan: Hope your wait for the central heating engineer was not in vain and that someone actually turned up. We were invited to book online a 2-hour slot for our annual central heating service. Four weeks ago it was booked for today … a week ago they phoned to check we were expecting them … … yesterday they phoned to say they are too busy for at least two weeks!!! I did negotiate a nominated 2-hour slot, not normally available by phone, because we had that arrangement for the online booking! Now expecting them in December.
Gary: Sorry about the man-cold beginning - hope it’s only that. Even if it is only a cold, you are allowed to be miserable – maybe you qualify for flowers to cheer you up!!! "Man flowers" rather than a bouquet!! (hadn't noticed light in the top before - sorry). An open garden near here.
George G: Pleased your fire removal job has been done. Will you be decorating the room yourself, or having someone in to do it?
Annette: I hope to choose the height of mirror cabinet to suit me – I’m not tall and I want to see in the mirror and be able to reach the top shelf! Bottles of stuff will have to sit on top of loo cistern cabinet, unless they all fit inside the mirror cabinet and the washbasin unit drawers.
Dibnlib: Sorry about the tooth – but good timing – if it’s anything like around here, it takes months to get an appointment unless you’re in screaming agony.
We managed a better afternoon after four phone calls re the wet-room work! OH went to meeting about road changes here due to local school safety – should make life pleasanter for all if they can actually enforce speed and parking restrictions.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
It's 8 am on Fri the 13th. A pleasant 24 C but another 39er threatened. So we have have broken the record - the first ever Nov heatwave (5 days in a row over 35 C). Please pretty please may the god of hot weather take a break. I'm off to the archives for a cool day.
Recent wildlife reports in newspaper – Greenshanks have arrived at the Coorong wetlands. They are sub-Arctic waders that breed in northern Asia and spend summer in coastal Australia. The Coorong (near the River Murray Mouth) supports 500-100 greenshanks. It is also home to more than 200 bird species thoughout the year. There has been a baby boom with the Southern Right Whales at the head of the Bight (west coast of SA). A record 63 whale calves last year and 55 (including a rare white calf) this year. Last week the whales set off for their sub-Antarctic summer feeding grounds. Third report told of a stray humpback whale seen near Victor Harbor this week. Forgot to check his GPS?
For those undergoing renovations - Alteration is not always improvement as the pigeon said when it got out of the net and into the pie. (Apologies to pigeon lovers.)
Someone's pretty garden, OG. Lots of heating & plumbing problems here today, I feel like going into business as they are always in demand, arent they!? Hope you all get things fixed soon.
george: I saw the tv programme about the Manta Rays in Mozambique, too, last night. What amazing animals, they 'flew' so elegantly through the water and looked so calm & gentle. So sad that people didn't seem to grasp that if they kept catching the females like that, the stocks would dwindle: also, as you say, just makes you cringe to think its all for so called medicinal purposes. Too much of that going on still around the world.
dibnlib: I lost a filling the other week, just eating a jelly baby! Said to dentist, could have understood it, if I'd been chewing a toffee or something. I seem to be a regular visitor to his surgery these days for that sort of thing.
Gary: Hope your Man Cold turns out to be just a snuffle, as we call them. Recommend you take some alcohol to kill the germs. Saw the lovely black lab from your link, who was found again in Afghanistan, on our news bulletin: he was pleased to be back, he did that thing that labs do well, of wagging his tail & somehow involving the whole of his rear end in the effort! Shopping mission this morning had to be abandoned as two phone calls, one from distressed friend, had to be dealt with, by which time skies had turned black in advance of the threatened rain. Will go tomorrow instead.
Have ordered today a copy of "A Life of Ospreys" by Roy Dennis as so many people on here have recommended it, so Husband can give it to me as part of Christmas present. Perhaps it will help with the osprey withdrawal symptoms. Also, one of the RSPB ident. books, as I'm only a raw beginner, so need to know more about what I'm looking at when something flies by.
Lots of birds in our birdbath today, including a very enthusiastic starling, who didn't mind that there were 5 sparrows sitting around the edge benefitting from the spray- it looked so funny, I laughed out loud! They jumped in when he flew off, and had their own party in the water.
AQ: You appeared as I posted the above- do hope you are nearing the end of your heatwave, it sounds horrendous. I love the sun, but wilt when its that hot, you can't feel like doing just anything, can you? As I say, hope its over soon. Interesting info about the whales etc. Take Care. 'Bye all.
OG, thanks for the flower picture. Very nice. I feel a fraud now as "tickle" has gone so can't claim a man cold or anything. Good though! Glad you are getting the wet room sorted out. and hope you get the parking/speeding issues worked out. Having worked for a local council, you need to make a fuss to get anything done!!
AG, I don't know how else to say this, but sorry about the heat. What a heatwave. I feel hot just thinking about it. Wonderful news about the whales and calves. Whales are such majestic creatures.
Glad you liked the story Lindybird, I agree about the back end of labs:)
You will LOVE the book. I only have 2 osprey books and that is one of them. So much history, information and the saga of LG. A ":must" read I think. (how nice you get your own christmas presents!! LOL)
Evening/Morning all:
Our evening news had an item on the heatwave down under, including a shot of a koala sipping water from someone's backyard pool/pond!
dibnlib: Hope that broken tooth doesn't start agitating for attention before your appointment.
Gary: Finally got to read the lost dog story. Love it when it all ends happily! So your "man" cold was only a "boy" cold? There was talk of a Nor'easter on the national news tonight - are you in the way of that?
OG: Hope the en suite job is finished soon. Last room for carpeting was supposed to be done today. We got a call saying the guy would be here in an hour, so I rushed off to figure out which side tables, lamps, chairs to move to the front of the house when he left, but then we immediately got another call asking if he could come first thing in the morning and my obliging hubby said "Fine!" Aaack!
AQ: Hope the buses were on time today and that their a/c was working. When is this heatwave supposed to break? We'll be getting preliminary e-mails soon re the 09/10 Gray Whale Count, which will start in January. Sounds like the Right Whale is doing okay. We had a low calf count last year and are hoping for a better year. Loved the pigeon "quote." :-))
Lindybird: I used to want my grandkids to get four-year college degrees; now I tell my unambitious grandson that when a toilet goes out of commission, people are going to call a plumber regardless of the economy! For some reason, the birds don't use our birdbath whereas when I had it up in Long Beach it was very popular and the locations don't seem that different.
"Rear Window" is on Turner Classic (yet again) but it's the perfect accompaniment to sorting through paperwork, updating "to do" lists, etc.,