Evening/morning!. Hope it's a good week for all. Check the previous blog for the latest adventures of Emma Peel and Steed plus recent posts from the usual suspects. :-)
Emma - what a whirl! Hope daughter's new boyfriend isn't headed back to Afghanistan any time soon.
EDIT: Oh this is interesting, in the following sentence, I typed the name of Germany's controlling political party during the late 30s/early 40s and it was replaced by asterisks! Just watched a great Netflix DVD - The Rape of Europa - about the pillaging of art by the *** and the subsequent repatriation of (most of) it after the war. Really interesting with footage I'd never seen before. After that, even more leftover Txgiving pie and rerun of Bridget Joans's Diary on telly while perusing latest Xmas catalogs. Have a good Sunday!
Hummingbird cam working ok for me too ... but I remember looking at it the other day & thinking it was off ... until I realised it was still night time there ... silly me :)))
Joan - avid bird and nature watcher in Northumberland!
Index Thread
Afternoon folks. What a lovely looking neighbourhood, Annette. BWT if I would have got that M-B, it would be quite a antique car now, since I got my license to drive back in `70s LOL. And Gary, I am glad that you asked that translation `cause I didn`t understand it either.
my photos in flickr
Thanks Alan will have another go and thanks also for all who came back to me on this.
Margobird
Have obviously lost the plot Alan and have been looking at the wrong cam. They look a bit cramped in that tiny nest bless them.
Just got the Google update newsletter and they've upgraded images of the mainland immediately NW of where Rothes is now; also a large area updated around the mountain regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan, hardly surprising.
Hi, folks. Had a busy few days so have been reading but not posting.
Annette, lovely picture of your street. The colours are wonderful'
I had a walk along the sea defences at the head of Strangford Lough (known locally as the Tide Bank) the other day. It has a properly surfaced path and is a popular walk. Saw brent geese, shelduck, curlews, lapwings, oystercatchers, redshank, ringed plover, dunlin and others which I couldn't identify as they were too far away. And there were two little egrets! I'd never seen one until they arrived 2 winters ago and they have come back both years since. Wouldn't be walking there today. It's cold, very wet and with gale-force wind off the lough. Did two lots of dog walking and now have wet waterproofs and wetter dogs! Those of you in Scotland beware - the weather is heading your way!
What a lot of birds in one go, patriciat! Sounds like a lovely walk to make.
Weather cold here, on Lindybird Condominium- pretty bad frost all over everything in the night, good job we put some plants into a cold frame we have, to keep the worst of the weather off them. Had to scrape the frost off the windscreen this morning before setting out on mission to buy more ink for my printer.
Gary: I needed the Scottish translation too, so don't feel too bad! Your brother seems to have my sense of humour, I often send cards like that myself.
Annette: Your photo of your street was great- I just love tree lined streets, they do look more people friendly somehow. You are wise to sit on lots of sofas before you decide which one- its a big decision, & you have to sit on the result for a long time after!
We have Christmas lights up in most of our towns here in UK now, but people usually don't put them on their houses until next weekend. We will probably do ours just after that, but we always leave them on for most of the night on New Years Eve, and then take them down on 5th January.
Hi all: A bit of excitement on the hummingbird cam a few minutes ago when one started flapping and found him/herself on the outside of the next, clinging on for dear life and looking a little alarmed. Much agitation until a second flap about got him/her back into the nest. When I lived in Long Beach, I found a tiny little hummer laying in the gutter. Drove it about 15 miles to a lady who had about 50 injured hummers in her house (did I already tell this story?). Anyway, my sick birdie didn't survive. They are SO tiny. It's fascinating to watch their tiny (but long) little tongues flick in and out!
Gary: Was not ignoring your earlier leafblower comment - the leaves from those trees are piled up in the gutters and so nice and crackly to walk through. The city's street sweeping crew will be along next Monday to scoop them all up.
First camellia of the season
Annette, thanks for the beautiful camellia. Just what I needed to see, having spent some hours with OH, clearing up yet more very wet leaves before the rain returns tonight.