Weekly Chat, Sunday December 13, 2009

Hello.

Happy sunday.  I'm sure the Suday the 20th of December thread will be up and running quicker than we can imagine. ;-)

Paul.

Try this web page for info on Clootie Dumpling:-

www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/clootiedumpling.htm

You were also going to look up the Eden Project - they themselves have a very good web page, but you could find out so much more from the Wikepedia entry.

Also many thanks for the info regarding adding links to your favourites - some more fun for me!!

Just so the weather here is not left out - it is extremely frosty and very cold - only good thing about it is the sunny days.  Temp overnight on Thursday in Braemar was -7C!!  Only 8 days to go to the shortest day - at 17.47hrs on the 21/12 the world axis starts tipping towards the Northern Hemisphere again - so I have read somewhere this last week or so.  Hooray! 

Aaack: Just lost fat paragraph of responses thanks to clicking the "back" button in the wrong window. Was busy checking out Tiger's link to the global sunrise/sunset map - fascinating. Heron/Liz LFP: You guys are up late! Thanks for the Clootie Dumpling lead, looks tasty.  Tiger/OG/Chloe: I've never seen starlings here, though they're apparently all over the world. No mention of them on my Local Birds of Santa Barbara County cheat sheet. I have heard they're considered non-native pests.  We do have very noisy black birds (not crows) that hang out in gangs and I've always thought they were grackles, but now (since I Googled them!) I find they don't extend this far west. OG: Eden Project looks very impressive. Glad the harling, whatever it is, is okay. :-)   Djoan: Dublin trip sounds like a lot of fun, especially since it came as a sort of surprise. Alan: I am a closet miniature-train enthusiast; never got over the thrill of riding the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch trains; was nice when grandkids gave me an excuse to ride along!  (Still love carousels. What do they call them in the UK now -  up-and-down horses? roundabouts?) 

Have a nice Sunday morning all; now have to check out the Astronomy photo of the day link....

Good morning all!  What a chatty day we all had Saturday – must be the cold weather keeping some of us indoors!  ‘Though, actually, the sunshine is very tempting – if we wear one (or more!) of our many coats!

Thanks Annette for getting the new week off to a good start!  Heron77 – you seem to be wishing the week away with mentioning next week’s chat and I’ve got a lot to do between now and then!

Annette – Harling is similar to what I knew as “pebble-dash”in the south of England – it seems to be the Cumbria/South of Scotland name for a rough concrete wall-covering stuck with hard white chippings sounds awful, but is quite attractive – ought to Google it when I have time!  Carousels are mostly referred to as Roundabouts these days in the UK – but roundabouts can also refer to those awful playpark things where kids hang on and get pushed round faster and faster by the local bully until centrifugal force makes them fall off!

Diane – lovely Crane/Stork for Maureen – showing my ignorance, which is it?

Just been told its time to get ready for church, must go!

OG: Thanks. It's a great blue heron, one of my favorite birds.

Diane what a majestic bird and wonderful colour to it as well.  Hope you are now fully fit.

LizFW thanks dfor the info about the shortest day.  All in the mind I know but once it  has passed I feel a lot better.  It is cold here on the South coast  but not as cold as you are having, hope you manage to keep warm.

OG,   will you send some of your sunshine here? It  was 3c and raining here when we went to church at 8.30am  and still very cloudy (E. Sussex) with more showers forecast.

Diane, beautiful photograph for Maureen. I enjoyed seeing it.

Will have to go Christmas shopping, looking for ideas for people who I have no idea what to buy for them. 

Morning all. Enjoyed the chat but can't really add much so won't!

Diane, lovely picture. Ask Tiger how storks treat their young!

Happy Sunday everyone.