Weekly Chat, Sunday December 13, 2009

Hello Annette glad I am not alone in keeping away from crowded places.  Tommy Steele is 73 but you would never think so.  Has a lot more energy than me and is 7 years older.  He really was very good as Scrooge, played it slightly differently in that he added some humour to it although the story remianed the same.

Brenda H meant to say before so sorry about your fall.  At least I was on my own when I took my spectacular trip in the garden.  Have fallen over in public as well.  Managed to fall down a kerb and OH didn't even notice and 2 people picked me up.  He hadn't even noticed I was no longer walking with him.  He felt awful about it and I felt a right fool.

Have a good day.

aquilareen another good version.  We have some very inventive people around.

Morning original goldfinch many people refer to London as the big smoke even now.  Apparently temperatures will not get above zero on Saturday so I will be going out looking like a Michelin man.

It is very cold here this morning.  We had rain for most of the day yesterday and it froze solid overnight.  Had to scrape the food of the bird feeders this morning as it was frozen solid to the tray.  Now trying to get the bird baths to defrost because the sparrows insist on bathing every day whatever the weather.

Have a good day.

Good morning Margobird.  Your posts have taken us onto a new page, so we don't have the problem of the bottom of the page being outside itself which was earlier! 

You seem to go to London a lot - are you from there originally, or have I just forgotten what people in the south do, having gradually moved further north myself?  I try to avoid cities - London had changed so much when we had a short stay there about ten years ago, and I find the size of everything in cities and the crowds quite intimidating.  I have a general problem anyway : if I don't use the scooter I get tired and irritable, and if I do (1) I can't see much and (2) I am invisible, being below eye-level of pedestrians, so they walk across my path and curse me for being in the way.

It's a bit warmer here today, a little drizzle earlier.  Birds are doing all the usual - waste a lot of time chasing each other about.  You must have the cleanest sparrows in the UK!!

Patriciat : Great picture of Fly. I watched One Man and his Dog last night and it is on again tonight at 7pm. I always remember my old black lab Bumble used to love the program. Every time it came on he had his nose on the screen following the sheep. I think that was when Eric Halsall was introducing the program. I also remember Phil Drabble.

Diane : Thanks for the link for the US earthquakes stats. My favourites need sorting out as I have so many great links now. I must admit when I joined this forum I never imagined I would learn so much about so many varied subjects.

The weather here on TI overnight was very cold with the bird bath being frozen this morning. At the moment it is just starting to rain and looks very grey indeed.

Temp 1.7c feels like -2c , Wind WSW 9mph , Humidity 94% , Barometer 1008.9hPa steady.

UV index forecast 0.3 , Sunset 15:46. 

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Patriciat : Great picture of Fly. I watched One Man and his Dog last night and it is on again tonight at 7pm. I always remember my old black lab Bumble used to love the program. Every time it came on he had his nose on the screen following the sheep. I think that was when Eric Halsall was introducing the program. I also remember Phil Drabble.

Diane : Thanks for the link for the US earthquakes stats. My favourites need sorting out as I have so many great links now. I must admit when I joined this forum I never imagined I would learn so much about so many varied subjects.

The weather here on TI overnight was very cold with the bird bath being frozen this morning. At the moment it is just starting to rain and looks very grey indeed.

Temp 1.7c feels like -2c , Wind WSW 9mph , Humidity 94% , Barometer 1008.9hPa steady.

UV index forecast 0.3 , Sunset 15:46. 

Sunset slightly later today?

BTW I just made an amazing discovery. I was was going about the exploits of SSK the young Scottish osprey that cheated death when it stayed out over the Atlantic in 2002. Unlike Deshar it had the sense to turn back.

Well I have discovered it is a full sister to 05(00) who mothered most of the chicks at Rutland. So it seems as if she had the right genes.

Tiger : Thanks for that. It is amazing what can be found out when you delve into the individual records. I was going to ask if anyone knew of birds from the same brood proved to have returned later but I have just noticed that 5N and 5R are from the same brood. Judging by the mortality of young osprey in the first year this is an amazing achievement and 05(00) was their mother.

As Rutland ospreys are quite local to me they are of particular interest:

http://www.ospreys.org.uk/individuals.html

morning all. Boy, that last page was difficult to follow!

Careann, great to have you back. Stay warm. You have given us your chilly weather now, but still not as cold. That is terrible about the swan:(

AQ, that is HOT. Loved the new song, especially "an Osprey in a pine tree":)))
Thanks for that info as well Tiger.

Stay safe/upright everyone.