Weekly Chat, Sunday December 27 2009

Been failing to get on here this morning, but now find we’re up and running again.

Annette – I always think that pictures should be hung at eyelevel – taken me 40 years to persuade OH, but I am sure no artist would appreciate people having to crane their necks to see his work – except maybe Michelangelo!!

AQ – laughed at first, but maybe the wandering dog was suffering from amnesia, not recognising his owners!

DjoanS – believe weather is bad your way – read police reported roads as “horrendous”.  Take care.

Chloe – yep! That’s what we saw too.  Thanks for pic.

Special bulletin for TerryM: OH came back from Tesco with six bars of Caramac for me!!

Three short snow showers here today – no significant depth, but enough to go icy!  Son is watching video of Jools Holland from last night and picking and/or strumming his own accompaniment – this is why I have taken refuge in the study!  I like to hear him play -  when I know he knows what he is playing!!!

German storks live webcam:

http://storchennest-hoechstadt.de/live-cam

Thanks Alan; it's lit up at night too.  Gray and cool here today.

Hi everyone.

A very Happy New Year to all.

AQ:  Glad your enjoying cooler weather.  Although where I come from 31C is like a heat wave. ;-)

DjoanS:  Nice picture.  That's a great looking snow scene.

ChloeB:  Fantastic full-moon picture.

OG:  Hope you enjoy the caramac.  I'm so tempted to track down a bar or two, when I'm next out.

Alan:  Thanks for posting the German storks webcam link.

Here's to a great 2010 everyone.

Paul.

OG, great job on the Caramac. Hope you still like it.

Yes, the site is still intermitent, bit of a pain.

Quiet day here, bright now after a couple of inches of snow yesterday but some has mealted already

Alan - thanks for link to Storks' nest in Höchstadt - is that special illumination on the nest, or just the town lighting?

Happy New Year, now we've all reached it!

Intermittent links with this site today - popped in earlier but unable to raise it half an hour ago. V. cold here, & it tried but failed to snow properly this morning. Went for a walk in the frosty fields with Husband & Dog, both of us wearing hats & 2 scarves, but Dog quite happily trotting in his permanent fur coat.

Thanks to Chloe  for the lovely moon pic.

Alan;  Havn't seen the new Star Trek yet, but enjoyed the 1st 2 series of Heroes, but not the recent episodes. What lovely storks, they have a great view don't they.  I found a good story about storks today on the BBC site, see :   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8436864.stm

for news about a German stork!! coincidentally! 

Thanks Lindybird for the nice story about the German stork. Quite a coincidence I agree.

O.G. I think it is just the towns lighting. There certainly seems a lot of light pollution there. I tried to find out from the site by translating some of the info but I could not find anything about the nest illumination..

Looks like a really cold night here. Down to -2.8c already.

Thanks for everyones' feedback, glad you liked the moon pic :)

Re the stork cam lighting. It seems to me the birds are lit from above; could be wrong, but...  Nice lazy-ish day here.  Don't like to take too long to post in case the site goes down again!