Oh my, another week. How many rosettes did Tweed win at the agility contest? Check Patriciat's late post on last week's blog to find out! Congratulations Tweed and Patriciat!
NEW BLOG FROM ALICE & DOUGLAS !!
Good Morning Day to all!
Overcast and chilly here today and expecting another inch of snow as well, so will certainly make for good gardening in the spring.
Crafty Day was a rousing success and my friends actually got some of their work done but I hardly did any what with too much chatting, snacking and all. =O)
O.G: I'm working on a 52 inch wide x 60-ish inch long crochet blanket as a Christmas gift for my folks as their house in Illinois gets very chilly. (It's built on a cement slab.) Their Florida home (about 80 miles north of Orlando) is cold this winter too and they even had ice in the birdbath the other day!
Lindybird: I LOVED your theme ideas for the Olympics ceremony and nominate you to be in charge of the show! Please have both Cate Blanchett and Glenda Jackson portraying QE in her earlier and later years.
Margobird: Please take very good care of yourself and get well very, very soon!
PatriciaT: I send happy and positive thoughts to you and your dear sister. Also congrats to Tweed the Wonder Dog! =O)
Heron and other Sparrow fans: I keep our dining room window open a bit every day to hear all the peeps, chirps and beeps of the very entertaining sparrows. Also too, I can then hear the Starlings visit 2 yards over for bread crumbs and the calls of the Dark-eyed Juncos who winter in this area.
There had been mention by Diane and Annette of various gun laws and such over here. Chicago still bans owning guns of any kind at present, though a case against that is going before the Supreme Court in the spring, I believe.
Anyway, I've dallied on here long enough for now so I'll say hello to everyone and have a Happy Moonday!
BRITISH OLYMPICS 2012: Oh! Caerann, don't get me started! - we discussed it the other day, and as strangely we don't appear to have a National Dress here, with perhaps the exception of the Scots in their very fetching kilts, I said I dread to think what the powers that be will come up with..... a thousand versions of the Pearly Kings & Queens, perhaps, cavorting with some human sized leeks for Wales, & some Irish goblins or such. Your idea of lots of Ages of Queen Elizabeth would be good - she at least had some fetching frocks, & we could have our wondrous Dames to portray her: Dame Judi Dench & Dame Helen Mirren could be added to your suggestions. Any more ideas, anyone ??
Lindybird : You are thinking of Kendal Mint Cake but I much prefer Tablet.
2 ospreys sighted in the s of France today:
Monday, February 15th, 2010Digue marais burette / Saint-André-de-Seignanx (40) 2 Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) [Stéphan Tillo ] Comment : En pêche au dessus du marais burette, puis 1 individu se dirige à l'est et 1 second vers le marais d'0rx (casier central)
I was planning to suggest Helen Mirren - brilliant actress! What about Morris Dancers for the UK opening ceremonies? No? Monty Python look-alikes doing the Silly Walk? Hmmmm.
Caerann: Now, that's my kind of Craft Day - eating and chatting!
Re Sassy, there seems to be a consensus on that site that she definitely has problems.
Off to shower and then out to check on the whales.
Dunedin ospreys :Another clip from today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sgjdea0NZo
Unknown said: Dunedin ospreys :Another clip from today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sgjdea0NZo
Thanks for that Alan. A wee tad depressed, logged on and that clip just lifted me so a big thank you. Won't be long now. hooray Can't wait.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.
Well, we’re back to the two of us again, and just had a read through of overnight and through Monday.
Gary – flapjacks – yummy – but I’ve never actually made them!
Annette – we have light rain, but not much warmer – clouds usually warm things up a bit. Envy you your drying weather – neighbours pegged stuff out and had to fetch it in. Understand how you suffered from being tall – but similar for “shorties” like me! Lucky Humming-Bird sighting while you were watering! Notice you did your ironing before I could get there!
AQ – G-Dau#2 was allowed to open her presents early and liked them – wore the top and bracelet when we went out for our evening meal!!
Diane – I hope your decorating etc is all going well – obviously done with love for the family home.
Lindybird – hope your busy day went well. Pleased your Auntie’s pudding recipe turned out well – and thanks for including recipe. I seem to remember puds with breadcrumbs have quite a light texture.
Margobird – so sorry you have a chest infection – keep taking the tablets and I hope it will soon clear up! Plenty to drink, keep warm and lots of rest.
Annette – again - the family visit wasn’t really an occasion, it just developed. Originally, Dau#1 and her girls were coming for the day (half term hols this week), then Son was coming with them to sort through his stored belongings to add to his packing at their house ready for move, and then S-i-L decided to have an extra day off (works away and is usually home weekends) so it turned into a late celebration of Son’s job and early celebration of Dau’s and G-Dau’s birthdays which are next week! They arrived at midday and we all had salad lunch and gateau. We had a lovely afternoon playing a family board game. Because we came and went doing other things and catching up on conversation, the teams were flexible and not competitive – but the team of mostly the two girls and I were the winners! This evening we had a meal at a local hotel - good food and good value - and they left direct from there.
George – we find tablet varies quite a bit – may be some regional differences I think.
Dibnlib – House of Bruar expensive but a very pleasant stopping place – sure we’ll be calling there more now with Son’s move. Glad plumber has been – another step nearer!
Caerann – impressive craft project - but will be a lovely warm gift for family next winter!
Annette – I don’t realistically think much of Sassy’s chances – maybe Phoebe was not strong enough for this latest pair of eggs – and the wet and windy weather can’t have helped. I hope you had whale sightings today.
Tish – good to see you - sorry you were feeling low.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Hi everyone.Quiet day today. Mainly because a nap turned into several hours sleep. Must confess to feeling a wee bit low about this. Thankfully all the bird food preps were done last night, so the birds didn't go hungry. So I had my dinner, then eventually got round to switching the lap-top on and checking the emails.Done a wee search on Google a few minutes ago for Parliamo Glasgow. The Parliamo Glasgow (sometimes Parliamo Glesga) sketches were a serious of sketches done by Stanley Baxter, as a parody of Parliamo Italiano. I remember first seeing those sketches on TV a number of years ago. They were several years old even then but even now I still find them side rippingly hilarious. Even if you've seen these sketches before, go on have a look. You still laugh your head off. Or to put it in my native tongue: Ye'll still laffyerheidaff.Anyway on with the replies.Diane: Must say I love the brain fart expression. Who know perhaps I should pay a visit to Brain Farters Anonymous. LOL.dibnlib/ Annette: I've never really understood the whole obsession with height that some people have. Why should people be seen as different just because they're a few inches taller that the people around then. Sadly I think girls probably get picked on far more if they are very tall and to hear of teachers picking on people because of how tall they are, shows a lot of small-mindedness on the teacher's part. I mean I'm not the tallest chap in the world, standing at around five foot five and a half inches or maybe five foot six. So I've had it from the other end of the scale, especially in my teenage years when I was even shorter than I am now. In a way I can sort of understand kids using another person's height as a stick to beat them with but you'd think (pardon the pun) that it's something people would've grown out of by the time they'd reached adulthood.Lindybird: Chocolate fudge cake with ice-cream sounds brilliant, no matter what pace it's eaten at. Thanks for posting the Ginger Pud recipe. Thanks for the new blog notice. Alan: Tell Hamish thanks for being so understanding. Thanks so much for the tablet recipe link.Margobird: Sorry to hear you have a chest infection. Hopefully the antibiotics do their stuff and tell that infection where to get to, as quick as possible.George: Muddy Boots is a great name for a farm shop. Tablet is wonderful stuff. Okay I know it's about a zillion calories per square cm but I'm a massive fan.Caerann: Brilliant to hear you're entertained by sparrows and starlings, at the dining table. Just done a Google video search on Dark-eyed Juncos. They're brilliant birds.Apologies if I've missed anyone or anything out but for some reason it's taken me ages to write this post.A belated happy Monday and a very happy Tuesday to everyone.Paul.
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