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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: The Stables, & other animals
- Topic: The Peregrines Are Back At Winchester Cathedral
- Replies: 5
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The Peregrines Are Back At Winchester Cathedral
I feel sad that Winnie has been killed. So did I, Furby. Especially as she had been a successful mother for many years. I wondered in my last words for the peregrines' 2023 season:- So that's the end of the peregrines' breeding for another year and next year who knows? Will Winnie still have her ne...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: The Stables, & other animals
- Topic: The Peregrines Are Back At Winchester Cathedral
- Replies: 5
- Views: 66
The Peregrines Are Back At Winchester Cathedral
I 've just had a look at the webcam; one peregrine was in the nest box finishing off a titbit and when it looked as if it had finished the other one, perched on the gully wall, started leaning forward and raising its rear end in the air. At this, the first peregrine took off and returned seconds lat...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:09 pm
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: March - The beginning of Summer
- Replies: 60
- Views: 521
March - The beginning of Summer
Why are there so many hoops through which we have to jump to get things right...............it all makes work for the working man (or woman) to do! On a pleasant note, I posted yesterday on Facebook about my current afflictions and not being allowed to drive etc, and I was so touched by the response...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: March - The beginning of Summer
- Replies: 60
- Views: 521
March - The beginning of Summer
Will do Eccs, thank you! I checked with my taxi driver yesterday that I had given him the correct information. I had, but he suggested an earlier pick-up time at 07:30 because of road works on his route to Gatwick. My flight is due to depart at 12:00. Before then I shall have sampled what is on offe...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:07 am
- Forum: Sound & Vision
- Topic: Yodel!
- Replies: 202
- Views: 12062
Yodel!
Out in the open this time near the Zugersee - three hours train ride from Appenzell including changing trains, I should think. Zug is the smallest of the full cantons in Switzerland.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:22 am
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: March - The beginning of Summer
- Replies: 60
- Views: 521
March - The beginning of Summer
I received an invitation from the NHS to be fitted with a 24 hr ECG.................on 1 July. I didn't waste any time in umming and ahhing about accepting the offer. I am not bothered about the 3 month wait because DVLA told me I'd be off the road for at least 6 months from the date of my blackout ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: Stop Press
- Topic: Baltimore Bridge Collapse
- Replies: 8
- Views: 41
Baltimore Bridge Collapse
The people living there will be struggling. Not only the people living there but in the hinterland of Baltimore port as well - all the industry etc that uses Baltimore to export and import goods and materials. One chap on a news programme said it would take months for things to get back to normal b...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: March - The beginning of Summer
- Replies: 60
- Views: 521
March - The beginning of Summer
Looks like a packed programme for you and YYF WR. Exactly one week (to the hour) later I shall be whisked away to Gatwick Airport by my taxi, to be transported to Oporto for what I think will be a somewhat more leisurely cruise up the Douro to as close to Salamanca in Spain as they can get over 3 da...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: March - The beginning of Summer
- Replies: 60
- Views: 521
March - The beginning of Summer
A comment from a Thespian.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:21 am
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: March - The beginning of Summer
- Replies: 60
- Views: 521
March - The beginning of Summer
March 22 was the first day of Spring in Iceland this year, because a European golden plover was spotted in Iceland - several of them - in a village called Garður not far from the international airport at Keflavík.
The Lord Midge was 9 years old as well, so happy birthday for last Friday, Midge.
The Lord Midge was 9 years old as well, so happy birthday for last Friday, Midge.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: March - The beginning of Summer
- Replies: 60
- Views: 521
March - The beginning of Summer
I don't understand why OC is stupid because his keyboard didn't work The 'new' batteries I put in it first time round were from a pack I had bought some months earlier. Either they had run down or I hadn't put them in the keyboard properly. I should have put some more in the keyboard next time I bo...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: Quizzes & Questions
- Topic: Tough 2 (24 March)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 28
Tough 2 (24 March)
11 390BC; 410; 455; 546; 1084; 1527? Various dates when Rome was taken by invaders/sacked. 390 BC was the Gauls, while 410 and 455 were all sorts of barbarians like the Ostrogoths and the Vandals, I forget in which order. 15 Gilded urn; Frederick, Duke of York and Albany; Horatio Nelson? I guess the...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:48 am
- Forum: Sound & Vision
- Topic: Yodel!
- Replies: 202
- Views: 12062
Yodel!
More Appenzellers. The pub looks familiar.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: March - The beginning of Summer
- Replies: 60
- Views: 521
March - The beginning of Summer
I am becoming extremely stupid. I have been using an old keyboard with my computer because the proper one packed up and wouldn't work, even though I put in some new batteries. Today, just to see, I put in 2 more new batteries (much newer than the others) and....................the damn thing worked....
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: Quizzes & Questions
- Topic: Tough 1 (23 March)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 33
Tough 1 (23 March)
2 Mammals of which order have no stomach? I'll guess the monotremes (platypus and echidna) as I think they are deemed to be the most primitive mammals.
7 Bondye is the creator god in which Caribbean religion? Voodoo?
7 Bondye is the creator god in which Caribbean religion? Voodoo?
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Stop Press
- Topic: Poor old Charlie
- Replies: 28
- Views: 340
Poor old Charlie
with cancer you are lucky to get five years That depends on what sort of cancer and how early they diagnose it. I have a friend who was diagnosed with testicular cancer more than 20 years ago and he's still knocking about though now he has a few non-cancer ailments. Over in Iceland old Oddur had st...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: March - The beginning of Summer
- Replies: 60
- Views: 521
March - The beginning of Summer
I had a good day today. My diuretic prescription was at the pharmacy, and I bought some packets of Fisherman's Friend as well as they are made in Fleetwood. Then I went to the Totton surgery to have my B12 jab. The nurse saw me early and took my BP (140s/80s I can't remember the exact figures) which...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: The Coffeeshop
- Topic: March - The beginning of Summer
- Replies: 60
- Views: 521
March - The beginning of Summer
Sorry to learn that about your brother, Eccs; I hope it all turns out well for him - and for you, of course, you can't help but be worried about him. Meanwhile - without tempting fate, I hope - I would like to report that the Lord Midge and his mother the Lady Mina both are in Rude Health. And New F...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:25 am
- Forum: Sound & Vision
- Topic: Yodel!
- Replies: 202
- Views: 12062
Yodel!
Here's Nicolas playing in the church again.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:17 am
- Forum: The Stables, & other animals
- Topic: The Peregrines Are Back At Winchester Cathedral
- Replies: 5
- Views: 66
The Peregrines Are Back At Winchester Cathedral
But they are no longer Winnie and William; it's best explained by this quote from the Cathedral website dated 13 March. Winnie and her partner William returned to the Cathedral three weeks ago, but after a few days a different female arrived on the scene, and clearly she was interested in taking Win...