@El Loro posted:Similar here, Moonie, Met Office 28˜ both days, BBC 29° Sunday, 27° Monday,
Good job it isn’t going to last long El 
Plans for a new wetlands site revealed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg5l2ex612o
Article says near Stroud. Would be on the Severn river side of the A38 neat Frampton on Severn and Whitminster rather than the Stroud side of the A38. Article doesn't mention that Slimbridge Wetland Centre is about 4 miles away.
@El Loro posted:Plans for a new wetlands site revealed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg5l2ex612o
Article says near Stroud. Would be on the Severn river side of the A38 neat Frampton on Severn and Whitminster rather than the Stroud side of the A38. Article doesn't mention that Slimbridge Wetland Centre is about 4 miles away.
In some ways it seems absurd to be deliberately flooding land when so much unwanted flooding goes on in this country...but I do like the idea of encouraging as much wildlife as possible. Diversity makes for a better life for all creatures...shame it doesn't appear to be working so well for the human population atm....
Anything to make good the canal connection has to be supported...
@slimfern posted:In some ways it seems absurd to be deliberately flooding land when so much unwanted flooding goes on in this country...but I do like the idea of encouraging as much wildlife as possible. Diversity makes for a better life for all creatures...shame it doesn't appear to be working so well for the human population atm....
Anything to make good the canal connection has to be supported...
I think that the area is on the Environment Agency flood map as being on the flood plain mainly due to the River Frome which is nearby
@El Loro posted:Plans for a new wetlands site revealed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg5l2ex612o
Article says near Stroud. Would be on the Severn river side of the A38 neat Frampton on Severn and Whitminster rather than the Stroud side of the A38. Article doesn't mention that Slimbridge Wetland Centre is about 4 miles away.
sounds brilliant EL - love bird hides
A fisherman from Plymouth is the first person to have landed a shark of its kind
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy553j377do
@El Loro posted:A fisherman from Plymouth is the first person to have landed a shark of its kind
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy553j377do
Not quite Jaws is it
@El Loro posted:A fisherman from Plymouth is the first person to have landed a shark of its kind
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy553j377do
awww how cute
thank you EL
Slim, a couple of films to mention on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week.
Tomorrow at 21.05 "Cash on Demand" (1961) which starred Peter Cushing and Andre Morell. Cushing is a bank manager, Morell as a supposed insurance company man but a criminal. It's a very good suspense drama worth watching. It's best not to read about what happens as that would spoil the film.
Thursday at 7.20 in the morning "Lazybones" (1935). An idle baronet marries an American heiress but then finds out that she's been swindled out of her inheritance. It's an example of what were called quota quickies, films made on very low budgets and very quickly to meet the legal requirements at the time of British cinemas having to show a number of British films each year. It was often the case that the actors would be working in theatres during the day and then work in the film studios during the night. So don't expect much from such films. Having said that, the film is described as a pleasant romantic comedy and is just over an hour long. Of interest is that it was directed by Michael Powell in the days before he became a major British film director.He made around 20 of these quota quickies from 1931 to 1936.
@El Loro posted:Slim, a couple of films to mention on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week.
Tomorrow at 21.05 "Cash on Demand" (1961) which starred Peter Cushing and Andre Morell. Cushing is a bank manager, Morell as a supposed insurance company man but a criminal. It's a very good suspense drama worth watching. It's best not to read about what happens as that would spoil the film.
Thursday at 7.20 in the morning "Lazybones" (1935). An idle baronet marries an American heiress but then finds out that she's been swindled out of her inheritance. It's an example of what were called quota quickies, films made on very low budgets and very quickly to meet the legal requirements at the time of British cinemas having to show a number of British films each year. It was often the case that the actors would be working in theatres during the day and then work in the film studios during the night. So don't expect much from such films. Having said that, the film is described as a pleasant romantic comedy and is just over an hour long. Of interest is that it was directed by Michael Powell in the days before he became a major British film director.He made around 20 of these quota quickies from 1931 to 1936.
As advised I won't peek at what the film's are about, but will wait to watch them 
Thank you El
@El Loro posted:Slim, I watched "The Thief" (1952) (Ray Milland) last night. Good but downbeat. Milland as a US nuclear scientist but a treacherous spy. The lack of dialogue reinforced the sense of utter isolation he worked in.
Interesting to learn...
It's based on a book by the real-life thief John Seybold — The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar written under a penname — who served as the technical adviser on the set while he still had FBI warrants outstanding, before ending up back in a New Jersey prison in 1995.
@slimfern posted:Interesting to learn...
It's based on a book by the real-life thief John Seybold — The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar written under a penname — who served as the technical adviser on the set while he still had FBI warrants outstanding, before ending up back in a New Jersey prison in 1995.
Wrong film, Slim
That's the Michael Mann 1981 film called "Thief".
The desktop image on my computer is the standard Windows 10 one. I restarted my computer a short time ago and found that the desktop image had changed. Went into settings - personalisation - background. Saw that it was an image from Windows Spotlight. I changed the image back to the standard one in Pictures,
Also saw that there was now a Copilot icon in the taskbar which I unpinned.
Windows Spotlight is a Windows feature which downloads images and adverts from Bing and displays them as the desktop image.
@El Loro posted:The desktop image on my computer is the standard Windows 10 one. I restarted my computer a short time ago and found that the desktop image had changed. Went into settings - personalisation - background. Saw that it was an image from Windows Spotlight. I changed the image back to the standard one in Pictures,
Also saw that there was now a Copilot icon in the taskbar which I unpinned.
Windows Spotlight is a Windows feature which downloads images and adverts from Bing and displays them as the desktop image.
Copilot keeps popping up on my screen ...asking to be used. I've ignored it so far El. Plus there is an icon on the far right of the taskbar at the bottom of my screen, which again I have ignored.
I suspect though that at some point there won't be a choice 
@slimfern posted:Copilot keeps popping up on my screen ...asking to be used. I've ignored it so far El. Plus there is an icon on the far right of the taskbar at the bottom of my screen, which again I have ignored.
I suspect though that at some point there won't be a choice
That hasn't been happening on my computer, Slim - so far....
A short film from 1923 called "Alice's Wonderland" (not a version of Alice in Wonderland). Part live action, part animated, part a mix of the two. It was the first of a series of Alice films. Walt Disney was 22 at the time and appears in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erS2yKGC3BU