Good morning everyone 
Cool and overcast but the sun is trying to break through 
I see from the 5 day weather forecast that we may reach 29 degrees here on Tuesday 
That's much to hot for me. I shall be a melted Moonie 
Have a lovely day everyone 
Good morning everyone, very mizzly here, quite a miserable morning. Goodness Moonie I hope the temperature doesn't reach as high as that, you'll have to go and sit in the freezer I loved painted nails on other people but I don't like them on me, they look odd somehow. Has PB decided on the perfect positioning of Mummy Owl and Baby Owl Yogi?
Enjoy your day everyone
Yogi19 posted:Good morning everyone.
The sun is shining.
El, we didn't see any Frozen ornaments, otherwise PB would have wanted them.
Have a good weekend everyone.
Morning Yogi
Awwww at PB with her mummy owl and baby owl comment 
I seem to see owls in all shops, supermarkets, charity shops I go past nowadays 
I think someone is trying to tell me something
Have a great day Yogi
squiggle posted:Good morning everyone, very mizzly here, quite a miserable morning. Goodness Moonie I hope the temperature doesn't reach as high as that, you'll have to go and sit in the freezer
Enjoy your day everyone
Morning squiggle
On that day I shall shop a lot in the freezer area of the local supermarket
Have a super day squiggle
Yogi, welcome to Mummy Owl and Baby Owl
Moonie they are forecasting 31 in my area on Tuesday - it looks as if it's a one day heatwave though.
Izzy and I have now been introduced with a paw/hand shake She's friendly but somewhat nervous. She's got a small grey kitten for company.
El Loro posted:Yogi, welcome to Mummy Owl and Baby Owl
Moonie they are forecasting 31 in my area on Tuesday - it looks as if it's a one day heatwave though.
Izzy and I have now been introduced with a paw/hand shake
I hope it is a one day heatwave El
Thanks Moonie. I hope the heatwave on Tuesday isn't too bad for you either. The heat doesn't affect me as much as it does some people. Some 20 years ago I was diagnosed with an overactive thyroid which I had had for some time until it was successfully treated. One of the side effects of an overactive thyroid is being more sensitive to heat so that in hot weather it was as if one was living in a temperature 10C more than it really was. So if it was a typical hot day in summer, say 25C, it was as if I was in 35C. So, although that's in the past and isn't the case now, a temperature of 31C isn't as much of a problem for me as for some.
El Loro posted:Thanks Moonie. I hope the heatwave on Tuesday isn't too bad for you either. The heat doesn't affect me as much as it does some people. Some 20 years ago I was diagnosed with an overactive thyroid which I had had for some time until it was successfully treated. One of the side effects of an overactive thyroid is being more sensitive to heat so that in hot weather it was as if one was living in a temperature 10C more than it really was. So if it was a typical hot day in summer, say 25C, it was as if I was in 35C. So, although that's in the past and isn't the case now, a temperature of 31C isn't as much of a problem for me as for some.
Crickey El, bet you're glad that's sorted?
Monday 25 degrees and Wednesday 23 degrees. Down to a moderate 20 degrees thereafter
Moonie, I was glad when it was sorted some 20 years ago. An overactive thyroid is a lot more serious than an underactive one as other side effects include high blood pressure and rapid hearbeat. One also loses weight - not a recommended means of losing weight. Treatment in modern times is straightforward.
A 22 hour marathon of Erik Satie's Vexations played 840 times by dozens of pianists in Cheltenham over the last day.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...cestershire-36814394
It is a short piece of music and was intended by the composer to be played 840 times. Not surprisingly it has been rarely played. I won't put a clip of it, not even a short one, as it's not worth listening to in my opinion, it's somewhat tedious and miserable.
El Loro posted:A 22 hour marathon of Erik Satie's Vexations played 840 times by dozens of pianists in Cheltenham over the last day.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...cestershire-36814394It is a short piece of music and was intended by the composer to be played 840 times. Not surprisingly it has been rarely played. I won't put a clip of it, not even a short one, as it's not worth listening to in my opinion, it's somewhat tedious and miserable.
I wonder what the significance of the 840 times was El? 
Moonie posted:El Loro posted:A 22 hour marathon of Erik Satie's Vexations played 840 times by dozens of pianists in Cheltenham over the last day.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...cestershire-36814394It is a short piece of music and was intended by the composer to be played 840 times. Not surprisingly it has been rarely played. I won't put a clip of it, not even a short one, as it's not worth listening to in my opinion, it's somewhat tedious and miserable.
I wonder what the significance of the 840 times was El?
No one really knows why 840 other than Erik Satie (he died a long time ago). Apparently he was into things like numerology (the idea that numbers have meanings - a bit like those who think that 13 is unlucky). People have written about this trying to come up with meanings. For instance this:
http://the-open-space.org/New/...ions_Phil_Corner.pdf
If you read it you may well be even more
840 happens to be the multiple of the first 3 odd prime numbers(3,5,7) each multiplied by 2 so 3*2*5*2*7*2 = 840.
El Loro posted:Moonie posted:El Loro posted:A 22 hour marathon of Erik Satie's Vexations played 840 times by dozens of pianists in Cheltenham over the last day.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...cestershire-36814394It is a short piece of music and was intended by the composer to be played 840 times. Not surprisingly it has been rarely played. I won't put a clip of it, not even a short one, as it's not worth listening to in my opinion, it's somewhat tedious and miserable.
I wonder what the significance of the 840 times was El?
No one really knows why 840 other than Erik Satie (he died a long time ago). Apparently he was into things like numerology (the idea that numbers have meanings - a bit like those who think that 13 is unlucky). People have written about this trying to come up with meanings. For instance this:
http://the-open-space.org/New/...ions_Phil_Corner.pdfIf you read it you may well be even more
840 happens to be the multiple of the first 3 odd prime numbers(3,5,7) each multiplied by 2 so 3*2*5*2*7*2 = 840.
There are some clever people out there El
*night owls*
evening I hope you've all had a good day mine has been non stop busy but I've had a lovely evening out with the girls
i hope you've all had a good day, and will have a good one tomorrow too
Good morning
I hope you all slept well and are waking up refreshed. Those waffles looks delicious 
I'm wide awake despite my late night, but I'm pleased because I was worried about oversleeping. I'm meeting some friends for a walk today and wouldn't want to miss it.
What are everyone's plans for today?
Tonight's Prom concert on BBC4 7.30pm to around 9.40pm will be of particular interest to Ros as it's choral and includes Faure's Requiem, also his Pavane and his Cantique de Jean Racine (which I hadn't heard before but I've just tried a snippet and it's a lovely piece of music). There's also Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate and Haydn's Mass in Time of War.
Good morning everyone, those waffles look delicious Summer thank you. I hope you have a lovely walk with your friends Summer. Very cloudy and quite chilly at the moment.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning everyone.
It's raining up here.
I fell asleep last night while I was waiting on BB to start, and didn't wake till it had finished
I hope you enjoy your walk, Summer.
Have a good day everyone.
It looks as if BBC are going ahead with showing their 3 part series The Secret Agent which starts tonight. It's probably very good considering it's scripted by Tony Marchant and stars Toby Jones but it's likely to be very dark and is about a Russian anarchist group in 1886 in London plotting bomb attacks there it could be hard to watch. Based on a novel by Jospeh Conrad it has been made into another BBC series back in 1992 (then it was David Suchet). There was also a film version in 1996 (with Bob Hoskins).
The Hitchcock film Secret Agent made in 1936 is nothing to to with the Conrad novel. However his next film was Sabotage which is a version of the Conrad novel. That one had Oscar Homolka in the lead. I'm not aware that it has ever been shown on television and I doubt that it ever will. That film version had a lot of differences to the novel and I wouldn't have thought that the BBC would be so stupid to permit exactly the same scene as what makes the Hitchcock version unshowable.
Evening all.
I've had a relaxing Sunday and I hope you have too.
velvet donkey posted:I have Yogi
Glad to hear it.
Goodnight and sweet dreams Velvet and Ros.
Hugs for the night owls
*night owls* I have too yogi it's been busy but all fun things.
I hope you sleep well tonight, sweet dreams
goodnight velvet, I hope you've had a few laughs this Sunday
leaving goodnight hugs for moonie & Ros
night yogi summer velvet
Good morning everyone.
It's overcast up here but I think tomorrow will be sunny.
Out and about today. Have a good day everyone.
Got a call this morning from 02108074079 claiming they were carrying out a survey and wanted to know which bank I used. I refused to answer and put the phone down.
A google search on that number (omitted the first zero) revealed that the number had been reported before on sites such as who calls me but for the windows technical support scam.
Good morning everyone, we've got a huge sea mist rolling in so it's bright blue sky above and very misty over the sea and along the valley, very odd.
I hope it brightens up for everyone, but those temperatures predicted for the South East look alarmingly high. I see they are recommending everyone travelling take along a bottle of water and sunscreen.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning it's overcast but very warm here, and breezy. I've actually got a summer dress on!
have be a good day yogi
el, those calls- grr! 
Btw squiggle, I bet the mist is beautiful and mystic at the same time
It's almost eerie Summer, it's still there, it's retreated from the valley now but you can't see the sea just a huge thick bank of fog. When it creeps inland it's fingers of mist but a fog bank over the sea.
It sounds like something off of Harry Potter, Squiggle! 
is it clearing now?
El I hope your meeting went well. Have you had lunch?
The local cherries are amazing at the moment, I've been eating them every day.
We have been busy so far today, there's a rush of people who want to beat the school holiday rush. Little do they know, some school have already finished for the summer...
Well it's cleared, and no sea monsters EL - not that I can see anyway. Cherries are very moreish
Quite, I've got some more in front of me right now I'm too full after my dinner though so I think I'll save them for tomorrow.
I'm in my garden watching the moon rise, as the sunset behind me makes the horizon glow purple & pink. It's a beautiful, beautiful evening
i hope you've all had a lovely day
El, you get star of the day for your multi-tasking abilities 