I've posted about Alma Deutscher before and she's been in the news again this week.
Good thinking El, Christmas Day was a good choice for your first time on a motorway.
Have a fabulous time on your skiing holiday, Summer.
<- cushion for your bum!
Goodnight all. Hugs for the night owls.
night yogi summer I hope you have a lovely time
Good morning everyone.
Weather is wet and windy.
Happy baby and I are off to a panto tonight with middle son, DiL and PB. PB is excited because her uncle has promised to buy her a "light up wand".
Have a good day everyone.
Good morning everyone, cloudy but not oppressive and at least it's dry. Summer could be Slaloming Summer perhaps. Anyway I know she will have a fabulous time on and off the slopes.
Have a great time at the panto Yogi, I'm sure PB will love her light up wand 
Enjoy your day everyone 
We thoroughly enjoyed the panto. PB got her light up wand and joined in with everything. It's quite magical watching everything through a child's eyes.
Summer, I hope you are having a fabulous time and don't have too many bruises.
To all my lovely Buddies, I wish you a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year.
As soon as it gets a bit lighter we'll get the bikes out. We may have to dodge the showers though. Enjoy your day everybody!
Good morning everyone and a Happy New Year to you
Cloudy here and forecast to be a wet day and turning colder.
According to the forecast on the Metcheck site the wind speed this morning is 221 mph with gusts around 20 mph. Something about that doesn't quite ring true
Yogi, I'm glad everyone enjoyed the panto and PB delighted with her wand
GJ, I hope you are able to get out on your bikes today. I don't think the weather forecast is as poor as it is here.
I hope everyone has a good day
I'm posting the new meerkat advert which I saw yesterday for @~Sparkling Summer~
as she might miss it being out of the country and she'll love it.
Good morning everyone, high cloud again. How lovely to see the panto through the eyes of a child Yogi. What panto was it and what did BB make of it all?
Enjoy your day everyone
Happy New Year everyone.
Enjoy your bike ride, Joe. I hope the weather is dry for you.
El, I never forgave them for abandoning baby Oleg 
so I love the new clip.
Squiggle, BB didn't go to the panto. We thought he was a little young at 10months. Maybe next year though.
We are expecting the clan for New Year's Dinner - 8 adults and 2children, it's going to be a noisy house!
Have a great day everyone.
I hadn't watched or recorded Peter Pan Goes Wrong on BBC1 shown early yesterday evening. Amateur group tries to do a staged performance of the play but if something wrong can happen it will. I was told by a couple of people at church today that it is very good and very very funny. David Suchet provides the narration and also steps in at intervals when there's been a mishap. Apparently he even does a bit of Poirot at one stage.
It's repeated on BBC1 tonight starting at midnight.
Thank you Baz
Another Irish blessing and my favourite one is this:
May the road rise to meet you;
May the wind be always at your back;
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
The rains fall softly upon your fields;
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Yogi hope your day went well with your family
night everybody
Sunny and not frosty!!
we'll be getting the bikes out!
El Loro posted:Yogi, BB did go to the panto, If you had turned around you would have that he's behind you
I didn't mind Oleg leaving as his last advert showed that he wanted to remain in Africa with his new friends.
I hope your New Year's dinner goes well
Santa Baz posted:
Very Happy 2017 Buddies .....may your joys be many and your sorrows few
Thanks Baz, and a Happy New Year to you too.
Rocking Ros posted:Yogi hope your day went well with your family
night everybody
It did go well, thanks Ros. I hope you had a Happy New Year too.
I thought I had posted in here last night. I must have forgotten to hit the POST button.
Garage Joe posted:Sunny and not frosty!!
we'll be getting the bikes out!
Enjoy your bike ride, Joe.
It's frosty up here and of course, that's the only reason I won't be cycling today.
Have a good day everyone.
Good morning everyone, lots of blue sky and fairly sunny I'm glad you had a good day with family Yogi, I hope Summer is having a great time whizzing down hills 
Enjoy your Bank Holiday everyone
squiggle posted:Good morning everyone, lots of blue sky and fairly sunny
Enjoy your Bank Holiday everyone
Great pic, Squiggle.
El Loro posted:Yogi, I do beileve you when you say that the only reason you won't be cycling today is because of the frost
Even though it's frosty here I have done a bit of cycling this morning. I put out the recycling box for emptying today
You know me better than that, El.
Quite good evening for looking at the Moon, Venus and Mars. Venus is the brightest object towards the south east of the Moon. Mars is to the north west of the Moon roughly twice the gap between the Moon and Venus. It's a lot dimmer than Venus but you'll notice a reddish tint to it.
El Loro posted:No more hippos, BBC are in the process of changing their idents and you won't see this anymore:
Aww, I liked the hippos.
El Loro posted:Quite good evening for looking at the Moon, Venus and Mars. Venus is the brightest object towards the south east of the Moon. Mars is to the north west of the Moon roughly twice the gap between the Moon and Venus. It's a lot dimmer than Venus but you'll notice a reddish tint to it.
aww thank you velvet
night yogi velvet and everybody and summer hope you are having a good time
Re my post yesterday about the Moon, Venus and Mars. This photo was taken in Cheltenham.
The view from my house was better as the Moon was a crescent but the camera used in the above doesn't pick that up. Venus is what looks like a bright star and to the northwest from the Moon you can see Mars though the reddish tint can't be seen in the above.
Tonight Mars and Venus are in much the same position and the Moon will be to the north west from Mars though I doubt I'll see due to clouds.
Good morning everyone, a beautiful crisp winter day, similar to you EL with a heavy frost last night and a sunny morning.
I did go to look at the sky but couldn't see the moon although the stars were very clear. I looked west out of my bedroom window and south out of the back bedroom window. Out of the back bedroom I could see the plough which is about the only one I can recognise easily.
Thank you Velvet, I hope you are enjoying the New Year so far
Enjoy your day everyone
Scary clip of a 2 year old saving his twin brother from underneath a chest of drawers which toppled over when they started climbing up the drawers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-38495647