Good morning 
sunny and windy here today, I've got a huge heavy throw to hang out on the line and hopefully today will dry it out nicely.
What are you all up to today?
After the recent hectic schedule at work, I've dedicated today to myself & Miss Bramble, we're going to be around our home pottering about and writing to everyone we need to catch up with. A movie & some chocolate wouldn't go a miss either 
Good morning everyone.
Thanks El, it was a good day.
ATM, the sun is shining so I am going to run some errands before it disappears.
Summer, enjoy your movie and chocolate - eat a few squares for me!
Have a good day everyone.
Good morning everyone, a much brighter and nicer morning this morning. Sounds like you all had a lovely day Yogi well done on your inventiveness.
Enjoy your day everyone
If anyone is looking for somewhere hot you could consider going to KELT-9b, It's certainly hot - about 4,300 C. That compares to the surface of the sun which is about 5,500 C. There's also the plus that as it orbits its star every two days you get a birthday every other day.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...environment-40171936
El Loro posted:I've found another longer clip of the GWR 1450 steam engine I posted yesterday.
PB will love that video. She shares Granny's love of steam trains.
She says the steam train noise is "chugga chugga woo woo!"
Good afternoon Buddies
Lovely day here today. Lots of washing done and dried. Various visits to various retail outlets. Lots of of money spent on my "flexible friend" 
We are in for more wet and windy stuff again tomorrow 
Knew it wouldn't last 
I shall be out casting my vote early as I usually do 
Have a lovely evening friends and happy voting tomorrow 
Moonie, I'm glad you've had a lovely productive day
As you say, tomorrow is set to be another wet and windy day though there's a possibility that late afternoon there could be some very nasty weather in a very narrow rain band which according to the Met Office is right over my area. I had been aware of that for a few days and made sure that I didn't need to go and see a client at that time as it's the type of weather which could easily produce flash flooding.
Yogi, I have posted this clip before but I love it as it's so quaint and charming. It's from the 1923 Buster Keaton film Our Hospitality. As such there's no sound other than the music and there is the odd distortion with the sound which in in the clip rather than the film. The steam engine is a faithful, mechanically accurate re-creation of Stephenson's Rocket. By the way, the train driver was Buster's father Joe. You can see the resemblance between him and Buster.
Good evening I hope you're all enjoying the day, it's been lovely here. I've just finished catching up on the durrells- it was lovely!!! And I'm pleased there'll be a 3rd series next year 
Moonie it's lovely to see you, I hope your flexible friend has been keeping up with his yoga lately and hasn't done himself an Injury
El Loro posted:At a memorial service today at Westminster Abbey:
No prizes for saying who the service was for.
I thought I had replied to this earlier. It's Ronnie Corbett's chair.
El Loro posted:Yogi, I have posted this clip before but I love it as it's so quaint and charming. It's from the 1923 Buster Keaton film Our Hospitality. As such there's no sound other than the music and there is the odd distortion with the sound which in in the clip rather than the film. The steam engine is a faithful, mechanically accurate re-creation of Stephenson's Rocket. By the way, the train driver was Buster's father Joe. You can see the resemblance between him and Buster.
Quaint and charming is a perfect description.
I loved the little dog running under the carriages.
It was a bit of a bumpy ride for the passengers on the rooves.
Moonie posted:Good afternoon Buddies
Lovely day here today. Lots of washing done and dried. Various visits to various retail outlets. Lots of of money spent on my "flexible friend"
We are in for more wet and windy stuff again tomorrow
Knew it wouldn't last
I shall be out casting my vote early as I usually do
Have a lovely evening friends and happy voting tomorrow
Hi Moonie.
Have you been buying something nice?
~Sweet Summer~ posted:Good evening
Hi Summer.
The sun has been shining here too, with a bit of a cool breeze.
I enjoyed The Durrells too.
Evening yogi see you in the BB thread
I'm going to leave goodnight hugs now because I think I may nod off before BB finished. Sweet dreams yogi & Ros and leaving extra ones for moonie & velvet
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Summer, Velvet and Ros
night yogi summer velvet moons
Good morning everyone
Cloudy and breezy here. No rain yet, some is likely this morning. The Met Office rain map is still showing a narrow band of intense rain in a sw-ne line across the country which goes right over my area for the second half of the afternoon/early evening. Although there are no warnings (yet) for this, if the maps are right, we could get up to 100 mm of rain in a 3 hour period which of course would result in flash flooding.
The film Our Hospitality (from which the Rocket steam engine clip came from) is a film well worth watching. Although it's described as a comedy, it's not of the slapstick type associated with silent comedies but more of a serious comedy drama. Set in the early 1800s it starts off with Buster Keaton leaving New York (which is replicated as it was then, utterly different from what it is now), going by that train to the Appalachians. There is a long standing feud between the McKays and the Canfields, Keaton is Willie McKay, knows little of the feud, He falls in love with a girl there.
There is a climatic ending to the film which is genuinely gripping and made more so when you know that there are no special effects whatsoever in the film.
I have to go out to see a client later this morning. Although it's likely to be raining, I expect to be back before the real risk starts.
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning everyone
It's pouring down, up here.
Oven cleaning, grocery shopping and voting awaits.
Have a good day everyone.
Good morning everyone, pouring down here too, let's hope it eases off before I have to go out this afternoon. I hope everyone can manage to dodge the rain.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning it's raining here, we're joined by the band of it El
work has finally calmed down-phew!!!!!!
happy pottering yogi, I love the oven being clean
I like the sound of Summerland 
El Loro posted:I'm back from the client and had some lunch followed by a phone call from a different client. It rained a bit while I was out. Sounds as if the rain band goes from Squiggle Countty via El Loro Territory up towards Summerland and then to the wilds of Yogistan
velvet donkey posted:Evening troops
Hope all are fine and dandy. Great day here - steady drizzle/keeps them all indoors.
Looking forward to tonights results - hope there's some drama along the way
Evening Velvet.
Hubby and I are going to try to stay awake and watch the results come in.
velvet donkey posted:Evening Yogi
Me too - should be interesting
Hopefully.
El Loro posted:Summerland and Yogistan shouldn't be confused with Samarkand which is in Uzbekistan
Thank goodness we all know how to use maps!
~Sweet Summer~ posted:El Loro posted:Summerland and Yogistan shouldn't be confused with Samarkand which is in Uzbekistan
Thank goodness we all know how to use maps!
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Summer, Ros and Velvet.
night yogi summer velvet
Sweet dreams yogi & Ros
