El Loro posted:For those who watch Victoria, ITV announced today that it will be making series 3 with the same leads Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes. The series will start in 1848. There's also the 2 hour Christmas Day special called Comfort and Joy.
YIppeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! Iām very happy to hear it and Iām looking forward to the Xmas special 
I hope my mum wants to watch it
El Loro posted:El Loro posted 21/11/17A picture of that asteroid "Oumuamua" which looks very odd as it's as least 10 time as long as is wide.That asteroid I posted about has become quite a lot more interesting today:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...environment-42329244
Because of it's odd shape, they are going to see if there's any sign of alien technology on it. The first tests will be done tomorrow. Could it be an interstellar spacecraft?
That would be so cool! Iād love it š½
Sorry I missed you yogi, I hope youāve had a good evening 
my eyes are much better tonight, those drops from the doctor are fabulous. Iām still very red but the swelling has gone down 
leaving sweet dreams hugs for everyone š¤ š
Yogi19 posted:Iām all caught up now.
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
Night owl hug for Summer
night yogi and summer
Good mornng everyone 
As forecast, it's some 7 C warmer here outside than this time yesterday so all the snow and ice has gone. There's still snow on the hills. It's cloudy and forecast to be fairly showery and breezy today but rain, not snow.
Yogi, I'm glad you had a good day with the tiddlers
Summer, I'm glad that your eye infection is continuing to subside
Another astronomical news story today, this time about Jupiter's red spot - it's at least 350 km deep into the atmosphere and could be a lot deeper:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...environment-42319405
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning everyone.
Weather is damp and grey.
I need to post my Christmas cards and pick up a few gifts today.
Have a good day everyone.
Good morning everyone, very grey and rainy today. I hope the snow clears quickly for those who have had quite a lot of it, it know it can make life very difficult, the novelty wears off quickly.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning 
mild and grey here too today
thatās an interesting story about Jupiter, the size of it is just immense! I wonder if the red spot will ever slow down or just keep on raging, it must have an unstoppable momentum.
Iāve got to drop some parcels off at the post office, and then Iām meeting some friends for an impromptu lunch, then Iām meeting some different friends for tea!
have a great day everyone
Although not as long lasting or dramatic as the red spot on Jupiter, Saturn does have the equivalent called the great white spot (or oval being elongated):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Spot
The other gas giant planet Neptune also has storms referred to as the great dark spot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dark_Spot
Some engineers have managed to get a broadband connection to work using string which had been soaked in salty water - exttemely short distance and not at all fast - there's no commercial use for it, they just wanted to see if they could.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42338067
It's a bit like the two empty baked bean tins with a piece of string for a primitive phone.
Few, if any, of us have any interest in American football, but this short clip is that of a game played in blizzard conditions:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/42308881
Back in 1993 there was an American television series called Key West. A man played by Fisher Stevens won the lottery so decided to give up his factory job and go to Key West where Ernest Hemingway lived to follow his dream of becoming a writer. He gets a job as a reporter on the local newspaper and becomes friends with some of the locals. The regular cast also included Denise Crosby, Brian Thompson and also Jennifer Tilly, It was a comedy drama with a heart of gold. There were only 13 episodes ever made. It did get shown on television in the UK but late at night. I did see it by chance and recorded every episode.
It would get my nomination as the best unknown television series I've ever seen.
You can't get it on DVD but you can see it on Youtube.
This link goes to a channel where all but episode 12 are available:
https://www.youtube.com/channe...k-nY96kGY-nEuMjCtDKQ
Episode 12 is also available but in 4 parts via:
https://www.youtube.com/playli...t=PL66B6AC5EA28EED2B
Although Jennifer Tilly's character is that of a high class prostitute, that's incidental and nothing is shown of that activity. If the series was rated it would probably get somewhere between PG and 12.
Episode 13 is as good as anything you'll see on television.
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros.
Night owl hug for Summer
Night owl hug š¤ and sweet dreams yogi & Ros
Iāve had a lovely day; nice lunch with friends, posted a lot of parcels and then had a lovely tea with friends š
I hope youāve all had a lovely day
night yogi and summer
Good morning all
We had a flurry of snow a teatime yesterday and winter showers are forecast for today.
Summer, Iām glad you had a lovely day.
Iāve got a couple of parcels to post but Iām waiting on things being delivered to add to them. Hopefully, theyāll arrive today and I can get them posted off.
Grocery shopping this morning and then I might make a start on wrapping some presents.
Have a good day, everyone.
Good morning everyone
Cooler here than yesterday, there may be some showers of rain (not snow).
Scientists have worked out how much rain fell during that dreadful Hurricane Harvey:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...environment-42347510
Routine straighforward client meeting this morning.
I hope everyone has a good day
Thatās a lot of rain!
Hope the meeting goes well, El
Good morning š frosty on the ground but milder in the air today
yogi, did you enjoy your snow flurry?
Good morning everyone, a bright morning after a dreadful night and evening. I have never heard such a strong wind, it seemed to be prowling around the house trying to get in. It was so strong that it blew my grandson off his feet and he talked to another guy who was much bigger and he said it blew him over too.
Hope everyone's plans go according to plan today.
Enjoy your day everyone
A much busier day than I had expected as the huge client sent me the draft accounts and personal tax return of one of the directors to check. It's the other accountants who do those. So I checked them and have been back in touch with the client with my comments.
Squiggle, I hope there's no wind damage on your property - that sounds quite alarming. The strongest wind I've been in was in Birmingham many years ago. I was coming out of a subway which went under one of the busy roads and it was near impossible to walk forward other than by hanging on to the rail and edging forward. It was effectively a wind tunnel,
~Sweet Sequins & Sparkles~ posted:Good morning š frosty on the ground but milder in the air today
yogi, did you enjoy your snow flurry?
It was very pretty, while it lasted
I hope the wind has died down now, Squiggle.
Well done on getting the extra work completed so quickly, El
Yogi, thanks It was about an extra 3 hours of work but needed to be done as soon as I got the draft accounts and tax return as the final ones need to be signed and sent off the Companies House and HMRC to be received by the end of the year. With the Christmas break coming very soon I had to do this straightaway. I was expecting to do this so it wasn't a surprise other than I didn't know when I would get them to review.
Goodnight and sweet dreams, everyone.
Hugs for the night owls
Crikey squiggle, thatās scary, I hope thereās no damage to your home and that everyone is safe
El, weāll done on getting your work done so swiftly. How much time off do you allow yourself for Xmas?
Sweet dreams yogi I hope youāve had a lovely day
night yogi and summer
Good morning everyone
Sunny here, cooler than yesterday with the breeze coming from the north.
Summer, my time off does depend on clients. I've got quite a few clients who have yet to get their papers to me. With the deadline of 31 January, I need to work on their accounts/tax returns as soon as I get them. The majority of them are straightforward. One of them is far from straightfoward though for reasons I won't go into I may refuse to do his for both breach of contract and of trust and also for potentially putting me in an impossible position.
Extremely straightfoward client meeting shortly - he's coming here.
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning everyone, it seemed to take forever to get light this morning, anyway it looks like a bright morning but very cold.
Enjoy your day everyone
Just had a phone call from the Come Dine With Me people saying they wanted me to be in one of their episodes. I turned the offer down as I wouldn't want to be involved. I've never seen it but apart from anything else as I have confidential client files here it would be too risky to have strangers in the house - data protection rules and all that.
A BBC clip posted today about paternosters:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-42363360/
I've posted about them before - a form of lift which is always moving and has no doors. I've only ever been on one. That was when I was a child, it was in a department store, but I couldn't say if it's the one featured in the clip from an old newsreel.
Good morning everyone.
Very slippy underfoot today.
Been to drop off my car for itās first MOT. Fingers crossed it passes.š¤š»
El, I think my claustrophobia would kick in if I went into one of those lifts.
How did the CDWM people get your details?
Have a good day, everyone.
Yogi, I hope you don't fall on the ice Good luck with the MOT. I would think it will pass without a problem as you would probably suspect that something was wrong otherwise.
I think a lot of people would be wary of going in a paternoster fearing that they wouldn't get their timing to get out spot on.
I had thought that CDWM contestants applied to be on - that's what the Channel 4 site says. I've no idea as to where they got my details. My brother was also asked to be a contestant some years ago - he thought that he had been suggested to them by someone he worked with. So it's possible that I was suggested by someone who knows me but not that well as they should realise that I'm not an option. My brother didn't participate either.
Tewkesbury, which isn't that far away from me, is having serious water problems with 10,000 people without water. Severn Trent have engineers, drones and a helicopter trying to find where the leak is. They've set up a supply of water bottles ay one of the main supermarkets there. 13 local schools there and neighbouring villages have had to be closed as a result.
Severn Trent have now located the source of the leak and some people in Tewkesbury are getting their water restored though it sounds as if it will take time for everyone's supply to be back to normal.
The leak was found to be underneath a golf course at the Tewkesbury Park Hotel.
My car passed its MOT
El, Iām glad theyāve sourced the leak and hope itās sorted quickly.
