El Loro posted:Architects create an ideal city - from gingerbread:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/...and-london-46488654/
Amazing!!!
~Sweet Sparkles~ posted:El Loro posted:A Youtube clip of a collector of antique Christmas trees and decorations, It starts with an antique feather Christmas tree.
You may need to turn up the sound a bit to be able to hear him.
Wow!!!!!
El-Cyclopedia, you are the best
That’s our man 
Good morning everyone 
A bit of sunshine here, showers around.
Summer, I'm glad I found what your friend's Christmas tree was. Although there were artificail trees before then, they seemed too basic to be possible, and it was too early for it to have been aluminium based and far too early to have been plastic based.
I hope everyone has a good day 
Good morning everyone, atrocious weather here, I hope it's going to brighten up later on.
Enjoy your day everyone
If you want to see the world's oldest surviving Christmas tree, there's a photo of it on this Telegraph page:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ch...rds-christmas-theme/
It's the last ot the 15 items mentioned. Bought in 1886, it's a mere 12 inches high.
Good morning
Enjoy it while you have it El 
we’ve got a lovely morning too, and a bit of frost!
2 weeks til Xmas eve!
Watched two films yesterday evening.
The first was The Great Gabbo (1929) starring Erich von Stroheim as a ventriloquist who goes mad. It's a curio of a film - his scenes have some worth and one almost feels sorry for him by the end of the film. The majority of the film is set in a theatre staging a musical revue (with one scene with him doing his ventriloquist act) but the emphasis is on one musical number after another. Big extravagant numbers but the film was made before Busby Berkeley's era and they aren't of that standard.
Here's one of the shorter numbers called "That New Step". It's sung by Marjorie Kane who was 20 at the time but had the nickname "Babe":
The second was Mononoke-hime (1997) the Japanese original of Princess Mononoke with English subtitles rather than the English dubbed version. Extraordinary high class animation.
The orginal theme song as in the Japanese version which was sung by the counter-tenor Yoshikazu Mera. That's the highest male voice excluding falsetto - he would have been about 26 at the time.
Good morning everyone, we get a peek at blue sky every now and then but mostly grey cloud, it's dry though which makes a nice change.
Enjoy your day everyone
Apparently there is a vast amount of life on this planet which is beneath our feet:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-46502570
Mind boggling.
Afternoon all.
I haven’t read back yet and I hope everyone is well.
El Loro posted:All is well here, Yogi
That’s good
Need an early night, goodnight and sweet dreams, everyone.
El Loro posted:If you want to see the world's oldest surviving Christmas tree, there's a photo of it on this Telegraph page:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ch...rds-christmas-theme/It's the last ot the 15 items mentioned. Bought in 1886, it's a mere 12 inches high.
I love the floating Xmas tree too!
Sweet dreams festive friends I hope you’ve each had a good day. I’ve been assembling furniture for my mum tonight and Bramble made it very clear she would rather stay there than come home with me lol so i’ll Pick her up tomorrow 🤷♀️ Her little face was hilarious!
El Loro posted:Apparently there is a vast amount of life on this planet which is beneath our feet:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-46502570Mind boggling.
love stuff like this EL so interesting
~Sweet Sparkles~ posted:Sweet dreams festive friends
Bramble is a darling 
Moonie posted:El Loro posted:Moonie, if the forecast is similar to mine, today and tomorrow are warmer than Thursday and Friday when it is expected to be cold
Hi El
Today and tomorrow don’t look to bad but Thursday/Friday have a high of 3 degrees and a low of minus 1
Very similar to here 
Good morning everyone, a very grey morning here but no rain so that's a bonus. I plan to stay in on Thursday and Friday when the weather is due to turn cold, but it warms up for the weekend I think.
Enjoy your day everyone
If any of you use Google+. the closing down date of August next year has been brought forward to April due to a second bug:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46515590
Good morning back to grey skies, fog and damp. Bring back Jack Frost!
How are we all today?
5 of the UK's internet service providers have signed up to an agreement whereby any user who experiences a loss of broadband which takes longer than two days to fix will automatically get compensation of £8 a day,
El Loro posted:5 of the UK's internet service providers have signed up to an agreement whereby any user who experiences a loss of broadband which takes longer than two days to fix will automatically get compensation of £8 a day,
I have just heard that on the radio. Good news and not before time either
Evening all
I hope you’ve all had a good day.
The Tiddlers were on good form. Moonie, we made squirrel pancakes and I took a pic