@El Loro posted:

There was a recent sunset here I saw which looked a bot like this:

That's Lovely El

The one I posted was taken 9 years ago from my flat in Manchester...
FB have re-posted it today as a memory

@slimfern posted:

Not to worry El, I've got plenty recorded to be going on with

Thanks anyways

and if not there's lots of football, then Commonwealth Games, then the cricket Hundred, then the European Championships (a  bit like the Commonwealth Games)

The following week on Talking Pictures is a bit better though

Good morning Buddies

A cool, breezy overcast day here

The Commonwealth Aquatic Centre is 10 minutes walk up the road from where I live

Enjoy your day everyone

@El Loro posted:

and if not there's lots of football, then Commonwealth Games, then the cricket Hundred, then the European Championships (a  bit like the Commonwealth Games)

The following week on Talking Pictures is a bit better though

I shall look forward to the following week methinks El

@Moonie posted:

Good morning Buddies

A cool, breezy overcast day here

The Commonwealth Aquatic Centre is 10 minutes walk up the road from where I live

Enjoy your day everyone

Your park with the swans etc

@El Loro posted:

Your park with the swans etc

No El, it is in part of a park a little further away

Then park where the swans are is two minutes walk from where I live. It is undergoing a £6.5million renovation and rebuild. It’s actually looking quite nice now

@Moonie posted:

No El, it is in part of a park a little further away

Then park where the swans are is two minutes walk from where I live. It is undergoing a £6.5million renovation and rebuild. It’s actually looking quite nice now

I hope your swans are happy

@El Loro posted:

I hope your swans are happy

There was a couple of swans up there but they are only there occasionally now. I think the renovation of the large and small ponds frightened them. There was a lot of heavy machinery moving about. Hopefully they will be back and breeding when it’s quieter 👍

@Moonie posted:

There was a couple of swans up there but they are only there occasionally now. I think the renovation of the large and small ponds frightened them. There was a lot of heavy machinery moving about. Hopefully they will be back and breeding when it’s quieter 👍

I hope so

Amusing short quiz on the BBC site
I got the 2 local ones and 1 other correct

@El Loro posted:

I hope so

Me too

Night night, sleep well  sweet dreams Buddies

@El Loro posted:

Amusing short quiz on the BBC site
I got the 2 local ones and 1 other correct

similar EL

night EL slim moonsiee velvet

Good morning everyone

Cloudy here, might get a bit of rain but not much.

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning Buddies

Overcast and cool. Light showers or not expected, depending on which weather site one looks on

Enjoy your day everyone

@Moonie posted:

Good morning Buddies

Overcast and cool. Light showers or not expected, depending on which weather site one looks on

Enjoy your day everyone

Robert FitzRoy is the person who came up with the term weather forecast in about 1859. He was the first person to be in charge of the department now known as the Meteorological Office. If you ever hear the shipping forecast on the radio, one of the shipping areas is FitzRoy named after him.

@El Loro posted:

Robert FitzRoy is the person who came up with the term weather forecast in about 1859. He was the first person to be in charge of the department now known as the Meteorological Office. If you ever hear the shipping forecast on the radio, one of the shipping areas is FitzRoy named after him.

El, I listen to the shipping forecast every night I am awake, which is most nights

@Moonie posted:

El, I listen to the shipping forecast every night I am awake, which is most nights

The special shipping forecast done on the night of 18th/19th December 1993 which was televised as well as being on the radio:

(at that time, it was Finisterre before it was renamed FitxRoy).

The winner was Alasdair Firth:

@El Loro posted:

The winner was Alasdair Firth:

So what exactly is the criteria for hugging a tree?
Seems a bit

@El Loro posted:

Amusing short quiz on the BBC site
I got the 2 local ones and 1 other correct

@slimfern posted:

Your score: 4 / 7

Four tins of haggis

Tuck in, you've earned it!

Yuck!
Maybe not quite as bad a eating baby eels *shudders*

I've never eaten elvers/eels

@slimfern posted:

So what exactly is the criteria for hugging a tree?
Seems a bit

No idea as to what the criteria are but it looks harmless

Night night, sleep well, sweet dreams Buddies

@El Loro posted:

The special shipping forecast done on the night of 18th/19th December 1993 which was televised as well as being on the radio:

(at that time, it was Finisterre before it was renamed FitxRoy).

tbf its interesting - remember hearing this when I was little

@El Loro posted:

The winner was Alasdair Firth:

interesting -wonder what criteria they use to judge tree hugging thank you EL you always find something interesting

5/7 for that BBC quiz but lucky guesses

night EL slim moonsiieee

Good morning everyone

Quite cloudy day here, little sign of any rain.

I hope everyone has a good day

Short piece of music featuring 3 recorders and a duck:

Music was composed in 1513 by Henry VIII

@El Loro posted:

Short piece of music featuring 3 recorders and a duck:

Music was composed in 1513 by Henry VIII

Liked that

They're not like any recorder I've ever played...especially the big one played by the young Chinese lady...

@slimfern posted:

Liked that

They're not like any recorder I've ever played...especially the big one played by the young Chinese lady...

The recorders they were playing would have been of a much higher standard (and cost) than those used in schools. Although the soprano one is the most familiar, there are larger ones so deeper such as alto, tenor and bass so rather like singing ranges.

That's from the wiki article on recorders:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...(musical_instrument)

@El Loro posted:

Ranges of the modern recorder family
In C	Written	Sounding	In F	Written	Sounding
garklein or sopranissimo or piccolo in C6 (c‴)			sopranino in F5 (f″)
soprano or descant in C5 (c″)			alto or treble in F4 (f′)
tenor in C4 (c′)			bass or basset in F3 (f)
(great) bass or quart-bass in C3 (c)			contrabass or great bass or sub-bass in F2 (F)
sub-great bass or contra-great bass or contrabass in C2 (C)			sub-contrabass or double contrabass (octocontrabass) in F1 (FF)

Looks very pretty 

I remember learning about quavers, semi-quavers and crotchets etc at school...the only quaver I would recognise these days comes in a yellow packet

@slimfern posted:

Looks very pretty 

I remember learning about quavers, semi-quavers and crotchets etc at school...the only quaver I would recognise these days comes in a yellow packet

From longest to shortest with each one being half of the one above:
breve
semibreve
minim
crotchet
quaver
semiquaver
demisemiquaver
hemidemisemiquaver
There are shorter notes but rarely used: semihemidemisemiquaver and demisemihemidemisemiquaver

@El Loro posted:

From longest to shortest with each one being half of the one above:
breve
semibreve
minim
crotchet
quaver
semiquaver
demisemiquaver
hemidemisemiquaver
There are shorter notes but rarely used: semihemidemisemiquaver and demisemihemidemisemiquaver

Blimey!! They might be shorter notes but they're definitely not short in letters are they

Night night, sleep well, sweet dreams Buddies

@El Loro posted:

The recorders they were playing would have been of a much higher standard (and cost) than those used in schools. Although the soprano one is the most familiar, there are larger ones so deeper such as alto, tenor and bass so rather like singing ranges.

played all four types of recorders in school in the school band  and choir-they all were played very differently