@El Loro posted:Slim, I haven't spotted anything of much interest on the Talking Pictures tv channel this coming week.
No worries El, I've plenty recorded to be going on with 
Thank you for looking anyway though 
@Moonie posted:Good morning Buddies
Its been throwing it down all night here and continues too. the weather forecast is for thundery and a gentle breeze. It’s still almost as dark as night
I hope you all have a good day
It seems to have stopped raining here for the time being, about ½ an inch this morning.
Back in June NASA announced that they ere setting up an independent study on unexplaimed aerial phenomena:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/n...ed-aerial-phenomena/
And on Friday they announced who would be in the team:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/n...ed-aerial-phenomena/
Fox Mulder doesn't seem to be one of that team 
@El Loro posted:Back in June NASA announced that they ere setting up an independent study on unexplaimed aerial phenomena:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/n...ed-aerial-phenomena/
And on Friday they announced who would be in the team:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/n...ed-aerial-phenomena/
Fox Mulder doesn't seem to be one of that team
@El Loro posted:Back in June NASA announced that they ere setting up an independent study on unexplaimed aerial phenomena:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/n...ed-aerial-phenomena/
And on Friday they announced who would be in the team:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/n...ed-aerial-phenomena/
Fox Mulder doesn't seem to be one of that team
tbh though ELI find it interesting and makes you think
and re Fox Mulder
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:
As Shakespeare said, "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" 
My internet connection had been down for several hours but seems to have just come back in the last few minutes. Phone was also down but came back over 3 hours ago.
Luckily it didn't affect my work. The outage was affecting other people locally.
I hope everyone has a good night
@El Loro posted:My internet connection had been down for several hours but seems to have just come back in the last few minutes. Phone was also down but came back over 3 hours ago.
Luckily it didn't affect my work. The outage was affecting other people locally.
I hope everyone has a good night
Happy to see you got back safely El 
Have a good evening yourself
@El Loro posted:As Shakespeare said, "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy"
so true EL
Good morning everyone 
Some sunshine here at present, forecast to become cloudy, and some rain by evening.
Hopefully no internet issues today, at least they don't happen that often. My neighbour, also with Virgin Media, saits that they had beem getting some short outages over the last couple of weeks but I haven't noticed any, Recently they converted their garage to an office and had an internet exteniosn there so that could well be causing their problems. I think they got that done by an outfit other than Virgin so they could have difficulties getting their problems sorted.
I hope everyone has a good day
Apparently there's been a partial eclipse of the Sun by the Moon this morning though it would be dangerous to go and have a look at it directly, it's virually over by now anyway. Best view would have been up north. There's a photo of it taken in the Shetlands on the BBC site. It's not spectacular as only 28% of the Sun was eclipsed at maximum there, and a much smaller percentage further south.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63383958
@El Loro posted:Apparently there's been a partial eclipse of the Sun by the Moon this morning though it would be dangerous to go and have a look at it directly, it's virually over by now anyway. Best view would have been up north. There's a photo of it taken in the Shetlands on the BBC site. It's not spectacular as only 28% of the Sun was eclipsed at maximum there, and a much smaller percentage further south.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63383958
Yes, have just seen a report on the news.
As you say, not spectacular...although I am impressed on how spherical it is...I'd expect there to be at least some distortion around the edges 
@slimfern posted:Yes, have just seen a report on the news.
As you say, not spectacular...although I am impressed on how spherical it is...I'd expect there to be at least some distortion around the edges
Although the Sun and the Moon are almost round, they aren't quite though
It's to do with gravity pulling inwards, the larger the object, the higher the gravitational pull. The result is that the centre tends to be equidistant to the outside regardkess of which direction is taken from the centre.
A 12 minute silent film made in 1912 called "The Land Beyond the Sunset". It was made as a promotional film for the New York Fresh Air Fund, a charity whose purpose was (and still is) to enable poor children there to have some time out of the city and to get fresh air.
It was made through the Edison Studios from a story by Dorothy G Shaw and directed by Harold M Shaw.
This has a soundtrack which was added years later.
It's a lovely film
@El Loro posted:A 12 minute silent film made in 1912 called "The Land Beyond the Sunset". It was made as a promotional film for the New York Fresh Air Fund, a charity whose purpose was (and still is) to enable poor children there to have some time out of the city and to get fresh air.
It was made through the Edison Studios from a story by Dorothy G Shaw and directed by Harold M Shaw.
This has a soundtrack which was added years later.
It's a lovely film
It's a sad little film ...happy ending though
What a great reason to make a charitable film 
didn't realise there was a partial eclipse today-not a brilliant one but very interesting-thankyou EL
News that Fords may be discontinuing Fiestas:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63391466
@El Loro posted:News that Fords may be discontinuing Fiestas:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63391466
I remember them
@El Loro posted:Good morning everyone
Has been a bit of rain here but may be dry for the rest of the day.Ros, I hope you have a very happy birthday today
I hope everyone has a good day
thankyou so much EL
thank
@El Loro posted:News that Fords may be discontinuing Fiestas:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63391466
shame as the new fiestas are quite nice EL
A BBC article about a library book having been returned to the libary 84 years late with a donation to cover what the fine would have been:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...arwickshire-63404340
The writer Richard Jefferies isn't that well known nowadays but there is a museum in his name which was shown on the Antiques Road Trip last year. He also inspired Henry Williamson to become a writer (Tarka the Otter).
@El Loro posted:A BBC article about a library book having been returned to the libary 84 years late with a donation to cover what the fine would have been:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...arwickshire-63404340
The writer Richard Jefferies isn't that well known nowadays but there is a museum in his name which was shown on the Antiques Road Trip last year. He also inspired Henry Williamson to become a writer (Tarka the Otter).
It's a wonder that the library is still open, as many have closed throughout the country.
£18.27 seems a bit stingy, he could of at least rounded it up to a £20 note 
I've not heard of the author before El...but see he is a Swindon lad who grew up on a farm. I'm wondering if my late husband's family knew of him as they too were farming folk in that area
@slimfern posted:It's a wonder that the library is still open, as many have closed throughout the country.
£18.27 seems a bit stingy, he could of at least rounded it up to a £20 note
I've not heard of the author before El...but see he is a Swindon lad who grew up on a farm. I'm wondering if my late husband's family knew of him as they too were farming folk in that area
Not nessarily as he was writing during the 19th century. It's posible that it was him who first used the term "wildlife".