Have a good day Joyron and I hope you son has a Happy Birthday

Good morning everyone, like EL its much cooler here today, but as we have had so few frosts (if any) so far we are not doing bad for January.  On our local news yesterday they were showing plants that were already blooming as if its Spring.  I do hope we don't then get a hard frost spell or they will all have their buds blighted (and there's nothing worse )

 

Skylark for my twopennorth I think you are very restrained with your granddaughter's other grandma she sounds like a bit of a horror.

 

Thanks for the vid EL, I will watch it later.  Have a good day everyone. 

 

Joyron I am reading Here Come The Girls and thoroughly enjoying it, I feel as if I am on a cruise myself

Good morning everyone. The weather is a lot better today - no wind and rain.

Happy Birthday to your son, Joyron. It's also my youngest son's birthday today.

Lovely rendition of We Three Kings, El.

Squiggle, I've noticed the tulip and daffodil bulbs seem further on than usual, for this time of year. I guess the milder temperatures have something to do with it.

Morning xx

Wishing Joyron and Yogi,s boys a very Happy Birthday  

Just getting tiddles ready, she is off at 11 with nana (does a little jig )  

Thanks El 

Yogi and Joyron I hope your boys have a lovely birthday today.

 

I really enjoyed that clip EL, a perfect ending to the Christmas season and such a powerful reminder of the wonderful events of that important night.  Thank you

Although I don't watch CBB I notice that Michael Madsen is one of those taking part. His sister Virginia is also an actress. Although I've seen very few of her films, I thought that if she had been in films in the 1940s & 50s she would have become a famous star. One of her films was Candyman which was a very gruesome horror film, but it had some exceptionally high quality music composed by Phillip Glass who is a serious American composer.

 

This is a clip of some of the music - it's music only and shows nothing from the film.

good morning everyone And happy birthday to masters yogi & joyron El thank you for the lovely video, I'm very sad to see Christmas end but I'm looking forward to the spring now 46 sleeps til pancake day Skylark I hope tiddles enjoys her panto adventure, but more so I hope you enjoy your well earned time off I've made my colleague pull her weight this morning while I took down the shop decorations and cleaned up the mess- 1 & 1/2 cans of snow spray on the trees leaves a huge amount of mess lol

Hello again.    Well the trip to the shops and to visit No.1 son went okay.  The weather is really quite nice out there today.

 

I bought myself a bunch of daffodils from the supermarket.  I know they're forced but it's nice to have a sign of spring to look at.  Spring is my favourite season and it's arrival will make me feel really good, and SO happy!!

 

Yogi, I remember now that your son's birthday is the same day as my son's.  Squiggle, I'm glad you are enjoying "Here Come the Girls".  I've not had the chance to pick up a book in the last couple of weeks but I plan on rectifying that as soon as possible.

 

Will try and get back later. 

 

 

I noticed on the Gloucester Catherdral website a couple of days ago that there was going to be an exhibition there later this month about Edward Wilson. He lived in Cheltenham and there is a statue of him there. He was a doctor and was one of those who perished with Scott of the Antartic on that ill fated expedition. They died on 29 March 1912 so the centenary will be this March.

 

And then there was a news item today about an auction of Titanic memorabilia. Prawn Cracker has a thread about that.

 

The Titanic sunk on 15 April 1912, just over 2 weeks after Scott and the others perished.

 

It is sad and strange that two of the most famous British tragedies should happen so close together.

 

Although the news is bound to refer to the Titanic several times, and I think ITV are having a drama soon about this, I suspect less will be mentioned about Scott.

 

The music for Scott of the Antartic was composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. He adapted the music for his 7th symphony called Sinfonia Antartica. This clip is part of that symphony.

Evening everyone.

Youngest son has had a nice birthday and is spending the evening with his girlfriend.

Joyron, I hope your son has had a lovely birthday, too.

Thank you for the music clips, El. I was telling my parents today that you post music clips for us and have introduced me to pieces I would otherwise never have heard.

Summer, I am not waiting 46 sleeps for a pancake, I'm thinking of having some tomorrow.

Skylark, I hope the wee one enjoyed the panto.

 

I'm heading off to read early tonight - its such a good book, so have a good evening everyone, speak to you tomorrow.

Yogi I like your style and fully support that pancake decision! Lemon & sugar/candarel please I'm hungry! I've hit my 1250 calorie limit for the day though tomorrow is eat what you want Saturday though so I'm going to clean my teeth so I'm not tempted! *eyes up leftover orange creams in quality street tin* Squiggle, sweet dreams I hope you thoroughly enjoy your book El, fascinating about Scott & titanic, I didn't realise how close in time those events were! The cinema is releasing a 3D version of titanic, I saw the posters there last week

Hi everyone x 

Nice the boys had good birthdays x

Enjoy your book squiggle x 

Evening skylark have you enjoyed your day?

Hi Summer, have had a lovely day, thanks. Did a bit of shopping, cleaning had a nap and a lovely long bath x

Granddaughter going to panto tomorrow  

That sounds like a really nice day especially the bath & nap part! Do you think granddaughter will be at the panto? I used to get a bit scared of them when I was little, I didn't like them talking to the audience

Yes i hope she doesnt freak out ! She should be fine, hopefully!

Sorry Skylark, you did say she was going on Saturday - I've got my stupid head on and I never know what day of the week it is.

I think it was me too, i was convinced yesterday was Friday 

I hope she has a lovely time, she might want to be cinderella when she gets back!

Someone got her a dressing up outfit with those little pink slippers, she was so funny clomping around with them on, holding on to me for sheer life, giggling away!

Aww, I bet she looked really cute.

Aw cute! She might want glass slippers now They do such adorable things for little girls now, lucky things!

Off for a bath and a read before bed. Goodnight all.

Hugs for night owls.

night yogi

She is becoming more girly as she is getting older . 



Will say goodnight , sleep well all  

aww cute - my OH's nephew's 6 year old  girl is just the same - lovely age

night skylark

Sweet dreams yogi & skylark

Hi again ros

night summer

Good morning everyone

 

Sunny, cool and a slight breeze today here.

 

Summer, although the Scott and Titanic tragedies occurred close together, news of Scott wasn't known for several months - the bodies weren't discovered until November.

 

I think there's a football match this afternoon:

I hope Cheltenham have a nice day.

 

versus

good morning Bright with showery spells here today, I'm feeling good today Good luck to Cheltenham, I'd prefer to see them win that tottenham. Lol which incidentally, my iPhone predictive text wanted to spell as "rotten ham" El, did a search party realise that Scott & his team were missing and have to go look for them?

Good morning everyone, quite a nice brightish morning for a change

 

Hope Cheltenham do well this afternoon EL, and I hope your granddaughter enjoys the panto without being frightened Skylark.  I love all those girly things they do for the little girls nowadays, my daughter was a tomboy and didn't like all those girly things and she still hates pink

 

Scott's expedition and Shackleton's adventures are two thrilling stories.  I still get mad about Amundsen though who decided, after Scott had set off, to race him to the Pole. With Scott in those days without the communication we have nowadays unaware that he was in a race so that after all their struggles they found they had been beaten to it when they got there.  The most moving stories of bravery on that journey though, Oates when he knew he was dying and would be a burden on them, leaving the tent in a blizzard saying "I am just going outside and I may be some time" And also so many scientific discoveries came from the work of the expedition, heroes to a man I would say.

Summer, from Wiki. Due to it being the South Pole, temperatures would be at their lowest during our Summer months which is why I think the search party didn't attempt to search earlier.

 

The remaining expedition members (other than Campbell's Northern Party who were still away) waited at Cape Evans through the winter, continuing their scientific work. In the spring Atkinson had to consider whether efforts should first be directed to the rescue of Campbell's party, or to establishing if possible the fate of the polar party. A meeting of the whole group decided that they should first search for signs of Scott.The search party set out on 29 October, accompanied by a team of mules that had been landed from the Terra Nova during its resupply visit the previous summer. On 12 November the party found the tent containing the frozen bodies of Scott, Wilson and Bowers, 11 miles (18 km) south of One Ton Depot. Atkinson read the relevant portions of Scott's diaries, and the nature of the disaster was revealed. After diaries, personal effects and records had been collected, the tent was collapsed over the bodies and a cairn of snow erected, topped by a cross fashioned from Gran's skis. The party searched further south for Oates's body, but found only his sleeping bag. On 15 November, they raised a cairn near to where they believed he had died^.

On returning to Hut Point on 25 November the search party found that Campbell's Northern Party had rescued itself and had returned safely to base.

Morning 
Been out with the dog, its very cold and a biting wind.
Good luck to Cheltenham  

Feel tired today, there was a party over the road till gone 4am, i am such i light sleeper i didnt get to sleep till then . I may have a nap later 
 

Mark Gatiss  made a drama documentary related to the Scott expedition a few years ago which was shown on BBC4.The Worst Journey in the World is Apsley Cherry-Garrard's (played by Mark Gatiss) account of his own part in the expedition. The book from which this is taken was written and published 10 years after the expedition and is recognised as one of the classic accounts of expeditions.

 

Someone has uploaded it on to Youtube, so if you want to, you can watch it. It's in 6 parts and this link will take you to the playlist which has the 6 parts in order.

This is a link to a BBC article today about a Swedish chef.

 

Move over Heston Blumenthal

 

Anyone fancy some Christmas tree

Live ants    No wont be going there anytime soon !  Dont fancy Christmas tree either, think thats taking recycling to the extreme 

Hello everyone.

Showery weather today. Not too cold and the wind has eased.

I don't fancy paying £150 to eat Christmas tree and ants. I think I'll stick to steak and chips.

Hope "Tiddles" has a great time at the panto today.

Hi Yogi, thanks hope she does too x

From Here To Eternity on C5 this afternoon (3.05 i think) . Thats my afternoon sorted ! 

   Swoons