@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Slim, this pair have been nesting in the same nest for 4 years now.
1st year raised 1 chick
2nd year eggs were stolen by a pine marten
3rd year raised 2 chicks
4th year (2020) raised 3 chicks
3 eggs were laid each year.
Was great to watch.
Let me know when there is movement around the nest...I'd like to watch it too, I've found the link up
The camera runs 24/7 so it switches to a night cam at some point in the evening and back sometime in the morning, depending on the light levels. It also has a '12 hour scrollback facility'. So effectively you can see everything that happens without having to be awake and watching 24/7 for the next 6 or 7 months. 
Last year they (Louis the male and Aila the female) arrived back at the nest on 4th and 5th of April, so generally it is expected to be roughly the same time this year.
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:The camera runs 24/7 so it switches to a night cam at some point in the evening and back sometime in the morning, depending on the light levels. It also has a '12 hour scrollback facility'. So effectively you can see everything that happens without having to be awake and watching 24/7 for the next 6 or 7 months.
Last year they (Louis the male and Aila the female) arrived back at the nest on 4th and 5th of April, so generally it is expected to be roughly the same time this year.
How lovely .....I wonder if they will have it on Springwatch this year .
My grass will probably need it's first trim soon too!
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:My grass will probably need it's first trim soon too!
Night Baz and Slim.
@Baz posted:Hi Slim and EFFT
I hope you are both having a good Tuesday . You’ve had a busy day Slim ...I think a nap is definitely in order .
Baz I'm not a translator...I have a Bulgarian property company which I am selling...had to translate all the paperwork. I inherited it when my brother died 3 years ago....had plans for the properties but then my partner died 2 yrs ago and now we are out of the EU, it just seems too much of a hassle.....have a buyer hence the paperwork.
I can however get by in French
@slimfern posted:Baz
I can however get by in French
Oh I see
Not having had any reason to use any languages (except English) to any extent for yonks, the French, German and Spanish that I knew has all but withered away. I might be able to read a bit, but doubt I could say any thing more than a few rudimentary words.
Parlez vous Français? - Bon jour.
¿Habla usted Español? - Buenos Dias.
Sprechen Sie Deutch? - Guten Tag.
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Not having had any reason to use any languages (except English) to any extent for yonks, the French, German and Spanish that I knew has all but withered away. I might be able to read a bit, but doubt I could say any thing more than a few rudimentary words.
Parlez vous Français? - Bon jour.
¿Habla usted Español? - Buenos Dias.
Sprechen Sie Deutch? - Guten Tag.
That’s two more than my EFFT 
I can get by in French ....and used to know a bit of holiday Greek .....but that’s it .
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Not having had any reason to use any languages (except English) to any extent for yonks, the French, German and Spanish that I knew has all but withered away. I might be able to read a bit, but doubt I could say any thing more than a few rudimentary words.
Parlez vous Français? - Bon jour.
¿Habla usted Español? - Buenos Dias.
Sprechen Sie Deutch? - Guten Tag.
I only know French because my brother was a teacher of English to adult foreign students so he knows many languages, when I used to come home from boarding school he would only speak to me in French
I can greet & be polite in few other languages
My mum knew French and started teaching us (my sisters and I) to speak French, so we all had a smattering before we started getting it at school, It started off with phrasebook stuff, but grew from there.
La plume de ma tante est sur (or sous) la table,
Fermez la porte!
Ou est le Gare du Nord.
@slimfern posted:
I can greet & be polite in few other languages
Did he have a premonition that you would need French, or did he just like annoying you?
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Oui.
Si.
Ja.
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:My mum knew French and started teaching us (my sisters and I) to speak French, so we all had a smattering before we started getting it at school, It started off with phrasebook stuff, but grew from there.
La plume de ma tante est sur (or sous) la table,
Fermez le porte!
Ou est le Gare du Nord.
c'est comme faire du velo, une fois appris, jamais oublie
it's like riding a bicycle, once learnt, never forgotten
Plus my brother (eldest & still alive) lives in Paris so whenever we speak it is usually in French@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Did he have a premonition that you would need French, or did he just like annoying you?
Like older brothers....it was for annoyance
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Oui.
Si.
Ja.
Hope it all goes well for you
@slimfern posted:c'est comme faire du velo, une fois appris, jamais oublieit's like riding a bicycle, once learnt, never forgotten
Plus my brother (eldest & still alive) lives in Paris so whenever we speak it is usually in French
True, I'm sure that (if I had to) I'd pick it up again reasonably quickly. As I said, I can read it fairly well as with your above sentence, but at the moment if you had just given me the English sentence and asked me to translate it into French I;d be hard put to it!
It's comme riding a bicycle, une fois learned, jamais forgotten.
I remembered that oublier is the infinitive (to forget), but couldn't remember the actual part that would mean forgotten.
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Thank you. I'm sure all will be well really. Despite all the flapping that's in the news!
I reckon the European's flapping is a deflection tactic for them being so bliddy rubbish at rolling out the vaccines 
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Thank you. I'm sure all will be well really. Despite all the flapping that's in the news!
And was all well?
Afternoon All
@slimfern posted:And was all well?
Afternoon All
Afternoon. 
Yes everything went, and is, very well.
It was the Astra Zeneca vaccine......and I'm still alive to tell the tale.
