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Caption competition.....

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Voting is over.

In joint First place with four votes each are Nan and Sandy. Congratulations both.
Second place goes to Jess with three votes. Very well done Jess.
With two votes each Margaret, Rosemary and Susan share Third place. Well done all.

Here is the list of all the entries....
I've lost so much weight since Christmas I need a 'Nip and Tuck'. - Carol
I is just dog tired, and my dogs is barking! - Derektherev
Ah well, the last New Year's Resolution bites the dust....... - Jess
Hope I don't remember this when I wake up. - Tricia
These boots wern't made for walking. - Margaret
I sure had a great party,did you ? - Carmac France
Now you know those boots are made for walking... - Pat
All those celebrations - I'm exhausted !! - Rosemary
Wish you were here? - Kath
What do you mean Hungover? - Nan
Do not disturb til summer........ - Cas
The morning after the night before. - Sandy
Just relaxing before the botox treatment. - Esses
I'm staying here with the ospreys until the storms are over. - Martha
Dexter in recovery mode after a very Happy New Year celebration! - Phyl
5..4...3...2...1...Happ....oh forget it. - Susan from Texas
Butch found his first taste of the Festive Spirit a little overwhelming. - Marion
Quick! Call for Nicky Hambleton-Jones! - Cathie C


Well done to those who entered and thank you to all those who voted.

What a good start to the year!!

Nan and Sandy

Jess Very well done

All the third placers
Well Done

Excellent Nan and Sandy

Well done Jess

Great captions Margaret, Rosemary, Susan

Congratulations to Nan, Sandy, Jess, Margaret, Rosemary, and Susan! Well done and a good way to begin 2012.

for my votes. Sandy nearly shot myself in the foot by voting for your caption before I knew we were so close.
Sandy
Very well done Jess.
Well done Margaret, Rosemary and Susan

Congratulations to the year's first winners.

I have bulbs poking up. Lots of them but can't tell what right now.
Beautiful sunset with deep, rich colors. It was glorius.
Time for some hot milk and then bed.

A fairly mild night. We have about 8 snowdrops beginning to bloom - white tips showing clearly.
Well done captions winners.
Off to work early today - preaching in a wee village near Perth this morning.
Back later.

well done Nan and Sandy
Jess and congrats to Margaret, Rosemary and Susan
Off out for a brisk? walk. Back later.

I am still awake, warm milk didn't help at all. It is 1:20 my time and I am really tired but can't settle my mind. Very frustrating.

It is thick fog outside and seems like it is freezing. Sounds like it when the dogs walk out there on the leaves.

Well, just thought I would check in but it seems quiet.

Morning all
Just a quick visit.
to Nan and Sandy on being the first winners of 2012.
to Jess. for 2nd place.
Margaret, Rosemary, and Susan for joint 3rd place.
Note to self.... Must do better.
Kath Hope you feel better.
Phyl Hope your boiler keeps going until the new one arrives.
Skay try to get some sleep.
Dull and overcast here but still mild 8C
Everyone have a good day.
Mrs Esse

Nan and Sandy Congratulations for coming 1st


Jess Well done for coming 2nd


Margaret and Susan Well done coming 3rd

And thank you for my 2 votes

Dull, grey dampish morning and 6.4C. It's very still and all the usual birds are at the feeders. Chaffinches seem to have invited all their relatives to visit.
Enjoy whatever you are doing today.
Had a look at the stats for last year at Pohtiolampi, makes interesting reading. Only thing I cannot see is the success rate for dives. Must check again.
Off for a look around the cams.

Loch Garten a squirrel in possession of the feeder.
Loch of the Lowes, ducks must think they are going to get fed, streaming up from the loch. Pheasant up at one feeder and squirrel in the other.
Falls still looking good.
Montrose Basin a different view but no birds around.
Caerlaverock cam still on badgers playground.
Heligan no owls and no birds at feeder just now. Saw a crow yesterday who seems to have opened a gap up the side of the feeder so can get nuts out that way.

This article was in Saturday's Herald

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Martha wondered about the damage at Botanic Gardens.

Yesterday I was talking about the oil refinery here burning off excess gas & that web camers had seen it & were alarmed. It's a normal part of what they do at the refinery. Go to this cam & see what they were worried about. It's really quite a sight. If dawn has broken then click on 24 Hours, go to the bottom of the picture & use the slider to see what it was like during the night

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Well done to all the caption competition winners, a really great bunch of entries, they all made me smile.

Lots of activity on the feeders here today with many blackbirds scurrying around, won't be long now until the nesting season gets underway.

Have a great day everyone whatever you are up to.

MOrning all, guess who fell asleep last night and so no voting was done missed boxes as well , another video to catch up on lol
Very well done to Nan and Sandy on coming first
Jess many congratulations on coming second
Margaret,Rosemary and Susan
and not forgetting everyone else who entered and were maybe just pipped to the post , not to worry it's all just fun thanks to whoever voted for me
Nan it is good news that some species can be saved, let's hope they are successful
Laughed at everyones antics, Nuphar I did laugh at your posts lol
Quiche, hope you don't sit too closely or you may need some waterproofs
I did plant one bag of bulbs but don't really think they will grow as the ground is sodden, I really intended buying some compost and a planter but I forgot, but if they do not grow will just try a different area next year with some more guess it's just the same with fruit and veg I tried to grow last year, wasn't very sucessful due to the weather, but will try again this year
Carmac, hope it doesn't take too long to get the house back in order
CArol, try and not think of when your daughter is leaving but just thoroughly enjoy every minute she is with you all
PHYL, seems like this year will be one travelling for you
Skay do hope you eventually fell asleep, too much on your mind me thinks
Derek, hope you soon see your little snowdrops , I was looking to see if I had any coming up but can't see any, think I mistakingly lifted some thinking they were grape hyacinth bulbs
Hoping all boilers, furnaces are working, sorry no good offering my boiler as my upstair rads still not working lol, just discovered there is no heat whatsoever if the downstair ones are at highest
Well it seems Ollie's recovery was short lived as 6am and then again 7am he brought up liquid, but on a positive his appetite has greatly increased and will just mean keeping an eye on him, but I was thrilled he went almost 8 days without being sick, so that's something positive
HOpe everyone has an enjoyable day
Cannot quite remember whn Ann?Millie is having surgery but hope Jean is enjoying the extra company
Mind gone blank

Liz that is a good pic
Quiche, can remember the first time I passed through the oil refinery in Falkirk and felt I was living in another world, I guess those who live locally are used to it

Having a sober sabbath.
Cas, thanks. have two small bags of tulips to plant, but will do them in a planter now. I lose them other wise.Thanks for the reminder to get shifting.

Have just spent a happy hour on an estate agents page. Knightfrank.co.uk
Looking at Scottish houses for sale. not that we can afford any. Didnot know that if you have 2+million to spend you can buy Ailsa Craig island!!!
The usual tits, nuthatches, jays and robins hungry for seeds on our walk. Most of the trees seem to be fine in the park, but several large rhodies are now looking rather smaller than they were last week. snowdrop buds appearing in the formal bit whilst in the woods the tips of the wild garlic (ransoms) are pushing up. 7C and not a breath of wind, though we now have a light drizzle.
Setting off to visit mum, armed with copies of M&S crops
Have a good afternoon back later.

Good day, Villagers,

It's a mild, drizzly day here, too. It seems that we have somewhat the same weather today.

Nan--thanks for the link to the Edinburgh gardens article. Such a shame about the damage. We took lots of photos while we were there. It's good to think of the trees being recycled in building projects rather than just being thrown away.

Cas--Maybe Ollie has just eaten too much? His sickness may be his body telling him to slow down a bit while things digest.

Phyl--I hope the boiler is still working.

Has anyone heard from Anne? I hope she has electricity and heat.

It's very quiet on my street today. I don't even hear birds at the feeders. Maybe they are sleeping in a bit this morning. I filled the feeders last night,so breakfast should be available.

Kath--I hope your mother finds just the crops that she wanted. I am so glad that they have come back into style. It's a nice alternative to both long and short pants and very useful here in the hot summers.

I'm off to do the early morning chores, though even the cats don't seem much interested in breakfast right now.

Kath, i'm sure your mum will be pleased knowing she can order some summer clothing
Martha, can remember in one of Annes posts saying she was going stay quiet for a wee bit, i'm sure she will post when she feels able to
There is a programe on tv right now about Return of the Eagles in Ireland, sadly it's not all good news and so many introduced are being poisoned but it' will be on stv1+1 for any Scots hoping to watch , not sure if you can watch it on itv player but prog includes , golden Eagles, White tailed and Kites

Not sure if this link will work for all

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Martha Really think it's to do with dohles as he hadn't eaten for a good few hours, but keeping an eye on him and he hasn't been sick since but then neither has he ate much

My snowdrops are coming out nicely Cathie.
Lots of oystercatchers at Montrose Basin.
Swans and ducks at Caerlaverock.
Other cams quiet.
Have not managed to open Dunedin cam today.

I have discivered the simple joy of toasted crunpets. Thank you for sharing that. Not expensive either. Not for one. And they freeze.

Just spent an hour in the quagmire I used to call my garden Pulled out a lot of stuff I couldn't because of the rain in the autumn. However, glory be, there are green shoots on my blueberry bushes, on the honeysuckle as well as the invasive geraniums and montbretia. The snowdrops look good and there are bulbs coming up in some of my pots possibly daffs or maybe some tulips I think there were some.Sadly it still looks a mess and there are big areas which are no more than Peppa Pig's favourite play area (Grans will know Peppa Pig) the big muddy puddles. I cant see it looking like a garden at all this year unless we get lots of fresh dry winds and dry weather oops, just saw a pig fly past. Heading downstairs to ice pack my shoulder and watch Come Dine With Me. Cathie C

Cathie needs a hot crumpet, Derek.
Do folk have any fsvourites for on top?

Greetings villagers - the sun is attempting to be seen, but the clouds are now in control.... Many visitors at the feeders. I am sitting at my desk next to a window...there are five squirrels lined up looking in the window. Seems the peanut feeder is empty Of course it was filled with a large bag of peanuts this morning!

What a beautiful day it is here. So nice that I went out & cleaned up the front garden where my grasses are. Some of them were starting to look pretty rattie after a couple heavy, wet snow loads. Now it all looks neat again. I didn't see any sprouts out there yet but am going out again now & will check the rest of the gardens. I know the helleborus are ready to bloom. Must check the snow drops. Temp says +3C but with the strong sun I only need a spring jacket on. Catch you later

Liz I noticed some hellebores flowering and more with buds showing.
Feeders have been busy here again today with squirrels visiting often.
No branches at Martin Mere today.

Derek, of course , you can get a pack of four.
Have an empty sent box an 43 in my inbox I am reluctsnt to deal with. At last!!!
Envious?
And my old specs on...

Greetings everyone.
Congratulations to all the competition winners. Looked like a great caption photo and lots of imaginative entries.
No real chance to catch up. The pace here has been fast and furious over the past few days with shopping and socialising with my sister. There have been so many lunches and dinners out, the last two in Edinburgh yesterday. This afternoon she is packing and leaves tomorrow. I have just loaned her my large suitcase as she is on a losing packing battle.....
We are feeling very sad. It has been a wonderful 4 1/2 weeks. I know tomorrow will be hard with a difficult few days ahead until normality sets in......
I hope to slowly catch up with news here.
All good wishes to you all.

Sheila hard to believe your sister's holiday is up, seems no time since she arrived.

Nan - we feel the same!

Badger at Caerlaverock.

Sheila, now THAT is the way to spend the festive holiday!and such memories.!

Osprey on 3 eggs at Sanibel Island:

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EJandODIN looks as if this will be the earliest nest.


Edit: Nan, please continue this discussion in the Osprey forum, thanks.

Firstly, I forgot to congratulate our winners of the first caption contest of the year. So to Nan & Sandy in 1st place, Jess in 2nd place & Margaret, Rosemary & Susan in 3rd place

Sheila You are really going to miss your sister. So glad you had a great time on this visit & the memories will get you through to the next.

I just finished a garden tour to see what is peaking up through the earth here. I have snow drops well on their way up & some crocus. Just checked my records & snow drops bloom Mar 12th in my garden. If the weather gets cold again, they will slow down. The crocus were up in December to be fair. It's so lovely to discover sprouts in January. Just had a laugh. My brother was over adjusting the new dead bolt on the front door. I tested my key & it works well now. Then my brother went home & I came into the house only to be greeted by his little dog Barbie as she came out of my kitchen. She had a big grin on her face & was licking her lips. I knew right away she had cleaned all 3 cat bowls. I just laughed & sent her home. She is a master at watching for the right moment & when it comes, she quietly spirits off & does the deed.

just a quick here and gone as dancing on ice is on the "box",
Sheila can the time have passed sooooooooooooooo quickly hope you have taken lots of pics from your time together and hope it won't be too long before you can spend time together, Australia is a long way but hopefully your sister can visit this Christmas again
Cannot believe we have eggs to watch this early, do hope all eggs hatch, these next 40 days will be tense for all

Liz, if this had been a week or so ago Barbie could have ceaned Ollie and Oscars bowls as I just had to put it all out as they weren't eating, just let me know and next bowlful will be sent airmail

Been watching a family spend ages at FFRC looking to adopt, they finally settled on Wiggles. Jacci not there as her dad is now very ill. The Dad is going back tomorrow at 8:30 their time.

Kath, pleased Wiggles will have new family
My sis just phoned to say a friend we have known for years, since I was 12 yrs,has lost her husband, Sandra is a year younger than me, but her hubby was 20 yrs her senior

Liz, let's hope Kiara fnds another home soon

Sorry to hear about Jacci's DAd, I wonder if moving into the Hospice has been too much for his system, what a trying timefor all the family, do hope there's a chance he will recover

Liz Jacci said he had adopted from her years ago. The family cat died last Thursday. Cas, I think Jacci thinks Kiara will be better in a one/two human household, rather than a family. Though I felt sorry as she really liked them.

Just spied a ratty at Martin Mere
Badger cam very poor quality tonight

Kath, let's hope so soon x

It may have been a coincidence but the phone rang here and our internet went down Never done that before.

Hi there ! We are picking ourselves up..& the decorations are down....
We got off to sleep at 7 am...
What an adventure last night ! At 1 am lil Robin screamed his head off...wanted his dad !! As everyone was getting up at 4,I entered into long negotiations with Robin.. " Papa has to sleep,yes,Maman too. Pappy too ? yes... Me: You go on the airplane and the bus and then when you get home you'll see Spock! (cat) ? Spock,yes he's waiting to see you. So you have to lie down ans sleep a little more" NO !...definite ! Me: can you sit down then ? NO.
Half-hour later we are at stalemate so,I pluck him outa the cot and sit him on the livingroom couch. "That do ?" Yes. After another 30 mins,I get up to go and get a cuppa... NO ! "I am getting a cup of tea" YES..
So I managed to let the others sleep an extra 3 hrs. The little fella fell fast asleep on the couch. Only needed then to get his anorak on and into the car...( I didn't even mention him waking his little sister,or Gigi joining the racket.). .I loves little children ..

Congrats to all the competition winners and entrants.

Kath my broadband has been doing that for the last few weeks. Have not felt up to a help desk session with BT.
Carmac what can I say. House will be very quiet.

Kath: I got tears in my eyes as I watched Kiara interact with the man and his sons. She definitely had chosen them. She even stayed around while he pet her after he put her down under the cam. Wiggles is a cutey but the way he sucks on the poof as he kneads is, well, interesting. Kneading cats are fine and drooling when they knead but sucking....

I have done nothing today. Just a little knitting. Not sleeping last night has just done me in. I have papers to grade and enter online. I have two IEPs next week and I need to get them entered into the computer. And all I do it sit.

I always get ad pop-ups when I am reading the blog or if i go to signch in. Today, twice, I had giant ads pop-up right away. They both had naked women on them. Not my thing, thank you very much. I always scan my computer with a quick scan for viruses after leaving this sight, today I did a full scan. Nothing was found but just saying, I was unnerved.

Just got this via Facebook
Operation Migrsation
An online petition requesting the FAA grant our exemption has been created by a concerned pilot in California. Please sign and pass it on!

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Pete, will try and tackle it tomorrow. Thanks.

Anne: Good to see you have power, water and warmth once again. How are you and Ian doing?
Nan: I got my first wood stove after I was without power for 5 days. It happened almost every winter and I just couldn't stand being cold anymore. Three years later I was without power for 8 days and got a second wood stove downstairs. Firing both of them up keeps the house nice and toasty. It is just hard to use them when I work full time. This holiday season when I was home, it was too warm to have them going. I haven't had a fire for almost a year now. But I still have lots of good, dry firewood just in case I need it. Next month could be a test. I keep hearing we will get lots of snow and I am crossing my fingers we will.

Anne when I posted about plants growing ,I meant plants can be replaced again, maybe not the beautiful specimans we may have lost , but I was really comparing garden to life, we can replace plants but cannot replace lives lost during those strong winds, but i've always enjoyed shrubs and plants grow, here in mums gardens there are roses more than 50 years old, I wasn't sure if they would be damaged, some not looking too good but they are still there, will have to see what spring brings, hope this helps

Anne, your Crane update reminded me to check on facebook for any new posts from them. That had only been posted for a couple of minutes so was too new to miss.
I'm not usually a great one for running around collecting signatures, but this is too important and needs sorting fast for the sake of the birds.
just read back and see I was so excited I typed Operation Migrsation

Skay, Malc says why does he never get any naked ladies on the PC.
Sorry you had trouble sleeping. It does make it hard to get going again. I hope you manage better tonight. Maybe Nuphar could lend you Cutlet?

Carmac, things are going to be very quiet round your place now. Did I hear you and OH and Gigi cheering?

Signed the crane petition. A message popped up after I signed that it has gone viral with one signature a minute, worldwide. Wow. Thanks for the link so I could add my support.

Carmac I hope you soon catch up on your sleep.What a night you had.!!
Skay What a night you had too, it is horrible when you can't settle and sleep.
I hope tonight is better for you.

I have signed petition to FAA.

If you have a mo. do look at this cam tonight. Its the cam on Griffon Vultures,or Black Storks (depends ). Its always quite beautiful in the moonlight,(full moon time now). You see the cliffs in Portugal where these birds nest. There is a bird there now but difficult to tell which one ?
If we are very lucky,the cam operator will direct the cam over the river. Its beautiful.
That cam goes full screen.

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Skay, have emailed you Pete's security advice.

Hi Folks
Good to see you again Anne. Was getting worried you'd lost all power again.
Cas - sorry to hear about your family friend.
Congratulations to all the competition winners.

Skay I suppose we had become complacent, as any power cuts we have had in recent years have been short duration. Last time we had a 5 or 6 day cut we still had solid fuel central heating so had a degree of warmth although heat could not circulate. We were also younger and could go out and about during the day. OH struggles with cold even with heating so that was a worry however all is fine now and it made my mind up about the woodburner. Hope you feel better and more able to do all you need to get done before going back to school.

Kath: Malc can have mine.

Whew, it is almost 2 and I guess it will not be clearing off today. I am going to have to get outside and get some things done anyway. Fresh air will be good for me and I hope it will help me settle down and sleep tonight. Not before I get the paperwork done for work.

Toodles everyone.

Carmac, thanks for that link.
Cas sad news about your friend's husband.

Carmac: Wow, I see both of them. I think one came in and landed right at the top of the cam frame as I was just getting it to full screen. Will bookmark this to keep watching. When they nest, to they use the area that looks sort of flat in the middle of the cam?

Hi, been downloading stuff. Had to watch what I was doing as it was lots of little bits. All done now.
Anne Good to see you. Can imagine your sadness at loosing things which have been growing for many years. Hope you both are OK and no more leeks have shown up in your porch or anywhere else.

Nuphar: Thanks

Cas So sorry to hear about your friends husband. Will keep all concerned in my prayers.

CAS: Condolences to your friend over the death of her husband.

Right am going to try for a third early night get into bed really tired, then lie there and just as I think about getting up for a drink, I fall asleep.

Sleep well Kath....and why don't you have a drink before ?

Good night Kath

Remember Folks, voting for FFRC starts again tomorrow

Night Kath, hope you sleep well tonight.
Just looking at my calendar and picture is a waxwing. Nobody has mentioned them this year. Notice sightings down East coast of England. Guess this is not going to be a good year to see them.

Kath. Hope you sleep well tonight.
Carmac - we never stayed quiet when our kids were asleep. I remember being at a party with son when he was tiny and he fell asleep right beside the DJ's speakers. Also when daughter was in special care the amount of times panic alarms or fire alarms went off in the hospital and the babies never moved a muscle.

Short and sweet tonight. Heading off for
Sleep tight, Sweet dreams
Pete Sleep well , sweet dreams and thanks for everything

Evening all
Just catching up with the posts.
Sheila Your time with your sister seems to have gone very quickly. Where has the last 4 1/2 weeks gone.
Cas Sorry to hear about your friends husband. Please send our condolences.
Skay We were getting the Adpopups so now we sign in as soon as the page comes up before the Ads have a chance to appear.
Carmac I assume peace reigns in your house now. Hope you can catch up with your sleep now.
Saw 2 LTTs on the feeders today. First ones this winter.
Thanks for the updates at FFRC. Sorry to read that Jacci's Dad is now very ill. I hope he recovers.
Kath Sleep well.
Will now sign off for the night as well.
Mrs Esse

Night Marion, pleasant dreams.
Have only seen rats scurrying about at Martin Mere, no beaver.
Caerlaverock has been very quiet as well.
Night Mrs Esse, sleep well.

Hi all,
Thank you for the third place votes; I was very surprised. Congratulations to Nan, Sandy, Jess, Margaret, and Rosemary. Well done!
Liz - wow, that refinery burn-off was amazing! I would be one of the people calling the emergency services to report a bomb or something. That was huge. This may sound silly, but it has been bothering me for a long time as to what that white oval was on that Emera Oval cam. For the life of me I couldn't figure it out. It never dawned on me that it was an ice rink.
Cas - so sorry to hear of your friend's husband passing. I am sorry for her loss.
Anne - glad to see you again. I hope you saw some sun today.
Martha - I laughed out loud at your fishnet stockings with tummy control remark. I'm right there with you.
Nuphar - thank you for keeping the Village's spirits up these past couple of days with your party antics, dress code, and bucket list. you get the bravery award for doing a zip line multiple times. I'd like to try one eventually - if there is one attached to a couple of yaupon holly shrubs. Mind you, it's not that I'm afraid of heights - I'm just afraid of the fall.

Better go. Time to get dinner started. Tonight is the beginning of Season 2 of Downton Abbey - and I can't wait!! So, dinner will be early so that the bedtime routine can start early. I want those kids in bed by 8 tonight!

to Marion and Mrs Esse. Sleep well.
Enjoy Downton Abbey Susan. It's one programme I never started watching but have heard a lot of people enjoy it.

Sheila Thinking about you tomorrow. Try and be brave (says she ) and remember the good times you have spent together.

I do not sign out, so it is easypeasy, no ads.
Should I sign out?
Every so often I do have to sign in though and dodge the ads to sign. OK.,

Susan, thanks, it made me smile at Lowes when many people on bloggers day stared for a while and said I was nothing like what they had imagined, and I clean forgot to ask for details...I had not formed a picture of them before the day so why had they of me??? And what was it like? the Persian gentleman the name Nuphar foxed them in to? I had never thought of it as a hazard.

I had no worries about being strapped up and pushed of for the zip slide, I am not afraid of rivers, though I should be when not in a suit.. but our club was somewhere around doing safety boat cover for the raft race. River not that deep, I would scrunched before they reached me. It was the oaktree the lower end of the rope was tied to that seemed too near the water for the boys to run with their braking action, so it was a very sudden stop..one had to have faith in them.

I really do have to do something about my sinking into a chair for the rest of my life attitude.

Liz May, thanks, the forum unsigns me about once a week ormore, no probs, have sent Skay Pete' security advice he gave me. And all of you some time.

Nobody - but nobody took me up on my 'double entendre' most disappointed.

Derek thought Cathie should have a say on that.

Derek...I did you a crumpet reply was there another? Muscle in now, just as I am going to bed, drat.

One beaver out for a swim. Must not have known Kath went to bed a while ago.

Some one else can explain to Susan that crumpet is a nice looking lady (well endowed) the other sort is some sort of fatty carbohydarate starch you toast and has masses of holes in for the butter to soak into and drip out of.

Orrff now.

No, Derek, it is the onlooker who has the dubious morals....that is ten penances now Nuphar for uttering that...

Nuphar. Sleep well.

Actually, I kind of thought a crumpet was some sort of a cake, but the lady-thing? Nope, I had no idea. Consider me educated.

Sleep well Nuphar........Thanks for the fun

Glad I could make you laugh, Carol.

Susan--You are a delight! Here's a definition for crumpet covering both meanings:

Etymology17th century, either from crompid cake (“wafer, literally, curled-up cake”), from crompid, form of crumpen (“to curl up”); cognate to crumpled. Alternate etymology is from Celtic; compare Breton krampoez (“thin, flat cake”).

Sense of “desirable woman” attested 1936, possibly as cockney rhyming slang for strumpet; alternatively, compare tart (“loose woman") (itself possibly cockney rhyming slang for heart or sweetheart).

Thanks Martha! I'd heard of a lady being called a tart, but not a crumpet. I've also heard of tea and crumpets, but I didn't know what they were. I'll have to go to my local British Emporium store tomorrow to see if they have crumpets (of the eating variety... )

A very late Hello to the village and a late Sleep well to the villagers I have missed.

Hi Phyl, Hi Carmac.
Phyl - did you ski today?

Hello Susan - no skiing today. Have been helping an elderly neighbor prepare a talk for his book club.

gna

Sleep well Pete

Sleep well Pete.
Hello Phyl, sorry there was no skiing today.

Hello Nan - it was 4C today, so the skiing would have been good for a short time.... Next weekend shield be better - are expecting -6C temperatures and better skiing. It was good to help my neighbor - his presentation will be interesting.

Thanks all, hoping to go to funeral on Thursday so will pass on your kind wishes , just going to post a card through her door tomorrow
Phyl maybe snow will fall soon I wonder what our ski slopes are like as so far little snow has been forecast, last year was a bumper year for all skiers