tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post1543692142082648696..comments2023-10-12T15:59:35.120+01:00Comments on radiogandy: Jacksdale - busy morning - very stormytracyjameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914991294683176018noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-56941658213682829752008-01-15T12:54:00.000+00:002008-01-15T12:54:00.000+00:00I'm a sucker for dramatic landscapes so can only a...I'm a sucker for dramatic landscapes so can only add my praise to the plaudits you have already received. Cracking lighting.<BR/><BR/>As part of my job I delivered a 'lecture' to human resources students at Nottingham Trent University last night so am in a cerebral mood today. Consequently, after researching on Wiki, I would like to offer the following suggestions for a collective noun for bluetits:<BR/>a gymnasium (because they are very agile),<BR/>a demolition (because they destroy pests but not, as far as I know, bowling greens),<BR/>an education (because they taught each other how to get into old fashioned milk bottles).<BR/><BR/>However, just for Bungus, how about a Jordan of tits?<BR/><BR/>I'll get my coat.<BR/><BR/>RobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-39587661142720660082008-01-15T04:47:00.000+00:002008-01-15T04:47:00.000+00:00No, I haven't joined the blogo-sphere! I think it'...No, I haven't joined the blogo-sphere! I think it's probably because I'm always signed in to Google.<BR/>I love the dramatic skies in today's pictures. We get the same sort of thing here too. I found the huge expanse of the sky in the countryside rather overwhelming when we first moved here, but I'm a bit more used to it now!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00854803062165881691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-56525316154474938392008-01-14T23:23:00.000+00:002008-01-14T23:23:00.000+00:00Yes, a rather weird colour to the sky.How odd! I ...Yes, a rather weird colour to the sky.<BR/><BR/>How odd! I read the crossword clue and ‘deserted’ came to me immediately (and I still prefer it to AnonReg’s‘departed’.).<BR/> <BR/>"Guilty your Worships, on occasions" says Bungus also. But where would we be without procrastination and serendipity?<BR/><BR/>’Contemporary’ (so often wrongly used to mean ‘of the present day’) would, I think have been a more appropriate word than ‘original’ for the embroidery.<BR/><BR/>Yes, the light in the JSS painting of the children is quite astonishing.<BR/><BR/>There is certainly a ‘vexation’ of something. And, being as mucky minded as you, I am afraid I can only suggest a ‘brafull’. <BR/><BR/>Jill, even I remember poppets. Like other things, I never had any of my own, but played with those of others. <BR/><BR/>On Sunday I cooked liver and bacon in the slow cooker. While browning the liver, I inadvertently and momentarily lightly sautéed two of my fingers and spent the rest of the evening soaking my right hand in a bowl of cold water. <BR/>It worked! No pain today.<BR/>And the casserole was good.<BR/><BR/>A well known Dorothy Parker quote but none the worse for that:<BR/>‘Beauty is only skin deep but ugly goes clean to the bone.’<BR/>From ‘The Observer Book of The Body’’ <BR/>which also throws up:<BR/>‘French Paradox: Although the French eat more saturated fat, exercise less and smoke far more than almost anyone else in the developed world, they have a lower mortality rate from heart disease.’ <BR/>There will be more from this source!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-89419066048426744542008-01-14T22:24:00.000+00:002008-01-14T22:24:00.000+00:00Mo says is it Departed it fits. I have decided tha...Mo says is it Departed it fits. I have decided that you can demolish a bowling green I though you had to knock some thing down to demolish it but may dictionary says destory as well RegAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-38688341328747435932008-01-14T21:38:00.000+00:002008-01-14T21:38:00.000+00:00I enjoyed the sepia line-drawing, it looked pleasa...I enjoyed the sepia line-drawing, it looked pleasantly amateurish to me...<BR/><BR/>I'm with you over the D.Tel Crossword, though there are half-a-dozen I still haven't managed, including the one you can't do either. That whole bottom right corner I am having trouble with....<BR/><BR/>Those photos of the skies are amazing. We had a rainbow this afternoon.<BR/><BR/>Yesterday I went to a Vintge Textiles Fair, the clothes etc. were from the 50's and 60's, I kept seeing ones I had worn or more commonly lusted after. Also jewellry - ask Y if she remembers 'Poppets' - now going for £30 upwards! We were saying that ten years ago most of the stuff there on sale would have gone to charity shops, now people are paying good money for them. Of course, the stall holders may have bought some of them from charity shops initially. Some of the stands had pieces of embroidery for sale - including unfinished 'crinoline lady' type of tablecloths, maybe the sort Sandra has?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com