COLD DARK ROOM

[JoesMum]

Sjoe, as Carol would say, as the sun was in a better position this afternoon here are a couple of snaps of London

Firstly looking downriver from The Millennium Bridge towards Tower Bridge. The Shard is the tall building on the South Bank to the left. On the North Bank is the “Walkie Talkie” (properly called the Leadenhall Building) which is where JoesDad and I went to the viewing gallery in the rain last weekend


And this is the crowd on the Millennium Bridge heading toward St Paul’s Cathedral. London is heaving with tourists today!


We are now at The Barbican Centre - a brutalist concrete construction - where we are going to a concert of Holst’s Planets by the BBC Orchestra and hosted by astro-physicist Brian Cox (who is a tv celebrity in the UK)

Talking of astro-physicists, we did find Professor Stephen Hawking’s spot in Westminster Abbey (Photo from Google)

We also got a good view of the new stained glass window by David Hockney which was unveiled in the last few days

 

[Bee62]

Lets hope they survive and thrive.
It annoys me how people still kill slow worms (which are actually legless lizards) if they see them in their garden, I would love to have them in mine.
My late sister had hundreds in hers, but then it was very neglected and overgrown - more like a mini savanna!

Mini savannas or mini jungles are beautiful ! Much space for all animals and insects to live.

 

[Bee62]

Amen!!!

 

[Bee62]

Good question... now I Learn something as well

I feed Belgium Endive mostly every day to all my tortoises and they all love it. Belgium Endive is high in calcium and low in Phospor. So I think it is a good tortoise food.

 

[Bee62]

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This pic is very beautiful. I would call it art.

 

[Bee62]

Good evening my friends all over the world.
I hope you are all fine in your corners.

 

[JoesMum]

Good evening all

The concert was WONDERFUL!


As we arrived at the Barbican a car was delivering dozens of pizzas... it looked like one each for the Orchestra for dinner [emoji23]

Brian Cox, who’s a particle physicist rather than the astro physicist I said earlier, gave a really interesting piece on each of the planets before the orchestra played the appropriate movement (stop sniggering if you’re thinking of Uranus [emoji849]) While the music was being played, images of the planets were screened on the backdrop. It was brilliant. There were lots of children in the audience, probably lured by the professor rather than the music.

Ecologist Daughter has been out doing voluntary work with dormice again today. As you know they aren’t actually mice, but they are very cute. This nestbox contained three babies

 

[Maro2Bear]

Evening all. The SUN has been out all day long, beautiful blue skies, never hot, no humidity. No r a i n. Yes, was out kayaking since 1000 this morning with another big trip scheduled for tomorrow.

Here’s one pix of the scenic area we were paddling along the Gunpowder Falls River, just outside of Baltimore MD.




Here you can see the gaggle of paddlers we had along today..

 

[Bee62]

Evening all. The SUN has been out all day long, beautiful blue skies, never hot, no humidity. No r a i n. Yes, was out kayaking since 1000 this morning with another big trip scheduled for tomorrow.

Here’s one pix of the scenic area we were paddling along the Gunpowder Falls River, just outside of Baltimore MD.

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Here you can see the gaggle of paddlers we had along today..

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Evening Mark. The first picture is definitely pure beauty and worth to be a postcard. I LOVE IT !

 

[Bee62]

After entertainment for the eyes from Mark, from me a little enterteinment for the ears:
Lionel Ritchie, "Hello"

 

[JoesMum]

Evening all. The SUN has been out all day long, beautiful blue skies, never hot, no humidity. No r a i n. Yes, was out kayaking since 1000 this morning with another big trip scheduled for tomorrow.

Here’s one pix of the scenic area we were paddling along the Gunpowder Falls River, just outside of Baltimore MD.

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Here you can see the gaggle of paddlers we had along today..

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Looks beautiful again

 

[JoesMum]

After entertainment for the eyes from Mark, from me a little enterteinment for the ears:
Lionel Ritchie, "Hello"

I’ll catch up with that a little later. I am looking forward to it

 

[JoesMum]

Good morning all. We had disappointing news from Adam overnight... he won’t be participating in TORTOISE or the Christmas Card exchange this year.

TORTOISE is a sort of not-very-secret Santa... an acronym for Totally Obvious Really The Origin Is Sure Enough.

I just need to look up past posts of Adam’s on the TORTOISE rules and then we’ll launch things tomorrow... October 1st.

 

[Maro2Bear]

Happy Sunday Morning to all

Rest, relax, chill out, garden, sing, sight see, farm, ride horses, swim, go to yoga, paint, or whatever makes you happy..!

I’m off today on about a 13-15nm paddle. Pix below.. we start off with 2.5 mile open water crossing then circumnavigate the Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge. Then another 2.5 crossing back to our cars.... yeah,

Ciao!

 

[Toddrickfl1]

Morning all. Getting ready to start a 12hr shift at work today. Hope everyone in the CDR is doing well and has a great day!

 

[Lyn W]

Happy Sunday Morning to all

Rest, relax, chill out, garden, sing, sight see, farm, ride horses, swim, go to yoga, paint, or whatever makes you happy..!

I’m off today on about a 13-15nm paddle. Pix below.. we start off with 2.5 mile open water crossing then circumnavigate the Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge. Then another 2.5 crossing back to our cars.... yeah,

Ciao!

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Have a great day!

 

[Lyn W]

Morning all. Getting ready to start a 12hr shift at work today. Hope everyone in the CDR is doing well and has a great day!

That's a long shift, try not to work too hard!!

 

[Lyn W]

Good morning all. We had disappointing news from Adam overnight... he won’t be participating in TORTOISE or the Christmas Card exchange this year.

TORTOISE is a sort of not-very-secret Santa... an acronym for Totally Obvious Really The Origin Is Sure Enough.

I just need to look up past posts of Adam’s on the TORTOISE rules and then we’ll launch things tomorrow... October 1st.

Oh dear - he really is upset with us!
I wish I knew what we'd done to offend him.
If it is me I'd like to know so that I can apologise - I would never deliberately upset anyone.

 

[Lyn W]

Disappointingly, you aren’t allowed to take photos in the Abbey and the sun was in the wrong place for my phone to cope outside.

The best I could do was a snatched photo of the Palace of Westminster (aka Houses of Parliament) from the staircase to the Queen’s Gallery.
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Tips for visiting the Abbey: Buy a ticket in advance online and get there early! The number of tourists is ridiculous !

The extra money for the gallery, which opened this year, is well worth it. The cathedral galleries are part of the original fabric - up high in arches of the building - many of them just dumping areas for centuries.

It’s now accessible by a proper staircase and lift rather than a narrow spiral staircase and the views of the abbey, including places you can’t normally see, are great. The gallery now houses a fascinating display of items from over 1000 years of its existence.

All that craftsmanship is stunning.

 

[Lyn W]

Well it is Saturday Afternoon here. I worked inside the outside enclosure. Managed to visit the beach and took a few summer photos for you guys.

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Makes me feel like a walk along the coast too - maybe we'll do that in outdoor activities next time - weather permitting!!