@pedant

Wow! That looks great. A bit of a bummer that I am resident off the west coast of Canada, and it would be a trifle expensive to go over for dinner. But on the other hand, who needs retirement savings anyway?

@pedant  I am salivating now. I’d really like the Silurian Nest.

@pedant   We are lucky to live on a creek with miles of swamp and marshland around us. These wetlands are so important as a nursery for so many birds, mammals and aquatic animals. We even have a family of river otters.

Glad you liked the name.My husband came up with it, just with his brain as I told my granddaughter.( he is computer free) I did s…[Read more]

@pedant  The ospreys that fish our creek and pond did nest on an old radio tower across the highway from the water for a year but it was dangerous for them because they sometimes barely cleared the cars and trucks while flying across. A new platform was built for them before they came back in the spring and the old nest and tower were taken down.…[Read more]

@pedant Thank you for sharing that with me. It is so nice to see the ospreys doing so well and learning to fly. I like the structures built along side the nest  like a couple of old trees. Are they put there to help the young learn to fly? Or maybe just more leg /wing room? Those birds have a beautiful view and the one you give us from the tower…[Read more]

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@ichabod I echo @pedant‘s applause.

@winston Yes the helplessness is the worst especially when watching fools vote for political parties that not only don’t care about the environment but actively go out of their way to sabotage anyone who does. (We just lost the State Government that has worked for years to make this the “greenest” state in the…[Read more]

@pedant and @ichabod  I agree that people and animals today are already suffering from the effects of climate change all over the world. Hotter summers every year along with the smog alerts that go hand in hand with forest fires and massive heat related tornadoes. Our far north Inuit towns losing feet of shore line to rising sea levels, and…[Read more]

@pedant  Thanks. Never seen that before. What a paragon of impartiality…

@pedant — Thank you; applause right back.  And thanks for the clarification.

And of course if most of the ground water is poisoned by chemicals from fracking, the raccoons don’t have much of a chance either . . . nobody does.  Rich fucks don’t care; they just want another private submarine and a house in Monaco, and to hell with everything and e…[Read more]

@pedant   @missy   @janetteb

Finally got around to watching A Very English Scandal. Must see TV with lots of laugh out loud moments.

(Murray Gold did the music & Eve Myles plays someone called Gwen. Jason Watkins and Adrian Scarborough also appear.)

This documentary followed and might also be interesting to view…[Read more]

@pedant:

<p dir=”ltr” lang=”en”>he new Doctor Who intro is a bit shit pic.twitter.com/NhIjLjZ2n8</p>
— Nev (@LFCNev) March 18, 2018

Facebook wouldn’t let me in.

Missy

@pedant: A Very English Scandal,

Yes, I want to see this, I remember the affair quite well. Not keen on Hugh Grant, but he seems to have made a good effort. Ben Whishaw is always extraordinary, no matter what he does. Did anyone see The Hour?

Missy

@pedant:  @ichabod

At last! Real life has given me a proper pounding lately, so much so that I could only be bothered to e-mail.

One thing I do agree with,  is that emissions are not good, especially for people with Asthma. But I still still need to be convinced that we are to blame for all the disasters on this planet. I’m not being bloody m…[Read more]

@pedant -I’m replying to you whilst Thane is cooking dinner.

If we reply you know no-one’s food is poisoned.  No worries with the taggin’.

@Winston  thank you -and how are you doin’?

My laptop is being “checked over”and I’m borrowing one but unfortunately it won’t let me access facebook which is how, sometimes, I communicate.  Also, rather fo…[Read more]

@pedant

hi Puro here -brute force prevented an earlier response.

I will go to the fth  ta.

While at it, I’m at 20 odd mins into ep 1 of 13R and notice Jessica’s comment “I’m already in Hell…”whilst sucking a red lolly pop. Buffy memories. Actually, too close for coincidence.  But prob confirmation bias.

I’ll head to the msg page: if I can get there

@pedant

Do I get credit for finding the Little Shop?

I got lost. I was in the ceiling for awhile and, later, I became a floor puddle.

Every time I clicked near the two or three people standing near  the Lift area (to the left of where everyone else is grouped watching telly/etc) they disappeared. Completely vanished!

Happily it did my head in…[Read more]

@missy @pedant @JanetteB

Well well. This IS new. First time I’ve ever responded on a blog, blog post or topic

It’s Thane’s dad with Thane who is waving hello

Lots of things I know nothing about. Which is why I like experts. But I know this: whether any hemisphere was once ice or not and whether or not the dry and dusty plains were rainforests…[Read more]

@pedant;

To stop emissions is a good thing, especially for breathing. But if the ‘experts”  ( and not all of them do) believe that

they are making an impact on the Earth’s climate, they want to study past climate properly.

Thousands, if not millions of years ago, most of the Northern Hemisphere was blanketed in ice. Indeed the UK had

the odd…[Read more]