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Summer,  I hope you have a good lunch with your friends

 

Yogi, looking at the Wiki article on Fortnite, it's not the sort of game I would ever play. Co-operative survival shoot-up against zombies and it costs players to get any bits of upgrade. The developers have made many games over the years, not that any of them are of appeal to me, the best known being the Unreal series and Gears of War series, the sort of games which are too violent for youngsters but they still play them.

 

Squiggle, I hope the weather improves for you

El Loro
squiggle posted:

Good morning everyone, quite a change from yesterday, grey clouds wall to wall and a stiff breeze.  I hope you have better weather for your day off Summer.

 

Enjoy your day everyone 

Sorry Squiggle, I missed your post this morning. I think we were all posting at the same time.

I hope your weather has improved since this morning. 

Yogi19

Many years ago I saw a film on television but I couldn't remember what it was called. I knew it was an European film, that it was set in the Middle Ages, that it was about a boy searching the countryside on a quest and that there was the constant threat of plague. (It's not The Navigator, a Medieval Odyssey which is better known - that was an Australian/New Zealand film, not European).

 

I had tried to find it some years ago without success but I think I've found it. You may have heard of The Singing Ringing Tree (1957). It's reputed to be quite a scary film considering that it's a childrens film. I haven't seen it though one can get it on DVD but apparently there's a strobing effect on the DVD which I waould find really offputting. The film was made by an East Germany (as it was at the time) film company called DEFA. They made other childrens films based on the likes of the stories of the Brothers Grimm. Closer to the dark stories of Grimm rather than the Disneyfied versions.

 

I think the film is "Dar Licht der Liebe" which means The Light of Love (1991). I found a DVD on the German site of Amazon and using Google Translate, the description sounds right. It was made by DEFA and the date of the film makes sense.

 

I've ordered a copy and will see if I'm right. (same DVD region as UK and it mentions that there are English titles).

El Loro

Thanks everyone Both the hygienist and the dentist were happy and apart from the routine scale and polish, nothing required and nothing likely to need to be done in the near future, so made the ususal 6 monthly checkup etc appointment.

 

Summer, that was some gathering and you must be looking forward to your mum's next visit

 

Yogi, I hope you get all you were looking for in Morrisons

 

Squiggle, that sounds as if your weather today is a big improvement over yesterdays

El Loro

Yogi, it's the south and east of England mainly expected to get the snow. Each day the Met Office has been increasing the risk for the weekend. Hopefully it won't amount to much but it's clear that the extent and quantity is very uncertain.

 

The winter hasn't been anything like the one of 1962/63 (briefly mentioned in the latest series of Call the Midwife). In this part of the country one might expect one lot of snow in a winter but to get four lots is unusual.

El Loro

Good morning everyone

 

Rained here overnight. Fairish weather at present and still mild. Tomorrow and Sunday is a different matter. Even if there's no snow it will still be cold. Years ago when I was working for my old firm I was in Cardiff on St Patricks Day and the Cheltenham Gold Cup was that day. When we came out of the client's offices for lunch there was snow all around.

 

I hope everyone has a good day

 

(No, I've never betted on horse races, so no tips from me )

El Loro

Good morning πŸ‘‹ raining, cold, grey and utterly miserable here lol we’ll definitely be making our own sunshine today  

how are we all? 

I’m going to be visiting family & friends this weekend, so I’m busy packing etc, I can’t wait to see everyone. 

 

I see the Durrells starts on Sunday, who’s going to be watching?! 

~Sparkling Summer~

Yogi, I can do one better than you. Years ago we had a lot of snow locally on Low Sunday, that's the name given to the Sunday after Easter Sunday. I was the church treasurer then and we would have the church AGM on Low Sunday. I remember trudging through the snow in the evening to get to the AGM. I can't remember which year it was so don't know if it was an early Easter in March or a later one in April.

 

I'm a bit puzzled about BBC Breakfast saying that this weekend would be so good for trade. The Cheltenham Meeting ends today with the Gold Cup.

 

Summer, I hope you have a great time this weekend visiting friends and family

El Loro
El Loro posted:

Yogi, I can do one better than you. Years ago we had a lot of snow locally on Low Sunday, that's the name given to the Sunday after Easter Sunday. I was the church treasurer then and we would have the church AGM on Low Sunday. I remember trudging through the snow in the evening to get to the AGM. I can't remember which year it was so don't know if it was an early Easter in March or a later one in April.

 

I'm a bit puzzled about BBC Breakfast saying that this weekend would be so good for trade. The Cheltenham Meeting ends today with the Gold Cup.

 

Summer, I hope you have a great time this weekend visiting friends and family

I might have misunderstood , El. I assumed they were talking about the weekend but maybe they meant the last few days.

Yogi19
~Sweet Pancakes~ posted:

Good morning πŸ‘‹ raining, cold, grey and utterly miserable here lol we’ll definitely be making our own sunshine today  

how are we all? 

I’m going to be visiting family & friends this weekend, so I’m busy packing etc, I can’t wait to see everyone. 

 

I see the Durrells starts on Sunday, who’s going to be watching?! 

I hope you have a great time with F&F 

I’ll be recording The Durrells

Yogi19
El Loro posted:

Yogi, for generations many people from Ireland come to Cheltenham for the Cheltenham Meeting as their annual holiday. Hotels, lodging places are booked solid months in advance. Quite a few house owners let them stay with them (and quite likely it's the same people who come to stay year after year).

 

Next time I’ll listen with both ears 

Yogi19

Good morning everyone

 

Cloudy and cold here. There's snow in the air but not settling. Any settling snow is more likely tonight so Sunday could be snowy. Although there are amber warnings, it's just yellow for my area.

 

Yogi, I tracked down the bit of yesterday's BBC Today that you mentioned. It didn't specify the days of the Cheltenham Meeting so unless you knew whicvh days it was on one could easily assume that yesterday was the first day so into the weekend rather than the last

 

Summer, I hope you are having a good time with family and friends

 

I hope everyone has a good day and stays safe and warm

El Loro

Back from my shopping, noticeably colder then the last few days though not as cold as it was when there was the main Beast from the East.

 

Squiggle, I've gone back to wearing a thicker pullover (and a thicker coat when out) so I wrapped up warm.

 

Some strange cricket scores from the two recent matches between a New Zealand XI and England.
First match:
New Zealand XI 376 all out after 90 overs
England 319 for 14 after 90 overs
Second match:
New Zealand XI 287 for 13 after 90 overs
England 353 for 9 after 90 overs

They were practice matches for England to prepare for the tests.2 day matches with one side batting throughout one day to 90 overs - if they were bowled out, they came back in until the end of the 90th over, then vice versa on the second day.

El Loro
El Loro posted:

Good morning everyone

 

Cloudy and cold here. There's snow in the air but not settling. Any settling snow is more likely tonight so Sunday could be snowy. Although there are amber warnings, it's just yellow for my area.

 

Yogi, I tracked down the bit of yesterday's BBC Today that you mentioned. It didn't specify the days of the Cheltenham Meeting so unless you knew whicvh days it was on one could easily assume that yesterday was the first day so into the weekend rather than the last

 

Summer, I hope you are having a good time with family and friends

 

I hope everyone has a good day and stays safe and warm

Good morning, everyone 

There's a very icy wind but no sign of any snow yet.

BiB - that explains my misunderstanding, thanks El.

Have a good day, everyone

 

Yogi19

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