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Summer, Erik affects the while country but there are yellow warnings for Friday and/or Saturday covering roughly any where north of Liverpool, Rochdale, Bradford, York and Scarborough.

 

It may turn out to be more like little by little rather than large by large. That's a reference to a Victorian novel for boys which was very popular at the time and is thought to be the reason why the name Eric became popular. I wouldn't bother reading it, another Victorian novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays" is more readable, better known, and has been made filmed and made into TV series over the years.

El Loro
El Loro posted:

Moonie, that's correct though it's Storm Erik rather than Eric, Affecting Northern Ireland and Scotland with the strongest winds though it's going to be very windy across the country.

 

Erik the Red was a famous Viking, Nowadays he sells stationery and holidays

Well done Erik for diversifying  

Moonie

Has a recorded phone call saying that my BT phone line and internet was going to be disconnected and telling me to press 1 to speak to an advisor who would sort it out.

 

Obviously a scam, I knew that anyway but I haven't had a BT phone line or internet in years

El Loro
El Loro posted:

Has a recorded phone call saying that my BT phone line and internet was going to be disconnected and telling me to press 1 to speak to an advisor who would sort it out.

 

Obviously a scam, I knew that anyway but I haven't had a BT phone line or internet in years

 

Moonie

You may remember the BBC correspondent Chris Buckler throwing some water from a thermos and it turned instantly into ice in the recent extreme cold weather in the States:
Its 40 seconds from the start of this short video clip:

That's become a bit of a hit in Russia as seen in this handful of photos:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-47158018

El Loro
Yogi19 posted:

Evening all 

I haven’t had a chance to read back yet but I hope everyone is well.

And a gentle hug for Ros, who I know is still in a bit of pain with shingles 

Hi Yogi 

All's well in Moonieland, I hope it is in Yogiland too  

Moonie
Moonie posted:
Yogi19 posted:

Evening all 

I haven’t had a chance to read back yet but I hope everyone is well.

And a gentle hug for Ros, who I know is still in a bit of pain with shingles 

Hi Yogi 

All's well in Moonieland, I hope it is in Yogiland too  

 Glad to hear it, Moonie.

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros.

Hug for any night owls

Yogi19

Good morning everyone

 

Not pleasant weather here, rainy and windy though could be worse.

 

Ros, I hope your shingles clear up quickly I'm not aware that I've ever had chicken pox though both my father and my brother caught it when they were adults rather than as children.

 

for Yogi

 

I hope everyone has a good day and take care if you have to go out into Storm Erik

El Loro

Good morning everyone, windy and wet here, not a pleasant morning at all.   Sending a big to all who are feeling a bit below par this morning and those who are recovering slowly.  February is a difficult month but remember Spring is just around the corner

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Enjoy your day everyone
squiggle

Good morning everyone.

It’s raining here and strong winds are forecast so, I’m going to hunker down indoors.

Squiggle, I love the lamb pic.

Have a good day all, whatever you are doing.

Yogi19

Summer, well done on your quiz I know the answers to 7 of your 12 questions but won't post my answers so that others can have a go. I like the way you've given little nods to some of us

El Loro

Summer, re question 8, the celebities Pointless version had a question a few years ago to name some of the films that actress or Marlon Brando had been nominates for Oscars and I got a pointless answer for one of her films (where she won) and also a pointless answer for Brando (Viva Zapata! - he was nominated but didn't win.

El Loro
El Loro posted:

Summer, well done on your quiz I know the answers to 7 of your 12 questions but won't post my answers so that others can have a go. I like the way you've given little nods to some of us

I’m glad you noticed that  

~Sparkling Summer~
El Loro posted:

Summer, re question 8, the celebities Pointless version had a question a few years ago to name some of the films that actress or Marlon Brando had been nominates for Oscars and I got a pointless answer for one of her films (where she won) and also a pointless answer for Brando (Viva Zapata! - he was nominated but didn't win.

Well done I wouldn’t have automatically thought of her, but now I know it, i’ll not be likely to forget it! 

I particularly like the giraffe question, and the answer to question 12  

~Sparkling Summer~

Summer, when I saw that you were preparing a quiz I thought of this poser:
Which actress connects:

and:

That's a very tough poser though, but by a total coincidence, she's the same person as in your question 8 and the first picture is the first film for which she got an Oscar. You'll probably need to look up a list of her films as they aren't at all well known.

El Loro
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squiggle posted:

Good morning everyone, windy and wet here, not a pleasant morning at all.   Sending a big to all who are feeling a bit below par this morning and those who are recovering slowly.  February is a difficult month but remember Spring is just around the corner

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Enjoy your day everyone

aww that is gorgeous  thank you-cheers you up

Rocking Ros Rose

Good morning everyone

 

Fairish weather here at present, still breezy and more rain forecast for tonight,

 

Ros, I'm glad you are getting better day by day

 

I hope everyone has a good day

El Loro

Squiggle, I hope your weather brightens up today, apart from the breeze it's not too bad here, a mix of cloud and blue sky . Apart from tonight, it looks to be quite settled weather for the coming week

El Loro
Yogi19 posted:

Hi everyone.

Weather was rainy and windy overnight and is still the same atm

I hope you are all planning a relaxing weekend.

Yogi, I hope you don't have to go out in that

El Loro
El Loro posted:
Yogi19 posted:

Hi everyone.

Weather was rainy and windy overnight and is still the same atm

I hope you are all planning a relaxing weekend.

Yogi, I hope you don't have to go out in that

I stayed indoors, El.

Yogi19
El Loro posted:

A collection of winning photographs in the International Garden Photographer of the Year on the BBC website:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-47118130

Interesting photos though the word "garden" for most of them is very misleading.

Some lovely pics but, as you say, the word “garden” is misleading for a lot of them.

Yogi19

Good evening 👋 I hope you’ve all had a good start to the weekend after the storm subsided, we had blue skies and sunshine all day! It’s still windy though 

 

El, I wouldn’t have guessed the answer to that photo quiz question, not in a million years! 

~Sparkling Summer~
Yogi19 posted:
El Loro posted:

A collection of winning photographs in the International Garden Photographer of the Year on the BBC website:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-47118130

Interesting photos though the word "garden" for most of them is very misleading.

Some lovely pics but, as you say, the word “garden” is misleading for a lot of them.

yes -they have used filters and an editing programme to change the original but I  like them especially the alliumsvery  clever

Rocking Ros Rose

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