Use baby-talk when speaking to your dog to improve the bond according to scientists:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43315466

El Loro posted:

Use baby-talk when speaking to your dog to improve the bond according to scientists:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43315466

 Barbara Woodhouse used to do that high pitched baby talk - it seemed to work for her.

Evening all

I’ve had a busy day and now I’m relaxing.

Summer, I hope you enjoyed your walk and, Velvet, I hope you enjoyed your steak.

Looks like M&S has been popular with El and Summer today.

Squiggle, did you finally get your prescription delivered?

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Velvet and Ros 

Night owl hug for Summer 

night yogi and velvet and summer if you pop in

Evening oh my word that’s a cute pup! and I could just eat a steak dinner  

I hope you’ve all had a good day I thoroughly enjoyed our walk, we even had a little bit of blue sky & sunshine! 

All my housework is done, and I read a magazine while the floors dried!

🤔 mmm baby talk for dogs? Interesting article. I personally don’t do it, but I do sometimes adopt character voices during playtime with Bramble most common is roaring like a bear 🐻 or pretending to be a ghost 👻 

there, you know all my secrets now  

sweet dreams everyone 

Good morning everyone

Fairly cloudy here and there's been some rain, a bit cooler than yesterday but no sign of any snow not even on the local hills.

Summer, as you say we now know that you can be a ghostly bear

I hope eveyone has a good day

Good morning everyone.

Weather is bright and dry.

lol Summer, you are our ghostly bear.

I hope Moonie is getting better and will be back with us soon. He seems to have been awol for a while.

Grocery shopping awaits. Have a good day all.

velvet donkey posted:

Don't forget the steaks Yogi     

 You’re an early bird today .

velvet donkey posted:

Yogi19 posted:

velvet donkey posted:

Don't forget the steaks Yogi     

 You’re an early bird today .

Today, tonight, I am a Greenfinch from the South Mathew  

 I like greenfinches.

Off to Morrisons, catch up later 

Good morning everyone, a beautiful breezy morning, a definite feeling of spring in the air.  This beautiful isle of ours is only a part of an extremely scary world Velvet, the only safe place is in the Lord 

After I had written the above I went to read my daily C.H.Spurgeon reading which I thought was quite apt in the circumstances 

Acts 14:22  |  Thursday, March 08, 2018 Morning

God's people have their trials. It was never designed by God, when He chose His people, that they should be an untried people. They were chosen in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace and earthly joy. Freedom from sickness and the pains of mortality was never promised them; but when their Lord drew up the charter of privileges, He included chastisements amongst the things to which they should inevitably be heirs. Trials are a part of our lot; they were predestinated for us in Christ's last legacy. So surely as the stars are fashioned by his hands, and their orbits fixed by Him, so surely are our trials allotted to us: He has ordained their season and their place, their intensity and the effect they shall have upon us. Good men must never expect to escape troubles; if they do, they will be disappointed, for none of their predecessors have been without them. Mark the patience of Job; remember Abraham, for he had his trials, and by his faith under them, he became the "Father of the faithful." Note well the biographies of all the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and martyrs, and you shall discover none of those whom God made vessels of mercy, who were not made to pass through the fire of affliction. It is ordained of old that the cross of trouble should be engraved on every vessel of mercy, as the royal mark whereby the King's vessels of honour are distinguished. But although tribulation is thus the path of God's children, they have the comfort of knowing that their Master has traversed it before them; they have His presence and sympathy to cheer them, His grace to support them, and His example to teach them how to endure; and when they reach "the kingdom," it will more than make amends for the "much tribulation" through which they passed to enter it.

Enjoy your day everyone 

Good morning sunny here!  

thanks squiggle, we must keep reminding ourselves of the bigger picture  

i’ll take a steak please yogi  

Felix Mendelssohn's Grant Us Thy Peace

I settled for a steak pie  

The nicest pie I've ever had was a steak and ale pie in Harrogate on 9 January 1995

I was in Harrogate working and I have got a copy of the bill I sent to my client which is why I could date it. It was an expensive meal but rechargeable. £22 then, so just over £41 now and that was just myself.

Now it's penguins doing selfies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/s...environment-43338184

El Loro posted:

I was in Harrogate working and I have got a copy of the bill I sent to my client which is why I could date it. It was an expensive meal but rechargeable. £22 then, so just over £41 now and that was just myself.

I wondered how you remembered the date so precisely 

El Loro posted:

Now it's penguins doing selfies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/s...environment-43338184

That made me smile 

Goodnight and sweet dreams, everyone. Hugs for the night owls 

Yogi19 posted:

El Loro posted:

Now it's penguins doing selfies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/s...environment-43338184

That made me smile 

yes gorgeous

night yogi summer if you pop in

Yogi19 posted:

El Loro posted:

I was in Harrogate working and I have got a copy of the bill I sent to my client which is why I could date it. It was an expensive meal but rechargeable. £22 then, so just over £41 now and that was just myself.

I wondered how you remembered the date so precisely 

That was my next question too. 

I wonder if the day was memorable, or was it the pie??  I love Harrogate  

LOVE the penguins!!!! 😍 

sweet dreams yogi & Ros  

Good morning everyone

Fairish weather here at present, but forecast to be raining most of the time from noon to early morning, dry for a few hours, then more rain thanks to the so called Pest from the West.

Summer, Harrogate was strictly a work day and I didn't get much of a chance to look around as the following day I had to go to Leeds. So, the pie was the most memorable thing from Harrogate. I was working in Leeds for some time. The hotel was non-descript. I found an Italian restuarant near bu which is where I had most of my meals. There were some co-workers who were in Leeds but in 2 different hotels. On the times we ate together it tended to be pizzas. The Italian restaurant was the best and I had quite a lot of the meals on the menu as I was in Leeds for 3/4 weeks. Their chicken cacciatore was the stand out. Although one can get Hunter's Stew from M&S (that's what chicken cacciatore means), that's no where near as good as the one I had at the restaurant.

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone, feels very chilly here this morning and the sky is quite grey, almost snow-like but there's none in the forecast and none in the offing I fervently hope.

I have a great recipe for Chicken Hunter Style which I cut out from a magazine when I was about 20 which is a great family favourite and smells absolutely mouth-watering when it is cooking.  There was a family run Trattoria right by the launderette we used to own in Chadwell Heath, the food was to die for.  My husband could easily have lived on their minestrone.  I have had minestrone in Italy and it didn't come anywhere near their minestrone.

Enjoy your day everyone 

Good morning everyone.

Just a flying visit as I’m doing extra minding today.

Have a good day all 

Yogi, I hope you have a nice time child minding

Squiggle, with Chicken Hunter Style/Chicken Cacciatore as it is a meal that Italians have prepared at home for generations there is no standard recipe so it can vary massively from place to place. Another meal I remember from that Italian restaurant was a chicken dish with a creamy sauce which had apricots in. Different and rather pleasant.

From Horace's Odes (23BC)
Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati.
seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrrhenum. Sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi
spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

in English:
Ask not ('tis forbidden knowledge), what our destined term of years,
Mine and yours; nor scan the tables of your Babylonish seers.
Better far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past,
Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our last;
This, that makes the Tyrrhene billows spend their strength against the shore.
Strain your wine and prove your wisdom; life is short; should hope be more?
In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away.
Seize the present; trust tomorrow e'en as little as you may.

So over 2000 years before Dead Poet's Society By a strange coincidence 3 years earlier than DPS Robin Williams was in another film called Seize the Day.

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros.

Hugs for any night owls 

night yogi summer if you pop in

*night owls* good evening/morning it’s been a lovely sunny day here and we’ve been very busy. Tonight I went to see Paloma Faith in concert, she was outstanding! She also touched my hand when she cane down in to the crowd so of course, I think I’m very cool tonight

i hope you’ve had a lovely day each sweet dreams  

Good morning everyone 

Weather is dry, with rain forecast for later on.

I’m glad you enjoyed the concert, Summer. I like Paloma Faith

Have a good day, everyone

Good morning everyone

Fairly sunny here at present but another band of rain forecast to arrive in just over an hour. Warmer than yesterday. Yogi, snap

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone, it's supposed to be raining now but so far no sign, the forecast is dry for this afternoon.

Enjoy your day everyone 

Squiggle, there's been bits of rain here this morning and it's become rather dark overhead so I think the rain is on its way. Done my normal M&S shopping this morning so am back to my normal shopping routine after the snow and car battery events

For those interested in astonomy, researchers have been recreating what alien atmospheres might be like (in the lab, not outside luckily )
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...environment-43335368

A flying car is now in production:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-43335808

Good day for Cheltenham Town beating Swindon away 0-3. Result means that there's a fair gap between them and the bottom 2 clubs. Although they could still be relegated that's looking fairly unlikely now.