A plea

[wellinghall]

Tell me something interesting ... or something fun ... or just something!

Or ask me a question.

Or post a link.

Anything!

Comments

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Sudoku (http://www.websudoku.com/?select=1&level=4) is good.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I Fail at Sudoku.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Oh dear! :-(

Well, perhaps a small enthusiastic tenor singing things (http://www.charles-daniels-society.org.uk/tim.htm), then?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I shall check it out at home (no sound here :-( )

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I bought these shoes (http://www.office.co.uk/womens/office/frank/30/7048/20700/1/) (tones slightly more muted in the flesh). Jeeves would keel over at the very sight.

One of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano webcams now has a thermal image camera (http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/) (I'm sure there's a better technical term than that, but it isn't coming to mind). There's another good camera here (http://www.vodafone.is/eldgos/en).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

adaese is forever urging me to think, "What Would Jeeves Do?"

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

A wise woman.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

In most matters ... but not when it comes to things like my multi-shaded green tie, which she insisted clashed with itself ...

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

The birds have eaten an entire fat block.
I had to stop Melchett going for the collared doves yesterday.
I have been burning Jeanine's rabbit hutch.
I'm still fascinated by the world's worst electronic circuit.
There is a magpie on our bird table.
I need to cut the grass.
The two fledged blackbird chicks are doing well and hoovering up mealworms.
Mother blackbird seems to be starting clutch 2.
I need to schedule a time to go and play body-scanner magnets.
I hope Siemens have processed my invoice.
Perhaps I should send them the next two invoices.
I have loads of TS treasurer work to do.
Have you sorted out ethical banking yet?
Have you sorted out any unethical, but high interest rate, deposit accounts yet? If so, let me know 'cos the Coventry is crap at the moment.
Melchett is asleep on a chair.
Yvonne has just delivered our post.
There are two more TS related letters in there.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in the answers to the banking questions. Am in the midst of an overhaul.

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

Young Welly has been actioned to sort out some new deposit accounts for TS cash (providing ROTR don't need it). Hopefully he'll come up with some good investment deals that we can use. I have money in some account in the Coventry that needs to be moved after the policy matures so I'm interested in alternative investments as well.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Remember this is an unlocked post - are you happy with this level of TS / personal finance being discussed here? (You may be, but I thought I would check).

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

I wasn't going into the actual amounts - they can wait until a meeting or be discussed on a TS email list. At the end of the day, it will be in the accounts and they will be published.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

That's fine.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Sporcle! These (http://www.sporcle.com/games/tags/tolkien) quizzes for example...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I have never quite got into Sporcle - maybe I just havent spent enough time there ...

[emperor]

The Duchess of Hamilton has recently had her streamlining re-fitted. Whilst it looks really cool, it actually made her substantially slower than the less aerodynamic version, because it adds a lot of extra weight...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ooh, shiny boys' toys!

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

When I went down to Fairlop Plain today to walk the dog there were over a hundred swifts hawking insects over the lake and wheeling up into the clouds.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Over a hundred? Ooh!

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know.

I thought they must be swallows at first, but the wings were too long and the tails too short, though heavily forked.

They don't normally hunt insects so low over water, but I guess they were on their way North on migration, and had stopped to feed. We've had huge hatches of insects in the last few days, and they were feasting.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You may be right - I don't know a great deal about swifts.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I know a lot more about identifying birds since I discovered this website.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdidentifier/

inamac was sure they were swifts, having, as she said, seen them more often than I have.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I made loads of phone calls this morning and now that it is time to go out for lots of appointments, it's raining. However, apparently it snowed near MiL.

Oh and it's under 3 weeks til the Eurovision song contest. Woo-hoo.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Where does MiL live - is it somewhere near you? I had heard of forecasted snow in the highlands, but not in England!

[segh.livejournal.com]

I went to Bath yesterday to do a fitting for the dress I mentioned lately. As we had some time in hand my daughter and I went to the Moomin shop. I bought myself a Snufkin pen (I really want to be Snufkin though I know I'm Moominmamma). Kit spotted some material and started wishing for a Moomindress - however as it's £20 pm I don't think we can do that!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You are completely and utterly Moominmamma.

Being an actuary, I first read £20 pm as £20 per month; and thought, Crikey, that *must* be expensive fabric if you've got to take out a hire purchase agreement to buy it!

[tree_and_leaf]

There are still tulips out.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Which is good :-)

Tyntesfield had some nice tulips.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I have just learned that the Bank Vole is one of those welcome species that eats slugs.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Good for it!

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

I really liked this vid for Worldcon 2014 (http://matgb.dreamwidth.org/369002.html)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

At first sight, it looks impressive - I'll look at it properly this evening.