owl Posted December 15, 2018 Report Share Posted December 15, 2018 Update received on the young husky I transported a couple of weeks ago. She is doing well and is going to a new home soon to live with 2 other huskies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 I would have loved to see the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 the boys like them glad the husky is happy luna just started a fight with merlin! wrong dog! hes normally a wuss but he just nailed her. good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantan Posted December 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 Oh dear Owl I am afraid I laughed too. Mind you it's happened to me. A few years ago Evie's dad fixed my old Volvo estate up and listed it on ebay, handling all the sale details and hand over when it sold. In the listing he stated he was "selling for an elderly friend". I told him "I'll give you elderly you twonk". I guess to a 20 something a person in her mid 50's, as I was then, seems very old. Ruby came back from a business trip to London a couple of years ago fuming because a young man offered her his seat on the tube. It made her feel soooooooooooooo old. I'll bet the Red Hot Chilli Pipers were fabulous live. We are going to attempt to make a gingerbread house sometime during the week. Wish us luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 just taken mouse and merlin over the field. mouse was good on the lead for the first time in her life. hope it continues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 Well done Mouse. I don't mind anyone laughing at the Asda incident. I posted it to give everyone a laugh. A tad less chilly today but still ice on some ponds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 Lucky you Eve!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzeanna Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 Sorry to swim against the tide, so to speak, but I'm not keen on bagpipes. I remember when I lived at home with my mother and her "friend", Prue ( the friend) was Scottish and one New Year's Eve she found some pipers, lord knows where from, who came marching up the drive to pipe in the New Year. All wearing the full regalia of course. Good job we had no neighbours, though I think they scared the cats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 I like Highland bagpipes but there is nothing worse than being too close to them. There is a guy who sometimes busks in Worksop outdoor shopping precinct to raise money for Help for Heroes, and he plays very badly. It is tough on the shop workers who cannot just walk away. Unless it is a gig in a large auditorium and people have chosen to be there, I believe they should be heard and not seen. If you can see them you are standing too close Not being anti Scots here as I love the smallpipes, played with bellows and very expressive, perfect for indoors. Late OH used to play those, and also the French cabrette which is mouth blown with a drone and a chanter. Sadly the English bagpipes, played for dancing and ceremonial occasions, are extinct and can only be seen in engravings. Henry VIII played them and had pipers at court. People were very superstitious about them so they were traditionally buried with the piper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 Muffin the awol terrier was spotted early this morning on edge of her home village, quite close to her home. Looked fit and in good working order. I suspect she has now learned to hunt, as she has not been seen around the takeaways. First sighting for more than a week. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzeanna Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 For three days, our garden was graced by the presence of a very big black bird. Having consulted various descriptions and images to decide which of the corvids it was, we came to the conclusion it's a raven, so we named him Edgar for obvious reasons. No sign of him today, I'm quite disappointed! He must have just been passing through and stopped to hoover up the mealworms which were actually meant for the robin. Hope Muffin is caught quickly Owl, lots of rain forecast for next couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazz Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 lewis is on his way. suprising how quick i can do the housework Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 Hahahaha...I thought it was a typo and thought it was the red hot chilli peppers!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzeanna Posted December 17, 2018 Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 Must confess so did I Griff, but I mentioned it to Philip and he put me straight. Put up our tree and decorations yesterday and boy don't I know it today, it's things like that make me realise how much my health has changed in the last year, I've got aches in places I didn't know I could get aches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantan Posted December 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2018 I like the pipes when played well. A few years ago a friend and I went to the Edinburgh Tattoo and boy were the pipes there fabulous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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