Weather.... late 2009

[maggiepie]

John, I wish!!

David, Anything from kd ( after the torch and twang stuff) is fantastic. She has the most unique and sublime voice ever.(for me)






Lesley, do you have a spare room?

Padddy, do you have an Irish equivalent to Geordies?

[ashley]

Paddy, do you have an Irish equivalent to Geordies?

Proud natives of the People's Republic of Cork

[Lesley Cox]

At present Helen, alas I don't. Or rather, it is fully occupied by books floor to ceiling on three sides, window and computer on the other. A great heap of papers-to-be-sorted in the middle.

[Maggi Young]

For visions of Canada you MUST listen to "Hymns of the 49th Parallel" by K D Lang. It's marvellous and I'm listening to it as I type this.

I'll second that, David, and Helen!
 Neil Young is another hero in this house and KD Lang's version of After the Gold Rush
is one of the few instances of someone equalling his feeling for a song. That woman has an incredible voice... rich and irresistible. Such a great album...... every bit as good as her own works.

[johnw]

What might have been written where the Garda was standing,  Dail Eireann?
Paddy

Paddy - It was the Department of the Taoiseach. That had us stumped.

johnw

[johnw]

Helen - Are you blowing away up there?  I heard the big bridge has been closed to high trucks for more than 40 hours due to the wind. It's not due to re-open until noon tomorrow. They said the winds were strongest on the New Brunswick side.

It's a beastly -4c here with a stiff wind.

johnw

[johnw]

Lori - I was talking to Maria a couple of days ago. Alpines Mt. Echo is officailly closed.  She will be selling the remaining plants at a few NARGS and local sales.  She is coming here for our rare plant sale in early May. Very sad to see it go.  Maria and I and a few others went to that very part of Newfoundland I just mentioned, she knows the place inside out and was a great source for some of its rare plants.

As everyone knows running a nursery is more than a full time job and the packing and shipping the plants is very time consuming.  Now she will have the chance to travel more, another of her many passions.

johnw

[Anthony Darby]

We've had fog and temperatures hovering around 0^oC for the past couple of days.

[maggiepie]

Lesley, I can help you chuck out all the books etc, you can get a laptop and use it elsewhere. Edgar can help set it up.
Problem solved, spare room available 

Maggi, now I know you are a Neil Young fan you rock even more!!!

One of my alltime favourite NY songs.



As a session singer...






John, still here, the wind has been really awful , am so glad it hasn't been snowing at the same time.

Paddy, I think I will go looking for a sound file.

 

[johnw]

John, still here, the wind has been really awful , am so glad it hasn't been snowing at the same time.

Helen  - Still blowing here and I see the bridge situation is showing no signs of improvement.  May rain here tomorrow so maybe.

http://www.straitpass.com/conditions/

johnw

[cohan]

Alpines Mont Echo in Quebec still seems to be open for direct sales (a co-worker visited there last(?) summer).  Since I don't watch TV, I haven't seen the show you mention, and did not know of a Nfld. connection - this must be the episode:
http://www.recreatingeden.com/index.php?pid=8&season=01&episode=11

Ah, ha - from 2004:
http://www.bnargs.org/Maria_Galetti.htm

as john mentioned, i had heard elsewhere they/she was closing completely..
of course out here, we dont have cable, so i dont see that show anymore, but there were some very beautiful episodes
--i didn't like the way cable tv rates are structured--all the channels i thought were worth paying for were in the second or third tiers, and you had to pay for everything below in order to get them... oh well, no problem out here

[maggiepie]

Helen  - Still blowing here and I see the bridge situation is showing no signs of improvement.  May rain here tomorrow so maybe.

http://www.straitpass.com/conditions/

johnw

John, the wind has died down, the bridge is open, the sun is shining, yayyyyy!!
Snow this evening, sun tomorrow then snow from 16th -21st, I hope that is just the crazy weekend forecast.
Currently -15C

Cohan, it is the same with satellite.
You have to pay for basic digital before you can have anything else, and even then they bundle the channels up into themes. You pay for 7 to get the one you want.

[johnw]

Snow this evening, sun tomorrow then snow from 16th -21st, I hope that is just the crazy weekend forecast.
Currently -15C

Helen

Good news about the bridge.

Still stuck at -5c here.   Hoping it will get milder here as I have to bareroot alot of lilies this week which means the hose and frigid water.

johnw

[maggiepie]

Still stuck at -5c here.   Hoping it will get milder here as I have to bareroot alot of lilies this week which means the hose and frigid water.

johnw

John, my hands have gone numb just thinking about it.

[Paddy Tobin]

David and Tony,

Mary and I are heading off next Sunday night to be at Newgrange for the Winter Solstice. However, we won't be in the chamber - I believe only 50 people are allowed in each year, 10 each day on the five days around the 21st of December. These lucky 50 have been picked by lottery from an application of approximately 30,000.

John, the "Department of the Taoiseach" refers to our prime minister - the Irish term is 'Taoiseach'.

As Ashley has pointed out, the Cork accent is very distinct - VERY distinct - though I must tell you that Ashley lives in West Cork where the accent is not so ear piercing.

Paddy