We've been asked to stop feeding birds via bird feeders due to disease. Still throw breadcrumbs.
Bears in your back yard!
We've got some bison, beavers and boars now reintroduced to England. But bears no, while wolves, and lynx are still being discussed I understand.
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This is very funny and becomes, well, not suitable for the work Christmas party, but absolutely hilarious
@AndyD OMG that score!! The music I play has a lot more white space….
There some pages of extremely challenging music
Interesting, Artur says it took him 3 days to learn (play & memorise) the Grieg A minor. So 20-30 hours practice.
Yes, the orchestra is in slightly smaller lighter font:
And at 14.25 the adagio
Thank you Wtg. I followed the dots as Artur plays and was looking at his fingers, the amazing mobility at that age.
Astoundingly beautiful. The melancholy of the adagio, sweet Lord.
Andrew Preview conducts the LSO perfectly for him, but Artur is sublime.
And his face. It reminded me of watching an old kyudo master standing motionless as he releases his first arrow which hits the target dead centre with no apparent effort. And then his second, same.
Every note is like a perfect arrow, a lifetimes effort and experience.
He composed it in his early twenties (he was 25 when it was first performed) so you have to wonder how amazing his playing must have been.
First thing I've noticed are cameras down one of the sidelines giving a nice feel of what it's really like on the pitch.
I'm very much a 'football highlights are on the news' person.
But the world cup brings in the south americans and others to make it an interesting and more exciting competition.
So first game I'm watching, going to have to do a search cos I thought Curaçao is a drink?
Well done USA on their start the other night!
How could any pianist resist, it's 50p towards a charity; and later at home looking through the pages 🤪 mostly black with dots, I got my moneysworth, laughing.
It ain't gonna happen
I rather like the first as a holiday home, initially thought it was a tree house. Though we aren't shown enough of it or the surroundings
Out for a walk around a local Wildlife Trust area with ponds and river and there were loads of ox eye daisy, flocks and campion.
And lovely water lilies
Meanwhile my sisters garden is in full bloom with yellow scabious 
A pure white peony
And rampant fragrant rose with clematis
@mark
All for about one second
Five for minutes
Seven for about 10 seconds (that's 5 or 6 times around).
Flashed 9.
But I tend to run 4 & 5 patterns. Any more takes hours of daily practice.
@shirokuro
Had to search for Kendama; reminds me of a wooden ball in cup game we enjoyed as kids
Guessing you didn't find that mint Beatles Set on the floor of a thrift shop; and there'd be little change out of two grand.
I have a friend who has gone down the rabbit hole of very best hi-fi gear, but he has bought everthing pre-loved. Hence my reference to the price of cables, even used off evilbay.
But considering the pianos we have...
Thing with balls is they are cheap and readily available
A few, spot the cheap doggy bouncers, while the 9 purples are my practice set.
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You make me yearn for the days when we cut blackthorn toasting forks every year.
And I quite enjoyed laying and lighting our coal fire for my parents first thing in the morning.
Would depend on your room of course, and you can get modern marine captain chairs, but these oldies appeal to me
Mark, love it, a joyous photo revealing the essence of a true hobbyist, fabulous, slightly insane 
I bet you have a spare 1m cable that cost more than all of my 150 juggling balls, and a wife that says the same things to you when you're searching through vinyl on the floor of a thrift store as mine does to me when I start throwing dog toys in a pet shop.
Office chairs... at work we could choose:
You want armrests or not?
High medium or low back?
Wheels on five legs, with a protective mat underneath?
Fully adjusting up down, back height, tilt?
Colour fabric or leatherette or leather?
Or for home get a solid nice looking chair that fits you e.g. with three solid legs and no adjustments?
I've always fancied a captains chair.
@Bernard
That's quite a rug.
My sister just told me she's been to Newby Hall twice, the gardens are worth revisiting in different seasons.
Not familiar with either of those brands. Mark knows a lot more than I do and maybe he’ll chime in. I will say that I prefer analog components because digital stuff can be impossible to repair if it breaks.
What do you want to do with your new system? Is SW short wave?
The set needs to be mobile with in-built speakers, used in the sitting room & bedroom (stop me putting on the TV so much!).
Yes SW is short wave.
I want to brush up my dismal Spanish by listening to spanish speaking radio, as well as UK stations. Though I think SW stations may now be available on the Internet e.g. on a laptop,
there's a lot of pleasure to be had wheeling through shortwave static to find some remote radio station.
