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Post by whatagain on Nov 12, 2019 16:41:53 GMT
LOL. I have booked my anti depressive trick. 2 weeks in the Caribbean Sea. 6 -7 weeks and poof I am there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 12, 2019 21:51:36 GMT
You will be all tanned and cheerful!
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Post by questa on Nov 12, 2019 23:11:20 GMT
My trips to the northern climes were all based on getting away from winter in Oz.
The Oz band "Dragon" had a major hit with "Take me to the April sun in Cuba". Said it all for me.
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Post by bjd on Nov 13, 2019 6:43:03 GMT
I never think of Australia as having much winter. I should think it's a relief to have some cool weather after the heat and drought of summertime. Yes, I know it's a big country, but does it ever really get cold other other than in Tasmania?
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 13, 2019 7:09:13 GMT
The last time I was in Sydney during a month of June, the temperature was 7°. (Yes, it was unusual.)
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Post by questa on Nov 13, 2019 10:54:03 GMT
Any place that gets very hot in summer will get very cold in winter...think of the deserts. I have been in Central Oz in July and each morning my tent was frozen...about -6C. I lived in the gentle Hills in Adelaide and in winter had to break up the ice in my hens' drinking trough. We had sleet and small snow flurries. The alpine region of the Snowy Mountains has the ski resorts and more ski-able snow than Switzerland. All along the Great Dividing Range that runs down the east hinterland the winters are bleak and anyone caught in the open overnight has little chance of survival.
North of tropic of Capricorn is warmer, humid air and mossies and crocs.
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Post by mossie on Nov 13, 2019 16:12:53 GMT
I am most surprised and have always looked upon Australia having a super summer type climate. I will admit to being crocked.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 13, 2019 16:40:04 GMT
Bringing the subject back to the normal world (i.e. continental Europe ), I confess to having a considerable winter advantage by living in the "city of light." Paris is splendid after dark, and even in gloomy winter daytime, it is still Paris. (Am I sounding arrogant?)
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Post by questa on Nov 13, 2019 22:56:32 GMT
Isn't arrogance the hallmark of a Parisian? and from such a little country, too!
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Post by lagatta on Nov 14, 2019 0:12:06 GMT
Alessandro Manzoni described the stereotypical "Parisian" thus about 150 years ago, but of course he was speaking of the literate upper class. Most Parisians were like most other working stiffs the world over.
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Post by fumobici on Nov 14, 2019 6:00:41 GMT
I don't begrudge Parisians a bit of arrogance; it seems to me correct. They, after all, have somehow wound up in that magical (if flawed) place.
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Post by bjd on Nov 14, 2019 8:05:21 GMT
Not to start a war here, but I typically associate arrogance with the British. Perhaps influenced by when they thought they were entitled to rule so much of the world. Again, not all of them, but there definitely is a streak of it.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 14, 2019 8:37:53 GMT
Thanks pal.....
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Post by bjd on Nov 14, 2019 8:43:09 GMT
I did say "not everyone", thinking specifically about the nice Brits on Anyport.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 14, 2019 10:05:50 GMT
That’s alright then....
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 14, 2019 10:12:41 GMT
I'll give the British arrogance if the French can keep snooty.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 14, 2019 21:06:28 GMT
We got plenty of arrogance and ignorance, a ridiculously inflated opinion of our own importance on the world stage and no sense of style.
I still quite like being British tho.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 14, 2019 21:13:29 GMT
Arrogance and confidence are very close in the scheme of things.
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Post by questa on Nov 15, 2019 2:05:08 GMT
UK has more eccentrics per square mile than anywhere else. I know because I read it in the ladies loo in Dubai. It is the one thing that saves the Brits...they KNOW everything is nonsense and treat it as such.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 15, 2019 11:27:23 GMT
I thought you were writing in support of equal time for summertime blues... But yes, that is a saving grace.
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Post by casimira on Nov 1, 2020 21:10:56 GMT
Daylight Saving Time (turning back the clock one hour) started today. I loathe this time of year when it gets dark so f'n early and it really reeks havoc with my body clock. As the weeks go by it gets even worse and I am sure that I am one of those people who suffer from daylight deprivation or whatever it's called.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 23, 2021 14:05:48 GMT
“Daylight savings time” ended in the US on March 14. The mornings are dark again, just when they were getting lighter after the long winter.
As I tend to wake early and spend the next hour or so having coffee and “me time” in the kitchen breakfast nook, this renewed darkness is discouraging.
However, I saw a bluebird this week, and red-winged blackbirds are calling, both harbingers of spring. I do believe we’ve survived another winter.
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Post by casimira on Mar 23, 2021 14:21:30 GMT
How delightful to see a bluebird!!! (they don't quite make it this far South). But, I have been seeing huge flocks of Cedar Waxwings in the last 2 weeks. they land in a huge mulberry tree just outside my bedroom balcony French doors and are visible from our bed. Winter seems to be officially over here. I awaken at 7 a.m. Central Time just as the sun is rising so, it's perfect for me.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 23, 2021 14:53:44 GMT
The bluebirds we see in Montana are Mountain Bluebirds, gorgeous little gems with blue backs and turquoise sides. We usually get a family raising young in one of our bird boxes, while tree swallows monopolize the other 5 nest boxes.
I suspect that I would hear robins calling if I walked out to get the newspaper, but now that we read our paper digitally, I don’t make those early-morning still-dark trudges to the end of the driveway to fetch the paper.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 23, 2021 14:57:34 GMT
I have been seeing huge flocks of Cedar Waxwings in the last 2 weeks. they land in a huge mulberry tree just outside my bedroom balcony French doors and are visible from our bed. Casi, whenever you see a flock of waxwings, check out their bottoms. The “under-tail coverts” are white on cedars, but rusty red on Bohemians. Any flock of one could have a few individuals of the others mixed in. They are superficially similar, but easily separated when you check out their nether regions as they perch in leafless branches overhead.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 23, 2021 15:04:42 GMT
Besides winter blues there is now also covid blues to the extent that the government here has just announced that it will fully finance 4 visits a year for people to visit the shrink.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 23, 2021 16:08:06 GMT
We only see blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 23, 2021 17:03:58 GMT
There are three species of “Bluebirds” in the US. Eastern Bluebirds in the east, and Western and Mountain Bluebirds in the west. All three are thrushes, with spotted young.
Plus other birds that are blue, like multiple species of jays, buntings and grosbeaks.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 23, 2021 18:19:05 GMT
Since the subject is "blue" I used to catch beautiful blue perch in the bayous.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 23, 2021 18:57:21 GMT
I put my SAD light away until October. Also....6 bags of compost being delivered cheered me up no end...
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