Trivia Time!!

[David Nicholson]

One or two Forumists have said how much they have enjoyed some of the music clips I've posted (and Cliff has posted too) over the years so I thought the time was right to start a thread (hope Maggi doesn't mind!). So some here for you to enjoy, I hope.

A duo I've started to listen to a lot of late-The Civil Wars, "I Want You Back". Check out some of there other stuff too.


The Country Sisters- "Cotton Eyed Joe". Makes an old man very happy!


Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin and Jerry Douglas- "The Boxer"


Alison Krauss and Jerry Douglas-on James Taylor's "Carolina on my Mind. Get that Dobro Mr Young!

[Anthony Darby]

Spotted this on the news feed at the local ANZ branch this afternoon. Dull (near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland) is to be twinned with Boring (Oregon, USA). http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/27/the-most-exciting-dull-and-boring-story-youll-read-today/

[David Nicholson]

Yes, it's done the Press rounds. What's an "ANZ Branch"

[Anthony Darby]

ANZ is my bank David. We have ANZ; ASB; BNZ (Bank of New Zealand); TSB Bank (Taranaki Savings Bank Bank); HSBC; Kiwi Bank (Post Office) and National Bank (complete with prancing horse like the UK Lloyds TSB).

[johnw]

Spotted this on the news feed at the local ANZ branch this afternoon. Dull (near Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland) is to be twinned with Boring (Oregon, USA). http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/27/the-most-exciting-dull-and-boring-story-youll-read-today/

Anthony

From my past nursery romps through the Pacific Northwest to round up new plants for the local nurseries I can tell you that Boring, Oregon is by no means boring.   It has some of the most exciting nurseries in the USA.   One in particular comes to mind http://www.stanleyandsons.com/.  There are many many nurseries in this area and every time we went we'd spend the entire day in that one town though I can't recall ever seeing an actual town.  Back then when you crossed over from Washington to Oregon you could pick up a book at the tourist stop  - something like The 1200 Nurseries of the Greater Portland Area and it was revised annually!  Sadly last time I was there it was no longer produced.  Bet there are some great gardens in Dull too.

johnw

[David Nicholson]

I don't know how many of you are fans of the late, and much lamented, Sandy Denney but I'd guess there are a few? Well a singer by the name of Thea Gilmore has released an album of songs from lyrics found in Sandy's papers after her death. Well worth a listen, and a purchase.

[Lesley Cox]

ANZ David, is Australia and New Zealand Bank and like all the others except Kiwibank (whose Micky Mouse name I don't like, though it's my own bank) is overseas owned, which is why Kiwibank was started in the first place, 10 years ago. The National Bank is an offshoot of Lloyds as Anthony points out and Westpac, is I think, or maybe it's the Bank of NZ is owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland. So many people were outraged that all our banking profits were going overseas that in an election a few years back, a wholly owned NZ bank became a major issue and swung the election for the Labour party, with support from others. (We have MMP as an electoral system at present.) Most of the banks WERE NZ owned at one stage but sold out for bigger profits to the shareholders, to hell with the customers of course.

It is interesting and again a source of much anger that ANZ, a wholly Australian owned bank now, charges much more for every single service here, than it does in Australia. Either bigger dollar amounts or bigger percentage amounts. There is no justification for that at all, except that they can. If I buy a bank draft from ANZ it costs me $25 whereas if I buy one from Kiwibank it is $15. (We are still an ANZ customer as our slowly lowering mortgage is with ANZ.) Still too much for a bit of paper with a few typed words.

[Anthony Darby]

Too true Lesley. I heard on the BBC World Service about the "jobless recovery" in the USA. 93% of the (so-called) US recovery is going to the top 1% of the people.

[Rogan]

Despite losing our kids several times while growing up, they are now adults and don't hate us too much! 

[David Nicholson]

A little music for the weekend:-

The Staves



Alabama Shakes

[ronm]

Loving those choices David 

[ronm]

Because its Edward Lears 200th birthday,

http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html[/url]

 

[Lesley Cox]

When we occasionally have children who have mislaid their parents or vice versa at the market, we immediately, as a matter of policy and on their own advice, phone the police, though we've never had anything sinister happen to any child. Yesterday a man came to the site office and said he'd lost his wife. Said he didn't think he'd bother looking.

[maggiepie]

Anthony,

Sorry that it was an already known phenomenon.  I'll still post pics for those like me though who are a bit behind and weren't aware of it.

Roland,

Wonders will never cease..... I've managed to prepare some pics to post.    The differences in colour of the flesh are due to different lights.  I took pics with an without a flash, and in different lights to see which turned out best.  These ones were the clearest.

I only noticed when I was preparing the pics that there are already significant radicals as well as the green shoots.  You can actually quite clearly see which way up the lemon was sitting, as all the roots head in the one direction (i.e downwards).  I went back and had another look at the lemon and they're quite obvious, although I didn't even notice them until seeing the pics.

Enjoy.

Terrific pics, Paul, from page one.

A friend of mine bit into a granny smith apple some years ago, she found the seeds had germinated and potted them up.
I have one of those seedlings, it has just come through its 3rd winter.
Have no idea what sort of apples it will eventually get but it is very interesting.
Only things I have seen germinating inside the fruit at times are tomato seeds.

[Lesley Cox]

Quite a number of species from Rosaceae will germinate inside the fruit, including roses themselves, inside the hips, peaches and apricots, and rowans of different species. The fruit instead of ripening and shedding its seed by whatever means, simply falls to the ground and rots, releasing the already germinating seeds.

Admin Fred has added a much needed spellcheck (thanks) and it tells me when I've typed r instead of t and all the other typos with which I litter my text but so far as I can see, there's no-where to add the genuine words that are underlined in red squiggles. (such as Rosaceae, rowans, and even, Maggi! If I can add those and others, it will be fewer squiggles in subsequent posts. Is there somewhere to add these words Maggi? (as can be done in a Word doc for instance.)