Baltica
The week that was saw a few of the lads head off to Hokkaido on Thursday evening for some skiing and snowboarding this weekend. That meant a depleted team on Friday and a busy day all told. The same shall be seen tomorrow. Oh the joys. It's baltic at the minute but the snow forecast today did not materialise. Thankfully. After arising at 6am yesterday to go birding and find it raining like it was going out of fashion, it was nice to being welcomed by glorious sunshine this morning.
Although it was freezing, with ice on the ground, a hard frost and frozen puddles, it was certainly refreshing. A pretty uneventful morning's birding but some nice birds in nice light were seen. Although I was wearing 2 wooly hats, ding-dong here forget to get gloves on Saturday...oh was that a big mistake. Brutal photos again due to the cold and wind. I'll have to get a monopod maybe...the Bull-headed shrike in the dawn light and the female Sparrowhawk were birds of the day for me. 
Last night I went for dinner with a few of the lads from work and the US associate who's visiting us at the moment. It was a good laugh, and a few drinks in a bar afterwards was fun. Chatting to the locals and the barstaff made it more enjoyable. I have spent the afternoon today sleeping and watching 24 (season 1)...I'm hooked on that show. It certainly keeps one enthralled. Amazing really what silly tv can do for one's pleasure centres.
Anyway, I'm not really in the most awe inspiring of moods, am I ever some would say, so I shall sign off. Next weeks is Christmas week, hard to believe really, there really isn't any spirit floating around here. Presents from my folks arrived during the week so I'll have something to look forward to on Sunday morning.
Carmo's Birds: Eastern Marsh harrier, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Scaup, Goshawk, Sparrowhawk, Bull-headed Shrike, Fan-tailed Warbler.
Carmo's Diet: this week I've mostly been lacking sleep..
posted by Carmo @ 7:40 PM
18 Comments:
Aaaaah - Radiohead ! Never liked them anyway!
beautiful pictures :) don't be so dissapointed about the lack of christmas spirit... here we're drowining in it. wish it could be somewhere in the middle... I hope you have a good week.
nice wan centurion!! I forgot about that! I meant to tell you on the phone but clean forgot. Yup, Karma Police, great song, great band...ya langer. The article is up to 3 pages now biy! I can see the Pulitzer now..
Swan_pr, how are you? normally I don't care too much for Christmas, although seeing my family is great and friends too, I just hate the commercialism of the whole thing. I think it is somewhere in the middle of nowhere though! My week shall be work work work but thankfully we have Friday off...a chance to relax. I hope you have a wonderful festive time and I'll be dropping in to see how you're doing.
Bye for now
heh!!
glad you got the parcel!
talk soon,
luv g
xx
ps. sent u mail at last xxxxxx
Hi Mark/C ,
My position on Radiohead is roughly in between both of yours, insomuch as that I liked their earlier stuff (with 'The Bends' being one of the great albums of the 90s for me), but went off them after 'OK Computer', when they seemed to disappear up their own collective rectum, though I concede that I've only heard de aul' singles since then.
H
for Radiohead, I think it was Johnny Greenwood that said something like this: "What makes a great album? People are usally dissapointed in a new album, because utlimately what they are looking for is that emotion, the way our previous album made them feel, but we have moved on."
I cant resist all this radiohead chat having seen them 3 or 4 times they are unrivaled for live performance absolutely superb!(Altho Pearl Jam @Madison Square Garden was an experience of a lifetime)
John O Flynn (striker for Cork City, from cobh) has signed for the high flying Swans!
I advised mam on a particular cd to get you hope u like it.
Xmas wont be the same without you gettin up far too early on xmas morn wakin my lazy ass up!
The Pool very unlucky in Japan
The pull-whatzer? Cork is christmas mad too, was up there on my crutch today, and I swear they were all out to get me. Everyone's full of the joys of giving, unless you are in their way - then they are full of the joys of attempted manslaughter.
Oh, and while on the subject of live performances, Richie Havens at the Half Moon in good ol Corcaigh was earth shattering.
Donovan in Aberdeen was absolutely awful on the other hand. Can't believe I just admitted to the whole world that I went to see Donovan. It was midweek in a long winter - OK!
Could be worse Bananarama and Peter Andre played in Swansea not so long ago.
what? together?! I feel much better now! Ya poor fella - come home boy!
and ye were all VERY fortunate to miss the Gipsy Kings in Skibereen! Feck that was most tortuous! "Bambalaya" six times anyone?
Folks,
thanks for making my shite day a humour filled one! I haven't laughed like that in well, the time I shaved all my...anyway, that's for another story.
Pabs, thanks for the cd fella, haven't opened it yet but no doubt it will be worth having as your taste is quite exemplary. I'll be chatting to you when you get back to the grass roots. Hope the exams went well for you last week. No doubtin ya lil' bro. I'll call you on Christmas morning, just to make up for my absense :)
Col, you back on Irish soil yet or are you still drunk in Aber? Hope it was good and you collected top prize for stringing all year!
H, you gotta listen to the albums my son! As Jonny G said (thanks swan_pr), you gotta leave the old stuff behind and listen with an open ear to the new stuff...it's class. And having seen them live twice, they are up there with the Cure as the best live act I've seen in a big arena. Magic stuff.
stringing all year is it? ya cheeky feck! Thanks for reminding me - there was no mention of me huge cash prize or any sauce or nothin! Bugger!
carmo
just a wee note of salutations from de capital prior to the xmuss
looks like your spending the festive season far from home, so enjoy and we will raise a glass to you on stevo's.
I am off to the u.s of a myself for the x muss and strangely the closer it gets right now the less attractive it becomes. strange but true
so in a little way I can understand what it must be like for you so far from the olde sod.
anyhooo keep an eye out for an unusual bird that can only be seen this time of year, it looks suspiciously like a sleigh but dont be fooled by first appearances!
happy xmuss fella
cally
Hi Mark, we needed you on Saturday, Eddie went en famille so twas Jim and I alone, could have used your Little Gull, Whimbrel and Ringed Plover to get us into joint first! Still the feckers wouldn't have let us win anyway so we got to a repectable 91 and were in the pub by 5.10!Cheers Jez ps website is brill why am I so lazy!
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