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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2006 12:31:51 GMT
 Hairy Boris as my friends wee girl call it! Think Santa lives in Lapland.....somewhere. Look at that! Have you actually seen the Northern Lights Ziggywigs? If so, you are SOOO lucky! I don't have many ambitions in life but that's one of them. Do you remember that film "Local Hero" - one of my all time favourites - the scene where he's standing in a phonebox describing the A. B. to his boss in America - brilliant! (ahem, sorry Susie - off topic!) 4P we seen Northern Lights quite a bit of them up here being a lot further North..... here's another pic of them over the Cromarty Firth and the rigs that are berthed there...they are truly amazing and they dance too.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2006 12:38:01 GMT
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Post by sweetleaf on Dec 10, 2006 12:41:07 GMT
Hope you dont mind, Ive just nicked that image for my desktop, its stunning.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2006 12:48:12 GMT
Please feel free to use as you wish. As most folk will have gathered we get plenty of photo opportunities up North....wait til the snow comes!  |
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Post by Plocket on Dec 11, 2006 9:37:20 GMT
I'd love to see the Aurora Borealis - it must be spectacular
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Post by sleepysunday on Dec 11, 2006 9:38:06 GMT
See it? Us blokes can't even find it!
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Post by sleepysunday on Dec 11, 2006 9:39:31 GMT
Oh, hang on. You're talking about those lights in the sky thing aren't you. Ignore me, I was getting confused with something else.
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Post by Plocket on Dec 11, 2006 9:43:42 GMT
PML Sleepy!!!!!  |
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Post by sleepysunday on Dec 11, 2006 10:12:40 GMT
That's right! Typical!!! All weekend everyone has been talking about gardening. Now it's Monday morning and Big P is tell everyone that she sleeps naked, and Sweetleaf... well... you can all read what she's going on about!!!
And it's all designed to get me into trouble.
WELL IT WON'T WORK LADIES. I'M A GOOD BOY
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Post by Plocket on Dec 11, 2006 10:37:27 GMT
I didn't tell everyone I slept naked - I said I didn't wear a nightie - there's a BIG difference!!! ;D
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Dec 11, 2006 15:38:48 GMT
Ziggywigs they really are spectacular pics. I'd love to see hairy boris myself...My Daddy used to be on 'Aurora Watch' for the local astro society here in the city back in the fifties and sixties before light pollution drove all us poor amateur astronomers out into the sticks! I remember him dragging me along to the local park to watch the skies and report back to the British astronomical association!...eeeh halcyon days ;D
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2006 7:46:25 GMT
I'd love to see the Aurora Borealis - it must be spectacular I've seen it  |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Dec 12, 2006 7:55:54 GMT
I didn't tell everyone I slept naked - I said I didn't wear a nightie - there's a BIG difference!!! ;D Oooooo sorry Plocket have I got you into trouble here am sure I read somewhere you slept in the all together  So you wear PJ's then  Back on topic - am so jealous of those who have seen the northern lights - I do a lot of star gazing and was out in the garden last night as the sky was clear and I think I could see Beetle Juice still out there Nothing compared to the night F-A suggested we all look out from midnight onwards - I was still in the garden around 1-2am - awesome display of stars and nebulai (sp) but didnt see any shooting stars  Not fair really when I night gaze so often have only seen two shooting stars in my life |
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Post by Plocket on Dec 12, 2006 9:20:05 GMT
I'm always asleep when it's stargazing time!!!  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2006 14:28:17 GMT
You must go to bed early then Plocket as it gets dark at about 4 pm at the moment ;D
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Post by sleepysunday on Dec 12, 2006 14:33:22 GMT
Oh no, to be fair it doesn't get dark at 4 everywhere Rita. For instance here in Dudley until oh about 8.30pm. Glorious sunshine and blue skies here until then (seriously).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2006 14:45:00 GMT
Oh no, to be fair it doesn't get dark at 4 everywhere Rita. For instance here in Dudley until oh about 8.30pm. Glorious sunshine and blue skies here until then (seriously). Yes, Sleepy - I will believe you but millions wouldn't ;D |
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Post by sleepysunday on Dec 12, 2006 14:50:40 GMT
Thanks Rita. Sometimes I don't think Sweetleaf believes me, but I am pleased to know you do |
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Post by sleepysunday on Dec 12, 2006 14:54:10 GMT
It's lovely. How's yours?
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Post by sleepysunday on Dec 12, 2006 14:59:48 GMT
Where on earth are you? I thought you were not far from me?
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Post by sleepysunday on Dec 12, 2006 15:16:35 GMT
It does seem weird, doesn't it?
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Post by sleepysunday on Dec 12, 2006 15:26:11 GMT
That is a possibility I suppose. Still, I'm not complaining ;D
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Post by sleepysunday on Dec 12, 2006 15:27:13 GMT
Do you think that might explain that perpetual 'bad egg' smell that always seems to hang in the air?
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Post by sleepysunday on Dec 12, 2006 15:38:41 GMT
My hot spots are not abhorrent!
In fact most girls compliment me on my hot spots!
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Post by Rosefriend on Dec 12, 2006 18:45:23 GMT
Here in Germany we get the Northern Lights as well - I would have liked to have posted on this thread , - not as Administrator Rosefriend but just as rosefriend, a woman who loves gardening.
I find the situation a little difficult actually, and a little sad that no-one can post a serious thread.
I am sorry but rosefriend the women is more than a little fed up with threads that lead to nowhere, although they have been started by intelligent people.
I will ask, just once, that Gardening threads be kept just a little more seriously orientated, - should that not be the case, I will ask as Rosefriend , my co- admins for advice and help in stopping this.
I hope that I have been understood. We do have a General Board for chatting. It is enough now.
Rosefriend
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2006 21:39:41 GMT
As the Aurora Borealis are now at the end of their current 11-year cycle, the next best time to view the 'Northern Lights' will be during 2012/2013. Here's a link to more pics of Northern Lights which were taken in Fortrose by a local chap with more sophisticated equipment and techniques than me! www.aurora.musicscotland.com/gallery1.htm |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2006 22:13:29 GMT
Certainly are amazing I didn't see anything quite so spectacular though, when I lived in the north of Scotland.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2006 19:42:52 GMT
What a shame you didn't....mind you i lived here for years before i saw them.....wondered what on earth they were! Orkney's the best place apparently being that much further north.
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Post by MamIDdau on Dec 13, 2006 20:18:21 GMT
I was hoping to be able to see the northern lights when I went to New Hampshire on a college trip to america in 1998. I wasn't able to see them but I had the best view ever of the Milky Way and other stars I'd never seen before. It was amazing and brought me to tears thinkin how beautiful it all was.
I was stood in the mountains of new hampshire, knee deep in fresh snow, clear sky with the most amazing view of the glory of the skies.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2006 22:21:10 GMT
Saw these on holiday up in the air it was magical lasted for ages thanks for sharing.
Karen
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