TED TALKS: STIR YOUR CURIOSITY

I am very keen on the internet video lectures entitled TED Lectures. |These are lectures given by very articulate people in big conference halls anywhere in the world for an invited audience who pay (lots!).

There was one in Edinburgh in July.  In our part of the world we have similar twice-monthly lectures in the winter season here in Glasgow.  They are run by the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow.

As TED says "Great talks to stir your curiosity"

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GRANDMA WORKS THE VIDEO

Ishie is with us today as she is off school - running a temperature and full of the cold. She arrived this morning with her Dora video under her arm. I finally got it to work after pressing every button on the handset (as is my practice)!


I was through in the kitchen making soup when I hear a wail, "I can't make out what they're saying!" "Oh heavens!" thinks I with my Public Health Nurse background "Has the child an ear infection?"

I squat down in front of the TV, "Can you not hear Ishie?" ... at which point Dora and her Explorer friends highlight the problem: it's all in Spanish!!!!

FIDDLE FINI

Our Junior Orchestra held its final concert on Saturday.  The 25 players aged from 10 to 16 years played for their parents and friends.  The season is now finished until we start again next August.  (The children are too busy with Christmas and extra-curricular  activities to do any more.)

I can now get on with all the other things that get put on hold while I run around trying to attend to the various details relating to this concert. 

CAPTURING THE COLOURS

The autumn colours are superb just now.  But the leaves are starting to go...

 

Driving past Stirling Castle I pulled the car over into a lay-by and jumped out to take a picture of the castle and of the adjacent areas (below).  As I did this other cars copied me, i.e. pulled over; drivers got out of their cars, whipped out their iPhones and holding them at arms' length captured the colours.

Ladies who lunch ... Having arrived at the restaurant for the Canadian Ladies Luncheon I took a few shots of the Canadian-like colours and then headed for my twice yearly 'fix' of Canadian accents!