Cervatilla Blog Comments (119)

RE: A sad tale, indeed.

from 'Through the Looking-glass', Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898

RE: How Does Your Garden Grow?

RE: How Does Your Garden Grow?

Something totally unrelated to gardens, I have been meaning to mention to you about your photographs.
Sunset & the green flash, I don't know if your atmosphere will show it but if you watch the sun very carefully as it goes down & at the very last second before it dips out of sight you get a green flash, it would be interesting to see if you can catch that in your snaps xx

RE: DEAR SIMMO

yes, Harbal, he died in 2014.
He was really very popular, we all were devastated

RE: DEAR SIMMO

my goodness, Ash, that was a shock seeing his face again! It certainly made my heart skip a beat. I don't know if I can even read the whole blog at this stage.

He is well missed & was well loved. RIP Simmo

Shame on Taiji - Shame on $eaworld

this is how it should be, Daniela, there is no need whatsoever to visit a marine prison! Thank you xx

Shame on Taiji - Shame on $eaworld

this is how it should be, cetaceans from my island

RE: 58,000th BLOG!!!

57,503 - here is the oldest one I could find, but surely there are a lot more! Where can you find them?
I know one from c10 years ago was resurrected not long ago, but where did it come from?

RE: Olives

for later...............................

Shame on Taiji - Shame on $eaworld

I was going to answer you all separately but it would be the same answer................. I HATE, HATE, HATE $eaworld with all my being!
The more I have researched the whole captivity issue the more it is blatantly obvious that $eaworld are heavily invested.
I have followed Taiji for a good number of years & have signed petitions & screamed silently when I see the barbaric treatment these poor creatures go through (the video in the clip was a heaven sent blessing really for the dolphin which died) I can't understand why the meat is sold & fed to humans when it is clearly marked as not even fit for animal consumption, let alone humans & yet some is fed to children (even at school lunch) & it is so heavily & dangerously tainted by radiation.

I also follow the story of Morgan, the Norwegian Orca who was captured by the Netherlands & subsequently sold on to $eaworld & transferred to the Loro Parque Foundation in my country, the story is heart rending! It is a travesty. Here is the FB link to their page if you are interested to follow the story & the subsequent Court rulings;
I have been banned from visiting Loro Parque because I was campaigning so hard with the rest of them when Morgan was brought here in secret.
I try so hard to educate people not to visit marine parks but people say 'well, they are being treated kindly & they would be extinct if we didn't keep them in captivity' They don't even think of the horrific deaths that have been caused by these beautiful captives just out of sheer frustration!......I want to cry when I see the wild cetaceans leaping in the sea here, thank God our waters are protected.

Pat, I was very, very pleasantly surprised & thrilled to read your comment ... thank you x

RE: "DAYS OF OLD"

Goldie, I don't know why you bother with all those TV channels, just use this

RE: When Life Laughs at You...

bears???? oh, yikes!
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger...............except bears - bears can kill you

RE: A Lonely Life

Sage advice there from Keepers. You have a nice profile & some great photos, you will find 'her' one day soon

RE: Just some healthy eating stuff

always wise to be informed! goodnight

RE: What's your pet hate?

don't worry about your mind, Mero, there is a rational explanation, here is your answer
Doorway
We’ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find.
New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor Gabriel Radvansky suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses.

“Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away,” Radvansky explains.
“Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized.”
The study was published recently in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Conducting three experiments in both real and virtual environments, Radvansky’s subjects – all college students – performed memory tasks while crossing a room and while exiting a doorway.

In the first experiment, subjects used a virtual environment and moved from one room to another, selecting an object on a table and exchanging it for an object at a different table. They did the same thing while simply moving across a room but not crossing through a doorway.
Radvansky found that the subjects forgot more after walking through a doorway compared to moving the same distance across a room, suggesting that the doorway or “event boundary” impedes one’s ability to retrieve thoughts or decisions made in a different room.

The second experiment in a real-world setting required subjects to conceal in boxes the objects chosen from the table and move either across a room or travel the same distance and walk through a doorway. The results in the real-world environment replicated those in the virtual world: walking through a doorway diminished subjects’ memories.

The final experiment was designed to test whether doorways actually served as event boundaries or if one’s ability to remember is linked to the environment in which a decision – in this case, the selection of an object – was created. Previous research has shown that environmental factors affect memory and that information learned in one environment is retrieved better when the retrieval occurs in the same context. Subjects in this leg of the study passed through several doorways, leading back to the room in which they started. The results showed no improvements in memory, suggesting that the act of passing through a doorway serves as a way the mind files away memories.

RE: My Favourite Women

I won't let you suffer any longer, Cest

RE: My Favourite Women

I have another youtube video to add yet, Cest, absolutely brilliant for those who remember those days. Sadly, Youtube have removed most of the videos for copyright

RE: My Favourite Women

RE: Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places...

you will have to look a bit further than Spain on your map, Imp. Find Morocco & then move your pencil left into the ocean & we are the archipelago peeping out of the water there

RE: Involuntary Dismounts

British Horse Society Assistant Instructor, I took mine & then the one missing the A lol

RE: Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places...

lovely blog, Imp, evocative!
I just have to share sunrise in my part of the world. Apparently it was approx -5c up there with a fierce wind. The snow was still on the ground & the snow had frozen into wind driven icicles.
Strange because down here on the coast it would have been rising to 20 c that morning, but then again El Teide is the third largest volcano in the world, a fascinating place!

RE: What Really is True Love? Part Two

is that the 'sock lady'?
Great blog & much to ponder, not a lot to say really because there isn't anything to add, except that I fail to understand how we here can be helping you - we've done nothing but argue since you arrived, like a load of brats really!

RE: Did you ever get that feeling?

always best to have water with it, Molly, not keen on whiskey without water in it

RE: My Favourite Women

I never realised that Nora was Mrs Blewet in Open All Hours;

(@5mins+)

not quite as formidable as Nora Batty, but still great to watch.

Wenever & Miwagi - eat your hearts out, you don't know what you're missing!

RE: My Favourite Women

bit like the look that a lot of people get from me at times, Harbal! I thought she was amazing.

I honestly can't think of any other women from the TV who typify the strong Northern women - men cowered when faced with the wrath of them, I remember from my growing up days there

RE: Did you ever get that feeling?

maybe he hasn't learned how to disable comments yet, so don't tell him, Har.

I hate 'disabled' comments

RE: Did you ever get that feeling?

must be painful & he is comatose, it is 6 hours since he posted the blog & he hasn't replied only the once.
Wonder if he needs an ambulance? Anyone know first aid?

Must'ha been the drink after the birthday party!!!

RE: Did you ever get that feeling?

serves ya right.................. now, listen up good.................DON'T do it again

Hope the kicking wasn't too painful, still you're alive , that's good

RE: My Favourite Women

you forgot Elsie Tanner, now there's a Lancs woman & a half!!
Ooooh & I'm from Lancs Don't have wrinkly stockings though - in fact I don't possess any stockings at all....pobrecita!

What else?

this is Tenerife, there are no buses, well, none with an accommodating driver at least!!

@Grouchy, don't let diabetes stand in your way