What's up at home today...?

Replied by snowman on topic What's up at home today...?

Not like that and not to those birds

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Replied by Nikita on topic What's up at home today...?

Wow! this thread did evolve since my last nap...

Concerning the Caprese salad, i didn't knew the name and, looking at Damni's link on Wikipedia, i see it's made to ressemble the Italian flag's colors. Well, i have to say that my way of making it is not so much photogenic, because i just cut the tomatoes anf the mozarella in pieces and same for the basil leaves, and then i just mix it

About pesto, i must admite i'm not much fan about it but i precise that i never tasted it made by a real Italian cooker so maybe there's a difference

Finally, about feeding birds, i wonder if i can plug a webcam behind my window and showing you the daily dance of the magpies, sparrows, pigeons... and also the daily thrashing that magpies give to the seagulls who are stupid enough to dare their chance...

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Replied by Nikita on topic What's up at home today...?

Speaking about sea birds, i wonder why but it seems that English language doesn't make any difference between two kinds of birds that actually are very different. It's obvious when you can watch them on the coast : Birds called in French Mouettes and Goélands are not the same at all and nevertheless they both are called "gulls" or "seagulls" in English...


So, here's a Mouette

and here's a Goéland

As differents as a Spitfire and a Lancaster...


So, when i speak about seagulls, it's about the goéland, because this kind of bird is degenerating and leaves more and more the coast to join the cities near the coast and feed himself with the human trash. Mouettes don't act so and keep on their natural area on beaches and coast directly on contact with the ocean.


EDIT : About the picture of goélands, the grey one on foreground is called grisard, it's a juvenile who will change colors when he becomes an adult, as the adult behind him on background.

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Replied by Nikita on topic What's up at home today...?

Since yesterday and for one month, from September 19 to October 19, 2014, on the parvis of the Rennes City Hall,
the John G. Morris live exhibition...

38 pictures by John G. Morris about his look on the Normandy 1944 summer...

Quelque part en France (Somewhere in France)
The 1944 summer of John G. Morris

Program here (PDF file in French)



EDIT : Well, considering the witness, i think i'll make the effort to drive one hour an half to the regional capital city, one of these days...

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Replied by Nikita on topic What's up at home today...?

Next week-end, at Martignas-sur-Jalle, camp of Souge, open house for the 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment .

Well, for this one, I'm not going to post a video too "warlike", this elite unit of the French special forces, specialized in recon and intelligence gathering, doesn't need all that and, anyway, there are several such videos available on the web. For these soldiers, it's we arrive discreetly, we do the job discreetly, we leave discreetly (and maybe also, something as "the less people talks about us, the more we're fine"...). Indeed, a single shot fired will always mean a failure somewhere for the 13th RDP...

So , let's play it a little "family spirit" with this video of the open house of 2009 ... It seems that there are, in France, people who wants to strengthen what is called here the "link army-nation"... Well, according to this video, that doesn't seems to be "beyond what is possible"...

"Beyond what is possible"

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