Hello there!
Welcome to our daily scheduled post, the Daily Slow Chat.
If you want to just chat about your day, if you have questions for the moderators (please mark these [Mod] so we can find them), or if you just want talk about oatmeal then this is the thread for you!
Enjoying the small talk? We have a Discord server too! We'd love to have more of you over there. Do both of us a favour and use this link to join the fun.
The mod-team wishes you a nice day!
4 comments
Neil Sedaka, the famous crooner who was popular in the late 50s and early 60s,has died.
I don’t really know his music at all.I do know that he wrote a song called ‘Love will keep us together’.It was a hit song in the mid 70s.
In response Joy Division wrote the classic ‘Love will tear us apart’.
Now it’s officially spring here in Scania in southernmost Sweden! The snow is now finally gone, and temperatures are nearing 10 degrees Celsius during the day!
In Sweden the start of spring is defined as at least one week of daily mean temperatures above 0 degrees Celsius, according to the official criteria set by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) – and those criteria are now met in southernmost Sweden since yesterday!
Besides temperature there are also many other nice signs of spring here now. For example, this week the very earliest spring flowers such as snowdrops and winter aconites began to appear in parks and gardens, and the earliest returning migrating birds such as Eurasian cranes and northern lapwings have now begun to arrive in significant numbers as well.
Spring is actually arriving about a week later than is usual in southernmost Sweden, and this has been a very unusually cold and snowy winter here, so a lot of people, myself included, have been longing for spring even more than usual this year!
I was at an Arabic store yesterday (don’t quite know where the owners are from) and bought some stuff… Sadly their card machine was broken and I didn’t have any money with me. So they gave me the stuff and said I could pay later. Now, in Turkey this would basically be standard behavior but I am so not used to seeing it in Germany that I was a bit baffled 😂 but thankful. I’ll go pay them today.
Is the “if you don’t have enough money, you can pay it later” a thing where you’re from? To be honest this is a thing that would die if the corner shops died, of which we still have many in Turkey. The supermarket wouldn’t do it, but your greengrocer, butcher, baker, hairdresser absolutely would (and they would even be offended if you brought the money too quickly, like you think they put pressure on you). Luckily we still have a ton of small shops like these where it’s never a problem.
Anyhow, it was nice.
We basically have tshirt weather. Crazy. Gardens are full of snowdrops, crocus and a yellow flower I don’t know the name of (I thought I did but it turns out it’s not it).
Speaking about flowering trees,I am reading today about a place in Spain where they have a very large number of flowering cherry trees… like the Japanese sakura season, but in Europe.
It’s out in the countryside though,not urban as it often is in Japan.
It’s a part of Spain I don’t know at all…Jerte,near Plasencia.I’ve been north of there (Salamanca) and south of there too (Mérida), but never to that exact area.
I’d like to go there too, one day! The issue with this kind of thing is that it’s difficult to predict in advance when the best time to see the trees will be.