Digitised a map owned by the Luftwaffe which showed the targets in London. Transport, Hospitals and Buckingham Palace were the main ones, but other cultural buildings were also marked out!
Taipan wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:14 pm
Digitised a map owned by the Luftwaffe which showed the targets in London. Transport, Hospitals and Buckingham Palace were the main ones, but other cultural buildings were also marked out!
Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 2:36 pm
Having filled and got rid of a skip - mainly old insulation and crap from the house loft - I parked the latest pallet (came with umpteen bags of compost and bark on it) by the garage, stuck a 1cu. metre builders bag on it and started to gather stuff from the garage in it ready to decant into the next skip. The list of stuff you can't chuck in a skip is nearly as long as the list of stuff you can. I find it hard to throw stuff 'that might be useful' but I'll just have to be brutal so if anyone wants to skip dive for decent timber and imperial spanners I'll let you know when the skip is due
Mowed the verge and front lawn having let it do the no-mow May thing (strimmed it yesterday).
Found a dead adult woodpecker in front of the cabin. It had tried to fly through the glazed door. I'll have to string some old CDs or something in front of the glass. I successfully stopped kamikaze birds flying into the conservatory by hanging fretwork colored perspex mandala things inside. Looks like a Buddhist retreat.
If the spanners are still there i may well be interested .....
Taipan wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:14 pm
Digitised a map owned by the Luftwaffe which showed the targets in London. Transport, Hospitals and Buckingham Palace were the main ones, but other cultural buildings were also marked out!
Taipan wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:14 pm
Digitised a map owned by the Luftwaffe which showed the targets in London. Transport, Hospitals and Buckingham Palace were the main ones, but other cultural buildings were also marked out!
Anything we need to know about? Are they gearing up for another go?
Taipan wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:14 pm
Digitised a map owned by the Luftwaffe which showed the targets in London. Transport, Hospitals and Buckingham Palace were the main ones, but other cultural buildings were also marked out!
Anything we need to know about? Are they gearing up for another go?
Taipan wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:14 pm
Digitised a map owned by the Luftwaffe which showed the targets in London. Transport, Hospitals and Buckingham Palace were the main ones, but other cultural buildings were also marked out!
Let's see it?
Sadly I can't as it's copyrighted. If it gets hosted I'll link to it though.
Bet you were humming the Eastenders theme tune as you were doing it
Taipan wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:14 pm
Digitised a map owned by the Luftwaffe which showed the targets in London. Transport, Hospitals and Buckingham Palace were the main ones, but other cultural buildings were also marked out!
Anything we need to know about? Are they gearing up for another go?
I think we're safe here
Little known fact. This island was under German occupation during the war. We found some gun sites on North of the island.
Yorick wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 2:23 pm
Little known fact. This island was under German occupation during the war. We found some gun sites on North of the island.
Franco was mates with Hitler, the Luftwaffe were happily bombing Spanish cities on behalf of Franco during the revolution. I'd hazzard a guess that the Germans were allowed to use the ports in the Canaries for re-supply and whatever but I doubt they occupied the islands.
Yorick wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 2:23 pm
Little known fact. This island was under German occupation during the war. We found some gun sites on North of the island.
I'd hazzard a guess that the Germans were allowed to use the ports in the Canaries for re-supply and whatever but I doubt they occupied the islands.
Think of all that cheap beer and quality Yorkshire humour they missed out on.....
Britain occupied Iceland during the war. Given how expensive the beer is there, and the miserable bloody weather, it's a wonder more didn't switch sides and head to the sun.
Pirahna wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 2:33 pmI'd hazzard a guess that the Germans were allowed to use the ports in the Canaries for re-supply and whatever but I doubt they occupied the islands.
Wikipedia says that the Germanys provided equipment to the Spanish garrisons in the canaries, but didn't occupy themselves, they hoped that Spain were going to join their side, but they'd just finished a civil war in 1939, so didn't fancy another scrap.
Taipan wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:14 pm
Digitised a map owned by the Luftwaffe which showed the targets in London. Transport, Hospitals and Buckingham Palace were the main ones, but other cultural buildings were also marked out!
Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 2:36 pm
Having filled and got rid of a skip - mainly old insulation and crap from the house loft - I parked the latest pallet (came with umpteen bags of compost and bark on it) by the garage, stuck a 1cu. metre builders bag on it and started to gather stuff from the garage in it ready to decant into the next skip. The list of stuff you can't chuck in a skip is nearly as long as the list of stuff you can. I find it hard to throw stuff 'that might be useful' but I'll just have to be brutal so if anyone wants to skip dive for decent timber and imperial spanners I'll let you know when the skip is due
Mowed the verge and front lawn having let it do the no-mow May thing (strimmed it yesterday).
Found a dead adult woodpecker in front of the cabin. It had tried to fly through the glazed door. I'll have to string some old CDs or something in front of the glass. I successfully stopped kamikaze birds flying into the conservatory by hanging fretwork colored perspex mandala things inside. Looks like a Buddhist retreat.
If the spanners are still there i may well be interested .....
I'll let you know what I find in the next phase of excavations.
You are more than welcome to any I find.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 2:36 pm
Having filled and got rid of a skip - mainly old insulation and crap from the house loft - I parked the latest pallet (came with umpteen bags of compost and bark on it) by the garage, stuck a 1cu. metre builders bag on it and started to gather stuff from the garage in it ready to decant into the next skip. The list of stuff you can't chuck in a skip is nearly as long as the list of stuff you can. I find it hard to throw stuff 'that might be useful' but I'll just have to be brutal so if anyone wants to skip dive for decent timber and imperial spanners I'll let you know when the skip is due
Mowed the verge and front lawn having let it do the no-mow May thing (strimmed it yesterday).
Found a dead adult woodpecker in front of the cabin. It had tried to fly through the glazed door. I'll have to string some old CDs or something in front of the glass. I successfully stopped kamikaze birds flying into the conservatory by hanging fretwork colored perspex mandala things inside. Looks like a Buddhist retreat.
If the spanners are still there i may well be interested .....
I'll let you know what I find in the next phase of excavations.
You are more than welcome to any I find.
Many thanks - I only have a limited number and I may need them in the future.
Pissed down so rained off a grass cutting day. Decided to go to the garden centre and get a tonne of top soil for a large raised bed i made. Got home and started to shovel it off the van just as the clouds decided it was round two. Got wet and fucking mingin with mud.
I find it hard to throw stuff 'that might be useful' but I'll just have to be brutal so if anyone wants to skip dive for decent timber and imperial spanners I'll let you know when the skip is due
