utterly random picture thread.

[Buckaroo]

Found this whilst cycling this afternoon. One for the military boffins.

[gremlin]

This is erected at the end of my mum's road down in Beltinge*: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/62203

From the news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8225341.stm

Nice that people do remember, even after all these years.


*It's a place in Kent, not a tropical disease.

[Gregor]

This is erected at the end of my mum's road down in Beltinge*: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/62203

From the news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8225341.stm

Nice that people do remember, even after all these years.


*It's a place in Kent, not a tropical disease.

Me and the missus had our first romantic tryst in Beltinge …….Aahh I can smell the Hurlimanns now.

[Yorick]

First time in 2 years we have water in the dried river

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[Felix]

Would never get bored looking at that view

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[Horse]

Would never get bored looking at that view

Yup

I feel lucky to have a ever-changing view across the valley.

Castle is 2 miles away.
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And even luckier not to have the full force of gales off the North Sea (guessing that's what your view is?)

[Felix]

Would never get bored looking at that view

Yup

I feel lucky to have a ever-changing view across the valley.

Castle is 2 miles away.
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And even luckier not to have the full force of gales off the North Sea (guessing that's what your view is?)

Unfortunately its not my view but a customers. I need to walk a couple of 100 yards to the tennis courts to see it


Firth of fourth with Fife in the distance

[Felix]

[demographic]

First time in 2 years we have water in the dried river

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No wonder its dried, its concreted to speed up the flow.

Slow the flow, increase the porosity and on land where lack of water is an issue it usually helps.

Swales, bends in the river, dams, pools and even beaver dams often cited as helping.
Straightening the river with concrete sides usually just means some poor sod downstream gets it worse.

[Yorick]

First time in 2 years we have water in the dried river

20241115_162423.jpg

No wonder its dried, its concreted to speed up the flow.

Slow the flow, increase the porosity and on land where lack of water is an issue it usually helps.

Swales, bends in the river, dams, pools and even beaver dams often cited as helping.
Straightening the river with concrete sides usually just means some poor sod downstream gets it worse.

That's just the bit in town. Proper sized rivers inland.

[demographic]

First time in 2 years we have water in the dried river

20241115_162423.jpg

No wonder its dried, its concreted to speed up the flow.

Slow the flow, increase the porosity and on land where lack of water is an issue it usually helps.

Swales, bends in the river, dams, pools and even beaver dams often cited as helping.
Straightening the river with concrete sides usually just means some poor sod downstream gets it worse.

That's just the bit in town. Proper sized rivers inland.

Ahh, fair nuff. Makes more sense in a built up area, I missed that bit.

[KungFooBob]

Let it go, let it go...

[Yorick]

Let it go, let it go...

Fark. It's still 24c right now.

Send photos when it's a decent snowfall.

[KungFooBob]

Let it go, let it go...

Fark. It's still 24c right now.

Send photos when it's a decent snowfall.

This time last week I was in Marrakesh and it was 33c

[Yorick]

Let it go, let it go...

Fark. It's still 24c right now.

Send photos when it's a decent snowfall.

This time last week I was in Marrakesh and it was 33c

Wowsers. My ideal temp is high 20s

[Taipan]

The Morobe Province, in Papua New Guinea, is home to the Anga people.
Once fearsome warriors, leading terrible raids in nearby peaceful villages, today the Anga have learned how to profit from a peculiar kind of tourism. Anthropologists, adventurers and curious travelers come to the isolated villages of Morobe Highlands just to see their famous smoked mummies.
It’s not clear when the practice first started, but it could be at least 200 years old. It was officially prohibited in 1975, when Papua New Guinea became independent; therefore the most recent mummies date back to the years following the Second World War.
This treatment of honor was usually reserved for the most valiant warriors: as soon as they died, they were bled dry, disemboweled and put over a fire to cure. The smoking could last even more than a month. At last, when the body was completely dry, all corporal cavities were sewn shut and the whole corpse was smeared with mud and red clay to further preserve the flesh from deteriorating, and to form a protective layer against insects and scavengers.
Many sources report that the fat deriving from the smoking process was saved and later used as cooking oil, but this detail might be a fantasy of the first explorers (for instance Charles Higgingon, who was the first to report about the mummies in 1907): whenever Westeners came in contact with remote and “primitive” tribes, they often wanted to see cannibalism even in rituals that did not involve.

[gremlin]

London looks lovely in the sunshine this morning.

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[gremlin]

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[MrLongbeard]

PXL_20241120_08542576 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

[Taipan]

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I've been working in London for over 30 years now and i sill love it. I never tire of a lunchtime stroll round covent garden or to one of the gardens.