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KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 10:43 am

Nobby wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 2:03 am BAD76EF3-902E-4A8E-9C4C-6E4934086AFB.jpeg

Nautical, but not a Statue. I think the Originals have pulled them all down around these parts.
Is it a winner or a loser ?

The English captain who toured Australia and didn't play in a single test match.

You didn’t look at the Plaque properly did you ?

Nobby wrote: Sat Jun 07, 2025 10:54 am

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 10:43 am

Nobby wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 2:03 am BAD76EF3-902E-4A8E-9C4C-6E4934086AFB.jpeg

Nautical, but not a Statue. I think the Originals have pulled them all down around these parts.
Is it a winner or a loser ?

The English captain who toured Australia and didn't play in a single test match.

You didn’t look at the Plaque properly did you ?

He held the rank of lieutenant, but he was the captain of HMS Endeavour

Druid wrote: Sat Jun 07, 2025 7:19 pm

Nobby wrote: Sat Jun 07, 2025 10:54 am

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 10:43 am

The English captain who toured Australia and didn't play in a single test match.

You didn’t look at the Plaque properly did you ?

He held the rank of lieutenant, but he was the captain of HMS Endeavour

So he was a Captain when on the water, and a Lieutenant when on land. Very confusing. Would he have been Wicket Keeper if he was behind the Batters ?
I suppose it’s like my mate Dave.
He’s just Dave when he’s kicking a ball, and he’s Sir David Beckham when he’s shaking hands.

Now he’s a Commander.

Nobby wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 3:15 am IMG_0960.jpeg

Now he’s a Commander.

When you're that far from home you can probably pick your own job title.

Count Steer wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:01 am

Nobby wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 3:15 am IMG_0960.jpeg

Now he’s a Commander.

When you're that far from home you can probably pick your own job title.

He missed a trick then. He could have told George Three that Australis didn’t exist, gone back and declared himself King.

Pah, rode round the leaping man roundabout in MK twice today but missed the photo opportunity

Quick blast tonight to test the new lid. All quiet

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How's zatt???

Jody wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:21 pm [/img]https://postimg.cc/hz1nnM6K

How's zatt???

Or zatt?

Count Steer wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 5:50 am

Jody wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:21 pm [/img]https://postimg.cc/hz1nnM6K

How's zatt???

Or zatt?

Your bike with a barbecue that isn't yours (or your wife's)

Jody wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 8:30 am

Count Steer wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 5:50 am

Jody wrote: Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:21 pm [/img]https://postimg.cc/hz1nnM6K

How's zatt???

Or zatt?

Your bike with a barbecue that isn't yours (or your wife's)

Just one Q? What is it?

From that angle it could be 2 rock people stand-up humping - or wrestling. Or , possibly, a Bizarro caber tossing event.

Count Steer wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 8:34 am

Jody wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 8:30 am

Count Steer wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 5:50 am



Or zatt?

Your bike with a barbecue that isn't yours (or your wife's)

Just one Q? What is it?

From that angle it could be 2 rock people stand-up humping - or wrestling. Or , possibly, a Bizarro caber tossing event.

Duuuude, the clue is in the caption........

Jody wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 8:49 am

Count Steer wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 8:34 am

Jody wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 8:30 am

Your bike with a barbecue that isn't yours (or your wife's)

Just one Q? What is it?

From that angle it could be 2 rock people stand-up humping - or wrestling. Or , possibly, a Bizarro caber tossing event.

Duuuude, the clue is in the caption........

Caption?

How's zatt?

Cricket related then

Druid wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 10:05 am How's zatt?

Cricket related then

Ah! Got it, it's a bowler (I think ).

It's one of those things that's obvious....when you've finally worked it out.

I'm intrigued though. Where is it? Is that a public area or is it in someone's garden? Just wondering what the story behind it is.

That was too easy. They’re everywhere out here.
Right, for one day only, your Bike with a natural sacred indigenous landmark in the background for double bonus points.

Count Steer wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 12:46 pm I'm intrigued though. Where is it? Is that a public area or is it in someone's garden? Just wondering what the story behind it is.

To be honest, it's in the garden where I'm working at the moment. I don't know this area at all, and figured my chances of stumbling across a genuine sports statue out in the wild were pretty slim. So I kinda cheated in order to move the game along as there'd been nearly a whole page of replies with no picture.

Jody wrote: Wed Jun 18, 2025 7:42 am

Count Steer wrote: Tue Jun 17, 2025 12:46 pm I'm intrigued though. Where is it? Is that a public area or is it in someone's garden? Just wondering what the story behind it is.

To be honest, it's in the garden where I'm working at the moment. I don't know this area at all, and figured my chances of stumbling across a genuine sports statue out in the wild were pretty slim. So I kinda cheated in order to move the game along as there'd been nearly a whole page of replies with no picture.

Still fits the brief.

Is your elderly gent a cricketing man? Nice idea for a garden statue. Shame in a way you aren't there longer, there's a few of us on here with some knowledge of that area. (Can't think of any 'sporting' statues though...apart from a big tree trunk carved into the shape of a standing man pointing a 12-bore at an imaginary duck in the sky ...and that's a few miles north of there).