Tales of Home [9]

Nice!
So to continue about sail trim, in the top 3 pictures she's got her inner- and outer jibs and her mizzen staysail set and sheeted taut and slightly to port, so that they're slightly backwinded and serve as steadying sails. This dampens some of the roll on the vessel while motoring.
Those tall masts can act as massive pendulums when no sails are set, and the motion can be somewhat......unpleasant....

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If you turn the sound up you can here my birds in the back ground.

Black cockatoos in my garden eating my bottle brush flowers.

It wont let me

Me neither. The picture looks so evocative.

I nearly wet myself when I hurtled round the corner & skidded to a stop when I saw this thing Its full size, about 5ft 4" Id say. If this thing came to life I would have choked & ran for it !

Guard dog?

{{ Ooh, thats an Imperial Dalek, loyal to Davros- there was a Dalek civil war of sorts- see Remembrance of the Daleks! }}

You Brits and your daleks. An American would just tag the thing with a can of spray paint and move on.

The old school classic series daleks aren't quite as frightening when you realise the operators were essentially sat inside on a tricycle driving them around...come to think of it, has the series ever actually explained how the squid things inside the casings actually get inside? i mean can daleks actually do diy with those hands?

i mean can daleks actually do diy with those hands?- Malick

{{I'll give my thoughts on that in the Who thread, and its something thats sort of bothered me for a while. }}

{{ promo vid for my hometown. See Ringo this is why you need to come back and visit! assuming you survive the buckie encounter of course.}}

Looks desirable from that advert

Enh, I don't feel they really sold it.  What's needed is a clear hook: if someone asks why to go Dunoon as opposed to anywhere else, the answer of "it's got mountains, it's got the sea, it's got bars..." doesn't give you any specific reason to go there rather than any other coastal town up against some mountains.

Got to say and show something like "there's this bike ride that can take you from [historical site with great backstory] then along the coast to [interesting pub] and from there you hike up to [beautiful overlook] to see the sunset with a dram of scotch picked up in [local purveyor who's shown talking about the production]".  Stuff like that puts images in your mind.

I just took a bunch of points off my students on their exams because I asked for examples of how writing a poor environmental impact assessment report can result in damage to the physical environment - and they were too vague. Like "Writing a poor EIS can result in extra pollution and damage to the environment."  They weren't happy with me but I think they needed a bitch slap as early in life as possible: specificity convinces people; vagueness gets you passed over.

As Scotland is famed for its cold weather could this be Petty, on a night from the Muck and Duck taking his usual short cut across poor old farmer Dave's Fields ??

{{ Nah, no kilt! But I approve!

Selection of pics from last week or so. I love this time of year, the colours, the lighting, perfect, easily my favourite time of year. }}

cool



its not stopped raining here for a month. its horrible.

Lovely & peaceful.

Fires are pretty bad over here at the moment.

Why the hell was that little dummy crawling straight towards the flames? Even over them.

Not sure why I've got the impression, but I'd think wildfires in the Australian bush would be even worse than California.

{{ Seen this on news Chris, terrible- hope your safe.}}

its terrible Chris.  cant bear to think of all the poor animals. Hope you don't have fires in your area.

That poor Koala ! I know its devastating for people & I do hope you & your family are safe but, animals get confused & frightened, they don't understand like we do. Its all too sad

I was thinking you were involved in producing that, Petty - but I don't see your name in the credits.