|
|
Post by dorsetmike on Jul 18, 2023 12:52:36 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by zx9 on Jul 18, 2023 13:05:58 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by dreampolice on Jul 18, 2023 16:08:49 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by dreampolice on Jul 18, 2023 16:09:30 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by petrochemist on Jul 18, 2023 16:13:49 GMT
I quite like the idea of having a boat, the one in the foreground looks about right. 9312editA by Keith Hudson, on Flickr My Dad had one for much of my life, the annual running costs have put me off. Right back in the 1990s mooring fees alone were such that keeping the boat in Holland & taking the ferry over for a weekends sailing became an economic alternative! IIRC the mooring over there was >£1000/yr cheaper than here, and it wasn't a big yacht! |
|
|
|
Post by dreampolice on Jul 18, 2023 16:17:07 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by petrochemist on Jul 18, 2023 16:18:22 GMT
I thought I had a picture of a Thames Barge passing by Walton I can find you one of a Thames barge off Clacton (for the Airshow) Walton would only be 5 miles off   IMGP8184_cr s by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr |
|
|
|
Post by kate on Jul 18, 2023 19:33:17 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by zou on Jul 18, 2023 19:37:11 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by zx9 on Jul 18, 2023 19:50:32 GMT
I quite like the idea of having a boat, the one in the foreground looks about right. 9312editA by Keith Hudson, on Flickr My Dad had one for much of my life, the annual running costs have put me off. Right back in the 1990s mooring fees alone were such that keeping the boat in Holland & taking the ferry over for a weekends sailing became an economic alternative! IIRC the mooring over there was >£1000/yr cheaper than here, and it wasn't a big yacht! Yes, stupid expensive to run, like horses they cost you fortune to own even if you don't use them. |
|
|
|
Post by kate on Jul 18, 2023 20:13:33 GMT
No way am I getting up at 3.47 tomorrow!
|
|
|
|
Post by peterob on Jul 18, 2023 21:17:35 GMT
No way am I getting up at 3.47 tomorrow! Me neither. |
|
|
|
Post by MJB on Jul 18, 2023 21:18:14 GMT
I hoped to photograph Suella Braverman's refugee gin palace at Portland today, but they've hidden it well.
|
|
|
|
Post by dorsetmike on Jul 18, 2023 21:24:17 GMT
Don't know Dawn so unlikely to snap her crack
|
|
|
|
Post by peterob on Jul 18, 2023 21:33:08 GMT
Went out to Conwy to photograph some yachts but got the time of low tide wrong so they were all facing the wrong way (upriver with the tide still ebbing)  DSCF4979.jpg by Pete, on Flickr  DSCF4960-Pano.jpg by Pete, on Flickr All the cafés and shops shut by the time we had finished our walk so we popped into Tesco on the way home to get a drink and a snack. I got dive bombed by a herring gull in the carpark. It was trying to surprise me so that I dropped the cakes. I think they must raid the trolleys - anything small balanced on top would be easy pickings. Anyway the gull misjudged it and hit me. It was quite hard. It bounced off my head and it hit the ground before it could recover. Quite a wallop it was, like a thump in a pillow fight but luckily no beak or claws. That could have been fun given the anti-clotting meds that I'm on. The cheeky thing then did a quick circuit and sat on the bonnet, eyeing the cake through the windscreen. I drove off and postponed my refreshment until I got home. I've seen herring gulls steal food from people before (ice creams, fish and chips, food on café tables) but it is a shock to get hit in a busy car park when carrying a sealed package between arm and body. |
|
