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Post by marispiper on Aug 6, 2024 10:22:06 GMT
Scarborough was lovely. Like all seaside towns it needs a bit of a scrub and a cull of seagulls might be helpful, but I have eaten well, walked loads. Did the killer walk up to the castle and then spent 4 hours mooching about and lying on the headland watching clouds. Back at work today boo hoo! Seagulls can be a right pest. I read there is one in Bournemouth who sits atop a lampost near that well known bakery chain and has got it down to a fine art, swooping to pinch your sausage roll/cheese pasty/doughnut. His nickname...Greg 🤣
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Post by rwthless on Aug 6, 2024 10:40:46 GMT
Stick it in your bag and take it home. It's not rocket science for us, but it might as well be for the thoughtless or not woke.
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Post by hild1066 on Aug 6, 2024 12:08:16 GMT
Scarborough was lovely. Like all seaside towns it needs a bit of a scrub and a cull of seagulls might be helpful, but I have eaten well, walked loads. Did the killer walk up to the castle and then spent 4 hours mooching about and lying on the headland watching clouds. Back at work today boo hoo! Seagulls can be a right pest. I read there is one in Bournemouth who sits atop a lampost near that well known bakery chain and has got it down to a fine art, swooping to pinch your sausage roll/cheese pasty/doughnut. His nickname...Greg 🤣 Here's the view from the hotel sun deck, Anne Bronte's grave - that's a climb too, and one for Maris, Anglo-Saxon remains of Our Lady's Chapel right on the headland. People were leaving offerings and dropping silver coins into the well.
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Post by marispiper on Aug 6, 2024 13:26:22 GMT
Brilliant. Shame it was a bit of a mini break eh, but still, looks as if it was lovely and sunny - look at everyone on the beach! 🏖️
Thanks Hoodie - you know how I love a 'holy' place 🤣 though I don't know that I would've been throwing any coins in...
Actually, we are going on a 'pilgrimage' tomorrow to visit St Alban's (and the cathedral) as he was the very first English Christian martyr. In fact, wonder why he isn't our country 's patron saint....I mean, what did George ever do for us 🤔
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Post by rwthless on Aug 6, 2024 13:44:40 GMT
A saint who may have done a lot of good, but also killed dragons isn't as good as one whose spring of fresh water is pure. St Decuman is our local saint.
Maybe Oswald or Dunstan are more representative.
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Post by rondetto on Aug 6, 2024 14:22:44 GMT
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Post by marispiper on Aug 6, 2024 16:01:57 GMT
Hmm. Looks like the campaign is just calling for a re think and U-turn. Is that what we want? I would rather an income threshold set.
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Post by hild1066 on Aug 6, 2024 16:06:26 GMT
A saint who may have done a lot of good, but also killed dragons isn't as good as one whose spring of fresh water is pure. St Decuman is our local saint. Maybe Oswald or Dunstan are more representative. I think St Edmund was our patron Saint and somehow George took his place - was it the Norman's they got rid of a lot of English saints, or was it the Crusades - I can't remember. Joan of Arc didn't become a Saint until early 19th century, and then became patron Saint after that. Before it was St Denis.
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Post by rondetto on Aug 7, 2024 3:28:38 GMT
Morning all: A tad cooler this morning yet again, I hope this isn't a sign of an early autumn.
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Post by rikiiboy on Aug 7, 2024 5:44:51 GMT
Morning all: A tad cooler this morning yet again, I hope this isn't a sign of an early autumn. Hi Ron, the chestnut trees here started to turn colour a couple of weeks ago.
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Post by rondetto on Aug 7, 2024 10:48:32 GMT
Blimey!!!
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Post by hild1066 on Aug 7, 2024 12:07:20 GMT
There's conkers on ours!
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Post by rwthless on Aug 7, 2024 13:05:01 GMT
It takes a few months for the chestnuts/ conkers to swell and grow to the size we expect. If we don't have much rain between now and the end of September it won't happen. The leaves begin to turn quite early, but I have concluded that these are the first to green up in the spring. The full battery of autumn leaves comes after August, and the main fall in November when the light levels drop and the trees go to sleep. I noticed one autumn after a fierce gale that the leaves were still on the trees, so were still gathering food via photosynthesis for winter. Two years ago when I took a walk up to the reservoir after a longish drought, there were more catkins on the hazels and on a later walk in early November after church, a second late crop of hazelnuts.
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Post by rondetto on Aug 7, 2024 16:24:32 GMT
I hope all our posters haven't had any riots in their area. It's bloomin' awful what's gone on in certain areas.
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Post by hild1066 on Aug 7, 2024 16:33:03 GMT
I got sent home from work at 2pm Ron. The shops have closed,health centres are shut, dentists etc and the buses are not going to the town centre.
There was apparently a large crowd gathering about 1/2 a mile from my workplace. The police advised us to close so we had to phone parents and taxi firms to come and collect the students.
We were told they were targeting Asian businesses and Asian residential areas, but I have no actual evidence for this.
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