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Topic: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary (Read 6321171 times)
Jon MW
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May 19, 2019, 07:56:35 AM »
Quote from: tikay on May 19, 2019, 01:46:02 AM
I took Gill down to Leigh-on-Sea at the beginning of May. We really enjoy a train ride to the seaside, & the weather was gorgeous. Was a lovely day all round.
I took this sort of still-life photo. Note how good it is, got the whole boat & everything. Might just enter it into a competition.
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A boat from Faversham and a boat from Rye - doesn't Leigh on Sea have it's own fishing fleet?
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Quote from: Jon MW on May 19, 2019, 07:56:35 AM
Quote from: tikay on May 19, 2019, 01:46:02 AM
I took Gill down to Leigh-on-Sea at the beginning of May. We really enjoy a train ride to the seaside, & the weather was gorgeous. Was a lovely day all round.
I took this sort of still-life photo. Note how good it is, got the whole boat & everything. Might just enter it into a competition.
Click to see full-size image.
A boat from Faversham and a boat from Rye - doesn't Leigh on Sea have it's own fishing fleet?
I'm not even sure Leigh-on-Sea has it's own sea Jon.
It sits on a muddy foreshore of the Thames Estuary, sandwiched between the oil refineries of Canvey Island, Shoeburyness, & right opposite the Isle of Grain on the south shore.
It's a stretch to call it pretty, despite my magnificent photo.
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Quote from: tikay on May 19, 2019, 02:12:47 AM
One more from Twitter than that'll do for now, I've broken the ice, let's see if anyone is interested. It's past 2am too, & I'm due up at 6am.
Spotted this purler on Twitter a few weeks back. For those of my age, surely that was the golden age of music?
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And think about the poor typist, & her manual typewriter with a ribbon & a sheet of carbon paper. Every time she got an enquiry, she had to type that lot out longhand. What a job. However did we cope pre-computers?
Wowserments....good find
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Quote from: typhoon13 on May 19, 2019, 08:14:14 AM
Quote from: tikay on May 19, 2019, 02:12:47 AM
One more from Twitter than that'll do for now, I've broken the ice, let's see if anyone is interested. It's past 2am too, & I'm due up at 6am.
Spotted this purler on Twitter a few weeks back. For those of my age, surely that was the golden age of music?
Click to see full-size image.
And think about the poor typist, & her manual typewriter with a ribbon & a sheet of carbon paper. Every time she got an enquiry, she had to type that lot out longhand. What a job. However did we cope pre-computers?
Wowserments....good find
Morning Trev.
I fancy you may be a little too elderly to do Twitter, but if you do it's from @StuartPenney1 who is well worth a Follow, he has all sorts of great music stuff on there from the same era.
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May 19, 2019, 08:40:26 AM »
A later era (1990?) but here's another great photo from his Twitter feed, don't recall seeing this one before;
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May 19, 2019, 08:57:38 AM »
Quote from: tikay on May 19, 2019, 08:37:45 AM
Quote from: typhoon13 on May 19, 2019, 08:14:14 AM
Quote from: tikay on May 19, 2019, 02:12:47 AM
One more from Twitter than that'll do for now, I've broken the ice, let's see if anyone is interested. It's past 2am too, & I'm due up at 6am.
Spotted this purler on Twitter a few weeks back. For those of my age, surely that was the golden age of music?
Click to see full-size image.
And think about the poor typist, & her manual typewriter with a ribbon & a sheet of carbon paper. Every time she got an enquiry, she had to type that lot out longhand. What a job. However did we cope pre-computers?
Wowserments....good find
Morning Trev.
I fancy you may be a little too elderly to do Twitter, but if you do it's from @StuartPenney1 who is well worth a Follow, he has all sorts of great music stuff on there from the same era.
Click to see full-size image.
Click to see full-size image.
Click to see full-size image.
Noted thank you
I use Twitter but only for my work, you get interesting tweets from clever traders out of Russia and the States
They seem to want to out do each other when I would be holding some of their knowledge closer to my chest
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May 19, 2019, 10:01:50 AM »
Quote from: tikay on May 19, 2019, 02:12:47 AM
One more from Twitter than that'll do for now, I've broken the ice, let's see if anyone is interested. It's past 2am too, & I'm due up at 6am.
Spotted this purler on Twitter a few weeks back. For those of my age, surely that was the golden age of music?
Click to see full-size image.
And think about the poor typist, & her manual typewriter with a ribbon & a sheet of carbon paper. Every time she got an enquiry, she had to type that lot out longhand. What a job. However did we cope pre-computers?
Just going by inflation that puts Pink Floyd at £3500 today. Somehow doubt you'd get them to show up for that though
The bands played small towns back then as well, Robert Plant used to talk about getting chased out of Kirkconnel Miner's Welfare Hall which is just up the road from me.
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May 19, 2019, 12:26:50 PM »
Do not adjust your set, & these are not photo-shopped.
I happened across these recently - it's "Pit Bike Racing", named after the bikes which riders ride around the paddock at "proper" motorcycle & car races.
It's amazing the different recreations folks have.
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May 19, 2019, 12:39:07 PM »
This is even weirder - horse-diving.
It was very popular 150 years ago, but was largely banned about 90 years ago.
One rider even did it after going blind.
In 1931, Sonora and her horse Red Lips lost their balance on the platform. Sonora survived the fall, but was blinded (caused by detached retinas in both eyes). She continued horse-diving while blind
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_horse
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It's still done to this day though in New York State, though without a rider, & with much smaller dives. ("doves"?)
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May 19, 2019, 12:54:09 PM »
No sympathy for the idiot divers but I do feel for the poor horses.
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May 19, 2019, 01:19:37 PM »
Quote from: RED-DOG on May 19, 2019, 12:54:09 PM
No sympathy for the idiot divers but I do feel for the poor horses.
At face value, yes, of course.
The horses don't seem bothered though.
In, say, flat horse-racing, a horse that does not want to race - because it's hard work, or if he associates it with being whipped - simply refuses to go into the stalls, & has to be pushed, cajoled & blindfolded, or, when the stalls open, sets himself & just won't move.
Yet, the same horses seemed to do that Horse Diving 3 or 4 times per day with no apparent reluctance.
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May 19, 2019, 01:34:17 PM »
Quote from: tikay on May 19, 2019, 01:19:37 PM
Quote from: RED-DOG on May 19, 2019, 12:54:09 PM
No sympathy for the idiot divers but I do feel for the poor horses.
At face value, yes, of course.
The horses don't seem bothered though.
In, say, flat horse-racing, a horse that does not want to race - because it's hard work, or if he associates it with being whipped - simply refuses to go into the stalls, & has to be pushed, cajoled & blindfolded, or, when the stalls open, sets himself & just won't move.
Yet, the same horses seemed to do that Horse Diving 3 or 4 times per day with no apparent reluctance.
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Utter bollocks but no time to reply now.
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May 19, 2019, 01:48:26 PM »
Quote from: RED-DOG on May 19, 2019, 01:34:17 PM
Quote from: tikay on May 19, 2019, 01:19:37 PM
Quote from: RED-DOG on May 19, 2019, 12:54:09 PM
No sympathy for the idiot divers but I do feel for the poor horses.
At face value, yes, of course.
The horses don't seem bothered though.
In, say, flat horse-racing, a horse that does not want to race - because it's hard work, or if he associates it with being whipped - simply refuses to go into the stalls, & has to be pushed, cajoled & blindfolded, or, when the stalls open, sets himself & just won't move.
Yet, the same horses seemed to do that Horse Diving 3 or 4 times per day with no apparent reluctance.
Click to see full-size image.
Utter bollocks but no time to reply now.
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May 19, 2019, 03:42:59 PM »
In Malta they still swim horses in the sea as exercise most summer evenings
They go a good way out too !
There’s also a great race track where they have trotting races
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May 19, 2019, 04:28:05 PM »
"Yet, the same horses seemed to do that Horse Diving 3 or 4 times per day with no apparent reluctance."
Before I comment further, can I just ask what you are basing this comment on?
I didn't see any footage of the same horses 'diving' from 60ft 3 or 4 times per day with no apparent reluctance.
I did see one horse 'diving' from ~ 10ft once, and it was too far away to see if it was reluctant or not.
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