Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[kinboshi]

Notice the lone seagull in the picture. they have almost no body fat, and have to rely on a tiny layer of feathers, perhaps 1/8th of an inch thick to protect them from the wind, rain and cold.

How do they survive?

By stamping up and down on the lawns of country houses it seems.

Bootiful.

[RED-DOG]

Had a really tough starting table for the £500. Seat 1 Jeff Kimber, seat 3 Nik Persaud, seat 4 me, seat 5 Jon Kalmar.

Jon ran rampant in the early stages, by the end of level one he had run his 8k starting stack up to 20, and by the first break, he had over 30k.

He took me off several hands, on one occasion Jeff Kimber raised, I re-raised with AK and Skallie re-re raises. It's a strong move and I feel I have to lay it down. He lets me pick one of his cards to look at, it's an ace.

I raise with eights he re-pops, I pass, he shows queens. At this stage, the deck did seem to be hitting him in the face. He has pushed Nik Persaud off a couple of hands and this time, after Skalie calls Nik's button raise, we see an Axx flop. Nick checks, Skalie moves all in and Nik calls showing AK. Skalie has A6 and spikes a 6 on the river.

I'm down to 3.5k at break time, but I grind away and by 3am I have 9k and a pair of tens in the hole. Jeff Kimber makes it 3200 to go (Blinds 400/800) I move in behind and he calls showing pocket eights. Eight is the first card off, and that's all she wrote.

Sorry stakers. I feel like I'm playing well, but I'm running like a fat kid.

[action man]

gl in the main tom, u have flushys lucky $ btw

[kinboshi]

Sorry stakers. I feel like I'm playing well, but I'm running like a fat kid.

[RED-DOG]

I've decided that my diary has become a bit stale and uninteresting of late. I mean let's face it, I only write about the stuff that interests me and sod everyone else.

Well today I've decided to redress the balance and pep it up a bit with a post about concrete, algae, and a big dumper



This is the new £62 million, 3.2km long sea defence wall at Blackpool. The project has taken 5 years so far and is on schedule with another 18 months to go to completion.

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It's been a massive task, and as with most things, the hard work is in the parts you don't see when the job is finished. Look how much has gone into reclaiming a strip of beach 100 yards wide for a distance of 3.2km. Imagine how many hundreds of thousands of tons of hardcore ad concrete went in to that, not to mention the reinforcing the shuttering, and a million other things that I can't even guess at. It's a fantastic project.

Click to see full-size image.

Click to see full-size image.

But.....

There's a problem....

Algae!!!



That's what the blokes in the first pic are doing, removing algae. Apparently, the concrete attracts it and it grows like lightning, what's more, it's as slippy as a Teflon coated banana skin.

Oh dear...


This pic shows a bit they've cleaned, and a bit they haven't. The next one shows an entire uncleaned section.

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3.2 miles x 15 steps. = 48 miles of steps to clean. Constantly.

Oops!

[RED-DOG]

This is the dumper. Big, isn't it?

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[kinboshi]

Who would have thought that algae might grow in a damp environment?  

[RED-DOG]

Polite request.

Please try to limit your comments and replies to one post each. Give everyone a chance.

[Laxie]

That's a whole lot of 'oops'  - and that's my one comment sorted for now.   

[Robert HM]

Polite request.

Please try to limit your comments and replies to one post each. Give everyone a chance.

I didn't want to waste my ration.

[kinboshi]

Polite request.

Please try to limit your comments and replies to one post each. Give everyone a chance.

I didn't want to waste my ration.

No comment.

[Colchester Kev]

Polite request.

Please try to limit your comments and replies to one post each. Give everyone a chance.

I didn't want to waste my ration.

No comment.

1 each boshi, you have already had 2 !!

Now you have made me waste mine FML.

[kinboshi]

Polite request.

Please try to limit your comments and replies to one post each. Give everyone a chance.

I didn't want to waste my ration.

No comment.

1 each boshi, you have already had 2 !!

Now you have made me waste mine FML.

No comment.

[TheChipPrince]

Surely this is a big dumper?

[Karabiner]

Where are the donkeys ?