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General => Eye Candy | Videos and Pics => Topic started by: Neil955i on October 07, 2020, 03:23:47 PM
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Had to go out to meet an old work friend for lunch today and it was dry, so I took the X-Town - he used to be a biker and hasn't seen this scoot yet. On the upside saw some great countryside en route. On the downside went to a a low-lying area subject to flooding which meant the roads were mud baths. The scooter looks like I've been off-roading on it!
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Bargepole territory
Ka-boom....tish!
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You here all week?...
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Your photos remind me of a dear lady friend who was my assistant in a psych hospital years ago.
She went to university in Hull.
We also shared an interest in painting, and the Impressionists.
Anyway, she told me that her interest in art was a result of her father's career as a painter (decorator) of barges in the UK.
One memorable day we took a group of psych patients to a Cincinnati Reds baseball game.....and I spent 3 hrs trying (and failing) to explain "baseball" to her.
Stig
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You here all week?...
Yes indeed. Try the veal.
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Your photos remind me of a dear lady friend who was my assistant in a psych hospital years ago.
She went to university in Hull.
We also shared an interest in painting, and the Impressionists.
Anyway, she told me that her interest in art was a result of her father's career as a painter (decorator) of barges in the UK.
One memorable day we took a group of psych patients to a Cincinnati Reds baseball game.....and I spent 3 hrs trying (and failing) to explain "baseball" to her.
Stig
Barge art, now there’s a whole different world. In fact, the whole canals and bargee world is a closed book to most of us. Got to say it’s great that so many miles of Victorian canal have been restored and reopened for leisure use. Very picturesque.
Where I grew up in south Birmingham there was an area of the local (Stratford) canal called the “quarter-miler”, so called because a cut had been made through a hill to make a tunnel a quarter of a mile long. No tow path, the barges had to be “walked.” through* whilst the horses were led the long way round.
* the bargees laid on their backs on the barge roof and literally walked the tunnel taking the barge with them - that’s how low the tunnel roof is!
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I'm not sure if my leg is being pulled here.
Can't British horses swim?
Stig
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No leg pulling there Stig. On the sections of canal where there was no towpath (ie tunnels) for the horses, the crew would lie on their backs and 'walk' the barge through the tunnel by walking on the ceiling. The horses (which weren't exactly yer wild west mustangs) were led around the long way.
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Yep. Don’t think heavy (or shire) horses were a thing in the Wild West
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The missus decided to take a run along the beach to the east of our town. Here's a few pics
Autumn colours...
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50501794387_8fbd74b80f_h.jpg)
A busy old place....
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50501792437_37fa9839fc_h.jpg)
WWII beach defences
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50500920508_0c8bd1162a_h.jpg)
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Wow.
Nothing like that around here in Ohio.
"Run"....wife a jogger?
Stig
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Those russet colours in the ferns are lovely!
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"Run"....wife a jogger?
Marathons are more her thing.
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"Run"....wife a jogger?
Marathons are more her thing.
Impressive!
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Great pictures!
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i shall pass on your appreciation to her.
WRT the marathon running, well it involves a lot of training. Which means she's out from under my feet. ;)
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Quiet! Wouldn't want my wife to hear that...
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@Snorvey
@Neil
..saw your pics right now. We have some nice places here in Italy too, but Snorvey your and Neils environment is breathtaking.
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Having holiday'd in Tuscany Ruffus, I know that you can match most anything we have to offer in Italy ;)
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@Snorvey
@Neil
..saw your pics right now. We have some nice places here in Italy too, but Snorvey your and Neils environment is breathtaking.
Ruffus I've seen on tv some of your small Italian villages on the cliffs by the coast and they look spectacular as well.