blakeyboy

Agreed. I only have 10 m x 5m to play with, and I'd love some old heat-soak walls to have a rose of that quality climbing up it...

Damn those Victorian explorers!! Tony Banks, as well as riverbanks...

Oh- another thing- I have a rare trachycarpus takil, and its suddenly decided to flower. Not sure yet if its a girl or a boy. Anyone know of another so i can get some pollination going?

Strange thing is, people are saying how loud the birds are. They are probably 6-8dB quieter because they have less plane and traffic noise to compete with. But humans don't have to try and listen to the birds against the background noise now, so they seem louder to us... Training up some robins- they now come just into the kitchen to look for us. We're not expecting them to be as good as a pair some years ago, which were obviously the ones that migrate to and from Germany every year, and are way pushier than the ones that stay put. Those ones would sit on your hand while you actually poked a mealworm into their mouths... If the food ran out, they would fly round the house looking for us. Here's a pic of the blackbird last year. Asking my wife for more worms. In the bloody kitchen. Only when really close can you see that a male blackbird's feet are AMAZING.

Welsh poppies self-seed amongst the elephant grass and the albums, and it always works....

I'm starting to get really bored now.. .

Do you have six axes of symmetry as well? ('Six axes of Symmetry' is the next album from Megadeath. ) ( Probably)

I the late 70's, when you had a crack forming in a motorcycle perspex screen on a fairing, you just drilled a small hole at the end. To anyone even vaguely interested in this topic, I can thoroughly recommend the books by J.E.Gordon. Brilliantly written- the best loo books ever.

Way better obverse strike than mine, and on the reverse, her fingers don't look flattened.

Sorry, F grade! It was very early for me, and my fingers got the worms muddled up.

It's tricky one, this- the obverse can look interesting, and when you see the reverse, it's nearly always a disappointment . You reverse is nice. makes a change...:) If hadn't been vey lucky, my example of the 1926ME would still be basically be F trade, with no shield detail at all.

Nice specimen, Mike. Was it an Ebay find or an auction job?

Take a short piece of the brown or blue from a length of twin and earth flat grey cable. Bare the end a bit, and file the tip to a chisel. It's soft annealed copper, so won't scratch the bronze at all. Works a treat!

found the picture

I will dig out what I think I have- I haven't up till now looked hard for the different types- the dropped 90 was until recently the only one I was going for...

yes- I put it on here last year...can't remember what thread... I still have worn example that turned up 30 years ago that I kept as a curio when i couldn't find anything about this variety.

Oh wow- I'm looking for 'dropped' 90 types nearly every day, so over the last few years I must have looked at thousands and found _one_ on Ebay, one amongst all 1890's I've ever had, and that's it. It that time I've NEVER seen that rotated 9....

Thomas Malthus had some interesting ideas on such subjects...!!

Maybe she's practicing for when she goes into politics - she's perfect to be part of the Covid Response Briefings....

The seasonal deaths peak has been boosted by Covid, but hearing about Tim Brooke-Taylor hit me rather, and now Dave Greenfield and Florian Schneider!!!!!

Where are you? My cosseted dahlias are just waking up!

Could it have just been a type of 'hypo' ? I can imagine that the GVI toning would be very dark brown if the solutions were stronger, but the farthings really were black.

Yep...'Pangram'.

Classic way of solving problems. We use our prefrontal cortex all the time, and assume it's good at solving problems and maths etc. If I want to fix a real head scratcher on a piece of gear, I think very very hard about it, with no radio on and no interruptions or phone calls. Then I deliberately do something else that is a mind- emptying thing- gardening is excellent. After a few hours- BANG - the solution. using your prefrontal cortex tends to block ideas from the ancient primitive MASSIVE supercomputer in the back of your head, so when you concentrate for a long time on a problem, this loads up that supercomputer with a program, and it starts its work. Only when you stop 'thinking' does it break through with the answer.... it happens very quickly. So many equipment repair men used to smoke like chimneys, because they would have a cigarette and 'stand back' mentally from the job, and there's the answer. An old friend of mine would stop, light a fag, and within 30 seconds know what the problem was, and put the cigarette down on the edge of the bench, leaving a two inch burn since he was then engrossed solving the problem. The edge of his bench was a long line of burn marks. He got through 40 a day, but maybe only actually smoked two of them! He didn't care about the cost, since he reckoned his repair rate was so good it more than paid for the fags....

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