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Things that make you go oooh thread....
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My last few purchases have been:
Newspapers (Wed, Tues, Mon Sun) local newsagent.
Weekly big shop at Tesco.
Friday fish and chips takeaway
Newspapers (Fri, Thur, Wed) local newsagent
Tuesday curry takeaway, local Indian restaurant.
That's 10 visits. I have also been to a health centre for a retinopathy scan and I have been to the local Waste Recycling Centre this afternoon.
Plenty of interaction with others on walks, in shops and while gardening.
I just remembered one online purchase from Lush for a birthday present for my granddaughter, who will be 18 soon.
TJH
Newspapers (Wed, Tues, Mon Sun) local newsagent.
Weekly big shop at Tesco.
Friday fish and chips takeaway
Newspapers (Fri, Thur, Wed) local newsagent
Tuesday curry takeaway, local Indian restaurant.
That's 10 visits. I have also been to a health centre for a retinopathy scan and I have been to the local Waste Recycling Centre this afternoon.
Plenty of interaction with others on walks, in shops and while gardening.
I just remembered one online purchase from Lush for a birthday present for my granddaughter, who will be 18 soon.
TJH
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swill453 wrote:Nice spring weather in Scotland this week:
Scott.
Methinks you're being just a wee bit selective there, Scott...... the top of the third-highest mountain in the UK!
--kiloran
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kiloran wrote:Methinks you're being just a wee bit selective there, Scott...... the top of the third-highest mountain in the UK!
Yeah yeah I know. It's a bit parky here too though.
Scott.
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Snorvey wrote:Ach well. We knew it was coming. And we'd be bored if it was hot and sunny everyday. I keep telling myself that.
Believe me, it's true. When I lived in south-west France, for 8-9 months of the year it was featureless blue sky and hot, day after day after day, apart from the odd thunderstorm. Boring as hell.
It was nice to get back to Scotland, where we have weather with....... character
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I went "Ooooh" last night. I was watching the news, and an item about the service at Canterbury cathedral. I'm as atheist as they come, but I can't help but marvel at the building (and many others of that ilk).
Apparently it was built around the 12th century, with some rebuilding in the 15th century. How the heck did they manage to construct such a beautiful building in those days, with towers and spires and archways? No computer-aided design, machanised tools, cranes, fork-lift trucks, etc. Just a lot of very skilled stonemasons and enormous effort.
Stunningly beautiful
--kiloran
Apparently it was built around the 12th century, with some rebuilding in the 15th century. How the heck did they manage to construct such a beautiful building in those days, with towers and spires and archways? No computer-aided design, machanised tools, cranes, fork-lift trucks, etc. Just a lot of very skilled stonemasons and enormous effort.
Stunningly beautiful
--kiloran
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kiloran wrote:Apparently it was built around the 12th century, with some rebuilding in the 15th century. How the heck did they manage to construct such a beautiful building in those days, with towers and spires and archways? No computer-aided design, machanised tools, cranes, fork-lift trucks, etc. Just a lot of very skilled stonemasons and enormous effort.
Cheap labour, no unions. You need to bring back slavery.
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kiloran wrote:How the heck did they manage to construct such a beautiful building in those days, with towers and spires and archways? No computer-aided design, machanised tools, cranes, fork-lift trucks, etc. Just a lot of very skilled stonemasons and enormous effort.
What blows me away is that it might take three generations of workmen to complete the task, or more. When you started one of those towering vertical naves, you knew that neither you nor probably your children would live to see it completed. So you'd better have done your maths correctly.
There's a wonky arch in Gloucester cathedral where they got a column wrongly aligned (or maybe the geology shifted under the load?), and where they had to bodge a solution in the hope that you wouldn't notice. And the double helix at Wells Cathedral was a more stylish solution to an imminent collapse. There were plenty of other places where lofty church structures did collapse completely. Hopefully before the congregation arrived.
Although they didn't have cranes, they did of course have winches that worked pretty much like a modern car engine hoist, but massively taller. All they had to hope was that the quarter mile of rope wouldn't fail. And that the wooden scaffolding wouldn't collapse and drop you 150 feet to the ground. Nearer my God to thee....
Some fun info at https://www.historyextra.com/period/med ... how-built/.
BJ
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bungeejumper wrote:kiloran wrote:How the heck did they manage to construct such a beautiful building in those days, with towers and spires and archways? No computer-aided design, machanised tools, cranes, fork-lift trucks, etc. Just a lot of very skilled stonemasons and enormous effort.
What blows me away is that it might take three generations of workmen to complete the task, or more. When you started one of those towering vertical naves, you knew that neither you nor probably your children would live to see it completed. So you'd better have done your maths correctly.
There's a wonky arch in Gloucester cathedral where they got a column wrongly aligned (or maybe the geology shifted under the load?), and where they had to bodge a solution in the hope that you wouldn't notice. And the double helix at Wells Cathedral was a more stylish solution to an imminent collapse. There were plenty of other places where lofty church structures did collapse completely. Hopefully before the congregation arrived.
Although they didn't have cranes, they did of course have winches that worked pretty much like a modern car engine hoist, but massively taller. All they had to hope was that the quarter mile of rope wouldn't fail. And that the wooden scaffolding wouldn't collapse and drop you 150 feet to the ground. Nearer my God to thee....
Some fun info at https://www.historyextra.com/period/med ... how-built/.
BJ
They did have treadmill cranes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treadwheel_crane).
What they also had was enormous amounts of faith in what they were doing, which meant they could raise the money to pay for it all, and keep up the building efforts over many generations. Bit like La Sagrada Família Basilica, under construction since 1882, and still not finished.
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swill453 wrote:Nice spring weather in Scotland this week:
Scott.
Holy Crap Scott! And here's me shivering away in London at 6C.
Yours,
A true Southern Softie
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Snorvey wrote:Pfizer have said that we may need a third Covid shot.
Ker-ching!
....And thereafter annual updates!
Jackpot!
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servodude wrote:Snorvey wrote:Pfizer have said that we may need a third Covid shot.
Ker-ching!
....And thereafter annual updates!
Jackpot!
We have known that since the outset. It is no surprise to anyone, which is why HMG has been ordering caccine in quantities way above what a single or double shot would need.
This comes under the "What do bears do in the wood?" category.
TJH
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tjh290633 wrote:servodude wrote:Snorvey wrote:Pfizer have said that we may need a third Covid shot.
Ker-ching!
....And thereafter annual updates!
Jackpot!
We have known that since the outset. It is no surprise to anyone, which is why HMG has been ordering caccine in quantities way above what a single or double shot would need.
This comes under the "What do bears do in the wood?" category.
TJH
When was your last SARS-COV1 vaccine booster?
Perhaps your outset is later than it might have been...
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Assume the boosters will be 'tweaked' to deal with the most fashionable variant in circulation at the time - do the advance orders accomodate this?
I'm sure Microsoft or Apple are involved - regular upgrades required to keep your system running
I'm sure Microsoft or Apple are involved - regular upgrades required to keep your system running
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AleisterCrowley wrote:Assume the boosters will be 'tweaked' to deal with the most fashionable variant in circulation at the time - do the advance orders accomodate this?
I'm sure Microsoft or Apple are involved - regular upgrades required to keep your system running
I hope that doesn't involve turning us off, then on again
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Snorvey wrote:One for Scotia (and all other river minded scenery type folks)
https://www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/ho ... ng-235940/
It sadly fails to tell us that it's Channel 5 at 8pm
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Isn't that whisky country? Could it be Scotland's answer to the best wine-region river journeys?
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kiloran wrote:Snorvey wrote:One for Scotia (and all other river minded scenery type folks)
https://www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/ho ... ng-235940/
It sadly fails to tell us that it's Channel 5 at 8pm
It says it's "on Channel 5 at 8pm on Friday".
Scott.
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swill453 wrote:kiloran wrote:Snorvey wrote:One for Scotia (and all other river minded scenery type folks)
https://www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/ho ... ng-235940/
It sadly fails to tell us that it's Channel 5 at 8pm
It says it's "on Channel 5 at 8pm on Friday".
Scott.
I checked and checked and didn't see anything. Just looked more closely and my uBlock origin had filtered out an ad and left a BIG blank space so I thought it was the end of the article.
That's my excuse. You can interpret it as doddery incompetence if you wish
--kiloran
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