The Lemonfool my pic of the day thread

[monabri]

Is there a 2nd Typhoon? The first at 9 o'clock and one in the centre(ish) of the picture.

[AleisterCrowley]

Frohe Ostern !

[scotia]

Is there a 2nd Typhoon? The first at 9 o'clock and one in the centre(ish) of the picture.

I'm having difficulties hiring the Hubble telescope to check it out

[monabri]

yeah , thought so, the pilot wasn't wearing Raybans, that's what drew my attention....

[AleisterCrowley]

Lets have some Typhoon performance take offs and Mach Loop footage, with a bit of radio comms thrown in

https://youtu.be/8JoG75eVllQ

Ahhhh.. 1:27 onward particularly, grinning Wot a beast

[AleisterCrowley]

Lets have some Typhoon performance take offs and Mach Loop footage, with a bit of radio comms thrown in

https://youtu.be/8JoG75eVllQ

Ahhhh.. 1:27 onward particularly, grinning Wot a beast

Plenty of Mach Loop P0rn out there..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA4OZdzC-BY
Grrrrrrr...whooooowwwwwwww

[scotia]

Royal Air Force Boeing P-8 Poseidon loitering over the town earlier on.....

Do you think they are checking that the Lossie inhabitants are observing the lockdown rules?

[UncleEbenezer]

Royal Air Force Boeing P-8 Poseidon loitering over the town earlier on.....

Do you think they are checking that the Lossie inhabitants are observing the lockdown rules?

No, they're travelling to their holiday homes in the more remote and unspoilt places.

[scotia]

Oh I had to drag myself out of the house tonight for my state sanctioned exercise tonight. But it was worth it....

Just checking - was that a seagull or a Typhoon out for its evening ramble?

[AleisterCrowley]

It's clearly a paraglider circling the lighthouse. Arrest that man!

[UncleEbenezer]

One of a pair of Royal Air Force Typhoons doing laps / touch and go's this morning....

Is that something to do with keeping rebellious Jocks in your place?

[kiloran]

One of a pair of Royal Air Force Typhoons doing laps / touch and go's this morning....

Is that something to do with keeping rebellious Jocks in your place?

No, it's to keep the black-backed gulls under control
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Typhoons are the only things that might scare them

--kiloran

[scotia]

One of a pair of Royal Air Force Typhoons doing laps / touch and go's this morning....

Is that something to do with keeping rebellious Jocks in your place?

Alternatively they may be getting used to carrying a new offensive weapon - loads of empty Buckfast bottles which they intend returning to a place near you.

[scotia]

One of my tasks in lockdown is working my way through old slides and digitising them. It brought back lots of memories on what we used to do on fine (and very long in these latitudes) summer evenings in the early summer. This photo is from May 1973 - its the Turbine Steamer King George V at Inveraray on a Clyde River Steamer Club Charter. We were on the previous year's CRSC KGV Charter to Tarbert - the KGV swung rather too boldly into the bay, and clattered the pier - spoiling its new season paint. In 1973 it took more care of the Inveraray pier. It was withdrawn from service in 1974.

[sg31]

I love old photographs of ships.

My dad was in the Royal Navy in WW2 and he collected hundreds of postcards of ships. Many of them were ships that had been in convoys where his ship was an escort. I was born in 1955 and when I was growing up I found boxes of these postcards and spent hours looking through them.

I don't know why I was so interested, I'd only be 6 or 7 at the time. It left me with a fascination of ships of all kinds. So evocative of their time.

[UncleEbenezer]

The young (Dartmoor pony) foals are looking cute. Here's one I met today, first lying down:



then just getting up

[UncleEbenezer]

OK, I've dug up an old (October 2009) sunset, which I had as my background for a time. Just to boost this thread after it got overtaken by the coronavirus.

Any guesses as to where it was taken?

[rabbit]

OK, I've dug up an old (October 2009) sunset, which I had as my background for a time. Just to boost this thread after it got overtaken by the coronavirus.

Any guesses as to where it was taken?

North Cornwall coast? Can't be more specific than that I'm afraid, but it has the rugged Atlantic look about it.

[tjh290633]

My guess is that it was taken looking west. The land in the distance suggests an estuary or a firth between, so my guess it is looking along the Moray coast towards Inverness.

YJH

[scotia]

If its in the UK, and if that is a bank of cloud on the horizon, then I would agree with rabbit - North Cornwall. But it could be the north coast of Mull - with Ardnamurchan out of the picture to the north (right).
If its in the UK, and that is land in the horizon, then I'm stumped. I don't think the Moray Coast suggestion (by tjh) is likely - because I can't recollect coastal headlands like that on the Moray Coast.