My picture of the day-Where's yours?

[briantrumpet]

On a local training loop - Rockbeare

 

[JohnClimber]

Not quite the perfect picture that I was after

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Spotted this Jenson-Healey, at a local garage, as I was riding home this afternoon
I've not seen one for absolutely years

 

[JohnClimber]

Another one take today, this time across from Alnmouth

Postcard shot

 

[briantrumpet]

Holiday time, and at the other end of the country - Weardale in the North Pennines.

 

[User19783]

Oxford regatta this afternoon,

 

[ianrauk]

The Laburnam in my front garden is looking especially nice this year.

 

[mickle]

 

[JohnClimber]

Last shot from Northumberland until next June....

 

[grecinos]

My day at the local wind farms. This photo doesn't do these turbines justice. They look like sequoia trees when standing next to them.

 

[steveindenmark]

These photos were not taken by me but were sent by a couple who Jannie and I went to help out with their garden in Italy a month ago. The garden had got out of hand and we spent a wonderful week help getting it into order. We do this through a website called Helpx. We volunteer our free time to help with gardens. We get ourselves there and the hosts feed and house us during our stay. We have now done Cornwall, France and Italy and cannot wait to do more.

Just for the gardeners. After the potatoes were "chitted", we cut them in half and planted them. Theoretically, doubling the plants. I dont know if it will work, but it is looking the part.

This is job satisfaction.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

This was taken a couple of days ago, inside a shop in Nottingham, which I think was a bank when it was built.

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I don't know if the monkey(?) holding the chain has any significance?

It was indeed originally built as a bank and it was my branch at one time (Nat West) before being sold off to become whatever it is now.

The architect was a fine local chap who went by the name of Watson Fothergill. He was responsible for quite a few landmark buildings around the city had a very distinctive style. Many remain, but a few of his best (like the Black Boy hotel) are long gone

Legend has it that he owed the bank money and had to do the design work for free to settle his debts (to get "the monkey of his back").... he had this carving included in the design as a protest/joke/statement against the bankers.

 

[gavgav]

Not dialogue, as such, but a brilliant day in London watching the Aviva Premiership Rugby Final and then drinking in Richmond by the Thames. Fabulous sunset with the sun on a pole

Mod Note: It's a lovely photo but better suited to the "My Picture of the Day" thread so has been moved.

 

[Mrs M]

These photos were not taken by me but were sent by a couple who Jannie and I went to help out with their garden in Italy a month ago. The garden had got out of hand and we spent a wonderful week help getting it into order. We do this through a website called Helpx. We volunteer our free time to help with gardens. We get ourselves there and the hosts feed and house us during our stay. We have now done Cornwall, France and Italy and cannot wait to do more.

Just for the gardeners. After the potatoes were "chitted", we cut them in half and planted them. Theoretically, doubling the plants. I dont know if it will work, but it is looking the part.

This is job satisfaction.

That's a great idea, garden's looking good.
Well done

 

[Cavalol]

Went to take the TdF out but I think the pedal arm is knackered, so pumped up the tyres on the ToB instead and had a very pleasant 6 miler...