The Retirement Thread

[Flick of the Elbow]

Well the sun never really got going, it’s been mostly grey all day. Did a walk around Glentromie, found a Vanessa.

 

[classic33]

No, didn't know this. Please explain.

"In Australia the spelling is not listed in either the Macquarie dictionary or the Australian Oxford dictionary, so nighttime should be considered a spelling error in Australia."
https://australiandictionary.blogspot.com/2019/11/is-spelling-nightime-nighttime-night.html?m=1

 

[PaulSB]

"In Australia the spelling is not listed in either the Macquarie dictionary or the Australian Oxford dictionary, so nighttime should be considered a spelling error in Australia."
https://australiandictionary.blogspot.com/2019/11/is-spelling-nightime-nighttime-night.html?m=1

I thought it would be something exciting.

 

[Mo1959]

Well the sun never really got going, it’s been mostly grey all day. Did a walk around Glentromie, found a Vanessa.
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I’ve never heard of a Vanessa?

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I’ve never heard of a Vanessa?

A lightweight cyclindrical trig pillar, only used in Scotland it seems
http://trigpointing.uk/wiki/Pillar

 

[Mo1959]

A lightweight cyclindrical trig pillar, only used in Scotland it seems
http://trigpointing.uk/wiki/Pillar

Ahhh……interesting, thanks.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

From my Facebook page this evening.

 

[oldwheels]

'Tis a tad warm 'ere.
Thermometer sensor is in the shade.

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Certainly not too warm where I am. Currently 12.8C outside with a cold wind and still raining.
Looked at the webcam at the ferry terminal and with the bigger boat leaving there were still a lot of cars lined up. No commercial traffic which takes up a lot of space and thankfully no tour buses so many must be making a run for it unbooked.

 

[oldwheels]

I, OTOH, am apparently becoming a bat... I am up throughout the hours of darkness, and I haven't opened the blackout curtains in this room for several YEARS!

I don't like the feeling that pedestrians can look in. Sometimes there are kids hanging around on the pavement outside, right by the window.

At least at this time of the year I have the internal door open. It is a nice 21C in here. In the winter, the door has to be kept shut or I'd freeze!

Eh, what's that... Alarm going off on my phone? YIKES... I'm Zooming at 17:30 - where's the tablet!

In Scotland you may have eaten it all.

 

[oldwheels]

Ahhh……interesting, thanks.

When I was a student many years ago and used to hard farm labour I nearly had a job of carrying bags of cement up to the tops to build these things. Fortunately something easier came along first.

 

[classic33]

A lightweight cyclindrical trig pillar, only used in Scotland it seems
http://trigpointing.uk/wiki/Pillar

There's a thread for those.

 

[oldwheels]

"In Australia the spelling is not listed in either the Macquarie dictionary or the Australian Oxford dictionary, so nighttime should be considered a spelling error in Australia."
https://australiandictionary.blogspot.com/2019/11/is-spelling-nightime-nighttime-night.html?m=1

Did you know that Macquarie originated in the Isle of Ulva and there is a Macquarie Mausoleum on Mull which is the property of the Aussie equivalent of the National Trust. A new non Scottish landowner was not very happy and tried to stop public access to it but Scottish access laws put paid to that and the Australians were not very happy either.

 

[classic33]

Did you know that Macquarie originated in the Isle of Ulva and there is a Macquarie Mausoleum on Mull which is the property of the Aussie equivalent of the National Trust. A new non Scottish landowner was not very happy and tried to stop public access to it but Scottish access laws put paid to that and the Australians were not very happy either.

No

 

[oldwheels]

No

Well you do now.

 

[classic33]

Well you do now.

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