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3 hours ago, Flamingemeralds said:

Superb photos! I love the lamb and duck! 👍🏼👍🏼 Brilliant! You've really captured a moment there.  👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Love it!

Thank you, the stretch of water you see in the photo is all there is, the farmer created a pond some years ago and for some reason has filled it in leaving what amounts to a large puddle, they must be fit little buggers saw them this afternoon following mum from the other side of the field heading for their afternoon float 🙂

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15 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

New chopping board just turned up 

 

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That's so cool! You'll be able to cut some discs on that...👍🏼😉🤭

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How's about this for a fungi?  Is that weird, or is that weird .... About the size of a 50 pence piece.😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲  Or.....is it an alien pod? IMG_20200521_173711604.thumb.jpg.ed811e3bfde569869e7b9e5078e58757.jpg

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2 hours ago, Flamingemeralds said:

How's about this for a fungi?  Is that weird, or is that weird .... About the size of a 50 pence piece.😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲  Or.....is it an alien pod? IMG_20200521_173711604.thumb.jpg.ed811e3bfde569869e7b9e5078e58757.jpg

Dave of the tattoo variety is your man for this one Mrs..  looks weird but that doesn't seem unusual in your world.  Meant in the nicest possible way.  X

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11 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Dave of the tattoo variety is your man for this one Mrs..  looks weird but that doesn't seem unusual in your world.  Meant in the nicest possible way.  X

Steve, I doubt if it's of plant origin, looks more like animal, maybe a spiders nest or even an alien pod!!

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My daughter knocked it off and it was very mushroomy inside, no eggs or anything, just a solid damp fibrous mass.  I just watched going "eek, urgh, eek, uff, yak, errgh, yak". It fell off the wood very easily. But silver?!? Really weird? The inside was sort of a dark brown.  Imagine having one of those served up with your bacon and eggs.  "Ketchup on that dear?". 🤢

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12 hours ago, Derek Pearson said:

When the Great Northern Railway built the railway line linking up the industrial towns of Bradford and Halifax to Keighley they constructed a magnificent viaduct to carry the railway line over the valley at Thornton.

See photo below of view from the walkway across Thornton viaduct looking towards Bradford city centre 5 miles away.

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To give you an idea of the sheer size of the viaduct.

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How does one stone in that massive vertical wall become dislodged and fall out?

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Would you think that dislodged stone is at "top of ladder" height? I'd have to shimmy up there and have a look. There might be treasure, or a stash of something....a Geocache maybe?  It's just really, really intriguing!  Just one random stone? And how the bejazes did it fall out??? 🤔

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35 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Derek. .Have you explored the tunnel ?  It looks like you can see daylight at the other end.  Is it deep water ? I would have to go and explore even now at 61 

Me too!!! Even now, at 32! 😂

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That tunnel doesn't look very well built though does it Mr Winsford and Mr Pearson? Looks like a bit of a cowboy job? It looks all shoved together. "Shove a bit ere, a bit ere, and ere, there, ere, ere and there......jobs a guddun". 👍🏼.  

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10 minutes ago, Flamingemeralds said:

That tunnel doesn't look very well built though does it Mr Winsford and Mr Pearson? Looks like a bit of a cowboy job? It looks all shoved together. "Shove a bit ere, a bit ere, and ere, there, ere, ere and there......jobs a guddun". 👍🏼.  

Maybe they used the fallen  brick from the viaduct as the start , that would explain cowboy loose work type

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8 hours ago, Flamingemeralds said:

My daughter knocked it off and it was very mushroomy inside, no eggs or anything, just a solid damp fibrous mass.  I just watched going "eek, urgh, eek, uff, yak, errgh, yak". It fell off the wood very easily. But silver?!? Really weird? The inside was sort of a dark brown.  Imagine having one of those served up with your bacon and eggs.  "Ketchup on that dear?". 🤢

probably damp rot fungus then, never experienced it before, are you sure it wasn't alien?

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Well that would make absolute sense because my back door is a right old state Tattoo Dave! I'm having a new one this Summer.  I wish it was an alien pod! That'd be far more exciting than a new door 😉

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3 hours ago, Mustang said:

Hi Folks,

 

A recent visit to the Derwent dam and reservoir,a very beautiful place.

The video is a Coastguard helicopter performing a low flypast over the dam

in memory of 617 Squadron The Dambusters,just happened to be

in the right place at the right time.Also,there is the permanent memorial as

in the photo,very prudent,especially around the 75th Anniversary of VE Day.

 

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Isn't our country just SO beautiful.. 😍

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On 22/05/2020 at 14:30, Winsford Soul said:
On 22/05/2020 at 14:30, Winsford Soul said:

Derek. .Have you explored the tunnel ?  It looks like you can see daylight at the other end.  Is it deep water ? I would have to go and explore even now at 61 

 

On 22/05/2020 at 15:06, Flamingemeralds said:

Me too!!! Even now, at 32! 😂

 

On 22/05/2020 at 15:10, Flamingemeralds said:

That tunnel doesn't look very well built though does it Mr Winsford and Mr Pearson? Looks like a bit of a cowboy job? It looks all shoved together. "Shove a bit ere, a bit ere, and ere, there, ere, ere and there......jobs a guddun". 👍🏼.  

Tell you what if I was a few minutes younger I'd be up that tunnel like a rat up a drainpipe. When I was in my early teens I was forever bumping around underground tunnels and culverts. Usually without some sort of torch and/or suitable footwear. Have a vague memory of dragging mi little brother (aged 5 or 6 maybe?) down one long tunnel dressed in his little shorts and wellies.

It was all going well until he slipped and fell in some deeper water luckily I was holding his hand. Then he started crying and we had to go home.

I reckon the water at the mouth of the culvert is probably about a foot deep and about 6 inches in depth running through the culvert. Might have a wander underground when it gets a bit warmer...(maybe?)

If Thornton Viaduct dates from 1878 the building of this underground culvert probably dates from around the same time - 140 years old (ish) and still standing and no concrete or metal in sight.

Derek

 

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48 minutes ago, Derek Pearson said:

As a young teen before I discovered booze and girls I used to stand in this side shed at Bradford Park Avenue's old football ground. Photo not taken by me.

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That would be around the early seventies (think Marc Bolan, T.Rex etc etc) and so symbolic of that era is my old faded silk scarf which I knew I had somewhere.

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Superb aerial photograph of the old football ground-cricket ground (photo not taken by me).

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Great piece of football history 👍

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I have a little baby Robin too.  I was digging in the garden the other evening and he was hopping around completely at ease with me being there.  He's a happy little thing, he's almost always on the lawn.  He worries me, he seems a bit oblivious to anything going on around him. He's just in a little happy bubble of his own.  Bless his little beak 🤗

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