Woodbutcher

Ended ... no bids ... IRMC ...

The Spanish Buchon.

Well I guess I was wrong yesterday ... at least as far as seeing three Spitfires passing by together ... Another selection of distant visitors this afternoon , including the beautiful Q-YP , the last flying Blenheim ...

Now there's something you don't see every day ...

Overtaped , box scribbled on ... I'd be surprised if it sells at all ...

One assumes Auntie Beeb did the right thing regarding artists , writers etc , or did they conveniently bypass all that by using different artists and arrangements to produce pastiches ...

Just started on the long awaited new adventures of Raylan Givens in "Justified : City Primeval" and well worth the wait it was too ... And the soundtrack has some very nice unexpected treats running through it ... https://www.tune-list.com/justified-city-primeval-soundtrack-music/#music_episode1

I'm sticking the whole affair in the same box with the Jubilee NS float ... and burying it in the far corner of the garden hopefully never to be seen again. One word sums it all up for me ... Embarrassing.

It's neither vitriol or hate , it's a series of replies to a question , most of which were exactly as the OP admits he was expecting , i.e. negative ... If you already know the answer to a question why bother asking it in the first place. What with this , the cruise thread and the Proms debacle dominating the forum lately I can fully understand the mass exodus to FB that has occurred and continues ...

Just pleased to see the review clearly state that it was about a scene that flourished from the late 60's to the early 80's ..................... that means it was bugger all to do with the scene that I know starting in '81 at the Wirrina , through Stafford and the 100 Club on to today ...

Let's hope they don't gatecrash this evenings shindig and get slung out for sprinkling orange coloured talc everywhere ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66207576

Here's a close-up of this week's star attraction as far as solar imaging is concerned ... you can fit about half a dozen Earths in this one sunspot , each of the small convection cells is about the size of France ...

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More likely just too lazy to do a little five minute research before calling foul.

I don't think it was ever booted as such , there's the Stardust reissue and the 'Vintage Soul' E.P. but that's it as far as I'm aware , no counterfeit lookalike.

Finally got to play with the Altair Hypercam 174 Mono camera on the Sun this morning , seems to perform very nicely with the new Evostar 150 'scope ... Close-ups. Full disc as normal with the EOS 550D.

And fire if required ...

You should have turned the iron right up to the highest setting and finished it off ...

A very colourful macro week so far ... A hungry no-more spider. Ladybird on the way. Scissor Bees in the Poppies . A voracious little spider-hunting wasp who's taken up residence in the top of an old calor-gas lamp in the summerhouse , as I sit doing my solar imaging she's in and out every ten minutes or so with paralysed spiders for her broods larder , I've grown quite fond of her ... The "original" Velcro. An unidentified insect pupa hanging underneath a Hazel leaf. And as I wandering about the other evening I shot this single frame with the same Laowa 100mm F2.8 2X Ultra Macro APO lens that I used on the shots above , a remarkably sharp piece of glass from 80mm to 384,000km ...

If it hasn't got the raised , mirrored MSI Co stamp it's a wrong'un.

For the last one in the first post you may indeed ... I keep getting asked what its song was like for ID purposes ... sadly nobody that asked the question was bright enough to notice it had a proper mouthful of flies at the time and wasn't doing much warbling of any description ....

Whoops ... how did that happen ... Thank you to Simon at The Widescreen Centre ...

The more I look the more confusing they all look at that age , all I know is the parents were shepherding them about in one tree while the Blue Tits tackled another , a bit of a miniature West Side Story thing going on ...

It's the beak that is all wrong to be a chaffinch ,which has a much stronger triangular beak as finches do , the Goldcrest has a finer pointier beak for picking insects , the chaffinch's shoulder markings are very similar but the upper bar is usually more pronounced ... And the Hornet is most definitely a hornet not a wasp , when I come across a dead one I'll do you a side by side comparison photo , they are less forgiving than the Scissor Bees so I don't fancy pushing the camera to within 80mm as I did yesterday ...

After more observation and research it's actually a juvenile Goldcrest , today's photo was taken when a whole 'pack' of them were having a feast on the flies in the conifers ...