Captain Cuttle

17 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Arthur Itis

Tell you what, vitamin D3 pills make mine worse supposed to take calcium pills as well but the combination ones i was prescribed have soya oil in them and i have a reaction to anything soya based so thats a no go!

13 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

very muggy

Wish we could have muggy, we were down to near freezing at dawn and it was chucking it down as well. No thunder though, the Dartmoor land mass to the north west  of us greatly affects our weather.

By The River - Delius

49 minutes ago, BoD said:

drawn to the drab spectrum. 

You are a John Major fan then?

2 hours ago, 97406 said:

after a while, it withers and drops off..

I wish these would!

7 minutes ago, Metr0Land said:

No idea how good/bad this is but

Should be really good, whenever i hear her name it always takes me back to her driving the Sunbeam Talbot Alpine in the early fifties. I nearly bought one when i was in the RAF but left it too late. It was red with the louvred bonnet and a beast! Ended up with a ZA Magnette instead.

On 26/04/2024 at 15:48, Dave Hunt said:

Old Farts Walking And Tottering club.

Yep count us in, falling over a couple of months ago didnt help as i dont bounce! First time for everything and Kathy has permanent pain in her knees related to bunion surgery some fourteen years ago.

6 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

Happens all the time

Life is too short, well it is for us olden's anyway. Ok for you spring chickens!🐤🐤

6 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

If looks could kill!

I get a similar look if i attempt at any time to brush Teds teeth!

3 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

The Lauro, ooerr, not my cup of tea!

 

They did two lifeboat drills in Genoa  before that last trip and thrashed those engines and it had been pouring out black smoke for the last year or so. Evidence of that on one of Peter Knego's videos on MidShipCentury in September of 1994.

11 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Engines this big are Very. Noisy.

And look relatively clean much more so than did the poor old Achille Lauro with its original 1947 Sulzers.

7 hours ago, woodenhead said:

an extra long extension to the long pole that had the roller on

Well at least you know that with your acrobatic skills they are always looking for dextrous individuals to help paint the Forth rail bridge!

31 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

It is overcast here

And in sunny Newton Abbot our nearest star is shining bright. Fluffy white clouds scattered over a mainly green and not so pleasant landscape. A bank of cumulonimbus though looking threatening on the horizon. Pleasantly warm in the sunshine, wind SSW light.

5 hours ago, Captain Cuttle said:

Oh darn, thought that was a bit of snot on the screen🙄

I dont know what is happening happening as my quotes keep appearing appearing in duplicate twice or more. 

17 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

'exotic' garden ornaments

Torbay palms exotic? Nah, common as weeds 'ere.

17 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Maybe you missed the meaning of the 😇

Oh darn it, i thought that was a bit of snot on the screen!🙄

15 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Maybe you missed the meaning of the 😇

Oh darn, thought that was a bit of snot on the screen🙄

15 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Maybe you missed the meaning of the 😇

Oh darn, i thought it was a bit of snot on my android screen🙄

4 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said:

wartime decoys

Jasper Maskelyne was known as The War Magician and its a good read if you can find one. All sorts of trickery to fool the enemy in WW2.

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

Torbay Palms?

They are actually called  Cordylines, this was or maybe still is the one at what was my parents bungalow in Coverack. Huge garden backed onto fields, great for star gazing i remember, also listening to the waves crashing on the beach, happy days.

Our day Will Come - Amy Winehouse

5 minutes ago, Captain Cuttle said:

Well it has in sunny Newton Abbot but as my Cornish mother would say..........its a lazy wind today!  Wisteria as in 2009 with our then elderly cat Rusty and in 2024,  still its at least thirty five years old. It didnt like Essex but happier here but not so prolific now. The acer is about fifty years old and had a large flowering cherry tree in front of it. The  torbay palm tree is a similar age and still growing well.

The last three photos showed as not uploaded!! The palm in the first photo came from my mum and was just a small plant in her conservatory. When we had to sell her bungalow in Coverack to pay for her care, we inherited it. It didnt grow much for several years but is firmly established now. The aeoniums on the decking i recently repotted, they originate from West Cornwall and are called Zwartkop and the smaller cuttings in the side porch are some different varieties we have just bought. I like them and like coleus they are very colourful and easy to grow.