The Lemonfool my pic of the day thread

[didds]

Two top selling books side by side.

Swindon strikes!

[kiloran]

We seem to have lost most of our foxes. A couple of years ago, we regularly had 5 adults and 4 cubs on the lawn at the same time, and 3 or 4 of them were round every evening for their supper. Now, we only have 2 which we see 3-4 times a week, and they don't seem to hang around much. Haven't seen so few foxes for many years.

Not to worry, we've acquired a new friend. A couple of weeks ago, I looked up, and there was a squirrel on the living room windowsill, looking in very intently. It didn't budge when I got right up close, then scampered to the sunlounge door where it took a biscuit from my hand. Most days, we now see it, scampering back and forth along the windowsill to try and grab our attention. Don't know why the other squirrels haven't learnt this trick, they are much more wary (and get fewer biscuits as a result).




--kiloran

[Nimrod103]

--kiloran

I look forward to this fellow culling grey squirrels down to levels which allow the more nimble reds to flourish:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... -a-century

[Tedx]

[Redmires]

Spent a few days away last week and this fine building is one of my favourites. Anyone recognise it ?

[UncleEbenezer]

Spent a few days away last week and this fine building is one of my favourites. Anyone recognise it ?

No, but does it have some connection with a railway station?

Oh, erm, is it perhaps also known as https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aS8xrfncqpY/ ... 8416_n.jpg (among other things)?

[Tedx]

Incidentally, see all the poles sticking up out of the ground covering the whole area as far as you can see? Well they aren't anything to do with fishing from bygone days (as I first thought).

Can anyone guess what they were for? (no cheating)

[Redmires]

I'd say that it's a causeway that becomes submerged at high tide. The poles are a guide as to where it's safe to cross, much like the causeway on Lindisfarne

[Tedx]

Nope.

These are telegraph-like poles, fairly evenly spaced all across the area, which must be a few square miles. There is an island in the middle where someone lives, but the poles are not for marking any kind of a track. The island is irrelevant actually.

[swill453]

Nope.

These are telegraph-like poles, fairly evenly spaced all across the area, which must be a few square miles. There is an island in the middle where someone lives, but the poles are not for marking any kind of a track. The island is irrelevant actually.

World War II anti-glider poles. Interesting...

Scot5.

[scotview]

Can anyone guess what they were for? (no cheating)

I think they a for salmon fishing stake nets from a bygone age......just a guess.

[mc2fool]

Can anyone guess what they were for? (no cheating)

Wind surfing slalom course when the tide's in.

[Tedx]

Nope.

These are telegraph-like poles, fairly evenly spaced all across the area, which must be a few square miles. There is an island in the middle where someone lives, but the poles are not for marking any kind of a track. The island is irrelevant actually.

World War II anti-glider poles. Interesting...

Scot5.

Spot on.

[Clitheroekid]

Spent a few days away last week and this fine building is one of my favourites. Anyone recognise it ?

Just a wild guess, but could it by any chance be the Oxford University Museum of Natural History?

[Redmires]

Spent a few days away last week and this fine building is one of my favourites. Anyone recognise it ?

Just a wild guess, but could it by any chance be the Oxford University Museum of Natural History?

That's the one. I remember my first time there being totally awed by the place. Then I went up to the upper galleries and walked past the entrance to the Pitts River Museum. Talk about having a double take

[tjh290633]

I did my fourth year research in a room off the west gallery, on the Parks Road frontage. That was the Chemical Crystallography laboratory, supervised by Dorothy Hodgkin. Tiny Powell was the reader and had the "Witches Kitchen" to the right of the main building. Our X-ray machines were down there. We also had a dark room on the ground floor of the west front.

I have recollections of walking past a glass box, housing either locusts or stick insects, at the top of the stairs.

TJH

[Gaggsy]

Who'd want to be a tower crane erector?
Nice day for it though.

[pje16]

Who'd want to be a tower crane erector?
Nice day for it though.

Imagine getting to the top and needing a wee

[Tedx]

[pje16]

Sorry, whereabouts are they from?