The Lemon Fool

HYD

A nice image but tone down the saturation a bit.

So,

Self-isolate, they said.....it'll be fun, they said....

View yesterday morning part-way up, on a quest to see if Helvellyn was still there (The Cape / St. Sunday Crag on the left, with Dollywaggon Pike towards the rear - image link - https://i.imgur.com/Kac2ynA.jpg) -



I was never going to go all the way over Helvellyn yesterday due to quite high winds, and so I turned round some time later at 'Hole in the Wall' to head back down to Patterdale, following the wall back down in a roughly circular route. The clouds briefly cleared over Helvellyn and Swiral Edge at one point, allowing me to get a fairly good snap looking back towards Red Tarn and Helvellyn - image link - https://i.imgur.com/LoyRoVj.jpg) -



Photos taken with a Motorola MOTO G4 and stitched together using Microsoft's 'Image Composite Editor (ICE), which can be downloaded here -

32-bit Windows - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52413

64-bit Windows - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52459

The trip was planned out and turned into a GPX file using the excellent website below, and the resultant GPX file was uploaded to my Android phone using the free ViewRanger, which then allows off-network route-following using GPS -

OS Map GPX file creator website - https://maps.the-hug.net/

ViewRanger - https://www.viewranger.com/en-gb

No lightweight hiking chairs were deployed during this event.....although I will be returning for the full round-trip including up onto Striding Edge and round to Helvellyn top later in the year, with hopefully fewer hailstone blizzards on the tops..

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

The White Browed Tit-Warbler (stop sniggering Snorvey).

To be found in China and the Himalayas.




HYD

Howyoudoin wrote:The White Browed Tit-Warbler (stop sniggering Snorvey).

To be found in China and the Himalayas.




HYD

Blimey impressive pic HYD. Did you take it in China or do they migrate?


GS

GoSeigen wrote:

Howyoudoin wrote:The White Browed Tit-Warbler (stop sniggering Snorvey).

To be found in China and the Himalayas.




HYD

Blimey impressive pic HYD. Did you take it in China or do they migrate?


GS

Don't tell anyone but it's just a robin from my back garden that i've photoshopped.

HYD

Howyoudoin wrote:

GoSeigen wrote:

Howyoudoin wrote:The White Browed Tit-Warbler (stop sniggering Snorvey).

To be found in China and the Himalayas.




HYD

Blimey impressive pic HYD. Did you take it in China or do they migrate?


GS

Don't tell anyone but it's just a robin from my back garden that i've photoshopped.

HYD

You beat me to this - I had a word with the Robin in our garden this morning, and suggested he might like a respray - but he declined.

Snorvey wrote:https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/us-ai ... 64565.html

And they are going to let visitors aboard - albeit with some screening for coronavirus. - I am surprised!

Snorvey wrote:I mean, it's a piss poor fake passport when they've even mis-spelt his name......

You missed your tongue in cheek emoticon. His name is/was Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, as I'm sure you know.

A man's got to find his kicks while he still can. Thanks to the wonders of online translation, we learn that, according to that passport, 21st March 1980 was his birth date and 7th January 2030 will be his expiry date.

The photo is an obvious photoshop fake, though. He's pasted in one of Cher's old hairstyles, and he's borrowed his teeth from Olivia Newton-John. Which makes him a lot more than 40.

BJ

Looks like it would tip over in a strong breeze...

Earth from the International Space Station -

https://i.imgur.com/YLbsmBi.mp4

I'm not sure I'd get much work done....

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

Snorvey wrote:Another Theodore Roosevelt pic from today

20 years between refuels. Why can't our car manufacturers emulate that? No need to worry about the range left in the battery, and no carbon dioxide emissions. As for the boy racers - would a few hundred thousand horse power be adequate?

Snorvey wrote:Makes you wonder why they built the carriers with gas turbine/diesel engines when Rolls Royce drop nuclear reactor/electric propulsion into the submarine fleet.

It was supposed to be based on cost grounds. The two UK carriers cost a total of £6.2B. The latest nuclear powered US carrier - the Gerald R Ford - conservatively cost around $14B, of which $5B was for R&D - so two carriers in that class should cost around $23B - about 3 times the cost of the UK carriers. The US carrier displaces about 50% more than the UK carriers, and, unlike the UK carriers, is equipped with an electromagnetic catapult (which apparently has/had reliability problems).

Itsallaguess wrote:Earth from the International Space Station -

https://i.imgur.com/YLbsmBi.mp4

I'm not sure I'd get much work done....

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

One trip round the globe every 92 minutes. So I think you would probably get used to it fairly quickly - and get back to work.

Sorry, but it's a sunny Spring afternoon, and I couldn't resist!

As all of you will know, next Sunday is the start of the Brown Trout season in Scotland. So in spite of the inclement weather, the work party at the loch today had to haul the boats out of their 3-storey storage racks in the boat shed, carry them down to the loch, and tow them out to their anchorage in the bay.



Our old punt (used to row out to the anchorage, and bring in a fishing boat) has been languishing unused for a couple of years - having been replaced with a slightly more reputable version. A senior club member was opposed to the change - "over my dead body", so it was decided to keep it for use "under his dead body" in a Viking-like funeral pyre. But another club member got impatient waiting for him to oblige, and it has started a new life as a decorative item.



It looks a bit more stable now with a few hundred weights of soil in it. One of its favourite foibles was to overturn if a new member stepped boldly off the pier and into the boat - and a ducking ensued. You quickly learned how to slip gently into it, muttering encouragements like good boy - which it wasn't.

Blimey, Snorvey, I need to get to my optician. For a split-second, I thought that was a dead whale on a beach.

Nice pics you're taking! What's the camera?

BJ

Snorvey wrote:To misquote Buzz Aldrin......

Magnificent Isolation.....

One heck of a selfie, that!

You've got hills like that on your doorstep. I've got views of the Campsies, the Kilpatricks and the snow-covered hills around Loch Lomond from my house.
So uplifting.

Those who live in London, or the Fens, or East Anglia just don't know what they are missing.

--kiloran

The highest point in Berkshire is Walbury Hill 974ft asl, which is basically a slightly lumpy field
In fact, if you believe Wikipedia it's the highest point in the South East, which is somewhat depressing

Back home the local lumps are the Wrekin at 1335ft (extinct volcano) and going west the Brown Clee and Tittertone Clee at 1770ft and 1750ft respectively.
I love the Brown Clee - it's nicely rounded so you can't fall off it!

I guess I should do Walbury at some point, but it's probably not even got a trig point to slap down on when the 'summit' is reached

[edit: Brown Clee up top https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.47544 ... 000!8i4000