Isolated Blurt Thread

[oggbashan]

And was the display any good ?

Like the Curate's Egg - good in parts.

The organisers had problems:

1. The Memorial Flight was grounded.

2. The strong Westerly wind meant that some of the older aircraft couldn't fly at all because they would have had real difficulty getting back home.

3. Some of the aerobatics had to be reduced because of the strong wind and low cloud.

4. Some aerobatics had to be reduced because commercial aircraft had been rerouted above us to avoid the Biggin Hill Air Show.

The result was that there were very long gaps - an hour or so - between some displays and what displays there were, weren't as good as last year. Attendance was down on last year because of the weather forecast.

I took some pictures but my camera wasn't really sophisticated enough. If you search for Herne Bay Air Show you will see pictures much better than any of mine.

This is the only reasonable one of mine as the Red Arrows were leaving:

 

[Handley_Page]

This is the only reasonable one of mine as the Red Arrows were leaving:

And jolly good it is, too!

 

[Trinique_Fire]

This place will never again be what it was back in the early-mid 2000's. Friendly, familiar faces like Tatelou and Perdita, Colleen and minsue, lovers like destinie21 and RenzaJones, and good friends like Abs and vella. Coming back to Lit in 2017 is like visiting your old high school after everyone you know has graduated. Now it's just full of strangers.

This place was the most magical retreat for a barely legal like me fresh out of high school. Home life was horrible, so I escaped to Lit, where there was great camaraderie in the AH. Names on here became as familiar as family, or at least as recognizable. Log on in the morning, see all the same regulars in ABSTRUSIONS for their morning coffee, mid-day slowed down, and nighttime was poppin'. I still see a few familiar faces here from time to time, but it's nothing like it was in its heyday. I feel sort of sad that so many of the more recent additions to the AH will never know or understand what this place used to be like.

So many ghosts just whispering from old threads...

 

[oggbashan]

Welcome back Trinique.

x 4

There are still some oldies around but there are good newbies too (and a few grumpy old men complaining about everything).

Tatelou? She's still around on Facebook with her husband and dogs. Perdita deleted herself. I don't know why.

If you consider the current Authors' Hangout as a new place to you, watch, read and slowly participate you might find it is still the friendly place you knew - different but still mainly pleasant.

 

[Handley_Page]

This place will never again be what it was back in the early-mid 2000's. Friendly, familiar faces like Tatelou and Perdita, Colleen and minsue, lovers like destinie21 and RenzaJones, and good friends like Abs and vella. Coming back to Lit in 2017 is like visiting your old high school after everyone you know has graduated. Now it's just full of strangers.

This place was the most magical retreat for a barely legal like me fresh out of high school. Home life was horrible, so I escaped to Lit, where there was great camaraderie in the AH. Names on here became as familiar as family, or at least as recognizable. Log on in the morning, see all the same regulars in ABSTRUSIONS for their morning coffee, mid-day slowed down, and nighttime was poppin'. I still see a few familiar faces here from time to time, but it's nothing like it was in its heyday. I feel sort of sad that so many of the more recent additions to the AH will never know or understand what this place used to be like.

So many ghosts just whispering from old threads...

Welcome back, Mrs D (or should that be TF ?).
There are a couple of threads with what might be called friendship: You might care to check out: The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 02: A Comma (is a Restful Pause), or even the Naked Lounge (if Molly is in or the Bear at home).

I still have one of your challenges to complete. It's a tricky one !

 

[carsonshepherd]

I logged back in here after, what, seven years? Still see familiar faces. Still have a story in the Top 10 after 11 years with 100+ comments. I miss some of the people I knew back then, but life does move on.

 

[toetyper]

so it looks like shania had some work done up top

 

[Handley_Page]

That's it, then. Summer's over.
The clouds have rolled in

 

[TheeGoatPig]

5 1/2 weeks until I'm in Florida. Hope this isn't the biggest mistake of my life...

 

[Handley_Page]

5 1/2 weeks until I'm in Florida. Hope this isn't the biggest mistake of my life...

Fingers crossed, mate.

 

[MagicaPractica]

You're still going to therapy, I don't care how much 'better' you feel.

 

[Handley_Page]

You're still going to therapy, I don't care how much 'better' you feel.

#And that's important, right ?

Care for a cup of Tea, Mags ?

 

[Handley_Page]

I just found out my motorbike has a new owner. Perhaps it was real love—a garage door, the steering lock and a thick chain couldn’t stop them from running away together. Who needs keys these days...

I wish my bike many miles of cruising in the sun—the new owner, not so much…

Good Luck with its recovery - or maybe dealing with the Insurers.

 

[rjordan]

I just found out my motorbike has a new owner. Perhaps it was real love—a garage door, the steering lock and a thick chain couldn’t stop them from running away together. Who needs keys these days...

I wish my bike many miles of cruising in the sun—the new owner, not so much…

I had a 1975 Honda 750 stolen when it had about 1000 miles on it. Wedged between four parked cars with a big chain. The cops stopped four guys in a Chevy Impala with a near new Honda 750 in the open trunk. I guess it looked a little suspicious. The four of them had lifted it up and thrown it in the trunk. They were headed to a chop shop so didn't care about scratches. I recovered it later the next day.

Locks and chains keep honest people honest for a little longer.

rj

 

[MagicaPractica]

#And that's important, right ?

Care for a cup of Tea, Mags ?

It is never easy to see the benefits of therapy.

At a distance--time wise or as a different person--yes, than it's crystal clear, but when it concerns you, at this moment, ...

All the best

Thanks, guys. I have the sense that once he started talking he decompressed and I no longer have to worry about him doing anything rash, right now, but I am vastly relieved that he has readily agreed to go to therapy.

 

[Handley_Page]

Thanks, guys. I have the sense that once he started talking he decompressed and I no longer have to worry about him doing anything rash, right now, but I am vastly relieved that he has readily agreed to go to therapy.

Let us hope that his therapist is a good one who challenges his misconceptions (whatever they are).
Thoughts & Prayers, Mags.



PS. <sniff, sniff>
I got to sell my Zenza Bronica camera.
It's beautiful and chunky and works a treat, but I'm getting more used to my Digital SLR.

 

[oggbashan]

Today my wife and I visited an extensive garden only open Wednesdays and Sundays until the end of September. Inside a modern two storey crennelated folly, built in the last decade of the 20th Century, we sat on a historic wooden bench seat that is dated 1619. It is amazing that the public are allowed to use a bench that old, and that it is in open arcading, protected from rain but not from extremes of heat or cold.

We went on to visit a redundant church - St Catherine's at Kingsdown, Kent. It is miles from the nearest town. It isn't as old as it looks. It was built in 1864/7 for a local population of only 96 people. The architect was Edward Welby Pugin, son of his more famous architect father. Edward Welby Pugin was a Catholic and St Catherine's is his only complete Anglican Church. Because it is so remote and relatively modern it has very few visitors but it is worth finding because it is unusual in being the work of a single architect.

http://www.lynsted-society.co.uk/Library/Properties/Kingsdown_Church_of_St_Catherine.html

https://www.visitchurches.org.uk/visit/church-listing/st-catherine-kingsdown.html

But Pugin's name isn't prominent. In the West Window there are a set of stained glass windows (by Pugin) commemorating the benefactor Lord Kingsdown (a very successful Victorian lawyer) who paid for the new church.

In the visitors' book there are visitors from all over the world including the Pitcairn Islands. Why? Many come because it is so hard to find.

 

[trysail]

http://www.weather.bm/maps/bwswtnt21.jpg?201798124930

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[china-doll]

This place will never again be what it was back in the early-mid 2000's. Friendly, familiar faces like Tatelou and Perdita, Colleen and minsue, lovers like destinie21 and RenzaJones, and good friends like Abs and vella. Coming back to Lit in 2017 is like visiting your old high school after everyone you know has graduated. Now it's just full of strangers.

This place was the most magical retreat for a barely legal like me fresh out of high school. Home life was horrible, so I escaped to Lit, where there was great camaraderie in the AH. Names on here became as familiar as family, or at least as recognizable. Log on in the morning, see all the same regulars in ABSTRUSIONS for their morning coffee, mid-day slowed down, and nighttime was poppin'. I still see a few familiar faces here from time to time, but it's nothing like it was in its heyday. I feel sort of sad that so many of the more recent additions to the AH will never know or understand what this place used to be like.

So many ghosts just whispering from old threads...

Some of old timers still lurk here from time to time.
~CD

 

[Handley_Page]

Some of old timers still lurk here from time to time.
~CD

Yes, and this one is grateful;
but it's sad when, upon feeling that I now know a bit, those who I enjoyed reading
are not seen much, if at all.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I exist when I need to, and even sometimes when I don't.

Is it weird that I am anxious to move down to Florida even though it is getting hit by a hurricane?

I still need to finalize where I will be living...

 

[MagicaPractica]

I exist when I need to, and even sometimes when I don't.

Is it weird that I am anxious to move down to Florida even though it is getting hit by a hurricane?

I still need to finalize where I will be living...

Yes, yes it is.

No. You've been talking about it for a long time. However, consider it may not be your final stop since sea levels are rising. At least look inland when you're looking for a place to live.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I also have to hope that my new job will still be there when the storm is over, and that any place where I would have lived will still be there.

And here I am being selfish in a time of crisis for others...

 

[trysail]

Naples Buoy

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/plot_wind_pres.php?station=npsf1&uom=E&time_diff=-4&time_label=EDT


Station NPSF1 - 8725110 - Naples, FL
RSS feed of recent meteorological observations for station NPSF1
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=npsf1


Owned and maintained by NOAA's National Ocean Service
Water Level Observation Network
26.132 N 81.807 W
(26°7'54" N 81°48'27" W)

Site elevation: 3.1 m above mean sea level
Air temp height: 6 m above site elevation
Anemometer height: 6.5 m above site elevation
Barometer elevation: 4.8 m above mean sea level
Sea temp depth: 1.3 m below MLLW




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[oggbashan]

Local auction - again.

I've just picked up today's auction purchases.

Most were ordinary:

4 large boxes of books with a significant number in French, German and Russian. After sorting I have reduced what I want to look at more closely to 1 box.

One 56 lb weight to anchor my gazebo. I have anchor points in the garden walls for three corners. The 56 lb will be great for the fourth corner.

And:

A box of 100 unused 'erotic' = porn DVDs. I had left the minimum bid of three pounds and everyone else was too embarrassed to bid. I know there are several duplicates in the box but they could provide many plot bunnies.