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Muddy Cyclist said:
@dunelm Thanks for appreciation of the Kestral.

From you the wonderful Dolomites, a grand mountain drawing and gave me some good memories.

Hug for the worries your sisters situation is causing, so many suffering in these difficult times.
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Thank’s @Muddy Cyclist - I rode my motorcycle through the Dolomites just a few years ago - smashing but not a patch on walking and climbing.
 
lindisfel said:
The mountains to the west had not much snow on them yesterday, but it looked thick on Helvellyn and the Pennines near Cross fell.
There was a temperature inversion
View attachment 46029 with frost here but +3 deg C at 600 feet.
Here are a some views around Skiddaw.
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Great winter photo’s - I just hope that that the unprepared are not tramping up striding edge in their fancy trainers. The eastern rim on Helvellyn overlooking Red Tarn gathers a good amount of snow cornice that to the unwary looks like firm ground.
 
dunelm said:
Great winter photo’s - I just hope that that the unprepared are not tramping up striding edge in their fancy trainers. The eastern rim on Helvellyn overlooking Red Tarn gathers a good amount of snow cornice that to the unwary looks like firm ground.
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I swam in Red Tarn in 1976 summer.

They have three guys check the top of Helvellyn in the winter months, every day one goes up and puts the conditions and needs on the net. Plus pictures.
I know their worried, there were loads of idiots this last summer needed help.
One wouldnt use Striding Edge without knowing how to use crampons and an ice axe, I was never up to it. It was bad enough walking up to transmitters in winter.
D.
 
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lindisfel said:
One wouldnt use Striding Edge without knowing how to use crampons and an ice axe
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I walked it about 10 years back and remember having to wait in line as so many where attempting it and I felt over dressed in walking boots and clobber, some people have no idea of the dangers.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
I walked it about 10 years back and remember having to wait in line as so many where attempting it and I felt over dressed in walking boots and clobber, some people have no idea of the dangers.
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It is not an easy walk, even in summer!
Swirrel is much more amenable to those who value their limbs.
I once took three youngsters up Striding Edge and one was very frightened coming off the edge climbing down to cross the gap to climb up onto the main mass of Helvellyn.
D.
 
dunelm said:
Great winter photo’s - I just hope that that the unprepared are not tramping up striding edge in their fancy trainers. The eastern rim on Helvellyn overlooking Red Tarn gathers a good amount of snow cornice that to the unwary looks like firm ground.
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Thanks Dunhelm, that would be a long drop falling over where the Circ glacier was at the end of the Ice Age!
D.
 
ianpspurs said:
You would be more than welcome and Mr K even more so. Please fill his hip flask and be a good gel and drive. He may also need some "German milk" in his tea or coffee. Jamesons works a treat for that kind of medicine.
ETA: German milk was my grandfather's phrase which he claimed he picked up in the trenches during WW1. Fine by me. BTW, he was full of admiration for the Salvation Army who he claimed were the only ones to bring tea to the trenches - I doubt they added German milk:angelic:
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In the end Mr K gave me special dispensation to wear the warm coat he bought me for Christmas so I didn't need to borrow your heated coat. My new coat was so much warmer than my current coats.

I think he would very much like German milk in his coffee. I also doubt if the Salvation Army added it to the tea they took to soldiers in the trenches - but how brilliant that they did that.

Mr K is happy. England won their game of Rugby.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
In the end Mr K gave me special dispensation to wear the warm coat he bought me for Christmas so I didn't need to borrow your heated coat. My new coat was so much warmer than my current coats.

I think he would very much like German milk in his coffee. I also doubt if the Salvation Army added it to the tea they took to soldiers in the trenches - but how brilliant that they did that.

Mr K is happy. England won their game of Rugby.
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All sounds good. If Farrell could kick I could have eaten my evening meal and watched the build up to the NLD comfortably.
 
dunelm said:
That would me marvellous - rugby and whisky - can’t say too much about it right now - agencies as far away as Japan may be watching and they have already dropped the letter ‘e’ from their whisky and it has leaked into Scotland already.
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Mr K is very happy - Rugby this afternoon and whisky tonight. I never know whether it should be whisky or whiskey.

Just remembered a very funny incident when children were young. We went to a friend's sisters wedding and let daughters have just one sip of champagne. Mr K was driving so he didn't even have one sip of champagne as he was driving.

A few weeks later I was at a parents evening at youngest daughters school. I was horrified to read her account of the day in one of her school books. 'Daddy got drunk and I had whisky '.

When I questioned her she said that she couldn't spell champagne which was why she wrote whisky. it's funny to look back on it now but at the time I was mortified that her teacher must have read it.
 
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Krystyna23040 said:
Mr K is very happy - Rugby this afternoon and whisky tonight. I never know whether it should be whisky or whiskey.

Just remembered a very funny incident when children were young. We went to a friend's sisters wedding and let daughters have just one sip of champagne. Mr K was driving so he didn't even have one sip of champagne as he was driving.

A few weeks later I was at a parents evening at youngest daughters school. I was horrified to read her account of the day in one of her school books. 'Daddy got drunk and I had whisky '.

When I questioned her she said that she couldn't spell champagne which was why she wrote whisky. it's funny to look back on it now but at the time I was mortified that her teacher must have read it.
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I've read and heard worse from students. Often had to bite my tongue and not ask awkward questions at parents evening. Good day all round England win rugby and Spurs win NLD. AFAIC whisky is scotch and whiskey is Irish and American but I need to carry out further research. A guy called Jameson will help me tonight.
 
Seems poetry is inspirational today..I came across a Haiku poem not sure by whome. A few evenings back a white flash of an Owl made Mrs MC and I jump startled as it swooped over the hedge when out walking Moet so this poem inspired tonights scribble...
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No painting, can't get in my Art Studio. We have too much furniture our Kitchen Pine Dresser, Table and Chairs, Church Bench and the Hall Victorian Rose Wood Table are all piled in the access or in my studio, going to be a long week until floor is fitted.
 
I'm posting bigly today. Anyhow, the poem today is an excerpt from The Ballad of the white horse by G K Chesterton which is available here in full. The section today was from Book 4 - for context, basically the famous burning the cakes event - starting
"And well may God with the serving-folk" and ending "That, labouring, lifts the world." Similar theme - serving in the background to yesterday. Also pertinent to the key workers/ those we really rely upon theme and ideas touched upon earlier by @lindisfel. I like that this links to The Last Kingdom which I really enjoyed and never having read the whole poem I shall research the quality or young Jamesons' product and read it all. Not exactly a suffering servant but there ya go.
 
ianpspurs said:
I've read and heard worse from students. Often had to bite my tongue and not ask awkward questions at parents evening. Good day all round England win rugby and Spurs win NLD. AFAIC whisky is scotch and whiskey is Irish and American but I need to carry out further research. A guy called Jameson will help me tonight.
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I can well imagine that you got some very interesting essays from your students and I suppose daughter's teacher also had read far worse from her students.

Ah - now I understand the difference between whisky and whiskey. Hope Jameson helped you with your research tonight. Mr K is watching snooker at the moment but I am sure glass of whisky (or whiskey) will appear soon.
 
ianpspurs said:
Sounds like you and Julie are being funded by the same Think Tank. I don't buy that much she says - so how come with the last order Nespresso sent another complete outfit? My own fault for saying of course dear when on last year's John Lewis raid. Lockdown/sensible behaviour has some good points.:angelic:
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That is exactly what I say to Mr K but I am sure he has his suspicions as the boxes of Nespresso are delivered quite regularly.
I well remember his shock when one time I left a receipt for my hairdressers by the shredder. He had no idea that my one trip to the hairdresser virtually cost the same as a whole year of his haircuts.
 
RFSMarch said:
Ring doorbell just paid for itself as I see that Cave Dweller never answers the door so I manage to intercept anAmazon delivery driver and told
Him to use the box behind him (as per the **** directions) ... then HIS Swipey machine wouldn’t
Scan! All from the car park in Carshalton! I feel technologically smug now.

Day can only get better, right?
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That is brilliant. You are right to feel technologically smug now.
 
ianpspurs said:
All sounds good. If Farrell could kick I could have eaten my evening meal and watched the build up to the NLD comfortably.
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Mr K can be a very vocal spectator when he watches Rugby on TV so even though I was in the conservatory I heard exactly what his feelings were when Farrell messed up.
 
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