Sad to leave...but great to be on our way...now estimating 7 hours and 44 minutes ...
The equation. Greed: fat cat pocket bulge+cronyism= 130,000 UK dead so far. That'll be a knighthood and/or a Life Peerage then.
Oh goodness Karen Sending hugs your way...In awe of all those who have to manage insulin...
Thank you @Muddy Cyclist. Yes, Beech walking is a key skill when Nanook is skirting the top of Hudson Bay in search of Snarks.A strong mountain sunrise drawing from you today, lots of depth and nice colour washes. I do like the detail in the foreground wash.
Gosh yo breed em tuff up North. 80 mile assisted Beech walk by girl in the bubble, impressive.
Smashing photo of the 747 - enjoy the flight and I hope that your cabin crew pay grade is as high as the flight pathAs the old song goes, I've left on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again.
Departed a little earlier than projected, 4 hours into flight estimating Blighty I'm told in 8¼ hours from now - perhaps a touch sooner as we're cruising higher than conventional airliners and a touch faster I'm told at Mach 0.91.
Hamish or Wan as he is really known, waved me off up those stairs and I'm sure he waited as he said to watch the silver bird climb away into partially mottled skies turning on her heading taking me home.
FBG this morning was 7.0 - likely stress from last minute meetings and a fitful sleep. Slept deeply on board for 4 hours or so and have just eaten breakfast of eggs, smoked salmon, Greek yoghurt. Will stab the finger later...
Took the guys on the flight deck their coffees and managed to catch a 747 freighter underneath us powering on her way to Hong Kong I believe. The joys of non-commercial travel.
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Thank you for the bright coloured idea, now I wonder where I can get them from? Internetty here we come.
. @Muddy Cyclist my hunch about your fbg is your helpful liver assess your active lifestyle as in need of a boost in the mornings. @geefull I will let you know about whey protein isolate probably as a shake. Morning coffee would probably spook me too much.
Cabin crew are 2 amazing ladies. Flight deck the same (one of whom is the Captain) and a bloke to keep me company who is the relief pilot. 6 of us in all speeding north west on a great circle...still catching time - 6 hours 40 is the latest estimate which they tell me will start to extend as they slow and descend, but still, pretty darned brill. Let's hope GWR is as good getting me home to be attacked by Gerald the cat
thanks BRSBRI X
Thanks @geefullgood evening all
4.4 yesterday and 4.3 today
quite a mixed day of rain and sharp showers, never seen so many rainbows in one day
I'm all out of whack, don't know how international travellers manage the time shifts, it takes me days to get used to the clocks changing by an hour
Hope your day is treating you well
@gennepher two interesting and pleasing pictures from you again, the figure in the first looks challenging and enigmatic and the in the second rather wistful, although more hopeful with that lovely golden glow in the sky
@dunelm - a strikiing and fine picture of High Force, though the rope crawl sounds fiendish
@BRSBRI - I'm very much enjoying the vicarious travelling experiences, thank you for sharing
@ianpspurs - interesting, I hadn't thought of using whey protein for breakfast like that (or as a drink) though I do use unflavoured and vanilla in my baking sometimes. I shall be interested in your feedback on how you feel it works for you
@Muddy Cyclist - I'm afraid I like it tooit's interesting that now you've completed it the palette feels rather cooler but still feels airy.
@lindisfel - today we saw a beautiful yellow hammer and what I think was a reed bunting in the garden
art bit - my version of an image by an artist named Mike Ibbotson, I like his strong graphic style plus I wanted to try out my rigger brush
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Brilliant @BRSBRIWhen I reminded them about my diabetes they were horrified. What a lovely thought for tomorrow nevertheless by the crew. Gobsmacked. So, sharing it between the 5 of them with their coffee and me sipping a glass of fizzy wine instead...not quite pub opening hours in normal times unless it's a Wetherspoons of course...so justification in my head has occurred
Wan has emailed me and said "Haste ye Back". Only a few hours later... thousands of miles away heading for home. Still catching time...less than 6 hours from landing. We'll make UK landfall over Norfolk and descend cross country to deepest Hampshire from there.
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I love the second photo @BRSBRIAs the old song goes, I've left on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again.
Departed a little earlier than projected, 4 hours into flight estimating Blighty I'm told in 8¼ hours from now - perhaps a touch sooner as we're cruising higher than conventional airliners and a touch faster I'm told at Mach 0.91.
Hamish or Wan as he is really known, waved me off up those stairs and I'm sure he waited as he said to watch the silver bird climb away into partially mottled skies turning on her heading taking me home.
FBG this morning was 7.0 - likely stress from last minute meetings and a fitful sleep. Slept deeply on board for 4 hours or so and have just eaten breakfast of eggs, smoked salmon, Greek yoghurt. Will stab the finger later...
Took the guys on the flight deck their coffees and managed to catch a 747 freighter underneath us powering on her way to Hong Kong I believe. The joys of non-commercial travel.
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I'll ask the dumb non artist question. What does great depth mean in this context please?
