Author Topic: Just Because (Unclassifiable Photos) (Read 167061 times)

Salvatore · « **Reply #400 on:** 31 March, 2022, 03:01:36 pm »

A bit more obvious in this bigger droplet a few feet away. The leaf appears to be trapped inside.

Jakob · « **Reply #401 on:** 03 June, 2022, 09:58:37 am »

Drove back from Calgary earlier this week and snapped these on the way:

Snakehips · « **Reply #402 on:** 03 June, 2022, 10:56:39 am »

Photo taken at the time of the recent State Opening of Parliament

Diver300 · « **Reply #403 on:** 05 June, 2022, 04:34:59 pm »

Quote from: Diver300 on 01 July, 2021, 07:38:28 pm

I have no explanation for this, from an industrial estate in Coventry.

I think that I just saw this on the TV from the Platinum Jubilee parade. It was behind the Lady Godiva puppet from Coventry.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #404 on:** 05 June, 2022, 04:48:48 pm »

There was an enormous female puppet on a low-loader causing everyone to slow down and gawp on the M25 yesterday, but happily she disappeared onto the M4. I think that might have been Lady G. She certainly had her kit off, the ~~brass husky~~ brazen hussy.

T42 · « **Reply #405 on:** 01 August, 2022, 01:37:30 pm »

19th-century hardware removed from our fallen barn door:

Pingu · « **Reply #406 on:** 12 August, 2022, 11:17:45 pm »

Still life on a Furryboottoon charabanc.

IMG_0438_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Jaded · « **Reply #407 on:** 17 August, 2022, 08:14:06 pm »

Still life on a doorstep

Jurek · « **Reply #408 on:** 17 August, 2022, 08:24:27 pm »

Quote from: Jaded on 17 August, 2022, 08:14:06 pm

Still life on a doorstep

Was that taken in Swindon?

Basil · « **Reply #409 on:** 17 August, 2022, 08:29:03 pm »

There's a house here where I assume they don't get on with their neighbours. They have that gnome on their fence mooning at them.

orienteer · « **Reply #410 on:** 17 August, 2022, 09:37:57 pm »

On the opposite bank of a local riverside walk, private gardens slope down to the riverbank. One house has a gnome flashing his coat open....

T42 · « **Reply #411 on:** 13 October, 2022, 11:01:46 am »

From a ride last week:

It's a kind of gourd. Couldn't put that on FB because gourde is the equivalent of the English dumb cow.

NB the surreptitious back-shooter

The French Tandem · « **Reply #412 on:** 13 October, 2022, 05:27:01 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 13 October, 2022, 11:01:46 am

It's a kind of gourd. Couldn't put that on FB because gourde is the equivalent of the English dumb cow.

Yebbut a gourd in French is a courge, which has no negative or offensive meaning. A gourde is basically a water container made from the stomach of a dead animal, but some people use it for any water container. For the reason you mention, I hate when local cyclists use gourde for a water bottle. I can't resist the urge to tell them No, it's not a gourde, it's a bidon!

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T42 · « **Reply #413 on:** 20 November, 2022, 10:50:17 am »

Quote from: The French Tandem on 13 October, 2022, 05:27:01 pm

Quote from: T42 on 13 October, 2022, 11:01:46 am
It's a kind of gourd. Couldn't put that on FB because gourde is the equivalent of the English dumb cow.

Yebbut a gourd in French is a courge, which has no negative or offensive meaning. A gourde is basically a water container made from the stomach of a dead animal, but some people use it for any water container. For the reason you mention, I hate when local cyclists use gourde for a water bottle. I can't resist the urge to tell them No, it's not a gourde, it's a bidon!

A

Just saw this. Yes, it may also be that. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gourde I have no problems with gourde meaning bidon, it's figurative and as old as the hills.

A chum used to have a Haitian banknote with a pic of Papa Doc on it, surmounting the legend "Une Gourde".

T42 · « **Reply #414 on:** 20 November, 2022, 10:58:15 am »

One from yesterday's ride:

There's an old gatehouse off to one side and nothing but a clearing in the forest beyond.

Jakob · « **Reply #415 on:** 02 December, 2022, 03:56:34 am »

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #416 on:** 14 December, 2022, 12:07:06 am »

When SCS Software added Texas to the available maps for American Truck Simulator a whole bunch of space gubbins came with it. I doned a Bad Thing:

The original:

The revised version:

Swapping the shuttle for Muskrat's face was too much effort for this time of night.

Pingu · « **Reply #417 on:** 29 January, 2023, 08:49:58 pm »

IMG_3180_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

IMG_3188_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

tonyh · « **Reply #418 on:** 29 January, 2023, 09:26:13 pm »

T42 · « **Reply #419 on:** 30 January, 2023, 07:46:30 am »

Hope that's outside the house.

Kim · « **Reply #420 on:** 30 January, 2023, 01:12:27 pm »

It'd make good wallpaper for a downstairs loo.

Jakob · « **Reply #421 on:** 08 February, 2023, 07:26:52 am »

Busy aurora night!.

Peter · « **Reply #422 on:** 10 February, 2023, 04:52:43 pm »

Quote from: Salvatore on 31 March, 2022, 03:01:36 pm

A bit more obvious in this bigger droplet a few feet away. The leaf appears to be trapped inside.

J, I've only just noticed this! It's beautiful and made me think instantly of a poem The Railway Children by Seamus Heaney - do you know it? I think you'd appreciate it!

https://poemsontheunderground.org/the-railway-children-2

T42 · « **Reply #423 on:** 11 February, 2023, 07:52:47 am »

Quote from: Salvatore on 31 March, 2022, 03:01:36 pm

... made me think instantly of a poem The Railway Children by Seamus Heaney - do you know it? I think you'd appreciate it!

https://poemsontheunderground.org/the-railway-children-2

We used to throw stones at the telegraph wires, because on the rare occasions that we hit one the zing! would shoot away either side. There was never any visible damage. The railway was disused, too, so no chance of hitting a train.

There used to be signs up threatening fines of 40 shillings for trespass on railway property. Wish I'd nicked one, it'd be grand to have now. Couldn't reach them though.

Peter · « **Reply #424 on:** 11 February, 2023, 09:33:27 am »

Spent an awful lot of my youth playing on railway lines! There were trains on them in those days, too!