Thread: Where did you go today?

Originally Posted by Mendip

having to put up with doing that shit all day would do my head in.

I'm strictly on only 2 days a week. Actually down to 1 now.

I'm 'busy' from Wednesday evening to Tuesday afternoon. Which is quite unfortunate. Really. But, you know what us workaholics are like. All business business business, go, go, go.

^^^^Quite a scary looking roller-coaster... (from an HSE perspective!)

Ah shure, what's life without a little dismemberment.

Its a bit of a sanctuary this area, glad I landed here, definitely kept me sane. The Greyhound is still going strong but the food is shite, I think its a Youngs pub. If you ever come back try Rocca Di Papa Italian just next door. Not the best of Italians but its a nice setting and they always have a good house red.

Very scenic!

I remember one time a stranger invited me for a romantic walk in Dulwich Woods...

Making a start on the Christmas Day leftovers with the help of a lovely lady from Kanagawa Prefecture south west of Tokyo

She brought Vegan chocolate which I did not know even existed

And fruit salad. I think her picnic contribution was more bounteous than mine

She is a nature sprite and likes the feel of grass under her feet

The vegan chocolate had salted caramel crumbles in it which went a long way to redeeming it from a low score

She reckoned I looked like Jean Paul Sartre with her glasses on (I thought this was a great complement until I looked up a photo of Jean Paul Sartre on Google later on)

She prudently said she was going home at the end of the feast but was busting for a pee. So I cunningly put her under the false impression that there were no public toilets in the vicinity and that she should come back to mine to try my Santa toilet

She declared it very festive but requested that I put some music on so I would not hear her delicate lady's tinkle. I put on the beautiful South but I was still able to hear her

Quicker than a flash while she was on the pan I had the BBQ lit so she was hypnotised my the wafting smoke and agreed to stay while I serenaded her.

We had played Perfect Day at the lake on her phone when she made the comment and I told her about the Lou Reed song. I then surprised myself by being able to play a stumbling version of it without looking up the chords.

The stars came out and she was goggle-smacked to crack eyes on the moons of Jupiter for the first time in her life

But no sight of Uranus and by the end of the night I was left with my Christmas snag in my hand as she bid me a fond farewell

A rather boring, non-eventful, but pleasant ride up to a jungle temple, mind you at that elevation it's more like a Western forest than tropical jungle.



Although in dire need, I didn't upgrade my wardrobe just yet.



You can kinda understand how a lonely cowboy stuck on the ranch may just. I mean, nice looking burgers with legs.











Around 10km off the main jungle road, 5km of which the googly-maps-car didn't dare venture onto. I'd park up and hike the last 5km if going there again.

Went to a London Scottish game Vs Doncaster. Took a beating but got a few Tunnocks out of it!

Dinner invitation to farting lady's beach apartment with garlic butter and bread to start. A novel change on toasted garlic bread.

Cab Sav for the aperitif

Lovely creamy tomato seafood marinara with some big prawns and a greek salad. I am coming back here.

She grows her own bean shoots in a layered kitchen bench garden, with each layer being a few days more mature than the next for eternally fresh greens.

No farting tonight but I discovered that she is a squirter. My first ever squirter to my knowledge. I have only seen this phenomenon on PornHub before.

^ So she pisses herself as well as farting

Endless perfect weather makes it hard to be content getting stuff done in the garden so gone for a hike in the hinterland

Saw a pademelon but they are shy sylvan creatures and I was too slow with my lens

Nobody on Mt Warning today since they banned climbing it for 'cultural reasons'.

What an absolutely glorious place to go hiking/mountain biking/luluing.

I just googled Mt Warning, and it's apparently the remnants of a volcano that was last active 23 million years ago. I must have passed it around 23 years ago on a Sydney to Magnetic Island road trip, and presumably on the way back again, but unfortunately was too young and, well, off me tweed to... well, anything.

Oh man if there was one thing I could change it would be not royally fudging up me opportunity of a life in Australia.



Still, Thailand's gain.

Great pics, cheers.

Sore legs today so an easy day in the garden to recover.

Originally Posted by Edmond

I just googled Mt Warning, and it's apparently the remnants of a volcano

If you turn on the relief filter in Google Maps you can see the 35km diameter circle of the remnant of the edge of the lava flow rim from the Tweed Volcano

Originally Posted by Edmond

that was last active 23 million years ago

Back when Diana Dors roamed the earth!

The diameter of the flow remnants is about 100km and is the largest erosion caldera in the southern hemisphere

Mt Warning is the remnant of the central plug right in the middle

That's some cool shiz.

I just turned on the relief filter (Terrain) on GM for the first time *blush* it's very interesting.