Thread: Where did you go today?

Definitely a contrast in physiques between the white and black fellas.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Definitely a contrast in physiques between the white and black fellas.

Which physique gives you the horn the most?

I'd have to go for Winston on the left. Not convinced that's a putter.

Nice Golf course DW. After a good day of golf, the club house after is quite relaxing.

^Hope your wife is doing well BB. Medical care in Seoul is pretty high quality from what I understand.

^^^^Where is this Willy? I did not know you were a golfer.



The butcher birds were harassing FF2 after yesty's BBQ when I awoke, and disrupting her art creation. She is a talented sketch artist.

She won the confidence of the feathered mob, overcoming some initial hesitancy at the impatient tone they were displaying after being offered only crisps, while I was asleep, instead of their preferred hot-dogs

She is easy to cater for at short notice, before we stepped out, being satisfied with a bowl of instant mie-goreng

We took the scenic route back to the station to drop her off with a kangaroo safari

Her AI phone accurately communicated her approximately correct guess that these were 'young males competing for conjugal rights', as it very formally translated

We took a promenade by the lake

And a wedge-tailed eagle flew overhead (I was a bit slow with the phone camera)

Her Apple AI ensured that, unlike the dry riverbed, the conversation flowed with abundance

I found a tiny amphibian.

Even hideous cane toads look cute when they are babies.

Lovely place, lovely nature, lovely time, with a lovely woman. What else could a man Lulu.



What I'd do to still be living in Australia.

Local course. I’m a hacker.

I hit a 12 on the first. My first hit was a horrible duff and on so due blokes refused to allow me a mulligan, which is really not golf. Imagine they surprise when I parred the 2nd.

Fukin dodgy geezer . See you in Thailand soon.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Local course. I’m a hacker.

I hit a 12 on the first. My first hit was a horrible duff and on so due blokes refused to allow me a mulligan, which is really not golf. Imagine they surprise when I parred the 2nd.

Imagine having so few friends that you post about your golf outing to a bunch of strangers.

Originally Posted by Simon43

Due to the curvature of the Earth, the required antenna dish elevation angle is just 4 degrees, and at my home the nearby hills and mountains obscure my line of sight

I think you might be sailing close to the wind pursuing this kind of hobby in a repressive tinpot dictatorship Simon, but the best of luck to you.

I think you already got in some hot water with this in either Myanmar or Laos, I can't remember. But any coppers/security types are maybe not so smart in a backward backwater and could easily think you are up to something well nefarious.

Anyway we don't want to see you get banged up before these page-turning memoirs are penned and published!

Originally Posted by Edmond

Definitely a contrast in physiques between the white and black fellas.

Back in the day, all the black fellas were caddies for 50 kwacha.


Is that Chilanga Golf club KW?

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Back in the day, all the black fellas were caddies for 50 kwacha.


Is that Chilanga Golf club KW?

Different location.

Originally Posted by armstrong

Imagine having so few friends that you post about your golf outing to a bunch of strangers.

Imagine having such a sad life that you assume everyone else also posting on a forum has equally few friends.

Originally Posted by Looper

I think you might be sailing close to the wind pursuing this kind of hobby in a repressive tinpot dictatorship Simon, but the best of luck to you.

I think you already got in some hot water with this in either Myanmar or Laos, I can't remember. But any coppers/security types are maybe not so smart in a backward backwater and could easily think you are up to something well nefarious.

Anyway we don't want to see you get banged up before these page-turning memoirs are penned and published!

The challenge of ham radio is to successfully operate from a tinpot dictatorship without being thrown in the clink...

In both Myanmar and Laos I always operate 100% legally, but of course the local plod has no clue about ham radio, weird antennas and a radio transmitter. I did get in hot water from this very house in Luang Prabang a few years ago, and I had lots of police raiding the house over the course of a few days. I think the worst that can happen is that they deport me

Originally Posted by Looper

Fujian ladies always bring tea.

Her English is not hilariously bad, it is non-existent.

Any chance of seeing your rapekit?

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

Any chance of seeing your rapekit?

Yep, I’ll bet that does not get a mention on his Tinder profile

A bucolic winter cycle by the lake where the proud parents were promenading with their cygnets

The kangaroos were enjoying some winter sun

A Nigelesque afternoon

This fella was practising his meditation

Don't know where this young'un has been sticking his nasty kangaroo-maggot but he might want to see a doctor

FF1 hoved into view in her spanky M-Sport

Playing hide and seek with the kangaroos

I was just telling her about the cygnets when speak of the devil...

Cute little things in their fluffy coats

Back home for a steaming winter bath and the last of this year's peppery hot broth to warm the cockles

FF2 chipped in with a Tiramisu which was wolfed in short order

Originally Posted by Looper

I really like that 'short skirt / long socks' combo Looper. It does something for me.

On her that is, not you.


Anyway, today we visited the 'Jurassic Coast' in Dorset.

This is the world famous Lyme Regis, a renowned fossil hunting location.



Unfortunately I left my geological hammers in Korat so we had to wing it and just look for small fossil cephalopods that can be found amongst the pebbles on the beach. We were further frustrated by the vast amount of amateur grockles cluttering the beach, screaming kids and all, most of which wouldn't know an ammonite from an arsehole. They just wander about, smashing rocks on the ground and banging away with with cheap building hammers and are an embarrassment. I strongly believe that you shouldn't be allowed on this beach unless you hold a degree in Geology.



An experienced eye can spot fossilised ammonite death assemblages such as this.



These ammonites are from the Lower Lias, around 190 million years old. The fossil brachiopod I found last week at the top of Crook Peak in the Mendip Hills was contained in Carboniferous limestone, around 350 million years old, so approximately twice as old as these ammonites at Lyme Regis. In fact, that brachiopod fossil was already 160 million years old when these ammonites were swimming around.

It makes you think.

The daughter found this today... I didn't get much luck to be honest. The bastard tourists annoyed me and put me off.



Here's the daughter walking along the base of the cliffs at West Bay, to the east of Lime Regis. The cliffs are mainly sandstone (Bridport Sand Formation) that is younger than the geology at Lyme Regis, and for various reasons contain few fossils. The more resistant calcareous layers represent changes in conditions of a cyclic nature, probably warmer, lower energy and deeper water... and these beds represent many million years of time.

It makes you realise how insignificant we are in the scheme of things in terms of time... human's time on earth would be a few millimeters in the geological record represented by this cliff. Yet we have had such an impact in those few 'millimetres' of time.



Geology is what it's all about.



This professor was at Southampton Uni when I did my degree and is/was an expert on the geology at Lyme Regis. As with anything, you can go as detailed as you want. This could have been me in another life... I have some envy although I bet I have more enjoyable passport renewals.

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Originally Posted by Mendip

I strongly believe that you shouldn't be allowed on this beach unless you hold a degree in Geology.

So you are on an expedition, I thought you were on vacation.

Originally Posted by Mendip

around 350 million years old, so approximately twice as old as these ammonites

I love the cosmic time epochs involved in this stuff.

It is awe-inspiring in the true sense of the word. In a similar way to star gazing.

I have a few polished ammonites but I might be in the market for a trilobite.

I am just rewatching David Attenborough's First Life from 2010 at the moment.

What will it be like when he is gone?

Who will do the voice overs on the BBC nature docos?

Can they get an AI DA with sampled voice envelope to do the magic?