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Post by olroy2044 on Jun 16, 2015 14:45:41 GMT -5
Super-sized bumble-bee:
Canon 20D adapted Takumar-A 28-80 zoom ISO800 f8 1/3000 second 100% crop
These critters are so big they compete with the hummingbirds in my flowers!
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Post by Randy on Jul 4, 2015 14:34:55 GMT -5
Found this natural gas well in Dorset Ohio. Many people in the area take advantage of the gas wells and use them to heat their homes, power their vehicles, and run power generators. They call that living off the Grid.
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Post by philbirch on Jul 4, 2015 16:57:44 GMT -5
Not possible in UK. The gas is owned by someone. Same with water.
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Post by Stephen on Jul 4, 2015 18:52:43 GMT -5
Not possible in UK. The gas is owned by someone. Same with water. Not with water from a spring, if it is on your freehold property then you can use it, the reason I know is my current negotiation on a house near Malvern Wells, where the house comes with rights to the Malvern spring water. My families old farmhouse cottage in Tonbridge in Kent had a spring feeding a well in the yard outside the back door. If gas came from the ground on a freehold property then it could be gathered and used, but I think there are no areas that give such gas in the UK. All other mineral and gas and coal rights do not belong to the land owner, they belong to the Crown estate, in other words the Government. I think there is an exception in the Forest of Dean, where miners have ancient rights to mine the land for Coal. Stephen.
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Post by philbirch on Jul 5, 2015 15:37:32 GMT -5
Perhaps you ought to speak to United Utitities
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Post by SidW on Jul 5, 2015 20:23:53 GMT -5
... They call that living off the Grid ... A belated question to Randy - how do they tap in, is it legal? The law is obviously different in different countries. We had a spring that we watered the garden from, but the council was responsible for draining the surplus (it was running like an open water tap/fawcet). Everyone thought a new railway would take the village wells, but it didn't. Then road works did, lowering a lane several feet to pass under the new railway hit what was driving our spring and flooded the village. Now the railway's pumping several thousands of litres of water every day, straight into the sea.
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Post by Randy on Jul 7, 2015 14:05:13 GMT -5
... They call that living off the Grid ... A belated question to Randy - how do they tap in, is it legal? The law is obviously different in different countries. We had a spring that we watered the garden from, but the council was responsible for draining the surplus (it was running like an open water tap/fawcet). Everyone thought a new railway would take the village wells, but it didn't. Then road works did, lowering a lane several feet to pass under the new railway hit what was driving our spring and flooded the village. Now the railway's pumping several thousands of litres of water every day, straight into the sea. Many of the wells here in Ohio were found when the owners had water wells drilled. You just hook up the pipe to it. Here in Ohio, what is on your property is yours. You can opt to sell the excess to Dominion.
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Post by SidW on Jul 7, 2015 17:12:32 GMT -5
Thanks Randy
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Post by barbarian on Jul 17, 2015 19:03:51 GMT -5
" T" is for " Toads and Frogs."
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Post by philbirch on Jul 17, 2015 19:23:53 GMT -5
another collection! My wife's is Owls.
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Post by philbirch on Jul 17, 2015 19:56:37 GMT -5
V for Very old money. This is a three pence coin (AKA Threpenny bit or thruppence) It was discontinued in 1967, as were the penny, half penny, sixpence , shilling, two-shilling, half a crown and ten shilling note. Replaced in 1971 with our decimal currency. For your information 12 pennies (pence) was a shilling and twenty shillings (bob) made a pound. so Two shillings and sixpence (2/6) plus 19 shillings and elevenpence (19/11) plus one pound four shillings and seven pence (£1-4-7) added up to Two pounds seven shillings £2-7-00. according to my calculations more about British old money. Australia and South Africa had the same system but went metric years earlier. Decimal is so much easier
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Post by mickeyobe on Jul 18, 2015 5:22:04 GMT -5
another collection! My wife's is Owls. Live or stuffed? Mickey
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Post by barbarian on Jul 18, 2015 21:28:47 GMT -5
"WHO stuffed that white owl?" No one spoke in the shop: The barber was busy, and he couldn't stop; The customers, waiting their turns, were all reading The "Daily," the "Herald," the "Post," little heeding The young man who blurted out such a blunt question; Not one raised a head, or even made a suggestion; And the barber kept on shaving.
"Don't you see, Mister Brown," Cried the youth, with a frown, "How wrong the whole thing is, How preposterous each wing is, How flattened the head is, how jammed down the neck is-- In short, the whole owl, what an ignorant wreck 't is! I make no apology; I've learned owl-eology. I've passed days and nights in a hundred collections, And cannot be blinded to any deflections Arising from unskilful fingers that fail To stuff a bird right, from his beak to his tail. Mister Brown! Mister Brown! Do take that bird down, Or you'll soon be the laughing-stock all over town!" And the barber kept on shaving.
"I've studied owls, And other night fowls, And I tell you What I know to be true: An owl cannot roost With his limbs so unloosed; No owl in this world Ever had his claws curled, Ever had his legs slanted, Ever had his bill canted, Ever had his neck screwed Into that attitude. He can't do it, because 'T is against all bird-laws. Anatomy teaches, Ornithology preaches An owl has a toe That can't turn out so! I've made the white owl my study for years, And to see such a job almost moves me to tears! Mister Brown, I'm amazed You should be so gone crazed As to put up a bird In that posture absurd! To look at that owl really brings on a dizziness; The man who stuffed him don't half know his business!" And the barber kept on shaving.
"Examine those eyes. I'm filled with surprise Taxidermists should pass Off on you such poor glass; So unnatural they seem They'd make Audubon scream, And John Burroughs laugh To encounter such chaff. Do take that bird down; Have him stuffed again, Brown!" And the barber kept on shaving.
"With some sawdust and bark I could stuff in the dark An owl better than that. I could make an old hat Look more like an owl Than that horrid fowl, Stuck up there so stiff like a side of coarse leather. In fact, about him there's not one natural feather."
Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl, very gravely, got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic, And then fairly hooted, as if he should say: "Your learning's at fault this time, any way; Don't waste it again on a live bird, I pray. I'm an owl; you're another. Sir Critic, good-day!" And the barber kept on shaving. James T. Fields
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Post by philbirch on Jul 19, 2015 23:13:06 GMT -5
Mickey: wood. Great poem!
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Post by mickeyobe on Jul 20, 2015 4:28:38 GMT -5
Mickey: wood. Great poem! Philbirch, The poem is the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Barbarian. I agree it is great. Shakespeare must be envious. Mickey
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