Oh well I am going to get one wrong sooner or later! Apparently not just one chronometer but 22 of them! Did someone get a ticking off?
It was Charles Darwin AND clocks, never put the two together before. Would that be alarming?
Roy
Oh well I am going to get one wrong sooner or later! Apparently not just one chronometer but 22 of them! Did someone get a ticking off?
It was Charles Darwin AND clocks, never put the two together before. Would that be alarming?
Roy
That's a hard Question to answer I live in Southern Ontario Canada Only inlet we have in Hamilton is Ouges inlet on the Hamilton bay area & the company that's near it keeps trying to fill it in. Wife & I are going to the Dundas Cactus festival today & maybe I can score another sunflower.
That's a hard Question to answer I live in Southern Ontario Canada Only inlet we have in Hamilton is Ouges inlet on the Hamilton bay area & the company that's near it keeps trying to fill it in. Wife & I are going to the Dundas Cactus festival today & maybe I can score another sunflower.
Hi Commodore, You had the expensive tour! Very nice.
Where my son lives the windows have a fine metal netting on every window to keep out the nasties. Across the water there are mosquitos but they do not often come across to him. However, if we see the swallows getting closer diving and dashing around the sky they are eating mosquitos and we move indoors.
Most times though you can sit and enjoy the pleasant evenings, and now and again they light the torches (parafin) in the garden which looks nice, a bit smoky but that gets rid of the mosquitos as well.
When you read about the less pleasant fauna my son says he has never seen any of them, you have to put up with the odd cockroach but when I stay over for a month I only see 2 or 3 at most.
On the plus side we have so many different birds some very noisy as well. They are a pleasure to watch.
I have a photo of looking out over his garden which I often put up for a Zoom meeting as background. Just after lockdown ended I was in Australia and had a committee meeting on Zoom. I had to get up for early dawn to attend and set myself up so the backdrop was as per the photo I had been using.
Part way through the meeting the local fishing boat passed through to get maybe my lunch that day. Our chairman suddenly went quiet and said is that one of your boats? I ducked away from the laptop camera and said, No its the real thing!
As a regular traveller to Oz now my holidays add up to 18 months elapsed time so far and over 3 weeks of sitting in aircraft seats. Well someone has to do it!
Roy
Hi Commodore, You had the expensive tour! Very nice.
Where my son lives the windows have a fine metal netting on every window to keep out the nasties. Across the water there are mosquitos but they do not often come across to him. However, if we see the swallows getting closer diving and dashing around the sky they are eating mosquitos and we move indoors.
Most times though you can sit and enjoy the pleasant evenings, and now and again they light the torches (parafin) in the garden which looks nice, a bit smoky but that gets rid of the mosquitos as well.
When you read about the less pleasant fauna my son says he has never seen any of them, you have to put up with the odd cockroach but when I stay over for a month I only see 2 or 3 at most.
On the plus side we have so many different birds some very noisy as well. They are a pleasure to watch.
I have a photo of looking out over his garden which I often put up for a Zoom meeting as background. Just after lockdown ended I was in Australia and had a committee meeting on Zoom. I had to get up for early dawn to attend and set myself up so the backdrop was as per the photo I had been using.
Part way through the meeting the local fishing boat passed through to get maybe my lunch that day. Our chairman suddenly went quiet and said is that one of your boats? I ducked away from the laptop camera and said, No its the real thing!
As a regular traveller to Oz now my holidays add up to 18 months elapsed time so far and over 3 weeks of sitting in aircraft seats. Well someone has to do it!
Roy
Hi Roycv
Many years ago my wife and I visited Australia. We stayed several days at a hotel that was on a coral atoll to see the Great Barrier Reef. We flew out to the place on a helicopter and sailed back to Cairns on a catamaran, it was a beautiful boat, maybe it was the same one?
We also visited Daintree, there we stayed in treehouse hotel. It was fabulous except I recall there were lots of mosquitoes. They seldom mention that kind of thing in the brochure. We also did an exciting nocturnal river tour. There were a lot of crocodiles in that river, shine a flashlight and their eyes reflect red. There were red eyes everywhere.
We like to travel and prefer to see natural things. In Tasmania we went to Kangaroo Island where we enjoyed seeing all kinds of wildlife. They have an aquatic animal which is a cross between a beaver and a duck, a platypus. Platypus's are monotremes, "mammals" that lay eggs. males have venomous spurs. It was great to see them in the wild.
Many years ago my wife and I visited Australia. We stayed several days at a hotel that was on a coral atoll to see the Great Barrier Reef. We flew out to the place on a helicopter and sailed back to Cairns on a catamaran, it was a beautiful boat, maybe it was the same one?
We also visited Daintree, there we stayed in treehouse hotel. It was fabulous except I recall there were lots of mosquitoes. They seldom mention that kind of thing in the brochure. We also did an exciting nocturnal river tour. There were a lot of crocodiles in that river, shine a flashlight and their eyes reflect red. There were red eyes everywhere.
We like to travel and prefer to see natural things. In Tasmania we went to Kangaroo Island where we enjoyed seeing all kinds of wildlife. They have an aquatic animal which is a cross between a beaver and a duck, a platypus. Platypus's are monotremes, "mammals" that lay eggs. males have venomous spurs. It was great to see them in the wild.
The sure way to succeed is, just try one more time
Some years pre-Covid I was in Oz and we went for a holiday and flew up to Cairns and stayed in Port Douglas. The GBR (Great Barrier Reef) is further away from the coast than you might think. We travelled in a large fast catamaran and it took 90 minutes.
It was a boat built for diving and swimming from and could cater for at least 70 people. They had 3 places where they could moor up and the transom dropped down to give easy access to the water.
I was snorkeling and the reef was very colouful and the fish ignored you, we had 3 different dive areas so suitably tired but happy afterwards. Altogether a good one to tick off your Bucket List. The crew were great and very watchful. One of our lady passengers looked like she was in trouble in the water and a lifeguard launched his power boat and was with her in 15 seconds. Most impressive!
When she was back on board and recovered I pulled her leg and said that it was many a girls dream to be rescued by a (very handsome) knight on a white charger as the rescue boat was that colour.
Not all 'fun' as we were paddling along the sea shore but trying to avoid the spikes of up coming mangrove trees, but the part that made me decide to end the paddle was a notice "Beware of the crocodiles".
Later enquiry elicited that none had been seen for several years but yes, they were around!
Further up there is the Daintree Rain forest, another 'must see'.
A year or so later we travelled to Tasmania, lovely place, and at the end of our visit we had a rather expensive high speed boat trip for an afternoon to see seals and dolphins. We struck lucky as we found ourselves in the middle of the largest 'pod' of dolphins that even the organisers had ever seen. Even more than David Attenburgh shows on TV!
Our boat was fast and the dolphins are genuinely playful and surf down the wake of the boat with you and looking up at you. At any one time there were at least 50 around us and they kept on coming. The boat captain was in awe and guessed at maybe a thousand altogether as they seem to take it in turns to be on the surface.
Yes, I have seen a duck billed platypus in the wild, a bit bigger than a squirrel!
Nice memories.
Roy
Some years pre-Covid I was in Oz and we went for a holiday and flew up to Cairns and stayed in Port Douglas. The GBR (Great Barrier Reef) is further away from the coast than you might think. We travelled in a large fast catamaran and it took 90 minutes.
It was a boat built for diving and swimming from and could cater for at least 70 people. They had 3 places where they could moor up and the transom dropped down to give easy access to the water.
I was snorkeling and the reef was very colouful and the fish ignored you, we had 3 different dive areas so suitably tired but happy afterwards. Altogether a good one to tick off your Bucket List. The crew were great and very watchful. One of our lady passengers looked like she was in trouble in the water and a lifeguard launched his power boat and was with her in 15 seconds. Most impressive!
When she was back on board and recovered I pulled her leg and said that it was many a girls dream to be rescued by a (very handsome) knight on a white charger as the rescue boat was that colour.
Not all 'fun' as we were paddling along the sea shore but trying to avoid the spikes of up coming mangrove trees, but the part that made me decide to end the paddle was a notice "Beware of the crocodiles".
Later enquiry elicited that none had been seen for several years but yes, they were around!
Further up there is the Daintree Rain forest, another 'must see'.
A year or so later we travelled to Tasmania, lovely place, and at the end of our visit we had a rather expensive high speed boat trip for an afternoon to see seals and dolphins. We struck lucky as we found ourselves in the middle of the largest 'pod' of dolphins that even the organisers had ever seen. Even more than David Attenburgh shows on TV!
Our boat was fast and the dolphins are genuinely playful and surf down the wake of the boat with you and looking up at you. At any one time there were at least 50 around us and they kept on coming. The boat captain was in awe and guessed at maybe a thousand altogether as they seem to take it in turns to be on the surface.
Yes, I have seen a duck billed platypus in the wild, a bit bigger than a squirrel!
@Phil. If she sold the seashells on Amazon it would still be a nautical question albeit a river. 🤣 Perhaps our new online marketplace shall be called Thames.com 🤣🤣
@Phil. If she sold the seashells on Amazon it would still be a nautical question albeit a river. 🤣 Perhaps our new online marketplace shall be called Thames.com 🤣🤣
@Roy. There seem to be an inate fear of the Russians. When the world swapped en mass from whatsapp to telegram we invited the South African RC boaters to join our new group on Telegram. Despite having far greater control on Telegram the Gauteng boaters objected to joining because Telegram was designed and owned by Russians. 🤣🤣🤣 Dasvidaniya!!! And in the words of Pink Floyd "if it wasnt for the nips being so good at building ships...."
@Roy. There seem to be an inate fear of the Russians. When the world swapped en mass from whatsapp to telegram we invited the South African RC boaters to join our new group on Telegram. Despite having far greater control on Telegram the Gauteng boaters objected to joining because Telegram was designed and owned by Russians. 🤣🤣🤣 Dasvidaniya!!! And in the words of Pink Floyd "if it wasnt for the nips being so good at building ships...."
Just another thought! The Russians were good at the wall building but overlooked the effect the wall would have of blocking out the light. On a holiday 10 years back staying at a Red Sea resort hotel, we met a lot of Russians who glared at us like aliens!
We also met several Russians who were English speakers who were permanently apologising for their compatriots behaviour.
When language is a barrier to communication it can be exploited to create dissent.
It appears, perhaps because of the Internet, that English is becoming a lot of peoples second language so it maybe that the English language may eventually wear down the several autocratic regimes that there are now.
In the mean time we hope for the best but also have to plan for worst.
Roy
Just another thought! The Russians were good at the wall building but overlooked the effect the wall would have of blocking out the light. On a holiday 10 years back staying at a Red Sea resort hotel, we met a lot of Russians who glared at us like aliens!
We also met several Russians who were English speakers who were permanently apologising for their compatriots behaviour.
When language is a barrier to communication it can be exploited to create dissent.
It appears, perhaps because of the Internet, that English is becoming a lot of peoples second language so it maybe that the English language may eventually wear down the several autocratic regimes that there are now.
In the mean time we hope for the best but also have to plan for worst.
Roy
August the 14th. 1961 was an interesting day, partly for me as I joined the company that would eventually enable me to finance my marriage, a family and a house and several hobbies, so no regrets there.
The other memorable thing was it was a Monday and the Russians had surprised us all with trying out their wall building skills over the weekend in Berlin.
As it turned out more in the nature of a zoological one to keep people in rather than to keep people out, they also seem impervious to history's mistakes as witness current events.
Just me!
Roy
August the 14th. 1961 was an interesting day, partly for me as I joined the company that would eventually enable me to finance my marriage, a family and a house and several hobbies, so no regrets there.
The other memorable thing was it was a Monday and the Russians had surprised us all with trying out their wall building skills over the weekend in Berlin.
As it turned out more in the nature of a zoological one to keep people in rather than to keep people out, they also seem impervious to history's mistakes as witness current events.
Hello Garth, that will be the international date line I expect. I have crossed it a few times but never noticed any effect.
I often wondered if there should be another 'balancing' one in the Atlantic. The usual one is such a long way to go just to avoid a bad day!
So I hope yesterday will be a good day for you and you look backward on tomorrow as a nice one.
Confused as ever,
Roy
Hello Garth, that will be the international date line I expect. I have crossed it a few times but never noticed any effect.
I often wondered if there should be another 'balancing' one in the Atlantic. The usual one is such a long way to go just to avoid a bad day!
So I hope yesterday will be a good day for you and you look backward on tomorrow as a nice one.
It's Aug. 14 at 9:34 PM so I answer Question of the day but I'm still one! day behind you all & if I wait till the 15th here every one sends e-mails to remind me to answer the question !!😋P.S.I didn't use AI on that question.
It's Aug. 14 at 9:34 PM so I answer Question of the day but I'm still one! day behind you all & if I wait till the 15th here every one sends e-mails to remind me to answer the question !!😋P.S.I didn't use AI on that question.
The song by Stingray I like best is Better the Devil you know...but I do remember the adventures of Stingray as a kid as well. Funny that this comes up after I watched 30 000 Leagues under the Sea starring Lorenzo Lamas just last night. 😁 Whos watching?
The song by Stingray I like best is Better the Devil you know...but I do remember the adventures of Stingray as a kid as well. Funny that this comes up after I watched 30 000 Leagues under the Sea starring Lorenzo Lamas just last night. 😁 Whos watching?
Hi all, I checked up on Google but no-one else is named Troy Tempest! Also he has not been born yet! 4th. January 2038 is his dob. I should live so long to find out.
Much as I liked the puppet figures used I really dislike the cartoon figures we see in too many films and adverts today. Every time I open my Kindle Fire there is a cartoon figure advertising something, one swipe removes it!
The number of films with AI (?) figures in is an immediate turn off for me. They only exist as 'numbers' in a computer programme. No personality and no human frailties, no getting thrown out of night clubs, no odd ideas, no disowning the family. I wonder who I am thinking about?
Anyone my age knew the answer so it must have had an impact and my kids loved it.
Roy
Hi all, I checked up on Google but no-one else is named Troy Tempest! Also he has not been born yet! 4th. January 2038 is his dob. I should live so long to find out.
Much as I liked the puppet figures used I really dislike the cartoon figures we see in too many films and adverts today. Every time I open my Kindle Fire there is a cartoon figure advertising something, one swipe removes it!
The number of films with AI (?) figures in is an immediate turn off for me. They only exist as 'numbers' in a computer programme. No personality and no human frailties, no getting thrown out of night clubs, no odd ideas, no disowning the family. I wonder who I am thinking about?
Anyone my age knew the answer so it must have had an impact and my kids loved it.
Roy
Hi Simple Sailor,
Wasn't John Barry also a band leader and song writer, 🤣🤣Midnight Cowboy, You Only live Twice and the James Bond Theme amongst others. 🤔😂. Sorry for my sad sense of humour. But being a music lover that was the first person that came into mind when I saw the answers to the question, and why put his name there. As I know very little about the American Navy. My dad was in the British Navy.
Hi Simple Sailor,
Wasn't John Barry also a band leader and song writer, 🤣🤣Midnight Cowboy, You Only live Twice and the James Bond Theme amongst others. 🤔😂. Sorry for my sad sense of humour. But being a music lover that was the first person that came into mind when I saw the answers to the question, and why put his name there. As I know very little about the American Navy. My dad was in the British Navy.
Peter47, it was only a few weeks back I was on 96% for 2 days I think and for no reason at all it dropped down to 93%.
It's a weird way this is worked. Someone has tried to explain it, but it still makes no sense to me, I think it was something to do with a 30 day score or something??? I don't really know, I think they just take it from you for the fun of it.
Peter47, it was only a few weeks back I was on 96% for 2 days I think and for no reason at all it dropped down to 93%.
It's a weird way this is worked. Someone has tried to explain it, but it still makes no sense to me, I think it was something to do with a 30 day score or something??? I don't really know, I think they just take it from you for the fun of it.
Puzzled why yesterday I was at 92%, this morning before answering question was back at 91%, now back to 92%, earlier this week was at 96%, got one wrong was dropped to 91%, seems at bit steep and I am a bit bemussed 😐
Puzzled why yesterday I was at 92%, this morning before answering question was back at 91%, now back to 92%, earlier this week was at 96%, got one wrong was dropped to 91%, seems at bit steep and I am a bit bemussed 😐
Not exactly SimpleSailor.
Several men were accredited with this title.
Including John Adams, who ordered the building of six frigates, including the USS Constitution.
The oldest warship still in commission.
Interesting resume here-
Cheers, Doug😎
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1927/december/father-american-navy
Not exactly SimpleSailor.
Several men were accredited with this title.
Including John Adams, who ordered the building of six frigates, including the USS Constitution.
The oldest warship still in commission.
Interesting resume here-
Cheers, Doug😎
Well I guess the Americans got this wrong when they called John Barry the father of the American navy. https://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/Recent/Article-View/Article/2686326/navy-legend-john-barry-also-called-father-of-us-navy/
Hi Rocky, do you mean the sentence 'up with which I will not put'?
I have looked up the origins and it seems that it was an obscure schoolmaster and Mr. Churchill picked it up and used it.
Not seen any mention of W.C. Field who I also remember with affection.
regards
Roy
Hi Rocky, do you mean the sentence 'up with which I will not put'?
I have looked up the origins and it seems that it was an obscure schoolmaster and Mr. Churchill picked it up and used it.
Not seen any mention of W.C. Field who I also remember with affection.
Hi Doug I think in that exchange the was a comment that he ended sentences with prepositions and his response ended with :- 'Up with which I will not put'
Roy
Hi Doug I think in that exchange the was a comment that he ended sentences with prepositions and his response ended with :- 'Up with which I will not put'
Roy
Lady Astor-
"Oh, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your tea."
Churchill
"Madame, if I were your husband, I'd drink it with pleasure."
Lady Astor-
"Winston, you're drunk!"
To which he replied
"And you are ugly. However, when I wake up tomorrow, I shall be sober, and you will still be ugly!"
Good Old Winnie, never at a loss for words😂🤣
😎
Lady Astor-
"Oh, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your tea."
Churchill
"Madame, if I were your husband, I'd drink it with pleasure."
Lady Astor-
"Winston, you're drunk!"
To which he replied
"And you are ugly. However, when I wake up tomorrow, I shall be sober, and you will still be ugly!"
Good Old Winnie, never at a loss for words😂🤣
😎
Young at heart 😉 Slightly older in other places.😊 Cheers Doug
I see from the worldwide team event that is Question of the day, that the UK is almost on the podium! I have been 4% short of the mythical maximum for days now.
To quote, Always the bride's maid and never the Bride. Or is that just too old a quote for many on this forum?
We had a family party last Sunday celebrating my wife's 80th birthday, its really in April but if it was good enough for the Queen.... We decided my wife should have an official birthday in the summer.
We were all mentioning quotes like 'My mother in law has lost the art of conversation but retained the gift of speech'! Oscar Wilde I think.
I read many years ago a small book of quotes from school reports and the one that still makes me smile is, 'The improvement in his writing has revealed an inability to spell'! An absolutely damning comment but so well put, which also means I love ending a sentence with a preposition. Maybe you know the famous Churchill one?
Another I came across when at school was 'Everything completed to his own satisfaction' Read what you like into that
Anyway it was a nice day and there was a new baby around, so perfect from the 'Birthday girl's' perspective, as she is now a great great Aunt!
Roy
I see from the worldwide team event that is Question of the day, that the UK is almost on the podium! I have been 4% short of the mythical maximum for days now.
To quote, Always the bride's maid and never the Bride. Or is that just too old a quote for many on this forum?
We had a family party last Sunday celebrating my wife's 80th birthday, its really in April but if it was good enough for the Queen.... We decided my wife should have an official birthday in the summer.
We were all mentioning quotes like 'My mother in law has lost the art of conversation but retained the gift of speech'! Oscar Wilde I think.
I read many years ago a small book of quotes from school reports and the one that still makes me smile is, 'The improvement in his writing has revealed an inability to spell'! An absolutely damning comment but so well put, which also means I love ending a sentence with a preposition. Maybe you know the famous Churchill one?
Another I came across when at school was 'Everything completed to his own satisfaction' Read what you like into that
Anyway it was a nice day and there was a new baby around, so perfect from the 'Birthday girl's' perspective, as she is now a great great Aunt!
El Niño is correct inasmuch as it’s a major influential component of climatology. However it is not in itself a current but a system involving currents, sea surface temperature, depth of warm water column, winds, etc.
El Niño is correct inasmuch as it’s a major influential component of climatology. However it is not in itself a current but a system involving currents, sea surface temperature, depth of warm water column, winds, etc.
