[Bob Williams]

Ed siliceous algae has been responsible for several dogs becoming ill whilst their owners have them on the beach (and in other areas). One visitor from inland actually tried to sue our Council a couple of years ago for his dog’s illness. He claimed a silly figure for vet’s fees. His problem was broken down by the Council thus;

*He had attempted litigation almost 3 months after taking his dog on a certain beach, after finding a report about the algae.

*He had given no invoice details from the Vet’s surgery.

*The beach he was supposed to have visited, had clear notices banning dogs from the beach during the date he was there.

Shot down in flames, no further contact.

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Ed P wrote:

Eye jarring!

I agree, sorry Lee!

(Hey, that rhymes! I have a Poet’s soul 🙂 )

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EDIT my last: got the notification just after I logged out here. Better read and digest it all.

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I haven’t noticed this and my Google Drive sync is still working with Google Photos, done that this morning. However, I don’t keep many of the Google Photos I take. Those that I want kept, I transfer to the My Pictures library on the PC. They are then part of a regular backup plan to the NAS and External Hdd.

But thanks for the Heads Up Dave: reminded me that I have pics that need moving, then deleting from Google Photos. New phone takes “bursts” of anything up to 10 photos if my arthritic fingers don’t move fast enough. It’s a pain to remove the ones I don’t want. Still learning the Xperia.

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OK the jokes are back:

A project manager, software engineer and a hardware engineer are on lunch break in the park. The software engineer sees a shining object in a bush, picks it up, and finding it to be an ancient oil lamp, grins at the others and rubs it. To their astonishment, out pops a Genie.

“Thank you!” says the Genie, “I have been trapped in there for centuries. You can all have one wish, what is your pleasure?”

“I would like to be the very rich owner of a Caribbean beach resort.” says the software engineer. He is whizzed off to the Caribbean.

“I want to be filthy rich too, but owning a lucrative ski resort.” says the hardware engineer. Off he goes.

The genie looks at the project manager, who looks angry. “What do you want for the last wish?” asks the genie

 

“I want those two straight back to work after lunch!”

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I became wealthy enough to become a Conservative, by betting on the Labour Party to win the 1997 election.

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An English tourist visits a Madrid restaurant, looks at the menu and asks “What are cajones?” The waiter explains they are bull testicles, from a bull killed in the bullring. “I’ll try them, try anything once.” says the tourist. He really enjoys them, so returns next day for more of the same.

The cajones he gets this time are much smaller than the last, but still as tasty so he eats them. “Why were they so small?” He asks the waiter.

 

“The bull does not always lose, Senor.”

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My last post got me thinking about geology, specifically East Lindsey and Lincolnshire geology. Why so many different and varied rocks turning up on our beaches? So I started researching and this is what I found:

http://tinyurl.com/y5emcu5h

It is evident that our county has been submerged several times over many millions of years. Add to that the fact that the UK is a hodge-podge of bits of land from various pieces of the original super-continent Pangea, from 250 million years ago, and it becomes clearer. Especially when I also discovered that Lincolnshire is made up of lots of various bits of those bits! Pangea: –

http://tinyurl.com/y5mexycb

I have dug out my old Geology books and am now looking at my bowl of rocks, to determine which pieces are from when. Well, it keeps me out of the rain, ? which just keeps on precipitating.

If anyone is interested, check out the Upper Cretaceous in the first link and the information regarding the chalk formations. Apparently prehistoric man found lots of flint there, and that still comes to the surface on the Wold farms. That further explains why there is so much of it pumped up in the renourishment of the beaches.

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Thinking about it Ryan, trying to rob a Scouse ex-RM would be a bit foolish. Especially if he has had a few…?

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I would not want to be wandering around the streets at 2 or 3 am with a bagful of cash, looking for a bank with a Night Safe!

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I saw that YT series Richard, really interesting and I was also moved by the reaction of the pilot’s son. Did you see “Guy Martin’s D-Day Landing”?

http://tinyurl.com/y4ygp3rt

The ‘brutal training’ part amused me, not his words of course but PR hype by some Channel 4 PR hack. I only had 6 weeks Para training, as opposed to the (I think nowadays) 16 weeks that regular Paras get, but that certainly was brutal. Every day we managed to just shower, eat and collapse onto a bed. I woke up one Saturday afternoon still covered in mud from the Friday training slog. But Guy is True Blue British, besides being a proper Lincolnshire character, and what he does is a reflection of how he really feels. I have met the guy more than once and he is exactly as you see him on TV.

Two pics of the specimens collected over 20+ years from Lincolnshire beaches: one of which is a secret known to locals, the entrance is totally hidden. You will see the variety of different geological origin.

Viewing each piece from top and left to right, numbering 1 & 2 at top and continuing down then L to R:

1 is a puzzle that gives my tame amateur geologist a headache! 2 is a very old flint that may have been a tool, judging by the point. 3 & 5 are heavily fossilised, while 4 has faint lighter colours which may be fossils. 6 is very old glass, 7 is Fossils with embedded quartz. 8 & 9 are flint knappings, edges as sharp as if they were worked yesterday. 10 is clearly fossilised, as are 16 & 17. I have people on the beach ask what I was doing: most are interested, some obviously think I am a Nerd. Children are, without exception, at first interested, then excited when I explain how old the pieces are and that the flints were handled by humans who could be their ancestors thousands of years ago. I sincerely hope that I have fired an interest in the prehistory of their land, by some young minds. I once had a captive but willing audience of 4 small siblings and their parents, the children asked question after question. I love that: until quite recently, by invitation, I used to read to some Primary schoolchildren. I love children, all those plastic minds and such imagination. I never talk down to them and I never use “baby language”. They are all potential adults and deserve a future.

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I still have some of his stuff on vinyl, my favourite being the Mole battles. The tale of him sitting in a chair which will revolve, then blasting the molehills with a shotgun, still cracks me up. His extremely Brum accent helps I think. The Magic Roundabout is another Golden Oldie. That sounds like a really enjoyable evening, JCD.

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Richard the area of seabed that is dredged, pumped up and used to buttress the beach, was once “Doggerland”: –

http://tinyurl.com/y2humbnw

I have been taking a small amount of rock samples from various Lincolnshire beaches for around 20 years now and have them in a crystal bowl in the window of this room. There is an amazing variety of different geological samples in many colours, but it is all rounded by the sea and I have found nothing larger than a very small number of pieces perhaps 35cm. on its largest side. Most pieces are roughly between 2.5 and 7 cm. That is because of the nature of this part of the North seabed, which was land that was recently (in geological terms) land on which people and animals lived, and vegetation grew. Doggerland’s bedrock is some distance below the seabed ooze and sand, having only been inundated 8,200 years ago. The material that interests me which is washed up, is the flint, much of it ‘worked flint’ having been fashioned by our ancestors into weapons or tools. There are lots of ‘knappings’ which have been flaked from a piece of flint by a Mesolithic worker. I have picked up pieces and finished objects which have retained sharp edges. It always thrills me to find these and know that the last human to hold this piece, was just as human and just as potentially intelligent as any modern human today. Perhaps that piece I picked up, was last worked on many thousands of years ago, yet it is still just as capable of performing the task it was intended for today. That never fails to boggle my mind!

Last year I spoke with one of the management of the Dutch company carrying out the work. He told me that his dredgers had picked up such items as extinct rhino horn, mammoth tusks, huge antlers from an extinct deer species and Aurochs horns, from the massive ancestors of European cattle. I have read quite a lot about Doggerland and apparently it was a place where humans from both sides of the present North Sea met, hunted and exchanged materials. It is also speculated that they may have exchanged people: youngsters from one side or another, crossing to the others to find a mate. It was not an environment that could have been lived in for some time before the North Sea was formed, as it had become progressively wetter for a few thousand years: there were swamps and lakes, with attendant insect life.

The dunes are well settled now and are a part of our landscape that we locals love.

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Know what you mean about our Toytown money BL. It feels like the stuff that my kids and grandkids used to play “shop” with. I suppose it could be laundered though: in the sense of putting it through a washer at low temp! That would have saved an old Army mate’s rent money in Germany. He took a private hiring as he didn’t have enough points for a Married Quarter. His wife was away having their first pup and he asked me to live there a few days as he spoke no Deutsch. Put his washing in, shirt pocket had his money. Spin cycle ended and there were bits of Deutschemark everywhere!

Brummy lad, good job the local neighbours could not understand the words he came out with. (I struggled!)

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Don’t think I will ever be cash-free living here. Still quite a few shops in Louth only take cash, and having a good market 3 days a week with some amazing bargains of all products and tasty, really fresh food keeps the cash purchases going. Grimsby Fishman: “You want it any fresher, you have to be on the trawler!” Having said that, there are some small shops that not only take cards, they are contactless. Think that’s why I love Louth: there are so many different shops and different ways to buy. Go to Grimsby or Lincoln, there are the same High Street shops as on every High Street.

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VFM wrote:

” So for example if I know you have a fear of buttons and write you a letter saying that I will send you an envelope full of them unless you pay me £200 then that’s enough to support either a Section 1(1)(a)(ii) offence under the Malicious Communications Act or a conviction for Blackmail under the 1968 Theft Act. ”

Can I bring a Private Prosecution against my neighbour 2 doors down, who grows Lavender? I told him I hate Lavender, because it recalls the Lavender sachet my violently abusive mother used. Made no difference: the Lavender still grows. Don’t want to take my strimmer to it because. 1 – the smell would probably make me pass out. 2 – I would be liable for Criminal Damage. 3 – he would probably stop helping me with weeding the front garden. 4- he is well over 6 feet tall, built like a brick wossname and about 15 years younger than me.

Wonder how much compensation I’ll get?

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BL the duet single was with Cliff Richard: “She Means Nothing To Me”. A good song actually, but the other side was better: “On The Wings Of A Nightingale.”

Don’t know if Phil Everly recorded with Cilla, but he was a real Anglophile, loved the UK music scene.

Ed the Barron Knights are still good to see, they remain good musicians and very good comedians, still playing it “off the cuff” and still as daft as ever.

Don’t know what I’m going to smell of when I finish rolling in this pile of nostalgia!?

 

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Graham (WoF) you are absolutely right about Sony phone software, if their PC software was as good I would have had less trouble with my neighbour’s laptop a few years ago!

Richard I would recommend the Xperia, but ask me when you are ready to swop for new and I will have had more use out of it. Have no experience of Google Pay, (Android Pay) but I would expect it to work as efficiently as most other Google stuff.

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I won’t be using NFC on mine for anything financial. We have contactless debit cards and use those or cash. I don’t have my internet bank on my phone: may sound old fashioned, but I don’t trust it. My wallet has RFID blocking and so does SWMBO’s purse in a handbag that would give anyone at least concussion if she used it in anger.? My main use for the NFC bit will be transferring stuff to and from devices and the inevitable moment when SWMBO has an ‘episode’ and screws up her phone.

I did have an interesting couple of hours at initial setup. We are both on EE, SIM only, 2 different contracts. Mine is monthly, missus’ is PAYG (can’t make her understand the waste). I switched off mine for the night and next day phone was asking for a PUK or PUC number. I now understand that this refers to an 8-digit Personal Unblocking Code, but at the time I was completely unaware of this, never having received the information and never having had to use it in 3 years with the Wileyfox that I switched off every night. I wound up in a conversation with a person at EE who obviously worked far from these shores. The attitude appeared to be that it was all my fault, OK fine, I can ditch EE anytime and apply to another supplier for another SIM. I was passed from pillar to post, then had the exact same conversation with a ‘Supervisor’. I repeated my threat to leave EE, she said I would have to pay up my contract, I pointed out her obvious lack of knowledge that my contract was SIM only and monthly. Hold please she said. No I said, this is my number, phone me back within 1 hour or I am gone from EE.

I received a PUC within the hour from a much more amenable person. In fact I received two different numbers. The first one worked, but I now keep both numbers, away from the phone wallet of course. This procedure was instigated in line with my mantra that one has to be a bloody nuisance to produce an acceptable result when dealing with such bodies. Keeping in mind that ‘all conversations are recorded for training purposes (or whatever)’ of course.

Almost finished this monologue when a long lost cousin called me out of the blue.

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Love ’em Steve. Just discovered NFC and the ability to transfer stuff across phones. Learning all the time, but I better not tell my missus about that last bit.

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That all sounds good JCD: I have a memory of The Move from early days in Army Service. After Borneo, waiting at my depot in transit, a mate and I got bored and did what squaddies should never do: volunteered to work. We got the job of decorating one of the old pre-war huts as a games Room for permanent staff. Took a radio in with us and Radio One had begun broadcasting as we tuned in and switched on. We were therefore listeners to the first record played* on the first broadcast. “Flowers In The Rain” by The Move of course. DJ was Tony Blackburn, date was 30th September 1967.

*There is confusion over this: some say that “Beefeater” was the first record played. It wasn’t, because it was the jingle that TB brought with him and played every time as an intro. Now, what was the second record played after FITR? Answers on the back of a £9 note please!

There several bands created by members of The Move. IIRC, there was, besides ELO, The Herd, Wizzard and Roy Woods’ previous mob, whose name escapes me. Now there’s a real Brummy character, Roy Wood. Barking mad, but very creative.

Graham you are showing your mum’s age there, but glad she enjoyed it.

Another music question: who was the British star that Phil Everly made a record with, in the UK? I have this single and it’s a rarity.

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No, still taking me into your work site. Don’t worry about it, I’m not.

EDIT: cracked it! So simple, feel dumb! I deleted the current FF bookmark, accessed forumite via Google, reinstalled bookmark. Problem solved.

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