Weekender Thread 29 March - 01 April 2019
Magsie
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: UK
Posts: 26,662
Hi Lena 
I’d have liked the clocks to stay as they were in the U.K. too! It messes with my equilibrium
I never thought of wood bending before...but there are antique chairs called bentwood....Is it because the wood was bent (with steam, maybe
) or was the inventor called bentwood...oh the mystery of it all.
I’d have liked the clocks to stay as they were in the U.K. too! It messes with my equilibrium
I never thought of wood bending before...but there are antique chairs called bentwood....Is it because the wood was bent (with steam, maybe
) or was the inventor called bentwood...oh the mystery of it all.
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: South Africa
Posts: 1,536
So here is a slightly mediocre African sunset. It is the same scene that I posted last Sunday, but now looks different without the somber cloud cover.
To the extreme left is the sillouette of a few branches of a fever tree, and the large tree on the right is a sweet thorn or acacia Karoo. In spring the latter gets completely covered by dense, yellow blossoms that make it easy to identify, even from miles away, if found on the plains or in a clearing.
To the extreme left is the sillouette of a few branches of a fever tree, and the large tree on the right is a sweet thorn or acacia Karoo. In spring the latter gets completely covered by dense, yellow blossoms that make it easy to identify, even from miles away, if found on the plains or in a clearing.
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 25,373
Originally Posted by CaptainHaddock 
So here is a slightly mediocre African sunset. It is the same scene that I posted last Sunday, but now looks different without the somber cloud cover.
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To the extreme left is the sillouette of a few branches of a fever tree, and the large tree on the right is a sweet thorn or acacia Karoo. In spring the latter gets completely covered by dense, yellow blossoms that make it easy to identify, even from miles away, if found on the plains or in a clearing.
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To the extreme left is the sillouette of a few branches of a fever tree, and the large tree on the right is a sweet thorn or acacia Karoo. In spring the latter gets completely covered by dense, yellow blossoms that make it easy to identify, even from miles away, if found on the plains or in a clearing.
saoutchik
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: London
Posts: 16,198
I agree about getting rid of the clock change, it is a pointless throwback to the candles and hour glass era. Someone mentioned Game of Thrones earlier, I did actually see Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) in the flesh last week, admittedly from a distance away. I would not have recognised her in a million years.
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 1,408
Hey what's up weekend warriors. I missed last week checking in so I feel long over due!! lol
Hope everyone is doing well. Beautiful spring day which means for me I have to be extra careful about triggers and such. So far not so bad. Trying to stay on top
Here's to a sober Sunday morning!
Hope everyone is doing well. Beautiful spring day which means for me I have to be extra careful about triggers and such. So far not so bad. Trying to stay on top
Here's to a sober Sunday morning!
Sober-T- Dragon
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Manitoba
Posts: 8,758
Originally Posted by CaptainHaddock
Nice one Dragon. That sounds like hardcore home carpenting you’ve got going on there. Imagine bending your own wood with steam! Wish I knew a bit more on the subject of joinery.
Originally Posted by CaptainHaddock
Dragon, did I miss something or are you crafting a ukulele? Now that would be taking it to the next level!
tada!
This is my "second generation" design. I'm starting the next batch by bending the side "rails" (six inch laminated 'sticks'. ) If you look closely, you can see where I cut them before gluing the top and bottom on. I also need to work on improving the cap.
Magsie
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: UK
Posts: 26,662
Morning Weekenders
Well the clocks have gone forwards.....I had to alter my clock which displays day, which part of the day (it’s pre-dawn at present) time and date! Oh and the wall clock needs altering too. Thank goodness the mobile phone and tablets move automatically.
I’m loving the pics of scenery Captain and Kaily, also doggies who are worn out.
Dragon, great Kazoo.
Well the clocks have gone forwards.....I had to alter my clock which displays day, which part of the day (it’s pre-dawn at present) time and date! Oh and the wall clock needs altering too. Thank goodness the mobile phone and tablets move automatically.
I’m loving the pics of scenery Captain and Kaily, also doggies who are worn out
. Dragon, great Kazoo.
sober style
Join Date: May 2016
Location: San Antonio
Posts: 2,383
Originally Posted by biminiblue
We have a lot of those sweet thorn trees in the gorilla exhibit and the gorillas have been eating those flowers voraciously the past week. So I tried one, and I have to say I don't see the attraction. It was bitter! Maybe they eat them for the pollen, but I expected them to be sweet from the way they've been attacking them.
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
Magsie
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: UK
Posts: 26,662
Snazzy, very interesting poem, I had to read it a few times for it to sink in, then I looked up what was thought of as the meaning of it all. I like it! Thanks for sharing it. I’m going to check out his others now!
Ocean Lover!
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: You know nothing Jon Snow - UK
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Luckily all the clocks in my house change automatically but I do still spend all day double and triple checking that it’s the right time!! Sun has come out so going to pop on to the allotment and do a bit. Had absolutely aweful lower back ache for the past 2 days that has kept me awake so conceded this morning and had some ibuprofen. Always been funny about medication and have to be on deaths door to take any but realised suffering through it was not the best thing I could do for myself lol.
Hope everyone is having a super sober Sunday. x
Hope everyone is having a super sober Sunday. x
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