Picture(s) of the day....

[mickthemaverick]

It's amazing what you come across driving through Hertfordshire these days!!:

own work

[NewcastleFalcon]

Much cuter than my shaggy ink cap which I have just photographed on my dog walk!....but POTD Nature Club is alive and kicking!

could be horizontal but I'm sure someone can re-erect it!"

REgards Neil

[moizeau]

I used to think I was paranoid, then I realised it was the bloke following me that was.

[Hell Razor5543]

I used to think I was paranoid, then I realised it was the bloke following me that was.

Just because you are paranoid DOESN'T mean the world ISN'T out to get you! You might be paranoid, but are you paranoid enough?

[RichardW]

ISS - taken over our house earlier on this evening.

[myglaren]

^ I misread that at first and thought it said ISIS have taken over our house and was looking for the black flag

[white exec]

Tool Oddities - some answers...

Wire stripper...

Grommet/sleeving stretcher...

Nut splitter...

Old hammer-in tie for cabinet making or roofing, I guess...

Old flush woodworking bench stop, adjustable height, for planing...

You got close! Actually the proper tool (with an added hex) for winding in Citroen caliper pistons...

Spot-on, Neil. I found this old chalk-line years ago in a pile of rubbish on a GWR railway station platform*, undergoing renovation. Oddly, it has my uncle's initials on it.... Originally held brown chalk, but that is pretty useless here, working with terracotta masonry, so now filled with Andalucian standard builders' blue...
*Hanwell & Elthorne

More wire-strippers, of complicated design, stamped "BR.URMET". Maybe American?...

Now this is anyone's guess. Something my father - something of an inventor, as well as a high-voltage electrical engineer - had tucked away. It has no electrical contacts, but does contain an odd porous-looking 'partition', which does not seem to allow the mercury to pass through. It has a wooden (display?) stand. Use unknown...

Another mystery. Might have been a scraper blade holder, or (as suggested) a bender. It is stamped/branded with my grandfather's name, like almost all of his woodworking tools here. He was a master carpenter, but abandoned his London family around 1930, disappearing to California (and later Canada) to make money in oil, and to marry several times more. No divorces were ever recorded. What a heritage!...

[NewcastleFalcon]

Excellent post Chris contributed to a good day on POTD, and a lot of interest and participation.

So onto today. POTD shouldn’t rest on it’s laurels.

Entries invited. I do have a group of cowardly ducks from yesterday’s dog walk if we draw a blank.

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

How about drinks I have known to restock the PE shelves?

own work

[NewcastleFalcon]

The punters do like a frivolous drink down at the P E but I don’t think they have tried a jug of Sangria yet






Regards Neil

[white exec]

No shortage of Sangria here!

[myglaren]

A superbly engineered missile, its name was borrowed by Richard Noble for the current World Land Speed record car which is destined to eventually reach 1000mph in South Africa having first set a new record in the region of 800mph. The project ran into financial difficulties after the test runs at Newquay and was bought out by a Yorkshire businessman and is now back on course. I am a founder member of the supporters club and have been involved since 2006. I won't put any pics here but if you are interested you can now find all the details at www.bloodhoundlsr.com. Plenty of good stuff on there especially Andy Green's contributions. If you are not aware Andy holds the current record from Thrust SSC and the entire Bloodhound car has been designed and built to fit and suit him.

There was another reason Richard Noble chose the name Bloodhound; one of the people who helped with Thrust SSC (and is involved with Bloodhound SSC) is a gentleman called Ron Ayers. Ron had been head of Operational Research at the British Aircraft Corporation (Guided Weapons Division) in Bristol, and was the chief aerodynamicist on the Bloodhound 2 anti-aircraft missile. (Information gleaned from Richard Nobles' book "Thrust").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Ayers

One of the mist incredible (to my mind, at least) was the visible shockwave as Thrust SSC went supersonic;

Just had to delete a post about Miss Shilling's Orifice. I read about her and thought she had worked on the Bloodhound missile but it was Blue Streak.

She is fascinating anyway so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Shilling

[bobins]

That gives me a suitable offering for POTD

A Blue Streak body at Spadeadam.

Blue Streak - own work

Blue Streak 2 - own work

[bobins]

Just had to delete a post about Miss Shilling's Orifice. I read about her and thought she had worked on the Bloodhound missile but it was Blue Streak.

She is fascinating anyway so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Shilling

'Fascinating' is a bit of an understatement. Thanks for posting up details of her

[NewcastleFalcon]

Anyone like an interesting building?

Best of British here.....shortlist for RIBA Sterling Prize.

https://www.architecture.com/awards-and ... ling-prize

The Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners was featured on the news tonight......Somewhere near Aberlour, Speyside, Augus

screenshot

Regards Neil