Picture(s) of the day....

[mickthemaverick]

You remember Richard Hearn! He used to live in our village in Kent.

Peter

No shortage of pies and pasties there then Peter!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Over to you Neil for ordering, a list of 13 to choose from:

Heinz Wolff
Magnus Pyke
Patrick Moore
Johnny Ball
Richard Hearne
Wilf Lunn
Bob Symes
James Burke
Tim Hunkin
Albert Einstein
Fyffe Robertson
Dick Strawbridge
Humphrey Lestocq

Never heard of half of them Mick! I'll consider my rankings overnight Professor Stanley Unwin was a bit bonkers too! but probably not a professor David Bellamy who I have seen in real life, and then there is the ever popular Brian Cox. Strange lack of ladies on the list. Not eccentric at all but I do like Hannah Fry the Mathematician.

Regards Neil

[white exec]

Would Clive Sinclair qualify?
Mark Zuckerberg doing his best to earn unhingeship

[NewcastleFalcon]

Well I've gone off piste, and decided to select my choice of 9 TV boffins not on pure eccentricity but on usefulness on a desert island.

So in comes Ray Mears and of course the number 1 choice Brains from thunderbirds. He did a fantastic job with Tracy Island, and the same sort of thing would do...swimming pools, a range of aircraft, rockets and underwater vessels and suchlike, and a decent accomodation block with a view. Clearly I would have some mathematical and anthropological needs to satisfy so in comes Hannah Fry and Alice Roberts. Fred dibnah is in just in case Brains need a bit of help with practical engineering. David bellamy is in to amuse himself marauding round the island teaming up with Ray Mears to nail down what is edible and what isnt. Attenborough is in to tell us about the birds and bees and other Fauna and just a smattering of the eccentric with Patrick Moore who we can contemplate the cosmos with, and Heinz wolff is in on his haircut alone.

NF's desert island TV boffins

REgards Neil

[Gibbo2286]

The current tv boffin whose series I've been following recently is Jim Al-Khalili not sure he's in any way eccentric but he's certainly enthusiastic.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Intrigued by the intro Gibbo, I'll give that a watch.

Regards Neil

[Gibbo2286]

My day will be interesting and maybe frustrating

Had to abandon this one, after fitting a new psu it turns out that although the psu was knacked either the motherboard or the graphics board, or both are also faulty.

So I've bought, on ebay, a refurbed HP i5 64 bit tower for less money that the bits for this one would cost.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Wheresthisthen?

Forms the backdrop of part of the video gibbo posted.

wheresthisthen

regards Neil

[white exec]

Jim Al-Khalili is based at the Unversity of Surrey, so no possibility of anything eccentric there.
A scurrilous suggestion!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Wheresthisthen?

Forms the backdrop of part of the video gibbo posted.



regards Neil

Jim Al-Khalili is based at the Unversity of Surrey, so no possibility of anything eccentric there.

Now if our Jim was taking an "as the crow flies" flight from the University of SussexSurrey to the filming location point at the Castle he will travelled 318 286 Miles according to https://www.doogal.co.uk/

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

just corrected that ^^^^^^^^

regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Wheresthisthen?

Forms the backdrop of part of the video gibbo posted.



regards Neil

Just to get that out of the way the answer is in the Spoiler. Of all the castles in all the Country they chose this one, bit out of the way for an away day for the film crew......... The area is also well known for the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust reserve.

Spoiler: show

Caerlaverock Castle Dumfries and Galloway

REgards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Anyone got a picture for today?anything will do

REgards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I was hoping to have a few minutes contemplation in the garden this morning when I found this lot:

Own work

[Hell Razor5543]

Methinks you need to set the correct date in your camera!