Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

Northumberlandia

and from the highest point a bit of ship-spotting thanks to marinetraffic.com and a smartphone and a positive ID on the Assister at anchor

Assister

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I can't let this day pass without a tribute to the man who has put Britain back on top of the tree today:

BFTW

[NewcastleFalcon]

Yes, pardon me while I contribute to the massacre the english adverb..."The boy done brilliant"

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Here's one to track on marinetraffic.

7000 Tesla Model 3's heading for export to Europe from Giga Shanghai.



Story here
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/10/26/70 ... -pictures/

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

The Ship is Toscana registered in Valetta Malta and owned by Walenius Wilhemsen a Norwegian/Swedish Shipping company.

and as of right now it is underway heading out of Shanghai literally within the last hour or so heading for the Suez Canal That leg of the journey will take around 21 days.

marinetraffic.com

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Quite pleased with today's quarantine project, got the raised bed built in the garden for next year's Dahlias:

Own work

[myglaren]

Not as much work as your effort Mick but probably too just as long.
The 'skin' of my office chair has been peeling off for a couple of years now.
Bought a square metre of faux leather a month or two ago.
Despite leaving it close to the chair it didn't have the sense to leap on and do the job itself so in a moment of madness decided to do it myself.
Ten minute job! And we all know how that goes.
A good half hour to locate the stapler.
Another to find hex keys - most of them at my kids various houses.
Five minutes to remove the chair back. Another ten to clean the spilled beverages from the chair base - yuck!
Fifteen minutes to open the clumpher (professional name for the stapler) and - pingfǚckit - staples go sailing across the room, another ten minutes to locate them and refit them.
Ten minutes to cut the material and staple it on - extended by five minutes to refill the stapler when it ran out. Bloody thing is a proper Chinese puzzle.
Five minutes to re-fit the seat back.
Ten minutes to work out how to get the height and tilt right.
All good! (Hah)!

Half an hour to find the adaptor ring to fit the ringflash as the camera went on strike and refused to fire when asked to.
Ten minutes to find the replacement battery as the one in was depleted by now.
About an hour trying to get the camera and ringflash or ringlight to work together.
Abandoned that and managed to get the camera to do it on it's own.

Quick and simple.

Before:

After:

I may open a furniture upholstery business now.

[mickthemaverick]

Nice job Steve! The thing is, I've put in all the effort so that SWMBO can grow dahlias, at least you'll get to sit on your chair!!

[Hell Razor5543]

Nice quick and easy job Steve!

[myglaren]

Just like all five-minute jobs James.

[Peter.N.]

I've got more 5 minute jobs lined up than I'm going to be able to do in the rest of my life!

Peter

[CitroJim]

I can't let this day pass without a tribute to the man who has put Britain back on top of the tree today:

And let's not forget this British boy did equally brilliantly too

(c) Cycling Weekly

Tao Geoghegan-Hart winning the 2020 Giro d'Italia in a most splendid manner

And without needing an engine to do so as the F1 boys seem to need so stuff that up your exhaust Hamilton!!! (tongue in cheek comment...)

Only the second Brit ever to win the Giro... Chris Froome was the first...

[mickthemaverick]

I can't let this day pass without a tribute to the man who has put Britain back on top of the tree today:

And let's not forget this British boy did equally brilliantly too



Tao Geoghegan-Hart winning the 2020 Giro d'Italia in a most splendid manner

And without needing an engine to do so as the F1 boys seem to need so stuff that up your exhaust Hamilton!!! (tongue in cheek comment...)

Only the second Brit ever to win the Giro... Chris Froome was the first...

Sorry Jim, at the risk of being shouted down I have to say that I cannot agree that Tao's achievement was EQUALLY brilliant. Brilliant in its own right yes, but winning the Giro once cannot be considered equal to Lewis' achievement. To equal in cycling what Lewis has done in F1, Tao must go on and win more events and championships than Eddy Merckx who, IMHO, is the greatest cyclist that has ever lived. Here's hoping he does!!

[CitroJim]

Definitely agree on Eddy Merckx Neil Although from a British point of view, Tom Simpson was pretty remarkable too... Had Mt. Ventoux not claimed his life I'm sure we would have seen some more brilliance from him... Amphetamines not withstanding...

I did say my comments on the boy from Stevenage was tongue in cheek He's done bloody marvellously and indeed, no way can I see Tao winning 91 Giros!

It'll be good to watch Tao's progress, along with some other very promising newly emerging British cyclists...

[NewcastleFalcon]

Tao must go on and win more events and championships than Eddy Merckx who, IMHO, is the greatest cyclist that has ever lived. Here's hoping he does!!

Definitely agree on Eddy Merckx Neil er Mick!

Haven't commented yet on relative sporting greatness Jim, that was our Mickthemaverick's Eddy Merckx opinion.

So my comment on relative sporting greatness across sports.....pointless and without a correct answer, ditto across generations for the same sport. I remember they did a virtual fight between Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali, must have been in the 60's. I wonder who won......

This article is a well written, informative and entertaining account of that event and the background to it, with some nice lines thrown in

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/ ... hammad-ali

A duvet of flab embraced Ali's mid-section, and his jabs contained the spite of a well-fed labrador. Marciano, who had lost 45lbs in case his opponent took liberties, was more serious. But a new toupee, which he believed made him look well-groomed and youthful, further turned this curiosity towards cartoon: he looks like an undersized hoodlum from Dick Tracy.

Regards Neil