Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

This is a nice image as todays geograph POTD, off to the River Wharfe and Otley in Yorkshire

Regards Neil

PS it doesnt look like that any more.
https://www.wildblood-macdonald.com/ass ... 00x812.jpg

Big housing development right on the riverside where Garnett's Paper Mill used to be. ( Brilliant....build more houses next to rivers but let the civil engineers work out how to mitigate flooding risk with masses of concrete.)

Tick the box with twin Archimedean screw turbines and a private grid network for the development to harness hydro power from the river, and get the planning permission nodded through.

https://www.environmentalengineering.or ... ower-3089/

[Hell Razor5543]

I was up in Ellesmere for a couple of days (seeing my Mum), and we decided to drive over to see The Mere (Mum is not as fit as she once was (she completed The London Marathon on 2000)), when we saw an old tractor in the Tesco car park. Then we spotted a few different water birds at The Mere.

[bobins]

Farmer Giles' tractor is an old International 434

[NewcastleFalcon]

When I saw "the Mere" and Ellesmere in James' post. I thought immediately of the AA box at Mere in Cheshire just opposite "The Mere" Golf Hotel and resort on the outskirts of Manchester. No its a bit further down in Shropshire, and nowhere near

Its mild, but it is exceedingly soggy and misty round Northumberland today, and yesterday and the day before. So time to go back a few months for Geograph's offering today, and one of those you have to get out of your car and have a little walk to find. Round the back of Ben Nevis, and a summer day. I would imagine the same view would be a very different scene today, with not a great deal of it in view.

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

George Orwell got an outing on Only Connect tonight as this connection.

Food and Drink for conscientious followers of POTD...

Were you implying The Half Moon or The Moon Under Water ? That's two pub names!

Never actually heard of a "The Moon under Water", turns out to be a novel by George Orwell and wait for it, and I know you know this already Mick.....a pub in Watford which just so happens to the the Wiki pub selected for its article....


The 'Moon Under Water', High Street, Watford - geograph.org.uk - 610214
Dr Neil Clifton / The 'Moon Under Water', High Street, Watford

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Anyone familiar with Orwell's Essay I certainly wasn't but it basically sets out his requirements for a perfect pub. This wiki article gives a summary. The Moon Under Water

Orwell stipulated ten key points that his perfect pub in the London area should have (his criteria for country pubs being different, but unspecified):

1 The architecture and fittings must be uncompromisingly Victorian.
2 Games, such as darts, are only played in the public bar "so that in the other bars you can walk about
without the worry of flying darts".
3 The pub is quiet enough to talk, with the house possessing neither a radio nor a piano.
4 The barmaids know the customers by name and take an interest in everyone.
5 It sells tobacco and cigarettes, aspirins and stamps, and "is obliging about letting you use the telephone".
6 "[...] there is a snack counter where you can get liver-sausage sandwiches, mussels
(a speciality of the house), cheese, pickles and [...] large biscuits with caraway seeds [...]."
7 "Upstairs, six days a week, you can get a good, solid lunch—for example, a cut off the joint,
two vegetables and boiled jam roll—for about three shillings."
8 "[...] a creamy sort of draught stout [...], and it goes better in a pewter pot."
9 "They are particular about their drinking vessels at "The Moon Under Water" and never, for example,
make the mistake of serving a pint of beer in a handleless glass. Apart from glass
and pewter mugs, they have some of those pleasant strawberry-pink china ones. [...]
but in my opinion beer tastes better out of china."
10 "[...] You go through a narrow passage leading out of the saloon, and find yourself in a fairly
large garden [...]

Many as are the virtues of the Moon Under Water I think that the garden is its best feature, because it
allows whole families to go there instead of Mum having to stay at home and mind the baby while Dad
goes out alone."

Well what do you think

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Anyone familiar with Orwell's Essay I certainly wasn't but it basically sets out his requirements for a perfect pub. This wiki article gives a summary. The Moon Under Water

Orwell stipulated ten key points that his perfect pub in the London area should have (his criteria for country pubs being different, but unspecified):

1 The architecture and fittings may be uncompromisingly Victorian or Georgian.
2 Games, such as darts, are only played in the public bar "so that in the other bars you can walk about
without the worry of flying darts".
3 The pub is quiet enough to talk, with the house possessing neither a radio nor a piano or jukebox.
4 The barstaff know the customers by name and take an interest in everyone.
5 It sells aspirins and stamps, and "does not permit the use of a mobile telephone inside.".
6 "[...] there is a snack counter where you can get pork scratchings or dry roasted peanuts."
7 "Upstairs, seven days a week, you can get a good, solid lunch—for example, a cut off the joint,
two vegetables and syrup sponge and custard—for about £7.50."
8 "[...] the best sort of draught stout [...], and it goes better in a guinness glass."
9 "They are particular about their drinking vessels at "The Moon Under Water" and never, for example,
make the mistake of serving a pint of beer in a handled glass.
10 "[...] You go through a narrow passage leading out of either bar, and find yourself in a fairly
large garden [...]

Many as are the virtues of the Moon Under Water I think that the garden is its best feature, because it
allows whole families to go there instead of Mum having to stay at home and mind the baby while Dad
goes out alone."

Well what do you think

Regards Neil

I have amended the above to suit my tastes!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

On a day when I have binge watched, enjoyed and bigged-up Series 2 of "New ACGS" in the "On TV" thread, appropriate to dig this up from the FCF Archives on an otherwise disappointing blank 30th December 2021 contribution day.

Anyone remember "All Creatures Great and Small"

Langthwaite, Arkengarthdale...from the opening credits

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

With new contributions petering out towards the end of 2021, time for a random selection of the many many images contributed in the last year from January 1st 2021 to this very day (none so far!) 31st December 2021. THis is how to do it if you wish to join in

Here is the tool, and please just let the random tool find the random page, do not try to edit it with logic or personal preference.

https://www.random.org/

1 Picture(s) of the Day 2021 activity, in all about 1800 posts.
January 1st 2021 page= 419
December 31st 2021 page=539

2 Random selection tool start 419 end 539 for example 447 selected by Random.org tool

3 Select an image from the page, and just quote the post

REgards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

As an end of year celebration we had a party last night, due to Covid I had no one to go with so I went alone and pulled a cracker!!

Spoiler: show

Deny all knowledge!

[NewcastleFalcon]

31st December 2021, and days of drizzle, soggyness and patches of persistent rain has resulted in this

boiling water

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

One picture from each month of 2021 selected at random for a POTD montage for 2021. Join in and select your own random page/ random shot as posted here

viewtopic.php?p=705936#p705936

Apologies for contributions/contributors not selected by the random process

So we have
Steve's Sunset, My wrinkles and fungus, Citro Jim's daffs and bike, Zel's Spot TPA in the car park, Peter's broken spring, My orchid, Mick's Dahlia, my Haystack, Gibbo's creepy crawlie, James' Heron, my Bob Ross cabin, and my brick.

REgards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Well I tried to join in but ran into an unexpected snag. Bear in mind that I have the most recent page as page 1 in my listing so whatever random number is generated has to be deducted from the total number, 539, to give the page to display. So I ran the tool and here is the result:

Screenshot

As you can see the result was 538 which when deducted from 539 gives page 1, ie the page you are already looking at so my selection is the pictures already on this page!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Well I tried to join in but ran into an unexpected snag.

All you need to do is find your page number on POTD with the first post in January 2021 ( it will be about Page 120 on your organisation seeing that newest post is on page 1 on your system.

Just put 1-120 in the random selection range and select a page, and pull out an image from that page.

REgards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

To start the New Year on POTD, I have to say I can't see much difference to last year:

This is the post you would be looking for Mick.....the first post of 2021 and it was one of yours!

Regards Neil