First day thread

[NewcastleFalcon]

I like the moody and melancholy signals, and the starkness of the steel work against the sky but you can't beat these cheery little chaps for a bit of colour on a sunny day.

Definitely my most colourful first day photo so far
on August 1st 2022

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

I planted loads of those to keep the slugs away.





The slugs ate them.

[NewcastleFalcon]

OK its indoor-time or getting that way, so before the clock strikes 12 another small first day challenge.

1. Find a photographic device
2. Take a photo of a calendar in your house displaying the month of August 2022, and any associated image.
3. Post it up on this thread.

I will time myself doing this very task it is now 19.08 on my laptop.

The Countryfile otter 19.10

Regards Neil

[bobins]

This do ?

August colander - own work

[NewcastleFalcon]

This do ?

Original photo, taken on the first day of the month, qualifies for any post on the thread, just trying to tease a few out!
Is that it, or is there more creativity to be had.

Pretty easy to join in

REgards Neil

[Rp0thejester]

My boy wanted to take something from his special provision school to remember it by. He came home with this.

plus side, it's on my shed roof, you have been warned.

[mickthemaverick]

Best I can manage with a bad back!! Not much scheduled yet this month!!

Own work

[myglaren]

I too only have a colander, no calendar. Except some for work where the dates fit with the current year. Must have at least fifty of them.

I use the Google calendar, but rarely. And the one on the phone, even more rarely as it is a pain to enter anything.

All the birthdays are in a spreadsheet that updates itself daily.
Except a lot of the dates I put in are wrong.
Always got my eldest daughter's birthday wrong until she had a son, they are both born on the 24th so I can remember hers now.
Was youngests birthday yesterday (38), got it right for a change. Took her a huge bunch of flowers. She's gone to Scotland for a week, they will all be dead before she comes back.

[NewcastleFalcon]

First day has come round again. Did I hear someone say by the meteorological calendar, the first day of autumn is always 1 September. I did, it was the Met Office themselves

Now if a certain motorbike I saw earlier in the week a 22 Reg Royal Enfield Meteor is in the same place today, that would be an excellent first day picture. Unlikely I feel, but I'll still look

Please contribute some Original Pictures to the thread, which in time honoured tradition will close for entries when "the bawdy hand of the dial is upon the prick of midnight" (to paraphrase Mercutio in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) taken this first day of September 2022. Calendar turnings, random indoor shots, random outdoor shots, anything goes.

Select a bit of first day music if you like relevant to the new month either in name, or as I sometimes do from past years official charts as of the week containing the first of the month. Official charts UK site here https://www.officialcharts.com/

Meanwhile for an early strike here's the customary calendar shot...

The Fox with Two Heads
Great name for a pub to rival the more common
Swan with Two Necks

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Not the greatest picture due to being on full zoom through the window while hiding behind the curtains!!
No better way to start the month than to teach the babies how to bathe!!

Own work

[bobins]

I've been vacuuming my motorbike

My V-F-R motorbike needs a specific unbalance to its intakes to run correctly. Normally you'd balance the carbs evenly, but on my bike number 3 intake needs 2cm of Hg more and number 4 1cm of Hg more. You can use vacuum dial gauges to do this and there's a wonderful array of lovely cheap ones which show some figures on their dials , but I opted for the good old fashioned Mercury type vacuum gauge - though you'll be pleased to know Mercury is no longer used* Plumb in each of the four pipes of the gauge to the 4 separate small rubber hoses on the V-F-R which go to the intakes, run up the engine to operating temp, adjust the RPM to 1200, then adjust 2,3,& 4 starter valves so that the gauge shows equal vacuum, then re-adjust tickover, then check vacuum again, then adjust out numbers 3 & 4 to give the unbalance. Voila - tuned to an unbalance like it should be

Morgan Carbtune - own work

Carbtune graduations - own work

*- Back in the day, a workmate of mine mail-ordered one of the original Mercury type Carbtunes direct from the manufacturer in Ireland to tune up his Honda CBX. When it arrived his postie wouldn't hand it over to him until he explained what was in it. The package was marked up with various 'Fragile' and 'Toxic' and 'Do Not Drop' labels and it's address label was from Crumlin Road in Belfast Those were the days

[NewcastleFalcon]

The random hand selected the chart for the week including 1st September 1986.

Not a great chart, but nice gentle one from the Human League at Number 8



Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

and the most upbeat of songs with September in the title....September by Earth Wind and Fire...party on!



Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

The thread has been going a couple of years now starting October 1st 2020. A celebration and marking of the first day of the new month. which in time-honoured tradition will close for entries when "the bawdy hand of the dial is upon the prick of midnight" (to paraphrase Mercutio in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet)

Contributions invited...anything goes

Original Pictures taken this first day of October 2022. Calendar turnings, random indoor shots, random outdoor shots,

Select a bit of first day music if you like relevant to the new month either in name, or as I sometimes do from past years official charts as of the week containing the first of the month. Official charts UK site here https://www.officialcharts.com/

An easy start from me, a photo which I turned into a painting

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

A highly appropriate first day pair taken at 06.00 this morning, having forgotten to take them before midnight!!

Own work

Own work