Picture(s) of the day....

[mickthemaverick]

I spent today helping Bob clear out his deceased cousin's bungalow in Bricket Wood. The job has been ongoing for the last six weeks and now on the 3rd 6m skip! My first job today was to clean and valet the car ready for disposal:

Before and after!

It doesn't really show in those pics but it had been standing under trees for 2 months so you get the idea!

Next came moving the fourth lot of scrap metal from the workshop/shed out to the front ready for a fourth collection by the scrap metal chaps!

Gold for the scrappie!!

Among that heap is a very heavy engineering vice and a large bench vice, spot them if you can!!

We then piled over 400 books into Bob's car and took them to the recycling depot and I have another 100 in my car to go tomorrow!!

[mickthemaverick]

Today's POTD Can of the day, join in and make it a theme. POTD awaits an original photo of a tin of Hammerite or Waxoyl

Neil

Only a couple of weeks late but this is an authentic picture I took today!! Notice how it would have helped to use the product on the can handle which self destructed as I picked it up!

MTM Original

[mickthemaverick]

Another gem from the workshop, ever seen one of these? That is Bob's hand for scale!!

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[NewcastleFalcon]

We then piled over 400 books into Bob's car and took them to the recycling depot and I have another 100 in my car to go tomorrow!!

Excellent Waxoyl photo! From the Hammerite Branding days. The Factory was /is less than 200 metres from where I dug the Blue lettered Mick brick from the footpath!

50 points still on offer for an original photo of the "AA book of the Road" one of the 500 already disposed of?

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

50 points still on offer for an original photo of the "AA book of the Road" one of the 500 already disposed of?

Neil

I am planning on claiming those when I get up in the loft and have a rummage! I know I have one up there with my AA key and possibly my badge although I have a disturbing feeling I left the badge on my Jaguar XJ40 when I sold it!!

[CitroJim]

Another gem from the workshop, ever seen one of these? That is Bob's hand for scale!!

Looks like an old bike spanner to me...

[NewcastleFalcon]

If the timetable of the seasons hasn't shifted from a couple of years ago, poppies in the fields time as mentioned earlier is upon us. The naked eye sees the profusion more vividly than the images I managed on some of the longer range camera shots.

This was taken June 19th 2021

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Warkworth 19th June 2021

This was taken July 14th 2021

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Bean fields near Alnwick

Neil

[CitroJim]

Met this hare during my run in the woods down in Somerset today...

I was expecting it to hare off as soon as it saw me but it came closer and even allowed itself to be photographed before ambling off...

Quite magical

[CitroJim]

A very rare phone box.. One with a stamp machine built-in...

On the platform at Cranmore station on the East Somerset Railway...

[Rp0thejester]

You can tell when Mr Kite is about, all the other birds disappear!

[NewcastleFalcon]

One hundred and ninety-two pages of Classic Car Spotting over on the

I-Spy Classic Cars...What have you spotted thread
viewtopic.php?p=760414#p760414

That's the place for stuff like this...

It's got to be...

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30th June 2023 Raindrops

Neil

[CitroJim]

I love the old 100E Prefect When Ford named it, I bet they never thought the name of the car would be adopted by an alien visiting Earth to do a bit of research for the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy...

[myglaren]

What, Beetlejuice?

[Peter.N.]

I think if its a prefect it has the 105e ohv engine. My first car was a Prefect only a bit earlier 1939.

Peter

[CitroJim]

What, Beetlejuice?

No, allegedly a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse Steve