Picture(s) of the day....

[Huskyxantia]

Have you done the London marathon Jim ?

[Rp0thejester]

Great Question!!

[Rp0thejester]

I love the colour of the car but the same colour rims put me off...

[CitroJim]

Have you done the London marathon Jim ?

No, sadly not. Never been lucky in the ballot... I've done the London Big Half and that was good, the atmosphere was magical...

Nowadays I don't even try for the London Marathon as the logistics of getting there and home again is way beyond my abilities...

Likewise I never intended to ride the London to Brighton Bike Ride but the difficult logistics are all being looked after for me this year by very good friends who want me to ride with them

Today is a very special day and here's a picture to celebrate it

Today would have been dad's 100th birthday and this photo is of him in action on his trials bike whilst serving in the Royal Army Service Core in Lubeck, Germany in 1946. He had been in Germany for some time by then as he was there whilst war was still raging.

This photo was taken in February of that year so he would have been 22. It can be seen where my love of mud and racing on two wheels comes from

A bit more about dad here: viewtopic.php?t=56715

[Huskyxantia]

Thats one very cool dude there Jim , great photo . Hope your day is filled with great memorys my friend .

[NewcastleFalcon]

More fuzzy wildlife from the Falcon

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Today 5th February 2024

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One Month ago 5th January 2024

Neil

[Armidillo]

Hi Neil

What's caused the small mullock heaps in the foreground of the first photo? Vere small miners (minors?)? They don't look right for cow pats...

Alec

[bobins]

They'll be molehills !

[NewcastleFalcon]

Hi Neil What's caused the small mullock heaps in the foreground of the first photo? Vere small miners (minors?)? They don't look right for cow pats...Alec

They'll be molehills !

Indeed they are molehills, and with Alec being in Australia, and in a coincidence almost making the "Familiarity Phenomenon, and unlikely coincidences" thread - only last night on UK Telly, there was a set of bonus questions on University Challenge thus:

Marsupial Mammals

The order Diprotodontia includes kangaroos wallabies koalas and which other animal whose species include Common as well as both Northern and Southern hairy nosed varieties

The family Notoryctidae includes 2 extant species that are commonly referred to as the marsupial equivalent of what other animal In part this is because they lack functioning eyes and external ears

The family Dasyuromorphia encompases almost all carnivorous marsupials inckuding quolls numbats and what other species

and the coincidence is manifested with this pictorial hint of the answer to the second question


A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata (Plate XXXI) (cropped)
Lydekker, Richard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Neil

[bobins]

The order Diprotodontia includes kangaroos wallabies koalas and which other animal whose species include Common as well as both Northern and Southern hairy nosed varieties

Mancunians ?

The family Notoryctidae includes 2 extant species that are commonly referred to as the marsupial equivalent of what other animal In part this is because they lack functioning eyes and external ears

TikTokers ?

The family Dasyuromorphia encompases almost all carnivorous marsupials inckuding quolls numbats and what other species

Flesh eating Koala ?

[myglaren]

They'll be molehills !

Baby mountains.

[mickthemaverick]

They'll be molehills !

Baby mountains.

I can't help thinking the Daily Mail may be involved in this somehow!!

[mickthemaverick]

Keeping it pictorial, I was right:

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[myglaren]

You must be familiar with that publication Mick.

[mickthemaverick]

SWMBO buys it from time to time and reads the online version every day. She occasionally points things out to me but I hear more about it on the radio!!