Suspension sinks on Sundays! C5 X7 that works hard + 206 GTi HDi (and 406 Coupe and 306 HDi). - MattBLancs

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myglaren wrote: 16 Apr 2025, 20:32 Rusty Roger is about three miles from me.
Only driven past it, never been up to it.
Worth a stop off when next passing I'd say. It's very short diversion off the main road, free car park next to it. Information board tells of its construction (and the surprisingly amount of concrete including piles to overcome the turning moments the wind can generate on those huge wings.

Scale of it is odd, looks huge, then as you walk up to it, seemed smaller, then when stood at its feet it seemed huge again! :)
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A couple of snaps from York
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p.s. you can just spot James's new hobby of sticking his tongue out whenever ask to smile for the camera! :-P
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MattBLancs wrote: 16 Apr 2025, 20:50
myglaren wrote: 16 Apr 2025, 20:32 Rusty Roger is about three miles from me.
Only driven past it, never been up to it.
Worth a stop off when next passing I'd say. It's very short diversion off the main road, free car park next to it. Information board tells of its construction (and the surprisingly amount of concrete including piles to overcome the turning moments the wind can generate on those huge wings.

Scale of it is odd, looks huge, then as you walk up to it, seemed smaller, then when stood at its feet it seemed huge again! :)
Youngest daughter lives half a mile from it so I pass it quite often. Never been tempted to get close to it.
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That's fair enough - I like to try and give these public installations a go and see what I make of them. I quite like the Angel of the North, though I can't quite put my finger on why!

I've seen another Gormley installation "Another Place" at Crosby beach. It didn't really "do anything" for me. Think partly because I spent too long wondering how much was under the sand to prevent them moving and also as to whether the "raised cylindrical protuberances" on their chests were: some sort of nod to how they were made OR because casting nipples is hard to do, so they'd been engineered out! :)
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Another Place by Antony Gormley
Google maps link:
https://g.co/kgs/q4LXg8o

Image showing the protuberances:
https://images.app.goo.gl/jLxYU
Actually, Wikipedia has a decent image
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... lace_2.jpg
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This is pretty local to me, hoping to give this a go if I happen to be near by (hopefully on a windy day!)

Singing Ringing Tree
https://g.co/kgs/Gimwbzd

https://www.google.com/search?client=ms ... 1aYndwVUdN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing_R ... e,_Burnley

Not to be confused with

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Wow! What a fantastic set of adventures Matt :D I'd love to try driving a JCB!

My abiding memory of the Angel of the North is passing it in a Xantia and watching the odometer flip over to 100K miles...

I watched another Xantia of mine flip over to 200K on the A303 near Andover...

I'd love to visit York and the NRM. Sadly it will now never happen - unless they move it to within a few miles of Paggers ;)

I'd love to see Gormley's 'Another Place' on Crosby beach too... I'm a great fan of his work and that sort of art in general :)
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Woodhorn Museum - lacking in pictures from there.

Here's a big motor:
(berk included for scale)
(berk included for scale)
That used to drive a big fan
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Hmmm... That is a big one and so is the fan!!!
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That's not a fan.

THIS is a fan....... :-D

Difficult to work out the scale, but you'll notice the ladder going up into the fan nacelle :shock:
A fan underground - own work
A fan underground - own work

Aaaaaannnnd......
probably a bigger fan :-D
A different fan underground - own work
A different fan underground - own work
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this is a big Fan..........
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Is this a big fan, or a small lady? :-D
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Those big axials Crocodile Dundee, sorry I mean Bobbins, posted are a couple of belters, excellent!

Not sure about the chap with the Wide Load tattoo (I was trying to work out if he was someone famous - I was drawing a blank! (But think I was just slow realising he was simply a fan who is big, not some wrestler called "big fan" or similar! #-o
mickthemaverick wrote: 17 Apr 2025, 19:35 Is this a big fan, or a small lady? :-D
Apologies, involuntary Father Ted reference coming!

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The play house has "turned blue" today - still awaiting the purple paint (colours selected by the boys from local builders' merchant handy Ronseal colour chart) will get a picture soon.

Also, first mow of the year. Mower started and ran well until mysteriously coughing to a halt and refusing to restart
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it had run dry of petrol, I'd only put a splash in! :roll:
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Stickyfinger wrote: 17 Apr 2025, 19:25 this is a big Fan..........

That's just put me off my breakfast :twisted:
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"Due to a fundamental misunderstanding, and disastrous viewing figures, Matt's account at OnlyFans was closed shortly after it was opened"
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