Picture(s) of the day....

[CitroJim]

Jim, were you in that photo ???? If so, I think we ought to have a 'Spot The Jim' competiton.

I am but I'm hard to spot! It easier to spot me in the first picture

In that case, my money's on.........

spot the jim.jpg

Bobins, you are spot on! Well done

How you did that I don't know, even I had trouble fining myself in that picture

Jim, after much consideration and deliberation, and weighing up the quality of your post, and the outstanding progress towards your own personal targets for running and cycling this year, i have decided to.....

Move you into the "nine hundred an nineties" with another well-earned "like".

Neil, thanks! I shall do my very best to submit some good stuff here... Today may offer a few pickings... I shall see what our Christmas Day parkrun and my bike ride offers up

[NewcastleFalcon]

I have already deposited a book I received today in the PE Library.

The Artist Alan Spillett produces some superb mainly private commission work in the area of road transport, and is largely unknown outside of this circle. Lives in West Wales.

There is a nice gallery on his website

Some nice snowy images in the gallery, including this seasonal one from Oxford Street
http://www.roadscapes.co.uk/images/gallery-18.jpg

Regards Neil

[Peter.N.]

Lovely pictures. I've been to a few of those places.

Peter

[van ordinaire]

How do you know? I certainly wouldn't recognise Oxford Street from that picture.

[NewcastleFalcon]

How do you know? I certainly wouldn't recognise Oxford Street from that picture.

There is a nice gallery on his website

Click on the blue link ^^...it says so!

Navigation on the site isn't that good so heres a direct link to one of his snowy pics at Jamaica Inn for free

JAMAICA INN: Cornish built Rowe Hillmaster from the 1960s, set on the A30, that goes over the wild and lonely Bodmin Moor, at the Jamaica Inn. As it used to be. The new road goes behind it now.
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...and one from the A303 just for good measure

"THE 303: Main road south west to Exeter and beyond, at Stonehenge Bottom, 1970s. The F.I.A.T. Artic loaded with scrap cars is heading for London. The old junction for Devizes is no longer there. Years ago, on the corner, were two wardens cottages, with a tea room opposite."
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Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

On a heavy transport theme.

I wouldn't be sure if any of these have been preserved, but their distinctive yellow livery and their shiny hub caps, were a familiar sight from my childhood as they thundered back and forth from the Cement Works in Weardale.

This is a nice collection of images from FLICKR, starting off with one which would grace our Rusty Wrecks thread. but further down there is at least one in its shiny new condition.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/24682251@ ... 2714320952

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

...and one from the A303 just for good measure

"THE 303: Main road south west to Exeter and beyond, at Stonehenge Bottom, 1970s. The F.I.A.T. Artic loaded with scrap cars is heading for London. The old junction for Devizes is no longer there. Years ago, on the corner, were two wardens cottages, with a tea room opposite."
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What a gorgeous picture Neil I well remember when it was exactly like that, cottages and all... Changed a bit now - as the picture says... The old road to Devizes was almost totally erased from the landscape last time I passed by that way. If you didn't know it was once there or knew where to look you'd never see it... I expect by now it's totally erased...

[NewcastleFalcon]

Here's a bit of what I will describe as collateral trivia, from the A303 painting above.

I missed a bit off the description...it is painted in Lascaux, framed in Walnut.

Well I know what Walnut is but what one earth is Lascaux?.......New knowledge for me and the first ever "nested double spoiler" I have ever seen on the FCF!

Spoiler: show

At face value it is a brand of fine art paints, but Lascaux itself is

Spoiler: show

A World Heritage site in the Dordogne featuring these well out of copyright paintings!
Lascaux painting
Prof saxx [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons

Regards Neil

[van ordinaire]

That stretch of the 303 has changed so much, I can't even work out how all the Hillmans get to the visitor centre now.

I thaught Lascaux was a place in France so, presumably, it's a reference to style, rather than medium - altough Neolithic cave art can't be easy adapt to portraying road transport.

[NewcastleFalcon]

One of these lurking in the A303 painting


Saab 95 V4 1974
unknown, affiliated with Garage de l'Est, digitally modified and uploaded by User:328cia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

I thought that was a Saab estate in that picture too... Very attractive cars

[myglaren]

Surprisingly capacious too - my mate could get more stuff in his than in the company Volvo 245.

[CitroJim]

Done it 1002 running miles now clocked up for 2018!

I was too ill to run yesterday so made up for it by running to and from parkrun today... It was a hard pair of runs as I was carrying a small rucksack with a coat and jumper for when I was volunteer barcode scanner and in truth I'm still not 100% fit and feeling a bit below par still but I was determined to do it

Very much my own work :)

[NewcastleFalcon]

Done it 1002 running miles now clocked up for 2018!

Can you spare 23 seconds Jim?

This will be the one and only time this video will be appropriate.



Regards Neil

PS The "get Jim to 1000 likes by midnight on New Years Eve" campaign gets one more like from me! Marc (givemeabreak) joined that club the other day which didn't go unnoticed by us number noticers!

[CitroJim]

Ohh, I like that locomotive Neil Reminds me a little of the BR Class 20 'Chopper'...

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