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- Sun May 05, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Peregrine falcons at Worcester Cathedral
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Re: Peregrine falcons at Worcester Cathedral
They serpently are! The parent can't cover all four now to keep them warm at night. I see there is another webcam at a big building in Glasgow, the Gilbert Scott tower, with four peregrine chicks. They are proposing to abseil to the nest (which is a big proper nest) to electronically tag the chicks ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 7:11 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Trivia Question of the Day
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Re: Trivia Question of the Day
That is what happens in medical schools today but in the '50s in Aberdeen (Scotland)medical school two students shared a cadaver and took it apart themselves. So they were finding their way around, say, the path of the vagus nerve so the results were not pretty. The prof of anatomy always insisted t...
- Fri May 03, 2024 6:55 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
In the '50s in Scotland you also had to be a "bona fide" traveller to be served a drink. And you had to sign the "bona fide travellers register" which had interesting entries such as "Athens Greece to Athens Missouri"**, and in one that I read "from the cradle to the grave". Oh what fun we had we bl...
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Peregrine falcons at Worcester Cathedral
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How can one reliably tell the male and the female apart? My Observer book of birds is not terribly helpful in this regard. I've been tending to assume that the one that is visible most of the time is the hen as I've only occasionally seen another bird appear with a kill. I'm sure she's aware of the ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 7:48 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Peregrine falcons at Worcester Cathedral
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My aren't they growing quickly! Right now the "parent" (sex unknown) is sounding really cross and shouting at the other "get a bloody move on and catch something to eat". It did the same yesterday evening, got no reply, left the nest and came back in about two minutes with what looked a blackbird si...
- Wed May 01, 2024 7:38 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
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Kararea - yeah that's it but it won't fit nicely at a gap in text.
bob2 - my wife has white,silvery hair. Getting a passport photo that satisfied the automatic checker system was a PITA - "not enough contrast with the background". Grrrr!
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bob2 - my wife has white,silvery hair. Getting a passport photo that satisfied the automatic checker system was a PITA - "not enough contrast with the background". Grrrr!
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- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
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As a rim shot is audio an emoji would not work, it would have to be followed by a cymbal clash to complete it.
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The Ancient Mariner
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Scotland.
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Re: Chaos in Scotland.
Revealing his choice of priorities "for the good of the SNP, the government and the people of Scotland". You got them in the wrong order you bastard!
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- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:20 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Peregrine falcons at Worcester Cathedral
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Re: Peregrine falcons at Worcester Cathedral
The feed seems to be frozen. I can hear the wind over the mic but the bird isn't moving. It was the same last night about 2200 when I had a last check before going off to bed.
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The Ancient Mariner
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Peregrine falcons at Worcester Cathedral
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I notice that the poor little bugger at the back of the group of 3 isn't being fed and then the fourth one appears from underneath the other three. Talk about a)the loudest complainers get fed and b)survival of the strongest. It's tough being a peregrine chick.
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The Ancient Mariner
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Peregrine falcons at Worcester Cathedral
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Yes, Beaufort is one of those whose departure I feel the poorer for. Who knows what motivates folks to leave.
I do miss his accounts of the doings of his Newfies. Did he get any replacements I wonder? Sigh.
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I do miss his accounts of the doings of his Newfies. Did he get any replacements I wonder? Sigh.
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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Peregrine falcons at Worcester Cathedral
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Buggah!! it's gone down again.
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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:56 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Peregrine falcons at Worcester Cathedral
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Can anyone one think of an "aerodynamic" reason for the tufts of feathers above and below the beak? Air speed indicators during their high speed dives??
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The Ancient Mariner
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: We need more
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You practice a lot and fall over a bigger lot but keep on trucking. Chapeau as we say in Morayshire.
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The Ancient Mariner
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Scotland.
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Re: Chaos in Scotland.
Where's plum when we need the REAL inside story??
The Ancient Mariner
The Ancient Mariner
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: It has been a wet April!
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Re: And it was in Jan '69....
....we returned from a few days down at Masirah to find Sharjah looking like an aircraft carrier, a runway surrounded by water. The Shackletons that had been left there looked a bit like those pewter tankards that were hand beaten. One of the techies was so overcome with his excitement to describe t...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:13 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The Capetonian WOE Thread
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Menorca? Mr Nelson a lady Hamilton. OH if correct
I'm going to be there on hols in 6 weeks time.
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I'm going to be there on hols in 6 weeks time.
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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: My first car
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Re: My first car....
.....Was a Wolsey 1500, staid for a Flying Off, but newly wed that was the choice. It's the only car number plate I remember YZ1120, n'orn irish it was. When it ran a big end I actually repaired outside the farm cottage we were living in by lying underneath (no jack) removed the sump, and pulled the...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re:RPC/PPC confusion.....
.....in my aging grey cells anyway. I did get it ALMOST right,come on, be fair. Just a bit of cross-over.
Thank you Madame K.
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Thank you Madame K.
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- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Ah yes! Of course. I associate mainly (from my experience) with the RN. And the "....pour congee" is for taking leave. It usually meant a "cockkers P" before the ship left. I have hazy memories of most of them, most memorably on HMS Rothesay in Sembawang dockyard in Singapore, shortly after Sub Lieu...