Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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I need to get to know my neighbours just around the corner better. This was theirs.
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The cloudy pattern made by adding a dash of milk to tea/coffee - fleeting but pleasing1
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veronese68 said:
Wow! That estimate looks a little low with hindsight.
The owners had no idea how much it was worth... to the extent they just carried it up the street a few years ago when they moved.0 -
Watching contestants on University Challenge smugly and confidently give an answer that is wrong. Even better when they give some really complicated answer when the actual answer was far more simple.0
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Went kayaking yesterday in Berwick. Unexpected sunshine. Unexpected bird colony. Unexpected navigable tributary.2
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As long as you didn't end up in the North sea 'cos that if frikkin ccccold.
Tried it this summer in a thick wet suit and it was... frikkin ccccold. Whereas the Tyne was lovely.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
No, we stayed on the water, not in it. And we went the other way.pinno said:As long as you didn't end up in the North sea 'cos that if frikkin ccccold.
Tried it this summer in a thick wet suit and it was... frikkin ccccold. Whereas the Tyne was lovely.0 -
Installing the Radio France app on the Amazon Fire I'd bought for my mum (never got used): the themed internet channels on France Musique are brilliant for classical, jazz & baroque music, with no news and no chat or endless trailers for other programmes you get on Radio 3. Having been a R3 listener all my life (quite literally - I'm pretty sure it would have been on on the old valve radio the day I was brought back from the maternity hospital), it's gone off in the search for new audiences, and lost me.
Even better, it's paid for by French taxpayers
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Just look at that! See what gravel bikes can get you? From Rosie Baxendine, check her out on the soshuls.
xxxx I want to move back to Scotland 😊2 -
Getting all the pieces of the jigsaw in place to drive, ride, fly, train, train and walk to the French house for Christmas, and escape this septic isle (assuming I'm still allowed out by then).1
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Buying a KitKat (because it seems healthier?!) and discovering that one of the fingers is all chocolate. Bonus2
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Willy Wonka's revenge.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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Chelsea putting 7 past the Tractor Boys "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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Yeah, as someone from Norfolk we have been called the carrot crunchers, the sister shaggers, the pig f***ers and for a Bernard Matthews reference...the turkey stranglers. The tractor boys are the other lot.Pross said:
I'd avoid East Anglia if I were you, The Tractor Boys are Ipswich Town not Norwich!Stevo_666 said:Chelsea putting 7 past the Tractor Boys
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One right in the centre of Cambridge no lessrjsterry said:
Oh, absolutely. Masonry or timber frame construction doesn't preclude round buildings either.TheBigBean said:
It was more the point that structurally it can be big and not round and even in Africa.rjsterry said:
Mosques generally are not round due to the prescribed method of worship. There's probably a PhD thesis in the influence of Greek and Roman architecture on the Abrahamic religious practices.TheBigBean said:Djenne mosque is not round.
In Western Europe for instance, churches are based on the form of the basilica because that was the (secular) building that early Christianity adopted, whereas in Eastern Europe churches evolved from the form of 'martyria'.
But yes, Mecca is the only place with round praying.
Intriguingly there is a cluster of round church towers in East Anglia.
12th century.
I may be an atheist but I loves me a church.1 -
High Sixverylonglegs said:
Yeah, as someone from Norfolk we have been called the carrot crunchers, the sister shaggers, the pig f***ers and for a Bernard Matthews reference...the turkey stranglers. The tractor boys are the other lot.Pross said:
I'd avoid East Anglia if I were you, The Tractor Boys are Ipswich Town not Norwich!Stevo_666 said:Chelsea putting 7 past the Tractor Boys
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Too many goals scrambled my brainorraloon said: "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Ditto, and that's having spent seemingly half my life in them for one reason or another.rick_chasey said:
I may be an atheist but I loves me a church.
They are an extraordinary legacy of how past societies organised themselves, and contain so much evidence of the skills and visions of past generations, it's hard not to be moved by them, even without the mumbo jumbo. I'm often more moved by the humble and naïve than the immense cathedrals. But whatever size they are, they are wonderful spaces to explore, and to help us realise how transient we all are.
Here endeth today's lesson.0 -
Can you imagine someone today pitching a new build incorporating such levels of pointless intricacies? Not to mention, I doubt the skillset still exists in sufficient numbers.briantrumpet said:
Ditto, and that's having spent seemingly half my life in them for one reason or another.rick_chasey said:
I may be an atheist but I loves me a church.
They are an extraordinary legacy of how past societies organised themselves, and contain so much evidence of the skills and visions of past generations, it's hard not to be moved by them, even without the mumbo jumbo. I'm often more moved by the humble and naïve than the immense cathedrals. But whatever size they are, they are wonderful spaces to explore, and to help us realise how transient we all are.
Here endeth today's lesson.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
pblakeney said:
Can you imagine someone today pitching a new build incorporating such levels of pointless intricacies? Not to mention, I doubt the skillset still exists in sufficient numbers.briantrumpet said:
Ditto, and that's having spent seemingly half my life in them for one reason or another.rick_chasey said:
I may be an atheist but I loves me a church.
They are an extraordinary legacy of how past societies organised themselves, and contain so much evidence of the skills and visions of past generations, it's hard not to be moved by them, even without the mumbo jumbo. I'm often more moved by the humble and naïve than the immense cathedrals. But whatever size they are, they are wonderful spaces to explore, and to help us realise how transient we all are.
Here endeth today's lesson.
Well there is the Segrada Familia, and Liverpool Cathedral, as 'modern' examples, though I'll grant you that they were started a long time before they were finished (and I'm not sure if SF is actually finished yet).0 -
But, yes, it's unlikely that even a single small village in Devon (for instance) would build anything like that now. But look at the map of listed churches in Devon, and you see what a legacy we have.
https://devonchurchland.co.uk/the-guide-to-devon-churches/0 -
Which is why I said pitching it today. 😉briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:
Can you imagine someone today pitching a new build incorporating such levels of pointless intricacies? Not to mention, I doubt the skillset still exists in sufficient numbers.briantrumpet said:
Ditto, and that's having spent seemingly half my life in them for one reason or another.rick_chasey said:
I may be an atheist but I loves me a church.
They are an extraordinary legacy of how past societies organised themselves, and contain so much evidence of the skills and visions of past generations, it's hard not to be moved by them, even without the mumbo jumbo. I'm often more moved by the humble and naïve than the immense cathedrals. But whatever size they are, they are wonderful spaces to explore, and to help us realise how transient we all are.
Here endeth today's lesson.
Well there is the Segrada Familia, and Liverpool Cathedral, as 'modern' examples, though I'll grant you that they were started a long time before they were finished (and I'm not sure if SF is actually finished yet).The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I bet you there's a legion of people with the right skillsets brought together in a bid to restore Notre Dame.pblakeney said:
Can you imagine someone today pitching a new build incorporating such levels of pointless intricacies? Not to mention, I doubt the skillset still exists in sufficient numbers.briantrumpet said:
Ditto, and that's having spent seemingly half my life in them for one reason or another.rick_chasey said:
I may be an atheist but I loves me a church.
They are an extraordinary legacy of how past societies organised themselves, and contain so much evidence of the skills and visions of past generations, it's hard not to be moved by them, even without the mumbo jumbo. I'm often more moved by the humble and naïve than the immense cathedrals. But whatever size they are, they are wonderful spaces to explore, and to help us realise how transient we all are.
Here endeth today's lesson.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Primarily the roof though.pinno said:
I bet you there's a legion of people with the right skillsets brought together in a bid to restore Notre Dame.pblakeney said:
Can you imagine someone today pitching a new build incorporating such levels of pointless intricacies? Not to mention, I doubt the skillset still exists in sufficient numbers.briantrumpet said:
Ditto, and that's having spent seemingly half my life in them for one reason or another.rick_chasey said:
I may be an atheist but I loves me a church.
They are an extraordinary legacy of how past societies organised themselves, and contain so much evidence of the skills and visions of past generations, it's hard not to be moved by them, even without the mumbo jumbo. I'm often more moved by the humble and naïve than the immense cathedrals. But whatever size they are, they are wonderful spaces to explore, and to help us realise how transient we all are.
Here endeth today's lesson.
There was a reason I said pitch a new build today. 😉The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0
