Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Challenging is definitely an appropriate word.briantrumpet said:morstar said:Learning to play the drums.
By any measure, my natural talent has yet to rear its ugly head.
However, the mere fact I am not totally incompetent and can clearly demonstrate progress is very satisfying.
Well done. I had one lesson from a friend/teacher, and though I'm good at rhythm, I found the coordination required between four limbs challenging. But I'm even worse at violin and guitar.
It's just as well I'm much better at tooting my trumpet.
I find you can pick up a basic rhythm ok. But the moment you have to engage your brain to change from that rhythm, everything goes to pot very quickly. I suspect being unconsciously capable is very much key.
It’s definitely not easy. I’d love to play keyboard or guitar but my finger dexterity is dreadful.
Decided hitting things may be more appropriate.1 -
Seeing a swan on its newly built nest on water's edge right by the cyclepath / road. Head tucked down, looked asleep this morning, head up and watchful this pm.1
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I hear a local starling mimic buzzard calls.0
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The House martins arrived today full of chitter chatter and then flew around catching the excellent batch of midges which kicked their arrival off with a good bellyful.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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Up until a couple of weeks ago I would see a buzzard out on my lunchtime dog walk. I hadn’t seen it for a while and was fearing the worst for it but yesterday I saw it again. To make the sighting even better, he was getting hassled by an individual crow that didn’t seem to understand that mobbing requires a mob. After a minute or so the buzzard got fed up and decided to fight back giving the crow a bit of a kicking before it chose to retreat.0
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I had never seen a Hen Harrier until one day, I saw this bird of prey in the distance who was going hell for leather attacking numerous crows. The crows did not form a mob in the face of the onslaught as the Hen Harrier went at them with speed and amazing agility.Pross said:Up until a couple of weeks ago I would see a buzzard out on my lunchtime dog walk. I hadn’t seen it for a while and was fearing the worst for it but yesterday I saw it again. To make the sighting even better, he was getting hassled by an individual crow that didn’t seem to understand that mobbing requires a mob. After a minute or so the buzzard got fed up and decided to fight back giving the crow a bit of a kicking before it chose to retreat.
I talked to a local twitter describing the birds markings and colour and he confirmed it was a Hen Harrier. They don't list the bird as being resident here locally as there were 2 Germans arrested some 10 years ago for collecting eggs on behalf of some Arab.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
What cheers me up just now is reading twitter in it's intended form.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 -
The local street party. Picked the right day for it unlike His Majesty.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
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Getting my ears expertly hoovered and being able to hear high frequencies again. Though it annoys me that they wax up regularly, and that I had to pay for the treatment, now that the GP surgery doesn't do it. But then it cheers me up that hoovering is less risky than syringing.0
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Timing my ride into work this afternoon just right... reckoned I had 10 minutes in between biblical downpours, and just about got away with it (in the blue bit in the middle).
Probably just as well I didn't have to cycle through Tipton St John though...
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Not just me then?0
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morstar said:
Whoosh!ddraver said:
I have no idea what I’m looking at beyond a literal interpretation.
Now somebody has liked it which suggests there is something to get.
Explanation please?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4OnBYrbCjY
Doppler effect meme. The vehicle sound coming towards you and how it changes sound as it passes you. Because sound can’t be accurately shown in an image, it uses the car changing colour to replicate the effect.1 -
The car changing colour is the blue shift / red shift phenomenon which is the doppler effect in light. Noticeable in stars, mostly.0
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It's cheered me up that I got it, despite just blowing raspberries for a living.1
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Thanks for explanations. Wouldn’t have got there otherwise.0
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Oh, so it's not left wing blue, right wing red USanian politics then?0
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Shouldn't that be:
Nnneee-oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwww w w w w w ?seanoconn - gruagach craic!1 -
...1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Logging off from work for the last time.
Not trivial. 😃😎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.6 -
Liberating isn't it?0
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Starts for real tomorrow. 😉Munsford0 said:Liberating isn't it?
Scratch that. Monday as I only worked a 4 day week anyway.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 -
Result of not being a flash git nor keeping up with the Jones's. 😉Pross said: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 -
Congratulations, can I ask what age?pblakeney said:Logging off form work for the last time.
Not trivial. 😃😎
My target is 62 but I have a fear that my target retirement date is always on a 5 year horizon.0
https://youtu.be/EuAIR0NgDR8
