What did you see on the way home?

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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    HMS Illustrious

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    its kinda quite big

    i dunno what its doing in liverpool?
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  • Corporate Camper
    Corporate Camper Posts: 293
    mudcow007 wrote:

    i dunno what its doing in liverpool?

    It's at the Liverpool Cruise Terminal today and tomorrow, you can buy a ticket and have a look around.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Corporate Camper wrote:
    mudcow007 wrote:

    i dunno what its doing in liverpool?

    It's at the Liverpool Cruise Terminal today and tomorrow, you can buy a ticket and have a look around.

    Let's hope they've counted how many helicopters they've got on board.
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  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    mudcow007 wrote:
    HMS Illustrious

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    its kinda quite big

    i dunno what its doing in liverpool?

    Beats me. If they'd have wanted something that was big, slow to get moving and difficult to turn around they'd have kept Andy Carroll
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    I went for a butchers at lunchtime. She's bigger than Andy. Just.

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  • Libraio
    Libraio Posts: 181
    A seal sunbathing on the side of a canal.
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  • gtvlusso
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    BigMonka wrote:
    A dead deer
    A dead badger
    A dead squirrel
    A dead fox

    All on the same 2mile stretch of road.

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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    A heron out for a late night flight.
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    Nothing of interest on the way home, and almost nothing at all on the way in this morning ....

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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    On the way in this morning, rather than on the way home, but, in addition to 13 squashed rabbits (count them), 2 squashed hedgehogs and a squashed buzzard (that's a new one for me), I also saw this ...

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    The bridge structure in the background is my road to work, only it's also a swingbridge over the Manchester Ship Canal, which just started swinging out of the way to allow an oil tanker to come through as I approached. Impressive bit of Victorian engineering in action. Made me late for work.
  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    Warrington?
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  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    Hundreds of cops, tens of police vehicles. Two AW101 Merlin helicopters, two VF22 Ospreys and "Marine One."
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    Sketchley wrote:
    Warrington?

    Yes, Warrington is one of the highlights on my ride from Altrincham to Liverpool. That, and Widnes.
  • msmancunia
    msmancunia Posts: 1,415
    Maybe it's a weird coincidence, but apart from your 13 squashed rabbits and other assorted carrion, my boss also saw "loads and loads of dead squirrels" on the way in from Chinley this morning . Maybe it's some weird small mammal suicide pact?
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    msmancunia wrote:
    Maybe it's a weird coincidence, but apart from your 13 squashed rabbits and other assorted carrion, my boss also saw "loads and loads of dead squirrels" on the way in from Chinley this morning . Maybe it's some weird small mammal suicide pact?

    Yes, I forgot to mention the squirrels. Scores of them. A very bad night for Cheshire's wildlife!
  • muttley_109
    muttley_109 Posts: 177
    bendertherobot wrote:
    Hundreds of cops, tens of police vehicles. Two AW101 Merlin helicopters, two VF22 Ospreys and "Marine One."

    You must be somewhere near me then. Plenty of helicopters buzzing about today aswell.
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  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    muttley_109 wrote:
    bendertherobot wrote:
    Hundreds of cops, tens of police vehicles. Two AW101 Merlin helicopters, two VF22 Ospreys and "Marine One."

    You must be somewhere near me then. Plenty of helicopters buzzing about today aswell.

    Yeah, there will be many more tomorrow and Thursday should be very very interesting.
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  • rower63
    rower63 Posts: 1,991
    a few days ago now, but I saw two things that made me go ooh.

    1. A normal-ish-looking if rather tall bike-frame with a very tall extended headtube and a hand-crank at the top of it, in addition to pedals and cranks where you'd expect them. Being ridden across Battersea Bridge.

    2. A black people-carrier-type vehicle, clearly plain-clothes-police-or-other-service with integrated flashing blue lights amongst the light cluster. But a "Private Hire" sticker on the back windscreen too :?
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    vermin wrote:
    Sketchley wrote:
    Warrington?

    Yes, Warrington is one of the highlights on my ride from Altrincham to Liverpool. That, and Widnes.

    Warrington a highlight??!???
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  • itboffin
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    did you miss the Widnes comment ? :shock:
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    vermin wrote:
    Sketchley wrote:
    Warrington?

    Yes, Warrington is one of the highlights on my ride from Altrincham to Liverpool. That, and Widnes.

    I think we all never expected to see this sentence in our lifetimes.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Rolf F wrote:
    vermin wrote:
    Sketchley wrote:
    Warrington?

    Yes, Warrington is one of the highlights on my ride from Altrincham to Liverpool. That, and Widnes.

    I think we all never expected to see this sentence in our lifetimes.

    I think the analogy is that when you are swimming in a sea of sh*t, a floater is something to hold on to.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Rolf F wrote:
    vermin wrote:
    Sketchley wrote:
    Warrington?

    Yes, Warrington is one of the highlights on my ride from Altrincham to Liverpool. That, and Widnes.

    I think we all never expected to see this sentence in our lifetimes.

    I think the analogy is that when you are swimming in a sea of sh*t, a floater is something to hold on to.

    Thank you for that Oscar.......... :lol:
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    :lol::wink:
  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    I'm a big footie fan and thought it was amusing that the first televised MNF match of this season the other week had Chelsea fans clearly chanting:

    "I wanna go home,
    I wanna go ho-o-o-ome,
    Burnley's a sh*thole,
    I wanna go home"
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    bendertherobot wrote:
    muttley_109 wrote:
    bendertherobot wrote:
    Hundreds of cops, tens of police vehicles. Two AW101 Merlin helicopters, two VF22 Ospreys and "Marine One."

    You must be somewhere near me then. Plenty of helicopters buzzing about today aswell.

    Yeah, there will be many more tomorrow and Thursday should be very very interesting.


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  • muttley_109
    muttley_109 Posts: 177
    8:30 Friday morning according to the BBC. 12 fighters, a voyager and the red arrows. Should be some display.
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  • daxplusplus
    daxplusplus Posts: 631
    muttley_109 wrote:
    bendertherobot wrote:
    Two AW101 Merlin helicopters, two VF22 Ospreys and "Marine One."

    You must be somewhere near me then. Plenty of helicopters buzzing about today aswell.

    Yep saw them today .. plus apaches.
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  • vermin
    vermin Posts: 1,739
    This morning's roadkill tally:

    Rabbits: 3
    Squirrels: 2
    Hedgehogs: 2
    Pigeons: 2
    Moles: 1
    Mice: 1
    Buzzards: 0
  • msmancunia
    msmancunia Posts: 1,415
    2 hedgehogs - roadkill
    3 big fat frogs - roadkill
    I sparrowhawk using my privet hedge as some kind of fast food drive-thru
    1 peacock sat on top of next door's garage
    1 pair of white y-fronts in the middle of Oldham Road.
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