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[Bill Walker]

It's Australia day down under.

Took doggy out this morning and 5 random people wished me happy Australia day..

I'm not really patriotic but I like it that people are proud of their country and happy.
I'm happy, the sun is shining and the birds are singing. It's a bit too hot today though, yesterday normal 27c (okay) today 32c, was 25c at 9am but now too hot.
27c tomorrow which I like.

He doesn't like 32 either..:)

 

[KS55]

Nigella is to replace Prue Leith on The Great Bake off. I shall keep abreast of the series.

 

[blueish swede]

100 years ago today John Logie Baird performed the first wireless transmission of a moving image from one place to another. The screen was 2". He fouded a company to build his "Televisor".

The BBC didn't start television broadcasting until 1936.

 

[chris63]

Makes you think

 

[Mike_F]

One in seven adults in Switzerland is a millionaire.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Minds blown

 

[crublue1]

Right then,
this scruffy fella, Karl Bushby

who is currently self-publicising his claim to have nearly finished walking all the way round the world is, in my opinion, for 2 reasons, a charlatan...

1) walking from Chile to Hull via The Bering Strait is not round the world. okay it's a long way but surely you have to end up back where you started.

2) it has taken him 27 years because he only walks for 2 or 3 months then fucks off to mexico for 3 months.

He's not even tried to raise money doing it.

When he started out in 1998, he told his poor old mam, Angela, he'd be back in 14 years. She has been waiting at her gate since 2012

the bloke was in Hungary before he took his Xmas break back to Mexico until March, fucker couldn't have hopped on easyjet to see her for a few days, could he.

Ross and Norris would have told him to do one if he expected to be in the big book.

That's a proper big shop he's done there.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Right then,
this scruffy fella, Karl Bushby

who is currently self-publicising his claim to have nearly finished walking all the way round the world is, in my opinion, for 2 reasons, a charlatan...

1) walking from Chile to Hull via The Bering Strait is not round the world. okay it's a long way but surely you have to end up back where you started.

2) it has taken him 27 years because he only walks for 2 or 3 months then fucks off to mexico for 3 months.

He's not even tried to raise money doing it.

When he started out in 1998, he told his poor old mam, Angela, he'd be back in 14 years. She has been waiting at her gate since 2012

the bloke was in Hungary before he took his Xmas break back to Mexico until March, fucker couldn't have hopped on easyjet to see her for a few days, could he.

Ross and Norris would have told him to do one if he expected to be in the big book.

How do these kind of people finance their trips etc, clearly not from his mums benevolence...

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Got a spare six days to listen to this ?


Longest Officially Released Song (Guinness World Record)

• Song:
  "Shri Ramcharitmanas"
• • Artist: Dr. Jagadeesh Pillai (India)
  • Duration: 138 hours, 41 minutes, 20 seconds (over 5.7 days)
  • Details: A recording of the entire 16th-century Hindu epic poem by Goswami Tulsidas, taking over four years to produce.

and all with no Blackmoresque guitar solo...amazing.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

My cousin has a cousin on her dad’s side that has been nominated for an Oscar and Bafta!

 

[NPBlue]

A friend of my father was a Grand Prix racer for Ferrari and Vanwall in the late 50's, early 60's, and won some races.

He retired when the woman he loved said she would only marry him if he gave up racing.

 

[Bill Walker]

My first attempt at bonsai

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

My first attempt at bonsai


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Treemendous effort!!!!!!!!!!
(gets coat)

 

[Blue Mist]

My first attempt at bonsai


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You are meant to nurture a bonsai tree over many years.
Cutting a bit off your hedge, sticking it in some compost and putting mints round it isn't the same.


Just sayin'

:-)

 

[Bill Walker]

You are meant to nurture a bonsai tree over many years.
Cutting a bit off your hedge, sticking it in some compost and putting mints round it isn't the same.


Just sayin'

:-)

I was tempted to start a bonsai thread, but it's obvious that sadly I won't be taken seriously..
That's a Japanese Jade tree btw.

 

[Blue Mist]

I was tempted to start a bonsai thread, but it's obvious that sadly I won't be taken seriously..
That's a Japanese Jade tree btw.

I knew that.

 

[crublue1]

You are meant to nurture a bonsai tree over many years.
Cutting a bit off your hedge, sticking it in some compost and putting mints round it isn't the same.


Just sayin'

:-)

You have to start somewhere.

 

[crublue1]

My first attempt at bonsai


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Might make a better cascade Bill.
Just my opinion

 

[Bill Walker]

Might make a better cascade Bill.
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[crublue1]

The dog looks dubious.
But joking apart, do you really think that tree will ever make an informal upright? It won't.
The branch structure is all wrong, there's no trunk taper, there's no ramification.
That tree needs growing on to achieve some sort of material to work with.
Or I'd suggest using a different material for your first attempt at styling.