The Newshound
Archive for ‘January, 2020’
The City (3)
The City (2)
The City (1)
The Port of Call
The Florida Sea Rabbit
They have very strange rabbits in Florida.
The Unfriendly Florida Resident…
The Old Geezer in Florida
Taken 15 years ago before I became REALLY old!
The Florida Chickens With Nowhere To Go…
The Florida Lady with a Baby Rabbit
The Splatter Zone
Best avoided…
The Fluffy Florida Chicken
The Fine Figure of a Man from Florida
The Florida Green Eyed Orange Chicken
The Florida Chicken Scratching its Armpit
The Florida Day!
Today, all the images you’ll see were taken in Florida some years ago. I have been delving into the archives and remaking some of the images taken long ago.
The Church
The Bomber
The Old Signal Box
The Lightning
The Vulcan Bomber Cockpit
It could almost be a spaceship! The photograph was taken from the ‘back room’ of the Vulcan where three ‘back office’ crew members would have sat. It will be clear from the image that the Vulcan bomber was not build for comfort.
The Daily Grind (done to order!)
The Bikers and the Bomber
The Apple Muncher
The Big Breakfast
The Beauty (see last post)
The BEAST! (see next post)
The Smile
The Most Unusual Orchestra
The Crowded Houses…
The Tee Shirts Whilst You Wait…
The Road Block
Hardly subtle…
The Memorial
The Health and Safety Violation
The Whoof and Puff Man
The Seaplane
The Big Blue Cock
Now that’s what I call a chicken!
The Flyboy
The Quick Brown Dog?
Those of us (and we are a vanishing breed) who can send and receive Morse code will be able to pick out ‘The Quick Brown Dog’ sent in Morse code from this interesting video. I think it should be ‘The Quick Brown Fox’ but who cares. There was a time when I earned my living sending and receiving Morse code messages. Hard to believe these days but it does prove that I am a VERY OLD MAN!!!
The Lovers
The Big Guns
If the firing pin interrupter mechanism didn’t work, there was every chance you would shoot your own propellor off.
The Lighthouse (Ver 2)
The BF9 – A Banff, Scotland Based Fishing Vessel
British fishing vessels have a name and a registration number. BF = Banff, Scotland and the registration number 9.
The Inner Harbour
The Crystal Sea
See a larger version of the image here.
The Hole in the Wall
I have a feeling this is where people working in MacDuff Harbour took their horses for a drink of water years ago before motor vehicles came along. On the other hand, it might be the strangest (and most public) toilet I have ever seen!
The MacDuff Harbour Slip at Night
The Sidewinder
One of the older style of trawler (not many left now)
The Harbour at Night
MacDuff Harbour during the night
The Inner Harbour, MacDuff
The Doors (or Otter Boards)
These great big lumps of metal are towed behind trawlers. Their aquadynamic shape help to keep the ‘mouth’ of the trawl net open (a bit like wings flying through the water) and the hapless fish are caught in the net, never to escape.
The Bulbous Forefoot
The Bulbous Forefoot or, Bulbous Bow, greatly increases fuel efficiency and the fins help with stability. More about this technology (an American invention) here. The ‘snoot’ shown below belongs to a trawler but most ships are built with bulbous bows these days.
The Stairway
The Bat Hotel
Where else would bats hang out?
The Long-Lived Farmer
The farmer lived to a ripe old age but his grandchildren were not so fortunate. 1861 was clearly a bad year (Flu? TB?) The United Kingdom delivered the Industrial Revolution (1820-1840) but if you were poor at that time, then there was virtually no healthcare – frightening statistics here.
The View Across the Loch
The Saddest of Sad Stories
The cemetery at Marykirk Scotland had more than a few gravestones which tells a very sad story about child mortality in the 1800s. The records will show that many children died in the first few days, weeks and months of their lives. It must have been heartbreaking for the parents. Where would we be without modern medicine.
The Gravestone reads:
Erected by
Alexander Young
Engineer in Bombay and
ElizabethScott
His wife
In the memory of their children
Elizabeth Ann
Who died at Arbroat
21st September 1859
Aged 3 years
James
Who died at Bombay
13 August 1863
Aged 10 days
John Scott
who died at Bombay
13 April 1865
Aged 1 year and 7 month
Alexandria
Who died at Arbroath
4 October 1867
Aged 8 days
The Stick Wrangler
Katy wrangles a stick in a loch in the Scottish Highlands.
The Grim Reaper is coming!
You can run but you can’t hide. A gravestone we saw at Marykirk in Scotland. Could the warning be any clearer!? The end is nigh!!!
The Harbour
A spot of fisheye lens action at Banff Harbour
The Eternal Light
The Roman Well
We often walk along the beach from Banff to Whitehills (good place to buy fresh fish) and, on the way, we pass the old Roman Well (and I thought the Roman’s didn’t get this far north). It has been there since Roman times (AD 43 to AD 47) and so it was built around 2,000 years ago. They build things to last in Scotland!!! More about this small but nonetheless interesting building here.
I walked to Whitehills and back today and realised it is a 6 mile round-trip. Oh so very healthy!
The Mess of Sea Chickens
The Slippery Slope
It’s all down hill from here…
The Electric Chickens
Chickens who don’t realise they’re standing on high voltage cables.
The Harbourside
The Mess of Creels
The Temporary Neighbour
The view from our house…
The Slip
The Street
A street in MacDuff, Scotland
The Prop
The Trawler
And in mono…
The Rois Mhairi
A visitor to the MacDuff Harbour
The Sunrise
The sun rising over MacDuff early this morning
The fish(ing boat) out of water
The Beached Trawler at Night
The Just Reward
One of my favourite boats often found in MacDuff Harbour
The Birth of a White Horse
The Dog and the Rabbit Hole
PS: Our dog has never caught a rabbit (and so she ain’t no friend of mine – ha ha ha!)
The Clockwork Orange Legged Sea Chicken
They really are like little wind-up toys!
The Curly Beaked Sea Chicken
The Seal Watching Me Watching It…
A seal watching me walk the dog today off Boyndie Beach, Banff, Scotland.
The Ground Crew (2) – Version 2
A slightly different version of this image.
The Rock Dog
Our dog, Katy ( fries stabij), searching for tennis balls lost by other people in amongst the rocks on Boyndie Beach, near to Banff, Scotland. Finding tennis balls has become something of an obsession for our dog.
The Utter Pointlessness of War
Over 57,000 aircrew were killed during World War 2 (46% death rate). I can’t help wondering how many more young men and women will be killed if fighting breaks out (again) in Iran/Iraq and beyond. Ultimately a pointless and tragic loss of human life. We never seem to learn.
The Ground Crew (2)
The Ground Crew (1)
The Old Timer
The Cold Weather Surfers
Rather them than me!!!
The First Chicken
The first chicken of 2020…
