A photo of the day thread (6 Viewers)

[yodeli]

Yiiiipeee ! Looks like it's going to be a smashing summer at QMJ!

Eat Sleep Swim Eat Rest Swim Rest Eat Eat ..... Can't wait .... Bliss!
Heck I forgot ... Walk .. Run... more Walk more Run .... never mind it'll be hols!

 

[2657]

New Pool Assembly Day... (with a little help from my new neighbours.)

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Slightly larger than last year's pool and a much greater effort made to level the ground under it.

My little petrol engined water pump fired up straight away and drew water from my bottom well into the two, 1000 litre tanks and then filled the pool (needing 4000+ litres).

All done now... so the pump goes back into it's box for another 364 days.

Solar power filtration pump should be running tomorrow.


JJ

How do you, or anyone else, of advancing years, such as myself, actually get in and out of the thing

 

[Go Humberto!]

How do you, or anyone else, of advancing years, such as myself, actually get in and out of the thing

Via the top.

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[suavecarve]

Ended up in Freiburg today from the Aire at emmingdingen. About 10 miles flat and dirt cheap as shops were closed for bank holiday. She cost me an ice cream though. Right outside the cathedral was a stone with where I work on it. Guildford. Later research shows they are twinned

 

[JJ]

How do you, or anyone else, of advancing years, such as myself, actually get in and out of the thing

With difficulty and great care...


JJ

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

New Pool Assembly Day... (with a little help from my new neighbours.)

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View attachment 300410

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Slightly larger than last year's pool and a much greater effort made to level the ground under it.

My little petrol engined water pump fired up straight away and drew water from my bottom well into the two, 1000 litre tanks and then filled the pool (needing 4000+ litres).

All done now... so the pump goes back into it's box for another 364 days.

Solar power filtration pump should be running tomorrow.


JJ

When are you setting up the diving board and lifeguard tower?

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[old-mo]

How do you, or anyone else, of advancing years, such as myself, actually get in and out of the thing

@JJ.... Is going to put a little door in ,,, just for you...

 

[Dave and Mand]

This is my favourite from our visit to the British Wildlife Centre the other day.

 

[Fontie]

When are you setting up the diving board and lifeguard tower?

Its a diving branch, climb to whatever height you want.

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[Techno]

 

[Go Humberto!]

Battersea Power Station development.
A disgraceful exercise in foreign money-laundering, tax-evasion and property speculation.
It's a monument to greed.

 

[suavecarve]

Colmar. Somehow we have managed to miss this place before. Easy ride in from eguisheim which is up next if the internet works better

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[Yorick]

Battersea Power Station development.
A disgraceful exercise in foreign money-laundering, tax-evasion and property speculation.
It's a monument to greed.

Lots of accusations there. Any facts ?

 

[suavecarve]

Eguisheim. Staying at the fp site as usual and gone for the pinot Gris.
Popped into the wine merchants and saw they had orange beer at 18 per cent and 10 euros for a magnum. Asked to try some and she kindly explained I was supposed to add it to my beer for flavour. I explained I use frozen strawberries for that and that I was English. She gave a knowing but disgusted glance before I told her it keeps the beer cold. The disgusted look disappeared.

 

[Cliffdale]

First over night with puppy. She is growing fast, now 16 weeks old. Staying near portscatho.

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[Nigel L]

View from Ullapool, which is where we are tonight.

 

[Go Humberto!]

Lots of accusations there. Any facts ?

The prices start at around £600K for studio apartment (or £700K for 1 bed apartments) and then to £8million for the 3 bed..and then the sky is the limit for the suites and penthouses.
The occupancy periods will be, like all such high-end London properties, very low (typically used as holiday homes or not at all, just unfurnished investments).
It's funded by Malaysian money for international corporations and the super-rich to buy as an asset, and a hedge-fund purchase.
To think of it as "housing" is to miss the point of what high-end London property is actually for.
You need to ask why empty London property is so attractive to the Russian and Arab super rich.

They were allowed, by Wandsworth council, to reduce the number of affordable homes in the development to 386 out of 4,000 (initially it was going to be around 1500 I think).
I have no idea what "affordable home" means in the context of this development...very probably it means I couldn't afford one.

Anyway, luckily I think the area within about 10 miles of Battersea is a right shit 'ole, so they can charge what they like, when you step outside it's still Battersea and your Lamborghini won't be going more than 4mph.

 

[Go Humberto!]

The prices start at around £600K for studio apartment (or £700K for 1 bed apartments) and then to £8million for the 3 bed..and then the sky is the limit for the suites and penthouses.
The occupancy periods will be, like all such high-end London properties, very low (typically used as holiday homes or not at all, just unfurnished investments).
It's funded by Malaysian money for international corporations and the super-rich to buy as an asset, and a hedge-fund purchase.
To think of it as "housing" is to miss the point of what high-end London property is actually for.
You need to ask why empty London property is so attractive to the Russian and Arab super rich.

They were allowed, by Wandsworth council, to reduce the number of affordable homes in the development to 386 out of 4,000 (initially it was going to be around 1500 I think).
I have no idea what "affordable home" means in the context of this development...very probably it means I couldn't afford one.

Anyway, luckily I think the area within about 10 miles of Battersea is a right shit 'ole, so they can charge what they like, when you step outside it's still Battersea and your Lamborghini won't be going more than 4mph.

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[Mr Beaumont]

Up at Glencoe. Have a great weekend everyone!

 

[Just smiffy]

Busy today in Alicante...

 

[buttons]

Battersea Power Station development.
A disgraceful exercise in foreign money-laundering, tax-evasion and property speculation.
It's a monument to greed.

What would you have done with this interesting historic listed building GH. Returned it to a power generator maybe.

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[suavecarve]

St hypolite. Bit of a travelling day today

 

[Techno]

What would you have done with this interesting historic listed building GH. Returned it to a power generator maybe.

It is actually going to generate electricity too

 

[Jane And Rog]

Rackwick, Hoy, Orkney.

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[buttons]

It is actually going to generate electricity too

Excellent, the last time I visited Battersea it was conected and exporting to the grid.

 

[Nigel L]

Travelling up to The Stoer Head Lighthouse yesterday, saw snow still on some of the hills, and a 1 degree temp.

 

[Nigel L]

Have you ever noticed that when you find a place in the middle of nowhere, someone comes and finds you and parks next to you
Saw a couple of Seal pups whilst there, they were right in front of the Van

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[Techno]

Excellent, the last time I visited Battersea it was conected and exporting to the grid.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....on-to-start-generating-electricity-again/amp/

 

[big bertha]

Travelling up to The Stoer Head Lighthouse yesterday, saw snow still on some of the hills, and a 1 degree temp.
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Love that area, stayed in holiday cottage at Culkein a couple of times 30 years apart.

 

[HarryML]

St Cado Brittany. Enjoying a beer whilst watching another sunset.

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