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Dunbeath to Latheron [See bottom for album link]
Here's a starter for ten..... Of weeds and walls:
The rest of the album is here. If you can't see it I will post individual photos in small batches. Click on the first photo to open the bigger version and you will find captions to the right-hand side. Use forward arrows on right to move through album:
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Went for a walk from Dunbeath to Latheronwheel on Sunday morning. I took some photos that I'm going to post later. For now how about the giant beast walking through the water. there is a legend of "The Morven Giant" in Caithness. Named after the mountain it is supposed to inhabit.....could this be the legend?
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We were going to bid for both but there was a fault in the concrete retaining wall at the back of the house that would have cost more than we could afford to repair, Margie.
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My photos have once again disappeared?! I simply don't understand why this is happening.
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Thanks for the lovely comments, gang. Should anyone wish to experience any of the places shown in any of my photos - you know where I am.
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No idea, Rog. The mill has been boarded up since before I moved here 25yrs ago......Perhaps a small electricity generator? I occasionally see the retired local historian in Wick. I will make a point of asking what he knows about it when I next see him.
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My garden rake broke yesterday and as I was re-shaping the handle to fit into the head bracket I thought: "Now here's summat as yer don't see anymore - folk as fix their old garden tools rather than buy new uns." I have two rakes; one I fixed yesterday by reshaping the handle to fit the head and the other has a splint on the handle, which split along the lower half about four years ago. The splint has held perfectly over the past years and looks set to continue to hold for a while yet!
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All 'stagians have a standing invite to drop in when up this way, Beekay.
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19 hours ago, katyjay said:
\snip\ found another Wasgij in the used bookstore. I love them, but they sure are a challenge.
My sister collects Wasgij jigsaws but only buys them 2nd hand.
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No sign of it up here in Caithness, Denshaw. Outside it is currently 7°C, cloud at zero feet and a strong north wind. Been like this since mid-May. I think the French have used their weather veto to prevent us from having a summer, this year.
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My lad bought me a 1000piece jigsaw for Father's day. I put it together and found that it was two pieces short! The bag it came in was factory sealed so I don't know what's happened to the missing pieces. I am aways very careflu not to lose bits so I'm wondering if someone at the factory is having a joke?
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Seeing the Tonka psots reminded me of the TV advert: "Tonka! Real tough toys, for real tough boys!" I don't suppose they are allowed to say things like that any more.
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Pugh, Pugh, Barney Mcgrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb. Click for "Roll Call".
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Not a single furry die in sight, Ian!
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We are losing wildlife at an alarming rate. A recent survey showed the hedgehog population to be in freefall and many other forms of wildlife are also suffering decline. After many years of whale protection, Japan has announced that it is to resume commercial whaling but even without this, our whales are sufferring more today than you might imagine. Yesterday a 27ft female Humpback whale washed up on the beach at Thurso. Its flippers were tied tightly to its flanks by what appears to be lobster pot rope. The line had cut deeply into the flippers making it impossible for the animal to swim and thus it seems to have drowned. This is the third such incident around the scottish coast this month. Unfortunately, the incidents seem to be on the increase, too. Environmentalists are now saying that noise from wind farm survey sonar and the windfarms themselves are creating confusing noise barrages in the water and may be causing whales to swim closer to the shore than they should. This is bringing them into contact with creelers' lines and causing fatal entanglements. Here are a few pictures I took yesterday. The Scottish Cetacean specialist veterinary team have arrived to conduct a post mortem on the animal and are taking preliminary measurements before taking samples from the whale. Click the link and then click the images for full size pictures.
Humpback whale Caithness 30-5-2019
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Bakelite clocks and trimphones......unless you sit at my computer desk
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Very smart!
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12 hours ago, Martin Lock said:
Blue 3 wheel disable cars.
Click link for images and full details of the AC Thundersley Invacar: Model 70 Blue Invacar
If you were disabled, and lucky enough, you were offered an ice blue single seater that though loved in many quarters, was frequently ridiculed.
The Thundersley Invacar Model 70 three wheeler was designed by AC, the same company that gave us the AC Cobra, and was in production from 1971 until 1978, it was three metres (9 foot 9 inches) in length and 1 metre 37cm (4 foot 6 inches) wide.
The ice blue fiberglass shell with twin sliding doors offered room for a driver and their wheelchair (folded up beside them) storage was in the front of the car, as the engine was in the boot, which offered room for your shopping and there was also a parcel shelf behind the driver for additional storage.
The Thundersley 70 was able to be adapted to the individuals needs depending on their disability, an astonishing 56 different setups were available, you could choose from a traditional steering wheel or a motorcycle style handlebar operation or the ingenious tiller system that when pushed down applied the brakes.
The Invacar controls: Steering wheel, Motorcycle handlebars or a Tiller operation
The Model 70 had a 493cc Steyr-Puch flat-twin engine that produced 19.3 horse power that could reach a top speed of 60 miles per hour, some models housed a 600cc engine that produced considerably more power and a claimed top speed of 82 miles per hour. The Salsbury transmission pulley drive system offered a forward or reverse option, the gear lever being in the centre of the car with the options Forward, Neutral and Reverse, the downside to this system was that the Invacar could travel as fast in reverse gear as it could going forward.
Twin sliding doors offered easy access for the driver, room for a folded wheelchair too
As the Thundersley Invacar Model 70 was owned by the Government, and leased to the drivers, when in 2003 they decided they were not fit to be on the roads of the UK they simply rounded them all up and destroyed them, apparently 50 units a week were going to the crusher, and very few still survive. Older Invacar models were not part of the cull and can be registered for use on the UK roads.
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He was too close to death to do anything for him, Brew. Had we found him sooner....who knows?
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Norman the hedgehog, shortly before his death yesterday. We found him lying on the front lawn, very cold and listless. We tried to warm him up and revive him but alas, it was not to be.
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Trouble is that up here our season is short. If things don't get a good start they don't mature. Can't have it all ways though.....at least my garden stuff will not get pinched by raiders.
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Looking good, Rog. I wish the temperature would pick up a bit here. It hasn't reached double figures since last Monday. Can't get owt planted out in this.
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Received this from a vintage bike enthusiast this morning:
"The trike is a Humber No. 7 of about 1888 price was £28." He also posted a photo of the works thus:
The people in the original photo were the grandfather of a friend's wife, Frederick Tissington, and his half sister Elizabeth Tissington
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Vintage trike question: Is this model of trike adapted for two people to pedal as per tandem or is it just one person pedalling?
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Emailed you Beekay.