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lake district

Posted:
Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:00 am
by Trundle
here is a picture of me and my wife's trip to the lakes.
Ullswater, taken from the north end

Re: lake district

Posted:
Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:57 pm
by ozzy72
Nice photo there Trundle

I miss the Lakes

Re: lake district

Posted:
Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:13 pm
by Trundle
Did you visit the lake district much ozzy.

Its a nice place , especially seeing the change of the seasons.
Nice soaring over them hills in a Micro L.
The place on the pic is Pooley Bridge, around 1-1/2 month ago.
Re: lake district

Posted:
Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:39 pm
by Hagar
Very moody photo.
The place on the pic is Pooley Bridge, around 1-1/2 month ago.
That's where I went on my last visit. Must have been in the 70s.

Re: lake district

Posted:
Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:48 pm
by Trundle
It was actually in the 40s, quite a cold day

just my bad joke about the temp that day.
No really Hagar, its a nice place and im glad you have have been. So what were you upto there back in the 70s, holiday? oh and yeah mother nature was being very moody that day. Typical uk outlook.
Re: lake district

Posted:
Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:55 pm
by Hagar
No really Hagar, its a nice place and im glad you have have been. So what were you upto there back in the 70s, holiday? oh and yeah mother nature was being very moody that day. Typical uk outlook.
I have relatives in Yorkshire. As I recall we all went there for a day out while we were visiting them. I don't get up that way so much nowadays.
Re: lake district

Posted:
Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:39 pm
by Rifleman
Been far too many yrs since I went to visit my brother at Scout Camp there...back in the dark ages.....
Re: lake district

Posted:
Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:33 am
by Trundle
Ah well riflefman, I normally ruff it when I go into the wild but now that you mention it, there is field_come camp site that is used in the summer months by the Army Cadets, Scouts etc, wonder if that is where you went as a lad.
Re: lake district

Posted:
Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:08 am
by Rifleman
Very many years ago..........chipping notes in stone tablets.........not that I'm that old, ......but, I do know what a cubit is..........
Re: lake district

Posted:
Tue Jun 28, 2005 12:44 pm
by Trundle
Very many years ago..........chipping notes in stone tablets.........not that I'm that old, ......but, I do know what a cubit is..........
2 years hard labour in the scouts eh

Oh cubits, do you know what a royal cubit is??
Trundle
Re: lake district

Posted:
Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:44 pm
by beaky
Here's a caption:
Ahhhhhhhhh......
I really need a getaway like that.
Re: lake district

Posted:
Wed Jun 29, 2005 12:03 am
by Rifleman
A Royal Cubit ?.....probably something to do with royalty ?
Re: lake district

Posted:
Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:23 pm
by Trundle
a bit of useless info about a royal cubit
There is evidence that the measurement unit known as the Royal Cubit was already in use as much as one hundred years prior to the building of the Great Pyramid, and perhaps even somewhat earlier.
It was the standard length that was used to measure building dimensions, land holdings, grain quantites, etc., throughout Egyptian antiquity. It would appear, then, that the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt precipitated not only a standardization of the length of the year to 365 days, but also the standardization of the foremost Egyptian unit of measurement.
Had enough?
I know naff all about cubits, my head is hurting reading about them, infact I have forgot why I am talking about them in the first place.
Trund