trivial things that make you smile,or make you feel good

[Reg Smeeton]

I will do after a while, but for now I'm just enjoying spending my day doing practical stuff, talking to the general public about something I'm actually interested in, and with everything being new it's exciting.

And the surroundings are pretty great, especially on a day like today.

I did my bit to day for the English Tourist Board, when encountering 2 Japanese ladies on the old coach road remnant which runs between Marlborough and Bath, near Beckhampton....they were looking for the Cherhill White Horse up at Oldbury. I told them I was going that way, making for Morgan's Hill Nature Reserve....looking for orchids.  Now their English wasn't great, but I said I would show them the way, and they seemed interested in orchids. As we went along I tried to explain the differences between the Bronze Age, Roman period, and Iron Age features visible in the landscape....on reaching Oldbury, there are a few places good for orchids, so I showed the ladies Common Spotted, Pyramidal, and Twayblade. They went into paroxysms of excitement in that way that Japanese people do    They were so grateful on parting that the bows, were nearly bending double. I did wonder if the angle of dangle, has some significance....it felt like it should.

Places like Stonehenge and Avebury, although wonderful, have been ruined by over exposure.

[janaage]

Cherhill white horse and monument is a lovely walk. Drove my fiesta up to the monument once, scariest drive ever in those tractor tracks. Loved camping up there, was up there the day Senna died, flipping cold once the sun went down.

[TheMajorSTFC]

Just seen an 89 year old 'Jock' jump 2000ft from an aeroplane to mark the same drop he did 70 years ago for the D-Day landings...fair play!

[Reg Smeeton]

Cherhill white horse and monument is a lovely walk. Drove my fiesta up to the monument once, scariest drive ever in those tractor tracks. Loved camping up there, was up there the day Senna died, flipping cold once the sun went down.

I'd imagine that in the Iron Age, there were more trees, because now it's a bit blasted up there. Didyour camping expedition look like this?

[Honkytonk]

Just seen an 89 year old 'Jock' jump 2000ft from an aeroplane to mark the same drop he did 70 years ago for the D-Day landings...fair play!

If he's the same guy who was on the news last night, I think it was his brother who actually made the jump on the day in question. Either way, the guy did bloody well.

I have to say all the coverage I've seen of the D-Day memorials, and the general good taste of all the people making their way to commemorate it has been fantastic. I've got some friends over there whose dads/uncles own jeeps/halftracks etc. and have made the trip, and some of the videos they've made are amazingly evocative.

Wife has never visited Stonehenge so thought about taking a trip there this weekend. I'll wave awkwardly if I see you

Not working there this weekend. PLAN FOILED.

[donkey]

Realising that we have more representatives at the World Cup than Leicester City 

[london_red]

Realising that we have more representatives at the World Cup than Leicester City 

Got the same number don't we? Think they have an Algerian who has made the trip.

We are the lowest ranked side in the English league pyramid to have a player at the WC though.

[Talk Talk]

We are the lowest ranked side in the English league pyramid to have a player at the WC though.

I have never understood why it is called a pyramid. Surely it is more of an Eiffel Tower?

[Ginginho]

Realising that we have more representatives at the World Cup than Leicester City 

They have one, we have one, we do have one more than West Ham, however.

[Peter Venkman]

We are the lowest ranked side in the English league pyramid to have a player at the WC though.

Thats quite an achievement.

[4D]

The huge wasp/hornet that appeared in our office this afternoon. About 2 1/2 inches long.

[jayohaitchenn]

15 mins till my annual leave. Got the next 5 weeks off. 37 days in a row.

[suttonred]

The huge wasp/hornet that appeared in our office this afternoon. About 2 1/2 inches long.

Its not one of those big asian ones that have been all over the papers last few days is it? If it is run.

[Peter Venkman]

Not really make me smile or feel good but very thought provoking and clever, and apt for today.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/06/d-day-landing-sites-pictures_n_5458026.html?1402052492

[wiggy]

I have never understood why it is called a pyramid. Surely it is more of an Eiffel Tower?

Its a ladder. I used to lover those cardboard ladders in Shoot magazine as a kid, that had the card slips for each team that you moved up and down each week so you had the league tables on your bedroom wall.