Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

Been out today, looking for a specific feature on a beach that was said to exist.... climbed a very steep cliff ... clambered down some disintegrating cliff face steps ... found it, photographed it .... came home.

Sky's not been blue, but I was in cropped jeans on the beach and open shoes without socks.

Have you turned into a closet geologist?

If so, I might be able to interest you in a seriously big unconformity near Shepton Mallet, which I've tried, unsuccessfully, to get my DW to visit. It's very exciting! There are also a couple of Neptunean dykes in the area too, although I've never seen them, so we'll have to take the British Geological Survey's word on that one.

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Mendips/assets/pix/Shepton_cross-section_large.jpg

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Courtesy of a fellow mse chum, The Icing on The Cake.

How perfect would that lake be with a swan pedalo on it? My other question is, if that's how big Dog Dog is, however big is Big Dog?

Lovely photo.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Have you turned into a closet geologist?

If so, I might be able to interest you in a seriously big unconformity near Shepton Mallet, which I've tried, unsuccessfully, to get my DW to visit. It's very exciting! There are also a couple of Neptunean dykes in the area too, although I've never seen them, so we'll have to take the British Geological Survey's word on that one.

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Mendips/assets/pix/Shepton_cross-section_large.jpg

I thought you might be talking aout knowle rock? But it seems not.

I know a geologist in the area who was carefully sowing me the 'folds' in the land scape are echoed three or four times over the souther villages, in exact prorportionate repetition showing how the pressure of plate movment created them so evenly. Apparantly its quite an example of that.


Dh and i went back to bed again....getting in to a naughty habit, and are only just up and having a cuppa while deciding what to do in the rain.

misskool

ssshhh...it's only spitting here and if the grass is dry enough will get the first mow of the season. i have weeds

and nothing else planted. potted up yesterday but am about 3 weeks behind.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I thought you might be talking aout knowle rock? But it seems not.

Nothing so posh. It's in a builders' merchant's yard! :rotfl:

GDB2222

Davesnave wrote: »

Have you turned into a closet geologist?

If so, I might be able to interest you in a seriously big unconformity near Shepton Mallet, which I've tried, unsuccessfully, to get my DW to visit. It's very exciting! There are also a couple of Neptunean dykes in the area too, although I've never seen them, so we'll have to take the British Geological Survey's word on that one.

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Mendips/assets/pix/Shepton_cross-section_large.jpg

What is Inferior Oolite?

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

Even PN's normal "Posh Alert" is reduced to "awwww"

LIR, how many staircases does your house have? (Puts PN on alert for the reply.)

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

LIR, how many staircases does your house have? (Puts PN on alert for the reply.)

Two, but neither is grand. The 'main' staircase is very steep and narrow, very humble farmhouse. In fact the hall is pokey, dark and generally not a place to congragate. The upstairs landing is lovely though, feels 'original' and while tatty it feels restful and calm.

Back stairs are a steep ladder type affaire. Dog dog cannot get up them, for example, and it took me months to risk going down them.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Two, but neither is grand. The 'main' staircase is very steep and narrow, very humble farmhouse. In fact the hall is pokey, dark and generally not a place to congragate. The upstairs landing is lovely though, feels 'original' and while tatty it feels restful and calm.

Back stairs are a steep ladder type affaire. Dog dog cannot get up them, for example, and it took me months to risk going down them.

This is like that game show QI, where the buzzers sound and the large screens at the back display POSH ALERT!

Then Stephen Fry leans forward and says "A survey of the nice people on MSE found that nearly 10% of them had 2 staircases."

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

This is like that game show QI, where the buzzers sound and the large screens at the back display POSH ALERT!

Then Stephen Fry leans forward and says "A survey of the nice people on MSE found that nearly 10% of them had 2 staircases."

Dh pointed out that one day there will be a third in this house, and one or two else where. Unless a ladder to a hay loft also counts as stairs? Its unsafe and [STRIKE]we[/STRIKE] dh uses a normal ladder when he goes up there.

Still, its still a state, sadly, of quantaty over quality, none of our stairs are or ever will be 'posh', and a sheer wuantity of anything cannot turn sows ea to silk purse!