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| | | From: Joy (Original Message) | Sent: 12/17/2008 11:16 PM |
Thank you Lesley for your card, I love the idea of Father Christmas in his red velvet, in your swealtering sun.............
Thank you Rob for your postcard....................
Thank you Zenith for your cards and pressies
Thank you JB for your card and pressie...............I won't embarrass you by telling everyone what it is, but all I will say is that the photos are stunning, but does Robert know that you are taking pictures of him naked? wink wink |
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| | | From: JohnBoy | Sent: 12/18/2008 3:33 AM |
Welcome home Joy!
Az to yer question bout that pressie...why do ya think good ol' Roberto is on the run now?
I wonder who I should take pictures of next? lol |
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| | | From: Joy | Sent: 12/19/2008 9:46 PM |
Hmmmmm..............well let me think...................... .......just thought, even enjoyed the process, it was rather new to me. I suggested to DH that he sit near the window of the coach and take photographs as we sped homewards from Scotland...............he could have called them......"Scotland Through A Rainy Coach Window"...............but he chose to sit on the aisle seat. I did see some wonderful photographic opportunities, like when we passed a group of big industrial chimneys (on the way to Scotland), lovely clear weather, and they were belting out white smoke, I told him to quickly take a picure of the "Cloudmakers"..........he didn't. Then I saw what was probably just a mound of slag or soil, big mound mind you, and the tracks of the trucks which had been running up it, had left lines, and I said......"Quick, take a picture, you can call that 'Pleated Mountain'.................but he missed that one. Then the final one was when we were pulled up at lights and a tlorry pulled up beside us and the back was covered with sand, looked like they had delivered a load of sand somewhere and the empty lorry was covered with a thin layer of sand.................again I told him to take a picture, call it "Mobile Beach"..............but again, he let my imagination go to waste LOL When we were in Ireland, and I noted how neat it all was, I suggested he do a series of photos of all the Traffic Roundabouts, in the British Isles, but he turned down my idea.................... For those who don't know, a traffic roundabout is a way of controlling traffic at a busy crossroads, think of it as a round garden in the middle of the road. Those in Ireland were in fact beautiful gardens, very neat, and I have to admit, since I started to look, apart from the ones in town centres and industrial estates, which tend to be a mini roundabout anyway (a circle painted in the middle of the crossroads), there are some really well tended and pretty roundabouts in England and Scotland................ Not even the prospect of checking out the neatness of roundabouts can get me to go to Wales with DH |
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| | | From: JohnBoy | Sent: 12/20/2008 3:38 AM |
Joy you should get yerself a camera.
We've got some of those traffic roundabouts here in the states. In Massachusetts they call them rotaries, in Colorado they call them something else but I'm having a brain fart at the moment and can't remember what. |
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| | From:  lanles0 | Sent: 12/20/2008 8:23 AM |
We call them roundabouts and no one seems to know how to use the damn things they are a bloody nuisance if you ask me.............. |
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| | | From: JohnBoy | Sent: 12/21/2008 3:56 AM |
Don't they have merry go rounds in Australia? |
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| | | From: Joy | Sent: 12/22/2008 7:17 PM |
LOL JB - silly buggar. Lesley, roundabouts are fairly easy, you just have to remember that you have to give way to traffic coming from your right, so you stop at the stop line and once there is a break in traffic coming from your right, you stick your foot hard down on the clutch, find a gear, first is best but what the hell, any will do for me, and then you stick your foot down hard on the accellerator and providing you don't stall, you clog it onto the roundabout. By then, the traffic will be giving way to you as you will be their traffic on the right. If you have found the correct gear, then you are fine, if you have selected an incorrect one, you will find yourself kangarooing around the roundabout, but not to worry, you can always say you meant to do that, and at least you are moving..............remember when it took me, I think, 8 or more stop-starts to get round the roundabout at Caister? But if you stall - have no fear, so long as you are over the line, you are on the roundabout, and that means the people on your left can't enter the roundabout, and probably, as in my case, the people behind can't pass you and the people coming from the right cannot do so because you are blocking their exit.............so everyone is at a stand-still and you have the whole roundabout to yourself. Signalling is easy-peasy.............if you are simply turning left at the roundabout, then you signal left.............use the electric indicators Lesley, sticking your head out of the window and shouting "I am turning left" does not work..............I tried it. If you are just going ahead, then you approach the roundabout and make sure that there definitely is an ahead to go to, and you do not signal until you are passing the exit on your left, and then you signal right............or is that left? Well anyway, it is one or the other........................personally, if I designed a car, I would have a neon sign on the roof which, at the press of a button, would illuminate and tell people which way I was going. If you are meaning to go right then you begin by indicating right, and you make sure you are in the outside lane...............do this ahead of time, like the day before, saves any last minute changes and lots of swearing and people waving at you with just one or two fingers. Signal right and enter the roundabout, and continue until you pass your last left exit before you leave, and change from right indicator to left indicator. If you just want to drive around and around the roundabout for ages, then stay on the lane nearest to the garden bit, and keep signalling right, but bear in mind the cost of fuel these days, I think ours is still somewhere about "a hell of a lot" per gallon. |
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