[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Everyone, meet my baby hawk!

She (was supposed to be a he, but we got a surprise!) doesn't have a name yet as we all have to agree. However, as one of the adult Harris Hawks is Zeus I suspect she may end up as Hera. She's the smaller of two sisters and they let me pick - the bigger one is already much more boisterous and louder, she's slightly less sure and more reserved and I fell for her.

[Macros]

Looks more like and Andromache to me

[Tiste Simeon]

Morgoth, on 08 September 2016 - 12:07 PM, said:

Challenge yourself to eat new kinds of food. That or you'll go the rest of your life missing out on so much delicious food.

Like Hákarl, right?

TRB, that's awesome! You need to train it to do really mundane stuff like bring your post at work cos that'll make you look totally badass!

[worry]

[Grimjust Bearegular]

I finally have time to paint and write again....this makes me very happy

[Gust Hubb]

Peaceful afternoon in the gardens with the boys

[Mentalist]

Bought new Oakleys for the trip. This is probably one of the 2 items of clothing/accessory I actually splurge on (the other being soccer gear)

[EmperorMagus]

Morgoth, on 08 September 2016 - 12:07 PM, said:

Challenge yourself to eat new kinds of food. That or you'll go the rest of your life missing out on so much delicious food.

What I've decided to do is eating something new every time I eat out.

As I eat my own food 99% of time that's doable, and it will lead to discovering to new foods for me.

[Solidsnape]

So I have start date of 21st of October back in the uk.
Plenty time for me to finish up here nice and neat. See my notice out and help to train my replacement, and then have a week off at home with the kids (big fellas Burthday that week) before I start the new phase of my life.
For those of you who follow Formaula 1, if Renault come out next season possessed, then you can thank me.


Just have to enjoy the rest of my time here and enjoy what's left of the summer here in Emilia Romagna.
Plan to see Rome before I go home. Still haven't been to the beach, so I'll visit Ravenna or Rimini sometime in the next 2 weeks too.

[Tiste Simeon]

I watch F1 when I can, will I ever be seeing you in the pits or are you not on the traveling team?

[Solidsnape]

Tiste Simeon, on 11 September 2016 - 10:57 AM, said:

I watch F1 when I can, will I ever be seeing you in the pits or are you not on the traveling team?

No I'm not with the race team.
I'm where the magic happens....

[Tiste Simeon]

Solidsnape, on 12 September 2016 - 08:21 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 11 September 2016 - 10:57 AM, said:

I watch F1 when I can, will I ever be seeing you in the pits or are you not on the traveling team?

No I'm not with the race team.
I'm where the magic happens....

So... You're one of the hot girls that hands the winners an oversized champagne at the end?

[Solidsnape]

Tiste Simeon, on 12 September 2016 - 01:21 PM, said:

Solidsnape, on 12 September 2016 - 08:21 AM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 11 September 2016 - 10:57 AM, said:

I watch F1 when I can, will I ever be seeing you in the pits or are you not on the traveling team?

No I'm not with the race team.
I'm where the magic happens....

So... You're one of the hot girls that hands the winners an oversized champagne at the end?

I'm the one that makes the hot girls.

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[QuickTidal]

Two years ago they found the HMS Erebus in Canada in the heart of the Northwest Passage...and they have just found the HMS terror now as well! Amazing!

https://www.thestar....tion-found.html

[Andorion]

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 12:58 PM, said:

Two years ago they found the HMS Erebus in Canada in the heart of the Northwest Passage...and they have just found the HMS terror now as well! Amazing!

https://www.thestar....tion-found.html

That is very very cool.

Taking this opportunity to mention that Dan Simmons has an immensely enjoyable book on Franklin's voyage called The Terror

[EmperorMagus]

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 03:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 12:58 PM, said:

Two years ago they found the HMS Erebus in Canada in the heart of the Northwest Passage...and they have just found the HMS terror now as well! Amazing!

https://www.thestar....tion-found.html

That is very very cool.

Taking this opportunity to mention that Dan Simmons has an immensely enjoyable book on Franklin's voyage called The Terror

If by "immensely enjoyable" you mean creepy and nightmare inducing, I agree.

[Andorion]

EmperorMagus, on 13 September 2016 - 03:47 PM, said:

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 03:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 12:58 PM, said:

Two years ago they found the HMS Erebus in Canada in the heart of the Northwest Passage...and they have just found the HMS terror now as well! Amazing!

https://www.thestar....tion-found.html

That is very very cool.

Taking this opportunity to mention that Dan Simmons has an immensely enjoyable book on Franklin's voyage called The Terror

If by "immensely enjoyable" you mean creepy and nightmare inducing, I agree.

Oh yeah it's one of the few books to genuinely scare me. I rate it very highly because of that.

[QuickTidal]

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 04:03 PM, said:

EmperorMagus, on 13 September 2016 - 03:47 PM, said:

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 03:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 12:58 PM, said:

Two years ago they found the HMS Erebus in Canada in the heart of the Northwest Passage...and they have just found the HMS terror now as well! Amazing!

https://www.thestar....tion-found.html

That is very very cool.

Taking this opportunity to mention that Dan Simmons has an immensely enjoyable book on Franklin's voyage called The Terror

If by "immensely enjoyable" you mean creepy and nightmare inducing, I agree.

Oh yeah it's one of the few books to genuinely scare me. I rate it very highly because of that.

To be honest, even the textbook story of the expedition is nightmare inducing....even without crazy beasts hunting everyone down in the darkened arctic weather.

[Andorion]

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 04:13 PM, said:

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 04:03 PM, said:

EmperorMagus, on 13 September 2016 - 03:47 PM, said:

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 03:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 13 September 2016 - 12:58 PM, said:

Two years ago they found the HMS Erebus in Canada in the heart of the Northwest Passage...and they have just found the HMS terror now as well! Amazing!

https://www.thestar....tion-found.html

That is very very cool.

Taking this opportunity to mention that Dan Simmons has an immensely enjoyable book on Franklin's voyage called The Terror

If by "immensely enjoyable" you mean creepy and nightmare inducing, I agree.

Oh yeah it's one of the few books to genuinely scare me. I rate it very highly because of that.

To be honest, even the textbook story of the expedition is nightmare inducing....even without crazy beasts hunting everyone down in the darkened arctic weather.

I find the history of the hunt for the North west passage to be one of the most frustrating and yet intriguing reading topics. At least the hunt for the North East passage yielded the overseas trade route to Russia. The NW passage was just a string of failures. They never correctly estimated the northern extent of Canada. There were weird speculation bubbles about gold deposits in Baffin Bay (fake) Lots of parties thought the northern Canadian bays and inlets to be the Passage and ended up getting stuck. Also the weird beliefs people had - I seem to recall reading that at one point it was widely believed that if you could get through the ice, the North Pole itself was a balmy tropical paradise of open water and islands.

[QuickTidal]

Andorion, on 13 September 2016 - 05:26 PM, said:

I find the history of the hunt for the North west passage to be one of the most frustrating and yet intriguing reading topics. At least the hunt for the North East passage yielded the overseas trade route to Russia. The NW passage was just a string of failures. They never correctly estimated the northern extent of Canada. There were weird speculation bubbles about gold deposits in Baffin Bay (fake) Lots of parties thought the northern Canadian bays and inlets to be the Passage and ended up getting stuck. Also the weird beliefs people had - I seem to recall reading that at one point it was widely believed that if you could get through the ice, the North Pole itself was a balmy tropical paradise of open water and islands.

Indeed, and when you realize that they were on the right path initially to get through...if only they had not turned into the Victoria Strait and kept going more or less straight west, they might have feasibly have made it...or at the very least mapped the passage through.