Picture(s) of the day....

[CitroJim]

And here's the video of that biblically epic storm!



Mick's Subaru coped fantastically with it As did Mick!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Please FCF Viewers, and posters just pop over to this thread, and Jim's photographic record of the June Jolly of Mick and Jim. What a trip. Pictures of the day....and more, the galleries are magnificent and tells the story beautifully.

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and if you like what you see, acknowledge it, make an active comment, or click a like, it's tremendous

Neil

[CitroJim]

Oh Neil, you've made me blush now...

[Peter.N.]

You have more pictures than me Jim! The miners cottages came from Hetton-Le-Hole which is where my mother in law came from. I can't remember how many children there were in the cottage but I don't know where they put them all.

Did you go on the old railway with the repro engines, Rocket, Puffing Billy and Steam Elephant - the only engine that's running at the moment. They were built by the museum some years ago at a cost of £300,000 each, would probably be a million or more now. The Steam Elephant was built using only a painting and the engineers knowledge of Victorian engineering.

I wonder if you went down the drift mine?

Peter

[Peter.N.]

Can you see it? Taken here a couple of days ago.

[mickthemaverick]

Thanks to Neil I have now gained SWMBO's permission to sign my raised flower bed!! :

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[NewcastleFalcon]

Thanks to Neil I have now gained SWMBO's permission to sign my raised flower bed!! :

Can't guarantee the waterproofness of the paint Mick although the blue lettering does have a layer of spray varnish on!

Nice to see them in situ!

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I'll give them a coat of clear varnish which should look after the paint!

[Peter.N.]

Some sort of oil treatment will probably last longer Mick, or even diesel, that's as near as you can get to creosote now. Waxoil would be OK once the stickiness has gone off. I did my 'social distancing' picnic bench with oil and although its gone darker there is no sign of rot. The wife might like the smell of course.

Peter

[mickthemaverick]

Thanks for the thought Peter, but too late I'm afraid! I have a can of yacht varnish on the shelf for any outdoor preservation job that comes up and the bricks have now been duly coated!! It works exceptionally well on all the surfaces I have ever tried, although I'll admit it is an expensive option, but you get what you pay for!!

[mickthemaverick]

When I first met Jim he didn't tell me his surname was Knazium!!:

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[CitroJim]

^^^

[NewcastleFalcon]

The view from Henderson Park 3 different ways
The Birthplace of the Regiment, Scottish Borders

With an empty can of Irn Bru providing a splash of orange /blue in the foreground

Downstream towards the border bridge

Upstream with the Cheviot in the distance

Neil

[Rp0thejester]

Did you know, Poundland sells Iron Bru in 500ml cans, I was well shocked! And only 75pence each

[myglaren]