things that make you smile

[primmiemoo]

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Isn't the story that arable farmers are now allowed to bring their emotional support tractors on flights to skiing destinations?

 

[primmiemoo]

Say what you like about the guy, but . . . (Telegraph won't let me copy link)

Watch: Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant enables man to play online chess with his mind
Paralysed 29-year-old patient learnt to control computer cursor and keyboard using only his thoughts.

Almost exactly 45 years ago we were working on a uni project to allow a paralysed person to sip and puff on a straw in Morse Code to talk to a rudimentary desktop computer, to type, play basic music, and operate a page turner for a book. My god what giant strides we've taken in biomedical engineering in a little over 2 decades.

Was that a POSSUM system? They were brilliant! Much belated gratitude to the engineers who developed and refined them.

 

[primmiemoo]

Today, I've seen orange-tip, small tortoiseshell (I think), and ringlet butterflies, red bodied damselflies, loads of ladybirds (on furze and bluebell flowers), and the swallows have stepped up their chattering.

Feels like it's almost summer.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Saw first whitethroat yesterday.

 

[Hjcarter]

Trees coming into leaf and blossom... Thank goodness..!

 

[Dman2]

Geiten paadje gevonden | Arnold Stramrood

Geiten paadje gevonden.

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[primmiemoo]

Geiten paadje gevonden | Arnold Stramrood

Geiten paadje gevonden.

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Cowbells before bicycle bells!

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I was thinking leather before lycra !!

 

[wrenbird]

Today, I've seen orange-tip, small tortoiseshell (I think), and ringlet butterflies, red bodied damselflies, loads of ladybirds (on furze and bluebell flowers), and the swallows have stepped up their chattering.

Feels like it's almost summer.

Saw my first orange-tip of the year today, also saw several peacock butterflies, and more brimstone butterflies in the last few days than I have seen for many years. Bedsheets drying on the line today were polka-dotted with ladybirds and other wee beasties, and the lungwort was abuzzing with many types of fat and furry bumblebees.
Our swallows haven’t returned yet @primmiemoo, but every other bird here was singing fit to bust today, it all really helps to lift the spirits.

 

[Whitewalker]

Olden but golden

Command Officer London Fire Brigade (in the days just following Kings Cross disaster), so station callouts were a high priority

MK1 V8 auto Range Rover

I don't think he actually stopped more than twice

Was like a scene out of the Italian job with that big car transporter

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Saw my first orange-tip of the year today, also saw several peacock butterflies, and more brimstone butterflies in the last few days than I have seen for many years. Bedsheets drying on the line today were polka-dotted with ladybirds and other wee beasties, and the lungwort was abuzzing with many types of fat and furry bumblebees.
Our swallows haven’t returned yet @primmiemoo, but every other bird here was singing fit to bust today, it all really helps to lift the spirits.

No butterflies here for a while, but I do like to hear the curlews and oyster catchers and they’ve been around for some weeks now. Always makes me feel we must be getting nearer to spring

 

[Widgetone]

Sunny evening with no gale. Watching the bats from the roof flitting around the garden, haven’t seen them for a long time…

 

[Paddington]

Passed a low loader rescue truck loading a car. Oh, dear.
Someone would be getting a big bill. How sad.
The vehicle was a new Defender 110. Never mind.

 

[Av Gorritt]

What a magnificent machine ! Pity it couldn't be sustained . I think the fault that originally grounded it wasn't anything to do with Concorde . Debris on the runway I'm told .

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[britt]

What a magnificent machine ! Pity it couldn't be sustained . I think the fault that originally grounded it wasn't anything to do with Concorde . Debris on the runway I'm told .

I think it was condemned before that. it cost more to run than tickets could be sold for.

 

[JP1]

 

[JP1]

Jeremy Perkins

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Very clever - I wonder how many times he got flattened before perfecting the bounce

 

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[Will 1594]

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be a standard day for fred dibnah