Hi
Flying over my house yesterday evening. Actually 15 balloons altogether, a not infrequent event when the conditions are right, probably coming from Bath.
(https://i.imgur.com/kVDLhy7.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/aAmAQFG.jpg)
Cheers Paul
Just hope it's not been fused !
It's been quite sometime since we've seen any fancy balloons our way, which is a shame as they look so damned good.
Here's hoping the flight didn't go with a bang! :)
I remember, when I lived on the edge of The Meadows in Edinburgh, taking the kids down, at dusk on the days before the actual flights, to see the balloons inflated for a Night Glow. Wandering through the trees by the light of what were effectively enormous paper lanterns was quite magical.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 31 August 2020, 11:26:11 AM
Here's hoping the flight didn't go with a bang! :)
That deserves a good coat chewing !
Look at his registration number!!!
;D
You can only just see it .......but :D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 31 August 2020, 11:26:11 AMI remember, when I lived on the edge of The Meadows in Edinburgh, taking the kids down, at dusk on the days before the actual flights, to see the balloons inflated for a Night Glow. Wandering through the trees by the light of what were effectively enormous paper lanterns was quite magical.
Phew! #:-S I thought for a second you were going to talk about the Zeppelin raids you saw as a kid.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 01 September 2020, 09:17:15 AM
Phew! #:-S I thought for a second you were going to talk about the Zeppelin raids you saw as a kid.
Don't be silly, I didn't move to Edinburgh for the first time until 1968 ..... but, speaking of memories, have I told you about watching the last legionaries embark as they left Britannia forever? :P :) :D
Quote from: mad lemmey on 01 September 2020, 08:15:55 AM
Look at his registration number!!!
;D
Well played the owner of the balloon and the people who manage the registration numbers ;D
Shouldn't it be MLS-BMB ?
Googled, and came up with some WEIRD creations.
WARNING! One of them could DEFINITELY make you snort your drink!!! LOL ;)
I was hoping for a Zardoz Head...but Darth will do.
NO WAY would I go up in one...hmmm...well... ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZcQZjCGEW0
My favourite was the lightbulb !
Cheers - Phil. :)
Some considerable imagination in those.
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 01 September 2020, 08:13:27 PM
Shouldn't it be MLS-BMB ?
No its the wrong shape. (how nerdy can we get? )
Quote from: Ithoriel on 01 September 2020, 03:31:29 PM
..... but, speaking of memories, have I told you about watching the last legionaries embark as they left Britannia forever? :P :) :D
;D
Alas, I was too young to have seen that. What a sight it must have been. But I vaguely remember it getting very dark afterwards.
Do you remember the Dux Murum, Tribune Trumpus, who loved the smell of hob-nailed boots in the morning (.. he used to say it smelled of ......
Victrix ... )? and the soldiers singing "I'm a Roman in the gloamin ...." as they tramped through the glens on their latest punitive expedition? Ah, the nostalgia. Good ol' Pax Romana.
8->
[btw, Mike, do you have your FOWW* syndrome under control now?]* Falling Over Without Warning
Phil has photos of them going
Quote from: ianrs54 on 02 September 2020, 09:49:51 AM
Phil has photos of them going
Saw one of him the other day - He was helping to build Offa's Dyke. :)
You're just jealous 'cos I got Naughtius Maximus' autograph, before he went home.
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Quote from: Westmarcher on 02 September 2020, 09:06:49 AM
;D
Alas, I was too young to have seen that. What a sight it must have been. But I vaguely remember it getting very dark afterwards.
Do you remember the Dux Murum, Tribune Trumpus, who loved the smell of hob-nailed boots in the morning (.. he used to say it smelled of ...... Victrix ... )? and the soldiers singing "I'm a Roman in the gloamin ...." as they tramped through the glens on their latest punitive expedition? Ah, the nostalgia. Good ol' Pax Romana.
8->
[btw, Mike, do you have your FOWW* syndrome under control now?]
* Falling Over Without Warning
I don't know but I've been told,
That our eagle's made of gold
I don't know, I've heard it said,
Second's is just painted lead
One! Two! Three! Four!
Caesar beds another wh... Sorry Tribune! Silence in the ranks!
Sinister, dexter, sinister, dexter ..... :D :D :D
As to the FOWW, thanks for asking, self isolation has meant that I'm never more than a few seconds from a chair. Getting sat down with head to knees turns FOWW into FALDFAMOT*
*Feeling A Little Dizzy For A Minute Or Two
That sounds better.....But that still sounds a bit iffy, Mike. :-\
Have you been to the quack, recently ?
All the best - Phil