Because I shot so many photographs on Kangaroo Island on our recent holiday, I’ve been able to add two more collections of related photog…
Because I shot so many photographs on Kangaroo Island on our recent holiday, I’ve been able to add two more collections of related photography to my gallery: ... Ten photographs of the One and All Sailing Ship. ... Five photographs of that Zephyr VI ! Please take the time to view them all.
I thought I’d better explain who The Official Train Freak is. It is my son Daniel who is 8 years old. He totally adores trains and …
I thought I’d better explain who The Official Train Freak is. It is my son Daniel who is 8 years old. He totally adores trains and lives and breathes them. As much as I enjoy trains and photographing them, most of the comments will be from TOTF as well as myself. Thanks for listening :)
Story of Developers and boom in a tranquil town. You can read it on: www.members.nowpublic.com/tilltales
Story of Developers and boom in a tranquil town. You can read it on: www.members.nowpublic.com/tilltales
As written in the local Paper / Shropshire star / One of Britain’s …
As written in the local Paper / Shropshire star / One of Britain’s newest fighter planes malfunctioned over Shropshire – forcing the pilot to drop 30,000ft and causing a sonic boom which shook the county. The Typhoon Eurofighter performed an emergency descent above Shrewsbury shortly after 4pm yesterday, breaking the sound barrier. Check out our Eurofighter Typhoon photo gallery above Police were inundated with calls after the huge bang which was heard up to four miles from the town. Residents feared an explosion or an earthquake. But a spokesman for RAF Shawbury said the boom occurred when the Typhoon performed its emergency descent. An investigation into the incident has begun. The spokesman said: “At approximately 4.06pm a Typhoon aircraft with two persons on board, being flown from RAF Coningsby on a training sortie in the vicinity of Shrewsbury, suffered a system failure whilst flying at 40,000ft. “The aircraft captain made a radio call to Air Traffic Control, and in order to ensure the safety of the aircraft and its occupants, and in accordance with standard procedures, then performed an emergency descent to 10,000ft. “In the course of this manoeuvre the aircraft inadvertently exceeded the speed of sound, causing a sonic boom. “Neither of the aircraft occupants were harmed during the incident. The cause of the system failure will be investigated. “We regret any anxiety this incident may have caused to the local population.” The aircraft returned to RAF Coningsby and landed at 4.45pm. Shrewsbury Police Station, Radio Shropshire in Mount Pleasant, and county council headquarters Shirehall in Abbey Foregate were among the buildings struck by the boom. A spokesman from Shrewsbury police station in Monkmoor said dozens of people heard the bang. “We had people ringing from the town centre and one lady from Hanwood. It shook the police station,” he said. Witness of Shrewsbury, said the bang shook his home so hard the loft hatch fell down. He said: “I was on the phone at the time and a friend in Gains Park was on the other end, about three miles away, and he was shocked at the same time as I was so I knew it was not something just near me. “It was a single sudden bang, as if something had exploded, the whole house shook.” Witness said: “I heard the bang – I was at a meeting at the Shrewsbury Football Club ground with a number of councillors from across Shropshire and officers.” Witness said he and his neighbours gathered in the street after they heard two booms. “One of my neighbours was out the back of his house doing something with his bin and he felt the pressure of both booms like a wave hitting him so it was probably over the top of us.” Witness in Shrewsbury, also described the noise as “almost like an explosion”. Shropshire Ambulance Service said it had no calls. Shropshire Fire Service said the St Michael’s Street station had been shaken by the bang but it had received no calls from the public. ShropshireStar.com visitors also reported their reactions to the incident after the story broke yesterday. ‘Nick’ said: “If it was a Eurofighter i think it was amazing. Shook the office windows made a really big bang. / Would like to thank the pilot for brightening up my Monday. Awsome.” Witness said: “We heard a couple of these almighty bangs and thought there had been an explosion in the Copthorne area of Shrewsbury. It shook our house and neighbours houses surrounding us. Man living opposite us felt the waves hit him as he was outside at the time.” Witness said: “I heard this bang at Hanwood. I once heard aircraft go through sound barrier sounded very similar bang.” Witness said: “I was working outside of Hanwood and as I commented to my workmate about the TWO jets that were flying over. There was a DOUBLE bang overhead obviously they were hitting the sound barrier and the TWO bangs were sonic boom.” Witness said: “Sat at home around 4pm and heard the very loud bang. I live in Lime Street, Belle Vue. Lots of the neighbours were outside checking their roofs and the sky to see what it was. I thought my chimney had collapsed or the workman two doors down had hit a gas main!” “Gemma” said: “I heard it too, Also friends who were in Sundorne, Oteley Road, Springfield, Ellesmere Road and the town centre also heard it.” “TAR” said: “The majority of people heard a very loud bang in the Guildhall at Frankwell (sounded like a very heavy object falling over on the floor above) and it was also very loud in Copthorne, the internal doors shook and we thought our boiler had blown up (but thankfully not).
I just wanted to say how much I appreciated the KIND person who purchased a laminated print of my Sunrise at Falmouth Cornwall UK. I’m so…
I just wanted to say how much I appreciated the KIND person who purchased a laminated print of my Sunrise at Falmouth Cornwall UK. I’m so glad that you liked it enough to purchase it. Soon I’ll have enough in my account to get some prints done for myself. I’d love to have some of my pictures hanging on the wall. However, can’t afford them just yet. I need quite a lot of sales for that. Appreciated my friend, whoever you are. May the Lord richly bless you in every way, and I really hope you enjoy viewing this amazince Sunrise at Falmouth. / Keep smiling, you’ve put one on my face. Regards, Don.
Okay I awoke around 7 am quickly dressed to go feed the dogs in the kennel. Well….that’s not exactly accurate. I woke up at 7 am and …
Okay I awoke around 7 am quickly dressed to go feed the dogs in the kennel. Well….that’s not exactly accurate. I woke up at 7 am and sat in the living room chair and my mom inquired did I plan to feed the dogs today…who were outside barking I guess in Dog language, “Hey come feed us.” So, then I went and dressed quickly changing from PJ’s to Layers. Well, I took one step out on the front porch which I so pain stakingly cleared of 2 feet of snow the day before. It happened so fast. One instant I was looking out at the snow scape and blue sky. Next moment I was looking up at just the blue sky. The pain followed moments later. Now normall not a problem I would just get back up slowly, battered and bruise. Well the porch was an entire sheet of inch thick ice that had dripped down from the snow on the roof. Still, I could have gotten up except…..the dogs. One dog in particular, she’s new hyper and we are still training her. Her name is Sasha. Sasha would not let me get up. Oh, no she preceeded to mount me. Yes you heard me right. So, I’m laying out on the ice covered porch defending myself from a overly rambunctious dog. I start yelling, “Mom! Mooommm!!!! Moooomm!.” Finally she ask back what’s wrong and comes to see what i’m hollering about. She sees me laying out on the front porch and asks, “What happened?” “I fell on the ice.” I reply, and by the way did I mention there was pain and a dog try to mount me. My Mom asks me, “How can I help?” I respond, “Go to the side porch and call these dogs, keep them out back until I can manage to get up!” As soon as she opened the side door and called them they took off towards her. I could hear her opening cans of food and giving it to them. I turned over painfully and crawled on the ice back into the house where I used a cane in the umbrella holder to get up. I then shouted back towards the kitchen. “Mom! Mom, I”m in and the door is closed.” She came back in the room very worried. After all I had just feel on concrete coverd with ice and was laying on my back. Now, my first thought was my knee, because it was turned and aching like a dickens. I rubbed some IcyHot on it. Problem was, the dogs still needed to be feed and I had to get myself together to get out there and do it. I took the back entrance and made my way to the storage area and retrieved the dog food. By the way everything was aching about now. I preceeded to the kennel carry the dog food. You have to bend under the bar to get inside. Right then I realize that my knee wasn’t the only thing that was injured when I fell. My lower back more specifically my tail bone screeched out in a very audible spike of pain that left me stooped over for several minutes. Of course I hollered out if for nothing else but to relieve the pressure building up in my lungs at the sudden shocking pain. Finally I was able to stand back up and hobble my way through snow and ice back to the house. Now I’m safe inside and warm and not moving much. LMAO What and adventure and a way to start the day. Thanks for reading and tune in next time to more adventureous accident prone mayhem from the mountains. LOL
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