Today I Found...

Gramaisc

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... a sweet pea hedge, in the middle of nowhere.

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It seems a bit later this year, perhaps due to the miserable May weather, but it's going nicely now.

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proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Today I found that regular long walks and regularly cycling 50km (further, when I get the time) doesn't make you fit for tennis.

Played a neighbor this morning, first time I've played tennis in 3 years and I'm absolutely done for. Must play more often.
 

Gramaisc

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... what might be a Dachtylorhiza Maculata - or something similar - growing in a road verge.

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I only saw it because something odd shouted at me from a hay field and I stopped to see what it might be, but it kept quiet then.


I also found what looked suspiciously like my trousers - But, a quick check revealed that I was fully clothed at the time.

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BobClay

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I'm sure you are all pleased to know I've resisted the urge to post the clip of the bloke singing 'Donald where's ya trousers'..... But also not thankful as its now stuck in your head anyhow....

Just a small correction. It's ♫ Donald where's ya troozers ♪

(Geordies .... :roll::roll:)
 

Thehooperman

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Thank the lord for a different tune to go round and round my head.

I couldn’t get Its Coming Home out of my head. It’s been there for days from the second I wake up.

You will now have to interleave "he's coming home, he's coming home, @Gramaisc is coming home" with "@Gramaisc where's your troozers" and finishing with "oh yeh they call him the streak" :)

Now that's one hell of an earworm for you :)
 

Gramaisc

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... a watch in a graveyard.

It was my watch, which made it pleasanter and easier to find the owner.

I had looked at a grave I do for someone who lives in new Zealand. It needed doing, but was in full Sun, so I decided to go back later. It was shaded by then, but it was still sticky weather, So I took the watch off and left it by the camera I was going to record the before and after shots with, on the kerb of a nearby grave, with the idea that I must see it next to the camera at the end.

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Of course, when I finished, I picked up the camera for the after shot and then collected the tools and came home.

It was a couple of hours later when i realised that it could well still be there - which it was, thankfully.
 

The Hawk

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... a watch in a graveyard.

It was my watch, which made it pleasanter and easier to find the owner.

I had looked at a grave I do for someone who lives in new Zealand. It needed doing, but was in full Sun, so I decided to go back later. It was shaded by then, but it was still sticky weather, So I took the watch off and left it by the camera I was going to record the before and after shots with, on the kerb of a nearby grave, with the idea that I must see it next to the camera at the end.

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Of course, when I finished, I picked up the camera for the after shot and then collected the tools and came home.

It was a couple of hours later when i realised that it could well still be there - which it was, thankfully.
Tempus Forget-it
 

Gramaisc

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... this hammer.

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'Found' in the sense that I last saw it two years ago, when I put a shed up in Hatton, off towards Derby.

I first obtained just the head in a box of "useful bits" at the boot sale about thirty years ago and, seeing it was a 20oz 'Roebuck', I treated it to a new hickory handle. This resulted in a hammer which is 'just right' and I was much annoyed when I realised that I couldn't find it any more. A call to the shed owner suggested that I hadn't left it there.

Today, I found it under something which I don't remember moving for many years before it disappeared, but, there it was.
 

Gramaisc

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... something which I lost this afternoon.

A small black object, about half an inch in diameter, disappeared at speed onto an area of dark grey gravel.

I felt that I could probably narrow down the area that it was likely to be in to about a two metre square.

About ten minutes of searching the gravel produced no results, so I elected to look for it in the dark.

This is a technique I have used successfully before - using a torch contains your vision to the blob of light that the torch is projecting and makes it much less likely for you to miss the target than when the whole area is visible.

About fifteen seconds in, I had found it, in an area that I had previously searched 'very carefully' in daylight.
 
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