A Day out in the " Med"

[oldgit]

19C. Warm Breeze. Blue cloudless Sky.
Were could it be ?

Slow cruise down and drop the hook

Lunch Stop . This will do , near ye olde forte.

Open a cold beer and get out the fishing rod.

Its not easy being retired.

This of course was not merely a jolly.
Checking some speed vs engine revs claimed by the builder of the boat. Pretty much spot on.
3200 rpm. 24.5 knots.10% trim tab.
Just a short trip, regretably needed to get back before all that annoying traffic congestion caused by folks going home from work.

 

[Plum]

19C. Warm Breeze. Blue cloudless Sky.
Were could it be ?

Game is up! the location is shown under your avatar on the left

 

[oldgit]

Damm, thought the Peroni might throw folks off the scent !
Whats that you say...... Peroni is now "brewed" in some awful town near Birmingham.

 

[Clancy Moped]

Mother would have said 'take your feet off the sofa, would you do that at home'

 

[Bouba]

There’s the Welsh Med…the Blue Blue Med…and the real Med

 

[oldgit]

There’s the Welsh Med…the Blue Blue Med…and the real Med

Which "Med" is the one, requiring a £100 quid muddy field car park , 3 hours in shopping mall with no seating and no decent food ,followed by 4 hours in tin tube with a wide choice of air bourne diseases on offer ?


.Trip out one week after the club " Laying up Supper " .
A mysterious sacred ritual from the dim and distant past , possibly something to do with the Druids or the Green Man ?

 

[Bouba]

Which "Med" is the one,

Medway

 

[Seastoke]

Or is it you need a MEDal for boating there.

 

[oldgit]

Or is it you need a MEDal for boating there.

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[Parabordi]

19C. Warm Breeze. Blue cloudless Sky.
Were could it be ?

nice Broom in the top shot

 

[Flynnbarr]

nice Broom in the top shot

Well build quality boats….unlike those paper mache frog tubs

 

[oldgit]

nice Broom in the top shot

Theres two words never thought to find in the same sentence
"Curtians nets "

 

[Parabordi]

Theres two words never thought to find in the same sentence
"Curtians nets "

Jesus fred, not doing much for the standards of education down in Kent, its "Curtains" mate. And no we don't have any Nets not even fishing ones or Doilies.

 

[Norman_E]

The first picture gave it to me, but do you know why Rochester Castle keep has three square corner towers and one round one?

 

[oldgit]

A short and probably very inaccurate account.

The castle was under seige a couple of times.
The neer -do -wells trying to get inside the castle dug a mine under that tower , was supported by wooden "pit props".
The tunnel then filled with barrels of pig fat and the whole lot set on fire.
The tower collapsed and the riff raff eventually gained access.
Meanwhile somebody had invented gunpowder and shortly afterwards a neat method of killing people with it. ie. the cannon.
It was easy to demolish square towers by by knocking off the corner, so the replacement was constructed with a computor generated design and made "round" .
The observant will notice that the top few metres of the round tower is smaller in diameter than the rest of the tower and a bit slipshod in construction.
The Treasury had ran out of money and had to economise a bit.
Some of the stone is alleged to have been robbed from Queenborough Castle which also provided the materials to construct Upnor Castle, which dismally failed to protect us from the pesky Dutch in 1667.



Siege of Rochester Castle | KS3 & GCSE History | History Bombs

 

[Norman_E]

The neer do wells were actually the king and his men, whilst the defenders were knights who wanted to put a Frenchman on the throne. King John gets bad press whilst his brother Richard gets lionised. True, King John lost when fighting in France, but Richard was hardly ever in England, and near bankrupted the country to pay his ransom. Richard might have been a better king of his bit of France, and a better fighter even if he did die rather stupidly, but John was actually a better king of England though his reign was blighted by rebellious barons.