9 hours ago, Breezy_Pete said:

"What are you?"

 

This may help 👍 (taken from the display board at Danes Hill nature reserve: https://g.co/kgs/dYUAD3)

 

 

59 minutes ago, Mickvrs220 said:

Is she taking off tho gaz ,or returning to earth 😁

 

I believe that was heading for a low earth orbit 😎

Sea horse

The weather in the east Midlands this evening made for lovely skies 🌈

 

 

Colourful sky this evening and the Buck Moon has just put in an appearance 👍

 

 

Colourful end to the day.........

 

Another colourful one this evening.......

 

 

 

 

 

Pinkish tinge this evening

 

Not much chance of any kind of sunset this evening☔, but pretty decent last night👍

 

 

Colourful sunset earlier.

 

Not sure what type of clouds they are?

 

Still evident now

 

 

The sun has now disappeared behind a big bank of cloud on the horizon - lucky enough to snap this earlier 👍

 

 

Impressively this guy managed to hold on all the way home!

 

 

Had a visit from our local Air Ambulance a short while ago (they were thankfully stood down).  The Pilot was 26 years old - younger than both my kids!  It took them 12 minutes to get from Redhill Aerodrome to Eastbourne:

 

 

Gaz

 

That seems very young to be flying that, usually they look for ex RAF pilots with years of experience under their belts. The 12 minutes is pretty impressive, I guess Redhill is not very busy then, the distance is about 30 odd miles, but they have to wait for the engines to get upto working temp before they can take off. The air ambulance over at North Weald can take a few minutes before it gets airborne. 

Edited 25 July, 20232 yr by Graham Butcher

That's an Augusta Westland 169 like the one in the vid below. Under two minutes for pre flight checks and take off. I wouldn't be too concerned about the pilots age. A case of 'don't the coppers look young these days'   
 

 

Lovely out at Carburton this evening.👌

 

3 minutes ago, pinkpanther said:

Lovely out at Carburton this evening.👌

 

That looks dramatic and peaceful simultaneously  👍

Lovely evening.............

 

 

Q

As I was cycling home, over the Polegate by-pass this afternoon, I saw some tell tale LED DRL's and a flash red Polo come off the Cophall roundabout slip road.  Mrs Gaz was on her way back from Crowborough (funeral directors and solicitors) - what are the odds of me cycling over it at the exact time Mrs Gaz was driving under it?

 

 

She beat me home 🙄

 

Said she didn't see me..... in my dayglo orange hi-viz cycling top, bathed in bright sunshine, cloak of invisibility 

 

Gaz

 

Unusual phenomena - I've got a swarm of flies the other side of the road to my house:

 

 

Probably about 8' in diameter. They're rising up from the ground in front of this shrub.  Don't think they're ants (although it is the right conditions for them).  There's a waterway (sewer) behind the shrub, but they look too small for Mayfly - Augustfly maybe? 🙄

 

Chris Packham talks about the 'apocalyptic reduction' in insect numbers.  Going by the splats on my recently cleaned car, I reckon it's just that they're down here and not where he is.

 

G

Could be flying ants gaz we got quite a few knocking about our house at mo .

Edited 10 August, 20232 yr by Mickvrs220
had a thicko moment

1 hour ago, Mickvrs220 said:

Could be flying gaz

 

But I can't fly and there's only one of me 

 

I might take it back on the ants front as one's just come in on me.  Unusual to see a dense swarm rather than them sailing off as individuals.

 

G

Edited 10 August, 20232 yr by Gaz
typo

53 minutes ago, Gaz said:

 

But I can't fly and there's only one of me 

 

I might take it back on the ants front as one's just come in on me.  Unusual to see a dense swarm rather than then sailing off as individuals.

 

G

Jeez ime losing mi marbles haha meant to put ants 😂😂

58 minutes ago, Gaz said:

 

But I can't fly and there's only one of me 

 

I might take it back on the ants front as one's just come in on me.  Unusual to see a dense swarm rather than them sailing off as individuals.

 

G

They actually track massive swarms by radar gaz ,last couple of days has been ideal for them as the temp has gone up ,pesky things tho .

back in the old house there was a service chamber just down past our place in the foot path. one yr, weather like this, there was a billion ants out on the footpath around it, and 3 days later 999million of them were up swarming for hours. like that, just there. i dont mind ants, as long as they are not in my kitchen...