Today in pictures

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

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1) Information board outside the cave
2) St.Ninians cave
3) St Ninians cave
4) The Temple in Cally Woods
5) The Temple in Cally Woods
6) Entrance to a cottage in Cally Palace Grounds
7) Helicopters on the lawn at the front of Cally Palace. Anyone for 18 holes?
8) Port Patrick
9) Port Patrick
10) Daddy to all the calves in the field at the rear of holidsay cottage

Nice shots - see that bull is there again.

Also very interesting -never heard of St Ninian -patron saint of....!

[maxthecollie]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Nice shots - see that bull is there again.

Also very interesting -never heard of St Ninian -patron saint of....!

No he is a different Bull. There are a lot of Cattle farms where we were staying in Dumfries and Galloway. We syaed in a cottage in Girthon and a farm about 200 yards from us up the track has diversified and converted a lot of his farm buildings to holiday lets. We went to have a look last week and they are done tastefully as it is still a working beef farm.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

No he is a different Bull. There are a lot of Cattle farms where we were staying in Dumfries and Galloway. We syaed in a cottage in Girthon and a farm about 200 yards from us up the track has diversified and converted a lot of his farm buildings to holiday lets. We went to have a look last week and they are done tastefully as it is still a working beef farm.

Great people up that way -a few years back I spent 4 days as interpreter and guide for a group of 20 farmers from there visiting farms etc over here. Very boisterous lot (all men!) took some handling and they liked a drink...we had a great time and I got paid!

Did you make it to Wigton? I believe it's famous for its bookshops.

[maxthecollie]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Great people up that way -a few years back I spent 4 days as interpreter and guide for a group of 20 farmers from there visiting farms etc over here. Very boisterous lot (all men!) took some handling and they liked a drink...we had a great time and I got paid!

Did you make it to Wigton? I believe it's famous for its bookshops.

No we passed through. The weather wasn't very nice for our week so we walked most days from the cottage.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson

He used to visit Stonyhurst , and from there he would walk down to the river. Its walk have done for years, but as a walk its got more popular with the Tolkien connection.

As for middle earth, that could be anywhere really, Tolkien travelled a lot. It may only have existed of course in Tolkiens mind.

He was in 11th battalion Lancashire Fusiliers during WWI. Served on the Somme.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (1892-1973),

[susie123]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Did you make it to Wigton? I believe it's famous for its bookshops.

Do you mean Wigtown rather than Wigton in Cumbria?

Wigtown Book Town, Scotland's National Book Town in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Bit like Hay-on Wye in Wales

[Restless]

Originally Posted by susie123

Rob that would be funny if it weren't so tragic... Didn't have you down as a cappuccino sort of guy - perhaps the pebbles didn't either!

why is that? I loves mi coffee!! Practically living on a constant caffeine cloud lately

Yeah I like cappuccino. Hard to get a nice one though.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Restless

why is that? I loves mi coffee!! Practically living on a constant caffeine cloud lately

Yeah I like cappuccino. Hard to get a nice one though.

Sorry... I'm not a coffee drinker but I know you are esp now that alcohol is a no-no

Just don't think of cappuccino as a "real" coffee - it's all the frothy stuff and chocolate sprinkles etc. If I do have coffee it's an espresso the smaller and stronger the better! I like the caffeine high but couldn't cope with it more than once in a blue moon - don't need it just now anyway as the drugs I'm on send me up to the ceiling!

[susie123]

Today I'm posting towers from Ravenna in Italy. This city was the second most important city in the Byzantine world in the 5th and 6th centuries and still has many churches from that period, with stunning mosaics. many of the churches acquired bell towers (campaniles) in the 9th to 11th centuries

The ancient churches of Ravenna

1 -3 Basilica of San Giovanni Evangelista
4 & 5 San Apollinare Nuovo. This has some of the best mosaics
6 Base of the tower in 4
7 & 8 Santa Maria Maggiore
9 San Giovanni Battista, with a rather incongruous later Baroque facade

[Bernard Dawson]

[QUOTE=susie123;1016532]He was in 11th battalion Lancashire Fusiliers during WWI. Served on the Somme.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (1892-1973),[/QUOTE

I always thought there was a connection between Tolkien's son and Stonyhurst. I thought he was student there, but it would seem he taught at the college. Stonyhurst also claim that Tolkien himself wrote part of Lord of the rings at the college.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Restless

why is that? I loves mi coffee!! Practically living on a constant caffeine cloud lately

Yeah I like cappuccino. Hard to get a nice one though.

It aint we love it, Impostas the only place imho. tried em all.

[Restless]

Originally Posted by cashman

It aint we love it, Impostas the only place imho. tried em all.

Is that near maundy? Never been there. Always working lately

[Margaret Pilkington]

Across from the GPO in accy....and it is good...no doubt about it.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by susie123

Today I'm posting towers from Ravenna in Italy. This city was the second most important city in the Byzantine world in the 5th and 6th centuries and still has many churches from that period, with stunning mosaics. many of the churches acquired bell towers (campaniles) in the 9th to 11th centuries

The ancient churches of Ravenna

1 -3 Basilica of San Giovanni Evangelista
4 & 5 San Apollinare Nuovo. This has some of the best mosaics
6 Base of the tower in 4
7 & 8 Santa Maria Maggiore
9 San Giovanni Battista, with a rather incongruous later Baroque facade

You seem to have an endless supply of pictures, very impressive.The towers are an impressive set of constructions.

[davemac]

Today in Pictures, nothing much to report today due to weather and other commitments.
1. Past the canal.
2. Quick around the Park.
3. Set off back home.

and thats your lot.