Random Picture Thread

All those axes brought an axemen twist into my mind since the term axeman is also music jargon, often referring to a guitar player, or to a lesser extent, a saxophone player.

Everyone wants to be an axeman... (by: Neil McCormick, 31 Aug 2006, The Telegraph)

Here's 30 seconds of the above voted #1 guitar solo. I'll post more about it soon in the thread Songs About Boats since there's a smoking ship, a horizon, and waves in the song.​

 

Done - - - - Songs About Boats: post #268​

 

Have a nice holiday Anthony, don't forget to pray for our poor souls, and please post here some new pictures of the carvings and the whole scenery there . .

 

Cathedrals and churches can be incredibly rich in their carvings, and the subject matter is often secular as well as religious in its nature. Great to see the boat carvings - thanks for sharing!

The carvings under the stall seats in particular, as it is largely hidden, is often smutty, bawdy, or downright obscene, but usually great fun.

The great English writer of ghost stories, M. R. James, centred one of his stories around the carvings in a choir stall. It was adapted as a BBC Christmas Ghost story. Here are two productions - the original 1971 ghost story, 'The Stalls at Barchester' starring Robert Hardy:



And a more recent one, produced as a reading of the story, with the marvellous Christopher Lee playing M. R. James, who was Provost of Kings College, Cambridge, reading 'the Stalls at Barchester Cathedral' to students of the college:



If you like your ghost stories to be subtle, conjuring their chills by hints and suggestions of the supernatural, without blood and gore and monsters, then M.R.James is your man...

 

Been with my girls to an exhibition at the Textilmuseum Cromford near Dusseldorf today. It was about fashion between 1890 and 1930, but then a photo caught my eye.

 

I was able to do some kayaking with my brother a few weeks ago.

 

Just seen in an ad . . . ​

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The above beached picture could be looking north to the North Sea from the north side of the isle of Schiermonnikoog . . . ​

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NASA World Wind screenshot of Schiermonnikoog ^{Google Maps}, north is up.​

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Sinking . . . :?:

No, just working her ass off . . . . :idea:

MADELINE EMILE is now JENNY M ​

BTW, that's the Old Head of Kinsale Light we see there . . . - - (On Google Maps, don't look north of the marker . . . )

. . . . where now a massive golf course is . . .

‘‘ The links and practice area occupy 180 acres and the remaining 40 acres of unspoilt cliff (rising in places to over 300 feet) frame the course. ’’

 

Her Majesty's boat cloak . . . ​

She sure is prepared for anything since I think it was Lt Peter Halkett who designed her Majesty's boat cloak . . . :idea:

 

*Loving* the boat - cloak, Angel!

 

Submarine Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Sea