Both of my parents lived through that, they were in London. My father saw one heading towards him at rooftop height when he was cycling to work (He worked on the railway). It was gliding down, and he told me the threw the bike to one side and dived down an alleyway. The V1 came down a couple of streets over. He would have been around eighteen or so at the time.
My Mom was in Portsmouth, She was in bed and heard the buzz bomb coming. It stopped just over her head. She threw the covers over her head and waited. (It missed…)
My mother slept through an air raid (She would have been about 12/13), when she woke up the glass in her bedroom window was out (Net curtains were ideal in containing such a thing), and the house across the road (Terraced) was a pile of rubble.
I know this is John Lennon, with his then wife Cynthia, and George Harrison, with his then-wife Pattie Boyd, who would eventually leave him for his good pal Eric Clapton.
And Pattie’s sister Jenny Boyd, about whom Donovan wrote Jennifer Juniper… but she’s about to marry Mick Fleetwood… I think a couple of times, for good measure.
Don’t you wish you ran in those circles?
Can’t hardly tell the players without a scorecard.
They’re about to travel together to India to visit(and become disenchanted with) the Maharishi, in 1968.
I think I surmised, because it looks that way to me now, that this was taken with a large format camera, because of the clarity. That would be with their permission, not a hasty grab with a 35mm press camera.
That’s a yellow boxfish…. named for their almost cubical bodies.
He (?) looks soft, or maybe inflated like a blowfish, but Wikipedia says they have a hard carapace of thin bony plates.
This is a baby… the color pales and turns grayish as they mature, and in the wild, in reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans, they can reach up to 18″ long.
They’re also used as aquarium fish… I don’t know how big they get tanks. But be nice to them. When they’re feeling threatened, they release toxic mucus. Ewww..
I have a feeling we’re being tricked. Only one dog even glances at the tortoise.
I’m betting they’re actually waiting for a signal from their unseen human, who’s the one waiting for the tortoise to reach his dinner before giving them the go-ahead.
Sitting in each other’s chairs, just to mess with us.
I didn’t realize Roger Moore was that much younger… But I guess he’d have to be, since the others were part of the so-called golden age of Hollywood, and he was making Bond movies in the 80s.
Oh my…and I thought the last motel I stayed in was bad…no Basset Motel for me, thank you very much.
Just for kicks, I dug up an old scanned photo of my first hound. He’s half basset, half Shar-Pei. This is probably about 25 to 26 years ago. His name is Beethoven, which was the family’s second choice…because the kids wanted to name him Elvis. Yeah, umm…no way. I was not going to be THAT guy running around the neighborhood late at night looking for a lost dog and asking everyone if they’d seen Elvis…
I left a reply late yesterday to a comment about deleting here on WordPress. I know a few people saw it… I hope you’ll forgive me if I post that information again today, for those who don’t go back
We have people here now who missed our early discussions, when we were figuring out how this site works… and some of it is not obvious. So just in case this helps anybody:
There is indeed a simple delete option here on WordPress…. They just do a great job of hiding things.
First you have to refresh the page. At least I do .. it never shows up for me before a refresh.
Then you’ll see a link that says “click to edit”, and displays a time limit of about a week, with a counter breaking it down to the second.
Click that, and the options are Save, Cancel and Delete. When you click Delete, it’ll tell you your comment has been deleted, though you’ll still see it for a few moments before it disappears.
(I think after the counter runs out, in a week, you can no longer delete your old comments that way… But there’s another way I’ll tell you if anyone actually wants to know.)
…
However if you actually want to edit your comment, I suggest not using that method, unless it doesn’t bother you that you have to code the HTML for some of it… It’s weird to me because some of it automatically formats, the way it usually does in the comment field.
To edit, look instead below your comment, at the line that shows the thumbs and the reply arrow…. Touch or mouse the end of that line, and unless it’s already visible, a hidden gear icon appears… touch that and the edit button drops down. That button will open the comment field in its normal state, and also has no time limit.
You can’t delete by removing all your text that way…. it won’t save an empty box. Use the click to edit button for that.
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“I’m handsome and I know it…”
I’m glad to see he is appropriately dressed for the conditions.
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Actually a type of wasp in Chile. It has a nasty sting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euspinolia_militaris
Velvet ants. AKA “Cow Killers.” Yeah, the sting hurts!
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Both of my parents lived through that, they were in London. My father saw one heading towards him at rooftop height when he was cycling to work (He worked on the railway). It was gliding down, and he told me the threw the bike to one side and dived down an alleyway. The V1 came down a couple of streets over. He would have been around eighteen or so at the time.
wow! what a story…..thanks for sharing
My Mom was in Portsmouth, She was in bed and heard the buzz bomb coming. It stopped just over her head. She threw the covers over her head and waited. (It missed…)
My mother slept through an air raid (She would have been about 12/13), when she woke up the glass in her bedroom window was out (Net curtains were ideal in containing such a thing), and the house across the road (Terraced) was a pile of rubble.
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Gonna make me cry.
“Little head”? Must be from another photo.
I was thinking the same thing.
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Kewl.
I can do a lot of different haircuts… if you bring me photo I can usually match it, if it works for your hair type.
But I admit… Beautiful as it is, I can’t give you this one.
Oh … Wait. I suppose I could, IF you had the right hair type.
Banksy strikes again!
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We discussed this photo, maybe a few weeks ago(?)
I know this is John Lennon, with his then wife Cynthia, and George Harrison, with his then-wife Pattie Boyd, who would eventually leave him for his good pal Eric Clapton.
And Pattie’s sister Jenny Boyd, about whom Donovan wrote Jennifer Juniper… but she’s about to marry Mick Fleetwood… I think a couple of times, for good measure.
Don’t you wish you ran in those circles?
Can’t hardly tell the players without a scorecard.
They’re about to travel together to India to visit(and become disenchanted with) the Maharishi, in 1968.
I think I surmised, because it looks that way to me now, that this was taken with a large format camera, because of the clarity. That would be with their permission, not a hasty grab with a 35mm press camera.
.
Those little spotted guys look like dice.
That’s a yellow boxfish…. named for their almost cubical bodies.
He (?) looks soft, or maybe inflated like a blowfish, but Wikipedia says they have a hard carapace of thin bony plates.
This is a baby… the color pales and turns grayish as they mature, and in the wild, in reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans, they can reach up to 18″ long.
They’re also used as aquarium fish… I don’t know how big they get tanks. But be nice to them. When they’re feeling threatened, they release toxic mucus. Ewww..
Yes; I got the name, too…
I think they’re also known as Hogfish…
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That’s it. Turn on the waterworks.
What’s the poor Horseshoe crab ever done to you?
Wonderful, loving people to care for their animals this way.
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Didn’t I see this in “Close Encounters…”
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Oh man! He’s slower than molasses in January! They think they’ll starve to death by the time he gets there!
I have a feeling we’re being tricked. Only one dog even glances at the tortoise.
I’m betting they’re actually waiting for a signal from their unseen human, who’s the one waiting for the tortoise to reach his dinner before giving them the go-ahead.
Well, of course. But it’s fun to watch. 😉
Spoilsport!
:’(
LOL!!!
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There’s always one contrarian.
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Sitting in each other’s chairs, just to mess with us.
I didn’t realize Roger Moore was that much younger… But I guess he’d have to be, since the others were part of the so-called golden age of Hollywood, and he was making Bond movies in the 80s.
This was on the set of The Sea Wolves, in 1980.
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It’s scary enough. Did ‘ya have ‘ta animate it?!
Oh my…and I thought the last motel I stayed in was bad…no Basset Motel for me, thank you very much.
Just for kicks, I dug up an old scanned photo of my first hound. He’s half basset, half Shar-Pei. This is probably about 25 to 26 years ago. His name is Beethoven, which was the family’s second choice…because the kids wanted to name him Elvis. Yeah, umm…no way. I was not going to be THAT guy running around the neighborhood late at night looking for a lost dog and asking everyone if they’d seen Elvis…
I left a reply late yesterday to a comment about deleting here on WordPress. I know a few people saw it… I hope you’ll forgive me if I post that information again today, for those who don’t go back
We have people here now who missed our early discussions, when we were figuring out how this site works… and some of it is not obvious. So just in case this helps anybody:
There is indeed a simple delete option here on WordPress…. They just do a great job of hiding things.
First you have to refresh the page. At least I do .. it never shows up for me before a refresh.
Then you’ll see a link that says “click to edit”, and displays a time limit of about a week, with a counter breaking it down to the second.
Click that, and the options are Save, Cancel and Delete. When you click Delete, it’ll tell you your comment has been deleted, though you’ll still see it for a few moments before it disappears.
(I think after the counter runs out, in a week, you can no longer delete your old comments that way… But there’s another way I’ll tell you if anyone actually wants to know.)
…
However if you actually want to edit your comment, I suggest not using that method, unless it doesn’t bother you that you have to code the HTML for some of it… It’s weird to me because some of it automatically formats, the way it usually does in the comment field.
To edit, look instead below your comment, at the line that shows the thumbs and the reply arrow…. Touch or mouse the end of that line, and unless it’s already visible, a hidden gear icon appears… touch that and the edit button drops down. That button will open the comment field in its normal state, and also has no time limit.
You can’t delete by removing all your text that way…. it won’t save an empty box. Use the click to edit button for that.
WordPress is crazy.
Neolithic Stones.
they just aren’t trying hard enough
LOL!