Bahnstormer_vRS wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 8:08 am ^^^^ I know you like to do things 'big' in the US of A Andrew, but that's a pond? Looks more like a lake to me.

Great place to swim though.

Guy

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Be careful though, it looks like the kind of place where teenagers get murdered by a mad axeman in Hollywood films.

jkbarnes wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 2:07 am A little post-dinner evening stroll through my wife’s old neighborhood, ending at the pond where she’s been swimming since she was a baby, and where her boys learned to swim.

Occoquan/Fountainhead?

As mentioned in the The “Where’s My Watch?” Game thread a few weeks ago, I spent a day out with my girlfriend / partner visiting Anglesey Abbey and Lode Mill, a National Trust property, nowhere near North Wales but a few miles Northeast of Cambridge.

We had a most enjoyably day out walking around the formal gardens and general grounds of the Abbey, which ceased to be an Abbey around the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s, moving into private ownership and being used as a succession of Private Homes, most recently by the future Lord Fairhaven who, in the 1930s, with a passion for tradition and impressing guests transformed a run-down country house and desolate landscape into a spectacular garden with planting for all seasons and a cosy house in which to entertain.

The house was bequeathed to The National Trust upon Lord Fairhaven's death in 1966. A brief history of Anglesey Abbey.


Here's a selection of what we saw that day;-

Lode Mill










Anglesey Abbey






Lord Fairhaven quite liked his timepieces.

Long case Regulator Clock in the main hall. "Elliocott, Royal Exchange, London"






A French 'Pointer Date' clock - "Romain a Paris"






A Viking Long Ship weather vane






The formal Rose Garden




Some more formal gardens






Some of the landscaped grounds




There were quite a number of strategically placed statues, such that the eye is drawn to them at the end of a path.




Looking to the South West over farmland, from the boundary of the Estate




An avenue of trees, looking back towards the Abbey / house






. . .and no post would be complete without my watch of the day (Bremont U-22 BZ)




Guy

Bahnstormer_vRS wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 8:08 am ^^^^ I know you like to do things 'big' in the US of A Andrew, but that's a pond? Looks more like a lake to me.

Great place to swim though.

Guy

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Pond vs lake - perhaps another entry for Steve’s thread about English.

It’s called Spectacle Pond, and it’s pretty big for a pond.

richtel wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 10:46 am Occoquan/Fountainhead?

The town of Sandwich on Cape Cod. We’re visiting my in-laws.

I’m impressed you know Occoquan & Fountainhead!

What a beautiful setting, Guy. I could easily get “lost” there.

jkbarnes wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 12:56 pm Pond vs lake - perhaps another entry for Steve’s thread about English.

It’s called Spectacle Pond, and it’s pretty big for a pond.


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I guess I should have seen that one coming, Andrew.

Yes, Steve's 'English' thread did come to mind.

Guy

Bahnstormer_vRS wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 1:43 pm I guess I should have seen that one coming, Andrew.

Yes, Steve's 'English' thread did come to mind.

Guy

What’s funny is that there’s a pond at the center of the town here that my wife (and all the locals) knows as Shawme Pond. However, on both Google and Apple Maps it’s labeled as a lake. (My wife gets quite indignant at this, insisting it’s Shawme Pond, not lake.)

The kicker? It far smaller that Spectacle Pond, yet Google and Apple both call it a lake while the bigger Spectacle is a pond?!

Who knows what the difference is between a pond & a lake.

^^^^ I thought we were on opposite sides of the pond Andrew? The Atlantic is quite big, more so even than a lake….

Well a quick google and it seems the difference between a pond and a lake is the depth of the body of water. A pond is shallow enough to allow sunlight to reach the bottom and for plant life to grow down there. Whereas a lake is usually much deeper.

There seems to be some confusion with names as many people named lakes as ponds and vice versa when they didn’t actually know the difference.

iain wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:04 pm Well a quick google and it seems the difference between a pond and a lake is the depth of the body of water. A pond is shallow enough to allow sunlight to reach the bottom and for plant life to grow down there. Whereas a lake is usually much deeper.

There seems to be some confusion with names as many people named lakes as ponds and vice versa when they didn’t actually know the difference.

That’s pretty interesting and makes a lot of sense.

Might be stretching the 'walking' bit of the title, we only had to walk about 1km from the bus to get to the highest point on Madeira at 1880m for these pictures taken at dawn.

Gold Hill Shaftesbury this morning together with a YouTube video of the 1973 Hovis advert and Ronnie Barker's remake in 1978.


scooter

I've spent this weekend, with my girlfriend/ partner, staying in a duplex apartment at Burton Waters Marina, a few miles out of Lincoln on the edge of the Fens.

Yesterday, we walked into Lincoln City Centre on the cycleway/footpath that runs alongside Foss Dyke; a distance of 3.6 miles to Stokes tea rooms which sit on High Bridge the oldest bridge in the United Kingdom which still has buildings on it, dating back to 1160AD.

Mind you, what with walking to, around Lincoln and up Steep Hill (yes, that is the name of the road) to the Cathedral and back, covering something like ten miles in 30+ degC heat wasn't the smartest of ideas but it was nevertheless fun.

A few pics of the day.













In the shadow of the Cathedral I thought I'd check in on the renowned English watch maker Harold Pinchbeck and found he has very unassuming premises.







Towards the top of Steep Hill was The Whisky Shop in which I was tempted to buy a bottle of Bourbon, but not knowing the good from the very good, I held back.



Finally, back to base at the Marina.



NB>Pic taken this morning.


Guy

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My first decent walk out following my run in with covid. Thankfully there’s no longer term effects on my fitness.

Took a walk past Ringstone Edge reservoir which is up in the Pennines outside Halifax, not sure we are experiencing the low levels elsewhere just yet.