Stones

 

 Between the weather and other tings I've not had time to get out shooting, did manage to get this yesterday though.

 Shot on my phone.

 

Is the washing dry yet? Errrrr, not quite...

 

 Best angle I could get.  Canon 30d and old Tamron 135mm lens.

 

 

The Met office! FFS!

 

 Oh for pity sake someone close the Met office here in the UK.

 Met office weather warning!  Close curtains and blinds to stop your houses overheating this Friday and Saturday.

 All well and good, except...  I'm standing on my door step this Friday and it's pissing down with rain and I can see the steam rising from my 10 minute old cup of tea, and I'm waering a fleese jacket.

 Where the fuck is the Met office?  Death bloody valley?  Jeddah?  Mexicali?  Kebili?  No Exeter 136 miles away from where I am so I doubt it's a 120F in the shade there either .

 This organisation is a joke.

Aviation news

 

Boeing are in the news again.  Following the 737max isues, the door falling off, the wheel falling off and the Starlines issues a new problem has riased it's ugly head.

 Boeings new 777 is having issues.  All  4 of the finished aircraft being used for testing and certification are grounded I'm told.  It seems that cracks were found in the enging mounting brackets, it was first noticed on the aircraft with the lowest number of flight hours (around 120) and only 60 cycles on the airframe.  This is a very low number of hours to be having cracks.

 An A check the most basic is around every 200-300 flights.  A B check around every 8 months, and a C check around every 2 years.  A really serious D check is around every 6-10 years (the planes is stripped right down).

 All 4 of the test aircraft had the similar cracks.

 

 

 Theres been a big jump in the number of ultra light/micro light type aircraft crashes, these often suffer a fatality.  Theres no obvious link between the crashes so the cause is unknown on most of these, but usually put down to pilot error if nothing weather or mechanical is found.

 A courious factor in these crashes is many have an emergency parachute.  Yet whatever happens either happens too quickly or too close to the ground for it to be used.

Spot colour image

 

 Spot colour images are when a black and white image has some colour.  As a rough guide, people either love them or hate them.

 Personally I dont think this works for me, but I thought I'd share it anyway,

 

 

The US secret service.

 

 During a recent hearing some information about the secret service has come out.

 Along with a long list of other crazy things was the information that the Miami office of the US secret service wedged a door open to allow a draft.  While this was open a member of the public wandered in and stayed the night.  He wasnt found until the next day.

 Remember this is the organisation tasked with protecting senior people like the president and keeping them safe in their building... while their own building was left unguarded....    You couldnt make it up.

Black and white bolts.

 

 Spotted this on a walk yesterday.  Canon 7d, Canon 18-135mm lens.  Heavy crop.