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Today in Pictures, just time to get it wet, then home.

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A walk down the Dunk for a change

1. This is from this morning on the way to work.
2. Heron flying off.
3. Flowers in the river.
4. If you really really really really really really really look carefully, you can just see a bit of kingfisher blue vanishing behind the grass, it was on the branch but i think the noise from the autofocus scared it off (i`ll get you next time http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/angry/smiley.gif)
5. A cluster of conkers.
6. Someone told me a while ago that cows wont cross the river.
7. A canal panoramic

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Farmer Barnes, who's farm is behind the Walton Arms, often had to come over to our side of the Calder at Dunkirk Farm, Read when the river was low to get his cows back.
Often a dozen or so would decide the grass was greener the other side and splash their way over.

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the kelpies are now open ... so instead of getting chased off by security blokes we had a wander down and round and along the extension to the forth canal back into grangemouth at the other side ... and ended up in a taxi back home... I couldn't walk no further ...

1. the long walk to the helix
2. along the back of falkirk football clubs stadium .. you can just see it through the grass
3. which way to the kelpies
4. the new playground that had just opened a couple of weeks ago
5. the swans on the canal bank with the kelpies behind
6. some wet stuff for dave .. no way were I wading into that ....
7. the kelpies wi the canal to the basin
8. the kelpies with the basin and the lock in the middle
9. the long long long walk back along the extension to the canal .. spugs says he now understands why its cost that much ...
10. a jellyfish in the lake

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Spectacular Jen. I am envious of those pics.......I wish I had captured them.

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Really nice photographic tour around the area Gen, great shots, thanks for showing them.

Did you take any photos of the Falkirk Wheel and either ICI or BP refinery?
I have an odd sneaky photo I took inside the place but I would have been banned for life if I had been caught.

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Inside the Grangemouth refineries, middle photo is BP, others ICI. The memory of the smell still lingers, I carted a lot of Sodium Hydrogen Sulphide there and any school boy/girl will tell you how bad that smells.

Many thanks to my good mate "atkiman" for taking the photos for me.
We can blame him if the Refinery security men come looking for me.

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I was told by the spugster to put my camera away when we were walking down the side of the refinery .. as it was safer otherwise we'd have had the security guards after us ... and he didn't fancy having to explain to the police that I never go anywhere without the camera ... we walked right down the side near enough to the docks down past the old railway line into the refinery .. and yes I got plenty of the falkirk wheel .. I went up for a wander round when the spugster went back to work .. and I got it in action both from the top and the bottom ... patience ... im only allowed 10 a day .. :D

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I will be looking forwards to seeing your shots of the wheel Gen, I hope it was photos of the wheel you got in action from top and bottom. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Just while we are discussing refineries and chemicals here are a few more photos of tankers.
No. 1 Me coming out of Blythes, it was a posed photo for the Companies Brochure. I didn't get any royalties for it.
No. 2 Another photo for a safety lecture, showing me in all the protective clothing taking a sample of NaHs, the operator must be imune from any splashes when I hand the bottle down to him.

No. 3. You would never know this place existed when you go up Dunmail raise from Grasmere to Keswick. It is a little water treatment plant down a little bank just below road level. They treat the clear pure water from Thirlmere reservoir before it free wheels to Manchester. It's seems a shame to add Caustic soda liquor or Sodium Hypochlorite to it. When there are no tankers there the big doors are closed and it blends into the scenery looking like a barn.

No more, I am tired out already with all the memories of work.

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So sorry to hear about Sally. It's awfully sad to lose a pet :(

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Number 3 especially was well worth getting wet for :)

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No mate, just playing with words, using Fazakaly instead of exactly (Scouse humour). :)

as for Piccies, a couple from Sundays visit to the Tractor & field day at Laggenbeck then a couple from todays walk in the woods.

Local traditional crafts "Holzschuhe schnitzen & Blaudruck" Clog making & cloth printing in the Delft blue style - "Pferde pflug" 'Osses pullin on't plough! - I even brought me own Scarecrow :D - Small Tortoiseshell - Wood Mouse I believe - And finally, the Grimlin sitting like a sack of spuds!

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Scouse humour?????
Not when you are queuing at Huskisson Dock waiting to unload oil onto a ship.
Maybe the dockers thought it funny to keep us there all day but it didn't amuse me.

KG5 in Glasgow was a pleasure to go to.
If the dockers didn't let us have a brew in their hut the first mate would take us on board for something a bit stronger.

Photos to follow when I find them.

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That was just bums & stiffs, out & out union men, now if you'd of offered 'em a dropsy ........ :rolleyes:

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I was happy enough to sit there all week, Shell were paying waiting time and it was probably a lot more than the dockers were earning plus I had my expenses.
They could sit under their umbrella all day for me, listening to the trams rumbling overhead.