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A levelling plate, also known as a flush bracket, is a specific type of brass fitting found on trig points (triangulation pillars) and other structures used for surveying and mapping. It is designed to provide a precise and stable surface for attaching a levelling staff during height measurement, enabling accurate determination of elevations above sea level.
If you type in 'trig point S5406' or whichever trig point you are looking at, into your browser, you will get a page telling you all about the trig point itself:
I have included this in my Benchmarks album because the abbreviation on the plate, OSBM, stands for Ordnance Survey Benchmark.
And I just realised I should have 'trued' this picture to put the plate completely vertical, as it is in life. I'll do that sometime =]
And having writ, moves on.
It's always interesting to see what has been written this week. It's a shame the calligraphy is so poor.
Can anyone translate the Chinese characters, please?
The joke used to be that the Lada Niva, or VAZ-2121 was invented to save the Soviet government money from upgrading the roads. Now, where did I leave my ushanka?!
The big companies have reduced the numbers of independent brewers considerably. It does the industry no good at all but increases big corporations' profits.
In the field were the delightful lambs and their mothers. They are painted with numbers to indicate their owner, when grazing on shared or common land.
My favorite meal of the day; breakfast. Saturday breakfast is usually a bit different from the rest of the week.
Avocado toast, tomato, juice, moka.
The work of seconds with a bolt cropper and someone's treasured bike is gone.
Nobody sees anything. It's a shame.
Corollary - use a U bolt lock, or tie a wolverine to the frame if you leave your bike for even a few minutes.
I was putting in a new door frame and came outside for a break. Saw these on the edge of the car park and had to take a picture or 10!
I once read a specification for how to securely close a garbage bag. This is one of the methods.
I thought it was a UN specification, but I have misremembered. It's all a load of rubbish.
Everybody needs a safety valve of some sort. I make coffee.
Here is what the grounds look like after extraction.
Saint Paul's, Scotforth. Designed by Paley and Austin, incorporating grit stone and terracotta tiles, hence its nickname.
I really like this tiny graffito that I saw in a local coffee shop. the slightly curved 'spine' makes this seem almost alive.
The Old Pier Bookshop, Morecambe.
An amazingly wide selection of books. Don't expect your visit to be quick.
It's a quiet day at home; housework and such like.
If you want a laugh, it's just taken me the best part of an hour to make the bed with my new linen. I was baffled not to be able to find the opening for the quilt cover. I was about to get my sewing kit out and open a seam ... and then I found some buttons.
The stripes run horizontally, not vertically, as I had expected. So confused. More signs of cognitive decline? Or just an example of aesthetic dissonance?
If you are also challenged by longitude and latitude, have a read of this. It's excellent:
Carved into a kerbstone, a single letter. What does it signify? Who did it? When was it done?
No hydrant, hospital, hotel or other 'H' is nearby. It's a mystery.
A project by Lancaster University to show a living room of the future, equipped with objects from the Internet of Things, and to elicit people's reactions.
Just to prove it isn't only German that I mangle!
Dinner tonight was a lamb steak, served on a bed of mashed carrot and sweet potato, with garden peas and pickled red cabbage. Brought together with some more veloute sauce.
So - other than the enormous quantity of peas (don't hate me - I like them) - what's the deal? Well, I cooked all of this in a microwave, in three separate 4 minute sessions. Cost of energy was about 15 p. You do need the appropriate dish to sear and cook the meat, but there are so many on the used pages these days, you really ought to get one.
Lékué (offices in Barcelona) is my favorite brand, but there are others of course.
One of my great-grandmothers was Irish, and so I feel no shame in using a Gaelige name for my latest attempt at making this speckled fruit loaf, using my own recipe. I think it will do, finally.
I definitely need to get a wire cooling rack!
Walking along the riverside, the trees and undergrowth bury their roots in the ground that keep the banks together - come rain, shine, and flood. Sometimes the leaves are so dense that you can't see the river any more. So it's good to look at the trees, and think of Joyce Kilmer's wonderful poem:
Trees
By Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
This lovely piano was built at the Bechstein English subsidiary, and not at Berlin, around 1930 (going from the serial number on the frame). Sadly, it has not been kept in concert fettle and the keyboard and action need to be overhauled by a technician. The Ivory Act makes it illegal to sell this on, so I shall look forward to returning next year to play it again.
Notwithstanding, it was a pleasure to play.
First day back at work ...
I got a new recipe to try:
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
Who knows - they might enjoy it =]
But of a sort. Didn't feel like cooking tonight but hungry. So i threw this together quickly. It doesn't look much but it hit the spot.
1 egg
3 sliced mushrooms
Garden peas
Blue cheese
Chives
Olive oil
Mix together in a small dish
Baked quickly
I feel that everything is slipping away so quickly at the moment. I wish it would slow down a little.