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My cobra infantry use Marauder Ak-74s in addition to repro snow serpent Ak-47s I bought off eBay. I like having my basic troopers use an assortment of different weapons. Makes things less dull IMO!
A sunny day was in store, and I thought 1Q24 Derby-Derby coinciding with some fresh air might shift some rotten flu that wouldn`t leave me alone. I had no intention of going far, so a short drive to Barby Nortoft would have to suffice. I was feeling a bit rusty as I hadn`t used my camera for some time. Maybe now the cobwebs have been blown off, more shots will follow soon! Here we see DB Schenker liveried 67027 leading the train on the 19th of December 2014.
18 novembre 2014, Paris.
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My cobra infantry use Marauder Ak-74s in addition to repro snow serpent Ak-47s I bought off eBay. I like having my basic troopers use an assortment of different weapons. Makes things less dull IMO!
Ballots are unreasoned; unreasoning. My youth was saved by the abolition of the conscription ballot. The last time my number came up for jury duty a surgeon had left me with an eye looking like a handful of minced beef. This time I have no excuses. The Sheriff would not accept that now was the time to make cider. It was a pressing matter. It is a bittersweet thing.
Today I rush through the picking, milling and pressing of these somerset redstreak apples. Not elegant, not pretty and not from a supermarket near you — I cannot let my years of labour be wasted on the courts. Today I make cider. Tommorrow? I may be bound by civic duty for the next fortnight, selected then challenged or remain on the list of jurors, not quite ad infinitum, but for the remainder of the year — in limbo.
There'll be more cider apples ripening later — I expect three pressings. These won't wait and are too good to waste. Their cider, fermented and off the lees will be about 7 per cent of alcohol, dry and delicate; pleasant as a varietal still cider. I could chaptalise — add sugar — to increase the alcohol; make it more like a table wine. That's not my thing — I know a cidery where it is normal. I've waited, expressed the juice until my refractomer said now is good, and until the weather said use it or lose it. Now duty has got in the way. My plan will be to rack this batch off when it has fermented out all the sugar, then blend with the remainder of my varieties as they mature; prime and bottle condition for a jolly sparkling brew: a bit funky, tannic — a taste of the past Summer in a bottle.
Seasons and the day are more important to me now. They always should be. I was called to court, the accused arraigned on matters heinous and my number drawn. Perhaps it was my death stare; given freely. There was guilt in that countenance. Whatever, the defence challenged my selection. Now I am free to return to Nature, the seasons, my apples, that cider.
2 baskets of windfalls and 3 of George Cave apples to try to sweeten the windfalls a bit
We dont ever do an apple pressing this early in the year but Storm Floris has encouraged us to have a go.
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My system is very unhappy with the new ENB binaries, shadows go mental a lot of the time (I'm sticking to AO) and playing the game at 1920x1080 or larger causes constant CTDs... :-?
Greenham of Manchester using one of their mobile Coles Crane's to move a mechanical press from off the back of a Commer lorry and into a factory during July 1970.
Four different monoliths from the Occitane region, each with an element or association that may suggest late neolithic or early bronze age origins, and each with an element that may suggest a function related to pressing juice from fruit, be it an output canal for liquid, carved slots for a structure to potentially house wooden press levers and wide hard areas for action. Despite having surfaces for pressing and canals for collecting, it seems that evidence that these monoliths originated for fruit/grape pressing is patchy, slim and largely insufficient.
An image of a simple lever press is posted in the comment below. Other primitive fruit-press adaptions to a pressing basin might include a cross beam to help those who might be pressing fruit with their feet to afford directed pressure.
Alcohol was a way to preserve excess fruit harvests and wine was a Celtic product from a least 2,500 ybp so simple wine pressing troughs need to be kept in mind. Rituals and cultural practises with waters and herbs may also have adapted with new fermentation ideas, allowing neolithic stones to modulate and change their morphology through the iron ages and into the early medieval years. Again with these factors in mind, ideas of fruit press explanations for these examples of large carved monoliths are far from conclusive.
Top left: Saint Michel de Grandmont.
Aside this low 'basin' can be found a wide cluster of imposing and characterful neolithic dolmens and a wide range of basins including a monolithic throne - all monolithic carvings in keeping with chalcolithic and bronze age finds in the equally mineral hills of the Albera region in the north of Spain (geographically situated on the south side of the intervening flatland belt that stretches between the Mediterranean and Atlantic). Small-scale cups and canals confirm neolithic and bronze age dates. Whilst they are apparently missing from the Grandmont site, there exist examples of basins without cups and canals in direct association with megaliths (see below) so dates from as early as the neolithic remain active. With wine known from at least 2,500 ybp and a potential for 'transforming' fermenting and preserving repeated baskets of collected fruit produce, this basin must be considered as a potential pressing basin or 'wine pressing trough'. Two tall and rectangular carved mortice joints are visible to the near side, suggest a structure; potentially the wooden 'uprights' to hold a press with the beam weight landing on a carved indent opposite. It looks as if the indents may have damaged a pre existing circumference wall and that any collection for juice from a press would have been less that optimised. The photographer and researcher Laurent Crassous has isolated stones and canals with a debit and collection point ideal for heating water via the suns rays. Uses of fire free warm water are many from cleaning to bathing, babies and Epicurean pleasure. The large Grandmont basin may originally have naturally warmed water with the walls rounded by seated persons, with there having been a later attempt to put the 'sun trough' to use as a grape press. The carved marks that appear to be perfect for a press would also have been perfect for a bench to seat more people in communal contact with water and herbs - the bench's wooden feet kept away from the water.
Top right: le roc de la Fougasse - Morenci. The stone is found under a ridge that includes chalcolithic buriel sites, and petroglyphs that are difficult to date. The top surface may seem idea for a press, but in detail is not flat. The canals around the 'stump' of stone seem to make a journey for any liquids without being adapted for either collection or heating. This monolith may probably be closer to a podium for rites and cultural events. There may just be the faded goodbyes of petroglyphs on the surface of the disc - too difficult to assert.
Lower left: Pierre du Sacrifce de la Peyregade. The surface of the monolith is tilted and the trench has been effected by man but not in a way that might help a targeted use for juice collection or waming water. Cups and canals on the surface of this monolith help to date this stone to between the late neolithic and the early bronze age.
Lower right: Pierre du Sacrifice de la Causse de Lunas. 5.5m long, 3m wide and 1.25m high. Cups, canals and a faint 'neolithic' cross help to push the origins of this stone into a late prehistoric timescale. The stone is above the shadows of surrounding valleys and might have functioned for heating water by induction. A raised carved 'bar' splits the basin into two which may have helped with heating strategies if combined with hot stones (potential for dichotomies: cleaning rinsing, hot cold, two colours of herb and so on). The general appearance of the monlith might be described as being that of a simple boat. As with the Grandmont basin there are carved mortice joints for an additional structure - here two on each side. The joints are not opposite each other, and whilst arguments that the stone was adapted as a press at a later date in its chronology are intriguing, there does not seem to be an obvious functional synergy that comes from true design. There is a chapel down in the valley that dates to the fifth century, and attempts to add Christianized structure to the sacred trees and stones of the local landscape may have led to a re-appropriation of a locally sacred stone, with wine and Monks often associated.
The monoliths of each diagonal are within tens of kilometers of each other, and then around 150km between.
AJM 20.10.19
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Called in to take a look at Kingston Marine Services, Hull and was surprised at what immediately caught my eye on top of the press... An AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service) WW2 helmet sat there staring back at me. The workshop is relatively small and we where kindly guided around by one of the engineers. Although small the 1886 built workshop provides with great architectural photo opportunities and full of trinkets throughout like the WW2 helmet in this picture, amazes me that the helmet is still here 83 years on!
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We are in the hills, nearing our destination of Úbeda. The landscape is covered with olive trees, as far as you can see. We are later told, by a proud waiter, about the olive oil production in the area. It's massive! Spain is the largest producer of olive oil - around half the global production!
Taken with my Fujifilm X-T30 II camera and a XF18-55mm lens.
WEEK 12 – Southaven Gordmans Liquidates Again (VI)
Last but not least for this week, moving slightly forward back towards the right-side actionway, where that red circle feature comes into much closer view. Unfortunately I never got a closer shot of it, but you can kinda see here that it simply had a forlorn cardboard bin or two, as well as a similarly sad-looking standee with the poster poking out of it. This side appears to be promoting something related to fragrance and beauty, and directs readers to stage.com – one of the few actual references by name within the building to Gordmans’ new owners.
We’re getting pretty close to the finish line from this store – only two more weeks to go, in fact – but I’m gonna place this tour on pause for a little bit. We’ll pick back up (incidentally) exactly one month from today, so be sure to come on back for that. In the meantime, another series will take this one’s place in the interim, beginning two weeks from now, so I hope you guys will stick around for that one. And next week, we continue exploring (at long last!) the Sprouts that took over the former S Perkins Kroger. Lots of fun ahead, I promise – so stay tuned!
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