lyndarra

6 hours ago, Mareblu said:

I have Somerset ancestral lines as well.  Through all the west country, in fact.  My mother’s lines are Scottish, Northern Irish  and west midlands.  I feel I’m home when I’m in the Scottish Highlands.

My Scottish grandfather came from a long line (no pun intent) of North Sea whitefishers. I'm not sure how far back, at least the 1600s from research so far. Perhaps that's why I feel comfortable at sea, especially when there's a decent swell.

On my mothers side it's almost all Dorset centric.

This one looks familiar, my imagination?

46 minutes ago, arxcards said:

That is a real thing.

Lots of table salts are iodised and/or have an anti-caking agent. Organic table salt has neither.

Salt, sodium chloride, in non organic as it contains no carbon compounds.

1 minute ago, MicCanberra said:

We had some Himalayan salt, very confused with the timing of our buying it as it was 250 million years old but with an expiry date of 2022.

I've also noticed that. Same with honey.

I also have not bought sugar in a long long time. I have a sugar bowl with some raw sugar (bought years ago) for guests who have it  in tea or coffee. Some years ago on a HAL cruise, in Canaletto, we were offered a tray of condiments. The waitress mentioned it included organic salt!

Yesterday, a once in a decade event occured when shopping for groceries - I bought some salt😱.

Yes, it takes me about 10 years to get through a 750g cellar of salt. I only use it for putting in water when boiling pasta and to put on chips. We gave up cooking veges in salted water in the early 70s when we bought our first microwave oven.

14 minutes ago, MicCanberra said:

Glad all your incidents ended safely for you both.

 

I had an issue when I was younger that concerned Devon.

My son (3years old) really liked it but we couldn't get any in Adelaide as they call it Fritz there, unfortunately he wanted Devon not Fritz and couldn't be told.

Couldn't get any Empire?

London?

2 minutes ago, Kristelle said:

Hamilton Island? 

Correct. Your turn.

Here's another feature of same place.

21 hours ago, lyndarra said:

Had hoped to post this sooner but was distracted by the horrific event at Westfield Bondi.

Here's the next pic. Not pretty but it's in a pretty place.

Hint: It's an airport.

It has also changed a little since photo was taken in 2012. I'll look for another pic.

Had hoped to post this sooner but was distracted by the horrific event at Westfield Bondi.

Here's the next pic. Not pretty but it's in a pretty place.

Thanks. Have been there three times - which is enough. The first time was during SARS, the doors into China were  shut just after we arrived. I'll go find a pic. Stand by.

The Forbidden City?

St. Lucia?

Havana? No not there, wrong way. I'll try Aruba?

Puerto Rico?

Ft Lauderdale?

New Orleans?

Whew!!🥱

Somewhere in UK?

Aha. I've been on that road but didn't recognise it, but now it's coming back to me.

On 4/5/2024 at 4:12 PM, MicCanberra said:

Lyndarra will be out windsurfing on that.

Was out on the board yesterday in a stiff nor'westerly. It was great, on the foil most of the time, did about 20klms. Bounced off a lot of huge jelly blubbers which appeared in their thousands ealier this year but have thinned down now.

About a month ago one our guys smashed into something under water. He believes was a shark. It bent the 115cm alloy fuselage of his foil. And last Saturday he spotted a small hammerhead. But wait, there's more, yesterday another rider hit something very very hard, again, likely another a shark, which smashed his carbon fibre front wing and snapped its fuselage. On each of those occasions they would be travelling at about 15-20kts (28-37kph). Luckily they both escaped injury - don't know about the sharks.

Mitta Mitta?

There's a tale or two to be told there.

1 hour ago, qbay46 said:

Barry Park Lookout, at Fingal Bay is what i meant.

You are correct.

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