COLD DARK ROOM

[johnandjade]

@ZEROPILOT
You haven't popped in to say hello today.

did my email get to both of you?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

did my email get to both of you?

I got it.
Evening, John.
Finished at last?
Goodness what a day!

 

[Marinated mamma]

Ooh noo! That sounds painful! Im sorry to hear that. Good thing you have the antibiotics !

I know! Makes you wonder how people ever coped before these things came along! I wanted to pull my own face off at one point before I got to the dentist

 

[johnandjade]

When i was a little lad I went out into the garden to dig up dinosaurs.
Found a lot of earthworms, some bulbs and a couple of bits of broken pottery.
So my parents took me to a beach not too far from home where one can find fossils in the rock pools, by splitting the shales and limestone nodules and by climbing about the cliffs.
Ammonites and bivalves mostly. A few years later i discovered what i believe to be a new species at this locality.
It was years before I found any dinosaur remains by which time I was more interested in other stuff anyway.
Yes, your location is important, many rocks contain no fossils, or fossils may be very rare or microscopic.
But you don't usually have to go far in a geologically interesting country like the UK or Morocco to find somewhere that is easy to pick up fossils or just bash a few rocks open to find something nice. large scale digging is rarely necessary or done.
I look at geological maps of areas when possible, but these are difficult to read for the untrained.
Spent my youth collecting, studied palaeontology at university for 8 years and have worked doing it, on and off ever since, both for museums and for myself. I had a shop.
Now I do it privately and in a very relaxed fashion and am working on classification systems and studies of ancient ecosystems and palaeoenvironments.
Lovely!

as well as looking after wifey!

 

[Marinated mamma]

Hi, mamma, glad it's improving (or disguised) but when you getting it fixed ?

Ah not for another week! I know right but that will teach me for leaving it when I felt the filling getting loose! At least my face has gone down and I don't look like a Picasso painting with my eyeball somewhere in my forehead while my cheek takes over the majority of what used to be my face

 

[Marinated mamma]

I know this is probably really blonde but what is tiger balm?

 

[johnandjade]

I got it.
Evening, John.
Finished at last?
Goodness what a day!

had a co worker join me for an after work refreshment... talked about blackadder and dwarf

 

[johnandjade]

I know this is probably really blonde but what is tiger balm?

a 'paste like' rub for sore muscles etc

 

[johnandjade]

and its nos da from me


... and nos da from him.


until tomorrow friends, wibble on \m/\m/

 

[Marinated mamma]

When i was a little lad I went out into the garden to dig up dinosaurs.
Found a lot of earthworms, some bulbs and a couple of bits of broken pottery.
So my parents took me to a beach not too far from home where one can find fossils in the rock pools, by splitting the shales and limestone nodules and by climbing about the cliffs.
Ammonites and bivalves mostly. A few years later i discovered what i believe to be a new species at this locality.
It was years before I found any dinosaur remains by which time I was more interested in other stuff anyway.
Yes, your location is important, many rocks contain no fossils, or fossils may be very rare or microscopic.
But you don't usually have to go far in a geologically interesting country like the UK or Morocco to find somewhere that is easy to pick up fossils or just bash a few rocks open to find something nice. large scale digging is rarely necessary or done.
I look at geological maps of areas when possible, but these are difficult to read for the untrained.
Spent my youth collecting, studied palaeontology at university for 8 years and have worked doing it, on and off ever since, both for museums and for myself. I had a shop.
Now I do it privately and in a very relaxed fashion and am working on classification systems and studies of ancient ecosystems and palaeoenvironments.
Lovely!

Wow fossil hunting
how cool?
I'm in awe so if I was wanting to take my nine year old fossil hunting as he would love this how would I go about it best and where? I live in the south east of uk , Kent!
My son is well into dinosaurs, geeky stuff, and the like
And I think this could be an answer to getting him away from the computer and you tube for perhaps even just a few hours and even if we found nothing would be a well deserved day out!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I know this is probably really blonde but what is tiger balm?

From Thailand, Vietnam etc. and used to rub into bruises, aches and pains.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

and its nos da from me


... and nos da from him.


until tomorrow friends, wibble on \m/\m/

Goodness, John.
Nearly the weekend!
Leila saida.
Sleep well.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Wow fossil hunting
how cool?
I'm in awe so if I was wanting to take my nine year old fossil hunting as he would love this how would I go about it best and where? I live in the south east of uk , Kent!
My son is well into dinosaurs, geeky stuff, and the like
And I think this could be an answer to getting him away from the computer and you tube for perhaps even just a few hours and even if we found nothing would be a well deserved day out!

I spent a weekend at Folkestone, once and found more than 50 different species and over a thousand specimens.
Mainly tropical snails, but there are some shark and ray teeth, corals, etc.
In the clays there, best in the spring before the experts strip it, but also after rain (which is often!) and always something to find.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Wow fossil hunting
how cool?
I'm in awe so if I was wanting to take my nine year old fossil hunting as he would love this how would I go about it best and where? I live in the south east of uk , Kent!
My son is well into dinosaurs, geeky stuff, and the like
And I think this could be an answer to getting him away from the computer and you tube for perhaps even just a few hours and even if we found nothing would be a well deserved day out!

Botany Bay near Margate, Herne Bay/ Bishopstone Glen and Sheppey have also been good for me in the past.
i can give you more precise information on what to do at any of these places, including Folkestone, if you wish..

 

[Marinated mamma]

Botany Bay near Margate, Herne Bay/ Bishopstone Glen and Sheppey have also been good for me in the past.
i can give you more precise information on what to do at any of these places, including Folkestone, if you wish..

Sheppey is really close to where I live just across the bridge about ten minutes away so I think I'm going to give that a try as we are trying something new and I'm home schooling my youngest temporarily until a better school is available closer to me so field trip next week!

 

[Marinated mamma]

Botany Bay near Margate, Herne Bay/ Bishopstone Glen and Sheppey have also been good for me in the past.
i can give you more precise information on what to do at any of these places, including Folkestone, if you wish..

We go to Botany Bay quite a lot too it's basically all along one train journey from us so gonna let my boy choose where he wants to go and have some fun that doesn't involve Mario for a nice change! Will post our findings if any at all after we've been I'm really excited he's going to love it!

 

[Marinated mamma]

Botany Bay near Margate, Herne Bay/ Bishopstone Glen and Sheppey have also been good for me in the past.
i can give you more precise information on what to do at any of these places, including Folkestone, if you wish..

And yes more precise info would be great! Yay thanks so much

 

[144 Grandpa Turtle]

From Thailand, Vietnam etc. and used to rub into bruises, aches and pains.

I do this for bruises , headaches , bad days , good days or just because. !!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

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I do this for bruises , headaches , bad days , good days or just because. !!!

Yep, that works too.

 

[Marinated mamma]

Tiger balm sounds cool! Kinda like Vicks vapour rub on steroids need to investigate this mysterious new cream