COLD DARK ROOM

[JoesMum]

Here, too!!!!!!!!
Yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But it confuses the locals no end.

My Mum used to teach evening classes in rural communities. She had one lady who always had trouble with time-keeping after the clocks changed because her husband flatly refused to change them. Apparently it upset the cows so instead of changing his milking routine to an hour different the whole family had to try and work with their clocks and watches not telling the same time as the rest of the country.

 

[JoesMum]

And home. Good night all

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

This is a fossil stalked barnacle or goose barnacle.
It has even preserved it's colour after 7 million years or so which is incredible.

Most species of goose barnacle are patterned grey, or black and white, hence the name of the barnacle goose which has similar markings.
people thought that goose barnacles were the larvae of the geese!

And in the broken section below we see some of the interior lophophore support, the internal structure that holds the filter feeding apparatus of the animal. All barnacles are actually distant relatives of shrimps, with their legs used as filter feeding tentacles and their body armour converted into the barnacle's armour. The larvae are still very shrimp like and mobile but the adults become fixed, or sessile, some anchored direct to a rock, or shell, others, like this goose barnacle,fixed by a stalk to the substrate.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

mrs B's still wins the prize.

Indeed, that was brilliant.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

My Mum used to teach evening classes in rural communities. She had one lady who always had trouble with time-keeping after the clocks changed because her husband flatly refused to change them. Apparently it upset the cows so instead of changing his milking routine to an hour different the whole family had to try and work with their clocks and watches not telling the same time as the rest of the country.

Most of the Medina here never change their clocks.
It's called Medina time.
But the modern new town folk do. And i do.
4 times a year! (extra one back and forward for Ramadan).

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

And home. Good night all

Night night , Linda.
One imagines you'll sleep well tonight!
Hope so!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

ok so.... View attachment 190863

i'm iron man!!


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now im a surfing warewolf that had to practice in the bath, who doesn't like having wet fur

That second one is genuinely rather scary!

 

[johnandjade]

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

And we're not forgetting all those wonderful Roommates who are currently not posting so much or at all.
May they be happy wibbling wherever they may be!

 

[johnandjade]

 

[johnandjade]

 

[johnandjade]

That second one is genuinely rather scary!

don't i look muscular:/

 

[johnandjade]

And we're not forgetting all those wonderful Roommates who are currently not posting so much or at all.
May they be happy wibbling wherever they may be!

may the wibble be you all

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

don't i look muscular:/

Yeah, just like me.

 

[johnandjade]

Yeah, just like me.

my armpit hair is where it's ment to be though

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

my armpit hair is where it's ment to be though

Yeah, well, I'm special.
Or a mutant.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

And the pick of the fossils from Tarifa.
A beautiful bryozoan colony, an inch and a half across, wonderfully preserved. (though broken in two and glued back together by yours truly.)
It's a 'moss animal', a single, tiny, filter feeding animal lived in each of the tiny holes in it.

And closer to see more detail.

And closer still. Look at the amazing preservation of this fossil.

And on the reverse more organic remains and some other bits of bryozoans, including a different species or two.

All in all, a remarkable specimen.
Hooray!!!!!!!

 

[Moozillion]

This is a fossil stalked barnacle or goose barnacle.
It has even preserved it's colour after 7 million years or so which is incredible.
View attachment 190865
Most species of goose barnacle are patterned grey, or black and white, hence the name of the barnacle goose which has similar markings.
people thought that goose barnacles were the larvae of the geese!
View attachment 190866
And in the broken section below we see some of the interior lophophore support, the internal structure that holds the filter feeding apparatus of the animal. All barnacles are actually distant relatives of shrimps, with their legs used as filter feeding tentacles and their body armour converted into the barnacle's armour. The larvae are still very shrimp like and mobile but the adults become fixed, or sessile, some anchored direct to a rock, or shell, others, like this goose barnacle,fixed by a stalk to the substrate.
View attachment 190867

Fascinating!!!!!!!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Fascinating!!!!!!!

I think so, too.

 

[Moozillion]

At least the clocks go back an hour tonight. Extra hour in bed. Yay!

Hmmmm... Over here, we don't change until Nov 6.