Sadly not enough bandwidth where I am to view the videos.
Some interesting reads though and the resulting searches are helping with my, no reading of news sites while away from home and family policy.......7 days and counting.
Thanks
Post things that you spot that others might find fun and entertaining!
Here's a starter for ten from The Cosmic Shambles Network, which is a fabulous resource for people with curious minds.
https://cosmicshambles.com
They have just launched their 'Stay at Home Festival'.
https://cosmicshambles.com/stayathome
Prof. Alice Roberts content here
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Sadly not enough bandwidth where I am to view the videos.
Some interesting reads though and the resulting searches are helping with my, no reading of news sites while away from home and family policy.......7 days and counting.
Thanks
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For fans of the wonderfully bonkers Taskmaster, Alex Horne is launching HomeTasking today.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
The Wind in the Willows the Musical is available to stream online for free in the UK. The film was recorded live at the London Palladium in 2017.
https://www.willowsmusical.com
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
I am learning Welsh using the Duolingo app. I started a few weeks ago but I’ll have a lot more time now I think. If you haven’t tried it, Duolingo is great. It isn’t a perfect way to learn a language but it’s easy to spend 10 or 15 minutes at a time, and it’s like playing a game so keeps you interested.
I have a Welsh heritage and remember my Nan and Grandad speaking the odd Welsh word to me as a kid 50 years ago. I’ve even got a Welsh bible somewhere.
Anyway, bore da, and wish me luck.
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/duolin...ns/id570060128
PS Thanks for starting this thread M., nice idea to keep us talking about something else.
I am trying to learn how to sharpen knives with a whetstone.
12quid for a stone kit off Amazon.
Youtube for some tuition.
I honestly cannot make the kitchen knives any blunter
So a win win
Chopping wood
Need a gransdors bruk backpack size axe. I say need but bot really need like most things i buy
We put together a composter over the weekend and put the first load in. Turned into a bit of a home science lesson for the kids as well as being something worthwhile and constructive.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
These are superb. Real-time journeys through the Apollo missions, consisting entirely of historical material. You can jump to specific milestones, follow the transcript, listen to a commentary, view the original footage and photographs and much more.
https://apolloinrealtime.org/
Apollo 11: https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
Apollo 13: https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/
Apollo 17: https://apollo17.org
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Damn you, Matthew - these are really addictive and I'm only 25 minutes into Apollo 11.
Like you said, though - excellent - superb even. Especially the sound quality. Thanks !
Cheers, they really do drag you in!
The Apollo 13 one is great to follow in conjunction with Season 2 of the 13 Minutes To The Moon podcast, The Apollo 13 story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083wp70
https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
As we're in a space mood, we are going to explore the International Space Station:
https://artsandculture.google.com/st...w&sv_z=1&hl=en
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Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Here's Zoo Atlanta's Panda Cam.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Theres some great free courses on a wide range of subjects on FutureLearn - good content from UK universities. A great way to expand knowledge on a hobby or topic of interest.
I've cut the grass for the first time this year today - that's enough!
Cheers,
Neil.
We made an homage to Mondrian's Composition C (No. III) with Red, Yellow and Blue out of Lego as part of a school art project. We think it came out okay.
Here's the real thing in the Tate Modern with the TakeTime watch. We call it Mondrian's Tribute to the Pepsi Bezel.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
I bought two lemons this morning during my essential shopping trip. One for culinary purposes, the other for playing a few rounds of the working-from-home version of The Travelling Lemon.
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Go to www.archive.org & amuse yourself watching 1940s/1950s American public health information films.
If that's not your bag, there's about 5.6 million items of other material to watch. Plenty of space stuff, as well...
______
Jim.
This YouTube video by retired astronaut Chris Hadfield is both amusing and enlightening:
If it’s your cup of tea the Royal Opera house are going to stream some previous performances on their YouTube channel, believe the first one is Peter and the wolf from 7pm today.
Pit.....the best game ever but so few people seem to have heard of it.
My grand parents had a set which I reckon was from the 1930s, I remember playing it with them and my great aunt
and uncle who were both deaf and shouted extremely loudly, only problem was the corner was missing from the Bear.
Excellent. The National Theatre is doing something similar:
https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/nt-at-home
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Great, thanks! Chris Hadfield was on The Cosmic Shambles Network for Astronaut Q&A this week:
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Happy days!
We sometimes have a bit of a disagreement about which family game to play and then end up abandoning the idea so we've decided that the best thing to do is to each write down our favourite games on separate bits of paper, mix them all up, and draw one at random most evenings. Once a game has been drawn it doesn’t go back in until we’ve worked our way through the rest.
I have a suspicion that there are some in there that Laura has invented, which always proves interesting.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
I'm going to get my watches out to clean......BUT!,which do I clean first?,Rolex or Grand Seiko!.
I think Rolex......they're a much better watch!........or are they.
I have built myself a trough, a bloody big stout over-engineered timber trough and filled it with 20 large bags of John Innes (mixed) and have planted ‘Charlotte’ seed potatoes. Cost to date Ł310. Estimated amortised production cost of each ultimately recovered spud? I reckon about 12p. Yes, I know how cheap a big bag of Charlotte spuds is in the shop but I don’t care as this whole exercise has been and is very satisfying and very therapeutic and when the zombies, the three horsemen and other roaming undesirables miscellaneous hove into view, providing I can escape/eliminate them I will at least have access to spuds and in that scenario those spuds will be worth more than Rolex watches as you cannot eat a Rolex watch, not without a Rolex AD’s permission anyway!
Lynn and I are learning Tai Chi. It passes the time and is a very relaxing way of getting exercise. Lots of courses on the net.
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
I am installing a gate automation kit I bought a few months ago that I have been putting off.
Also practising my Rubick’s cube technique and trying to remember what I taught myself 41 years ago.
That’s not the Alice Roberts video I’d like to see
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I'm a massive fan of the excellent cardboard modelling kits of scientific instruments and other devices from the German company, AstroMedia. They are affordable, very high quality, and really work properly. They can be constructed using little more than a craft knife, needle files (or light sandpaper) and adhesive.
I have already built the Universal Sundial Ring and the Stardial with Astrolabe and have now embarked on the rather more ambitious Desktop Planetarium. Following that, for a change from astronomical instruments I plan to construct the the Nitinol Engine.
Universal Sundial Ring
Stardial
Astrolabe
Desktop Planetarium now under construction
Nitinol Engine - eventually!
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
They look really good. I've been doing some metal earth models and currently doing a terminator rev-9. Here are a few others I've completed
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Simple pleasures.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Depending on how big your dining table is try this;
https://youtu.be/0yxK24PJcsE
Disclaimer, tables can bite.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Some nice models below, I’m halfway through building a Tamiya Williams FW07, started it a while ago but had got put
on the back burner.
I know what you mean. Mind you, I think that's just a language learning thing. The only phrase I can really remember from learning German at school (4 years of it, although that is nearly 35 years ago now...) is how to ask the way to the town hall. I've no idea why we needed to learn that!
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
I'm learning Portuguese - a diabolical language - ever so slightly different to Spanish, so as to lead to total confusion if you are English.
Cleaning my bee equipment and ordered in 40 new frames to make for this seasons honey crop. That should keep me busy for a little bit.
Martyn
So far not so great... I suspect my technique needs a lot of work.. and I need a lower grit to work on the kitchen knifes.
This channel on the tube seems to have good clear advice
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOl...6CrS0kcybhaThg