WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY (PICS)

[Giles]

Nice, I used to do a lot of that until my neck crapped out….

https://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=6097.0

[Dmart]

Enjoying the beautiful weather on the bike today.

[Nik]

@Giles:

Nice, I used to do a lot of that until my neck crapped out….

https://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=6097.0

Super cool

[Giles]

@Dmart:

Enjoying the beautiful weather on the bike today.

Fantastic….

[goosehd]

@Giles What did you do to your neck?  Old injury or just gremlins popping up with wear and tear?

I was wondering why you hadn't posted any swimming updates for a while…

Edit:  I love the pictures of the old piers and wrecks…Are there a few in the area that you dive around?

[Giles]

I don't dive in UK.  I'm not a dry-suit diver 

Re: My neck.  I was starting to get a lot of pain in my neck after a swim.  I had an MRI and we found out that 2 sets of 2 of my cervical vertebrae were fused together, so I effectively only have 5, not 7 cervical vertebrae. This reduces the range of motion I have in my neck.  Swimming, cycling with low handlebars or anything that makes me need to extend my neck is very tricky for me.  Even diving causes issues, but to look forward, I can just rotate around my waist and minimise stretching the neck.  The surgeon said the only thing they could do to fix it was spinal surgery, which got a hard no from me 

I was born like this, it is a genetic deformity, and is the same genetic screw-up that resulted in my pinkies needing to be amputated….

[goosehd]

Can’t say that I would rush out for that surgery either.

I didn’t realize that the water was that cold there.  Is wreck diving very popular in Gosport/Portsmouth?

[Giles]

@goosehd:

Can’t say that I would rush out for that surgery either.

I didn’t realize that the water was that cold there.  Is wreck diving very popular in Gosport/Portsmouth?

If you want to feel it, but not see it….

[goosehd]

Gotcha…That would take the fun out of it.

[Giles]

Seriously, there is wreck diving available, but viz is a thing.  @Alex tell Dennis how shit the viz is down there…..

Conversation between me and Alex about 8 years ago when he was a commercial diver around here, and I was in the Maldives.

G - I saw Manta today
A - I got hit in the head by fish, I think it was a Mullet, but I could not see it

[bryaneidins70]

Great pictures all.

Love that shit with the old navy stuff @Giles.

Those Kayak's have been a great investment.

[Giles]

Thank you. Just popped out with @Madame Buttonfly again.  Weather is too good not to at the moment.

This is the Portsmouth Upper Harbour Ammunition Facility.  Munitions are towed on barges from Defence Munitions Gosport, upstream of here and loaded by crane onto this structure (which is completely self-supporting, generating its own electricity etc.), then the munitions are loaded onto warships as and when needed.  It's in the middle of the harbour, so if it goes bang, Gosport and Portsmouth will come off pretty unscathed….

[scarfmace]

doing horrible spreadsheet work atm.

Good thing I have Crowbar keeping me company:

This Iron Maiden cover is awsome! Turn it up to 11

[neph93]

^ Sweet. That has always been one of my fave Maiden songs. Giving that treatment was a stroke of genius.

[LewisStonehouse]

Pub init

[Giles]

Well behind @goosehd in the cropping stakes, but am just beginning to crop other stuff than plums…..

And frankly, the pears are the size of small melons…..

[neph93]

@Giles:

And frankly, the pears are the size of small melons…..

All the best ones are…

[goosehd]

Great looking pears!  Roasted pears with bleu cheese?

[Giles]

Nope, raw with Stilton, walnuts and rocket (that's arugula for any heathens reading this)…..

https://drizzleanddip.com/2011/05/09/pear-blue-cheese-and-walnut-salad-with-a-maple-syrup-vinaigrette/

[goosehd]

Salivating…I may be going to the store this afternoon.