Tag: boats
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On our family Slack, Ruth and I have a tradition of reacting to one another's messages, where no other emoji seems appropriate, with a "person rowing boat" emoji.
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I can't remember exactly how it started. Possibly one of us was using the text search to find the "robot" emoji (probably in reference to our robot vacuum cleaner, which used to be more-frequently found hiding under the sofa than anywhere else in the world).
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But whatever the reason, the game stuck. And because you can leave multiple emoji responses to a Slack message - and because Unicode permits a diversity of gender and skin tone options for this particular emoji - sometimes this results in a whole flotilla of rowboats parading beneath our messages.
And if an emoji armada isn't an excuse to demonstrate the fact that the <marquee> tag still works in most browsers, for some reason, I don't know what is.
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Out for a dog walk this morning along the Nevern Estuary, I spotted this brave fellow rowing his way (at least) half naked across the bay, on a route that pitted him against the wind, rain, and tide!
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A shirtless white bald man rows a small white boat past bouys in a choppy estuary.
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Small-World Serendipity
We travelled 7,000km across the ocean only to find, by complete coincidence, that the Caribbean’s biggest cymruphile is the captain of a boat we chartered when we fancied a morning of reef-snorkelling and turtle-spotting.
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Came half way around the world to find a surprising boat with a non-English name I understand.
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Small six-seater day boat named 'Cariad', afloat. The letter I is dotted with a heart symbol.
("Cariad" is Welsh for "love")
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A couple of hours into our ferry journey, we just got our first glimpse of the island of Tobago, where we'll be staying for the next few days.
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Across the sea, a rugged island begins to emerge over the horizon, through distant clouds.
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Just visited the Logos Hope, an ocean-going, volunteer-staffed floating book fair (run by a Christian charity, but it's not-TOO-religiousy inside, if that's not your jam) that's coincidentally docked for a fortnight right next door to my hotel on Trinidad!
What a strange concept. Fun diversion though.
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White and blue passenger ship docked alongside a building whose roof reads 'Welcome to Port of Spain'.
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Geohashing expedition 2024-11-27 53 -8
A sixth Irish geohashing trip in Ireland spelled disaster. The hashpoint itself was easy, but we missed our flight back to the UK and ended up having to road-trip our way coast-to-coast to get back to somewhere we could catch a plane in the morning...
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Geohashing expedition 2024-11-26 53 -9
A fifth geohashing trip in Ireland for me and my mum was foiled when I couldn't find anybody who'd take my money in exchange for driving us to a random spot out in the sea. We took a boat tour but it didn't come close enough to score.
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Window Tax
Britain and the Netherlands both had window taxes at various times. But the social and architectural effects were quite different.
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Found GCAJGEA Welcome to Amsterdam! (Virtual Reward 4.0)
This checkin to GCAJGEA Welcome to Amsterdam! (Virtual Reward 4.0) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. TFTC! I'm not carrying any tickets for UK transport, but I've got a (mildly defaced) British banknote and I found a tram (the number 13, which connected me to my hotel this week) and …
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Found GC7RN72 #33 D.J.F. – Moana
This checkin to GC7RN72 #33 D.J.F. – Moana reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Stared at its excellent camouflage for a while before realising what this was! Paddled down by inflatable canoe (picture attached) and landed right by here. Thought to check for local caches as we deflated the boats …
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Found GCYK2M Got A Light Boy ? Longships Lighthouse
This checkin to GCYK2M Got A Light Boy ? Longships Lighthouse reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I just launched my partner's brother - shown in free attached picture - out in his rowboat to begin his attempt to row from Land's End to John O' Groats. Naturally this first …
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The Last Supper
Dan receives an invitation to 'the last supper' before Robin begins his rowing expedition.
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Narrowboating
Back in the summer, Dan went narrowboating with Ruth, JTA, and Matt P, and the experience slowed his thinking so much that it took him several months to blog about it.
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TIL that 'Hellburners', 16th century fire-ships filled with decks of gunpowder sandwiched between bricks and tombstones, are considered to be an early WMD.
Hellburners (Dutch: hellebranders) were specialised fireships used in the Siege of Antwerp (1584-1585) during the Eighty Years' War between the Dutch rebels and the Habsburgs. They were floating bombs, also called "Antwerp Fire", and did immense damage to the Spanish besiegers. Hellburners have been described as an early form of weapons of mass destruction.
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