WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY (PICS)

[goosehd]

To tell you the truth, I only managed a single beer in 1.5 hours the other day. So completely exhausted that I couldn’t get into it and fell asleep by 8:00 pm.

Tonight on the other hand, with new boots, and new fishing toys, my second Christmas is here and I may indulge a little.

[jiminstitches]

Few days in Morocco! With the IHSH-373

[goosehd]

After 7 years of headaches and tears, we finally started having our shoreline repaired. Getting a permit to do so was extremely difficult, but not doing so meant that we could eventually lose our home to erosion.

While we are happy to see this point, the bill makes me shudder.

[Giles]

Paula and I are taking a few days off to see some of Yorkshire and Northumberland. We are staying here for a few days. The food capital bit is an accident, whilst we both like good food, I would not describe us as foodies, so I am hoping for good simple fare....Edit, actually I just thought about that, I'll enjoy average food if the ambience and service is good but hate "good" food, if the service is bad/snotty/indifferent. Or dare I say it, if I am expected to leave a 20% tip to help pay the waiting staff what the owners should actually be paying them....

Must be twinned with Gosport....

Definitely twinned with Gosport.....

[Denman John]

@Giles Love the bench. The world needs more of these! Enjoy your time there.

[goosehd]

Day 1:

[ROman]

@Giles Area looks great. Did you have any of the Yorkshire pudding?

[wjw]

Hiking around for work in a beautiful area.

[Giles]

@ROman Not yet

[IH-GARY]

@Giles Not far from Whitby and the local East coast bays - some nice Fish & Chip options over that way!

Just remember, if you go for a walk on the moors - stick to the paths!!

[Giles]

Thank you @IH-GARY - off to Whitby and surrounds today .....

[Giles]

Went to McMillans of Malton for a drink last night. It is actually a booze shop that has the shop bit locked up at night, you walk through that and up the stairs and boom, there is a little bar....

Forgot to take a pic of the actual serving bar, but the last couple of phots are in it......

[ConBu]

What a German driver has to do before the weekend

[goosehd]

Start of day 2:

Another piece of heavy equipment (Articulated loader) and the heavy trucks to start bringing 2-3 ton stones in short order.

To answer why we’re doing this: In 2017 and 2019, Lake Ontario reached record high water levels with a lot of damage to shoreline properties. These pictures are from our neighbors yards:

June 2019

May 2017

[Matt]

Took you long enough.

[goosehd]

@Matt I could kiss you...

[Tobi]

@goosehd do you not have issues with frozen ground doing the excavation etc. now? I recall a little snow on your last pictures...

[goosehd]

@Tobi just a bit...

Thankfully it's all sand and they were able to get through the permafrost(technically I should use frost layer as we don't have a permafrost level in our area) fairly easily. A clay and this couldn't happen.

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14 degrees today

[Giles]

The Scarborough branch of Armani.....(yeah, not Giorgio)....

Robin Hood's Bay. Some serious anti-erosion measures. Take note @goosehd , yours are elementary level........

Whitby Abbey. Henry VIII did for it during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Then poor thing, the German Navy took pot-shots at it in WW I.