General Chat

Tec, I think thay Linda's remark is just part of the Sisterhood's Mantra

OH says it all the time!

Allan

Hi Janet,
May I ask? why would you want to tour a prison at night? Spooky.

Linda that cabinet is rather nice, it has ebony and box wood inlay decoration, and the centre panel of glass is bowed, being old, the glassis thin and has slight distortions in it which is quite attractive.

Tec

Janet, I've done a normal tour of the prison...after it ceased to be used as a prison, I hasten to add.

I would love to do the night tour and also see the tunnels under the prison.

Allan

Hang on, you were the one who said that you were pathetic Tec, you can't expect me to ignore a remark like that

ok Linda - I walked as an innocent into that - will I never learn?

Tec

Old glass is lovely Tec, with the imperfections that give distorted images when you look through it.

I am sure-that Allan will explain all about diffraction if need be as he like Physics as well

Not sure about the tunnels Allan....Not a fan of the caves at Margaret River..!! Don t like closed in spaces at all...Just a tour of the prison with someone walking behind and in front :)))

I like ging for tours of unusual places Janet, The local crematorium had an open day and the sewage works, both very interesting

While studying a Census today, I found a neighbour of my ancestor named

Hardicanute Evans............ I love it

Tec

That is a superb name Tec, my lot are all the usual suspects, generation after generation.

Linda I read somwhere that glass although appearing solid is in fact still semi molten and that is why really old glass is thicker at the bottom than the top and appears distorted.

Allan

Janet, I have just been on the prison website.

The tunnel tour commences with a 20 metre descent down a ladder. Thats me out for a start.....I can't stand heights, or depths like that.

Funnily enough, I enjoy the caves down near Margaret River.

Allan

I have just been googling old glass distortion and there are lots of results,

This is a good photo

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27286104@N07/2556236983/

Not sure that they would be on my list of places to see Linda...:) Allan makes me wonder if many people can actually say that they have been through the tunnels.

I have just read an interesting article which seem to conclude that old glass has not deformed due to glass flow Allan.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.html

although there are probably other web pages to prove that it has

Thanks, Linda, I'll check that last one out later>

It was many years ago that I read the article so I may have been mistaken, or knowledge has moved on!

Allan

Just reading through again. Haven't heard that word 'berm'. Here, the area between front fence and road is commonly called the 'footpath'. In the older inner-suburbs, it is very often all-concrete, but in the outer suburbs, it can be all grass or have a centre concrete walking path. Many homes don't have a front fence and the householder mows right to the gutter. It is Council property and they refer to it as the 'nature strip'. They will mow it if the householders don't. Some people curse the walking path because they need to trim the edges - but others take pride in looking after it.
I do recognise the word 'verge' as being the edge of the footpath - where the kerb is.
We learn new words every day here, don't we?

We do indeed learn lots from each other Berona. i think berm is a great word, it is so different from anything else

I'll look at that item on old glass later Linda,

Berona, I like the term "nature strip" haven't come across that before,
neither berm

Tec

Haven't done much sitting on my berm this morning, just been out measuring and string lining (if that's what you call it) to mark where the picket fence will go. Our path had a step at the top/front and the next piece was connected to the footpath and when the council were here re doing our driveway (they had been laying underground lighting/phone cables etc) OH got them to cut the part (at no cost to us) where it joined up in readiness for the digger to just chunk out the offending piece and now the path will come straight down the much smaller slope.

Little kids love diggers - people around the corner have an 18 month old and are moving today and his grandmother has spent half -an -hour with him in the pushchair outside our place. They came back later because the little fellow was not impressed with all the goings on at home and wanted to go back to the digger, so I invited them around the back to see the digger in action again. He has gone off quite happy now.
Sorry about berm - we also use verge but mostly berm - I should've realised NZ has its own little idioms. On our side of the street we have two berms - one from property boundary to footpath and the other between footpath and road. Across the road just have the one - their boundaries are practically on the footpath - there is only room for a small strip of garden in front of fence.

They do night time prison adventures at Port Arthur, but it would not be my thing I was happy to see it in the daytime and would be the most interesting prison that I have ever seen. I was amazed by it all.

Perse xx