Unlike O.S. maps, this map of Britain is free and can be copied, posted etc. under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License (see here).
LOL @ the BBFC's protractor to the south of the Mull of Kintyre.
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Random Acts
For those who missed it on the telly, here are four minutes of brilliance:
Wherezat? #2 – now with added clues
While I was in hospital being given Cycle 2 chemo my parents brought me a get-well card to cheer me up. They know how much I like walking in the Lake District and how often I've been there, so the card had been chosen appropriately. "You'll know exactly where that was taken from" was their assumption as I looked at the picture:
Well, I had to admit that it had me puzzled.
The back of the card wasn't much help either:
Well, I was utterly bamboozled - I've been to Buttermere so many times that I should have a fair holding of shares in The Fish Inn, yet I still couldn't place the point of view in the pic.
Yesterday I was sad enough to resort to the map-stash in order to find out more info. It took me over an hour to find out what's really in the image and where it was taken from.
And yes, I had been there long ago.
Are you up for the same challenge?*
Just in case you want to order cards like this, they are available online from the Stephen Ashmore Photography Greetings Card Website.
*So, it was too difficult, eh?
Here's some additional help, in a negative sort of way...
Neither Buttermere village nor Buttermere itself are in the picture;
Only in the broadest sense could the photo have been taken from Buttermere; and
I assume that neither the walkers nor the sheep are still there.
Seeing red
Well, it looked normal on the outside:
But the inside was a different matter:
Needless to say, I didn't eat it.
Apparently the red stuff is some sort of fungal infection.
Oddly, all of the other bananas on the same "hand" were normal.
