Old Weather Forum

Randi wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 7:39 pm

Love it.

Hi Jil.
Whilst this is on the opposite side of Preston to you, you may know the story of "The Woodplumpton Witch".
I found this story on a Drone site and it has a nice flight around the church.

Meg Shelton (died 1705) known as the "Fylde Hag" was an English woman accused of witchcraft. Her grave can be seen at St. Anne's Church in Woodplumpton, now part of the City of Preston district of Lancashire. Meg Shelton's real name is recorded by St Anne's Church as Margery Hilton.

The Woodplumpton 'witch' is reputedly buried upside down with a boulder on her grave...

Accused of using witchcraft to destroy crops, steal milk and transform herself into animals, Meg Shelton was subject of many fantastical tales and stories. Most traditions have her body being found crushed against her cottage wall by a barrel. According to some versions of the story, the unusual death was seen by villagers as a sign that the Devil had come to claim her.

Meg Shelton was buried in St Anne's churchyard, but her body refused to stay underground. The following morning, her corpse was found lying beside her grave. She was reburied, and once more her corpse reappeared. Finally, the priest performed an exorcism and Shelton was buried for the third time, but this time she was interred in a narrow vertical hole, like an oversized post hole, and she was inserted upside down, so that if she tried to dig her way to the surface she'd be going the wrong way. Finally, a boulder was placed over the top of her unusually-shaped grave.

You'll see her tomb three or four times in my flight... Can you spot it??? Dare you look?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/UrcR67203jU It has nice sound track.

Interesting. I've not heard of her but have heard of similar stories involving 'witches' burials. It was not safe to be a slightly strange old woman, you seem to get blamed for anything going wrong. (Must remember to stop talking to that black cat that occasionally wanders through my garden!)

https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-h ... ber-4.html
1954 - The icebreakers USS Burton Island (AGB 1) and USCGC Northwind complete the first transit of Northwest Passage through the McClure Strait.

(Sorry, Michael)

Happy birthday Ron!

Happy Birthday, Ron!

Have a great day Ron

For our ABC downunder

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-07/ ... /102788002

Also some interesting uses of farm dams for electricity storage.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/202 ... /102799756
The story is about Australia but the interactive map (In the Super Pit story) shows world wide possibility's for hydro storage/electrical generation.
Click the Global Greenfield capacity data sets to show world sights ,then on any spot on the interactive map for specific details.

Ron says: "Thank you for the birthday greetings. I had a great birthday!"

Glad Ron had a great birthday!

Stuart- in Los Angeles, We've used pump-back systems to balance coal/oil generators for a long time. When you get a big, old coal or oil generator going, you can't ramp up - or down easily. They balanced power demand with supply by pumping to the higher reservoir in the off hours and generating at peaks. New green energy is much easier to ramp up or down- but at night it often ramps to off. Pump storage can be used just at a kinetic battery. Glad to hear Australia has so much capacity and ingenuity.

Near my brother's in Cheshire they have installed a reverse archimedes screw to power a generator on the River Weaver. A winding stretch was canalised and fitted with locks to make it navigable further up river. The bypass weir round Dutton locks has been fitted with said screw to provide a lowish input to the grid. It is low maintenance and the generator power is free and should be higher in winter (more rain) and runs overnight as well. If it works then there are many such bypass weirs on British rivers so some of them should be suitable for such an installation.

I hope you don't mind but a friend just sent this to me and I thought it may be appropriate due to the age of most of us.

OLD PERSON PRIDE

I'm passing this on because I did not want to be the only old person receiving it.
Actually, it's not a bad thing to be called, as you will see.

1. Old People are easy to spot at sporting events; during the playing of the National Anthem. Old People remove their caps and stand attention and sing without embarrassment. They know the words and believe in them.

2. Old People remember World War II, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Normandy and Hitler.

3. They remember the Atomic Age, the Korean War, The Cold War, the Jet Age and the Moon Landing. They remember the 50 plus Peace-keeping Missions from 1945 to 2005, not to mention Vietnam.

4. If you bump into an Old Person on the sidewalk he will apologize. If you pass an Old Person on the street, he will nod or tip his cap to a lady. Old People trust strangers and are courteous to women.

5. Old People hold the door for the next person and always, when walking, make certain the lady is on the inside for protection.

6. Old People get embarrassed if someone curses in front of women and children and they don't like any filth or dirty language on TV or in movies.

7. Old People have moral courage and personal integrity. They seldom brag unless it's about their children or grandchildren.

8. It's Old People who remove their hats while eating in a restaurant in respect for the ladies and guests.

9. It's the Old People who know our great country is protected, not by politicians, but by the young men and women in the military serving their country.

10. This country needs Old People with their work ethic, sense of responsibility, pride in their country and decent values.

We need them now more than ever.

Thank God for Old People.

Pass this on to all the "Old People" you know.

I was taught to respect my elders. It's just getting harder to find them.

Very good!

Today (My time) is R-U-OK day

R-U-OK?

Yup!!! U2?