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Eponysterical! Thanks NYT Crossword! #crossword #plinth #plinthLife
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Plinthosol (Pedology 🟤)
Plinthosols are a reference soil group in the World Reference Base for Soil Resources, developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization. They are characterized by the presence of plinthite, petroplinthite, or pisoliths—concretions formed through pedogenic processes involving the accumulation of iron oxides. A key diagnostic feature of these soils is the plinthic horizon, which begins withi...
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Plinthosol (Pedology 🟤)
Plinthosols are iron-rich soils characterized by the presence of plinthite, petroplinthite or pisoliths.
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Plinth's SFML extension can now resize SFML images!
You can resize any portion of an image to any size.
There are also a few options depending on the type of method used to resize.
https://github.com/Hapaxia/Plinth/commit/f5a36384e2e6b5fb7f9e1948b8847c3a39d796a6
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Plinth
Random shot along a stone plinth.
#cumbria #fujifilm #photography #stone #plinth #trees #carlisle #blackandwhitephotography #landscapephotography #lakedistrict #urbanphotography #building #cumbria #lakedistrict #abstract #sunlight #monochrome #photographer
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Due to it being its 10th anniversary, I decided to give a complete overhaul to Plinth, my foundation library.
Includes: new additions, upgrades, optimizations, fixes some modernization and code-style adjustments.
https://github.com/Hapaxia/Plinth/commit/f0a256736d27af5e4edf754fcf89a922b28b4007
I can't believe it's been a decade since I made it!
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@plinth and then you use the juice in the bag to make a gravy… mix up a roux… 1 tablespoon each butter and flour per cup of liquid you have - combine the butter and flour in a pot until melted and a little brown- add the liquid and boil quickly while whisking- remove from heat once it boils and starts to thicken
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This is worth going to see …. https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3062027483340604983 #statue #Colonialism #malawi #photography #london #plinth
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The plinth of the statue of General Wolfe in Greenwich Park which was a gift of the Canadian people.
The damage is from bomb shrapnel or gun emplacements in the park being strafed in WWII#picoftheday #photooftheday
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"Il existe des plinthes creuses qui permettent de faire passer élégamment des réseaux de fils... "
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Soviet Triptych 04 - Mosaic plinths at abandoned airfield and missile base
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Film: #KodakPortra #16mmFilmLatvia; May 2023
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CW: Kink: transformation, petrification
Imagine
Seeing a pretty statue on a plinth
Being compelled to come closer
Even closer
Step on the plinth
Embrace the beautiful statue
Look at its parted lips
And press your lips against them
It feels nice and cool
Your whole body does, in fact.
Cool and still.
Stone (or metal) creeping up your legs, down your arms, over your head...
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Today's winter soundtrack is Wintersongs by Plinth (1999)
Dive into the snowscape:
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Cob is a natural building material made from subsoil, water, organic fibrous material such as straw, and sometimes lime. A masonry plinth is normally built first to raise the cob off the ground. Ideally, the earth for the cob is dug on site or nearby.
Cob building is currently practiced predominantly in Devon, as well as in Cornwall. These examples are in the south-eastern part of Devon, where the New Red Sandstone gives rise to rich red soils.
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bars and restaurants on Lothian Road, on a wet, December evening https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54978502173/in/photostream/lightbox/
Improvised night shot while waiting on a bus home, sitting the camera on a stone plinth outside the Filmhouse to steady it
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #EdinburghByNight #NightPhotography #photography #photographie #LothianRoad #UrbanNight #LongExposure #Rain #Pluie
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The thread about the Twelfth Day of Christmas; the Drum and Drum House
This thread was originally written and published in December 2019.
This part in the Edinburgh and Leith themed Twelve Days of Christmas thread is preceded by a post about Pipe Street in Portobello and why it was so named.
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me; The Drum. Drum is very common in Scottish place names, and comes from the Gaelic Druim meaning literally a “back” and figuratively a ridge of raised ground; in Edinburgh there are examples such as Drum Brae, Back Drum in Leith, Drumdryan (but not Drumsheugh, which is a shortening of Meldrumsheugh). But the Drum to which I am referring is The Drum, an estate and stately home on the outskirts of Edinburgh near Gilmerton.
Drum House, façade. CC-by-SA 4.0 StephenCDicksonThe place name here refers to the “back” of high ground south of the city and is recorded as early as 1406. The earliest map to show it is John Adiar’s 1682 Map of Midlothian, and we can see it occupies the space between Edmonston, Woolmet, Sheriffhall and Gilmerton. The entire area was part of a hunting forest dating from the time of King David I and which was known as the Drumselch, or Willow Ridge.
Adair’s Map of Midlothian, 1682. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandThe lands of The Drum came into the possession of Sir Walter de Somerville, Lord Somerville of Linton and Carnwath, when he acquired them through marriage to the daughter of the landowner Sir John Herring of Gilmerton. The Somervilles are yet another Norman noble family brought to pacify and civilise Scotland by King David I. A house was first built at The Drum in 1584 for Hugh Somerville, 7th Lord Somerville, after a court case ruled ownership in his favour over another family branch in Cambusnethan. The 11th Lord , James Somerville (who did not claim the title) wrote of it; “the rooms are few, but fair and large; the entire and staircase extremely ill-placed, neither is the outward form modish, being built all in length in form of a church.”
A tragedy befell the Somerville family in 1589 when William Somerville, heir to the Lord, accidentally shot his younger brother John, while drying and cleaning a loaded pistol that had gotten wet. Their father, in a fit of grief and rage swore vengeance upon his older son, who fled before him before the Lord Somerville came to his senses. King James VI on hearing of this, reprimanded the Lord and “commanded him to send for his eldest son, and be reconciled to him, for he knew he was a sober youth, and the very thoughts of his misfortune would afflict him enough, albeit he were not discountenanced by him“. William Somerville, “the Good Master of Drum“, never got over accidentally killing his brother and when he was stricken with fever two years later he suffered with it for 10 months before passing unhappily away.
The original house was replaced in 1720 by the 13th Lord, also James Somerville, who commissioned William Adam – father of Robert and James – to build a fashionable new Palladian country mansion. Writing of Adam’s masterpiece:
Had he never executed another edifice than Drum House, this alone would suffice to merit his distinction… There is an air of refinement about this residence almost equivalent to that which pervades the “Petit Trianon” at Versailles, where Marie Antoinette sought seclusion from the excitement of French Court and the distractions of the later years of her troubled life.
The Architectural Record, Volume 47, Issue 6, June 1920The original house was remodelled into a wing pavilion; a matching reflection on the other side was never completed.
Drum House. CC-by-SA 2.0 Lisa JarvisDrum House rear elevation, a photo of 1951 by S. G. Jackman. © Edinburgh City LibrariesThe interior of the new house was as fine as the outside, the stucco being by the Dutch master Josef Enzer, who was also responsible for the interior of another of William Adam’s Palladian masterpieces in the Lothians, Arniston House.
Drum House interior, a photo of 1951 by S. G. Jackman. © Edinburgh City LibrariesDrum House interior, a photo of 1951 by S. G. Jackman. © Edinburgh City LibrariesFrom 1756 to 1866, The Drum was the location of the Edinburgh Mercat Cross after its removal to widen the High Street. An alternative reason for removal was that the Merchants of the city had persisted in meeting around it to do business, rather than using the fine new Royal Exchange built at great public expense only yards away! The cross was subsequently relocated back to a spot near its original in 1885, at the expense of William Ewart Gladstone. It was raised up on a reproduction podium and plinth to the designs of Sydney Mitchell. The head of the cross was replaced with a royal Unicorn, the original having been pulled down by the occupying forces of Oliver Cromwell as symbols of the monarchy when the city was occupied after the Battle of Dunbar.
The Edinburgh Mercat Cross at The Drum, a photograph by Thomas Keith from 1856. © Edinburgh City LibrariesThe Drum was sold by the 19th Lord Somerville, Aubrey John, in 1800 to James Hay of Bhagalpur, who worked some of its lands for coal at Drum Colliery. He in turn sold it to Robert Cathcart WS around 1809. It then went in 1820 to Gilbert Innes of Stow and on his death to his sister. On his sister’s death it went to Alexander Mitchell of Stow who sold it in 1862 to John More Nisbett of Cairnhill in Ayrshire. More Nisbett bought back the estate park and farm lands at the same time, which had been gradually split up in the earlier part of that century.
Drum House in the time of John More Nisbett, from “Old and New Edinburgh” by James Grant, published 1881More Nisbett’s second son, Hamilton, became an architect, his work mainly being monuments, church alterations and domestic. He succeeded to the estates of Drum and Cairnhill on the death of his older brother, North More Nisbett, in 1939 at which point he moved his practice from George Street to Drum House. He did much of his own work making improvements and alterations to the estate and its buildings and died there in 1955. He designed the Gilmerton Junior Friendly Society Hall, now Gilmerton Village Hall, which appropriately is on Drum Street. The Drum remains in the hands of the More Nisbett family to this day.
Gilmerton Village Hall. CC-by-SA Anne BurgessNote to readers: unfortunately in April 2026, a third-party plug-in more than exceeded its authority and broke many of the image links on this site. No images were lost but I will have to restore them page-by-page, which may take some time. In the meantime please bear with me while I go about rectifying this issue.
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@SteveClough To quote one of our #SODEM banners "Liars, Cheats, Thieves , Charlatans" Proudly displayed for many years outside the HoC , Parliament Green under the plinth. Then 'authority' took exception, allowed the fascist , #EDL etc in and 'kindly' allowed a 6 person protest on a traffic island. #democracy #justice . Not in little #engerland @RejoinEU @RejoinEU4me
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Sitting on a Sea Turtle in Piccadilly
We’re near Piccadilly Circus, there’s a big painted sea turtle sculpture on a blue plinth, part of a public art trail supported by Deborah Meaden and Steven Bartlett, no less, and absolutely nobody sitting on it is paying the slightest bit o...
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#Candid #London #People #Photo #Photography #PiccadillyCircus #PublicArt #SeaTurtleSculpture #StreetPhotography #tourists #UnionJack #UnitedKingdom #Urban
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Sitting on a Sea Turtle in Piccadilly
We’re near Piccadilly Circus, there’s a big painted sea turtle sculpture on a blue plinth, part of a public art trail supported by Deborah Meaden and Steven Bartlett, no less, and absolutely nobody sitting on it is paying the slightest bit of attention to it. They’re all on their phones.
The star of the show for me is the person in the middle, who has gone full Union Jack: hat, bag, the works, paired with red tracksuit bottoms and a set of brightly coloured trainers that honestly deserve their own photo.
Love London for street photography!
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Mr McHattie and Mr Ritchie’s Mechanical Triumph: the thread about the Princes Street Gardens Floral Clock
The Princes Street Gardens floral clock is a fine Edinburgh institution. At the time of writing (June 2023) it was being replanted to celebrate the centenary of the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive (not “the train” of the same name as the tweet below would suggest). But this year is also an anniversary for the clock itself and it will be 120 years old, having first been revealed to the public on this very day (June 11th) in 1903. It was the first floral clock not just in Scotland but also in the UK, and possibly the 3rd in the world (there being earlier examples in Paris and Detroit). The Edinburgh clock was the work of the City Superintendent of Parks & Gardens, John W. McHattie, who enlisted the help of James Ritchie & Son., the famous Edinburgh clockmaker on Leith Street who built and wound the city’s public clocks. It so happened that Ritchies had in their workshop at this time the mechanism from one of the turret clocks from Elie Parish Church in Fife, which was surplus to requirements. This was installed in the base of the Allan Ramsay Monument next to the clock, and a drive shaft was run from the clock mechanism to the time hand in a small passageway under the flowerbeds.
The First Floral Clock, as it was when revealed to the public in 1903. Photo by a Mr Robert Oliver of Murieston Crescent. © Edinburgh City LibrariesThis first clock had a single time hand – an hour hand – which was a large metal planting tray 4 feet 2 inches (127cm) long and was “delicately balanced” on account of the slope but kept time perfectly. It was described as a “beautiful study in carpet bedding, in which American aloes, echevarias, sedums and other plants” were “set out with great taste in a bold geometric pattern.” The clock face was was 12 feet in diameter, the hours delineated by two concentric circles planted of sedums and the numbers picked out in “fresh green pyrethrum“. The centre of the face was split into quarters, each denoting and planted to represent one of the seasons of the year.
The Dundee Evening Telegraph hailed it as “a mechanical triumph“. The Devon Valley Tribune called it “the great wonder of the Gardens“, the Dundee Courier was a bit less generous and went with “the quaintest of horticultural freaks“. The Town Council was so pleased with Mchattie that they voted him a raise of £100 per year (almost £10,000 in 2023 terms. His picture below can be found on the website of the Friends of Saughton Gardens as he was also the man we have to thank for the first planting of that public park, which opened in 1910. The Friends have a good write-up of McHattie and his work at Saughton on their website, here. He died in 1923 when he was still the city’s Head Gardener, after 22 years service.
J. W. McHattieThe clock has, appropriately, changed with the times. By the time the below picture was taken in 1914 it had acquired a minute hand, which was 10 feet long, and accompanied a new 6 foot long hour hand.
The Princes Street floral clock, from the City of Edinburgh Report on Public Parks & Open Spaces, 1914, reproduced by kind permission of Mike Ashworth. © Mike AshworthThe mechanism was modernised in 1936 but still required daily winding, something which took place until its platinum anniversary, when it was electrified in 1973. It was during the 1936 modernisation that a “cuckoo” sound was added to it, the sound being generated by two tuned organ pipes in the base of the Ramsay monument.
Detail of floral clock mechanism in plinth of statue to Allan RamsayIn 1943, the clock’s 40th year, it was given a wartime makeover by the Superintendent of Parks John T. Jeffrey. This featured a large Royal Navy warship decorated with anchors and other naval insignia and a profile picture of Winston Churchill smoking a cigar and surrounded by the legend The Hour, The Man. The planting incorporated beetroots and carrots so as to make an edible contribution to the Dig for Victory campaign.
The 1943 floral clock, The Scotsman, Saturday 17 July 1943In 1947, for the first Edinburgh International Festival, the names of famous composers were added in to the planting, which was repeated in 1948.
The 1948 floral clock, with Chopin, Liszt, Bhrams, Verdi and Grief in the planting. The date of 1848 next to Chopin’s name in the top left commemorates his visit to the city in that year. Picture from an ebay postcard listing.In 1949 it was planted to mark the Scottish Industries Exhibition in Glasgow that year. For 1953, the clock’s 50th birthday, the Parks Superintendent, Mr A. T. Harrison, hit upon the idea of adding a “real” cuckoo to the clock. Thus a wooden bird house was added to accommodate the bird, which popped out when it chimed. The organ pipes were replaced at this time by an electric system of tuning valves connected to a loudspeaker.
The Floral Clock Edinburgh 2017, showing the wooden birdhouse © Jennifer Petrie cc-by-sa 2.0Ritchies would go on to provide the mechanisms for many floral clocks throughout the world (“practically all” of them, claimed the Evening News in 1956), including ones in Salisbury, South Rhodesia (modern day Harare, Zimbabwe) and Sydney Zoo.
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Some more about Thuh latest.. Torro II
Between Torro’s feet at the underside of the plinth a rectangular tube emerges with a circular opening from which light will emerge lighting up the surface the sculpture stands on...
More at ThuhShop :thinkerguns:
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