By Slanted Light

I think I spotted a Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey flying over the farm yesterday! I've been trying to be so good and not go running around to check out every aircraft noise I hear when I'm supposed to be working, but this is why I should - by the time I thought no, that sounds different, it was already too distant to see properly. I did take a couple of pics when I realised what I was seeing though, because huh?! I could tell there were two propellers where there shouldn't be, and it clearly wasn't one of the Chinooks that we often get.

Downloaded the pics just now, and did some googling - the Bell 280 which came up first didn't look right, but this one did, based up in Herefordshire last year. And then I found a vid, which looks like it's from years ago at the Farnborough show, and wiki says they were first developed back in the late 1980s - but it's the first time I've ever seen one! Also, the wiki article has a picture showing condensation being thrown off the propellers, which might be what's making that blurring across the top in the pictures, perhaps... *g*

How cool is that though - and I gather they've been used to bring supplies to countries devastated by hurricanes etc., so that's something good too...

Okay, back to the coal mines... word mines?

I've just seen the atlas on my bookshelf, virtually right in front of me and up a bit, suddenly stand itself upright from its leaning position against the side of the bookcase... *g* It was very gentle, just a slight crunching of the dustcover as it came up - it'd been leaning about an inch, I suppose, so a fair old hoik to get upright, though not extreme... Nothing had been pushed or rattled or shaken, just me sitting here typing gently on my laptop, a couple of surfaces below... *g*

If I hadn't tipped everything the other way when I took the dictionary out from its place further down the line earlier this evening, and then tipped everything except the atlas back again, I'd be more impressed by its supernatural self, but I presume it simply had to do with the way its pages and so on had ended up sitting.

But it did just do it all by itself - quite impressive, mechanically, for the pages and cover and everything to be in the right position to be able to - and I can quite see how in a spookier house, in less prosaic circumstances, someone might want to shout ghooooooost! *g*

One of the most haunted things I've ever seen, I think... can you tell that my mum's spookiness took a genetic leap right over me...?

ETA - bloody 'ell, and Scary II - I swear that aeroplane must have had trouble getting off the ground, it was so low over the end of our village - if it'd been daylight I could have counted the pilot's eyelashes... I could hear the engine sounding as if it was struggling, which is why I looked out the window, and then saw these massive red and green undercarriage lights heading this way, on something that looked like it was desperately trying to climb - a cargo-ish size plane, or at least I hope so, rather than passenger!

And there I thought it was a dull evening, back to Job 3 after a long prior evening of Job 2, following the day's Job 1! Ghosts and frighteningly low aircraft - a little like those snatches of dream scenarios that you remember when you wake up... which I swear I am... *g*

First of all, a big hooray cos I finished marking in time - although they've already given me extra, and we're not even at the bonus deadline yet, never mind the regular one... *g* But yeay, officially finished!

Second of all - they missed out the whole Northwest Passage thing from Empire of the Seas, which waah, but still it was kind of a decent series, and the first one I've watched like that for ages, so... *g* It's all about the water... Thames Barges next... *vbg*

Third of all, I don't often watch Jonathan Ross, but it turned out John Barrowman was on tonight, and since I missed him doing all his talk shows when I was in Alaska, I thought I'd leave him on, and... heee! I was kind of watching through squinted eyes, but he just always seems to be having the best time - and heee for him pretending to faint when Shahrukh Khan kissed him, and hee for him singing Copacabana, and being excited about the whole Desperate Housewives thing, and talking about TW and DW, and... yeah. Some people just do make you feel happy just by being. *g*

And fourthly of all... greengerbil gave me these five icons to talk about, so...

( ...I will... *g* )

First airshow of the season - wheeee! And it was sunny (mostly) and it was warm, and I was with two Pros-y friends and was just chilled (well okay, bouncy, probably... but in a chilled way) and it was fab! And so wheee - picspam! *vbg*

( Plaaaaanes! )

I should definitely be in bed. Or at least doing something useful. But... I don't think I'd seen these before... *g*





And planes!


Right - bed! I'm going to bed! Pros-y weekend tomorrow - wheeee! But first... bed. *g*