mackem

Sounds like your dad had a great life,did he leave any photos?Did he learn hindi?I was in a post office years ago in an old British rule building,they still had the old "Tiffin room" sign from pre-independance days.

Thought about this thread a couple of hours ago,sitting on a ridge watching a beaver in a pond below,it was a tiny dot but I could see his wake.

First person to have entered?Might have been someplace like ladakh or even Bhutan (there used to be no roads,you had to trek in),different people back then,the kids nowadays think they are remote if they can't get WiFi or a phone signal.Your grandparents must have seen some sights.

Get a manager in and kick back,travel and do stuff you enjoy.I heard a horrific story a few weeks back,bloke of 64 looking forward to retirement,couldn't get out of bed one morning,wife took him to the doc,stage 4,given a month to live but passed in two weeks,put me on a downer for the rest of the day when I heard that.

Going along a road in the boonies earlier and caught a buck in the periphery of my vision in a field at the back of a house,passing the house a few hours later I saw the buck again,then I realised,it was a Wayne!

Fake,apparently not even filmed in ireland.

Fresh salmon and local eggs from the farmers market for breakfast,Mrs Mack drizzled maple syrup over her pancakes and bacon

Never seen a display,went to other displays of mammoth and the worlds largest collection of dire wolf skeletons in the california tar pits earlier this year.If the boneyard ever do a display i would love to visit.

Someone's going to trap or shoot it.

There's a pure white beaver about an hour from here,been on the news,Beaver are fair game for anyone on crown land so won't last long.

If I was still up there i would have got you one,lump hammer and chisel and check the quarry floor,was never difficult,I am going to a rock wall in Quebec later,if I see owt (but probably won't sadly) i will pick it up.

I can tell you a quarry in the UK you can find perfect specimens,I found one myself as a kid,Quarrington quarry in county durham,lots of pristine specimens in the marl,theres a market near there or there was,that had a stall holder used to sell fossils from the quarry. Quarrington Quarry – Tarmac WWW.TARMAC.COM Tarmac Quarrington supply high quality aggregates to customers in the Durham area. We deliver...

Went to a mineral and rock show,miners from Canada and the states mainly but a few international,got chatting to an old guy in his 80's who lived way up north as a kid and tried prospecting,lived on shot game and fish and found a nugget of gold the size of a thimble while panning a stream,I love stories like that. Also met an old first nations bloke exhibiting arrow heads finds.

Still played in the himalaya foothills to this day,remnants of the days of the Raj ,I stayed in Kashmir a few times,the British officers hill station of choice during British india,they had houseboats on the lakes (Dal and nagin),incredible opulence.

Every day is a school day mel,thank you for the education sir,I honestly never knew that.