Passing cars have splashed water onto the surrounding bushes creating this fantastic natural icicle sculpture.
It's not clear at what temperature the above mentioned brass castings will suffer brittle metal fatigue and fracture, but I'm willing to bet it's cold enough.
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But the advantage of the weather is that you are taking some wonderful photos (as usual)! Great ones the other day of scenes in the mist.
ReplyDeleteLove that second photo. Never seen anything like that before.
ReplyDeleteIn 1991 we had a particularly cold February-at the neaps the shallow bays around the edges of Poole Harbour froze solid. When the springs came the following week they lifted huge sheets of ice from the bays on the flood and carried them out of the harbour with the ebb. It was the only occasion in 24 years on the Pilot Boat that I ever had to dodge ice floes!
ReplyDeleteThat third photo is beautiful. Really Wintry. Is that the land off Salterns Lane?
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ReplyDeleteDavid - the other side Bunny Meadows on the path to warsash
ReplyDeleteThank you BB
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Brass monkeys - to what monkeys are you referring?
ReplyDeleteThe monkey was a frame which cannonballs were stacked upon on warships. It was made of brass so the balls didn't rust solid onto it.
DeleteDue to differing coefficients of expansion between brass and iron it was suggested very cold temperatures could affect the stability of the stack.
In which case it would be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
Nice try Unknown the frame would need to be a couple of miles long for differences in the expansion rates of the two metals to have that kind of effect.
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