raesewell Posted May 6, 2018 Posted May 6, 2018 After only being home from Euro travels for two days I was off again with Melanie to Tenby in Welsh Wales via Twigworth near Gloucester.I found a nice parking spot right outside the hotel in Tenby. On the second day I came back to find an infestation of wasps.tomorrow we are off to Llandudno.Here we are in a very sunny Llandudno where they have a Victorian extravaganza weekend going on. All I can say is it's bloody brilliant.Here is a non bike related photo of the George Formby appreciation society doing their thing.There is a fantastic atmosphere and everyone is having a great time. Quote
MarkW Posted May 6, 2018 Posted May 6, 2018 Hee-hee! Turned out nice! Sorry - I'll get my coat...Technically they're not wasps - Vespa being the genus of the hornet rather than the wasp, which is Vespula.Sorry (again) - the pedantic entomologist has now left the building. Quote
raesewell Posted May 6, 2018 Author Posted May 6, 2018 You are quite right and some of them were Lambrettas, so nothing to do with wasps or hornets, I used poetic license.Also for you edification vespa is wasp in Italian the land of the Vespa and Lambrettas birth. Quote
MarkW Posted May 6, 2018 Posted May 6, 2018 Also for you edification vespa is wasp in Italian the land of the Vespa and Lambrettas birth. I know. Whilst we're on foreign entomology...Entomologists use a little suction device called a pooter to collect insects. It's just two pieces of tube poking through the lid of a pot, one with mesh on the end. Stick the open end near the insect, suck the mesh end, and the insect lands in the pot.I once led a field trip of Brazilian entomologists in a forest, and told them they had to bring plenty of pooters with them because I'd got through so many of them, either wearing them out or just losing them. I thought they looked appalled, and it wasn't until someone told me that 'puta' was Portuguese for 'prostitute' that I realised why. Quote
MarkW Posted May 6, 2018 Posted May 6, 2018 well this thread was a wild ride That'll be my fault, derailing things with my daft digressions. Terribly sorry... Carry on chaps... As you were... Quote
Scoot65 Posted May 9, 2018 Posted May 9, 2018 I was in Tenby last weekend too! Went for the scooter rally. I didn't go on my Triumph, I rode down from Durham on my scooter...... 719 miles round trip .... It was a good rally and great weather made it all the better. Quote
Guest Posted May 9, 2018 Posted May 9, 2018 I was in Tenby last weekend too! Went for the scooter rally. I didn't go on my Triumph, I rode down from Durham on my scooter...... 719 miles round trip .... It was a good rally and great weather made it all the better. 719 miles round trip on a scooter. I take it you left on Monday and only got back home today? Quote
Scoot65 Posted May 9, 2018 Posted May 9, 2018 I was in Tenby last weekend too! Went for the scooter rally. I didn't go on my Triumph, I rode down from Durham on my scooter...... 719 miles round trip .... It was a good rally and great weather made it all the better. 719 miles round trip on a scooter. I take it you left on Monday and only got back home today? No, approximately 9 to 10 hours each way, with stops etc. Rode down on the Friday and back up to Durham on the Sunday. Quote
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