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[url= http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/isle-of-wight-zoo-celebrates-poo-with-new-museum-94315.aspx ]Isle of Wight poo museum opens[/url]
😯The freeze-dried displays will be hung from the ceiling
Reminds of something I heard the other day. At the Science Museum there's a toilet flushing exhibit in the 'Home' exhibition in the basement. It has a model poo that can be flushed away to demonstrate the mechanism. Good fun if you are there. Its a Tim Hunkin so quite nicely made. Anyway, after a while the model poo gets a bit of muck building up on the surface and it doesn't glide through the U-bend like it should so it needs to be taken out and cleaned. The curator who does this cleaning was very proud to declare that part of his role was polishing a turd
Perhaps I could go and submit my own entry.....
Off on holiday there in a few weeks. I was going to take my bike, but I'll probably not bother now and just hang around the poo museum.
Whereas Lyme Regis Museum has a poo table...
http://www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk/research-papers/bucklands-coprolite-table
wilko, bring your bike. Its excellent here!
Visitor to entrance desk clerk:
"What exhibits do you have at the moment?"
Entrance desk clerk to visitor:
"Same old shit."
Ba Boom...... Tishhhhhh!
A poo museum on the Isle of Sh*te?
Apparently the Isle of Wight Zoo only has one dog in it. That's right, it's a shih tzu. Ah thankew
THey should have a guy standing outside the door announcing to the visitors..."..and now, it's time for the Gallery"
Tony Fart innit!
Are they charging all the people a dollar a dump just to see 'em?
bigyinn I started a thread a few weeks ago asking for routes. I'm staying in Brighstone and I understand there's some good riding in the woods there so I'm definitely bringing my bike!
Classy place.
They play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata in the background for visitors.
Only the third movement though.
Nice stools in the café too.
That's about 10 mins down the road. Rude not to take a look, really. And if it means there's fewer sewage spills at Yaverland, Sandown and Shanklin then it's all win!
And yeah, Wilko - bring the bike. 😉
Edit:
I'm staying in Brighstone and I understand there's some good riding in the woods there so I'm definitely bringing my bike!
It's the home to a good portion of the fun stuff on the island, although there has been some felling which has spoiled a couple of decent trails. There's a few Caulkheads and Overners on the forum that can either show you round or certainly point you in the right direction - I'll have a look for your thread too.
Are they charging all the people a dollar a dump just to see 'em?
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So what happens if a lot of people turn up and the humidity rises?
Wilko
take some road tyres too. Ride around the perimeter. Then muse on Sean Yates' opinion that it's "essentially flat" when he won a 1980's time trial on a fixed !
Then muse on Sean Yates' opinion that it's "essentially flat" when he won a 1980's time trial on a fixed !
I didn't know that. My road bike is a SS and I've not yet attempted it... The climb from Ventor seafront is enough to put me off.
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On that note Wilko there are a few Strava segments from Ventnor seafront up to the old RAF radar station which is near the highest point on the island (around 225m). Great if you're feeling a masochistic. 😉
This seems the most hotly contested, although there are others taking different routes: https://www.strava.com/segments/4188811
I'm just taking a Banshee Spitfire, so all I'll be doing is playing on the trails up in Brighstone Woods. I'll be on holiday so will pass on the masochistic climbs, thanks all the same 😀
It was running beautifully over the weekend Wilko after a winter of slop. Most of the main tracks are on Strava, but ping myself or Bigyinn if you need pointers.