After a flurry of those " celebratory dances" that you do when you get a "new tick" appeared on here, I got a few more sent in by readers .... and now, after a gap of a couple of months, I've been sent another one. It's a good one too . I'll put some links to the previous "Tick-dance" ones at the end of this post . Lucky you ! Don't forget, though, that this is the one you do at the site, soon after the tick ... as opposed to the celebration when you get home ... which involves climbing a tree ..... which sort of tree depends on where you live. In Flintshire it's the Jum-Jum Tree. No other will do. I'm sure you know which yours is. If you don't know, just ask a local. You don't want to get those two the wrong way around ... oh no ! This one is especially good if you're short of space ... on a pelagic trip for example, or on a tiny offshore rock, or on top of Adam or Eve at the summit of Tryfan.. .... we've all been there. This short video shows you how to do it .... of course, you don't have to wear the outfit . Unless you really want to. The really neat thing about that one is the sheer exhilaration it expresses. I wonder what he ticked ? What's a "biggie" out there where he lives ? Here's a few obvious candidates ... Lady Gaga's Pheasant ? Barry Manilow Shearwater ? AznaVour-toed Salamander ? ( that's not a bird) Richard Herring Gull ? Simply Red Grouse ? Tottenham Hotspur-winged Plover ? Jumping Jack Snipe ? Epidural Owl ? Jonathon Kingfisher ? Ralph Little Tern ? Sandy Shaw Lark ? Mr. Bean Goose ? Sergeant Wilson's Petrel ? No ! No more of this twaddle !! Hey ... I've got a Twaddellometer you know. Two, actually. I've no idea where they are though. But now .... some sort of dance-music I suppose .... I do try to be thematic if possible ... this lot are really showing us their thermometers ... in the " struggle-to perpetuate-their-DNA" sense of the phrase ... Here's the links to some previous "tick-celebrations" posts ...
174-tick-celebrations-a-selection.html 180-the-exeter-cirl-bunting-another-tick-dance.html The Twaddell scale is a hydrometer scale for reporting the measured specific gravity of a liquid relative to water. On this scale, a specific gravity of 1.000 is reported as 0, and 2.000 reports as 200.[1] Concentrated sulfuric acid with a specific gravity of 1.8 has a Twaddell scale measurement of 160 (as per the linear relationship between readings and sp. gravity). The Twaddell scale is only used for liquids with specific gravity greater than water. The scale was used in the British dye and bleach manufacturing industries. While the Baumé scale was adopted throughout England, the Twaddell scale was used in England and Scotland.[2] The scale is named after the scientific instrument manufacturer W. Twaddell of Glasgow, who first developed hydrometers on this scale at the start of the 19th century. ............ so there ..... I bet you thought I'd made it up ...as if !
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