Plenty of Nothing

Halloween

HMS Bounty

These are some photos of HMS Bounty taken during the Tall Ships Festival at Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 2012. Bounty was sunk by Hurricane Sandy yesterday.

Octobrio

Bloody Shithawks

Bing There, Done That

The majestic Five Sisters Bing. Photo source.

Today Morton travel to Livingston in West Lothian to take on the Black and Amber.

West Lothian was the site of Scotland's first oil boom in the late 19th century. Shale oil extraction left the county dotted with mounds of spoil, and although most have been recycled down to nothing, the Five Sisters Bing remains on permanent display as a protected industrial site.

This is the beginning of the second quarter of the SFL schedule. After a lacklustre August in which they earned two points and were knocked out of the Scottish League Cup and Challenge Cup, Morton got their mojo back with a perfect September and ended the first quarter with five wins, three draws and one loss, and a goal difference of +7, good for third place.

Livingston's record in the first quarter was three wins, three draws and three losses, and a goal difference of 0, good for sixth place.

If Dunfermline and Livingston both lose today, Morton will move into second place. [Livingston and Morton play to a 2 - 2 score. Both Morton goals by Archie Campbell. Dunfermline win and take over first place again. Morton remain third.]

Morton leads the Reserve League with six wins in six starts.

These Filipino sailors support the Ton.

On Wednesday Busan beat Pohang 2 - 0 in K-League action.

Last night was the end of the League of Ireland Premier Division schedule. UCD and Shelbourne tied 1 - 1. UCD finish the season with 7 wins, 8 draws and 15 losses, good enough for a 9th place finish, slightly worse than last year.

Montreal Imact have completed their first MLS season, finishing seventh in the East, not good enough to make the playoffs but miles ahead of Toronto FC, which is the main thing. Vancouver Whitecaps finished fifth in the West and face LA Galaxy is the Western play-in.

In the Galician Derby Celta and La Coruna played to a 1 - 1 draw.

Tomorrow Mito hosts Fagiano Okayama. [0 - 0].

Autumn Mixture

Unarigoe, Chapter 4, Page 17

October Tomato Patch

Halifax Harbour Traffic

Map of all ship movement in Halifax Harbour, November 2011.

If you like Halifax, or ships, or both, you need to know about Halifax Shipping News, where I lifted this image.

Hiroshige Foxfire

Did you know about the foxes who congregate around a certain tree on New Year's Eve and breath fire? You can read about it at the Brooklyn Museum site, and view the rest of Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo as well.