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What links: 9 Stars; Rip It Up; The Race; American Idiot; All Rise; Galileo; Crush? 10 Boat; bottle indentation; former currency; gamble; kick? 11 Davis; Dellinger; Froines; Hayden; Hoffman; Rubin; Weiner? 12 The Emperor; Flights; Snow White and Russian Red; Solaris? 13 Old Indian coin; heavenly foo...

Yep there's a few loons on Twitter all right @themetallicmoon · 15h Climate change is crazy, cannot believe this is happening, this is not natural! I’m an aerospace engineer and astrophysicist. The northern lights are very shy and only like the cold; the fact that they are straying this far toward t...

Imagine if its just me and merry left running the country. :bed :bed :devil [br] Eccles if you see that 'high cloud' again tonight, try pointing your camera at it! Juliet said at first they thought it was just high cloud in a pale sky they were looking at, but then realised that WAS the NLs, the Mi...

We seem to have got out of the habit of watching this which was a must-see every year, but no doubt we'll catch some of it.

Apparently the Dutch entry is in doubt owing to 'an incident backstage' (no details yet.)

It's TONIGHT!

Hopefully some of us will pop in and out of chat, but D J Schochna has a little competition from the Eurovision tonight... no contest if you ask me

1 Which couple’s tomb was “discovered” at Glastonbury Abbey in 1191? 2 The M’Naghten rules are concerned with the legal definition of what? 3 Which singer was nicknamed the Empress of the Blues? 4 What was Jesus’s native language? 5 “The Banker – Himself” was a credit on which TV show? 6 What only ...

That's another full house!! a double-full-house week! WELL DONE HF GANG! :party 9 Sporting left-handers: cricket; golf; tennis; snooker. 10 Lost Tudor palaces. 11 Songs by virtual bands: Gorillaz; the Archies; Alvin and the Chipmunks. 12 Gave names to toys: Barbie and Ken; teddy bears. 13 New Year: ...

8/8 YES!!!!!

I'm with Daisy's Daughter - love that song! mind you, once you get it into your head...


1 Dark energy.
2 Joseph Conrad (after Polish and French).
3 Red Bull.
4 Sandi Toksvig.
5 Driverless taxis.
6 Turkey (after the US).
7 Wellerman.
8 Wasps.

Hmmmm....

I've suddenly remembered Day of the Triffids

I shall be OK as I turned down the chance to leave my comfy bed in the middle of the night and go out for the spectacle

Juliet took these in the middle of the night! Anyone else see any?

Catching the Eclipse, too!

Oh my goodness, WR, what a trip! Truly the holiday of a lifetime! (though hopefully there will be more of these to come) Lovely photographs and a great write-up! We do have some amazing travelogues going on on our board, don't we. That steak and lobster would be my dream dinner. I always find it tri...

Lovely write-ups OC! I love looking at your menus and photos. Jeff did well if he managed all of that lasagne after his prawns! No wonder he didn't want dessert! All I can offer in the way of eating out is a hot Cheese and Onion Pasty I had from Cheltenham Town Hall canteen yesterday - where Juliet ...

I have had an unsuccessful day and am not happy so what is new. My phone no longer works for apps and when out may be needed e.g. trains and buses times and places. So I bought a new phone and it's impossible to get back case off to put in the battery and I have damaged it trying so can't even retu...

What links: 9 Alastair Cook; Phil Mickelson; Martina Navratilova; Mark Williams? 10 Bridewell; Greenwich; Nonsuch; Richmond; Whitehall? 11 Clint Eastwood; Sugar, Sugar; the Chipmunk Song? 12 Ruth Handler’s children and Theodore Roosevelt? 13 Rosh Hashanah; Shogatsu; Songkran; Nowruz? 14 Anne Bonny; ...

1 What makes up an estimated 68% of the universe? 2 Which great of English literature wrote novels in his third language? 3 Two gaurs feature on the logo of which drink? 4 Which TV personality founded the Women’s Equality party? 5 Which transport service is run by Waymo in San Francisco and Phoenix...

6/7, well done all! Love Q 15 - I wouldn't have got it in a million years tho so wd WR and Eccles! 9 Peaks in the Peak District. 10 Artworks by Yoko Ono. 11 Middle initial either added to name or doesn’t represent one name. 12 Locations of UK military academies: Dartmouth; Sandhurst; Cranwell. 13 Br...

7/8, well done! Ivanhoe was read to my class of very average 8-10 year olds at my (very poor) prep school by our wonderful old-lady teacher, Mrs Cottam. She read so well that we were all enthralled. We could hardly wait till Friday afternoons! I can't imagine this being tried in a primary school the...

I absolutely loved those, OC. My god though. When the men start kicking their legs and slapping their feet I was thinking, 'and WE'RE the laughing-stock of the world with our Morris dance?' :rofl Tom took a little video in Kirchdorf the other day he's going to post of a nice Austrian village dance.

Another Don't Tell the Moanies vote here. I hope the Moanies don't have doorbell cams or anything like that. Kids should be playing out more. And, kids are annoying! they make noise and throw balls and stuff. But they're the kids of our species and need growing occasionally, to look after us in our ...