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Point to Eccs - they are all sleeping in some form or other. We have:- The Sleeping Beauty who in that pic is awake, hence my refusal to accept 'asleep'. Bagpuss who spent most of his time sleeping except when Emily said the magic words to make him wake up. Rip Van Winkle who spent 20 years sleeping...

Deep blue water between the Tory and Labour positions on tax etc perhaps? I won't be taking much interest in his speech. Labour usually are terrified of frightening the horses/City of London/voters with anything other than the mildest of tax increases, and when they show signs of straying from that ...

They don't all start with BA and the cartoon still from the Disney film isn't from Bambi.

What links these pictures? Just typing 'asleep' doesn't win!

Sagas share price at close today was 127.80; so either there has been a catastrophic fall in the share price since you last looked, WR................................or perhaps the . button on your keyboard has stopped working! :) Saga peaked at 3,000p on 1 August 2016 and were 138p on 1 October 202...

South West Water have got form for this. Back in 1988 20 tons of aluminium sulphate were added by accident to the water supply for Camelford in Cornwall raising the concentration to 3,000 times the admissible level. As the aluminium sulphate broke down it produced several tonnes of sulphuric acid wh...

How could you think such a thing, Furby? :devil I think it is a good portrait and you can interpret it in any number of ways. To me, he looks as if he is about to be enveloped by the Red Death without having to perform the final dance. The artist has managed to make him look a kind man. And Camilla ...

A great Swiss tradition; the Landsgemeinde in Appenzell in 2022. Women are allowed to bring their voting cards instead of swords or knives.

5. Antisocial behaviour - is anyone telling the police they choose which laws are enforced They do indeed, Furby. Several years ago, amidst great fanfare and publicity, the 20 mph zone was introduced in Winchester - only for the police to let it be known that they wouldn't be enforcing it because o...

I had a nice day today. I went to see my friends at Knightwood which involved catching the Winchester bus in Southampton and getting out at the train station in Chandlers Ford (around 25 minutes on the Winchester bus) and then walking the 0.8 miles to KW. The 9:12 Winchester bus didn't run so I had ...

As OC will know the views in Iceland are somewhat more spectacular - the most beautiful I've seen are at a place called Kirkjufell Mountain Only by repute and photos WR - I have been to Iceland I don't know how many times in winter; November, late December, early January - and I have never seen the...

Couldn't resist this one.

I am OK on the flags of the 197 countries recognised by Sporcle. I can't describe most of them but if you show me a picture of one I can usually get it right. Here's a pic of the Swiss flag. It shares with the Vatican City the distinction of being one of only 2 square flags used by Sporcle countries...

I watched the scoring in Eurovision and not much else of the programme, marvelling at times how such a precious little creature could emerge from usually no-nonsense Switzerland, at least the Switzerland and Swiss that I know; that's probably a reflection on me more than anything else. I agree with ...

Lovely pic of a bittern, Eccs - it was kind of you not to point out my spelling error!

Absolutely correct, Furby; Bitterne is a district in the east of Southampton on the east bank of the Itchen - it is south west of where I had my little flat 45 years ago in West End. The bird, of course, is spelled Bittern without the second 'e'. I shall leave my spelling error alone!

1 Which couple’s tomb was “discovered” at Glastonbury Abbey in 1191? King Arthur and Queen Guinevere I should think. 4 What was Jesus’s native language? Aramaic; Hebrew was a dead language by then, like Latin is today. 7 Which heron is known for its booming call? Bitterne 8 Which mid-18th-century co...

Are the pizzas served on floor boards.

Yes - or sliced railway sleepers, I couldn't tell which.

Jodlerkonig Franzl spends a minute giving the audience their instructions and then starts singing.

Jazzy has been serviced and MOT'd - one of his tyres had a bulge in it so that had to be replaced and I bought another for the same axle so that it was new tyres all the way across on that axle. He also needed a few other parts as well. I was charged what I was expecting for his collection and retur...