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I recall back in 2013 Merry's post then about a visit to the park in Malvern inspired similar outrage from WR about the QinetiQ scandal, which in turn provoked a small outburst from the Chaircat in what turned out to be her very last post on the Board.

What a lovely day you had, WR! It reminds me of Mum - she liked watching horse racing on the TV though she never placed a bet. With one big race she guessed which horses would come in the top three, and when I asked her why she replied she had chosen those because they looked interested in what was ...

Oops! I didn't spot the answers inbetween Furby and Eccs. Points for everybody because you are such lovely people. :grouphug And as for Dorothy Cavis-Brown, she was back at Wimbledon as a line judge after serving a period of penance for a few days according to the Wimbledon Championships website. Sh...

Yesterday I received a letter from DVLA acknowledging that I had surrendered my driving licence, which I did before I went on my cruise; slow grind the wheels of officialdom, especially at DVLA where they seem to have industrial action more or less all the time somewhere within their empire. It also...

9 Bummalo; out first ball; Pacific burrowing clam; toilet cleaner? Must be ducks of some sort but not quacky ducks. 10 John Deydras; Lambert Simnel; Perkin Warbeck; Mary Baynton? Have they all pretended to be somebody else? Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck pretended to be the Princes in the Tower d...

Here´s a clip from the Central Switzerland Yodel Festival of 2018. The festival moves around Canton Luzern from year to year and in 2018 it was held in a small town called Schötz in the north west of the canton, not far from the border with Canton Aargau.

:lol It reminds me of a jest about a fatal accident at a colliery in South Wales. The chaps are debating who should take the sad news to the deceased miner's family, and they nominate Dai who they think is very sensitive to other people's feelings. So off goes Dai, knocks on the door of the deceased...

2 Which river has Damietta and Rosetta branches? Nile 5 What athletics world record has stood at 7291 since 1988? Women's heptathlon - I think it belongs to Jackie Joyner-Kersee. 8 What brand name was used by M&S from 1928 until 2000? St Michael Lol Furby just beat me to the brand name.

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.