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A friend of two friends of mine bought a derelict farmhouse close to the Apennines in the country Mrs Shaw was ordered to spend a winter in for the sake of her health (just as she desired) and has renovated it; I don't know if it is a permanent or holiday home. My friends have been to stay there at ...

The real irony about St George, Patron Saint of England, is that in all likelihood he never existed and if he did he wasn't English anyway.

I have to be honest and say I think they're all nuts. Thus spake WR about St George's flag warriors. I think ranting and raving about flags makes people look a bit silly; and when on TV people insist on wrapping themselves up in Union Jacks etc etc they just look stupid. Anybody with more than a si...

14 Cumberland; Darién; Sycamore; Watford? They are all Gaps. Cumberland Gap. Darien Gap. Sycamore Gap. Watford Gap.

This group of happy yodellers are from the Spiez area in Canton Bern, by the shores of the Thunersee which I have had the pleasure of traversing on a lake steamer several times.

4 Ogham script was used to write which language? Celtic of the Irish variety

7 What vast region separates the Sahara and the tropical savannas? The Sahel

Some more rations arrived for Them today. EVRI don't give you much time - I had an email at 11:40 to say the package was out for delivery and I had the Felix wet food half an hour later. So now They have 12 weeks of wet food not started yet, with 6 pouches (2 -3 days supply) to use up of the opened ...

They must have corrected the write-up since you saw it, Furby, because for today they don't mention four eggs - they just say that the third egg fell from the nest box and they show a pic of it in the gap between the nest box and the cathedral wall on Mel's left. They also say that perhaps Mel will ...

The beta blocker was to slow my heart down in order to help reduce my blood pressure; the particular one I was using had worked perfectly well for at least 20 years. When my heart rate started to slow down by itself the beta blocker just added to that effect, which is why my pulse frequently was bel...

You've seen this group before on Page 6; they are from Canton Wallis which the French call Valais. One of them reminds me slightly of the American actor Stacey Keach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5m-gwvmoWo&list=RDEM5Zg0CBt9FmdN6cfaCr6Pwg&index=24 This is from a playlist on YouTube, so i...

They used to have a Concorde you could walk inside and have a look at in the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, but I haven't been there for a very long time.

Tips were not included in the cost, but they put out an envelope on our last day on the boat in each cabin with a suggestion that we put in €12 per day. I thought the crew were wonderful so I put in €100. Diogo had a separate tip box and he got what change I had left, just over €4 which sounds a bit...

Thank you Eccs and Furby. Dr Yue thought I had started tending towards sinus bradycardia (slower heart beat) a little while ago and the beta blocker was making it worse. Looks like he was correct.

I had a letter from Cardiology, giving me an appointment for my heart ultrasound scan on 7 May. That means both the tests that Dr Yue thought necessary have been arranged. Meanwhile my BP is 130s/80s most of the time and my pulse is usually in the 70s or 80s. I haven't had a dizzy spell since part w...

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Eccs.

You're 100% correct with your one sentence summary about my holiday.

Well done Jay. After work I once had a full rear view of a lady with a posterior 5 times as wide as Jay's leaning into the boot of her car; the lady was wearing very tight leggings. I was sitting in my car about to drive away from the car park, but I didn't leave straight away because I was interest...

Furby grumbled So nothing really went wrong with cruise in the sense of Poseidon adventure it was just that it couldn't sail due to too much water in river. What a swizz story I was looking forward to some dreadful disasters. I expected at least one person falling overboard. :rofl In my defence, it ...

Day 7 - Monday April 8 On this morning we should have been returning to Oporto, but we were at Entre-os-Rios waiting for the Salamanca people to return from what turned out to be a very good trip for them; overnight in a 5 star hotel with a first-rate dinner, flamenco show with dinner, huge rooms w...

The solo traveller cruises are few and far between, Furby, and it looks as if all the Douro ones next year are in March. So I am hoping that next year the river behaves itself and all the sailings happen on time. And yes, there are puds after all the fish, which I had on separate evenings at dinner....