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Peregrine Mel has turned out to be very inexperienced because sometime during Sunday night and early Monday morning she managed to knock both her eggs outside the nest box. This was spotted and the eggs replaced in the nest box, but the chap who does the Peregrine Diary says it is most unlikely that...

Romsey has trains would they be a better journey aren't on a bus pass though. I'd still need to go into Southampton, but that is no problem as my bus stops at Central Station. The main difficulty with Romsey Station is that it's quite a long way from the station to walk to wherever I want to go - t...

Oc has found what I have found up here when travelling which is go to city and out again to get anywhere . Exactly, Furby. It's in to somewhere and out again. Even Totton is a mini-node; if I want to go to the GP surgery that isn't in Totton centre I have to get a bus from the centre to get to that...

Meanwhile Hamza from Scotland is saying he won't resign :rofl right up to the moment when the news came out that Hamza is..........going.......to.................resign. A statement is expected later today, but BBC Breakfast was all agog with it an hour or so ago - I haven't looked since I saw it m...

Today it's the turn of the Alpine Dancers and the Whirling Dirndls from the Tirol in Austria.

11 Michael J Fox; Ulysses S Grant; David O Selznick; Harry S Truman? If the S in Harry S Truman is any guide the middle initial in these gentlemen's names doesn't stand for anything - it's just an initial. 12 Devon (sea); Surrey (land); Lincolnshire (air)? The counties where the Service colleges are...

Too many motel breakfasts, that's what I blame it on.

I haven't been watching that show but I recognise some refugees from other sci-fi series. John Barrowman from Dr Who and Torchwood, Alex Kingston from Doctor Who, Lexa Doig and Teryl Rothery as the medics from Stargate SG1, Vinnie Jones, Dolph Lundgren, Marc Singer, Ben Browder from Stargate SG1 and...

4 What was the subject of the legal case Tennessee v Scopes? The teaching of Evolution - I think this was the 'Monkey' trial.

6 Which US president vowed, “I’m not going to eat any more broccoli”? George H W Bush

7 Which 1819 novel cemented the modern legend of Robin Hood? Ivanhoe

I had a nice day today. A friend of mine in Winchester had a serious abdominal operation a few weeks ago, and on top of that is being treated for the early stages (and we all hope that's where they stay) of prostate cancer. When he emailed me the day before his operation he said I'd be very welcome ...

It's very good news that Mr Merry went to bowls - did he play or just watch and chat with his bowls cronies? Either way, he was out by himself once he got to the bowls club and I bet that did him a power of good.

A Jedi Knight makes an observation to his apprentice.

I had a nice morning out today. I went into Totton to post my cousin's birthday card and drop a prescription request in at the surgery. Then I went to Elsabelcakes to have a nice lunch. I kicked off with a latte, which looked like a cappuccino at the top with froth and a scattering of chocolate powd...

Here they are again, my favourite trio from the Tirol - this time without their hats. Peter shows he can play the accordion as well as the Jaws Harp and handorgel. The title of the tune Freitagsweis translates literally as Friday wise.

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