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2 Where in the UK is the world’s only rotating boat lift?
Falkirk.

3 Which ubiquitous tune was written by Mildred and Patty Hill?
Happy Birthday?

6 What is the lowest staff rank in the British army?
2nd Lieutenant?

Any day now, Merry.

"Poor Merry on her birthday."
You were fortunate that STPD was there with PPE.

Can you install one of those whirly spinning things on the chimney?
https://www.coltcowls.co.uk/products/rotorvents

Today all of Switzerland is celebrating the annual spaghetti harvest. Despite some of the worst Spring weather on record the harvest is expected to be a bumper one so we can all look forward to lower prices this year.

:) A Lancashire man’s wife died. She was a proper Lancashire lass but very religious so the husband asked for the epitaph “She was Thine”. When the headstone was up he visited the grave but the epitaph read “She was Thin”, so he called the monumental mason and said “you’ve left the E off”. When he w...

Happy Birthday Merry.

2 India’s Gir Forest is home to Asia’s last population of which cats? Asiatic lion 5 The Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass was whose trademark instrument? Paul McCartney. He chose it because he's left handed and being symmetrical it could be restrung for left-handed use. You can get left handed guitars but w...

Surely it's a 1.5L air fryer, Eccs?

Well, who cares about a decimal point.

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has resigned as party leader and subsequently suspended from the party after being charged with historical sex offences by the PSNI.

Offered at a knock down price of £19 and with an Asda cashpot coupon for £10 I splashed out the princely sum of £9 for a small 1/5L air fryer. I've tried it out with a single portion of oven chips that were done in about 12 minutes. So that's a time and probably energy saving over cooking them in th...

St John's Church in Bath has a nesting pair. In Bristol the peregrines use a more traditional site, that of the Avon Gorge at Clifton. A friend of mine has regularly photographed them by standing on the edge of the gorge on the wrong side of the fence :eek Not for me. Unlike Merry I'm not bothered b...

Shrinkflation is popping up everywhere. The next time you buy a 400g can of anything, check the weight - it'll most likely be 392g. Heinz Beans has always been 420g, but not any more, they're 415g.

When Juliet, Helen and I walked over the Clifton Suspension Bridge last year my knees were actually weak. I'd heard of this phenomenon but not experienced it before. I wasn't sure I'd be able to walk over! You're not alone Merry. Many years ago I played host to an American guy who came over on a co...

From Quora, not validated: It appears that the captain notified the coast guard that the vessel was in distress in good time. There were two local harbour pilots on the bridge one on the helm and the ship dropped its starboard anchor before hitting the western support column after losing power and/o...

Hang in there OC.

There will be questions asked. It lost power which resulted in the collision. Why wasn't such a large vessel piloted out of the port? Obviously such a large ship takes a lot of stopping but why wasn't it able to drop anchor before the collision? Was the bridge construction the right one for such a b...

"I'm no Royalist"

Geddaway?
I wonder if The Sun will come out with a "Horrible Anus (hnur-hnur)" type headline to lighten the mood?

They make my day trips to Slimbridge look tame by comparison but I like them and it makes bird watching so easy. Brother and I have a joint pensioner's concession membership.

The Spring equinox was a day early this year because of the additional day added to February for the leap year. The equinox will advance approximately one quarter of a day per year until 2028 when it will be reset again.
Not a lot of people know dat.