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    that's all too true. I visited the Brecon Beacons in the long hot summer of 76. It did stop raining on us; it hailed instead.
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    I once saw a clip of the All Blacks performing the Haka at Twickenham in the late 60s. It was so half hearted and pathetic it was hilarious…more like morris dancing than anything warrior like.
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    And Mexico is in North America anyway…. someone also pointed out that RedBull were very quick to drop Juri Vipps when he used a racist slur in an E sports game. However I doubt this is the last we’ll see of the odious Marko.
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    Even suburbia can sometimes scrub up well… The Glades, Lamorbey, earlier this morning:
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    When I was a lad and dabbled in Dungeons & Dragons, the webs of Giant Spiders were highly flammable. Saved trying to hit the spiders with a longsword...not sure if that helps? ;)
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    My regular term time lunchtime walk takes me over some scrub lane where in the past skylarks nested. I think I repotted on here that it had been partially mowed before the summer holidays. now it has been fenced off on one side and cattle kept there - it is a farm after all. but on the fence I saw a bird I did not recognise. It patiently let me take a couple of (poor) snaps but I have no idea what it might be. Any clues?
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    Mrs Lurker did that many years ago. She dislocated one of her toes on the washing basket. She went to Urgent Care. They asked her if she'd had children. As she was in the middle of saying yes they shoved the toe back in place. Sorted.
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    Sidcup. Invicta Models is in the Boring Borough by the station https://www.invictamodelrail.com/ although possibly not worth a trip all the way from Switzerland on its own merits, friendly and helpful as Kerry is!
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    isn''t the distinction something to do with having the gravitational pull to clear an orbit? Pluto did not qualify any longer because it and its moons revolve around one another as they orbit the sun. Ceres does not qualify because it is in the asteroid belt etc. EDIT - and the others on the list in your second post are all satellites of other larger bodies so don't have not cleared their solar orbit.
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    There was another one around 80,000 years ago too - affecting all but sub-Saharan Africans, who have a greater genetic variation than the rest of us
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    Seven Sisters, Bank Holiday Monday
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    There was another subterranean passage from the Cottons Centre to one of the buildings on Tooley Street where it diverges from Duke Hill - I forget which one but used it once to get back from a reception we were holding for our lenders to convince them we were still a good bet to lend to… and yes number one was PWC, or at least some of it. There was a telecoms company there too - since gone bust IIRC
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    This is in one of the roads off Tooley Street under the lines out of London Bridge - I took it about 18 months ago. I assume it is still there but haven’t walked that way for a while.
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    Best wishes to Baz and Mrs Baz.
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    Yes and of course it is different from both the US measure and the official metric measure. or approximately 10 feet of elevation gain according to the I- phone
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    One for Bear https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-66643241 or perhaps it should be for the thread about Aussie wildlife
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    We visited an OS trig point we happened to see;
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    Younger Lurker and I ventured to Cuckmere Haven yesterday and walked to Burlington Gap and back. My phone tells me I did 20,620 steps and climbed 112 flights of stairs!
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    Bernie Collins - is the Irish Lady
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    A couple of years before that the Cobblers won the Southern League and played Newcastle United in the Charity Shield.
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    Sorry to read of your news Q
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    Which is pretty close to Badgers Mount
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    I would have seen the irony if they’d asked de Vries to drive in what would have been his home Grand Prix
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    Given coffee's tooth-staining properties, that's the right way round to get your money's worth...!
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    Are green hazelnuts edible/tasty in the same way as cobnuts (which I think are type of hazel)?
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