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  1. pH

    pH

    I just got a 55 cent "excess postage" refund on Ebay!

    1. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      Steady now. Don't spend it all at once!

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I actually got excited about this, then realised he'd written 55 *cent*, not 55 *per cent*...

    3. Judge Dread

      Judge Dread

      Send the Rolls Royce back.

  2. pH

    pH

    Just seen our first hummingbird of the year at the feeder.

    1. trisonic

      trisonic

      None here yet. We get the Ruby-throated variety.

    2. pH

      pH

      Our usual ones are Rufous Hummingbirds, though we have seen a very occasional Anna's.

    3. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      Well that's not the UK then.

  3. pH

    pH

    Daytona - after 500 miles, it's won by 0.011 seconds!

    1. N15class

      N15class

      But how many laps behind the pace car? last US race I watched the raced for 3 and followed the pace car the rest of the way cos theyall kept crashing

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Hopefully everyone got their money's worth.

  4. pH

    pH

    I think "Furryboots" would be a very appropriate name for a GNoSR layout.

    1. cromptonnut

      cromptonnut

      getting the furry boot across the river?

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      A layout sponsored by Celtic Sheepskin?

    3. 60159

      60159

      ...... and furryboot would it be exactly? Ken Fitamean

  5. pH

    pH

    Dashing through the snow in a one-granda plastic sleigh.

    1. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      Did it end well? :-)))

    2. HeeleyBridge

      HeeleyBridge

      Tears before bedtime

  6. pH

    pH

    Watching Australian Open tennis with the sound out of synch with the picture. It's actually quite confusing.

    1. Ozexpatriate

      Ozexpatriate

      It would be.

  7. pH

    pH

    Coyotes barking and howling in the woods behind the house.

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    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      I'd complain to the ACME Corporation

    3. rembrow

      rembrow

      Better than having Roadrunners tearing up your drive -'beep beep'

    4. gridwatcher

      gridwatcher

      Must be Larkhall?

  8. pH

    pH

    Is an electric loco, powered by electricity generated in a coal-fired power station, an external combustion machine?

    1. SHMD

      SHMD

      Ask Leonard

    2. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      No, ask Aspel

    3. Rowsley17D

      Rowsley17D

      Should it not be called a locomotive since it cannot move except by using external power?

  9. pH

    pH

    A "toin coss"?

    1. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      A smelling pistake.

    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Haverwestford

  10. pH

    pH

    Played snooker for the first time in many years today. It's going to take a lot of practice to get anywhere near good again.

    1. Graham Walters

      Graham Walters

      I know the feeling, except I never was anywhere near good

    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      If it's any comfort (but probably not), you will always remain better than me, in perpetuity, and I mean that most sincerely.

  11. pH

    pH

    Any bets on when the BH-Ireland game will be abandoned?

    1. DavidLong

      DavidLong

      It wasn't and it turned into a great result although it was nearly even better.

  12. pH

    pH

    Just fired up a laptop I haven't used for a while - 45560 Windows updates now being applied.

    1. WD0-6-0

      WD0-6-0

      It needs a holiday in the "Bahamas" ;)

    2. pH

      pH

      Well, it is in the appropriate country, though not the right provinve.

    3. Graham Walters

      Graham Walters

      Most of those will be security updates, you probably only need the last update !

  13. pH

    pH

    Ad hominem, ya bass!

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    2. Huw Griffiths

      Huw Griffiths

      Sounds nasty.

    3. DonB

      DonB

      Can you reach it to scratch it?

    4. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      I prefer Tongs maself...

  14. pH

    pH

    Why do I so often see something worth photographing when I don't have a camera with me? This time - a Union Pacific loco on CN tracks in North Vancouver.

    1. pH

      pH

      I refuse to carry a cellphone- a leftover from being on-call, in effect, 24/7.

    2. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      Simple remedy - always carry a camera. I havea small digital which I carry all the time - even when I'm out with the DSLR

  15. pH

    pH

    is wondering how he managed to get up for work at that time for 26 years.

    1. BoD

      BoD

      It's alarming.

    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      How charming I feel.

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Sometimes retirement can be busier than your working life was....

  16. pH

    pH

    I've just found out that Bat Masterson was a Canadian.

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      What about Batman?

    3. pH

      pH

      Boris - most of us are of (insert other nationality) immigrants!

    4. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      And I bet he couldn't match Horsetan's achievement on m-p-g.

  17. pH

    pH

    Some of these rugby players remind me of Vogons - sorry.

    1. Kylestrome

      Kylestrome

      Were they reciting poetry?

    2. Crisis Rail

      Crisis Rail

      42

  18. pH

    pH

    So - a 78-day election campaign. Whoopee!

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    2. BoD

      BoD

      Bet the needle gets stuck at some point.

    3. Mad McCann

      Mad McCann

      Anyone but Harper? ;-)

    4. Ozexpatriate

      Ozexpatriate

      Only 78 days? The 2016 US presidential election is in hyperdrive right now and it is more than 450 days away.

  19. pH

    pH

    Saw my first two of these today - http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=514545&nseq=0 - CPR SD30ECOs. (No camera with me, of coure!)

  20. pH

    pH

    They've changed Flickr again!!!!!

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      The techies at Flickr are a bit like Roman Abramovich used to be at Chelsea - constant meddling.

  21. pH

    pH

    Ban on all outside fires in the province of BC just been issued.

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      There goes the barbecue....

    3. trisonic

      trisonic

      Do you need fires in that heat?

    4. pH

      pH

      Perhaps not, but we're getting plenty of them anyway.

  22. pH

    pH

    NASCAR on a road circuit - Dis Gon B Gud!

  23. pH

    pH

    Can we just get on with the game .... please?

    1. bgman

      bgman

      I've got a line !

      HOUSE !

  24. pH

    pH

    Can we just get on with the game .... please?

  25. pH

    pH

    What the $^@# have they done to Flickr?

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    2. CovDriver

      CovDriver

      It's better on the pc but on my windows phone its Bl**dy awful

    3. HeeleyBridge

      HeeleyBridge

      New and improved ...

    4. Market65

      Market65

      Giant photo's!

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