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Result of melted Yellow Snow; or a very suspect activity carried out by certain folk in private, so I've been told. and Trump was guilty of said activity.

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Yes, we've just had a 7-hour yellow warning because "there may be a heavy shower and gusty winds". The Met Office are officially a load of wimps!

Some people might suggest that it's "p!$$!ng down" (or something along those lines).

I couldn't possibly comment.

As for Master Trump, I'd definitely prefer not to comment. I'm sure he'd deny it anyway - he seems to have denied a number of other things ... .

Despite the cost of living crisis, the external "Christmas Lighting" is already making its presence felt. One wonders....   I agree with Steamport Southport, there aren't many football flags out yet, though when the matches start, it might be a different story.  To add to the terror and woe, I hear that Baddile and co may be releasing a rejigged version of "Three Lions"

As for "Bah Humbugs*", I always keep a stock for when alleged carol singers come and whine a few verses of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" through the keyhole.  Figgy Pudding?  Fat chance!

* They're the ones with latitudenal stripes...

A number of years back, my area was plagued by a load of particularly tuneless carol "singers" - then there seemed to be rather less of them.

I'm not sure why (not that I'm exactly complaining):

• Dodgy renditions of "Silent Night" - followed by people offering to make this happen?
• Repeated invitations to experience the delights of cycling?
• "Friendly benedictions" along the lines of "Piper Oscar" - somewhat similar to the one that starts with "Foxtrot", but with a key difference - whilst I could imagine people wanting these individuals to "go forth", I doubt if too many people would particularly want them to "multiply".

Whatever actually happened, I'm just relieved that things have been slightly quieter around these parts in the last few years.

Why have I now got Corey Taylor's* Xmas song in my head? 🤣

Very sweary, but worth a listen if you can put up with a few swear words.

*Out of Slipknot

One of the none sweary bits, you get the drift....

There ain’t nothing more depressing than a pine tree
Gussied up with candy canes and balls
Those carollers have kept me up for hours
"It’s Merry Christmas" — seeping through my walls

That’s a good point!

Yep, back where I found it.

Perhaps in an hour's time?

Ah but summer has not died yet - there are still Swallows in the sky!

A good day out to Chester, and I enjoyed watching the trains go around.  Most reflected the modern railway, though sound fitted Super Ds double heading a lenghy goods train, "Tornado" on a railtour and Thomas with Annie and Clarabel also made appearances.

While I was there, things were a little fraught with some problems in the fiddleyard, shorting the DCC supply and bringing trains to a halt. Another diverting occurrence was Pete Waterman pushing the rear portion of a divided container train along by hand to recouple it!

While not watching the trains, there was an interesting game of "spot the wildlife" for children of all ages, miniature rabbits, swans, a fox, a pheasant and a badger could be located.  For railway enthusiasts, there was also a "dalek", which could be seen flashing away in an obscure corner.  An ISpy checklist was provided to record sightings.  There were also two checklists to identify passing trains.  All in all, good efforts to engage visitors.

In addition, Key Publishing have produced a bookazine, describing Pete Watermans layouts, "Leamington Spa", "Making Tracks" and "Making Tracks II". Copies were available at the exhibition.

It worked!

In the immortal words of 1966, "They think its all over, it is now!"

England 2 - 1 Germany AET

Looks like it paid off 😄!

I'm only joking of course, the Lionesses have done a sterling job.

A huge applause to them, they managed to beat the unbeatable!

56 years of hurt, never stopped us dreaming.  Well done Lionesses!

Intermittent cloud in South Devon!

Only 187 shopping days till Christmas

Hooray for hysteresis!

It'll keep getting warmer for a while yet.

Here, the mornings will start getting later by Thursday, though the evenings won't start getting earlier until next Tuesday. I expect that the effects won't be appreciable until the end of July.

l do know that at present I can see the sunrise and sunset from my north facing bedroom window. Once they vanish around the sides of the house (probably the end of July...) I shall be pleased!

I'll try it the next time!

A most amiable combination.

Cold custard is also acceptable.

I had ice cream to hand, so that was that!

Winter is Coming

@AY Mod Are you sure it ever will?

Phew - I thought for a minute that you were announcing an announcement.

It's the start of the process for testing the low-cost ad-free version which will be launched shortly so that users can tell which version they have and also to maybe minimise the number of "why am I getting ads?" messages/emails that I get.

...I never noticed!

Now, if it was flashing, flickering, or moving around, or blocking content - maybe I would have noticed.

(With draws to a safe distance...)

Ahh, I was just about to read through the Site News forum to see what was happening. Can't wait for that. I fully understand the need for ads etc, but constantly having to scroll back up on every page after the video pops up and jumps it to the bottom is wearing thin now. 

"Zeitgeist"? Hmmm wasn't that a section in the Guardian?

(It's OK - I know the term has another meaning, which doesn't translate too well into English.)

Sounds more Private Eye to me!  :-)

It actually was a section in the Guardian - but I know what you mean about Private Eye.

I will only take even the slightest bit of interest if someone can confirm in the most categoric of circumstances that this is Art, darling.

Wasn't he one of the coxen a few years ago?

A very important event in my youth. If Oxford won, my Mum and brother had to pay Dad and me 6d each - if Cambridge won, the converse.

I think the bird is on the wing.

No, that's absurd!

Gunner who?

Case rates now 1 in 26 of population in England, highest for nearly a year?

Don't know how I got it, I still wear a facemask when out and about, and I've not been in any entertainment venues. I suppose its as is said, you wear a mask to protect others.  Some other ******* with covid decided it was perfectly ok not to take precautions...

The covid guidelines say you're ok if you get two consecutive negative tests after 5 days, they also say that it might be a good idea to isolate for those 5 days, but you can go out if you need to provided you wear a mask...  Talk about mixed messages!

Its all going to be fun after 1st April, when lateral flow kits won't be free, no one will buy them and so no one will really know if they have covid. We'll be wallowing around in a pit of infection.

Pah!!!

Best wishes for quick recovery. Sadly there are those out there who only care about themselves....

When they're "in-growing", they give plenty of "attack", of a different variety!

Just saying ... .

Yes this is going to eat into my playing trains time tonight as i'm on pancake making duties.

Mmmm ... health foods ... .

Well, they make me feel good ... .