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Another quirk of the engine shed is that the doors are short to clear Dublo 3 rail track and possibly Triang grey-based track too. Over modern track, they look more like a fashion statement...

No doubt it's very sincere...

The track looks late Victorian too.. Sweet! You could make one of those by grafting a "Nellie" onto a Triang Clerestory coach...

Bore da, Budgie! There are translators and translators, Google English to Welsh does provide "Microdon" as the translation for "microwave" and it seems to have listened to you as this morning it provided Byddaf yn lobio ychydig o bethau yn y microdon for my original phrase and Byddaf yn lobio ychydig o bethau yn y popty microdon if you tack on "oven". Though who says "microwave oven" in everyday English? as for "popty ping", it was included as a joke from a cod-Welsh post further up the thread! To be even more colloquial, "I'll nuke it in the microwave" evidently translates as "Byddaf yn ei nuke yn y microdon"! Cael diwrnod da!

It has to be, to be able to cook it in a popty ping!

Insurmountable rights problems, I believe.

Storing data is the major problem in the "digital" age, its not only the fragility of the media used, there are also general problems with hardware, device drivers and data formats too. Anyone remember the BBC Domesday Project? Created in the mid 80s, it was a curated snapshot of life in the UK at that moment. Stored on laser disks, and controlled/displayed using a BBC Micro, 35 years later even if you have the disks, computer, software and a suitable laser disk player, the data is unrecoverable. One of my favourite sci-fi reads is Fres Hoyles "The Cloud", in which a sentient cloud engulfs the Earth. To cut the story short, humanity communicates with it using a computer (this is in the late 50s/early 60s). When the cloud departs, a scientist keeps the program used to talk to the cloud punched on a paper tape, stored in a tobacco tin...

from: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! A typically whacky Ardmann film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates!_In_an_Adventure_with_Scientists!

Like Compound I initially missed the "ORs" at the end of each clause... What really concerned me were the following and I thought "how long would spirits last in a plastic bottle without leaching all the plasticisers out of the plastic?" and then thought "well, given the circumstances, the stuff won't have been in the bottle for long in the first place, and the bottles will soon be empty!" ANYHOW The loophole for any self-respecting heavy drinker would be to enlist the assistance of three friends/dupes one a non-drinker (the designated driver) and two very moderate drinkers who mainly prefer soft drinks. The heavy drinker would then be able to draw on the allowances for the other three EACH DAY and thus drink himself into sottish insensibility. You said it!

I always use the Google English to X translator, and I told it "I'll lob a few things in the microwave" I still prefer popty ping... 'N annhymerus' lob ychydig o bethau yn y popty ping Sounds more satisfying...

You'll grow into it.....

Its ok, there won't be an occupant in the coffin.... No floral tributes Coffin not secured (though it should have been!) Driver isn't in formal attire And you generally don't floor the pedal of a hearse at traffic lights!

Eeyore has always been my favourite character in the 100 Aker wood, with his innate grasp of the realities of existence.

A banknote? A BANKNOTE??? Contactless only nowadays! (And I don't suggest using your plastic for a similar exercise...)

Which suddenly reminds me of "The Prisoner" and makes me wonder if the big wobbly, bounding white ball only wants to make friends with No6? As it were. So to speak...

Perhaps someone should go around the locality, and try to find the owner in the manner of Cinderella? And I'll just leave this here... 'N annhymerus' lob ychydig o bethau yn y microdon

I just don't trust the figures anymore. I've been keeping track of published figures since just before lockdown in March, both for where I live and overall nationally. Over the ensuing 6 months, reporting methodologies have changed, with differing goalposts being set and categories vanished or been subsumed into other counts. The figures are a mess, and we're left with lies, damn lies and statistics derived from them. I'm not yet in that age group, but I've not been out for a week, however I'm going to have to get some food in soon, so it'll be facemasks and gloves once more... So we're NOT talking about Great Yarmouth then?

A dvd of it should also be included in the owners manual for all Audis and BMWs...

The latest wheeze, possibly thought up by the beancounters to reduce the holding of manufactured product, is production on demand. What you actually get is a "commercial" product that is no more than a CD/DVD-R which gets burned when you order it. Built in obsolesence, wonderful!

I think I'll adopt "popty ping", onomatopoeia always does it for me! Years ago in mid-Wales, dad stopped at a small garage to top up our really thirsty Ford Pilot. It was a hot day, and we had all the windows down, so we could hear the mechanics in the workshop discussing a really sick car that they apparently had in bits. Amidst the stream of Welsh were familiar words like "crankshaft" and "pistons"...

So you were entirely satisfied by the standards of service?

The only problem with Scully is that you go to meet her for a pleasant evening out and find her elbows-deep in an aliens chest, with green ichor all over the place. Then it ends up with pushing Duracells share price up a few more notches...

Its Welsh, all distances are approximate. ( Two surveyors measured the distance, one thought it was one mile, the other decided on four. The local council compromised on two...)

In our school we backed books with brown paper (The arty types used other sorts of paper) when the book was issued at the beginning of the year, because if it was returned in a significantly worse state then house points were deducted. A well wrapped book was proof of good intent. Thr return day was like the intro sequence of "Branded" (remember that?) as the teacher inspected the book, passed or failed it and then ceremonially removed the backing, ready for next years victim...

I shouldn't be in too much of a hurry. As you might comment on a poor ebay "win", they're not as described at the present... As for Wartime Black, its good for not showing the dirt!