Adam88

I'd send it back. It looks like there aren't enough lifeboats.

Remembering this post and, as I was in the area over Christmas, I was told that the dairy has been up for sale for a while. Apparently there haven't been any takers so production is stopping/has stopped and that the remaining stock will probably all be gone by the end of spring.

I bet you're glad the Great Northern didn't paint their goods wagons in fully lined locomotive livery. It would be rather splendid though.

Of course, however sincerely the best wishes for the new year were meant, it did not turn out at all well being the last year of peaceful and civilised life for much of Europe. An exception to that being in the Balkans where hostilities had already begun.

I too was sorry to read here of Chris Foren’s death. I never knowingly met him but I felt that I knew him slightly from his various contributions to ER and once during lock-down when he encouraged us all to listen to a talk he had prepared on diesel railcars. I suspect he might have been a champion harrumpher who could hold his own with the very best and that a parallel world exists where things are done properly, people do not suffer the ravages of time and harrumphing is not needed. Perhaps that is where he is now.

That sounds like a joke is just about to be inflicted on polite society.

I've often wondered about the recoil on this Norwegian piece.

In a sense made up. It's from Gulliver's Travels and refers to Lilliputians eating boiled eggs little end first or big end first.

My parents' house was Edwardian leasehold and when the 99 years were up he was offered first refusal to buy the freehold. That was an easy choice to make as we could imagine that some unscrupulous soul would have have come in and jacked up the lease or started trading it to speculators. When the time came it also made it that much easier to sell. It was a very well built, elegant house and I think my parents chose it partly because they had both seen so much shoddy Gerry building in the inter-war years. It would cost a king's ransome to keep warm in 2022 though.

Here's another take

One from Aunty today: 'Miraculous' Birmingham double-decker bus restoration team pick up award

pas d'argent pas de suisse

The famous Alan Whicker interview from 1965 is still out there on YouTube, I didn't hear anything about the reason for the naming of Cat's Eyes but the story of driving home from the pub on a foggy night is told. It was interesting to turn on auto captions (press 'C'), by and large it couldn't cope with Shaw's Yorkshire accent and idioms, Whicker's RP caused fewer problems but still caused problems. There's a shade of Python's four Yorkshiremen when he reminisces about going to London on a golden sovereign and getting accommodation for a shilling. It's also interesting to see Percy's healthy diet and life style.

It doesn't look very clean to me...

Speaking of ordnance and Ordnance Survey in particular did anyone else see this? https://www.grough.co.uk/magazine/2022/11/02/bearing-up-unique-event-for-britain-as-three-norths-align

Once when working in the US my host provided burritos for breakfast. I explained this greasy delicacy to my father who asked whether it was donkey He was a well read man but I had to look it up.

Many congratulations Jamie. It is said that the days of our years are three score and ten, so it's all profit from now onwards.

Brumas?

Anything glacial will definitely need to be well insulated...

NFN

http://olfacutters.co.uk/Olfa-Arts-and-Crafts-Cutters-Olfa-CMP-1-CMP-2-CMP-3-HOK-1-TK-3M-MC-45-MC-45-DX-TK-4-Olfacutter/Olfa-MC-45-2b-Mat-Cutter-MCB-45-DX-MCB I use an Olfa mat cutter to cut bevelled picture frame mounts. The blade is double-sided so it cuts into the corners both ways. It's also useful for chamfering cork sheet for track laying.

Whether or not you need to use Venn diagrams depends on which circles you move in.

I'm pretty sure that they're still distinct organisations.

Additionally, in a class all of its own is Stroudleyism.

I was out one evening recently and i met a chap with a large, friendly-looking, stout, leg-at-each-corner type of dog whose breed I did not recognise. I asked him what it was and he said: "Labrador-Refrigerator cross".