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To the Moon and Back - Savage Garden

You could try here!

Radio Ga Ga - Queen

As I understand their explanation, they do not want you full of food in case it is deemed necessary to perform an urgent procedure! IV saline drips have usually been administered!

Good morning all! With stores like Franz Carl Weber pushing Maerklin, Noch and Faller, thus influencing the younger market, it's down to the more specialised shops to go for the more diverse product. Whether they are the sole distributors in Switzerland I'm not sure, but Arwico (based in 4107 Ettingen BL, along line 10, IIRC) seems to be a major influence. Having partaken of a lot of said food in recent years, I would agree that it is not Cordon Bleu. However, the scale of the catering needs to be looked at. I have found the food both edible and nutritious on all encounters, in spite of the fact that it is prepared in a central kitchen, flash frozen before distribution to the wards and then suitably re-cooked before serving. (There is one exception to this; breakfast toast is cooked from raw in the ward's 'kitchen' area!) Outside of the set meal times, the best I could ever achieve was a sandwich. IMHO, that Tony managed a Bangers, mash and peas at such a late hour I consider a major achievement!

Quoting the original post might have framed this comment in better circumstances!

Who buys a ticket to St P or King's X to get the Eurostar? Check out the return ticket to London International CIV. This is usually valid at any time of day (no peak restrictions), covers the transfer across London and the return is valid for two months; the CIV bit - if your feed to the Eurostar is delayed, this guarantees a replacement seat on the next available service. The observant may have noticed that all Eurostar, Thalys and others have the acronym CIV printed on their tickets!

Was it not said that Fleming was a friend of Henry Blofeld's father and used the cricket commentator's family name for the cat-stroking villain?

I agree that it is a long-winded connection (and I could have taken it further), but you are correct! Fleming and Zborowski were good friends and F used to spend many hours riding Z's garden railway. Z not only built the cars but also drove them competitively at circuits like Brooklands. Dr Syn was the fictitious character invented by author Russell Thorndyke; by day, he was the meek and mild Vicar of Dymchurch but by night, he organised the smuggling runs along the coast. In this respect, Loco 10 (I believe) of the RH&DLR is named "Dr. Syn".

Maybe I am unique in that I ask questions?

From the mid 80s until tomorrow, I still feel frustration when I see colleagues going off into (their) uncharted territory when I have the map!

Ah! But why would you Count on this? It does indeed, named after the mythical Vicar of Dymchurch in his Night Job! Ian Fleming did not, AFAIK, have a villain named with any connotation of Syn. However, he did write at least one non-Bond best seller! Two clues, cue Cupid Stunt, "Hey, I'm telling you the plot", "but it's all done in the best possible taste"!

Interesting thoughts! He may have done; he had friends in the area but not what I have in mind! If there was, it is not what I have in mind. He may have been! Again, no. My link is ferrovially-based and may involve a bit of smuggling!

As we seem to be in the game for quizzes and teasers, may I throw this into the ring: How is James Bond, 007, linked to Romney Marsh in Kent?

Correct, they are combinations of different types of chemotherapy in one regimen (e.g. CHOP Cyclophosphamide, Hydroxydaunorubicin [doxorubicin], Oncovin, Prednisone for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. OK so no red, but the link to the original post remains! Silly question, but how does Prednisone differ from PrednisoLOne?

Wildest Dreams - Asia

How does this follow from Free as a Bird - some Liverpudlian beat combo

To the Moon and Back - Savage Garden

So, Mike, is Jamie92208's answer correct or ignored?

The rectangular bales have often been used in the construction of houses for insulation, I believe!

It's been a Hard Day's Night - Peter Sellers

It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls

Down Down - The Quo

Here Comes the Sun - some guys from Liverpool

ChrisF, Your poor car has my sympathy. Good to hear your car is, at last, getting some exercise! As an almost polar opposite, my poor car has been severely underworked in recent years and, for a 57 reg, with, until lockdown, less than 45000 miles on the clock, under use is probably an under statement! She has just been given her 6th full tank of petrol since then! (Much may, however, have been wasted in passing the increased number of cyclists on the road [including those who refuse to use the expensive, purpose-built cycle path beside one local main road] as quickly and as safely as conditions permit. 200 horses under the bonnet can have their uses when needed!) In short, commuting to work by train has proved a non-starter during this period with all the restrictions and my fuel bill is less than my monthly season ticket, however, I await the maintenance costs at the next service / MOT, presuming the guys I usually use for this task will almost certainly be in a state of shock!!