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Probably stems from the old phrase "rules are there to be broken"!

One trouble post lockdown 2 - it'll all end in tiers. Hat, coat, groan button ...

Good (belated) evening! An interesting mix of posts. However, I find myself unnervingly coming out in sympathy with my fellow seasonal traveller, ChrisF when I consider this post: I agree, in general, with the thoughts expressed above concerning the restricted travel arrangements and the potential problems in the UK as a result. However, I have grown used to spending the period in a country which has a different take on the time of year and often runs more services on public transport on 25th, 26th December and 1st January rather than none! (Some services are listed in the timetable as 25 December ONLY!)

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zep

Venison or fillet steak: Remove from freezer, grill until outside is a decent shade of cooked, by which time the middle will have thawed. Consume!

Barnham today:

Some great photos, Jamie! The Barnham signal box now rests in the grounds of Aldingbourne Community Centre as the home of Bognor Regis Model Railway Club! Your photo predates my time in Barnham! Looks like signal BH117 (in the photo, the disc between the tracks) has now been replaced with a colour light signal on Platform 3. Littlehampton station doesn't seem to have changed much since your photos; semaphore signals are still in use. BTW, your caption "Followed by Bognor Regis, but no visit to Squires." shows Littlehampton station!

Are you a pyromaniac? Solenoid point motors require need momentary contact! SPDT is totally unsuitable.

Evening, Opticians optisced, provisions provised. Finances probed to see establish how I will pay for new spectacles. Provisions being consumed. In other matters: At this point, I would usually quote an obituary to Common Sense. If it looks and smells OK and isn't moving, use it! I've recently consumed a jar of marmalade with an expiry date in 2007. Heck, jams are a method of preserving food, as are cheeses, pickles and other processes such as tinning, salting and corning, for example. (Cheeses like Stilton are purchased mouldy and improve with age.) Why does bottled water have a use by date?it's already been around for millennia! IIRC, the 'use by'' date emanated from a certain supermarket (JS?) which wanted to ensure stock rotation. The lack of application of Common Sense against the 'use by' or 'best before' police is the cause of so much wasted but edible and safe food being dumped. Case in point, you buy a banana or a carrot as a loose item, where's the date stamp? You are forced to use your Common Sense! In short, @The White Rabbit, use the dates as a guide but don't be ruled by them!

First rule in operating ANY machinery = Where's the STOP button? Second rule = where's the warning device (horn, whistle, etc.)? Third rule = how to start this thing! I must confess to liking the Police approach to taking a car on patrol - familiarise yourself with the controls and indicator panel before starting!

Continuing: Love Machine - The Miracles

Vacuum still holding and been in the freezer all the time; I would certainly thaw them out then unwrap to see how they look, then cook them thoroughly, as you do with porcine product usually. If they look and taste OK, probably won't do any more than give you the nutrition you would normally derive from the 'fresh' ones. It's all down to how they're stored.

Good evening. Wind up - the loco looks more live steam than clockwork!

Agreed! During my apprenticeship, it was instilled firmly that the earth wire is longer than the live and neutral so that 'it pulls out last'! The same applies to the pins of the plug; the earth pin should always be in contact with the contactors in the socket and it should be the last to disconnect!

Good Evening! The Boomtown Rats were right! I don't like Mondays! It'll be interesting to see how many incoming calls we took! It was suffering from over use but, hopefully, is recuperating somewhere for its reappearance!!

Greetings! Feel as though I must try and achieve something today; don't know what, though. The irony of a "contact sport" in times of social distancing!

Morning awl, Just passing through before further eyelid inspection. Me being me, I feel that there is still some long-term uncertainty in the final quantity of chickens which might actually hatch! A certain street in Petersfield has, at its entrance, enough width for two cars; the leftmost (in permitted direction of travel) comprises several parking bays. Further along said street, one finds access to two car parks, both faced with clear signs suggesting that, on exit, turn THIS way. I can recall two occasions when (presumably non local) cockwombles have demonstrated their inability to understand traffic signs. In the first, errant cw comes face-to-face with a double decker bus in the narrow section with the parking bays; guess who stands their ground. The second is even better as the obstructing vehicle to the progress of the cw has an interesting array of blue and red lights on its roof rack and some word, IIRC, beginning with the letter 'P' adorning various of its surfaces. The observer from said, ostensibly white, vehicle dons his regulation headgear and strolls to the errant cw to 'have a word'! (I suspect along the lines of: "what part of 'One Way Street' do you not understand?")

Good evening! Mine does when I wish and there's only one of me! Used to be Alt 248 in DOS but you could try o with superscript formatting.

Thank You for the Music - ABBA

Given it's gone midnight, Good Morning all, sleep well (in the UK current time zone. Other time zones are available!)

Good Evening, There seems to be a bit of a lacklustre engagement with this 'putdown' compared to the lock down back in March. Only time will tell! Cute; I got me one of those too! I have two keyboards for my computer at work and also for my computers at home; in each location, one is QWERTY, the other is AZERTY. Can't understand why I have most of our French accounts in my portfolio. Are you sure about this? Do you have evidence of His knowledge?

Most TV suppliers of good repute will relieve you of the old set at time of delivery of the new and dispose of it for you.

Do I detect a slight oxymoron in the use of the emboldened words above? Why do I see a proposal being put to congress, or whatever the jurisdiction is known as, to remove the maximum term of 2 sentences sessions of occupancy of the post of president? But with his Teflon shoulders...

4' 6" is still broad gauge in 00 scale (16.5mm @ 1:76 = 4' 1.4") All cards, seasonal or birthday, are just put in a pile out of the way! The C........ day and my birthday are nothing special so treated as ordinary days chez moi!