BokStein

The Boxer Simon & Garfunkel

It's perhaps ironic that fireworks are used to celebrate an event designed to 'go with a bang' and assassinate the King (not the First Lord of the Admiralty!) but which ended more as a damp squib with the conspirators being hung, drawn and quartered. IIRC, Blue Plaques abound in the village of Dunchurch near Rugby in commemoration of the hatching of the Plot therein. It's November 5th; let there be fireworks! (But, as you rightly state, Polly, only on the 5th for private displays.)

Evening! Now on the third round of fireworks since 6 O'Clock. Although the boiler will, hopefully, still be defurred.

Good Evening. Although I suspect you were being flippant about your cat's name, it reminded me of the phrase "Cats hate meeces to peeces"! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie_and_Dixie_and_Mr._Jinks) I'm told goldfish and chip (note singular chip!) can be tasty!

Pushing the boat pout: A luxury four course meal!!

Good Moaning! Sounds blustery outside so will probably spend most of the day reducing the content on the Freesat box's hard disk!. Sounds interesting but, no doubt, you will post photos to enlighten us all! Here's what's on my menu:

Morning awl! Haven't looked outside yet or made any 'firm' plans for oday so let's see what happens! Resigned to the situation at last! Eau de toilitte is not involved here! Question: is Eau de Cologne taken from the Rhine?

customerservices@gaugemaster.com often works!

Good Morning! (apparently!) So far, no plans for today, but we'll see what arises. Meantime: from

But after the preparation, there shouldn't be any of said s@@t left!

Good to have you back, Dave! Were you able to watch the screen during the procedure? When I had a Sigmoidoscopy, the thought never occurred to me but when I had the full colonoscopy, I glanced at the screen and, as an Engineer, decided that this looked like an interesting piece of plumbing! The claw used to extract samples was also of interest! I even asked the practitioner how the probe worked so, when extracted, he demonstrated its manoeuvrability; fascinating!

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) - ABBA

You could always revert to porridge! (Stir it well!)

My usual habit has been to travel out on day Swiss Pass - 1 and to travel back on day Swiss Pass + 1 thus spending the full 15 days of the Swiss Pass validity in Switzerland. OK, it costs me a single to and from the Swiss border and the hotel, but hey! (If it were possible to get from the final hotel to the border by 05:00, the Swiss Pass would cover the fare!)

No! The retailers I deal with will take a card number at the time of placing the order but WILL NOT take any payment until the item is despatched, regardless of whether it is a pre-order or simply out of stock.

But you should only take payment on despatch and not at time of order being placed! No refunds necessary.

Sanity has prevailed! As you say, 10 days quarantine on arrival in Switzerland for a 14 day tour with a 15 day Swiss Pass (3 days of which are taken up with travel to and from Switzerland so the 15 day pass is only usable for 11 days!) then 14 days quarantine in the UK is extremely nonviable! Having often been on this tour with you, I resigned myself a long while back by declaring myself available to work on 24th and 26th December with the option of attending to telephone calls on 25th December and 1st January! FYI, InnoTrans in 2021has already been cancelled so we'll just have to sit tight and see how this pandemic pans out. Further frustration may be encountered but it has to be respectfully tolerated.

What difference does this make, having a so-called real time stock system? If the item's not in stock at the time of ordering, put it on a back order so that when it comes into stock it is sent out and the payment taken.

Morning awl! Haven't looked outside yet and don't really feel like venturing out either as provisions are adequate. It seems that two responses have missed my original point: I was not suggesting that you go back and jump in the docks again, more that could your wetsuit be better protection against the (heavy) rain? Well, at least my remark wasn't entirely wasted! Here, I was observing that, regardless of the amount of the transaction or the number of times a contactless payment had occurred, the 'mechanics' of the process differ; in the UK, the machine issues a 'payment declined' receipt and invites you to insert your card and repeat the transaction. In Switzerland, it just asks for you to enter your PIN!

With too little time to read real posts, dropping into logs is out of the question!

Do they show the item as in stock? If not, then just be patient!

So why don't I have to do that in Switzerland whereas in the UK I have to? It ain't a common playing field! Oh, and by the way, I can pay contactless in Switzerland for in excess of £100.00 equivalent and all I have to do is confirm my PIN; no insertion of the card in required!

Good (?) Evening! Another weekend looms, one in which we give back the hour we gained back in March! My delivery, yesterday, of Purple Moose product is hitting the spot so it could be a good weekend! In other news: Was it you who, I recall, used to swim in the docks? It's raining, OK, I'll wear my wet suit? Merde? I rue the loss of Eurocheques! However, now adequately (unless you want to pay a foreign friend for getting you something. A Dutch colleague once bought and sent me a CD; I paid him with a Eurocheque!) replaced by bits of plastic in varying designs. Point of interest: if, in the UK, we use contactless payment and the transaction is not approved, why do we have to insert the card into the reader and start again? My experience in Switzerland is that the machine just asks you to enter your PIN and the original transaction stands; no 'transaction declined' receipts are needed.

StreetBand sum it up well! Any web links or photos of device, please? Sounds interesting!

I toast the 'raw' bread under an electric grill element; couple of minutes on both sides serves well. As there is no such thing as a peanut, this is not on the menu (it is a legume and NOT a nut!), but Marmite, marmalade and other toppings are applied after a copious amount of salted butter has been allowed to soak into the toast.