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For anyone living in the Lands of the Northern Haggis, I had some delivered yesterday. They are to replace the roof on my wooden shed and are currently in the garage - excellent value & speedy delivery, from a firm in Buckie called Planwell. Very impressed with their assistance and service and highly recommended. I have reached the stage in my life where bu99ering about in rain, hail and high wind on top of a shed where the felt has come adrift, is not something I want to do ever again!

Jock, Ed - thanks for mentioning this - I have placed an order, being fed up with bu99ering about trying to do it with one of those useless hand-pushed wire brushes!

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners: 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. 2 Ignoranus : A person who's both stupid and an . 3. Intaxicaton : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. 4. Reintarnation : Coming back to life as a hillbilly. 5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future. 6. Foreploy : Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.. 7. Giraffiti : Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. 8. Sarchasm : The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. 9. Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 10. Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.) 11. Karmageddon : It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer. 12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. f13. Glibido : All talk and no action. 14. Dopeler Effect : The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. 16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. 17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating. The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are: 1. Coffee , n. The person upon whom one coughs. 2. Flabbergasted , adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained. 3. Abdicate , v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. 4. Esplanade , v. To attempt an explanation while drunk. 5. Willy-nilly , adj. Impotent. 6. Negligent , adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown. 7. Lymph , v. To walk with a lisp. 8. Gargoyle , n. Olive-flavored mouthwash. 9. Flatulence , n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller. 10. Balderdash , n. A rapidly receding hairline. 11. Testicle , n. A humorous question on an exam. 12. Rectitude , n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists. 13. Pokemon , n. A Rastafarian proctologist. 14. Oyster , n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms. 15. Frisbeetarianism , n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there. 16. Circumvent , n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

Does all this mean that I am the only Pangolin on here?

Possibly a "Sell it on Ebay - deliver it at Railex!" rather than using Post - mind there again , if sold it might be a lot cheaper to post internally in UK after bringing across.

My mate uses the tagline on his emails "I brake for pies!"

A nice, relaxing stroll in the woods. DO NOT have a cup of coffee in your hand while watching this video ... It's very short. click here http://safeshare.tv/w/KkkEFRtyiS

There is a possible answer to your problem, here eBay item number: 251349529033 - And if you think that one you quoted is excessive, take a look at some of the prices charged for shipping various railroad-connected items from USA, and then sit and cry quietly in a corner - I'm still trying to finds an HO CSX 50' boxcar at a sensible price with postage!

I have an old Nikon Coolpix 3200 (now replaced by a Canon Ixus 170) that I picked up refurbished cheaply - If all you want is something that does "happy-snappy" and takes good close-ups I'd certainly recommend it. What I will say is make sure that anything you get has GOOD GLASS! ie don't get anything with a cheap plastic lens. Runs on two AA cells, has a 1 GB SD card in it and I always put the card into a card reader to transfer pics to the 'puter For taking close-ups in indifferent light it has a piece of translucent plastic strapping sellotaped across the flash to diffuse it a bit

You realise that because you did that, yesterday was the day they decided they were wasting their time, and went and found a suitable site elsewhere? - now you will put up with raindrops echoing down the flue every time there is a shower, just like we do!

I'd have thought it was more likely to be calling you!

A slot in the underside

So today I bought a camera (actually I bought it on April 1st, but it arrived today!) 17 days from China can't be bad. It is called a Y2000 and appears to work very well, especially for the princely sum of £6.75 with free postage! - the intention is to mount it on a wagon and use it to photo a layout (mine or someone elses), when I have the new one up and running. Ebay at its best. Mine is HD and appears to be 1280 x720 eBay item number: 171291531302 For anyone who is interested here is a review of its brother (The Y3000) which seems to be no different(except in the quoted price - you will need to buy a Class 10 microSD card - I got a 32mb one for around a tenner on ebay. Note that there is no CD, but it fired up a soon as it was charged - about an hour)

This can only be described by the words "Museum Quality"! Your making of plant-life really is taking things to a whole new level

Hate to say it, but your first bit may well be the best - unless it is a reasonably simple/cheap/inexpensive option to fit a replacement motor - and that will depend on the make and model.

Another year younger, and looking better than ever!

My thought exactly!

Hours after Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, the Secret Service found themselves in a bind. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was to give his Day of Infamy speech to Congress on Tuesday, and although the trip from the White House to Capitol Hill was short, agents weren't sure how to transport him safely. At the time, Federal Law prohibited buying any cars that cost more than $750, so they would have to get clearance from Congress to do that, and nobody had time for that. One of the Secret Service members, however, discovered that the US Treasury had seized the bulletproof car that mobster Al Capone owned when he was sent to jail in 1931. They cleaned it, made sure it was running perfectly and had it ready for the President the next day. Al Capone's 1928 Cadillac V-8 "Al Capone" Town Sedan Became the President's Limo December 1941 Mechanics are said to have cleaned and checked each feature of the Caddy well into the night of December 7th, to make sure that it would run properly the next day for the Commander in Chief. And run properly it did. It had been painted black and green to look identical to Chicago’s police cars at the time. To top it off, the gangster’s 1928 Cadillac Town Sedan had 3,000 pounds of armor and inch-thick bulletproof windows. It also had a specially installed siren and flashing lights hidden behind the grille, along with a police scanner radio. “Previous Owner…” Footnote: The car was sold at auction in 2012 for $341,000.

Don't mention the Imp or its relative, the Singer Chamois! Bought and sold at an auction in Leicester. THE most Gawd-awful rotbox I have ever owned - the whole ar$e end of mine was eventually composed of rubberised horsehair and multiple tins of Isopon - The tappets were impossible to keep in adjustment, the head gaskets had to be replaced at 1000 mile intervals, it used more water than petrol, and I can honestly say that it was the one car I was MOST pleased to get shot of! - I think I put up suffered with it for around 4 months!

I think somebody is trying to make a profit on his postal charges!

Idle Thoughts Of A Retiree's Wandering Mind: I think I had amnesia once --- maybe twice. ******************** I went to San Francisco . I found someone's heart. Now what? ******************** Protons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic. ******************** All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. ******************** What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free? ******************** They told me I was gullible and I believed them. ******************** Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto the freeway. ******************** Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone. ******************** One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people. ******************** My weight is perfect for my height--which varies. ******************** I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. ******************** How can there be self-help "groups"? ******************** If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales? ******************** Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants off. ******************** Is it me, or do buffalo wings taste like chicken? ********************

Andy - raising their sights higher, reduces the chances of the foot getting hit! Perhaps it needs explaining to them! Glad to hear or the lassie's improvement!

Mr Sparrowhawk has just visited - spent 5 minutes sitting on top of the bird-table in the classic "posing- for-my-portrait, three-quarter front view" pose, having a really good peer about - and departed to find lunch elsewhere! Spadgers, dunnocks, tits and blackbirds are all hiding away quietly. Weather is why it is called that - it doesn't know weather to rain, shower, shine or blow - currently clouding over again, and a chucking philly wind out of the north! EDIT - Barely had I posted that than we are having a really viscious hail-storm!

Had a visit this morning from a very pretty little female cat - most unusual colouring of black with a silver grey undercoat - it changes colour as she moves - very friendly, unlike most around here who run when they see a human being.- quite happy to be stroked, and her fur is so soft it is like silk

Could be that there'll be a hot time in the old town tonight (for somebody!!!!)