eastwestdivide

Thanks folks, the sillier it gets here, the more likely I'll get back to what I should be doing.

Eureka

.....and so do you after that horse encounter.

Now then Cap'n, do not refer to our glorious leader in such a way.

A cup of green tea.

I had a small party coming up, so I went to buy one of those balloons printed with "your message here". The shopkeeper told me it was £5 for the balloon, £10 for printing and £99 if I wanted it blown up with helium. I said that sounded expensive. He said "that's inflation for you".

Telephone conferences are fun. There are lots of opportunities for talking at cross porpoises.

Yes, I can imagine the porpoises wouldn't be happy.

I once had a manager who would draw a diagram while on a phone conference and try to describe it over the phone to the others

#you're not the boss of me now!#

BRS

Maybe

In our house it's either the wife or the daughter.

Trumped.

Windy times!

If they go off; they spell awful! :-)

Ta Grafarman. If I can't get to Meadowhell, they'll do. And Debs, what's that joke about alphabetti spaghetti - that could spell disaster.

Do the P4 ones stay on but the OO ones fall off?

Yorks is too big to be one place, I'm nearly as near to Worcester as the northern wastes of the county

Q: what do you call a Lancastrian in Yokshur ? ........ A: A humanitarian aid worker ;-)

why is it made from cork - to insulate from the sound of all the other buzzwords

I suspect a lot of job applicants are even more fed up of having to include all these buzzwords, in the forlorn hope that HR might even allow their application forms to be seen by anyone involved in recruiting. Some hope!

I detest all these meaningless HR/recruitment buzzwords - all that matters is can you do the job and will you fit in with your colleagues. I would not recruit someone who listed their "core competences" as such

(in reply to beast66606) Think the view is the other way round - it stopped on the viaduct at 1055ish (slightly late), then headed off to the station

Excellent, thanks for the link!

This morning, Glenfinnan is dry but windy and overcast.

At present the camera is doing slow pans across the landscape.

And by the morning of the 28th, the railcam had failed completely.  It must have been all that wind and rain...

Thank you for that. It saved my sanity in an unnecessarily tedious conference call.

Online jigsaws: the perfect antidote to Zoom.

29.05 mins to complete it. Not done a jigsaw for donkey's years! My Nan used to love them.

I've just completed a (real) jigsaw of "On Early Shift" - the Cuneo painting.

Gosh, isn't it a pity poly ticks is banned here.

Can you categorically rule out 'no decision' ?

Put it on the back burner and decide to think about it later.

tm: Like the map.

TH: Yes, we had that pun too!

Several vineyards in God's Own County

Looks like it's time to book a ticket home....

Hmm, lots of French letters there.

Ca va?

La guerre, yes, Sir.

What goes black & white, black & white, black & white, black & white?

Three nuns rolling down a hill after a penguin.

But pointy at one end?????

Yes, pointy at one end, the beak. Real penguins. The slides have now moved on to men in beards eating in tents in 1962

Scratchbuild some sausages.

Spend time on here?

pub

Our local van never stops, yes he was in the street in the snow last week!

I missed an R, yes. Brain-freeze from Mister Whippy

Heading an ice-cream van not recommended

Does Boris appear if you say that three times?

Are you daring enough to try?

That, That, That

SouthWestTrains: quattrocentoquarantaquattro

Can Gerald have his toothbrush back now, please?

Has he apologised yet?

Just right for that new bike then?

What HMRC giveth, HMRC taketh away...

If only it had been something substantial. It was from 2007-08, so I might ask for interest...

If you don't wash it, you get even more chemicals onto your plates?

Theres a woman who eats sponges in todays paper.Weird.

My local free-paper has a story of "driver injured, pulling out suddenly to avoid a child"......

......maybe he fell out of bed! :-)

Went by near to me yesterday, couldn't see it unfortunately but I hear it was mobbed.

They must be really, really fit riding those hills at that pace, in this weather.

I didn't enjoy being virtually imprisoned in my own home because of the road closures.

On the shelf next to the long weight.

Near the Round Tuit

Its good stuff. https://www.therange.co.uk/cooking-and-household/household/cleaning/cleaning-products/multi-purpose-cleaners/elbow-grease-all-purp-degreaser-500ml

Spring fever!

Same here, first five days in January, me, the wife, a Grandson.!!

We've got three - and I have a new niece in Australia to make it four.

Just waiting for mine to kick in. I've benchmarked current performance, and I'm looking forward to more POWERRRR!!!

I'd be happy if they kept the string damp - supposedly something good is arriving first quarter next year, but I have a feeling it will be a Utah Saints sample of a Kate Bush track rather than faster BB

BT deserve a lot of the flack they get, we are just between Birmingham and Coventry and while with BT the internet would drop out for days at a tim, ring support to let them know etc chocolate teapots they were!

RST is 1 hour behind booked time

it is occasionaly before GMT however

From Easter it will be about 9 months behind Reading time... :-(