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  1. Welchester
    You just reminded me of the schoolboy rhyme: Poor Willie's dead and gone. We'll see his face no more. For what he thought was H2O Was H2SO4.
  2. Welchester
    A splendid film. The wagons at 1m04s, however, have a distinct transatlantic appearance.
  3. Welchester
    A friend (who knew him) reminds me that today is the anniversary of the death of F.W. Hawksworth in 1976. Just thought it might be of interest.
  4. Welchester
    Nice one.
  5. Welchester
    SNCF trains drive on the left except in Alsace-Lorraine, which was German when the railways were built. Motorists in Sweden drove on the left until the 1970s when they changed sides.
  6. Welchester
    Well, you can buy horsemeat burgers in France, but I've never seen donkey.
  7. Welchester
    It only really works for lobsters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_Thermidor
  8. Welchester
    The tomb of the true King James III in, er, Rome.
  9. Welchester
    I'm not going to argue with a lawyer about lawfulness! There were those, however, who considered themselves still bound by their oath of allegiance to James II, and refused to acknowledge the new régime.
  10. Welchester
    Yes. Dogs are very resilient, aren't they? Fortunately, the vet was able to perform the extraction under local anaesthetic while we waited and we could bring her straight home. It shouldn't make life too difficult, as I gather dogs use their incisors only for prehension. It's a shame though as she's only three.
  11. Welchester
    The Midland Railway at Gloucester could put up a crediatable opposition.
  12. Welchester
    You'd be looking sorry for yourself if you'd run into a solid object and had to have all your upper incisors removed.
  13. Welchester
    Is the Alex Crowley in this clip a descendant of Aleister, the 'Great Beast'?
  14. Welchester
    Did not Cherie Blair come from Liverpool? Or was it just that her father played a 'Scouse git' in Till Death Do Us Part? It doesn't seem to have held her back?
  15. Welchester
    You're thinking of 'Jump', which I'm often tempted to sing in church.
  16. Welchester
    I forgot to say that the station in Walsingham is not Catholic but Eastern Orthodox. http://wasleys.org.uk/eleanor/churches/england/norfolk/walsingham_stseraphim/index.html
  17. Welchester
    The protesters ('Walsingham Witness') are generally held to be part of the enjoyment of the pilgrimage. Disappointingly, their website seems to have disappeared. I once saw a splendid placard which listed the consequences of idolatry in cumulative heinousness and ended, 'mass murder, international terrorism and bingo'.
  18. Welchester
    The tonic wine has its own (age protected) website: https://www.buckfast.com/
  19. Welchester
    Another remake involved a milkfloat and a hairy baby maker.
  20. Welchester
    Was that deliberate or a Freudian slip?
  21. Welchester
    The people of Aberfan were even ruder about him.
  22. Welchester
    Shortage of cash led Ridley to sell the rights to The Ghost Train, a move he later regretted, because the royalties would have saved him having to continue to work into his eighties.
  23. Welchester
    Preferred, I suspect, only because the earlier version with Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge survives only in part and mostly without sound. The surviving footage is available to watch here.
  24. Welchester
    Chase water today.
  25. Welchester
    Black. Interesting.
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