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I noted yesterday that he said that the suspects who had been captured were 'fleeing towards Ukraine'. Zelensky pointed out that trying to flee to the east and Ukraine would be suicidal because of all the military and police. They'd never make it out of Russia. Perhaps they did immediately go west;...

Russia keeps on being attacked by Islamic State and other terrorist groups but Putin now simply blames Ukraine.

For holding sand to throw over incendiary bombs?

Seeing the BBC's report this afternoon on the latest UN negotiations over the Israel-Gaza war I find myself for once agreeing with Russia. This from the BBC's live feed.... Russia's ambassador to the Security Council Vasily Nebenzya made Moscow's opposition to the US draft resolution clear even befo...

Stanley it will help readers if you put in a line space between stories when you have more than one in a post. Thanks.

That reminds me of the double garage my dad built with his brother when I was a kid. No telegraph poles but all scavenged timbers - there was a lot of it about in those days after the war. Later he got a space nearer to our house, took down an old single garage and rebuilt it on that bit of land.

Today's Daily Star front page headline... `World goes mad after woman goes shopping' -------------------------------------------- From The Times Diary on Saturday... Charles Banner has just become Lord Banner of Barnt Green, the name of a village near where he grew up. The family home is also near t...

We had a Hummingbird Hawk Moth on our rosemary and pulmonaria flowers yesterday. Never seen one so early in the year before in Britain. Big and beautiful! Have a look at the video in this article: LINK

Were those cottages for handloom weavers? They've got the big windows. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I suppose it's not surprising now that many of their staff never come into the office... `HMRC will close tax helpline for half th...

I'm so cheesed off with both the current political world and the business world that I'm now wishing a government would come along and simply nationalise everything!

I think that began when smartphones became popular and the general attitude among those doing the layout was that users couldn't cope with long paragraphs!

An erratic, a boulder carried by a glacier during the ice ages and now far from its former home. In the UK they usually get carried from the north to south and wet to east. Often seen on beaches on our east coast but can be found anywhere. There's one sitting on a rock shelf at Porthleven on the sou...

A newspaper's headline this morning tells us `Top secret UK military system still managed by Fujitsu'. And it's 2 years since the contract ended. LINK

The BBC News writers seem to have run out of commas. This is from a news article this morning and leaves the reader to make his/her own interpretation of what it means....
Heat pumps use electricity rather than gas like boilers... LINK

Sue wrote: ↑17 Mar 2024, 10:09 Rankle, used a lot in Rochdale.

But is that because it's a Rochdale word or because Rochdale people have more to be rankled about than the rest of us, Sue?

There is a mention in another thread of the local pronunciation of Whitworth. When I worked at Boots in Darwen in the 1960s the elderly storeman pronounced my home town as `Blegburn'.

Talking of supermarkets, when staff arrived to open the front doors of their supermarket in a small town in Hampshire yesterday they were shocked to find the ground in front of the doors strewn with dead hares. One door handle had a dead barn owl impaled on it and the other had a different bird. Nob...

Hands up anyone who knew about this new thing. :smile: My hand is up.. and yours should be too! You heard it first on OG when it was launched at the end of January. :smile: LINK Probably the most controversial aspect is the last item in your gov.uk link... Will Pharmacy First have an impact on anti...

Kev, the Igor cartoon is funny but Terry Pratchett would tell you it can't be a real one of his famous Igors because they always have a lisp and would have said `Yeth, Mathter'.

The ones shown are in what used to be the drive up to a grand house in park land but is now an expensive housing estate. At the end and around the corner there is a gigantic cedar too. These trees are on a ridge and can be seen from many miles away and make it easy to pinpoint Taunton's position fro...

I feel as though I've stolen Peter's fire! That's fine, you can serve up the pics to Cathy earlier than I can. I liked the one of the fox tightrope walking on a tree branch. We've seen them on TV crossing a stream using a fallen tree as a bridge but this one looks like it climbed the tree! They're ...

We have them in Taunton, planted in the mid-1800s. Also called Wellingtonia....

A 12-year-old Palestinian boy, Rami al-Halhouli, out with his mates yesterday at a refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem made the mistake of rising to a `dare' and lighting a firework. Before the firework went off he was shot through the heart by an Israeli border police officer. At a press confer...

Yes, it's always good to have the information. In this case we're lucky because the relative concerned recently got a holiday flat in Spain. Also communication is so easy these days that he can send a copy of the image to one of his new Spanish friends for translation. This crazy modern world does h...