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- 11 Feb 2012, 06:04
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: SPEAKER'S CORNER
- Replies: 118
- Views: 63583
Re: SPEAKER'S CORNER
So you'll both be opting out and going private?
- 11 Feb 2012, 06:02
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: Today I shall be Mainly...
- Replies: 20642
- Views: 1919457
Re: Today I shall be Mainly...
Snap Sue! The after effects still linger but Doctor Green will cure them! Keeping warm, reading and being very careful when walking! I felt sorry for Pluggy yesterday, he came to sort my Flying Machine and was hampered by the fact he still needs a walking aid after his broken leg. Not the best combi...
- 11 Feb 2012, 05:58
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2041
- Views: 362089
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
We covered Jet Stream recently. Latest research suggests that sunspot activity is one of the major perturbation factors. We are going through a high activity period at the moment.
- 11 Feb 2012, 05:53
- Forum: Animals and Pets
- Topic: PET'S CORNER
- Replies: 1391
- Views: 300951
Re: PET'S CORNER
I do like the look of that dog!
- 11 Feb 2012, 05:50
- Forum: Seasons
- Topic: SPRING 2012
- Replies: 416
- Views: 172379
Re: SPRING 2012
Moh, you have brought back many memories! I used to live with a woman who loved Opium and it suited her. Lovely heavy perfume. I was once in a group at a Further Education training session at Chorley and we each had to make a statement that was completely different than the ones we had already heard...
- 11 Feb 2012, 05:41
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WE ARE WHAT WE EAT
- Replies: 1644
- Views: 289302
Re: WE ARE WHAT WE EAT
Dave, I share your doubts! I saw a report the other day that MacDonald's source 85% of their chicken and seafood from Thailand and adjacent countries and most of their beef from Argentina. Saw a film at the time of the Avian Flu scare where chickens were kept in cages above ponds where fish and praw...
- 11 Feb 2012, 05:29
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16624
- Views: 1942617
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
David, butcher is known to me and his wife confirmed the story. Definitely kosher. Whippy, funny how good rock salt did a better job for all those years! Grit in mixture give mechanical grip and only becomes useful when temperature drops below the level where the salt is working. This is far lower t...
- 11 Feb 2012, 05:10
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: Barlick War Memorial Research
- Replies: 64
- Views: 24924
Re: Barlick War Memorial Research
Ian re getting out of the loop. Janet and Harry always assumed that as the languages they were operating in were becoming obsolete, so would their marketability. Turned out they were wrong and when they went back to Oz they were soon sought out and head hunted. Never looked back!
- 11 Feb 2012, 05:05
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Happy Birthday Moh!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5686
Re: Happy Birthday Moh!
Well done Wendy for remembering. Many happy returns Moh! XXX
- 11 Feb 2012, 05:03
- Forum: General Discussions About The Site
- Topic: I lost your Avatar - Sorry
- Replies: 38
- Views: 24144
Re: I lost your Avatar - Sorry
I think he's blown them away to remind us he is working on the site and to trigger us into making donations.... You're right, they can't be reloaded at the moment, not even from personal hard drive. I tried it.
You did right to go to bed, hope it isn't too hard to find, you've got enough on!
You did right to go to bed, hope it isn't too hard to find, you've got enough on!
- 11 Feb 2012, 04:57
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: Favourate Dicken's Novel - Do you have one ?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8857
Re: Favourate Dicken's Novel - Do you have one ?
Ah, David Kossoff. One of the great old character actors.
- 11 Feb 2012, 04:55
- Forum: Feedback
- Topic: Minor glitches
- Replies: 123
- Views: 73345
Re: Minor glitches
Doc has been at work again. I suspect he had a choice between going to bed and wrestling with avatars. He did right. Mind you the facility for replacing them isn't working either. Give him time!
- 11 Feb 2012, 04:53
- Forum: Fun & Jokes
- Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
- Replies: 4888
- Views: 572994
Re: Old fashioned clean jokes
That's worse than mine Bodge......
- 11 Feb 2012, 04:50
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 599969
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Bodge, never understood pikelets. Bruff, if you're walling a nudger is a big stone.
- 11 Feb 2012, 04:47
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
- Replies: 9224
- Views: 1078972
Re: WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?
Morning Maz. I don't observe any of the 'rules'! Who made them anyway? A little of what you fancy does you good!
- 11 Feb 2012, 04:29
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: We all Love A Moan, What Annoyed You Today...
- Replies: 79
- Views: 65395
Re: We all Love A Moan, What Annoyed You Today...
Nothing. I haven't been up long enough for the world to get at me!
Correction. The fact that I couldn't replace my avatar!
Correction. The fact that I couldn't replace my avatar!
- 10 Feb 2012, 10:04
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16624
- Views: 1942617
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
A local butcher got a telephone call early yesterday morning from a lady who wanted to know if his stocks were adequate enough to supply quite a large quantity of prime cuts of meat. He listened to the list and said that he could do it and asked the delivery address. It was in London but the lady sa...
- 10 Feb 2012, 09:50
- Forum: Stanley's View
- Topic: KELBROOK PART ONE
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4824
KELBROOK PART ONE
ARTICLE 001 KELBROOK PART ONE In July 1956 (was it really 56 years ago?) the Queen decided she could do without my services guarding Berlin so she sent me home to Civvy Street. This was a life event in itself as anyone who did National Service will attest but it was made more interesting for me beca...
- 10 Feb 2012, 07:17
- Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
- Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
- Replies: 20157
- Views: 2344590
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I always had a strange reaction to the item on the minutes of a council meeting that stated that 'the motion was placed on the table'. Must be the way my mind works!
- 10 Feb 2012, 07:15
- Forum: Looking For Someone
- Topic: Joseph Bracewell/Susy Hartley/John Higgin
- Replies: 105
- Views: 50434
Re: Joseph Bracewell/Susy Hartley/John Higgin
Neither do I Eileen but almost certainly the same root.
- 10 Feb 2012, 07:13
- Forum: Animals and Pets
- Topic: PET'S CORNER
- Replies: 1391
- Views: 300951
Re: PET'S CORNER
Heather same problem with Jack and other dogs, exuberance and normal hierarchy sorting looks like a full on attack but of course isn't. I don't know of any 'cure' and don't worry, I just put up with the flak when it happens. One consolation, age takes the edge off, she will get better. As for the ma...
- 10 Feb 2012, 07:06
- Forum: Nostalgia
- Topic: HOUSEHOLD TIPS NOT FOUND IN WOMAN'S WEEKLY
- Replies: 5240
- Views: 605148
Re: HOUSEHOLD TIPS NOT FOUND IN WOMAN'S WEEKLY
Cathy, one of the big problems with nuts is that a lot of them have been in storage for months before we get them. One tip I learned many years ago was that colour film keeps fresh longer if stored in the fridge.
- 10 Feb 2012, 06:53
- Forum: Royal Air Force
- Topic: Winged Heroes
- Replies: 556
- Views: 181742
Re: Winged Heroes
I remember reading accounts of the Murmansk convoys which described gunners being frozen to death at their guns even though they were well-fed, dry and well clothed. It was immobility that killed them. Can't even imagine what it was like. My mate Bob Jacobsen told me about his electrically heated su...
- 10 Feb 2012, 06:49
- Forum: Technology & Communication
- Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
- Replies: 6676
- Views: 963115
Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
That should call the app SWAMBO! Pluggy, I need a bit of help. God knows why but in an unguarded moment I tried to install Google Earth the other day and now have at least two versions of the application that don't work and are trying to load when I go onto Firefox. I've found them but they won't le...
- 10 Feb 2012, 06:43
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 599969
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Tiz, nothing in Webster but I found this on the net: "It's normally spelt "palaver". According to the Oxford English Dictionary it derives from the Portuguese "palavra" meaning "speech" (cognate with the English word "parable")which meant "talk, parl...