WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Gloria]

Oh wow how coincidental is that Wendy?

[Stanley]

Nice one Wendy and well-spotted! I'll bet that made your day.....

[Wendyf]

It did Stanley, there is another older photo of the same area, which I posted on here a few years ago, showing what must be our previous car, a Ford Prefecf!

[Tizer]

Miracles do happen. One of my Blackburn pals many years ago heard that one of the old green & cream double-decker buses was going to make it's last trip into town so he rushed out and caught it, went upstairs and grabbed a front seat. Years later he found that a photo had been taken of the front of the bus by the local newspaper's reporter as it set off and published in the paper - and there he was in prime position!

[Stanley]

That happened to me when I accidentally became an extra in the BBC programme of Fred Dibnah dropping Moss Mill chimney.
When Paul and I bought his bird cage in Dordrecht, the lady who ran the shop recognised me just from one viewing of the film......

[Tizer]

`Trump wrongly claims China doesn’t use wind power' LINK

[Stanley]

They say he was never a reader..... It shows when he speaks on anything without careful briefing....
What attracted my attention today was when Susan accidentally got one of my Stuart No. 9 engines caught up in her cardigan and dragged it off the worktop on to the floor..... I was quite surprised by how serious the damage was. Caused by the fact they are so heavy. Basically it needs a rebuild but what I did was identify the fact that the main damage was a bent crankshaft, I hit it with a hide hammer in the right place and got it to turn over again.
I told Susan we'd leave it like that because it tells a story of what can happen to them.
I admit I was not best pleased but made sure that Susan knew she was forgiven!

[Stanley]

The cold snap! A wind chill of -7C is expected. This is COLD!

[Stanley]

-8C this morning. Thank God for the gas boiler!!

[Whyperion]

big quote mark appearing, any idea why , and no end quote mark

when using the HTML quote command in its square brackets

[Stanley]

Relatively warmer this morning. The current cold blast could be retreating......

[PanBiker]

big quote mark appearing, any idea why , and no end quote mark

when using the HTML quote command in its square brackets

That is a feature of the quote function on the site and has always been so, it's not a fault so no need to vex or loose sleep over it.

[Whyperion]

big quote mark appearing, any idea why , and no end quote mark

when using the HTML quote command in its square brackets

That is a feature of the quote function on the site and has always been so, it's not a fault so no need to vex or loose sleep over it.

Just never noticed it before, I think as the feature adds user name of the quotee normally and thus not attached directly to the quote text, when I use it to reference (badly) something from elsewhere I guess it becomes more noticable = changing the background color rather than using quote marks that some other forums use is interesting too

[Whyperion]

Only a month to survive to the Winter Solstice

[Tizer]

Big bold quote marks....I'd never noticed them before. I went back to look at posts in 2012 and they're the same there. Must be a case of them `hiding in plain' sight!