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2 hours ago, PaulRhB said:


“In that condition? Yes” 😆

 

Brilliant show and it was nearly 20 years ago it finished?!? Where’s that time gone????? 💥

 

the day they finished on radio 1 was the last time i consciously tuned in, got the final show on mp3 and the shirehorses and fatty harry white albums on CD 

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On 03/12/2022 at 22:24, Hroth said:

 

I'm sure that HG Wells would be well aware that the "powerful engine" would pull the train rather than push it. And "verdant forests"? 

 

B for effort, C- for detail!

 

Unless he was predicting the HST* and have a loco pulling and another one pushing!

 

*Modify for the Glasgow-Edinburgh push-pulls and other types of multiple units, including Class 33s and TC sets, where they would either push or pull, but not usually both!

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2 hours ago, kevinlms said:

Unless he was predicting the HST* and have a loco pulling and another one pushing!

 

*Modify for the Glasgow-Edinburgh push-pulls and other types of multiple units, including Class 33s and TC sets, where they would either push or pull, but not usually both!

 

There wasn't a mention of the HST in either The Time Machine or Things to Come...  The most that Herbert might have imagined would have been Deltics!

 

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Tonight I went to the supermarket and it appears that I've missed about 4 weeks and Christmas.

 

The supermarkets own internal radio was playing

 

 

 

 

Auld Lang Syne!

 

Unbelievable.

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16 minutes ago, kevinlms said:

Tonight I went to the supermarket and it appears that I've missed about 4 weeks and Christmas.

 

The supermarkets own internal radio was playing

 

 

 

 

Auld Lang Syne!

 

Unbelievable.

 

Just about 48 weeks late...

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4 hours ago, kevinlms said:

Tonight I went to the supermarket and it appears that I've missed about 4 weeks and Christmas.

 

The supermarkets own internal radio was playing

 

 

 

 

Auld Lang Syne!

 

Unbelievable.

On the shelves next week there will be Easter Eggs. 

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23 minutes ago, CameronL said:

On the shelves next week there will be Easter Eggs. 

 

Its usually the 27th December that the Easter Eggs will start getting laid.

 

As it were.

So to speak...

 

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5 hours ago, stewartingram said:

Not seen Easter eggs, but Hot Cross buns appeared a few weeks back.

 

Hot x are a permanent feature of our local Aldi, and very good they are, too.  I'm a big fan of them, cold with plenty of butter, jam, and clotted cream....

6 hours ago, 6990WitherslackHall said:

After Christmas, it'll fly by and it'll be Christmas again before you know it! 

 

Christmas, again???  We had one only last year!

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2 hours ago, The Johnster said:

 

Hot x are a permanent feature of our local Aldi, and very good they are, too.  I'm a big fan of them, cold with plenty of butter, jam, and clotted cream....

 

Christmas, again???  We had one only last year!


plus there was a New Year and your birthday…

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1 hour ago, Steamport Southport said:

 

As are mince pies in a few retailers.

 

 

 

 

Aldi Mince Pies usually start with a "Use By" date of 30th November, for early Xmas celebrations, I suppose.  I hold off buying mince pies until the "Use By" is comfortably into the New Year.  They are currently running at 27th December or so.

 

I'll probably buy a few boxes towards the end of next week...

 

 

 

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30 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

 

Aldi Mince Pies usually start with a "Use By" date of 30th November, for early Xmas celebrations, I suppose.  I hold off buying mince pies until the "Use By" is comfortably into the New Year.  They are currently running at 27th December or so.

 

I'll probably buy a few boxes towards the end of next week...

 

 

 

Why would mince pies need a "Use By"? There's nothing in them that would go bad, surely? - they'd just go stale if left too long I'd have thought... The jar of mincemeat I've got in the cupboard just has a "Best Before"...

 

(It might seem a bit pedantic, but it can make a huge difference to reducing food waste, when sell by/best before/use by are applied and used properly...)

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There were some right howlers on BBC red button text this morning:

 

Due to the fire in Wolverhampton: "Trains are not stopping at intermittent stations"

You mean the stations are not always there?

 

Harry and Megan: "There has been a furious flashback over their Netfix series"

Everybody keeps hoping for them to go back to how they were, before they wanted 'privacy' and are all over the telly

 

Government's Housing Bill " They will not meet their housing gaols"!

Houses so bad they seem like prisons?

 

Those are just the most obvious.

They must employ people who missed their English lessons at school.

 

 

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2 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

 

Aldi Mince Pies usually start with a "Use By" date of 30th November, for early Xmas celebrations, I suppose.  I hold off buying mince pies until the "Use By" is comfortably into the New Year.  They are currently running at 27th December or so.

 

I'll probably buy a few boxes towards the end of next week...

 

 

 

 

I thought the whold point of mince pies was that they last a long time, which is why you can make them 6 months before xmas and bring them out during the festivities, like xmas cake, which my mum used to make in August or September with fresh frui and put away in the pantry with a cloth over it.  The amount of alcohol no doubt assisted with it's preservation, and it was a definite fire hazard...

 

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52 minutes ago, John Besley said:

That reminds me it's about time to put the Brussels sprouts on now to boil...

 

You're late.

 

Sprout Day was the 1st November.  If you start now, they'll be too hard!

 

Though I suppose you could use a pressure cooker....

 

 

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22 minutes ago, stewartingram said:

you wouldn't get met in Aldi (or Lidl) even if you paid me. I prefer quality.

Why don't you get real instead of showing pig-headed ignorance.

Much of what Aldi sells has been found to be as good as and sometimes better than other retailers.

Yes they do sell cheap tat as well. but that's not all they sell.

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