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Blue Peter as sent up by the Pythons....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM Alan: Hello. Noel: Hello. Alan: Well, last week we showed you how to become a gynaecologist. And this week on 'How to do it' we're going to show you how to play the flute, how to split an atom, how to construct a box girder bridge, how to irrigate the Sahara Desert and make vast new areas of land cultivatable, but first, here's Jackie to tell you all how to rid the world of all known diseases. Jackie: Hello, Alan. Alan: Hello, Jackie. Jackie: Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvelous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again. Alan: Thanks, Jackie. Great idea. How to play the flute. (picking up a flute) Well here we are. You blow there and you move your fingers up and down here. Noel: Great, great, Alan. Well, next week we'll be showing you how black and white people can live together in peace and harmony, and Alan will be over in Moscow showing us how to reconcile the Russians and the Chinese. So, until next week, cheerio. Alan: Bye. Jackie: Bye.

Hillary Clinton decided to send a letter to Donald Trump to let him know what she thought of him. Donald opened the letter and found a coded single line. 370H55V 0773H He couldn't work it out so he called his wife and kids but they didn't have a clue. So they tried the FBI. They couldn't help, neither could the CIA or NASA. So they sent it to Britain and MI5. for help. Within minutes they E-mailed the reply, "Tell Mr.Trump he's holding the letter upside down"

Does that constitute a sting?

Not really a preservation related question, but I was watching a very interesting video on You Tube of the final years of the Great Central before closure by BR, showing film of the DMU service that ran between Nottingham Arkwright Street and Rugby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah0tHrpvz-s&t=2630s. I cannot get my head round how the DMUs gained access from the rest of the network during the last days of operation. Jim

Which one is Eric?

Pretty Maids all in a Row - The Eagles

Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd

Hilda did

Has had them for a few weeks. I took this photo of it on the very warm evening of 19th July Jim

Just sick of the Olympics - period!!

Spoiler alert, 338,226 men escaped, including 139,997 French, Polish, and Belgian troops, together with a small number of Dutch soldiers, aboard 861 vessels.

Trains from Hunterston would never have served Dalzell, Clydebridge or Clyde Iron. Dalzell and Clydebridge are rolling mills and do not require raw materials, taking semi-finished steel from other Steelworks since the 1960s, Clyde Iron was closed in the 1977. Jim

Quite correct on both counts, coal and iron ore were imported through Hunterston from March 1980, having previously been handled at General Terminus Quay and Rothesay Dock in Glasgow. The opening of the facility was delayed by industrial action. Following closure of the steelworks in 1992, all imports of iron ore ceased, but coal continued to be imported for the power generation industry although this is also now in decline, currently there are only a couple of services a week to Fiddlers Ferry. See this page for some photographs of the trains. http://web.archive.org/web/20080907031546/http://www.jhowie.f9.co.uk/mossendore.html Jim

Little Red Rooster - Rolling Stones

Certainly the old Italian coaching stock from the 1970s had direct discharge, which I and others found amusing when we were bored stiff in the rear coach of a Milan to Rome train on a school trip to Rome, dropping soft drink bottles down the hole and watching them smash into smithereens from the window in the rear corridor connection.

Anyone encountered the odd German Variety?? http://asecular.com/~scott/misc/toilet.htm I am told they are called "lay and display". I try to avoid as the smell is overpowering. Jim

Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk - Pink Floyd

But wasn't Pickles a famous dog?

All this philosophy is making my brain hurt, so let us close with the immortal.... “To be is to do”—Socrates. “To do is to be”—Jean-Paul Sartre. “Do be do be do”—Frank Sinatra (model railway enthusiast). Jim

My White Bicycle - Nazareth

Pigeons - Genesis (Edited as I originally used the "Spot the Pigeon" which was the title of the EP)

Bourbon seems to be the tipple of choice now with scotch sales in a slump http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/17/scotch-overtaken-by-jack-daniels-as-britains-most-popular-whiske/ Jim

Bus Stop - The Hollies

The only livery for a class 47 - Period!! Jim