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Nice bit of Smocking there! Is the one with holes in his hands a repurposed Boer War stretcher bearer?

Is that a chisel, or is he just a bit of a w****r?

I've been waking early too. I put it down to it getting lighter in the morning. Even with blackout linings, enough light seems to get through to prod me into wakefullness. So its eyemask on, tell alexa to play classic fm for 30 minutes, and try to get an hour or mores sleep before the alarm goes off and the day officially starts...

The US has a long history of friendly fire.

Radio Radio - Elvis Costello

Only when "HGVs" were smaller, I suspect!

You'll want three and four pence if you're going to a dance....

But we'll catch up in October...

TomTom satnavs will send you anywhere, if they think theres a "shortcut", usually along narrow lanes with a notional 60mph speed limit... While HGVs are supposed to use commercial vehicle satnavs, the use of (cheaper) car satnavs is still too common.

I've been wheezy for a while, it hadn't penetrated my addled mind that we'd hit the pollen season... Better stock on the antihistamines!

Yootoob here seems to work... (see what happens on submit)

What they mean is that it contains SOME potato, the rest are the added ingredients thought up by food scientists to improve its shelf life and bulk up the product with cheap plant based filler so it uses the minimum quantity of spud, ie spud comes first on the ingredient list by a whisker....

I expect the price-enhancement is due to it being displayed on a purple cloth. The "stunning detail" arises only if you hit someone with it, although that can be achieved with any HD N2! Those "LMS" decorations. They look like the sort of self-adhesive stickers that can be obtained elsewhere on ebay...

Oh Look! A nice shady nook to shelter in.....

Amazing! Especially when you think that nowadays, the control system tasks could be performed by a single Arduino Uno and a bank of relays. May 1971 was 6 months before the first microprocessor (the Intel 4004 of November 1971) was released*. Speaking of electromechanical control systems, does anyone remember the "Automatic Crispin" system used by Peter Denny around the same time? * And it would have been too expensive and difficult for the "average enthusiast" to use... The Uno itself was the first cheap and easy to program microcontroller system, introduced in 2010, so only 14 years ago. It and the even more flexible 2012 Raspberry Pi SBC have been key players in the democritisation of computer controlled applications in the hobbyist environment.

You have to play a tune against that if only to stop going mad!!! I played it in my study, and it ran at roughly the same tempo as my clockwork workshop clock.... We had rain but no snow yesterday, it's sunny here at present but rain is promised* by the BBC weather app. * Just had a look at the app, and it should be raining already!

You can, but you need a baseball bat...

Emil died from an explosion caused by mishandled nitroglycerine. The instability of nitroglycerine was the impetus for Alfred Nobel to invent dynamite, a mixture of nitroglycerine and stabilisers such as Diatomaceous earth (kieselguhr) that was safe to handle. Dynamite is relatively insensitive to shock, but did effectively have a "use by" date as after a year from manufacture, it would start sweating pure nitroglycerine which would pool in the storage container. Drop the box and Boom! Goodnight Vienna*.... * As they say...

Don't forget Bill Stickers, the other half of the persecuted partnership!

Mmmmmmuggatea-ana-toasted hot X bun!!!

I can safely say that it's 8 weeks older than me...

Maybe, but Hattons "Katie" was preferable. She had Big Buffers!

Theme One - George Martin Ok, not strictly a "song" so... You're The Best Thing - The Style Council

As the old song goes. I eat my peas with honey I've done so all my life It makes the peas taste funny But it keeps them on my knife!

Excellent! Serve Baked Beans to your "posh" acquaintences, and they'll never come back! Dolphins are no good, they spend their time playing games and laughing at you. Now, if you want to DIVERT vessels, then sharks with lasers are the bees knees!!!