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Ouch. Thankfully it wasn’t in the scenic area.

Your ground cover (static grass and other bits?) Is very effective indeed.

You must be pretty famous there for them to arrange a flypast for you.

Afternoon all We went to do our usual weekly shop at one of the main supermarkets. We had most items needed but when we got to the chilled section we found it roped off. Apparently the chillers hadn’t been able to cope with yesterday’s heat. They were all empty of stock so I don’t know what had happened to it. This meant we finished our shop without things like cheese, cooked meats, yoghurts fruit juice etc. Means we will probably have to do another shop. Once a week at a supermarket is more than enough for anyone, darn it.

It would appear so. Take, for example your car handbook. It used to tell you how to replace things, adjust timing and tappets and other useful things Now it just tells you not to drink the contents of the battery.

Tartarians must have existed. We still use the sauce they invented.

I don’t know. I’m not an education minister.

I’m sure HH would give that comment the proverbial two fingered salute … … if he could.

Private Fraser? It’s all starting to make sense now.

Many happy returns, Baz.

Check to see if the particular companies you are dealing with have a bereavement department. When I dealt with them when mum passed away in January there was a separate number to phone and the people at the other end were both sympathetic and efficient.

I’m cool. The met office said so…

Just be thankful it’s not icy and snowing. Imagine shovelling snow in this heat.

Strewth. That’s silly.

So that’s how I ended up with a Victoria sponge cake filled with cream and ham.

A few years ago local leagues were reorganised with one league suggesting day long games rather than just Saturday afternoons. There was a general hoo-haa and upheaval because many players said they were only allowed out to play on an afternoon if they completed various domestic tasks on the morning.

I think that would depend on the decoder and sound project installed rather than the controller. Some projects allow you to notch up and down the sound independent of the loco speed. I don’t think it’s seven steps though. In a similar way others allow you to hit a function button which holds the speed (including stationary) while ‘driving’ the sound - which seems like what you are after. I’m not sure if there are any that allow you to hold the sound while changing the speed - although judicious application of a brake function may achieve the desired effect. Anybody else know? Having said that, many of the more recent, better, sound projects do what you want in a realistic way anyway. I guess you would have try them out before buying them.

They do seem to be indestructible… apart from when they fall apart. Fortunately easily put back together again. I wonder just how long they have been going on Corfe. As you know they get a fair old hammering

I have on (rare) occasions tried to think about the immensity of the universe and time and even what was before and is after that. It is way beyond my limited intelligence and just makes my brain hurt. I think I will just accept that the answer is 42.

I was always amazed by the ingenuity of Australian brewers. Just how did the get the cats to pee in the four X cans?

You will probably do better business if you open them all of the way.

With a little bit of re-wording that is the sort of puzzle I used to set my pupils when, back in the day, I taught maths. They groaned then too.

All but one of the sites returned by Google were pornographic video sites.

You mean they aren’t true stories?