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by Tizer
19 Mar 2024, 09:53
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3683
Views: 360127

Re: Seen in the News

I'm so cheesed off with both the current political world and the business world that I'm now wishing a government would come along and simply nationalise everything! :smile:
by Tizer
19 Mar 2024, 09:49
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3926
Views: 556680

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

I think that began when smartphones became popular and the general attitude among those doing the layout was that users couldn't cope with long paragraphs! :smile:
by Tizer
19 Mar 2024, 09:44
Forum: Puzzles & Quizzes
Topic: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Replies: 19881
Views: 2128476

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

An erratic, a boulder carried by a glacier during the ice ages and now far from its former home. In the UK they usually get carried from the north to south and wet to east. Often seen on beaches on our east coast but can be found anywhere. There's one sitting on a rock shelf at Porthleven on the sou...
by Tizer
18 Mar 2024, 09:59
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3683
Views: 360127

Re: Seen in the News

A newspaper's headline this morning tells us `Top secret UK military system still managed by Fujitsu'. And it's 2 years since the contract ended. LINK
by Tizer
18 Mar 2024, 09:54
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3926
Views: 556680

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

The BBC News writers seem to have run out of commas. This is from a news article this morning and leaves the reader to make his/her own interpretation of what it means....
Heat pumps use electricity rather than gas like boilers... LINK
by Tizer
18 Mar 2024, 09:48
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Replies: 3922
Views: 582675

Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS

Sue wrote: 17 Mar 2024, 10:09 Rankle, used a lot in Rochdale.
But is that because it's a Rochdale word or because Rochdale people have more to be rankled about than the rest of us, Sue? :extrawink:
by Tizer
17 Mar 2024, 10:01
Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
Replies: 3922
Views: 582675

Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS

There is a mention in another thread of the local pronunciation of Whitworth. When I worked at Boots in Darwen in the 1960s the elderly storeman pronounced my home town as `Blegburn'.
by Tizer
17 Mar 2024, 09:55
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16432
Views: 1893991

Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

Talking of supermarkets, when staff arrived to open the front doors of their supermarket in a small town in Hampshire yesterday they were shocked to find the ground in front of the doors strewn with dead hares. One door handle had a dead barn owl impaled on it and the other had a different bird. Nob...
by Tizer
16 Mar 2024, 10:51
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
Replies: 7578
Views: 840720

Re: MEDICAL MATTERS

Hands up anyone who knew about this new thing. :smile: My hand is up.. and yours should be too! You heard it first on OG when it was launched at the end of January. :smile: LINK Probably the most controversial aspect is the last item in your gov.uk link... Will Pharmacy First have an impact on anti...
by Tizer
15 Mar 2024, 09:33
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4732
Views: 534536

Re: Old fashioned clean jokes

Kev, the Igor cartoon is funny but Terry Pratchett would tell you it can't be a real one of his famous Igors because they always have a lisp and would have said `Yeth, Mathter'.
by Tizer
15 Mar 2024, 09:30
Forum: Animals and Pets
Topic: Wildlife Corner
Replies: 1399
Views: 209440

Re: Wildlife Corner

The ones shown are in what used to be the drive up to a grand house in park land but is now an expensive housing estate. At the end and around the corner there is a gigantic cedar too. These trees are on a ridge and can be seen from many miles away and make it easy to pinpoint Taunton's position fro...
by Tizer
15 Mar 2024, 09:24
Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Replies: 16432
Views: 1893991

Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

I feel as though I've stolen Peter's fire! That's fine, you can serve up the pics to Cathy earlier than I can. I liked the one of the fox tightrope walking on a tree branch. We've seen them on TV crossing a stream using a fallen tree as a bridge but this one looks like it climbed the tree! They're ...
by Tizer
14 Mar 2024, 09:33
Forum: Animals and Pets
Topic: Wildlife Corner
Replies: 1399
Views: 209440

Re: Wildlife Corner

We have them in Taunton, planted in the mid-1800s. Also called Wellingtonia....

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by Tizer
13 Mar 2024, 16:57
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3683
Views: 360127

Re: Seen in the News

A 12-year-old Palestinian boy, Rami al-Halhouli, out with his mates yesterday at a refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem made the mistake of rising to a `dare' and lighting a firework. Before the firework went off he was shot through the heart by an Israeli border police officer. At a press confer...
by Tizer
12 Mar 2024, 16:13
Forum: Ongoing Family Research
Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
Replies: 232
Views: 85941

Re: Ancestry.co.uk

Yes, it's always good to have the information. In this case we're lucky because the relative concerned recently got a holiday flat in Spain. Also communication is so easy these days that he can send a copy of the image to one of his new Spanish friends for translation. This crazy modern world does h...
by Tizer
12 Mar 2024, 10:28
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4732
Views: 534536

Re: Old fashioned clean jokes

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by Tizer
12 Mar 2024, 09:56
Forum: Ongoing Family Research
Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
Replies: 232
Views: 85941

Re: Ancestry.co.uk

Thanks. I did a bit more googling and saw something saying Ancestry was working on its own 1921 data. Perhaps we'll see it in 3 years time! Typically, I've been side tracked from trying to find my South African ancestors by the easier job of tracing those of my cousin's husband, Mark. All going well...
by Tizer
12 Mar 2024, 09:43
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3683
Views: 360127

Re: Seen in the News

Peter, I am getting very pessimistic about Ukraine's future. In case nobody has noticed, the US has already given up on funding them despite Biden's fine words. It's our future too and we're going to have to look after ourselves in Europe. We're carrying on as usual while the Europeans to the East ...
by Tizer
11 Mar 2024, 16:50
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: Seen in the News
Replies: 3683
Views: 360127

Re: Seen in the News

`Lee Anderson: Ex-Tory MP defects to Reform UK' LINK ...He becomes Reform UK's first ever MP, representing a party polling around 10% of national voting intention.... ----------------------------------------------------------- `Trump will not give a penny to Ukraine - Hungary PM Orban' LINK Donald T...
by Tizer
11 Mar 2024, 16:46
Forum: Ongoing Family Research
Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
Replies: 232
Views: 85941

Re: Ancestry.co.uk

I'm surprised that Ancestry don't offer the 1921 census but apparently Find My Past does have it. I wonder why the difference?
by Tizer
11 Mar 2024, 09:54
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: POLITICS CORNER
Replies: 12552
Views: 1312034

Re: POLITICS CORNER

I have the same query about the cost of Johnson's trip to Venezuela. The Sunday Times first reported that Mr Johnson travelled there by private jet while on holiday in the Caribbean but someone paid and it wouldn't be Johnson! And Johnson didn't warn our Foreign Secretary of his visit to Venezuela ...
by Tizer
11 Mar 2024, 09:51
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
Replies: 2021
Views: 341983

Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING

See THIS explanation from NASA about how ocean currents are affected by climate change. It's on the right level for me. Simple explanations are always best! :biggrin2: It's good to see simple graphics like those. The ocean currents graphic is the AMOC I referred to above. The cold water currents ar...
by Tizer
11 Mar 2024, 09:45
Forum: Fun & Jokes
Topic: Old fashioned clean jokes
Replies: 4732
Views: 534536

Re: Old fashioned clean jokes

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by Tizer
11 Mar 2024, 09:42
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3926
Views: 556680

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

We don't have a smart meter so we shouldn't be charged for other people's smart meter maintenance - but I'll bet we are !
by Tizer
10 Mar 2024, 16:54
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
Replies: 2021
Views: 341983

Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING

Don't confuse the little Gulf Stream with the majestic Atlantic Meridional Ocean Circulation (AMOC)! :extrawink:

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