WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Tizer]

These B&W photos were taken by Matilda Temperley, daughter of Julian Temperley who owns the well-known Burrow Hill Cider Company in Somerset.
`The spirit of Somerset captured in black and white' LINK

[Tripps]

David, that's the first time I have ever seen Mail Online. Is that really the future for newspapers? By the way, no signs of Larry's cat flap on my page.....

That's a mystery - it was there when I posted it, as I always check that a link works. Can't find any trace of it now, and it was a very good quality April Fool.

Sorry I introduced you to Mail Online - perhaps you will need a counselling session with your Susan to get over it?

PS Google to the rescue - Cat flap

I'd love to know why they pulled it. Someone must have 'had a word'. The Mail has changed editor recently, and from being staunchly 'out' they are now staunchly 'in'.

[Stanley]

Matilda make nice images..... so much better than colour! Whitaker has an engraving of a Jacob Ram Skull in History of Craven. He included it as evidence of an ancient breed not realising that they still existed in 1800.
David, I saw it on google when I went searching for it.
Bob approved of the hot water and Brexit essay I sent him. I liked his comment on Cameron: "I agree about Cameron and would go even further. He’s living proof that a total reactionary can also be a complete twit. When the tories lost their aristocrats, somebody should have taken away their drivers’ licenses."

[Tizer]

The newspapers often change the contents of specific online pages. Some will stay and become archived but other page addresses are constantly being updated with fresh `news'.

[Tripps]

The newspapers often change the contents of specific online pages

AS far as I can deduce, this wasn't a news item which changed, it was their April Fool feature, and it wasn't moved somewhere else, then replaced by another spoof - it it was pulled.

I am still wondering why?

[Tizer]

Tripps, the Guardian picked it up... LINK

[Stanley]

British Gas site has gone bonkers.
Airedale today.
Up later than usual.
That's it!
Later.... See THIS BBC account of another damning report from the National Audit Office. There are 20 obsolete submarines awaiting disposal at Rosyth and Devenport, 9 of them contain nuclear materials and they have eaten up £500billion since 1980 which was the last time one was scrapped.
It's estimated that it costs less than £100million to scrap a submarine. It looks like a no-brainer!

[Marilyn]

The number of forms one has to fill in for admission to hospital. It is ridiculous. Does anyone have any need of all this useless information?

[Stanley]

You'd complain if a mistake was made Maz and they mixed you up with someone else, best to assume they know what they are doing?
Speed at which they processed me yesterday, in and out in 20 minutes with a clean bill of health.

[Stanley]

How well I feel and how guilty I feel because I am neglecting the shed!

[Stanley]

When I went out to walk Jack mid morning I noticed something funny about my outside, long distance glasses. I found when I returned that the nose pad had dropped off on one side and it was laid on the table. The eye at the back that engages the screw was moulded plastic and had failed. I got an old pair of glasses it and found it had metal eyes moulded into the nose piece so I got my jeweller's screwdrivers out and swapped them over. Problem solved. Something like that pleases me so much, having the right tools and the ability to solve a problem. How much would an optician have charged?
On reflection, I should now take off the other nose piece and give it the same treatment. It's on the list!
How bloody cold that East wind is!

[Stanley]

A big crow busily emptying an open topped litter bin. Littering is evidently not the exclusive province of us humans!

[Stanley]

Main thing is Jack's ear..... When they are healthy a companion animal is at times a pain. But when there is something amiss you realise what a big part of your life they are.... I'm sure it's good for me but the sooner we find a cure the better!

[Stanley]

My guilt at not recognising Jack had ear mites and the high price of veterinary medicines!....
How hospital appointments creep up on you, less than a week until my next operation...
How lucky I am......

[Stanley]

I hear that a new way of divorce is being introduced, a simple statement of irretrievable breakdown signed by both parties with no blame attached. This puzzles me because when Vera and I divorced that's exactly what we did, no solicitors, we did it ourselves and had absolutely no problems. Did something change?

[PanBiker]

I think you have a typo there Stanley.

[Stanley]

You're right Ian! The tricks the mind plays, it was about 1982. 1959 was the year we married. Come to think we had two years of separation first, that may be the answer.
The length of time it has taken to complete the enquiry on the police helicopter crashing on to the Clutha Bar in 2013. At the time it was reported that it had probably run out of fuel and that was the finding of the Fatal Accident Enquiry yesterday. (LINK) Why so long?

[Wendyf]

It is the answer Stanley, to get a "no blame" divorce you have to prove you have lived separately for 2 years or five years if one party disagrees. Someome has to be at fault if you want a quick divorce. Not that I have any experience, I just looked it up.

[Stanley]

I've been there Wendy and wouldn't recommend it to anyone but sometimes life deprives you of control.....
(Bit like Brexit.....)

[Stanley]

How virtuous a spot of washing and bleaching can make you feel!
The absence of Tizer for two days...
How good the first hit of good coffee is early in the morning! (I only allow myself one dose a day....)

[Cathy]

Yes, I've been thinking about Tizer, it seems longer than 2 days.

[Stanley]

I've mailed him Cathy to ask if he is OK.
The lovely weather we are having but the cold East wind as well!
The fact that my Ladslove and Lilac in the front garden are springing into life.
The fact that the more open designs of net curtains drop over the years. I had to trim 3" off my bedroom curtains.....
The failure of the Israeli moon lander. (LINK)

[Stanley]

I got a postcard from Tintagel this morning. That's right, Mr and Mrs Tiz are having a weeks holiday. That puts my mind at rest!

[Cathy]

Ah.

They are probably taking pictures of some new Mystery Objects for us, haha.

[Stanley]

Here's the postcard. I love the image of Arthur, lifelike but alludes to the fact he is a legend.....