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  • Where I stand.

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    A quick note, this is my opinion, not Jax’s, I don’t know whether she agrees with me, you would have to ask her. My family have been farming in The Fens in England for generations, certainly I can track them back to about 200 years ago, and bearing in mind that people didn’t move around…

  • Zero Tolerance

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    Reporting "a move aimed at further tightening airport security". Oh yes. Another thing that has been troubling me. How come there is no such word as "fonic?"

  • The Brick Testament

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    Not quite sure what to make of this. Amusing, fascinating, weird, The Brick Testament.  

  • Hi-De-Hi

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    …returning exhausted from another expedition to one of W. Yorkshire’s high points. Driving north from Sheffield, I was treated to some spectacular lighting from the setting sun. Unfortunately, I missed a shot of the best of it, as I couldn’t find anywhere to stop while I was driving through Hade Edge. Our enterprising hosts were…

  • A Steaming Good Day Out!

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    I have only ever been on the North Norfolk Railway and to a couple of museums including a trip long ago to the National Rail Museum in York so our trip to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway was pretty exciting for me as well as the smalls. The railway extends south-west from Keighley in…

  • More News From Much Gibbering

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    :rant: St. Croix 1990-1991/Classic Mock-Turtleneck Pray tell. What kind of neck? Not a turtle neck, but a mock turtle neck. So what on earth is one of those then? Presumably it is a bit like a calf’s neck since that is what mock turtle soup was made mainly of?

  • Living Dangerously

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    “Expensive Things” for people with a lot more money than sense. Jax heaven:- Penguin Classics Library

  • Tourist Remover

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    This looks like a really useful tool for photographers in tourist areas Tourist Remover Of course, the Chinese got there first

  • Useful Tool For PC Buyers

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    The PC De-Crapifier On past experience with configuring new machines, this should prove a real time saver, although I must admit my new laptop come remarkably free of rubbish – for once IBM seem to have decided to install useful utilities instead of the usual pointless junk.

  • Then It Rained

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    Quite a lot, I think we have had about an inch fall during the rather spectacular thunderstorms. Big has decided that thunderstorms are exciting not scarey, which is good. But really a rather grumpy day for everyone, cooped up inside.