Melvadius
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Keep the police incident report in case you find you are being chased for costs/ or a fine for its removal if it gets abandoned somewhere and they don't make the connection with it being on a stolen vehicle report.
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Reading some of the articles on this topic he was told this particular licence combination has been withdrawn after it was reported as offensive.
When this happened he was sent a replacement licence plate and offered a full refund which he has apparently refused.
It is a funny story at present BUT he will probably find that if he ever gets involved in an accident he is driving an unlicenced vehicle so is uninsured.
That is a whole world of grief he may well regret.
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What a choice. Burn alive inside or get zapped bu 13,000 volts outside. just life in the big city I guess.... Oh, I see, it was a false alarm... Now I get it.
The problem with 'false' alarms is that sometimes they aren't and if the alarm status goes from 'prepare to leave' to 'immediate evacuation', irrespective of the weather, just in case out you have to go. Good job I carry suncream and full waterproofs these days - all eventualities catered for
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Just hit Central London and we had the joy of an aborted Fire Alarm coincide with it.
Mind you despite the weird ululations and suspicious smell of burning coming from a nearby cupboard I didn't notice anyone rushing to put their coats on and leave - have us go out in that - yeugh!
BTW 1: The same symptoms occured during a false alarm early last month and I was assured then it was neither dangerous nor related to the alarm going off.
BTW 2: I have been assured by building services that it WILL be sorted out this time - time will tell - if we don't burn up or get drowned first
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Recently I received a message from a lady who asked to get to know me.
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Today I received another email from her. A young african woman, very attractive, posing against a palm tree and explaining her difficult circumstances.
Not you as well? Seems like she has been standing advertising on everyone's street corner recently - looks like my guess elsewhere of Sierra Leone as the source may not be far off.
I hope you used a suitably anonymised email account or next thing you know she will probably be writing back complaining that the bank have an account with you not the other way about.
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Definately one of those films where the music is as much a part of the process, and taking a starring role in it , as what is happening on the screen.
When you consider that in this film you are competing with Orson Welles at his peak that is a great achievement.
Zither to go anyone?
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They don't always have perfect views I remember Patrick down in Cornwall for the last full solar eclipse in the UK and only getting a short glimpes before the clouds poured back in.
Mind you I doidn't even get that much being a bit further inland we were under heavy cloud cover so didn't see any of the craved for images of the diamond ring etc. What we did see however in our view more than compensated because we could see the shadow line of the Eclipse [Edit - the Terminator] race across the sky at around 1000mph, crossing Bodmin Moor in seconds.
VERY spectacular and not something the TV reports ever show. We also had the pleasure of hearing nightjars calling during the total eclipse in the mistaken belief that it was night.
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Are you sure that wasn't 80,000 Polish Zloty's if that was the going rate in Poland I somehow suspect there would be a lot of UK and other migrant workers over there.
PLN 80,000 would work out about
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Reminds me of a similar situation a few years back when we travelling south on the A1. We were observing the speed limit as the roads clogged up with the evening rush hour in the outside lane properly overtaking as black 4 by 4 came hammering up behind us at least 20 miles above the speed limit pushing to get past when we had nowhere to move back in safely.
As soon as it was safe we did move back in and the 4 by 4 scrapped past accelerating as it went. 5 miles further down the road we actually passed it or rather what was left of it as a mangled heap in the middle of the central reservation crash barriers. Obviously he had tried it again when there was even less room - made us think but the driver and his passengers were past that stage according to the news reports that night.
Call it 'evolution in action' or a 'prime candidate for the Darwin Award' if you wish but just hope they don't take anyone else with them when they go
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Depending on variety it can in mild cases be more or less over within 24 hours.
It is more worrying when it goes on for more than 24 hours and usually advisable to seek medical help at that point because it can go on for several days.
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@Melvadius, if you dont have your own garden, than there is no better alternative than those pick yourself fields...
Oh I definitely agree - unfortunately several round here which were operating when we first moved into the area seem to have stopped trading.
Before you ask we only used tham a few times before we moved to our present house with its bigger garden and consequently more space for more fruit growing so I don't think the local pick-your-own farms failure is down to us not using them anymore.
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Been there, done that, had a similar experience of clenched buttocks but also churning gut due in my case to someone's dirty fingers on one of the French restaurant river boats - you have my sympathy.
On the bright side "this too must pass"
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I generally don't have to leave home to pick my fill of brambles (AKA blackberries).
A few stray briars when we moved in with some judicious 'lack of pruning' have become a rampant series of bushes down one side of the garden providing fruit in abundance for a few pies and desserts in season and at least 15-20 lbs of bramble jelly each August - more than I need for a year's supply.
Similarly providing I remember to water them when like now we have had a long period of unseasonably dry weather we have alpine strawberries running rampant in one part of the garden and a few standard old-time favourites growing in raised beds.
Suffice to say when the fruit comes in we tend to get a bit bloated
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Still over 17.5 stone but only just for those of us not conversant with modern, continental or American weights.
I am beginning to wonder if I should give up something myself...but maybe not dieting and exercise seem like too much trouble but good on you for doing so.
Mind you if I was in Nothern Germany rather than giving up salad I may well be considering giving up something else like cream cakes. That as oftena s not is the usual vector for E-Coli strains but the local health authorities there don't even seem to have considered it as a possibile source so far.
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I know how attached people can get of their vehicles, even if no longer fit to drive you still have a 'relationship' with them, so I am sorry for your loss.
When we had a vehicle wrecked in a car accident and were waiting for the claim against the offending driver to get settled we actually had a label fixed to the vehicle from the local council warning it would be removed if not repaired - even though it was off the road in a driveway.
I suppose if that happened in your area some kindly passing soul may have decided it was fun to remove the label. So would it worthwhile contacting the council, just in case, to see if that may have happened?
Then again the thief options does seem highly probable from what you have said about your area - are spares in demand for that make of vehicle?
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Crotchety moi? I don't even do needle point
Like I indicated already anyone who wants to can go and enjoy themselves anyway they like.
I just wish the entire media circus blindly following the lead of our current PM didn't expect everyone to be salivating about it.
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You can add me to the British camp of 'who cares a fig about any wedding that isn't their own or close family or friends these days?'
If a couple wish to get married or simply live together then all well and good - just don't expect me to attend or care if they aren't in the above category.
As to street parties - anyone trying to hold one outside my house is not going to go down too well if I want in or out of my drive.
Mind you they are liable to find themselves in a whole heap of trouble anyway, despite our numbskull leader plans about letting anyone who wants to hold street parties, as they would need to close a main through road.
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Probably something to do with 'cabotage' or at least a couple of foreign drivers trying to get around legal limits on how many deliveries they can make while visiting a foreign country.
As to extra holidays if you look carefully you will probably find that we don't actually get another holiday just the current powers that be mucking around with the millenia old tradition of May Day occuring on 1 May
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Weird stuff and the moon reminds me of the time, a good few years back, when I was at a Science Fiction convention and some of us felt that we could write better made-up stories than the Daily Star. for anyone who doesn't know this is a poor excuse for a tabloid newspaper primarily interested only in sex, made up stories and politics (OK only so far as who one of our politicians is currently sleeping with).
We spent about an hour dissecting some of their more outrageous stories - B25 bomber found on the moon (excuse me that crater it is sitting on is actually a mile across), Elvis found alive and well in.... you know the sort of thing.
Anyway we then spent half an hour making up a silly story about a taxi driver chasing NASA for an unpaid fare to the moon and back - a shaggy dog story involving an astronaut who missed his flight (extra payment for his backpack) and a device plugged into his cigarette lighter to make it fly so he could catch his spacecraft.
This fabrication was duly submitted it to the paper via one of our group to see if we could get some free publicity for the convention.
Anyway the upshot of this was they ran a story about an entire weekend 'conference of boffins' (sic) who were unable to disprove their 'strange but true' stories.
Score one for them but we still managed to slip the name of the convention into the story as the 'conference' spokesman
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Good for you Aurelia, and I'm so glad you enjoyed it - though to be honest, few people are put off after their first go.
I was
Mind you the fact that my one and only attempt at Skiing was in Scotland when the only available snow was in a corrie at the top of the mountain on the first day followed by a white-out on the second which made skiing impossible may have had something to do with it
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I didn't watch all of the programme but the report I had of this 'hacks' comments indicated his automatic assumption was that everyone is conspiring to 'hide the truth'. The fact that what was being sought by the FOI requests was not the reasonably available raw climate data but the commercially written software to collate it - which is specifically not covered by FOI rules seems to have gotten lost in the furore.
Irrespective of what that 'truth' may be has anyone stopped to consider how long it takes to read through umpteen thousand emails thoroughly and ask your (mummy/daddy/ non-expert of choice) what the difficult words actually mean?
Can I join the cake queue?
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Which came first people looking for more information on what I'd posted or by chance have I accidently entered another set of key words for a school project? If so it may have created a circular reference to and from the forum
Either way it will probably give us another page with those 'very specific' search parameters which I suppose means that UNVR will be climbing the ranks even further for those terms
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That's slightly worrying because on 10 January I included the phrase 'Ethiopians closed the Red Sea to Roman trade' in a post onto the Did Rome ever go to war with the Aksumite Empire thread
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Strikes me that Russell Brand is another one that thinks he's dog's gift to creation
A pint? That's very nearly an arm full.
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I suppose it could be worse the scenes in the old TV series MASH with some rare blood group members of the unit being drained while they slept was all too real for my comfort.
Apparently during WW2 you could give blood every few weeks which may explain why some of my family had multiples of those little gold and platinum pins given out by the blood service
BTW I do give blood but normally only 2 or 3 times a year so I may never get the platinum one myself