September £75.00 Best was August at £225.00. Yet to win £1,000.00 but one can live in hope - I think?

Bit late to the party but… I got over this by using VMWare Fusion Player - free version. I use it to run a free version of MacOS High Sierra which has the original version of iTunes - not the crappy new version. No problem. I have two 160gb iPods and both run very well. Needless to say, I have both ...

Worked my socks off. I’ve been redesigning the rear garden - a major on-going project. This week I’ve painted part of the garage and intend to put up some willow trellis. Have used it before and unless treated it quickly rots. I’ve decided to paint it bright red to match the green surrounding woodwo...

I must admit, I did have a little smile/smirk when I first heard this on the BBC’s World Service. Builders eh…? :D “A part of China's Great Wall has been severely damaged by construction workers in central Shanxi province, who used an excavator to dig through it. Police say two people are suspected ...

Screwdriver wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 6:46 pmLocked behind a paywall.

Brave browser reader mode overcomes this problem on The i

Thought I’d share this with you from Paul Lewis on Premium Bonds in The i. on line newspaper. If you get one of those annoying pop up to subscribe just hit “Reader View” Gets rid of them without losing content or graphics. All the facts and figures. https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/paul-lew...

Had both a GSD and a Rough Collie together as pups (Lassie type not the Sheltie). Both were wonderful with equal + and - points but if I was to get another it would be a Rough Collie because of temperament. The GSD would run through puddles and splash about whereas the Collie would walk around the p...

Slenver. I thought you might like to know there is a very good article on Viv Stanshall in this month's copy of "Mojo".

This is the issue:

https://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/lat ... ringsteen/

Lots of other good articles too.

Hi Everybody. Hope you are all well in mind and body. :wave: I've been non stop busy - mainly sorting out years of music e.g. Allman Brothers, The Band, my Blues Collection and hundreds of thousands more as well as trying to discover bands I've missed. Here's a band from Colorado. I'll catch them wh...

Part Whatever: "The government is suing a company that supplied it with personal protective equipment (PPE) for £122m plus costs. PPE Medpro won contracts through the government's so-called VIP lane in 2020 after being recommended by Conservative peer Baroness Mone. The government is attempting...

In his unique and inimitable style, Ros Atkins of the BBC delivers the facts.

If only all news could be delivered this way.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-63977886

Be Good. Take Care

Sorely missed to this very day. R.I.P. Leon.

ELP!

Here is a great example from one of the pages from the course I downloaded - built in videos. Asparagus, Celery and the humble Lettuce have taken on an entirely new meaning - lol.

https://open.lib.umn.edu/horticulture/c ... s-we-eat/


Be Good And Eat Your Greens!

I thought I would share with you my latest discovery. I imagine this could be quite useful to you if you have teenage children or are yourself a lifelong learner and wish to keep your mind active - you are never too old to learn. I came across these sites while researching undergraduate courses in B...

Botany is where it is at - or rather should I say where I am at. I have been adding to my ever expanding gardening/horticulture library with as many botany books I can lay my hands on. In particular, I have taken a liking to what are known as Florilegium . In essence, a collection of illustrations o...

Went shopping after yesterday’s aborted mission. Visited my favourite place - the local library. Bought a couple of books from the disposal shelf for 0.30 pence. The library staff are lovely people and always chatty. My massive big weakness is Books. As such, I borrow expensive books to have a read ...

A tip. I bought 2 x 4 moisture traps at a cost of £1.00 from the Pound Shop. They are meant to be disposable. I have recycled mine. I bought 2 kilos of the chemical from EBay which should last me quite a while. I am quite amazed at how much condensation they capture. I’ve got them spread here, there...

Have just been reading their 2022/23 annual accounts - Oh get a life you silly old sod! - and came across this: Capita colleagues set to join the Bank in 1Q 23. ‘Capita’ known as ‘Crapita’ have/had got their mitts in almost everything from car parks to local government pensions and the contentious m...

@Phoenix that sounds horrific. Incompetence piled on top of mendacity. I did not realise that the Co-op bank was essentially a fraudulent operation using a once-revered name. I will certainly avoid. I’m afraid so. It is so very wrong to confuse the name with other branches of the Co-operative Movem...