Originally posted by teamsaint
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Cat Stevens???
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Yards of ale .I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Useful in the pub for the new distancing rules...Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
Back in the day said item featured in certain post concert celebrations I attended, one person in particular being renowned for his ability to speedily dispatch the contents.Comment
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As it happens, no. A couple from that fraternity would attempt it but not as successfully.Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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Those single ice cream wafers, one each side of a mini block of ice cream
Useless in any case.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
Even aged 4, I knew they were sh17e
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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....yeah and sometimes they tried psychology....laying it on a plate and sticking them in the top - all geometric like....(who'd they think they were fooling)....gits.....Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Even aged 4, I knew they were sh17ebong chingComment
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....tiger tails....and coins of English footballers looking like monkeys....
....Evening Classes in French Polishing....
....Children with big eyes painting....
....Charles Buchans Football Annual (of footballers you'd never heard of)
.... Whammers - 2 bit s of triangular cardboard with a folded bit of brown paper....
....Junket tablets....actually still available....I'm tempted.....
....one I'm very glad to be rid of and never intend to reaquaint with....car wings that rust out and cause headlight to wobble everytime you go over a bump....
....British Standard Whitworth Thread....inherited a big box from Father, now buried somewhere in workshop ....now good/useful as paper weight type gysmo....
....the floppy 45 rpm give away record....Last edited by eighthobstruction; 04-07-20, 00:04.bong chingComment
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I still use them. Logically, 12 am and 12 pm are both midnight.Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
Good to that two of us still do!
Also the seasons start on the 21st of March, June, September and December - not on the 1st just to suit statistical data gathering!Comment
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I like to think that the seasons start when the weather tells us, not some arbitrary date on a piece of paper.Originally posted by cloughie View Post Good to that two of us still do!
Also the seasons start on the 21st of March, June, September and December - not on the 1st just to suit statistical data gathering!
We are in the process of gradually moving a hive of bees from one part of the garden to another. So our calendar is measured in "flying days".... so that's about 1mtr (or 3ft) every third one.Comment
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... internationally, meteorologists* have been using 1 March, 1 June, 1 September, 1 December as start dates for seasons since a decision in 1780 by the Societas Meteorologica Palatina. Perhaps it's time for West Cornwall to catch up?Originally posted by cloughie View Post
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Even the astronomical seasons are not that clear cut. Solstices and equinoxes are not confined to the 21st. Autumnal equinox can be as late as 23rd September.Originally posted by cloughie View Post Good to that two of us still do!
Also the seasons start on the 21st of March, June, September and December - not on the 1st just to suit statistical data gathering!
But the whole idea of having four seasons is artificial labelling. Some parts of the world recognise six seasons. When I moved to Devon in 2017, I was convinced there were only three seasons, as winter hardly happens at all.
We could narrow it down to two seasons: Rise and Fall. Nights are getting longer now, and will continue to do so until winter solstice.Comment
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Some days here we get four seasons in one day - and the plants have lost the plot!Originally posted by vinteuil View Post.
... internationally, meteorologists* have been using 1 March, 1 June, 1 September, 1 December as start dates for seasons since a decision in 1780 by the Societas Meteorologica Palatina. Perhaps it's time for West Cornwall to catch up?
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Most times of the year we get the weather before the rest of the country so don’t tell us we need to catch up!Comment
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