Good News stories

[Old Grumpy]

I bet they felt dun... in! And just as well they aren't of "middle eastern appearance", eh?

Probably Dunroamin for a while - certainly would have been had they been quarantined!

OG

[Serial_Apologist]

Probably Dunroamin for a while - certainly would have been had they been quarantined!

OG

[LMcD]

I've only recently discovered that the Dunedin Consort are not based in, and were not established in, New Zealand ....or Dundee and Edinburgh.

[Old Grumpy]

Looking at their website to find the origin of the name (I didn't), I came across this:

If Dunedin were a drink, it would be a smokey Islay whiskey;
The Spice Girls would be a carton of concentrated orange juice.

Note the spelling mistake...

... shocking!

[Bryn]

Looking at their website to find the origin of the name (I didn't), I came across this:

If Dunedin were a drink, it would be a smokey Islay whiskey;
The Spice Girls would be a carton of concentrated orange juice.

Note the spelling mistake...

... shocking!

Maybe they were just overstating its quality?

[LMcD]

Looking at their website to find the origin of the name (I didn't), I came across this:

If Dunedin were a drink, it would be a smokey Islay whiskey;
The Spice Girls would be a carton of concentrated orange juice.

Note the spelling mistake...

... shocking!

Apparently their name comes from 'Din Eidyn', the ancient Celtic name for Edinburgh Castle.

[Old Grumpy]

Apparently their name comes from 'Din Eidyn', the ancient Celtic name for Edinburgh Castle.

Certainly has more of a ring to it than the Edinburgh Castle Consort!

[LMcD]

Certainly has more of a ring to it than the Edinburgh Castle Consort!

Didn't they use to entertain passengers on their way from Cape Town to Southampton in the late 1940s?

[Old Grumpy]

Didn't they use to entertain passengers on their way from Cape Town to Southampton in the late 1940s?

Quite possibly. I travelled as a bairn on one or more of the Castle Line vessels back in the day - can't say I remember the Consort though!


OG

[LMcD]

Quite possibly. I travelled as a bairn on one or more of the Castle Line vessels back in the day - can't say I remember the Consort though!


OG

Didn't they feature a young Vaal Doonican in the early 60s?

[Serial_Apologist]

Cambridge boffins develop biodegradable plastic substitute from peas!

Rarely nowadays do good news items come up with the promise of this one, briefly mentioned on today's BBC national lunchtime news: a fast-degrading substitute for ocean-polluting microplastics, potentially applicable widely for commercial packaging and other purposes, and which can be harmlessly (maybe even beneficially) consumed by marine life:

http://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/business/breahthrough-cambridge-science-turns-pea-protein-into-microplastics-without-the-plastic-9108956/

Rejoice? I nearly choked on my marmite sandwich!

[teamsaint]

Rarely nowadays do good news items come up with the promise of this one, briefly mentioned on today's BBC national lunchtime news: a fast-degrading substitute for ocean-polluting microplastics, potentially applicable widely for commercial packaging and other purposes, and which can be harmlessly (maybe even beneficially) consumed by marine life:

http://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/business/breahthrough-cambridge-science-turns-pea-protein-into-microplastics-without-the-plastic-9108956/

Rejoice? I nearly choked on my marmite sandwich!

That certainly is good news, mush .

[oddoneout]

I do so hope that Covid, Brexit, Home Office etc don't derail this

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/16/rickshaw-drivers-son-beats-odds-to-join-famed-uk-ballet-school

[Serial_Apologist]

I do so hope that Covid, Brexit, Home Office etc don't derail this
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-ballet-school

I just hope he managed to make it over that railing!

[oddoneout]

Difficult to know where best to post this - it is something of a joke but overall good news seems the main message - other than 'does what it says on the tine' given the title of the sculpture.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/02/all-cetaceans-go-whale-sculpture-stops-dutch-train-crashing-into-water