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There's another coal mine fire in Pennsylvania that's been burning since 1962. It's reckoned that it could burn for 250 years before all the fuel is exhausted.

Its regularly on NOW70s....

Rubbish is a real problem, a bottle in the sun is a real danger amongst dry grass etc. Lightning can also set fires as you say, especially 'dry lightning', doesn't sound like you have that problem today though :)

It captures an era now gone. Great seeing all those street scenes and its very funny of course. I've got the DVD box set and its an old one so not subject to 'cancel culture'. I once made my own box set by copying them all off TV (back in the...

Except in a flood ... ;)

Funny you say that I have lost muscle mass since taking statins so stopped them about a month ago also eating more now

.... AGAIN! Just washed my car and the NDN starts up a saw in the back garden trimming blonde-ones off bits of wood for "perfect-fit" and the cars I just washed and the wife's that I just paid to have washed are speckled with wind-blown sawdust...

Tremendous thunderstorms today and forecast for tomorrow had about 60mm so far so tank is filling up very loud thunder over head cat don't like it nor does the W got her head stuck in pillows, 🙉🙉

yes she said she couldn't find the vain which surprised me as I have them sticking out everywhere

The problem can also be caused when they simply cannot find a vein. W has this problem and they can only take blood or inject her in the right arm as she had to have a lymph gland removed from under her left when she had breast cancer. The least...

Reminds me of when I had a cat scan thay had to inject some tracer fluid in my arm poor nurse bent three needles she was so apologetic she said I better get a doctor, she got it on the 4th attempt 📌📍📌

No you have to drive-in having entered a code from outside the machine.

Mr G says they are azulejos, which are a form of Portuguese or Spanish painted, tin-glazed ceramic tilework. Would that fit with the history? No direct hits on the pattern though

Look a bit like delft Holland if porcelain, if clay Johnston need to remove one and look at the back

.... here's a little life lesson. After my heart-attack in 2007 they stuck me on a load of drugs that are part of a "post HA Protocol". These are Statins, Clopidogrel, Beta Blockers, Ramipril Ace inhibitors and baby aspirin. They don't tell you...

Are there no auto machines near chez vous where you can stick the token in the machine from outside the car then run away until it is finished?

That is a flipping shame. Mind you, a lickle ride in it and she'd get out shaking and say much the same as she already does!! 🤣

I once had a blood test just before going back to work (medical for the job) peeps thought I was a druggy as my forearm was so briused. My body dont like giving up the valuable red stuff :). J

Nope, she refuses, and tries NOT to be a passenger in GWEN.

Has she driven Gwen for the true mini experience? J

...I had a blood test this arvo to look for Uric acid levels in my blood (the Gout). :) Didn't feel a thing but I bled like a stuck pig into the wad of dressing they put over the hole. :)

I took her Cooper All 4 for a wash and brush up as I said I would. It has come out looking OK to be fair. She has had the car since feb 2019 and has never, ever washed it because she has a fear of the auto machines and is too much of a skinflint...

I agree, just leave it as it is, you don't need numbers to tell the time on an analogue. I have a watch that is charged up by solar. Hung it on a door knob in the sun once. The glue melted and all the numbers fell off! Carried on using it, no...

I dont even care about that. Just that I got another, to work on my list of todos:rolleyes::D. J

Do you really need numbers? Your retyred and it looks like its drink O clock enough for me. Or time to go ome:oops: We used to have a reverse clock in the pub, the punters could never understand why all the Bar staff could read it without...

You'd have to do a google pic search to see if any of the tiles are worth much, some, like the ones in old hallstands and fire surrounds can be worth stupid money. Some people buy the old hallstands just for them. We were very lucky to get one...

Yes we are in the south-east corner of the Tarn so couldn't be much closer to the Aude. Soz and all that it'd have been fun. Never actually physically met a member on here yet although have had invites and one has watched me drive onto a ferry...

Propah instruments though, not a ton of warning lights that tell you nothing except that you MAY need to worry about summat. It used to be "consult your handbook, or Haynes manual", now it's "plug in your diagnostic then go see someone who MIGHT...

Well before that we had things like "Dove grey" yuk! Then in came all the metallics, which seemed cool until the lacquer coat "went". Car colours at the present seem to me to be totally boring. Talk about 20 shades or is it 40? of grey. Or...

Ive had a quick look for them aint got much time atm & im off out in the Waverley tonight. :cool: