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In the UK you can donate an old car to charity using www.giveacar.co.uk . I found them very efficient and well organised. Their agents came and picked up the car with a trailer, donating at least the scrap value of the car to my nominated charity, who thanked me for the donation a few weeks later.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
In the UK you can donate an old car to charity using www.giveacar.co.uk . I found them very efficient and well organised. Their agents came and picked up the car with a trailer, donating at least the scrap value of the car to my nominated charity, who thanked me for the donation a few weeks later.
I have nuthatches in the trees behind my house in rural SW Scotland. There's also the browny treecreepers too but they can't walk down the treetrunks like the nuthatches do - they cllimb to the top of the trunk in a spiral pattern, then fly down to the ground to another tree and start again!
December 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I have nuthatches in the trees behind my house in rural SW Scotland. There's also the browny treecreepers too but they can't walk down the treetrunks like the nuthatches do - they cllimb to the top of the trunk in a spiral pattern, then fly down to the ground to another tree and start again!
Myself I ate a standard 'meat and two veg' all my life until I was about 60. Increasing health issues, principally gout and digestive issues convinced me to try a vegetarian diet which worked for me. But I prefer the same meals I am used to,with veggie alternatives to the meat part of the dish.
December 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Myself I ate a standard 'meat and two veg' all my life until I was about 60. Increasing health issues, principally gout and digestive issues convinced me to try a vegetarian diet which worked for me. But I prefer the same meals I am used to,with veggie alternatives to the meat part of the dish.
I take your point. By 'quality' I meant how they might be perceived by the consumer, ie taste, appearance and texture more the health side. An 'unemployed sheperds pie' made with a base of diced aubergine/fava is presumably better for you than a base of soya or quorn minced meat substitutes.
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I take your point. By 'quality' I meant how they might be perceived by the consumer, ie taste, appearance and texture more the health side. An 'unemployed sheperds pie' made with a base of diced aubergine/fava is presumably better for you than a base of soya or quorn minced meat substitutes.
Vegetarian and vegan ready-made foodstuffs have improved in quality in leaps and bounds over the last few decades, as has availability and affordability. At the same awareness of healthy eating has improved. So I'm not surprised the meat industry is worried, especially as prices seem to have risen.
December 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Vegetarian and vegan ready-made foodstuffs have improved in quality in leaps and bounds over the last few decades, as has availability and affordability. At the same awareness of healthy eating has improved. So I'm not surprised the meat industry is worried, especially as prices seem to have risen.
It's traditional here, with most of the British press supporting the Conservatives. Even the first Labour leader(1906-08), Keir Hardie, was subject to frequent personal attacks by the Tory press - notably for not wearing full formal gear (top hat etc) in the House of Commons! Plus ça change...
December 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It's traditional here, with most of the British press supporting the Conservatives. Even the first Labour leader(1906-08), Keir Hardie, was subject to frequent personal attacks by the Tory press - notably for not wearing full formal gear (top hat etc) in the House of Commons! Plus ça change...
I bought this for a few pounds from a charity shop at Penicuik, south of Edinburgh, a few years back whilst I was passing the time between bus connections. It's a print of a large watercolour, maybe Victorian. The 'sun' in the clouds is my camera flash (sorry), but maybe it adds to the image? 🙂
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I bought this for a few pounds from a charity shop at Penicuik, south of Edinburgh, a few years back whilst I was passing the time between bus connections. It's a print of a large watercolour, maybe Victorian. The 'sun' in the clouds is my camera flash (sorry), but maybe it adds to the image? 🙂
That is a great cover!
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
That is a great cover!
I imagined it'd be like something in the film 'Soylent Green' where in a future of food shortages, dead people are secretly 'repurposed' when the seas stop producing plankton to make foodstuffs.
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I imagined it'd be like something in the film 'Soylent Green' where in a future of food shortages, dead people are secretly 'repurposed' when the seas stop producing plankton to make foodstuffs.
There's a nice 1981 tv interview with Mimi on YouTube, probably recorded at her home,with Chris Peacock of Southern Television,where she talks about John. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRqU...
John's Aunt Mimi 1981 UK Interview
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October 31, 2025 at 7:32 AM
There's a nice 1981 tv interview with Mimi on YouTube, probably recorded at her home,with Chris Peacock of Southern Television,where she talks about John. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRqU...
Twice a year the same issue. Get up and in a state of grogginess realise that the clocks have changed (Spring forward, Fall backwards etc). And then (duh) realise I can't recall how to change the time on my my Casio W-800H watch.
But that nice Mr Google knows all...
But that nice Mr Google knows all...
October 26, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Twice a year the same issue. Get up and in a state of grogginess realise that the clocks have changed (Spring forward, Fall backwards etc). And then (duh) realise I can't recall how to change the time on my my Casio W-800H watch.
But that nice Mr Google knows all...
But that nice Mr Google knows all...
I seem to recall Sarah Jane later mentioning it was somewhere in Scotland, a long way from South Croydon, near London. The Tardis wasn't very reliable in those days, but it was rather better than at the beginning where it was pretty random where the Doctor ended up each time.
October 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I seem to recall Sarah Jane later mentioning it was somewhere in Scotland, a long way from South Croydon, near London. The Tardis wasn't very reliable in those days, but it was rather better than at the beginning where it was pretty random where the Doctor ended up each time.
That went well! Larry was much loved by audiences, but could get a bit disorganised, forgetful and flustered sometimes, not always just for comedic effect. So, for these programmes, the BBC gave him a very well organised and grounded assistant, Isla St Clair.
October 15, 2025 at 6:52 AM
That went well! Larry was much loved by audiences, but could get a bit disorganised, forgetful and flustered sometimes, not always just for comedic effect. So, for these programmes, the BBC gave him a very well organised and grounded assistant, Isla St Clair.
My mother tells me today that James designed and painted theatre backdrops and sets for a living, something I didn't know.
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
My mother tells me today that James designed and painted theatre backdrops and sets for a living, something I didn't know.
Or as a BBC radio comedy programme of the time satirised him, 'Cedric Sediment'!
(Anyone know which one? 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' or 'Round the Horne' I'm guessing.)
(Anyone know which one? 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' or 'Round the Horne' I'm guessing.)
September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Or as a BBC radio comedy programme of the time satirised him, 'Cedric Sediment'!
(Anyone know which one? 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' or 'Round the Horne' I'm guessing.)
(Anyone know which one? 'I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again' or 'Round the Horne' I'm guessing.)
This watercolour was painted by my great uncle, James William Anderson(1903-44) when he was 27, maybe somewhere in the South of France. My grandmother framed it and hung it on her hall wall, and I inherited it when she died in 1992. Of no value or great artistic merit, just a loved family heirloom.
September 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This watercolour was painted by my great uncle, James William Anderson(1903-44) when he was 27, maybe somewhere in the South of France. My grandmother framed it and hung it on her hall wall, and I inherited it when she died in 1992. Of no value or great artistic merit, just a loved family heirloom.
I've been around for all of them, but I think #2 was the first I really liked, so I guess he was 'my' doctor.
But #4 saw me through my teenage years, I was fond of #7 and more recently, #12.
But #4 saw me through my teenage years, I was fond of #7 and more recently, #12.
September 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I've been around for all of them, but I think #2 was the first I really liked, so I guess he was 'my' doctor.
But #4 saw me through my teenage years, I was fond of #7 and more recently, #12.
But #4 saw me through my teenage years, I was fond of #7 and more recently, #12.
A few years earlier that would have been me watching the First Doctor fighting the Daleks. Though, to be honest, I did spend quite a bit of the time hiding behind the sofa whilst it was on!
September 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A few years earlier that would have been me watching the First Doctor fighting the Daleks. Though, to be honest, I did spend quite a bit of the time hiding behind the sofa whilst it was on!
Very clever and rather beautiful; a well observed and well executed bit of true to life art that seems to use texture to concentrate on the rain running down the windscreen glass. This distorts the scene and makes the car brake lights glow in the droplets.
September 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Very clever and rather beautiful; a well observed and well executed bit of true to life art that seems to use texture to concentrate on the rain running down the windscreen glass. This distorts the scene and makes the car brake lights glow in the droplets.
That's really lovely, thankyou. Such a sweet idea and so well executed! Some of these little country stations like the one 'Buggleskelly' was filmed at (Cliddesden on the Basingstoke and Alton Lt Rly, closed in 1936) might make great little modelling projects on their own!
September 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
That's really lovely, thankyou. Such a sweet idea and so well executed! Some of these little country stations like the one 'Buggleskelly' was filmed at (Cliddesden on the Basingstoke and Alton Lt Rly, closed in 1936) might make great little modelling projects on their own!
I wonder if anyone has made a model of Buggleskelly station, complete with 'our engine' Gladstone, the wagons, washing hanging from the signal. Completed with Harbottle and Albert to add to William Porter testing out your new station bench.
September 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I wonder if anyone has made a model of Buggleskelly station, complete with 'our engine' Gladstone, the wagons, washing hanging from the signal. Completed with Harbottle and Albert to add to William Porter testing out your new station bench.