Mundane News

[deptfordmarmoset]

...Dogger five, gale force nine, north west...

We're being a bit silly, applying end of season considerations before the end of the first round of games.

 

[Illaveago]

Worst thing the Consevatives ever did was privatise 'The Royal Mail'

And Vince Incapable !

 

[Andy in Germany]

Have reassembled the butler's tray that disassembled itself when the parental unit tried to move it.

What's the matter, is it the Butler's day off, or does he consider carpentry beneath him?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

What's the matter, is it the Butler's day off, or does he consider carpentry beneath him?

Woods was definitely beneath Buttler at Lords this afternoon. I fear it may be that time when the shipping forecast takes listeners away from the cricket.....

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Woods was definitely beneath Buttler at Lords this afternoon. I fear it may be that time when the shipping forecast takes listeners away from the cricket.....

Root could have done with more support from the lower order.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Root could have done with more support from the lower order.

 

[classic33]

This is one of your posts that I find absolutely fascinating but haven't a clue what they mean. It's a bit like listening to the shipping forecast.

Shipping Forecast is easy understand.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Shipping Forecast is easy understand.

That's one major difference.

 

[fossyant]

Kitchen floor still not dry and three windows are open. Need to shut them before bed !

 

[classic33]

From February 4 2002, British broadcasters will rename Finisterre FitzRoy. In memory of the founding father of the Met Office, Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who allegedly committed suicide in 1865 after forecasting the weather wrong.

 

[Speicher]

I am watching the cricket, and noticed how many crisp deliveries there are.

 

[woodbutchmaster]

Shipping Forecast is easy understand.

Or possibly easily understood in the past tense naturally !

 

[Illaveago]

We are watching an old film with Dennis Waterman, Snowball ,1960. It reminded me that the bus conductors used to give children the old rolls of tickets when they put a new roll in . I was surprised by how much there used to be left on the old rolls !

 

[woodbutchmaster]

From February 4 2002, British broadcasters will rename Finisterre FitzRoy. In memory of the founding father of the Met Office, Admiral Robert FitzRoy, who allegedly committed suicide in 1865 after forecasting the weather wrong.

How would anyone know , l thought radio four began broadcasting slightly later than 1865 . Perhaps he was just depressed by the weather in GB.

 

[woodbutchmaster]

I am watching the cricket, and noticed how many crisp deliveries there are.

Would that be deliveries of thinly sliced deep fried potatoes or perhaps very efficiently deliveries of nothing in particular or everything in general ......pedantic moi ?