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[Gravity Aided]

My father, who was an arborist in his spare time, called the buckeye "horse chestnut".

 

[Illaveago]

I wouldn't mind receiving £3 million in cash in whatever container, holdall,carrier bag or cardboard box .

 

[oldwheels]

A day of traveling today.

First we went to Inchydoney Beach, where it was wet and windy.

Then to the nearby Clonakilty Model Railway Museum where they wouldn't let us go to the café they had without paying £17 to enter the museum. So we left and had a nice lunch in Clonakilty instead with a wander round.

Called in to Cashel for a look at the Rock of Cashel and an ice cream. It

Now we're sat at Dublin Port, waiting for a ferry. It's still

You comment about the museum brings back an annoyance we found. The Sealife Centre at Barcaldine north of Oban had a fabulous seafood restaurant where you could go in without going into the actual sealife place and when going north on business with staff we stopped there for lunch. They changed that to your museum experience and lost our business and probably many others as well. They are now closed.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

My father, who was an arborist in his spare time, called the buckeye "horse chestnut".

Yes, that's the one until late September when it tends to become a conker tree.

EDIT: I'm sure I typed late summer not late September....

 

[PeteXXX]

This is me beside a very big conker

 

[DCLane]

You comment about the museum brings back an annoyance we found. The Sealife Centre at Barcaldine north of Oban had a fabulous seafood restaurant where you could go in without going into the actual sealife place and when going north on business with staff we stopped there for lunch. They changed that to your museum experience and lost our business and probably many others as well. They are now closed.

I was there in 2007 when we house-swapped with a couple in Fort William. Their seal breeding programme was interesting.

 

[Reynard]

The girls had Felix AGAIL with plaice, and I had the last enchilada followed by grapes and cherries. And a

 

[Reynard]

My father, who was an arborist in his spare time, called the buckeye "horse chestnut".

That's it's proper name - to differentiate it from the sweet chestnut.

The horse chestnut is so named, because when the leaves drop off in autumn, they leave behind an imprint like a horse shoe on the twigs.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I'm eating a sandwich. In a few minutes I'll go to bed.

 

[postman]

mrs p has found a bluebottle graveyard.There are two of them our landing lights.The lights are two plates of scratched glass one on top one below like a sandwich,and there are dead bodies there,as head undertaker i had no idea i have to dispose of said deceased.

 

[tyred]

Whilst I was off galavanting last week, it seems one my neighbours in the adjacent apartment block has changed his Audi A6 TDI for a Tesla. I wonder how long it will take him to re-coup the cost.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Need I say more?

 

[Reynard]

Whilst I was off galavanting last week, it seems one my neighbours in the adjacent apartment block has changed his Audi A6 TDI for a Tesla. I wonder how long it will take him to re-coup the cost.

A fair bit, I'd imagine. And an EV isn't as kind on the environment as some people like to think. It's just shifting a lot of the problems elsewhere.

 

[tyred]

A fair bit, I'd imagine. And an EV isn't as kind on the environment as some people like to think. It's just shifting a lot of the problems elsewhere.

That would be my view on them too but there is no doubt they are becoming more common.

 

[Reynard]

That would be my view on them too but there is no doubt they are becoming more common.

That's the power of marketing, big business and virtue-signalling.

From an engineer's perspective, there are other, better options e.g. hydrogen, both in a modified ICE set-up and in the same type of fuel cell technology that they use in spacecraft. But alas, the automotive industry goes where a) the biggest profits are, b) where the biggest subsidies are, and c) to whatever other government carrot is being dangled in front of their nose...