Mundane News

[Reynard]

This evening was spent at the medieval festival in Commequiers in the Vendée, celebrating the Frenchness of the castle.

All good fun, except for two things: firstly, the c. 15th/16th castle was built as an administrative facility, not a castle. And secondly, briefly alluded to in one source, there appears to be the remains of an c. 11th English motte-and-bailey castle next to it, which is visible on Google maps and also in the very dry grass. They've sort of 'forgotten' that particular bit of history

It's a classic "the winners write their version of history" thing, isn't it?

 

[classic33]

They're innocent I tell you; innocent.

Wonder what they do with those found guilty?

 

[Jenkins]

Wonder what they do with those found guilty?

Felix Agail - how do you think @Reynard gets it cheap for her felines?

 

[Reynard]

Not any more, it lost its identity a few years ago. Now it's just a mix up.

I dunno, I always remember it as being a bit, erm, bitty... Radio 1 was always chart stuff, Radio 3 was all the violins and fat ladies singing, and Radio 4 was highbrow talk and The Archers.

Radio 2 had some older stuff, some decent music that wasn't chart but too new to be called old, plus all the sports commentaries with the exception of TMS.

The sports commentaries then got split off to Radio 5 in 1991, and that's when I stopped listening to Radio 2...

 

[Jenkins]

Another nice & relaxed day in south east Suffolk. An extended bottle bank & shopping bimble in the late morning followed by a bit of mixed on & off roading on the 29er while listening to the Fulham/Liverpool match after a quick coffee & toast break. Recovery was taken in the deck chair in the back garden while doing even more radio listening.

 

[Reynard]

Felix Agail - how do you think @Reynard gets it cheap for her felines?

I'm quite partial to a horse steak or Filet D'Anvers myself... Gotta be the Belgian in me.

 

[Jenkins]

I'd say that Radio 2 was the retirement home for music.

 

[Reynard]

Actually, Radio 2 also did some comedy stuff and radio drama in the evenings. Things like Dragnet, Journey Into Space, Digents Does It...

 

[Reynard]

Time for a and MOTD

 

[classic33]

I'd say that Radio 2 was the retirement home for music.

Nay lad, it's a retirement home for "DJ's".

 

[Gravity Aided]

They're innocent I tell you; innocent.

I have never known an innocent horse, though I have known a few characters.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I am *NOT* piddling on my tomatoes...

They put ammonia on all the fields around me.


Was it something I said?

 

[Gravity Aided]

I'm quite partial to a horse steak or Filet D'Anvers myself... Gotta be the Belgian in me.

Sounds good, just cannot get it in The States.

 

[Gravity Aided]

More of a Radio 3 man myself, I also have National Public Radio, which has one station left near me playing classical/symphonic music.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I am currently involved in negotiations to move into the micro 4/3 format in photography, I changed over from the old Sony Alpha DSLRs as they are getting long in the tooth, and harder to find the old lenses. Used to the 4/3 system from my Olympus, it is going to stick around.