Mundane News

[Illaveago]

We have just seen 3 Hedgehogs on own lawn . It shows that they are out foraging and not just relying on the food bowl .

 

[Jenkins]

The weekend has begun and I really need it this week. When your working week starts with opening this

and finding this

and carries on like that for the contents of about 1/3 of a 20' container, you know it's going to be a busy one!

 

[Jenkins]

Cannot resist this which sums up a lot of our local problems.

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As it's finally got sunny down here, the motorhomers have started taking over the usual stretch of Felixstowe's seafront. This includes parking one side partly on the prom to level the vans up, one who removes the motorbike from the back of the van and parks that separately and another withan external generator set up and running. I think at one point I counted 20 of them parked up one Sunday morning on my way to work.

 

[DCLane]

Always one who everyone else follow regardless of how wrong.
50% that's a good amount GCSE max is 25% but most get 10%

Most have 25%, some 40-50%. It's easier for me to manage across 145 students to give the small number who have it the same additional time.

 

[Speicher]

Do you really think @Reynard would give ANY cats back?

The question related to mathematics. No parameters were established regarding the affection held for furry friends.

 

[Reynard]

Do you really think @Reynard would give ANY cats back?

I have to, when I'm judging.

Although in household pet side classes, there's often a class "Cat Judge Would Most Like to Take Home"

 

[Reynard]

The question related to mathematics. No parameters were established regarding the affection held for furry friends.

And cats are better than cantaloupes

 

[Reynard]

The weekend has begun and I really need it this week. When your working week starts with opening this
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and finding this
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and carries on like that for the contents of about 1/3 of a 20' container, you know it's going to be a busy one!

And you've got to open every single bloody box... Aaaargh!

 

[tom73]

And cats are better than cantaloupes

Think Sally would much prefer Linus.

 

[tom73]

Just back from picking Mrs 73 up for the station she'd had a few train issues so was running late.
Every congress is the same she come back with loads of extra stuff and free stuff. She got some competition prizes coming in the post Which she has a habit of winning inc a £100+ pair of work shoes.

 

[classic33]

My final year, final semester undergraduate students are currently in the early part of a 24-hour exam which started at 10am this morning. I'm running the support process until 5pm today, then from 8.30 tomorrow morning.

Most of the 145 have at least accessed the exam paper. However, around 20 have decided they don't need the 3 1/2 hours they've lost to date and are fine. Looking at most of their access online / attendance records I tend to disagree

Edited: almost 6 hours in and 7 students still haven't accessed it ...

Maybe they got "caught short"!

 

[classic33]

I've tidied the kitchen, cleaned the bathroom, and even found the top of the sideboard.

Tomorrow you'll start searching for the rest of it?

 

[tyred]

Cats are much the same @Andy in Germany - only their vision is more acute than dogs. They can see in almost complete darkness, although their vision is at its peak when it's crepuscular. They do have the same trade-off when it comes to colour vision - red and green is largely monochrome.

Cat toys its the same thing. Mostly to appeal to us cat slaves, while a cat likes nothing better than a scrunched up bit of paper or an old shoe lace LOL. Although Jingly Mouse and Knitted Snakey are very popular here.

Speaking of, I haven't seen Snakey in a few days. I bet he is somewhere under an item of furniture.

 

[Reynard]

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That's bang on!

 

[Reynard]

Moment of serendipity in my research...

Find an article in a 1983 issue of Short Circuit which mentions that the (then) new Superstox engine regs were near enough identical to those for Formula Ford 2000. And those are in pretty well much any Blue Book of the era. Both formulae were running the 2-litre Pinto, the Superstox having moved from the 1700cc crossflow in a bid to cut costs.

Ergo I dust off Scott Lakin's former copy from 1988 that's on my bookshelf to dig out the answers I need.