Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Steve J]

We see discarded poo bags when there are bins located less than 100m away .

[Techno II]

Not seen any poo bags 'hanging around'*.....But HAVE noticed a small number of (mainly) disposable face masks littering car parks.

I'll give folk the benefit of believing most of those have fallen out of a pocket...rather than them just having been slung on the ground.

Cheers - Phil.

* Chucking them into trees and bushes is appalling !

[d_Guy]

Used to be roaches, beer cans and expended prophylactics but since they gated the road to the church parking lot it's very clean (except for the deer droppings).

[Last Hussar]

Who is smoking deer?

[d_Guy]

Who is smoking deer?

Pretty much anyone with a rifle

[mmcv]

That time of year again when an the clocks get all mixed up and steal an hour of the day from us.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Yes we should leave the hour on all the time.

[Steve J]

Ah, the joys of longer evenings .

[fsn]

Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.

We should dispense with the going forward and keep the going back.

What could go wrong?

[mmcv]

Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.

We should dispense with the going forward and keep the going back.

What could go wrong?

I often thought this myself, but have since come up with what I feel is a much superior solution. Rather than moving the clock forward an hour in spring, why don't we move it back 23 hours? Then you get a whole extra Saturday to celebrate the start of spring. Gives every one an extra day to adjust to the change.

I see no flaws with this, can't believe we're not doing it... 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Well the year  is gradually getting longer, so you will get that extra day eventually

[Raider4]

Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.

Huh, unless you have small children in the house, who get up after x hours of sleep, which is of course now an hour earlier according to the clock. So you end up getting up an hour earlier, and staying awake for an hour longer on the Sunday.

[steve_holmes_11]

Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.

We should dispense with the going forward and keep the going back.

What could go wrong?

Wrong (with the autumn extra hour) is if you're n that night-shift.

[Last Hussar]

Latest news from Suez Canal - they are considering taking off the handles and the things wot hold the candles

[fsn]

Gentlemen.

As you know, 2021 is the year of Nobby's Napoleonics.

I have carefully planned the British element (taken from the Waterloo OOB) but may have goofed somewhat.  My current scheme is for 19 bttns of infantry, 5 regiments of cavalry and 7 batteries of artillery - 1140 infantry, 200 cavalry, about 150 artillery. This, I thought, reflected the ratios of Wellington's army.  It does - but not the BRITISH elements of Wellington's army.   

To properly reflect the British element, I need to add a further 5 regiments of cavalry. Now, my conundrum is this: do I want to add a further 200 cavalrymen (Leon - stay out of this) to what is already a force too big to reasonably field on my table, or do I just say "stuff it"? My cavalry is 3 of Light Dragoons and 2 of Dragoons, and I fear that I perforce would have to field either Hussars (nasty foreign things, suitable only for Continentals) or the Life Guards.  Certainly I'd have to add the Scots Greys to complete Ponsonby's Brigade.

What to do? What .. to ... do?

 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

The great unanswered Waterloo question...
Did the Brunswick cavalry return home, or did the Duke raise a second unit?
I have heard both over the years.
So you neeeeeeeeeed Brunswickers!

[Orcs]

Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.

When I am on nights the clock going forward means I work an hour less. If I am on nights it when it goes forward I get an hours overtime.  win Win as far as I am concerned. 

[Ithoriel]

I'm retired and single. I go to bed when I'm tired and get up when I wake. Clocks? What are they?

[fsn]

So you neeeeeeeeeed Brunswickers!

469 infantry, 92 cavalry, 2 artillery batteries already purchased. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Latest news from Suez Canal - they are considering taking off the handles and the things wot hold the candles

They shited it, another 1000 camels I understand