Off Topic The Goodhand Arms

Delightful story about Roger Moore here. Read both sections.




What a lovely, decent and courteous chap Roger Moore appears to have been.

Vin

 

Indeed, when they are OK they are not a bad drive. After we'd finally rectified the last problem of the steering I took the car out on some country roads past Rownhams and chucked it around. They certainly go where they're pointed. But, on the whole, I'd steer clear [oops, sorry]. Hope yours stays OK.

 

Looks familiar

 

Ah. You've upset me so much that I'm going away now until next season.

Vin

 

See, I'm not entirely convinced Serbia's new chocolate bars would catch on in the UK?

 

Valentino Rossi is making great progress after his accident. Is he going to miss the next round of MotoGP.? Not bloody likely, is it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/40056483

 

Thank goodness 10 years of idiocy over vaccinations seems to have come to an end!

 

Some very good news. Today at 1pm, Solar power, through various domestic and commercial photovoltaic systems, was producing at the rate of 8.7GigaWatts, or just under a quarter of the UK's power requirements at 24.3%, on a early sunny summer's day, which tends to demand less energy requirement. Wind power was producing just over 9.1% at the time. When you consider that photovoltaic cells across the board are pretty damn inefficient, with even the best ones only peaking out at 36% efficiency at the moment [there is promise for very much better, like 90%, in the future], that's pretty damn impressive. Let's face it, they are hardly crowding us humans out of space. It makes you think, are we nearer to el dorado, energy wise, even without the magic tricks that technological power production is promising us within the next 12-24 months.?

 

I'd like to go to Download one day, I've been to Graspop which is Belgiums equivelant and that was amazing. I'm going to Glastonbury this year

 

Sunderland mascot Bradley has not long to live according to his family. So sad, but packed a lot into his short life and showed people how to be happy.

 

It's when I thought I had the best idea to stop trimming the hedge half way through, by cutting the cord , the wife finds the hand shears


#knackered

 

http://news.sky.com/story/ba-passengers-face-delays-after-it-problems-cause-disruption-10894862

BA cancel all flights from Gatwick and Heathrow after IT failure.

 

Gardening done (well, it's not really but I've stopped), beer in hand, girls out and me and the lad watching the Cup Final in the sun on the I-pad.

Perfect

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-40070746

Bit worrying

 

Makes a change from them flying up the Solent.

 

True.seems they entered uk airspace this time tho. Usualy they turn away before that point

 

I actually did that once. I renovated a hugely neglected set of hedge trimmers and did everything that would make them cut at the top of the game. The moment I switched them on I went through the power cord. So, as it stood, if I put the plug on the end of the existing cable, I could cut the hedge, provided it was two feet away from a power socket.!
In the end I used it to my advantage [you wouldn't expect me not to, surely] by putting one of those garden connecting plugs between the two cables. That meant, apart from the obvious, that the long length I'd previously cut off could be used with other garden electric tools too.

 

40 years since The Sex Pistols released God Save The Queen. Where did that go?

 

Next Friday it'll be 50 years since Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released.

 

It'll soon be 48 years since I was born. Where the heck did THAT go!

Edit: I've just been told by Mrs No7 who unknown to me was looking over my shoulder (how can women do that?), that 20 years of that has gone quickly as time flies when you're having fun