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Barleymower wrote: ↑Sat Jun 21, 2025 3:59 pm So far so good Mouse. We have arrived at a campsite in Koln. Its packed. Proper prices, 8euros not silly £25.

Don't miss kölsch, the local beer

victor1964 wrote: ↑Thu May 22, 2025 6:44 pm A trip out today to see the Tim Burton exhibition at the Design Museum, London, with my significant other.

What's the skirt, Victor? It looks rather stylish

I first noticed it from a train between Cologne and Hanover, many years ago -- it's very striking. But I've never had an opportunity to go there for a ride on it

For anyone who may be interested -- skirtcraft.com is running a 15%-off promotion on all its skirts until the end of May. My first skirt was one of theirs -- it was originatly a crowd- funding project -- and I have bought others since. The quality and fit are really good and Joe's service is excelle...

The seamstress for the group even started making him something called a "drindel" ("drindle"?) which is what girls wore in that era, apparently. And in the present era too, at least in the mountain villages. It's a Dirndl , traditional costume for the fair sex in Austria. But yo...

It's my impression that the Mango Mogul is not actually very bright intellectually -- or well-read, well educated, well informed. He simply possesses a loud voice, an outsize ego and the skills of a street market stall-holder. Hence the bull-in-a-china-shop approach to domestic and world affairs.

Millisiemens? Seconds. In an emergency-retract, those things can take fingers off if you're working on the device (like when aligning the heads). Quite so, and they sound scary. I'm afraid I was just (pedantically) drawing the distinction between mS and ms. And then there's Ms, which is something e...

crfriend wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2025 4:07 pm ...with voice-coil positioners that could perform a full-stroke seek in about 10 mS....

Millisiemens? Capital S is the unit of electrical conductance (otherwise known as the mho to oldies such as myself).

howardfh wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 1:54 pm https://www.peacocks.co.uk/4703284-blk-red-check.html

Alas, this doesn't appear to be on sale at our local branch of Peacock's, which has been open for only a couple of months and probably isn't a large one.

I was wearing a grey Skirtcraft skirt and still got asked about my kilt! I've lately been asked the same question when wearing my black Skirtcraft skirt. But, as has oft been pointed out in this café, it usually means that the questioner wants to pass a compliment without any implied accusation of ...

And today of course is the "Feast of Steven," also well known from song, though some churches celebrate this on the 27th instead. If they do, they break the logic of the ecclesiastical calendar. St Stephen [sic] is remembered as the first Christian martyr and therefore is celebrated on th...

Agree, Mouse - I think it would have been a spectacular event to have attended in person. I don't know whether it was my Sonos kit that wasn't doing the audio mix justice or whether it is just difficult to accurately convey the soundscape when there are so many different things going on concurrentl...

Is no-one going to mention Professor Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion and its musical reworking, My Fair Lady?

Barleymower wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2024 12:12 pm Thanks Mouse, I tried to screen shot it and head over to image search but my screen shoting was prevented. Curses!

No difficulty in screen-shotting her here, BM, except that the photo was so tall and thin that her head and shoulders went off the top of my 9:16 phone screen.

If you try this exercise with Mylène Farmer's music "Sans contrefaçon", be aware that even for native French speaker it is not an easy one because of some unusual phrases or words. To be honest, I thought since my childhood that she was saying " Puisqu'il faut choisir, avant tout , j...