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Sadly, or not, but it suits me, I am one of those sad? chaps that clears cookies when I log out. +25 expected today, doesn't happen very often, so I have cleaned the a/c filter. We have a/c in the master bedroom, for hot nights!! Newer (2011) Freelander failed the inspection yesterday, xenon levelli...

Thought I had better sign in, to help lg's statistics!!

25% more members now, I assume.

I can't stay, other things to do, but will not logout (don't know if that is possible, but I expect it is).

It seems to be still there, The Ostrich in/near Colnbrook was a favorite of mine.

Haven't been there for at least 20 years.

They did a very good platter of whitebait.

A bit of a show about an hour ago, but nothing like yesterday.

Inside for a bit of warmth, it is +2 outside and I am somewhat cold.

Time for bed, said Zebedee (with apologies to " the magic roundabout").

I was going to say something about Eurovision, the only thing to watch, tonight, on Finnish tv, if you are not an ice hockey fan. I have decided that, perhaps, I should not comment, after several glasses of "vino collapso". Ah, it is the trouserless Finnish entry!! It is now dark enough to sit outsi...

There are many pictures on the net but I will send my best.

It does not get completely dark here even at local mean midnight, so the contrast is not that good.

The aurora are quite spctacular tonight in Southern Finland.

For once there are clear skies.

First time this year, I saw the DC3, that offers a similar experience here, flying an approach to Helsinki, Vantaa, yesterday.

Possibly doing crew training/annual renewals.

Normally it goes over my house but 22L is currently being resurfaced.

I went there in the late 70s when I was on the ANZ DC10, with BA. ANZ used to have a service that routed AKL-RAR-HNL once? a week and I think they were the only operator to Raro. Iirc I think we stayed at a hotel called the Rarotongan, lovely place. Very unspoilt then but I imagine it is just anothe...

Two chaps, an off road capable cherry picker, and an empty cable drum on a lorry turned up on my drive this morning. They proceeded to remove the obsolete (Finland does not use fixed line telephones any more, maybe in towns?) overhead telephone cabling, wound it onto the drum and took it away. The, ...

I learnt to fly first also.

Nothing so wonderful as a Cherokee but a Forney Ercoupe.

Thanks for the replies, I will do it tomorrow.

I am sure someone, OFSO?, knows the answer as I need some help understanding the rules around ISAs. I have read several web pages, including gov.uk, and have found it somewhat confusing. I invested the maximum, £20k, in the 2023/24 tax year, and it is still invested, in a cash isa. Can I now put ano...

Re a couple of posts back.

Mine was a 1936 Austin 10.

Bought for £5 and which disintegrated on the partially built Northam Bridge in Southampton, 1965?.

My second was a Ford Poplar 100E, which my sister rolled.

It didn't do too well after that, but my sister survived.

What does an Englishman, in Finland, do on Friday evening after dinner? Clear snow. Another 10/15 cm today, it stopped about 2000, but, if I hadn't sort it out tonight, it would be either a lot of slush or melted and frozen solid by the morning. Job done, after a few glasses of wine and Elgar, The D...

How about Heligoland

My garden yesterday morning. My garden this morning.
About 15cm, which I will clear, when it stops snowing.

For Reddo, it was -30 overnight in Kittila.

Annoyingly, thick cloud is now covering the sky but fmi.fi (there are English pages) is still showing very high aurora probability.

Haven't heard from wife's Ivalo relations but they have to be up at 0500 for work tomorrow and "Voice of Finland" is on tv, grrr!,

The only place I have been to on Corsica is Bonafacio, on a boat many years ago, so perhaps it is there.

Mrs Ex-A has got me thinking.

Corsica, west coast?

Google shows a similar picture and suggests it is Villanovo but I am not certain.