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Rain, overcast, ceiling 1000 feet with embedded Cb's locally. Warmer with rain and some more gusty wind forecast all day.

Ra is not in his heaven, and seems to have taken the last train for some foreign sun kissed coast.

I was apt to think of the other great German team, Auto Union of the pre-war year when my son sent me this photo of a report of the Grosvernor Grand Prix held at at the Pollsmoor track (now a notorious prison) in Cape Town back in 1937. Auto Union - Polsmoor.JPG http://8w.forix.com/au-sa37.html A f...

In the courtly tradition...

Every day is a quadratic day, Allah and his faithful servant Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi be praised!

In a moment of misplaced enthusiasm, I paid to watch the Bahrein GP on television last Sunday, and almost immediately wished I hadn't as the Red Bulls were dominant as usual at almost a second a lap better than the best of the rest, the rest in this case being Alonso in the Aston Martin. While it wa...

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Wed Mar 08, 2023 11:58 pm

TheGreenAnger wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 08, 2023 11:53 pm

my favourite cat name

Has got to be Magnificat!

Ah! A homophone that sounds just like the title of one of my top ten most favourite films...


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On the subject of cats, my favourite cat name, was given to the swine Mancunian Dragon Li half breed, named "Chairman Meow" that used to bully my better half's sister's moggie!

G-CPTN wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 08, 2023 11:30 pm

I have enthusiastically eaten pussy . . .

I must go to bed, my paws are heavy, my whiskers are like lead!

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Wed Mar 08, 2023 11:12 pm

Hydromet wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:31 pm

I wonder what cat tastes like.

Probably like a fishy-flavoured chicken.

G-CPTN, would you really eat your own cat, as opposed to your Captain?

Little Elon, the poor bruised, maligned, Bryanston boy, bog washed and bullied, now needs his own bouncers to protect him from his own IT staff, generally uber nerds (the staff, not the close protectors), and the nerds, the most pacific people in the quantum universe! No wonder he feels he can bully...

Wiley E eh?

Meat not the Acme though I guess.

Listening to "music" and chatty self-promotional exhortations from the insurance company while I'm on hold, waiting to make a claim re car windscreen... How long have you had to wait thus far Karearea, and was the music (or muzac) worth the wait? I guess it depends on the quote or offer in the end....

Complete failure of all rail transport across Sydney yesterday, due, apparently, to failure of network communication system between drivers & controllers. Of course, it caused chaos with people trying to get home, school students coming out at the same time and temperatures over 30C. However, repor...

Come on the both of you? What happened? ;))) The launch was scrubbed ladies and gentlemen... https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2023/03/08/watch-live-3-d-printed-rocket-launch-today/11427713002/ But these folks are onto something here, and the notion of a Van Neumann self replicating spacecraft...

Great Aussie group...

My SA teacher friend sent me this image of the view outside his new flat in Moscow this morning. He starts work tomorrow. He arrived in Russia two days ago. Today is a holiday at his school it being woman's day there. He tells me the shops are full of food and it is all as varied, and cheaper, than...

TGA, I''m not sure why Myxo would be lumped in with those failures. Although it didn't eradicate rabbits, it substantially reduced their numbers, which were in plague proportions. Unfortunately, the report in the daily mail quoted above is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a complete load of bolix. There ma...

With respect to the Australian cat curfew conundrum, I did see this device suggested as the basis for allowing one's feline friend out.... (NB - the RSPCA doesn't recommend this though)... https://catharnessaustralia.com.au/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11824355/Australia-orders-cat-curf...

My SA teacher friend sent me this image of the view outside his new flat in Moscow this morning. He starts work tomorrow. He arrived in Russia two days ago. Today is a holiday at his school it being woman's day there. He tells me the shops are full of food and it is all as varied, and cheaper, than ...