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Rob

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  1. Hmm. Methinks that Scottish bagpipes are slightly iffy. That one looks to be sheep/goatskin colour. All the Scottish pipes I have seen are tartan - yet I've never seen a tartan sheep whether fully clothed or au natural. It also begs the question as to who first thought up the idea of taking a goatskin, adding pipes to the legs and tying off surplus holes, then blowing into it and regulating the outflow. I guess that was probably the 10th millennium BC equivalent of the weirdo on the bus? One can certainly assume he sat next to the 'lucky' listener.
  2. I think it is C over pomegranate, but just need to prove it. I believe the uncertainty arises from the fact that sometimes the pomegranate has a wavy foot and sometimes not. Coupled with the fact that the overmark is not always centred at the same point on the underlying mark it leads to ambiguity in interpretation.
  3. I'll be with you in 5 Hours, that is
  4. That's a collective you, i.e. all of us.
  5. I've always found an excess makes the extremities go numb. That you also give out garbled messages is a red herring as that happens often.
  6. Biltong is also good. So many good things avaialble. Just indulge if you like something. You are always free to make donations to any charity you like at any time and there's no point in feeling guilty about it, resulting in a period of abstinence. Just think, a bus with your number on it might come to collect you tomorrow.
  7. Me too. Available in Switzerland the other day too. Always a good bet. Rhetorical question, but why do they make cars so small? Brought back 150 litres of wine and loads of sausage when visiting last August - and it's nearly all gone
  8. I'll correct myself. There is also the ME110. Wing profile seems to match.
  9. If German, the bombers would probably have to be JU86s as these are the only twin engined bombers with that tail arrangement. Unless someone knows different?
  10. No, can't be they are twin engined but with the tail as per a Lancaster. If British, they must be Manchesters - the plane from which the Lancaster was developed. Trouble is, the Manchester was a bomber. Not many bombers posing as fighters in the BoB. Another problem is the Manchester wasn't introduced until very late in 1940 i.e. after the BoB.
  11. RS do a wide range starting at £1.19 + VAT for a box of 250, if that helps.
  12. As the title says. Please email any images you have of it - irrespective of how clear. Thanks.
  13. Weird. The interference at 1:22 had potential.
  14. I'm afraid I have to out myself as an adopted Franken. With the wife coming from Bamberg, and a winzer who drops a van load of wine off as required, it is difficult to find anything better. 100 brewewries within a 20 mile radius or to put it another way - a brewery in every village, sausage on tap, wine on tap etc. Lifef is decidedly pleasant in the backwater of Germany that is Franken. Mine's a triple wurst and a litre of bock.
  15. I understand the Germans do a good line in men in white coats. I'm willing to pay if it isn't covered by the insurance.
  16. Very similar in views. The main difference is that getting British people to pull in one direction is like herding cats.
  17. You got away lightly - I married one. Mind you, from the organisational/household's point of view it was probably a blessing in disguise.
  18. He won the first series of ITV's reality show 'Britain's Got Talent' For some unknown reason, I missed that. Lucky me.
  19. He's obviously got a good voice. Who's Paul Potts, or should that be Pol Pot? Someone taking the **** with their stage name?
  20. Sorry, forgot about the M53.
  21. Sirloin? Goose? Posh git! I thought you were from Liverpool? True! but it's Crimbo! Nothing's changed Peck. Scousers have always sourced their luxuries in Manchester. Just a quick trip down the East Lancs.
  22. I'm sure there isn't, but the cost of a table where the minimum you would pay is over £200 per day with some double that means you have to sell a significant amount just to break even. That's before you take driving down and parking into consideration which will add another £100 to costs. As the takings tend to be more in London, it's great if you live locally but crap if you don't. Unless you have high value items to sell (which also find a buyer on the day), you are on a hiding to nothing.
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