philmayfield

You would bring an air of elegance to the evening BK.

Pleased to see you’re maintaining standards down there BK!

We certainly used to when I lived with my parents. When we married we used the dining room in our first home but since we moved to our present house about 30 years ago we tended to eat in the separate dining area of the kitchen. We do have a large, elegant dining room which we only use at Christmas (known as The State Dining Room!) and we haven’t entertained friends for dinner for some years. I gave my dinner jacket away so I no longer dress for dinner.

Do people still use dining rooms or are they a thing of the past? Do you dress for dinner?

It's slow here as well but we do live in a field miles from civilisation and no fibre to the premises.

Quod erat demonstrandum. 'That which was to be demonstrated'. My Latin obviously wasn't wasted!

That's one of the many things you were taught at school but never ever came across in real life. A bit like quadratic equations.

I've never had any brushes with the law BK having always lead a godly, righteous and a sober life. When I was a member of the judiciary, as a tax commissioner, my records were checked and there was not a stain on my character! I must be an incredibly boring person. Perhaps I should get out more or become a vicar.

Marcos sports cars were actually built with a laminated plywood chassis. The vicar who bought my girlfriend's Mini complained when his feet went through the floor!

I’ve seen them replaced with strong cardboard and sprayed over! A friend who had an 1100 found a ham sandwich on the back floor. It must have been painted over when the vehicle was constructed! It used to be a regular weekend job touching up the rust spots on the car.

Sod’s Law can also be applicable!

I wouldn’t worry about it BK. I took physics at A level and I don’t recall it cropping up on the syllabus. As long as you understand Ohm’s Law and Newton’s laws of motion you’ll get by.

We used to have swifts nesting yearly in our field pony shelter but we've seen none this year. I've only heard the cuckoo just once. Also we had loads of lapwings/peewits on the field but we've not seen any for years. Neither have we seen the herons flying over. There's plenty of squirrels, buzzards and magpies though but fewer rabbits. It will be interesting to see what appears when our hay crop is mown. It looks like it will be a record year for that after all the rain.

Another thing re cars. What's happened to all the flies and insects that used to spatter the windscreen. Back in the 50's there used to be plastic fly deflectors that you could clip onto the bonnet mascot. Have modern farming methods reduced the insect population? Come to that, whats happened to bonnet mascots? The Merc. pointed star used to fold on impact and the Spirit of Ecstasy on a Rolls used to disappear into the radiator. I suppose Health and Safety has removed them all now.

I think in my first Mini a heater was an optional extra for about £10 and automatic transmission in a car had barely been heard of. With modern auto transmissions you can’t even roll back on hill starts.

It’s not a question of prejudice in TV advertising. It’s just that the multi race families they show on many of the adverts are not representative of their presence in society at large. We don’t see many Asian or Chinese mixed families. Other lives matter as well.

When I chopped a finger off some years ago I had to be at the Derby Royal Hand Centre at 6am. That was a journey of 30 miles.

A cooling sea breeze would be nice. It was 30C here this afternoon! Remember when cars didn't have air conditioning?

Got to agree with that Barrie!

Don't push your luck. Today's St. Swithun's day!

Too bloody right Bruce!

Two countries separated by a common language!

Vest style carrier bag as used by supermarkets.

Hardly a breakthrough. The vest carrier was invented at AB Celloplast in Sweden and we held the UK patent, so that meant all the supermarkets and people like Boots, Mothercare and many more. The bits we chopped out were recycled and injection moulded into handles for bags so nothing was wasted. We also developed the clip closure bag and extruded the closure profiles. All were extruded, printed and converted on site. We processed thousands of tonnes of polymer and had 5 fifty tonne storage silos with regular tanker deliveries.

A yellow card should be a red card. No substitutes. When the scores are equal at the end just declare a draw. Shoot outs are meaningless and are not relevant to how the game was played.