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The Edgar Lustgarten series Scales of Justice and Scotland Yard are available on DVD. I bought them secondhand a few years ago from a record shop in Cannes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard_(TV_series)
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nonnaB, have you noticed the fragrance given off by lemon flowers? It is amazing. Orange flowers have a spectacular scent - which is extracted and used commercially but lemon is distinctly different. Have a sniff!.
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Is Andrew Sachs related to Leonard Sachs?
They are not related. Andrew Sachs (real name Andreas Seigfried Sachs) was born in Germany in 1930. His family fled the Nazi regime in 1938, settling in north London.
Leonard Sachs was born in South Africa in 1909 and died in London in 1990.28 Aug 2016
The Sunday Post (Newcastle): 2016-08-28 - The ... - PressReader
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I agree with the remarks re handwashing with soap and Happy birthday or other nonsense phrase that le pitre (the clown) is uttering.
All is to nought if, even after removing every organism from your hands, you then proceed to dry them on a dirty towel. By dirty, I don't mean manky,. I mean merely one that is anything other than sterile.
The alcohol wash is the method favoured in France but, really, I wonder if any of these procedures are of any real use?
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My point about going off topic applies on this thread because of the importance of the subject matter. Normally, I don't care about this.
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Going off topic again.
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Aren't we in danger of running off-topic here with discussion on hymns at school?
The Trump's announcement yesterday seems far more relevant and important.
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The French Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe has just been on TV stating that gatherings of more than 100 people are now banned. This will, no doubt, apply to Monaco as well.
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Emmanuel Macron is making a TV appearance tonight to update the French restrictions during the current situation.
It looks like the Cannes Film Festival (12 - 23 Mai) will not go ahead neither will MipTV https://www.miptv.com/
The Monaco Grand Prix (21 Mai) is still being prepared for although there is a very good chance of it being abandoned or, at best, postponed.
As mentioned before, these events are of enormous economic importance to the coastal towns and cities down here but, whatever, better to be safer than sorry.
Our own little Fête de l'Oranger is as of now still being advertised as going ahead but it is almost certain to be cancelled.
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I would find it difficult to contemplate going anywhere apart from my immediate environs in the present health situation.
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Are saying that MMW was designed? I was colleged at PCFE whilst the abomination was being built. I thought it was just thrown together from random bits.
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I thought rubbers were sold in packets of three.
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There are strong indications that the Cannes Film Festival and the Grand Prix (held towards the end of May on adjacent weeks) will be cancelled. This will be a big blow to the Riviera as these events (plus all the other tourism) brings most of the wealth of the Monaco and the coastal cities (Nice, Cannes, Antibes, St Tropez).
Our local Fête d'Oranger (mentioned before) at the Easter weekend is all but cancelled as are all the other events this year that attract tourists.
There isn't any abandonment of travel to and from the village so far but I can easily see that happening. It's fortunate, I suppose, that the village isn't on the way to anywhere so there is little or no through traffic. We could easily be "locked down" for a time without it making a lot of difference to our day to day lives - there are no supermarkets in the village but there is plenty of wine, plenty of things to eat (both plants and animals), a boulangerie/patisserie with good stocks of flour etc. So, with luck and fortune, everything will be OK.
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As an outsider looking into an increasingly foreign country, I find all of this UK government shenanigans quite amusing - philimayfield has it right, not only with that Patel woman but a number of the others as well - including the prime minister himself.
One to be extremely cautious about, though, is Dominic Cummings - the PM's SPAD (or other nonsensical acronym). He looks to be potentially extremely dangerous. Anyone who could contemplate filling 10 Downing Street with even more "weirdos and misfits" should seek urgent specialist help.
Where has respect for your government gone? Macron may not be liked here but he has political gravitas and is respected. Johnson has always been thought of as a joke, hasn't he?
Well Johnson is no joke read up about his time in the Bullingdon Club and Piers Gaveston Society with his mates David Cameron and George Osborne (remember them?)
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But this box can hide a secret inside, can you guess what is in it today?
Corona virus?
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I live not far from the Italian border and, although a considerable distance from the centre of the coronavirus outbreak there and from nonnaB, my local authority is preparing contingency arrangements for possible isolation.
Isolating leBsL wouldn't be too difficult - it's pretty much isolated anyway and a few road blocks would be relatively easy. Most concerning at present is if the crisis gets any worse, the fate of le Fête de l'Oranger over the Easter weekend . Will it be able to go ahead? That is one of the big annual events here and brings in a lot of money for the fabric of the commune. There is also the Chasse aux Oeufs (Easter egg hunt) in early April which, although for youngsters, brings in quite a large crowd.
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That's really good news, Brenda. Onwards and upwards!!!
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Beekay, Several of my lectures at the tech were held in the old University College building on Shakespeare St (the laboratories/room at the end, right, when facing the building). From there we had a good view of the Clinton, also the Registry Office and the Synagogue. I went in the Clinton once - that was enough, thank you very much!
Several years later (when working at Gerard's) I found out that a number of the "ladies" working on the soap packing lines had secondary employment at several places including the Clinton Arms, as strippers at the Old General on Radford Road and outdoors evening jobs patrolling Gregory Boulevard (not as policemen, I should add).
With the mention of the Newcastle, is that still there? There was a big music (jazz) scene there in the 70s with such notables as Johnny Hobbs as regulars. I used to go there quite often when I lived at 291 Mansfield Rd.
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Clinton Arms, corner of Shakespeare Street and North Sherwood Street or was it Dryden Street? My memory is fading. Anyway it was THE place to see sagging, varicosed veined bosoms poking out of fastened V necked cardigans. The owners of these nightmare chests mostly had faces that could launch a thousand dustcarts.
May well have had some traumatic effects on some of the younger students a the Technical College across the road.
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No problem here but I do connect through a proxy server. Could that be the reason for better service?
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On the subject of dingy grey net curtains, have you noticed the revolting colour state of the net curtains at 10 Downing Street and other government buildings that are constantly being shown on British television news programmes? My mother would have had apoplexy if her nets became as bad as that.
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I understand that he was known by that in his early days at the BBC when he shared a closet (broom cupboard) with some stuffed rodent puppet.
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1 minute ago, Brew said:
There's could be some truth in what philmayfield thinks, echoes of George Micheal?
Yes, indeed!
Coronavirus
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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