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Peter Wyngarde - 90.

You can drill down searches on eBay for only stuff that's post free if you want to. I don't really expect to get postage for nothing (it'll be included in the price if it's post free) but I wouldn't buy anything for £4.99 that cost another £7.00 p&p. I sometimes search for Stoneware Clay on eBay, ( a couple of sellers do sometimes have good deals). This can often bring up American suppliers who might be offering 25lb of clay for about £15 - the postage can be as much as £70. I know it's heavy, but why does it even appear in a bloody search? I can drive for 40 minutes up to Fordingbridge and buy the stuff for £20.

You know it makes sense Phone.

I've often noticed similar on eBay, postage from America has to be watched for very carefully. I don't really understand why eBay brings up such guff in a search, no-one in their right mind would pay some of the postage amounts I've seen asked for on there.

Not sure about dirty old man: a young lady once told me I had a dirty mind. I said :- "So why are you running around inside it naked?" My washing up bowl is not round, it's roughly rectangular but with all four sides being curved and not straight, but it's definitely a bowl.

Not to mention respect and understanding. Edwin Hawkins. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42699330

The first time I went to Scotland was also by coach, it was 1966 and I had to listen to the World Cup final on the radio, (we won btw), but my lasting impression was waking up just about as we were getting into Glasgow, looking out of the window and seeing a brick wall painted with white letters at least ten foot high:- F**K THE POPE

Re-arrange the title into anything you want. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42657954

Last of the founding members.

Eddie Clarke - last remaining member of Motorhead, (until today). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5258283/Motorhead-guitarist-Fast-Eddie-Clarke-67-dies.html

I don't even get that - he's studiously dodged/ignored all of my previous questions. I don't ask any now. Not sure about a Russian bot, he must be a capitalist bot rather than a communist bot as his main interest appears to be how much leaving the EU is going to cost him.

Tommy Lawrence. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/legendary-liverpool-goalkeeper-tommy-lawrence-14134960

I decided not to bite.

Peter Preston. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/07/peter-preston-obituary

:yawn:

Do you ever compact the folders? I've lost emails before now when I've done that. (Didn't really matter, it was only the wife's folder).

Paranoia about money that he always claims not to have?

None for me: I'm already perfect.

Erica Garner 27. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/30/erica-garner-dies-black-lives-matter-eric-garner-daughter

Yes it's a pic that I took, (in July), it's just one insect, a male Scorpion Fly. You'll have something similar in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecoptera

Only it's mother could love this one - (and that's not necessarily guaranteed).

I can remember my dog taking a slash in there.

Consider a road with six traffic lanes - three for each direction - as you know, we drive on the left - the leftmost lane is where you should be if you are the only vehicle on the road - if you are the second vehicle on the road and the other vehicle is ahead of you but travelling at a slower speed, you should move into the centre of the three lanes to go past that vehicle and then return to the leftmost lane. Add in thousands more vehicles and what happens is that the leftmost lane mostly contains lorries unable to drive at the maximum speed limit for the road, the centre lane will often contain vehicles capable of passing the lorries but unwilling to move back into the left hand lane when they have done so, this means that the third lane, furthest from the left contains all the other traffic. It's not that unusual for the right hand lane to contain all the traffic - (except for me and Barry).

Thanks John, This first idea is plausible. Ice is less dense than water. The "highest" water here froze first and then floated on the remaining water before it did the same thing to the water below. This second one doesn't fly as it was just a one night frost that caused it, (and I'm sure that the water level was more likely to have been rising). I'd guess that it froze from the outside in and the water level was going down as it froze over the coarse of a few days. so its actually lower in the middle. I like this third one too, (or maybe something like it) the water level is quite likely to have been changing as we'd had fairly heavy rain during the day, before the frost at night. I think what actually happened is as the water froze from the outside the ice forced the unfrozen water level higher until it overflowed onto the ice edge. The overflowed water froze and the freezing continued inward. This may be the best explanation, but only if the water level was dropping, it could have been, I'm only guessing about it rising, there was no obvious void under the ice, maybe the water underneath rose again after it froze. It actually is a topographical map. This happens when the water is slowly receding as the puddle freezes. The surface freezes, the water level drops, the thin ice is pulled into a slightly concave shape, air suddenly seeps in from an edge, making a ring around the outside. Rinse, repeat, until all the water is gone or frozen. Each ring is a level bubble, representing a particular depth.

No, I don't drink boiled water, or any other water, I drink tea and coffee made with boiled water, it tastes of either tea or coffee. I've not seen a doctor about any illness of mine since about 1960, (physical injuries yes, but illness, no), so those bugs don't seem to be doing me any harm. When I was a grandchild, I had what I was given by grandparents, that would usually be some sort of squash made with carbonated water, (there would have been no demanding tolerated), I've still got granddads soda syphon in a cupboard somewhere. Simple is turning on the tap and filling the kettle, no filters to replace, ever!