test please delete

[DS23]

and chuck in the bin

[DS23]

and cover up with something else so that nobody knows what it was that you did.

[NickFitz]

Bells on Sunday - I always forget about that

Still, it's stopped now and we're on to the Shipping Forecast

"Continuous moderate rain..."

I prefer "Continuous light drizzle" but there doesn't seem to be much of that about tonight

And I remember when such places as "Channel Light Vessel" didn't have "Automatic" appended to their names.

There was something special about lying in one's bed, snug against the rain beating on the windows, hearing the report from Channel Light Vessel, knowing that the men (and in those days they were always men, what with it being the Seventies) of Trinity House were out there in the unforgiving sea, letting us know what hails and gales were besetting their tiny beacon

Still, I daresay the men and women of Trinity House would much rather be at home in bed, letting the "Automatic" bits do the dirty work; and who can blame them.

Years ago I had a friend whose father had been a lighthouse keeper. By the time she was getting old enough to leave home, and he was getting to retirement age, they - the family - were living in a lovely lighthouse on a clifftop somewhere in Scotland. She had photos of it in her living room; it was glorious, at least in the summer when she took the photos.

They were the last family to live there; it was converted to automatic operation when they were there, ready to be switched over when her Dad retired.

I believe there are no longer any manned lighthouses or lightships around the coast of Britain.

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.

[NickFitz]

"New ELVIS PRESLEY record release"

That's got to be the most pathetic phishing/virus spam I've ever received.

Everybody knows Elvis is far too busy frying haddock to make new records

[BrilloPad]

who cares?

#171300
DS23
TPDeity

century

[BrilloPad]

I see DS23 has been in full drivel mode!

[BrilloPad]

BrilloPad 22,440
zeitghost 17,662
cailin maith 12,923
voodooflux 12,028
Diver 11,091
BrowneIssue 10,535
DS23 10,137
NickFitz 10,021
TheFaQQer 9,670
FiveTimes 7,641

Well done DS23 for getting 7th place

[BrilloPad]

Morning all

[Churchill]

Morning all

Good morning BP!

Morning all!

Morning CM!

For all those interested in CM's 10k yesterday I shall let her give you all a "Blow by Blow" account.

[voodooflux]

Morning drivellers