THE BRITISH THREAD

Happy birthday Smorgshious. And happy new crowns to Walter and McT. And have a good inspection Waltercar, hope to see you later.

Dont eat all that cake at once S, is bad for you especially in snowy weather. About 7 cm of white cake on the ground here.

Not fair! I want snow too. I want to get giddy in it with my little girl.

Big HAPPY BIRTHDAY smorgs. I hope you have a fantastic day. You don't look a day over 40!

xxx

Wishing you a very Hapy Birthday from downunder Sarah. The saying is true that you're not getting older smorgs, you're getting better and the best part of your life is still ahead of you, like a fine wine you only get better with age. Have a nice day.

Don't worry, GD, the snow will get to you in.......wait for it......
........1 hour and 17 minutes precisely.

Thanks everyone for Birthday wishes!

It's snowing!

s
x

OK.....Joke of the day....

Five Surgeons are discussing the types of people they like to operate on.

The first Surgeon says: "I like to see accountants on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered."

The second responds: "Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is color coded."

The third Surgeon says: "No, I really think librarians are the best; everything inside them is in aphabetical order.

The fourth Surgeon chimes in: " You know, I like mechanics....those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over."

But the fifth Surgeon shut them all up when he observed: "You're all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There's no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine, and the head and the arse are interchangeable."

Happy Birthday Smorgs!

I've been flying about Europe so much I hardly know what day it is.

Two countries in a day is enough for me - yesterday I crossed into four, albeit that one was just "part of the journey"!

Hope you're all well.

I was amused by his Lordship's comment about cappuccino and sun-dried tomatoes. I was given an espresso/cappuccino machine for Christmas by my girlfriend.

However, my Italian friends can't understand why the Anglo-Saxons like a product (dried tomatoes) which they consider to have been what pre-dated a reliable canning process for preserving tomatoes!

All of which makes me a very Euro/Metro/Southern softie, I suppose! Oh well, never mind!

KP

Milord Ellpus' joke reminded me of this one:

At a golf club, a motorcycle mechanic learned that his playing partner was a surgeon by profession.

He said to him, "You know doc, my profession is a lot like yours. You open up bodies, replace worn-out parts, patch them up as good as new. I do exactly the same with motorcycle engines."

The doctor replied, "Yes, but can you do it with the motor running?"

The frontpage of the late edition of the Evening Standard



We had some snow and in various parts of the country some chaos as well.

Here, the snow started melting late afternoon ... but it's freezing now.

View from our living room's window towards tha park (neighbour like to make a "park-light-show" :wink: )

England need 49 of 44
Collingwood 96 no


Its all happening

35 off 31

hrumph !@#$%^&*() England

Actually that was a good effort to come back from 3/16 to win on the wire.

Collingwood 120

and your bowlers took 6/35 to end Australia's innings.

well done poms (thats the last time you're gonna hear that from me).

bluh, cricket.

Suggest a good topic Pentacle, I don't want to talk about cricket either

Shame A2K is behaving so badly of late, Ellp and Spendy could give the Aussies some stick.
I can't, cause I'm a Scot.

I've been digging in the garden today, because I want to plant a new hedge. First, I've got to dig the old one out. The new plants came today, so no time to waste. As I was digging, sleet was falling all around.

My muscles are all creaky this evening, from the unaccustomed manual labour.

Whatever that might mean - but obviously important since on the frontpage of the Evining Standard's late edition :wink:

That's a puzzle to be sure Walt....Tom Jones from 1968?

What's that got to do with the London Standard in 2007?

No doubt all will be revealed.

Well... got the wrong stored pic



Should have been this one:

How can you dig in the garden in the snow, McT? Or at least in the permafrost?