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Plenty of shelf space to fill there. Forward planning at its best. I salute you.

I saw a pair of kingfishers on the river Itchen just north of Southampton. It was a very brief glimpse which I would have missed completely if it wasn’t for the sun lighting up the vivid plumage on their backs. Startling and unforgettable.

In line with the conversation in Epic WTF;
Pavement parkers. Specifically parking half on and half off the pavement. The space they use up in the road means that vehicles travelling on that side have to wait for a gap in oncoming vehicles so why block the pavement at all? Just use the carriageway you selfish prat !

Yep. Even in well-to-do areas it was so. Saw an episode of The Good Life recently, as middle-class as you could get, and their street is deserted.
Suburbia aside it really hits you when you go out to the sticks and ancient market towns like Alresford and Helmsley are wall-to-wall with motorised tin boxes that shove pedestrians onto a few inches of pavement in a main trading thoroughfare hundreds of feet wide and long. It’s ugly and tragic.
Ironic then that local councils go all out to maintain the vehicle access so it doesn’t go ‘out of town’ to shop and it’s that very access that f**s the whole shopping (and, perhaps more importantly, the browsing visitor experience) up.

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Call me weird, if you will, but once I’m done with the humour of these things my mind wanders to the thought of just who are the people in these photos? Do they know they have been used for a fake obituary? Do they mind? Are they spooked? Will they sue? Why, there’s a thousand questions to seek an answer to.

It’s easy to be a snob about these knock-off kits if you have been a Lego nut since childhood but there is some really good quality stuff out there. My son has just bought an ‘Arkham Asylum’ -ish model and it’s ace. Bricks clutch (hold together) really well - something even Lego themselves have struggled to achieve at times.
I reckon the only way Lego are going to survive is to buy the franchises for current hit movies etc. It’s going to cost them and us dear and, ultimately, the public will decide if it’s a working formula.

Porthtowan, W Cornwall.
Midlife, I met a mate on the coast path as this flew over and he confirms the mapping explanation. I was walking for a couple of hours and it did at least half a dozen passes.
Cheers folks.

Can anyone tell me what this is? Fuselage very much like a DC3 but much more modern wing outline and higher pitch engine sound.

Not so wise if he also has a telephone.

FYI; Feathers McGraw.

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I have one that resets automatically when the battery is changed. Trouble is the software has a 24 hour brain while the face reads twelve so sometimes when you pop the new battery back in the hands spin for up to 23 hours worth of movement and your new battery becomes virtually drained.

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Or tell him sarcastically that the only reason you cycle to work is because he needs all the help he can get staying in employment.

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I litter pick outside my house and in the local green space because .. yadda, yadda, yadda.

I took a quick trip into my local Tesco yesterday and it nearly developed into a trip to A&E. Just as I passed through the first set of doors a woman heading towards me on a mobility scooter ploughed into the second set via a sandwich-board and a metal bollard. The bollard was set into the ground and flipped up a few floor tiles in the process. She was upset but not injured. I don’t know what power the motors on those things put out but it wasn’t travelling fast and it took some stopping. I don’t think it would have hesitated to steam-roller me into the door mat.

Bananas. I love em really but they have to be just right and getting them just right is a bit of a lottery. Under-ripe and they are too firm and taste metallic, over-ripe and they are mushy or taste like flour.
Another issue is Lidl’s amazing skill at bruising the things without it showing on the skin. No idea how they do it, everyone else’s bananas go black where they are prodded.

“PRO-CRE-ATE. PRO-CRE-AAAATE!”

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Good luck hosting your next dinner date.

Yes, and while they add all this crap to packaged food cant’t they tweek the proportions so we have food that cooks at the same temperature? Pizza at 180 and chips at 200 = not helpful, guys.

We’ll see. It’s a crying shame that the professionals who will have to treat him will do so as if he cared a jot for them and the rest of society so it’s quite possible their impartial dedication will see him pull through.