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  • My vote goes to the Fowl of Death, the mottled wood. Lovely plumage.

  • Thank you!! I might try that one day...

  • I've had Zorin on an old laptop for a few years now, it's pretty good. I'd previously tried Mint and another distro I can't remember the name of, but I've stuck with Zorin. I'll probably go with it on my PC once I've done a backup.

  • Do you live in Edinburgh by any chance? Because that all sounds familiar....

  • Our parents used to make ginger beer when I was a kid. There was a "starter", some kind of yeast? Then a raisin or two in each bottle, and of course ginger. Every now and then you'd hear one of the bottles explode. The surviving bottles were delicious, effervescent and spicy, not too sweet.

  • Bluey. I'm an adult and don't have children. It's my guilty pleasure.

  • My brother in law recently acquired one of these and is obsessed with stalking and blasting flies with it. He shot a big blowfly and it exploded in a ghastly mess on the wall. Very effective and - according to him - satisfying.

  • Correct, though I'm old enough to remember using old money, and it was never six and a half, just sixpence ha'penny.

    I love all the old coin words: florin (two shillings), half a crown (two and six), thrup'nny bit (3d), farthing (quarter of a penny).

  • I cut my own hair during lockdown. I did it outdoors, using regular scissors and a mirror. It came out not too bad, from the front anyway. Not sure what the back looked like - it felt ok. That's shortish hair, I'm sure long hair would be easier.

  • Rowing and swimming (in a pool, not because the boat capsized). Both are non weight bearing, easy on the joints. Rowing is excellent for your core.

  • The only datum I can think of is tidal datum, used in shoreline measurements. I've seen the plural given as datums though.... argh!

  • While we're at it, it's turmeric, not choomarick.

  • My anthill is myriad. It's the same as many. "Myriad stars", not "a myriad of stars".

  • Well?

    Jump
  • Talking to a friend in NZ - he says there's been a big influx of Americans, welcomed by tech firms because at the same time a lot of skilled NZers are leaving for Australia. I'm told some of the wealthier tech bros, eg Peter Thiel, are building bunkers in NZ ready for the apocalypse.

    1. Seriously, talk about slow learner.
  • My favourite is the one with Moses coming down with the Big Book of Rules, direct from God. Then getting his pals to kill thousands of his followers for not following the Rules, which presumably they've never seen.

    Levites: But doesn't it say in the Rules...

    Moses: KILL THEM ALL.

    Exodus 32, verse 27