From BBC website: "Hamburg police shoot man with axe ahead of Euros match". No, it's not funny ... but I did wonder if shooting with guns or pistols might have been a better approach?
Had to google gateau. Similar to what we would call strawberry shortcake. Still trying to picture how the stranger could be pitched up in the front garden if he was confined to a tent.
I don't think the headline is particularly weird, considering the weirdness of the incident it refers to.
Yes, it was the vision of the cake-eating stranger that tickled my fancy...and the fact that the reporter felt they had to describe the cake as *family-sized* (whatever that may mean!).
Or perhaps the shocking thing is the size of it? - I mean, if he had been in the tent eating a regular-sized gateau, well, that would be less of an issue. It's the gluttony which is frowned upon!
That's true, but from prints I've seen, chestnut might be quite a good description of the post-Stroudley livery. Not many memories will go back to pre-grouping times now, and early colour photos are unreliable - we're on our own!
True, although I remember seeing "Birch Grove" in the late 60s, painted in what I'd think of as a rather darker shade than chestnut. Hopefully when she was painted a few years earlier there would still have been folk who could have advised the Bluebell Railway as to the correct colour - although memory does fade. Or did they find some genuine Marsh Umber paint in the depths of Brighton or Lancing works?
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Botulism outbreak traced to ready-to-ear salads.
I TOLD you and TOLD you to be careful with those salads. Did you listen? No!
Paid breast pumps break for working mothers
If they're going to pay for them, the least they might expect is that they won't break.
I know it all makes sense at some ecological level, but it just makes me think: Roosting fish? Who knew?
American consumers lose confidence in June
Yeah, she was always a flaky one, that June was.
Likewise. I rather like the fact that it is the only month with a brewery in it.
...mum left shocked after finding stranger in tent pitched up in her front garden eating a family-sized strawberry gateau
Must have been a whopper (the gateau, that is).
From this morning's Scripps News headline crawl:
Everyone has too many passwords
Well, shoo, that explains everything, doesn't it?
And 25% of them are "Pa$$word"
Yes, it was the vision of the cake-eating stranger that tickled my fancy...and the fact that the reporter felt they had to describe the cake as *family-sized* (whatever that may mean!).
(And, yes, I planned this out ahead of time...)
That is a beret, beret bad pun.
I hope he isn't. I hope he can do better.
Really?
Hornby's proofreaders have not been doing well lately - their revamp of the old Pug 040ST is in a *marron* livery...
Didn't the LB&SCR paint it's locomotives chestnut?
That's true, but from prints I've seen, chestnut might be quite a good description of the post-Stroudley livery. Not many memories will go back to pre-grouping times now, and early colour photos are unreliable - we're on our own!
Wesley J, Circus Host and Fellow Railway Enthusiast
Vista Outdoor Eyes Takeover Offer
Yeah, those outdoor eyes were always aggressive. I wonder if the indoor eyes had any interest in taking over the offer.
This one is really doing me 'ead in! - I can just about fathom what it means, but, as Miss Amanda hints at, the options are endless...
I presume - "Vista Outdoors" is looking as an offer of a takeover. Never heard of Vista Outdoors, but I presume it is a shop for outdoor wear.
And yes, it took me several reads to work it out.
I would have thought that would have been difficult, although I know what they mean and it's a tragic case.