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Well, thanks. I feel so much better, now. Basically, we are probably doomed. The world our grandchildren will pass on to their own grandkids will likely be a far less pleasant place. And the resistance to the necessary changes dashes hope at nearly every turn. Though the conversation is changing, s...

Odd threads all over mumsnet about some big news about to be broken on Dispatches tonight 9pm. We shall wait with baited breath.... I just checked back with the search option. Fifteen years ago I described him on FG as a turd, with reasons. Eight years ago I did it again. I'm scarcely likely to cha...

Astride96 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:45 pm Good morning. My name is Astride and I am 34 years old.
I live in Strasbourg and I am also a gardening enthusiast.
I'm really happy to be part of this forum

Welcome to Forum Garden, find a topic and dive in

Norwich City: Delia Smith set to lose majority shareholding in club as Mark Attanasio increases stake https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66707902 Delia and her husband currently have a 40% stake between them and the Milwaukee Brewer is increasing his stake to 40%. Where do the BBC get the claim th...

Perhaps he annoyed someone. And some from British lawmaker Alicia Kearns, chair of parliament’s foreign affairs committee: The speed at which the Russian Govt has confirmed Yevgeny Prigozhin was on a plane that crashed on a flight from Moscow to St Petersburg should tell us everything we need to kn...

An unfortunate selection given her sending off today. Footballers are always winning SPOTY - maybe we could go for one of the Netball players? I have seen a clip of the moment in question and I think she was quite oblivious after the collision, I don't think she had the slightest intention. I shall...

We in the UK have a national vote each Christmas to designate the Sports Personality of the Year. Perhaps I might be allowed to suggest Lauren James ? I might also suggest that the women's leagues could overtake the traditional fixtures' attendance figures over the course of the next decade. It's a...

Not the BBC, but this headline was on the AP news site today. Black bear shot and killed by Montana man in his living room after break-in So, a Montana man broke in to the Black Bear's living room and shot him? Did I get that right? https://apnews.com/article/bear-killed-living-room-montana-5bab31b...

LarsMac wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 10:06 am I would hate to see the Moon become an international battleground. I truly hope that we establish a viable global government of some sort before anyone actually gets too comfortable on the Moon.

Space is, and always should be, above petty nationalism.

Allow me to ask a deeply insensitive but quite puzzled question relating to The family of a teenager allegedly paid by a BBC star for sexually explicit photos is said by the Sun to be upset by the corporation's latest response. The BBC said it first became aware of a complaint in May and then of &q...

It’s the old debate, static vs dynamic linkage of your programs - static linkage gives the developer more control at the expense of object size.

Given the amount of ram available to most systems nowadays static makes sense but it will kill older laptops.

Would anyone like to see what a well-delivered public slapping looks like? The is the sting in the tail of today's published report of "the Committee of Privileges a matter concerning the conduct of the Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, that is, whether he had...

Gday old boy, long time no type. How have you been? How's the boy? I've been living on the low side for some time now. Not much contact with anyone. Home or abroad. I was working in the same place for the last two years then was removed from site in March without any explanantion. The company is pl...

They have found a new use for all of the underground space left vacant by the oil and gas extractions in our region. Carbon Capture. We now have a project to pump CO2 into underground spaces for long term storage. That should prove to be interesting. https://netl.doe.gov/carbon-management/carbon-st...

They have found a new use for all of the underground space left vacant by the oil and gas extractions in our region. Carbon Capture. We now have a project to pump CO2 into underground spaces for long term storage. That should prove to be interesting. https://netl.doe.gov/carbon-management/carbon-st...

LarsMac wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 7:06 pm Oh, SURE!
It's all OUR fault.

Well until we stop pumping CO2 into the atmosphere the extreme weather will just keep on happening.

If anyone thinks more evidence is needed this is an interesting article :-

https://www.pnas.org/eprint/DTAU6HURISWEIBEN33VI/full

A facinating article :-

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-w ... nd-neither

I attended (Remotely, of course) graduation ceremonies for a granddaughter, and a grand niece, yesterday. The commencement addresses were nearly identical in style and theme, and at some points, word for word. I could not help but wonder if the deans of the respective schools had not perhaps consul...

I only wish that they could be so open to change.

Hey Spot, I haven't read "A History of the Bible" yet, but it sounds interesting and informative. The Bible is a complex and influential book that has shaped many cultures and beliefs throughout history. It's fascinating to explore the various interpretations and translations of the Bible...

And while I'm at it - Batch-process fusion is not ever capable of being a power station. The only process capable of being a power station is continuous flow. Really. I have no idea why anyone is trying to make batch-process fusion work, it's utterly pointless in terms of contributing to a power gr...

spot wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 9:19 am "NYC man charged in brutal beatings of Boston terrier puppy later euthanized".

That's harsh.

Anyone who would brutally beat a puppy deserves to be euthanised!

The first (and so far only) lady Speaker of the House of Commons has died, aged 93.

From Tiller Girl to Baroness, a lifelong Labour supporter, she was one of the best Speakers we’ve had - R.I.P.

I've just been informed that we are on an area of limited resources, and therefore will be required to cough up an additional 20 bucks a month for the privilege of using their service. My first reaction was to say, screw THAT! and go back to a land-based provider. But then I remembered all the adve...

LarsMac wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 7:34 pm Here's something to get a picture of where they are.

https://satellitemap.space/?norad=48119

You can see why the astronomers dislike them.

I'm hopping that plane to New Zealand. Ever since I was a youngling, when I read James A Michener's "Tales of the South Pacific", and "Return to Paradise", a collection of short stories based on revisiting the South Pacific after The War, I have wanted to Tour the Pacific. New Z...

Didn’t we have fun during the migration

Beagle wrote: ↑Fri Feb 10, 2023 3:24 pm This is a great example of 2 people who should be thrown under the jail. Has anyone else been following this?
https://localnews8.com/news/missing-kid ... -thursday/

I cannot say I understand the case from that write up.

I received the email invite too, so I am stopping in to say hello! And good it is to see you. How’s life been treating you? Life is treating me pretty well. In the time I've been gone, I've changed jobs a few times, but stayed in the same field. I think I finally found a firm that I will stay with....

I received the email invite too, so I am stopping in to say hello! And good it is to see you. How’s life been treating you? Life is treating me pretty well. In the time I've been gone, I've changed jobs a few times, but stayed in the same field. I think I finally found a firm that I will stay with....

Beagle wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:41 am I received the email invite too, so I am stopping in to say hello!

And good it is to see you. How’s life been treating you?

Victoria wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:56 am
So here we are with two mad dogs and a demented parrot..
https://www.forumgarden.com/forums/ext/ ... 391944.jpg

And a lot of love and a lot of free exercise

And if they’re not cute then I don’t know what is They’re cute, being woken up at 6 in the morning with that little one standing on your head is not so cute or the fact that she smashed my iPad so bad I had to buy a new one was not cute. She has caused so much mayhem you wouldn’t believe. We love h...

The Map of Knowledge (How classical ideas were lost and found. A history in seven cities) by Violet Moller. Following three of the great scientific works of antiquity from the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century through to the beginning of the sixteenth century through Europe and the Middle...

And if they’re not cute then I don’t know what is

Humans are mammals There's nothing in the human mind that doesn't exist in all mammal minds. All mammals are first cousins to humans in the larger scheme of animal life. Evolution has focused a significant part of the human brain on the grammar and vocabulary of language, which gives people a new s...

Hello all. I too am retired now for a couple of years. My wife still works (basically for health insurance). I have built a barndominium on our family property. My family has had this property since 1883. We love living in the country. I manage the farming business on the property (we share crop th...

Unfortunately we have had covid around for what seems an eternity, my wife and I have so far successfully avoided covid. Her father on the other hand died from covid and it was very swift. He let a relative of a friend into his flat to set up up his new tv box, the young man had covid. My wife was ...

My youngest is a dog groomer - she’d love the dogs but absolutely refuse to accept them as customers.

What is a thought? It can be a passing fancy, like a Bird that stops on your porch rail, for a second, or a leaf floating down stream. Or it can suddenly appear like a loose thread, and distract for little while. Or, it can drop out of the sky with a thud, and become an obsession. Or nowadays, it d...

Ah, yes, The magic of Winter http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/ext/dmzx/imageupload/img-files/9306/0a00f9d/45f23a8/91ac57866dda6d5945ec0deb4588ec2f.jpg I've seen snow like that once in my lifetime, can't remember the year, I was a child. We never have snow like that, it's always a slushy disgusting...

I bet the forum would be an even livelier place if the moderators invited all of the banned people too! There were definitely some livewires that were banned when I was here. I've been banned more times than I can count. Luckily for me, spot is a very forgiving fellow. Not much new for me. I'm stil...

It's impressive, the idea that there are people who still have the same email address after fifteen years. I definitely don't, I can't even remember what email address I had back then - something@telewest.co.uk perhaps. Perking up and coming over here to say hello again is a very gracious response....

weeder wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 1:49 am Here I am I guess, yes. 15 years later. Still holding very fond memories of FG Hello to anyone here who remembers me

Who could forget

Happy days when people flew in from far and wide to meet each other in person.

contrary1 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 3:58 pm 'm sure I would have been Nuthrday. That's the email the invitation came to anyway.

Yes, that would be the one.

Victoria wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:06 pm So I received the email inviting myself and other absent members to pop in and say hello...

So Hello...

Hi, how are you doing?

contrary1 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 3:06 pm
Bryn Mawr wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:10 am Hi Chonsi, great to see you back.

And hello to the Contrary one - I must admit I don’t recognise the name but you’re welcome anyway
I'm sure I was a different name then.

I’m sure you did

Hi Chonsi, great to see you back.

And hello to the Contrary one - I must admit I don’t recognise the name but you’re welcome anyway

Welcome, it’s good to see you back here. Condolences on your mother’s passing, it is never an easy time, especially after such a long illness. It's true! My father died quite suddenly from a heart attack in 2008 and of course it was still devastating but I think it was easier, certainly on him and ...

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