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Are we supposed to laugh at the cartoon or the linguistic mistakes in the sentence or both? 😀 Truly amazing achievement Captain Moore! 12.3 million raised already. It's the best news story for such a long time.

About 5 /6 years ago i was the underbidder on the 1898 wide date in LCA that sold for £150+.Since then i have looked at hundereds if not thousands and a lot scarcer.I have found 4 decent ones (well 3 as Jon on here spotted one for me on facebook over 2 years ago ) so should say bought 4.The one you have i bought in America and Damian sold you on eBay ,another i Let Terry have as again you dont see them so often.I have a spare in a CGS slab graded 70 (just wide date on the slab ,the one Jon spotted) and then the one pictured in an NGC slab.I have had perhaps about 15 others but all really low grade similar to the one that sold for £29 in LCA which is the same one that sold about 15 years previously for £90. The narrow date bisect is also much scarcer than the wider one ,much more than 1/3 IMO and have never seen one better than VG to Fine other than your own. As Ian said to me a few years ago "have you got a thing about these 1898 pennies " which although sad 😃 was when i was quite ill and looking every day. So i have looked at a lot ,however there will be plenty more turn up if someone wants one ,which they probably dont.😃

Nice bush

Wasn't Burberry considered to be the choice of "chavs", when that word was fashionable a few years back? I remember going to the pub with a mate about 2005, and when we came out there was a sticker on his car which said "oi chav, your car is shit".

My ha'penny varieties site certainly isn't going to go down to that sub-atomic level.

Yes, the 1970 C&M annual indeed. I scanned the whole thing and I have it in Dropbox in case anyone is interested? I was right in that the 7 varieties were reduced to 4 after 12 months. I'm not quite sure what your 'parasites' reference was about - not very friendly whichever way you look at it.

It's not optional in the case of something like: my favourite foods are fish, chips and blancmange where it should be... my favourite foods are fish, chips, and blancmange which avoids the inference that I enjoy chips with blancmange, which is how it reads without the comma.

We all seem to like our music so, how about a festival?

I do like pennies - they just have to be a thousand years old

Bought this one on ebay in 2006, marked it up as unusual 8 and put in storage. When MG's book came out in 2009 I re-categorised as his type B and made a note that date wasn't as wide as in his book, and that I should write to him to advise. I then forgot about that until now...…………..brain's going, thank goodness for Pete!

Yeah- I can see you now, in your cap and jacket hanging around outside the off license looking tough.....!

I have a spare Bramah; it has the flysheet page saying first published in 1929. I believe the first edition does not have this page, but all other pages are exactly the same. I can send pictures if interested, but I would want to post recorded and can't do that until after the lockdown. I had been looking for £100, but would do for less for a member, say £85 inc. postage Ian

ditto

INNIT!

Just buy plenty of bulk lots of pennies. They might be low grade, but will give you the info you need. I've got 15 or 20 kgs here just waiting for the lockdown to lift, and absolutely no desire to check for miniscule variations in tooth pointings.

Very interesting to learn therefore that at least 2 dies must have been used for these "bisects"! It prompted me to check mine... Like you, Jerry, I have found that I have 3 of the original BP1898B variety (one near ef, the other two only fair) but pleasingly my other one (sadly only fair again) turns out to be a BP1898Ba type. I know this is a very small sample size, but 3 to 1 might just about be representative?? Any other members got one/more than one to push the sample group bigger? Indeed, any guesses as to how many of either type are now known?

Yes, and what a comedown from the 80s when I was a computer programmer for them, and we got generous staff discounts.

He speaks English but I understand little...

Tree Peony doing it's stuff. I do wish it repeat flowered...

Here's my not so landscaped garden, and the grass needs mowing again. But at the moment I feel damn fortunate to have a garden I can sit in for as long as I like, especially nice in the good weather we've currently got.

I'm not half as drinkled as some thinkle peep I are!

I have a complete set of these mags and I have considered doing this in the past. All it would take is scanning the pages into the PC and organising them for a website and for reading. Not too hard. More tricky if you want to be able to search for specific articles or entries. The problem is that I don't know who now owns the copyright. I knew a lady who was a proof reader for them, but she wasn't able to help with anybody to contact now, for permission. At the end of the day, there are some 25 years of mags, 12 per year excluding those when they came out every fortnight, and say an average of 80 pages per issue. That's 24000+ scans. Could do it, but not if, the moment I publish them, someone comes along and says 'oi they are mine'. Having said this, I'm talking about reproducing the whole mag, not just selected articles. The problem with the latter is choosing which ones, especially as it wouldn't be long before demands grew for more and more of the content to be made available. Plus, of course, there is still the matter of copyright.

Shame it’s not Edward 😅

As expected, the Maundy coins were posted to the recipients by Royal Mail. The coins were blessed at the Chapel Royal before posting and the recipients would also be welcome at next year's service. They each received the following letter from the Queen.