blakeyboy

Crufts is back on TV again, and I never watched it before because of the antics of some of the awful dog breeders, and I won't watch it this time. I might wait a couple of weeks and watch Paracrufts......

Jerry, I think the world situation has changed somewhat from what it was when I started this thread.....

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I just watched Roberta Metsola addressing an emergency session of the European Parliament, and the contrast between her and Liz Truss is absolutely astonishing and embarrassing.

Just been looking up the Rain Bomb that Brisbane got....Christ - 8 dead already.....

I can imagine how much snow that would be. Unfortunately, if it happened, I wouldn't be able to tell anyone since you would only hear a faint muffled noise, if anything.... Weather is amazing- I used to go to Bear Valley, in the pre-covid days. 7500 ft up in the Sierra Nevada. It was, until the weather patterns moved, the snowiest place in the world- 75 feet in the winter. We took a cast metal outdoor bench one year, to put by the fire pit. This was our last visit before winter, so we tidied everything away, leaving the bare metal bench with its legs sitting on four 3" thick concrete blocks. I was there the next year to do the first visit of the season to the acreage. The bench was there- all four concrete blocks split in half, with the legs of the bench smashed into the ground- the seat was on the ground. Took some fun getting it out. The snow up there is known as 'Sierra Concrete' due to it's weight.....anything left out is crushed.

Lovely examples! Mine is a GVF that I saw as a very cheap BIN ( no attribution ) and grabbed it fast!

I've just done a check of 1875 pennies on Ebay: Obviously, many are that flat that it's not possible tell some apart... Large date 120 Small date 74 1875H 14 F79 ( sea over circle) 0 Pretty much as usual The Heaton version is touted as very rare, and isn't.( except in very good grades) and the F79 is hardly ever there- I see maybe 3 a year tops. Maybe some of the F79 are that flat you can't tell, but where are the other better grades, since it's only rarity 13 or R5, supposedly?

I'm with you on this- well spotted.

Very good- saw what you did there. Treble VATs all round!! ( on the slate please, Dave...)

Oh yeah!!!!! I forgot those!!

I remember packs pf stamps being sold in the same way in the same period....

I sometimes wonder what some politicians think they were elected to do? It's very rare for me to think a politician is employable.......

Exactly! How much would it have boosted her career and public standing to have said that? All it needed was more background knowledge, and less posturing, hubris and drinks parties. I sometimes like to think of politicians as standing in a circle patting each other on the back whilst saying' aren't we great'..... ...of course, to stab someone in the back, you have to be right behind them......

..or, more efficiently, French jewellery .........!

Oh it's all mad- paranoia, speculation blah blah If I were running Russia, and needed to be the type of leader Russians like, I would do exactly what Putin is doing right now...... whether they attack or not is not important- he's generated panic by moving around what he owns, on land he owns. If he isn't planning anything, he must be falling about laughing, and if he is going to invade, he knows that not much will happen, like with Crimea. Win win for him. I had to explain to someone in Belgium how the French for 'Putin' is not actually accurate, since pronouncing it as the Francophones otherwise would would be 'Putain' which is not a complementary term...he didn't know, fell about laughing, so of course I pointed out that what the media tell him about the Russian build up may also not be true.....we are all in the dark, most of the time.

"Edward's doing very well - he still insists on facing the wrong way, so he misses a lot of football on the telly, but the American woman who hangs around describes it for him..."

Next time he'll roll it in glitter....

Is that wax indicative of someone wanting to make a cast copy? If it is, then the copy will have faults where the wax as left on the coin....maybe?

the obverse

We re-enacted it at Ludlow this year:

No Holy Grail fans on this thread then...:-)

You're just jealous that me and Richard got in before you..... Or is my reaction based on a bottle of Macallan and Wayne Shorter's 'Speak no Evil'. from 1965,....a dangerous combination.....?