blakeyboy

I don't understand this thread now it's developed. I have some rather nice Swedish and Finnish glassware. I have some nice paintings. I have some nice small sculpture pieces. I have them all because they appealed to me, and continue to do so. They also have an accruing monetary value, which is nice to know for emergencies. I do not feel the need to pay for someone's opinion of them, and put them in plastic cases.

Yep- a very very old plant- a relic of the Jurassic. I just kept pulling up each piece I saw and it gave up. Roots can only hold so much sugar to fuel new growth, and if you pull shoots before they have had time to photosynthesise much more sugar to replenish the root stores, it eventually just runs out of fuel. Same trick works with bind weed, but with both plants you have to really be on the case at least twice a week. One season, gone.

I was in Furnace Creek, Death Valley a few years ago and it was 47˚C which was enough. I heard today that somewhere in California has done the highest _minimum_ temperature ever in the Northern Hemisphere: 42˚C in the middle of the night!!!! Can you imagine trying to sleep? I lost a night's sleep once in 34˚C and it was psychological torture.

'arse-covering time'......! Excellent!

Are you talking about Keir Starmer?

Actually it's more like 43%, but Erica is waiting for more info on how it's made up....

My wife sold 20 coin lots last week, which totalled £315. Out of this we got £181....... That's a 47% fee, or is my maths wrong?

I sold some Vicky double florins last week, I thought that the 100 years of patina was by far the most attractive part of the coins.

Just done me 1000 Forum reputation points. I'm now retiring to the Bahamas. If only....

I had squirrels breaking into my peanut bird feeders, until I doused the nuts in tabasco. The pilfering stopped _immediately_ . A squirrel sitting on the fence freaked out, frantically wiping it's face on the fence, trying to stop the burning was hilarious. They never came back.

I think that machine is quite a-peeling. I can only apologise.

Hmmm... very interesting. Any similarities between our world and theirs? https://www.wired.co.uk/article/pokemon-card-grading?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

My wife has put some coins on fleabay. More in the future- having a clearcut and trying to generate some much-needed funds. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384227244903?hash=item5975ba7b67:g:eUQAAOSww0Zgyxw0

And a good question. I think it's just that it's been under the radar, since the spacings look even, unlike other ones.

Brilliant, Terry! You are an 'EM' specialist now. It does look like the 0 has moved over too. Thanks for that mate.

I think the 9 and the 0 move over. I think Terry did one of his exerguial montages?? or was that a Depeche Mode album?

Don't think so- I see loads like this when looking for a nice one like Terry's. Sometimes I've nearly been fooled by the camera or lighting angle, but this is head-on.. I think the 9 and the 0 on the 1901Ac have floated over a bit too.....

Wow Terry you got one- better than mine too!!! Nice one. A rarity- I've never found one on ebay, only in accumulations as a surprise.

I can't link to ebay stuff- i just get the 403 and give up. What does 'disable the inline preview' mean?

This is a new one on me - our teacher never tortoise....

It's driving him and his girl crazy. They've worked their arses off and have saved up 30K, unbelievably, and this was nearing enough to be what any lender required, and now it's not enough. This is in Milton Keynes, and I'm looking at places in Worcestershire to move into maybe, and the prices there are ridiculous. Mind you, my engineer and his girlfriend pay £1700 a month for a basement flat in Stoke Newington. That's £20k plus per year....for that sort of cash I would expect to be able to see Valetta Harbour out of the window....

I recall Savills forecasting in March a 21% increase in house prices by 2025. Their rationale seems to be that prices rise when there is growth, even when the growth occurs after a trough. Growth changes how people feel, and this feeling drives the market. I have a friend saving for a deposit for his first house, and he's so fed up since the market is accelerating away from him... Whether there is then a slump is crystal ball territory. I'm trying to buy something better at the moment, but at my age I ain't got time to hang around...!

BoomBoom and BoomBoom!!! I had my second jab this morning, and I asked if I could play sax in my mate's band this evening, and they said I'd be fine. I told them that I couldn't play the saxophone when I woke up this morning, so this was a brilliant unexpected side effect.... Unbelievably, none of the health workers had heard this old chestnut before, and fell about.....

All fine after the first jab, until one o'clock in the morning, when I basically caught the flu, and was in bed the next day. Also my arm was very sore for two weeks. Second jab tomorrow morning....:-)

...a system still used in Kidderminster to this day....