what I have learned today.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Taking Pete for a walk is like going with a toddler. It can take over an hour to do 200 yards because we have to stop and sniff or inspect every doorway, every cat flap, every car wheel, every car underside, every puddle, every tree... And we have to sit down and refuse to move every time we hear a car.

[Peter]

I think Pete may be humouring you: why do you need to do all this sniffing?

[clarion]

Not today, but this week, I discovered the traumatic fact that, as a child, I preferred Bridlington to Scarborough.

I am considering therapy.

[Peter]

That a 32mm Park headset spanner can be used to tighten up a bath tap.  Never used it on a headset so don't know if it's any good for that.

[billplumtree]

That there is such a thing as a satirical chess magazine

[Clare]

That one-coat radiator paint is the worst 'paint' I have ever applied and it does not do what it says on the tin.

Next time I'm using spray paint and hang the expense.

[Canardly]

Use rad enamel.

[Clare]

Apparently I am.

[Canardly]

Sigh......

[tiermat]

Not today, but yesterday, I have learnt that my condition also can cause me to suffer from Iritis!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uveitis

[TheLurker]

DotBike closed down over a year ago.  Bugger.   

Bit slow on the uptake here, but I only ever bought stuff from them over the counter so didn't get the closing down e-mail.  This is jolly annoying as I'd planned to cycle over on Friday afternoon and buy some glare shields for my Ixon IQs (cardboard doesn't work too well in the wet).

[Canardly]

That every time the heating system is drained down, the boiler has an expensive hissy fit.

[numbnuts]

That the song Turn turn turn  was from the book of Ecclesiastes I didn't know that         

[Cudzoziemiec]

There used to be a rail bridge across the Severn Estuary which was destroyed when two fuel barges collided with it in 1960.

You can still see the remains of it alongside the Sharpness Canal and at very low water levels even the tops of the piers in the river bed are just about visible. There is a theory that the piers were damaged from an earlier collision and that, rather than the fire, is what really brought it down.

[Andrij]

That the song Turn turn turn  was from the book of Ecclesiastes I didn't know that       

Today I have learned numbnuts has not seen Footloose (relevant quote).

[David Martin]

The meaning of the term 'cuckoo smurfing'
http://news.stv.tv/tayside/1327099-muhammed-hameed-saleem-shikari-and-shahid-aslam-guilty-of-cash-scam/

[Mr Larrington]

That if I turn off the Bluetooth squeaker in the bathroom the Babbage-Engine will revert to sending sound to the amplifier.  I hereby apologise to the neighbours for the full-throttle burst of moody riffmeister Ritchie Blackmore just now.

[Peter]

No problem.  I thought it was the pub.

[Cudzoziemiec]

That buckwheat is related to sorrel.

That the British Empire started on 20 May 1497 in Bristol docks, according to at least one person's reckoning.

And,  sticking with the transatlantic link but more surprisingly, that Bristol is just like New York. So says Huey Morgan of Fun Lovin Criminals:

What do you think of Bristol?

I have a love for the people of Bristol who I met through FLC and they have shown me real, ‘frontline’ Bristol and I see more and more similarities with New York there than any other UK city. It’s a port city, so is NYC; we see things for what they really are, and I love me some of that. Big yourself up, Bristol!

But it is true that buckwheat is related to sorrel!

[Canardly]

There are some really good local small companies!

[Ham]

That Google maps streetview now marks places you can see inside with an amber blob. Some fun places, like the Hackney Empire and odd, like Attic Self Storage. I have a new conference call time wasting tool.

[David Martin]

That Google maps streetview now marks places you can see inside with an amber blob. Some fun places, like the Hackney Empire and odd, like Attic Self Storage. I have a new conference call time wasting tool.

And this is where we have small group tutorials with the students. It even has Narwhals. (check the hooves on those..)
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Darcy+thompson+museum/@56.4577774,-2.9785829,3a,75y,328.33h,90t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sfAVQ-Uk3PbgfHGKcDc-rMg!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xc411526445296b79?sa=X&ved=0CHsQoB8wDGoVChMI6dWG_bjJxwIVxD4UCh3i-gig

[Basil]

That whereas everyone else has an "Unexpected item in the bagging area", Morrison's have a " Surprising item on the scale".

[fuzzy]

Isn't that indecent exposure?

[rogerzilla]

Rudest plant name ever: https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=3813&fromplants=pl%5Fid%3D3811