what I have learned today.

[Mr Larrington]

Not to leave wheels turned out after parallel parking.  Bloke here did that and his car was scraped by a drunk driver.
With no out turned wheel it would have scratches and a wing mirror. With the out turned wheel taking full impact, a write off.

On an 'ill, I was taught that you should do so, such that handbrake failure would have the car roll into the kerb

Legal requirement to do so in certain parts of the US I believe (SF?) - you can be ticketed if the wheels are seen to be straight.

(Historic cause for consternation among owners of Citroen CXen, I believe, where the Diravi power steering would straighten the wheels up without you asking.)

The tale is told of a chap who forgot about the DIRAVI effect when stopped at a bit of an angle at an autoroute toll booth in an SM.  With expensive consequences.

[CAMRAMan]

That ASDA's Polish kefir is a close substitute for the filmjölk I miss from my days in Sweden. A really good sour foil to the sweetness of my home-mixed fruit and fibre.

[Mr Larrington]

Today I are mostly learning that Marmalade Atkins and Francis Urquhart are both creations of the strange head-branez of Andrew Davies.

[Regulator]

Today I are mostly learning that Marmalade Atkins and Francis Urquhart are both creations of the strange head-branez of Andrew Davies.

Wasn't Francis Urquhart from the brain of Michael Dobbs?   Davies did the TV adaptation but the character is almost identical to Dobbs' book.

[Mr Larrington]

(Facepalms furiously)

[T42]

CO2 and tyre/tube sealant do not play happily together, sez GCN.  That'll lighten my bike by a couple of hundred grammes.

[citoyen]

Today I are mostly learning that Marmalade Atkins and Francis Urquhart are both creations of the strange head-branez of Andrew Davies.

Wasn't Francis Urquhart from the brain of Michael Dobbs?   Davies did the TV adaptation but the character is almost identical to Dobbs' book.

Andrew Davies didn't invent Mr Darcy either - that was Helen Fielding, obvs.

He did invent Dr Rose Marie though. And for that the teenage me was entirely grateful.

[Kim]

That Spitfire Island has spitfires in the middle of it.  (I've only previously been that way in the dark.)