Afternoon all.
A Very Happy New Year to Velvet, Ros and Moonie
Gosh, that was a scary video, El. Well done to that little lad for helping his brother.
I've been to the cinema with PB to see a film called Ballerina. IIRC, it was you who mentioned it to me so, thank you El as PB loved it.
Hope everyone is having a good day.
velvet donkey posted:Well that's it over for another year. Let's hope we're all spared
The lurgy caught us out but time together is precious.
Hope all are alive and kicking
See Sweet's been added to The Jump entrants
Aww, the BiB reminded my of my nana.
I hope you are over the worst of the lurgy
Summer is having a good time and she says no bruises.
velvet donkey posted:Hi Yogi
Hope you all had a great festive break. Starting to get some guitar up now but the past few nights I thought I was in The Omen with the bronchial tubes having a voice of their own
Watching CBB with the boss so if I don't catch you later sleep well
And tell Sweet I hope she's not pulled please.
Aww, hope it doesn't drag on.
I'll pass on the message
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Velvet and Ros
Good morning everyone
Cloudy here and not as cold as yesterday.
And for the latest in technology - smart hairbrushes:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38503932
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning everyone.
Weather is dry and chilly.
El, I wonder if those hairbrushes will become popular, at ÂĢ160 each!
Have a good day everyone
Good morning everyone, like you EL it's not as cold here this morning. ÂĢ160 for a hairbrush - you're having a laugh, I think I'd sooner risk breaking a hair or two.
I'm glad Summer is having a good time, thank you for letting us know Yogi. Did I blink and miss Moonie? I hope you are feeling better
Enjoy your day everyone
squiggle posted:Good morning everyone, like you EL it's not as cold here this morning. ÂĢ160 for a hairbrush - you're having a laugh, I think I'd sooner risk breaking a hair or two.
I'm glad Summer is having a good time, thank you for letting us know Yogi. Did I blink and miss Moonie? I hope you are feeling better
Enjoy your day everyone
Ditto Squiggle.
Moonie posted a Happy New Year pic ^^^^^
I would say more money than sense EL
Re the news today about Dippy the diplodocus at the Natural History Museum to be dismantled, cleaned up, put back together and go on your around the country:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38502339
A scene from Bringing Up Baby came to mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JoIRmQW2es
As the scene is the last scene of the film only watch it you've never seen it.
Goodnight and sweet dreams everyone. Hugs for any night owls
night yogi velvet and everybody and summer hope you are enjoying your hols
Good morning everyone
Sunny and frosty here.
End of an era in British cinemas with the closure of the last ABC cinema in the country.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-38500616
The ABC cinema here closed many years ago. Wetherspoons is on that site now.
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning everyone.
It's frosty up here. Brrr!
El, the town I grew up in had a small independent cinema but I used to go to the ABC cinema in Paisley when I stayed over at my cousins - they were ABC Minors. Happy memories.
Have a good day everyone.
Good morning everyone, cold but not frosty here. Lovely memories about cinemas. We had the Odeon and The Plaza where me and my husband did our courting. The Odeon was much posher and The Plaza had the nickname of the fleapit. Me and my brother were never up in time for Saturday morning pictures though I always wanted to go. He was terrible to get up in the morning.
I was shocked to discover, when they announced the tour of Dippy, that he was just a facsimile anyway and not real dinosaur bones 
Enjoy your day everyone
Squiggle, that Pooles' Coliseum was though of as the local fleapit as well.
Dippy was a plastercast given to the Natural History Museum in 1905 by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie. The original is at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh (exhibit CM 84). In recent years a full size bronze diplodocus was created called Dippy who lives at that museum and is their unofficial mascot.
The writer of the Sherlock series was stung by a critic in the Guardian by replying to him in verse.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38516886
Arthue Conan Doyle did much the same thing back in 1912:
The Professor and the Madman is a film which is being made at present.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt59...8/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_1
The storyline is unusual.
The casting includes some well known people though working together for the first time, Mel Gibson and Sean Penn being the most famous.
Winston Churchill is one of the characters (he would be young in the film)
Henry Liddell is another character. If that name doesn't mean much he was the dean of Christ Church university in Oxford and the father of the real life Alice (not that that is of relevance in this film).
And one of the writers is John Boorman, the director of films such as Excalibur and Hope and Glory.
Whether the film will be any good remains to be seen but it sounds a very very odd film.
El Loro posted:The writer of the Sherlock series was stung by a critic in the Guardian by replying to him in verse.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38516886Arthue Conan Doyle did much the same thing back in 1912:
Well done Mark Gatiss.
From that BBC link, I clicked onto a story about Jill Saward, who became a campaigner and counsellor for rape victims, after she had been attacked in what was known as the Ealing Vicarage rape. Very sadly, Jill has died following a stroke at aged 51
Yogi, I remember Jill Saward from the time of her rape and the subsequent trial. There was general outage at the judge at the trial for the sentences and the comment he made "her trauma had not been so great". Not surprisingly he was subsequently censured for that remark and did eventually apologise.
She had a strong faith and was able to forgive the rapists.
May she rest in peace and rise in glory
@Yogi19 the first item on Radio 4's PM programme is about Jill Saward and lasts about 15 minutes. It's just finished but you can listen to it via:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b086kxx0
Thanks El, I shall listen to that a little later.
Velvet, a message from Summer - she says there is nobody worth pulling
velvet donkey posted:Yogi19 posted:Thanks El, I shall listen to that a little later.
Velvet, a message from Summer - she says there is nobody worth pulling
Hi Yogi
I'm only messing in a way when I say these things but I'm glad to hear it
We know that
All is well, thanks. Hope you and yours are getting over that bug.
Off to get some food, will be back for CBB
El Loro posted:Yogi, I remember Jill Saward from the time of her rape and the subsequent trial. There was general outage at the judge at the trial for the sentences and the comment he made "her trauma had not been so great". Not surprisingly he was subsequently censured for that remark and did eventually apologise.
She had a strong faith and was able to forgive the rapists.
May she rest in peace and rise in glory
EL she was a woman of great faith and courage and I believe is in Heaven with her Lord and Saviour right now. Gathered home.
I'm off to watch Unforgotten on +1
Goodnight and sweet dreams everyone. Night owl hugs for Velvet and Ros
night yogi and velvet
Moin!
A rainy day today methinks. Enjoy it everyone.
Good morning everyone.
It's raining up here.
My youngest and his fiancÃĐe are going to pop in today.
Have a good day everyone.
Good morning everyone, rainy here too, the merest drizzle but along with the cold it makes for an unpleasant day.
Are wedding plans in the offing yet Yogi?
Enjoy your day everyone
squiggle posted:Good morning everyone, rainy here too, the merest drizzle but along with the cold it makes for an unpleasant day.
Are wedding plans in the offing yet Yogi?
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning Squiggle
Yes, they've set the date and are getting married at the end of this year.
My brother is visiting me this weekend and should arrive later ths afternoon. It may be shorter than a normal weekend due to the threatened one day strike on the London Underground from 6pm on Sunday so he would need to go back Sunday morning rather than afternoon. Talks at ACASS are still in progress so the strike might get called off. At present it's still on.
