Good morning everyone 
Cloudy with bits of brightness here. Some rain quite likely this afternoon.
I hope eevryone has a good day 
Football referee uses a youngster's harmonica instead of a whistle:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/49209240
Sound is faint so you'll need to turn up the volume to hear the harmonica.
Good morning all
Dry and bright atm but there may be light showers later.
Mr Y has cut the grass and I have swept up.
Getting my haircut this afternoon. My hairdresser had to retire as she has rheumatoid arthritis and for several reasons itâs taken me a while to find a new one. My hair is so badly needing cut, I shall do a happy dance as well as a twirl once itâs done 
- assuming Iâm happy with the cut
Have a good day, everyone 
Evening all
Warm and sultry here. Hope Yogi likes her new stylist and you were right El. Still, it's a lead and it's Edgbaston 
Telly's really chronic tonight so do your best and have a good evening
*Pirouettes into the thread and does the happy dance*
Boy, do I feel lighter and cooler!
Young hairdresser did a good job so Iâm happy.
Hope youâve all had a good day
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
Hug for any night owls
night yogi moons summer if you pop in
Good morning everyone
Quite bright here though showers are forecast.
Yogi, I'm glad you are now lighter and that your new hairdresser did a good job
Franky Zapata succeeded in his second attempt to cross the Channel on his flyboard:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49225001
I hope everyone has a good day
Steve Smith still in so England will probably lose this test match unless rain intervenes. Likely result of the 5 match test series is Smith 5 England 0.
Best test batsman in the world according to the ICC:
2015 Smith
2016 Smith
2017 Smith
then he got banned for a year re that ball tampering incident so affects the 2018 and this year's rating - he's currently 4th.
El Loro posted:Steve Smith still in so England will probably lose this test match unless rain intervenes. Likely result of the 5 match test series is Smith 5 England 0.
Best test batsman in the world according to the ICC:
2015 Smith
2016 Smith
2017 Smith
then he got banned for a year re that ball tampering incident so affects the 2018 and this year's rating - he's currently 4th.
I'm not huge on cricket El but even I know he's special
Evening troops
No squiggle? Hope all is okay. Ditto Yogi.
Day doing nothing. Nothing needs done. Solving crime in the Cotswolds with Barnaby. Tonight will be the same.
Still, hope all are well. Have a pleasant evening ye all.
Twickers, Squiggle quite often doesn't post here on a Sunday. Yogi could be visiting family or vice versa.
Midsomer Murders is more Oxfordshire/Buckinghamshire though it's quite common for people to think of the Cotswolds. The Cotswolds are part Gloucestershire, part Oxfordshire. However the Chilterns are part Oxfordshire/part Buckinghamshire. On the other hand Father Brown is filmed more in Gloucestershire so I think of that more as Cotwolds. Morse/Endeavour/Lewis is of course Oxfordshire so between Father Brown and Midsomer Murders. Then Agatha Raisin is based in Wiltshire so south of Gloucestershire.
Thanks El. Yogi could well have visitors 
Good info on Midsomer. England has so many pretty settings. I particularly like the quaint village churches
Evening all.
You were correct gents, I did have a visitor
I hope youâve all had a good day
Off to watch a Miss Marple
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
Hug for any night owls
Good evening a busy but fun weekend here, birthdays and friends being the theme. We had mini (but still large imo) Victoria sponges, huge pizzas and a rack of ribs.
Weâve got a roaring thunderstorm here, which feels and sounds wonderful. I hope youâve all had a good weekend
Yogi19 posted:Off to watch a Miss Marple
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
Hug for any night owls
*wonders how often Yogi guesses the culprit!*
night yogi and summer
Good morning everyone it's humid again. I could do with a nice storm to clear the air.
I'm glad you managed to find a new stylist you're happy with Yogi, so important.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning everyone
A mix of blue sky and black clouds so showers likely here.
I didn't mention the location of the various Miss Marple books, TV series & films which are around the south east of England but do vary more widely such as "A Caribbean Mystery".
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning all
Cloudy weather with thundery showers forecast.
Squiggle, itâs a relief to find a new hairdresser.
lol Summer, Iâve watched the Miss Marples so often, I know the scripts, never mind who the culprits are. Iâve read lots of the books too - some of the tv series changed/tweaked things.
Off to visit my parents. Have a good day, everyone.
Yogi, I hope you have a nice time with your parents
I think it was the ITV series which really changed the Miss Marple stories with the last one Endless Night beaing based on a non-Miss Marple book. Though only one of the 4 Margaret Rutherford films was based on a Miss Marple book, two of them were derived from Poirot books and one of them had no connection with any Agatha Christie writing. Of course the Joan Hickson ones are the most authentic.
Afternoon troops
I echo El's sentiment Yogi and hope you have a nice time and that they are alright
Grass is short and the house is tidy so I might try and solve another crime this afternoon. About to make a curry so if you hear of an explosion in North Lanarkshire on tonight's main news you'll know who it was.
Hope all are well and have a good day
Talking of explosions, I watched a 1952 British film called "Child's Play" (nothing whatsoever to do with those Chucky horror films). Needless to say it was on the Talking Pictures channel. A light hearted family film about some children who make their own miniature atomic bomb then go into making popcorn - I'm not winding you up. At no point is there any sense of realism or tension which is why at the time it got a U certificate. As it's light hearted and unrealistic it's quite watchable.
The only two children you may have heard of were Christopher Beeny who did quite a lot of television work as an adult and Anneke Wills (best known as Polly, one of the Doctor Who companions (back in the William HartnellPatrick Troughton era). Of the adults, the best known in a key role was Mona Washbourne.
In a tiny role, though immediately recognisable, in his first feature film was Peter Sallis. Of course he was Wallace of Wallace & Gromit fame, those light hearted family films & television programmes about them making fantastastical inventions.
El Loro posted:Yogi, I hope you have a nice time with your parents
I think it was the ITV series which really changed the Miss Marple stories with the last one Endless Night beaing based on a non-Miss Marple book. Though only one of the 4 Margaret Rutherford films was based on a Miss Marple book, two of them were derived from Poirot books and one of them had no connection with any Agatha Christie writing. Of course the Joan Hickson ones are the most authentic.
Thanks El, they were on good form
Yes, it was the ITV series which made some changes.
Initially, I didnât like the ITV series - I prefer Joan Hickson as Miss Marple - but, I enjoy it now.
velvet donkey posted:Afternoon troops
I echo El's sentiment Yogi and hope you have a nice time and that they are alright
Grass is short and the house is tidy so I might try and solve another crime this afternoon. About to make a curry so if you hear of an explosion in North Lanarkshire on tonight's main news you'll know who it was.
Hope all are well and have a good day
Thanks Velvet, they were on good form.
lol I didnât hear of any explosion so I hope thatâs a good sign that the curry turned out well
Moonie, how are the babies?
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros (donât have nightmares)
Hug for any night owls
night yogi was a bit yucky summer moons if you pop in
Good morning everyone it's a little cloudy this morning and we have rain off and on which is such a relief after our long dry period.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning everyone
Dark clouds here and heavy thundery showers forecast.
Yogi, I'm glad that your parents are in good form
Ros, I hope you survived the night without spiders and crocs nightmares
Squiggle, I hope your area gets the rain it needs and not too much
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning a big sigh of relief as cooler weather arrives here 
yesterday was cooking, and we were very busy 
tomorrow Iâm dedicating the day off to myself
how are you all?
Still busy with client work, Summer
Just come back from doing routine shopping at the local Co-op. I managed to get a ÂĢ1 box of biscuits for a minus ÂĢ4.10 . In this part of the country there's a 10% discount on Tuesdays at the Co-op if you are over 60 and have a member's card. They had also sent some vouchers and the one I had left was ÂĢ5 off if you spent over ÂĢ20. I had totted up the amounts in my head as I was going around the shop. I had worked out that I had bought about ÂĢ22 so after 10% discount that's just under ÂĢ20. So by getting those biscuits I was able to use up that ÂĢ5 voucher. One of the perks of being good at mental arithmetic.
And now for a spot of culture.
A 1934 Russian film which won't be one you are likely to have ever seen. However the music for the film is more likely to be familiar. The composer's name is shown in the credits at 20 seconds in. If you know Russian, you'll recognise the title of the film and the composer's name. If you are familiar with the music you would recognise the music near the beginning.
If you haven't got any idea skip to 46 minutes in as that's when the best known piece of music starts.
If you don't know it then don't worry as you would be in good company. Yesterday's University Challenge had it in the music round and the Birmingham University team were hopeless - Vaughan Williams was not remotely close.