@Moonie posted:Currently any match win would be be nice El. Not a good start for us
I used to have a client who used to own 1 share in West Brom. He sold it years ago and got ÂĢ3k for it 
@Moonie posted:Now that is a surprise
I think that goes back to the time that the shares which had been listed on the Stock Exchange ceased to be listed, the then owner (Jeremy Peace) was willing to buy shares from anyone who still held them and would come to an agreement on a one to one basis. That came to a halt when he sold to the current Chinese owner. My client sold his share a couple of years before that happened.
@El Loro posted:I think that goes back to the time that the shares which had been listed on the Stock Exchange ceased to be listed, the then owner (Jeremy Peace) was willing to buy shares from anyone who still held them and would come to an agreement on a one to one basis. That came to a halt when he sold to the current Chinese owner. My client sold his share a couple of years before that happened.
Evening all 
Itâs been a showery day.
I didnât sleep very well last night but I had a nap in the afternoon 
Hope youâve all had a good day.
@Yogi19 posted:Evening all
Itâs been a showery day.
I didnât sleep very well last night but I had a nap in the afternoon
Hope youâve all had a good day.
Hi Yogi
I dried most of my washing outside. Not long after I brought it in the rain, that we wasnât supposed to have today, started 
Still as it was cold here today, I had my heating on so itâs virtually all bone dry now 
Sorry you didnât sleep very well last night. You deserve that afternoon nap 
My day has been quite good
Hi Moonie
You did well to get most of your washing dried outside. Iâm afraid mine had to go into the tumble dryer.
Iâm glad your day has been quite good
@Yogi19 posted:What are you watching tonight?
Iâm watching the Tower of London programme. Itâs one of my favourite places to visit when we go to London.
Well, as per, Iâm watching recorded soccer, American and Japanese with a touch of snooker thrown in
I have been to London but unfortunately I havenât been to the Tower...
@Moonie posted:Well, as per, Iâm watching recorded soccer, American and Japanese with a touch of snooker thrown in
I have been to London but unfortunately I havenât been to the Tower...
Sport tonight then
I drag take Mr Yogi round lots of historic sites ð
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros
Hug for the night owls
@Yogi19 posted:
I drag take Mr Yogi round lots of historic sites ð
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros
Hug for the night owls
Yep 
I have to say, historic sites do fascinate me but I just donât get to see many and especially these days ð
Nighty night Yogi, I do hope you sleep better tonight, sweet dreams
night yogi moonsie EL summer
Good morning everyone it's cloudy and cold this morning. Saw a very bright object shining through the West facing window so I looked it up on my sky map app and it's Mars! I had heard it was at its brightest at the moment.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning everyone
Some sunshine here at present, not warm outside.
Yogi, I hope you had a better night's sleep last night
Squiggle, yes, Mars is bright at this time. Tends to have a slight reddish/orange tint to it whereas the other brightest planet Venus doesn't. Although Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, it's so close that it's brightness is less noticeable being masked by the Sun's brightness.
I hope everyone has a good day
Good morning everyone
Its a sunny but cold start to the day here. Shopping to do at my local shops. Thatâs as far as I ever shop these days
Squiggle and El thanks for the astronomy info 
I had heard about Mars but not about Venus and Mercury
What an interesting start to my day
Yogi, I hope you slept better last night
Have a lovely day everyone
Good morning Moonie
Re shopping, much the same for me other than going to M&S. Only go to the one on the outskirts of Cheltenham so that doesn't involve walking through the streets in town. So lower risk.
I've always been interested in astonomy though the night sky is too bright here. Other than the Moon, the brightest objects in the night sky are Venus, Mars when relatively near, and the ISS. The ISS moves slowly across the sky compared to Venus which will be closer to where the sun has set (or in the morning rises). The ancient Greeks originally thought that the morning Venus (they called it Phosphorus) and the evening Venus (called Hesperus) were different objects. It was Pythagoras who was credited with realising that they were the same. He did a lot more than just the famous theorem of his name.
@El Loro posted:Good morning Moonie
Re shopping, much the same for me other than going to M&S. Only go to the one on the outskirts of Cheltenham so that doesn't involve walking through the streets in town. So lower risk.
I've always been interested in astonomy though the night sky is too bright here. Other than the Moon, the brightest objects in the night sky are Venus, Mars when relatively near, and the ISS. The ISS moves slowly across the sky compared to Venus which will be closer to where the sun has set (or in the morning rises). The ancient Greeks originally thought that the morning Venus (they called it Phosphorus) and the evening Venus (called Hesperus) were different objects. It was Pythagoras who was credited with realising that they were the same. He did a lot more than just the famous theorem of his name.
Hi El
Its takes about ten minutes to walk to my local shops. I only saw a handful of people going there and back
Wide berth, mask and gloves already on. Sanitised my shopping and then me
Re the ISS, I have a video from several months back of it passing across the sky. Basically just a dot moving in a clear dark sky. But it was definitely the ISS because it was there in the sky at the predicted time and area of the sky
As always, you come up with fascinating and interesting information El. Thank you
Thanks Moonie
I take some sanitiser with me if I go out shopping and use that rather than wearing gloves. Make sure I don't touch my face between being in a shop and using the sanitiser. Though I'm driving rather than walking as you are so that makes a difference. Can't really drive with gloves on.
Hesperus greek for evenng star, phosphorus for light bringer. The element phoshorus was so called because of emitting a glow in the dark.
@El Loro posted:Thanks Moonie
I take some sanitiser with me if I go out shopping and use that rather than wearing gloves. Make sure I don't touch my face between being in a shop and using the sanitiser. Though I'm driving rather than walking as you are so that makes a difference. Can't really drive with gloves on.
Hesperus greek for evenng star, phosphorus for light bringer. The element phoshorus was so called because of emitting a glow in the dark.
Thatâs very interesting El
Talking of elements, some of them have symbols which have no connection with the name of the element.
Sodium = Na (used to be called natrium which came from the Latin for natural soda)
Potassium = K (used to be called kalium which came from the Latin for "calcined ashes")
Iron = Fe (ferrum was the Latin word for iron)
Silver = Ag (argentum was the Latin word for silver)
Tin = Sn (stannum was the Latin word for tin)
Tungsten = W (wolfram was the German word for tungsten and still is in some countries)
Gold = Au (from aurum, Latin word for shining dawn)
Mercury = Hg (from hydrargyrum, Latin for water-silver)
and Lead - Pb (plumbum was the Latin word for lead and is where words like plumber come from)
There are others but not really well known elements.
@Moonie posted:Wow, I didnât know any of that El
Its nice to know how the names of those elements originated. Thanks
It's also useful for quizzes
One I didn't mention was antimony = Sb (from the Latin word stibium). That's a good chance of a pointless answer in Pointless - obscurer than the ones I posted above
Re elements, Yttrium (number 39), Terbium (65), Erbium (68) and Ytterbium (70) are all named after Ytterby, a village on a Swedish island where they were discovered. More elements were discovered there than anywhere else, 8 in all, the others being Scandium, Holmium, Thulium and Gadolinium.
@El Loro posted:Made years ago and sung by the man who wrote it (elements aren't sung in the periodic table order)
which borrowed from this by Gilbert and Sullivan:
El, I had heard that song before. Itâs absolutely brilliant. He does have a fast mouth and brain come to that too
Good morning everyone it's a little cloudy at the moment but we're promised some sunshine later.
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning everyone
Cloudier here than recent days though no rain expected.
It was mentioned on the weather forecast this morning that more rain fell across the UK than any other previous recorded day (records began in 1891). Enough rain fell to overfill Loch Ness. 31.7 mm average across the UK. Some places would have got less, some more. Here it was a wet day but the local weather site recorded about half that amount. Link to the Met Office's article on this:
https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/...an-filled-loch-ness/
I hope everyone has a good day
I saw on the red button text on television an short article which was potentially a major step in improving energy efficiency. A lot of energy is wasted due to electrical resistance wastage at ordinary temperatures. The article mentioned the discovery of a material where at room temperature there was no wastage of energy, Ar first glance that looked like a sensational discovery.
Of course, the article shown on that text service on televisions only shows the first few lines of the full article:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-54551527
It's a hopeful discovery but isn't a sensational one. Dowsside is that this only happens at extreme levels of pressure. It's hopeful but the search goes on.
@Moonie posted:Good morning everyone
A cold grey day here. We are going to hit a high of 11° and it set to rain by lunchtime
Have as good a day as is possible everyone
13° forecast high. staying cloudy and dry, may get a bit of rain late in the evening.
So a bit better than yours
Came across an old film that I had never heard of. A 1933 film which had Loretta Young in. It's one of those films which is pre-code Hollywood. The Hays code was shortly introduced afterwards and films like that could no longer be made in the States though fell into decline during the 1950s and eventually abandoned.
The film's subject is such that it's unlikely to ever get shown on television or released on DVD and don't bother to look for it on Youtube though there's a trailer of it there. (Amazon shows a DVD as available though that would be a Region 1 import).
It was released in this country back in 1933 but in a cut A certificate. Hasn't been reclassified since though it would be more likely to get a 15 at least.
Not posting anything more about it other than to mention who co-directed it - Busby Berkeley much better known for his musicals. Far darker than any of those.
night moonsie ELyogi summer