Good morning Buddies 
Overcast changing to clear by nighttime 
Enjoy your day everyone 
@El Loro posted:A Roman silver ring found at Temple Guiting (neat Stow-on-the-Wold) has been declared treasure.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...and-bristol-67692133
I wouldn't be surprised if that news story is eventually used in a Father Brown story - the area the ring was found is part of the area that the episodes take place in.
pretty ring
night EL slim moonsiee
BBC article about this year's GCHQ Christmas challenge with a couple of the questions:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67707647
Not easy. I've worked out the second question.
Some sunshine here now 
Yesterday I got one of those automated scam phone calls re a couple of suspicious payments on my debit card.
Today I needed to change the bank account details I had on my online banking service as the company I was paying had changed theirs. As usual when I was setting that up, the bank rings me to get me to enter a code so show that the payment is genuine. But I didn't get a phone call. I found out that it had done to the Virgin voicemail. Worked OK the second time I tried.
Later this morning I got another automated scam phone call about a couple of suspicious payments on my card.
Just a coincidence. The scam calls don't name the bank, different payments, and different phone numbers shown on caller display. Quite often the scammers will ring more than one within a few days to try to make people think they are genuine.
@El Loro posted:BBC article about this year's GCHQ Christmas challenge with a couple of the questions:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67707647Not easy. I've worked out the second question.
Ermmmm 
Didn't want to be a spy anyways 
@El Loro posted:Some sunshine here now
Yesterday I got one of those automated scam phone calls re a couple of suspicious payments on my debit card.
Today I needed to change the bank account details I had on my online banking service as the company I was paying had changed theirs. As usual when I was setting that up, the bank rings me to get me to enter a code so show that the payment is genuine. But I didn't get a phone call. I found out that it had done to the Virgin voicemail. Worked OK the second time I tried.
Later this morning I got another automated scam phone call about a couple of suspicious payments on my card.
Just a coincidence. The scam calls don't name the bank, different payments, and different phone numbers shown on caller display. Quite often the scammers will ring more than one within a few days to try to make people think they are genuine.
The scammers are in their element at this time of year....scumbags! 
When my bank first initiated texting a code through for verification, I thought it annoying, but now I am glad that they do 
@slimfern posted:The scammers are in their element at this time of year....scumbags!
When my bank first initiated texting a code through for verification, I thought it annoying, but now I am glad that they do
I don't mind the banks doing that and am used to it by now
@El Loro posted:BBC article about this year's GCHQ Christmas challenge with a couple of the questions:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67707647Not easy. I've worked out the second question.
love these sort of things interesting
night EL slim moonsiee velvet
@El Loro posted 11/8/23:You may have seen this news item about a light aircraft having to make an emergency landing on the A40 Golden Valley bypass:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-66468326
Luckily, no one was injured and no vehicles on the bypass were involved. Happened just before 6 pm last evening so the road would have been very busy,
The bypass re-opened a couple of hours later.
A news update on that plane which landed on the bypass with a report by the Air Accident Investigation Bureau/ A bit inconclusive as to what caused the engine failure:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-67715102
night EL slim moonsieee velvet
@El Loro posted:A news update on that plane which landed on the bypass with a report by the Air Accident Investigation Bureau/ A bit inconclusive as to what caused the engine failure:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-67715102
omg could have been a lot worse EL-very scary
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:omg could have been a lot worse EL-very scary
It's a bypass I've gone through many times, Ros, but I wasn't on it when that plane landed
@El Loro posted:It's a bypass I've gone through many times, Ros, but I wasn't on it when that plane landed
thank goodness EL
night EL slim Moonsiee velvet
Slim, not much new of interest on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week. The 1930d film at 15.10 on Thursday is the British comedy "Cheer Boys Cheer" (1939) about two rival breweries.
In the cast are Nova Pilbeam who was in a couple of Hitchcock's 1930s films (the original "The Man who Knew too Much" and "Young and Innocent") and Edmund Gwenn ("Miracle on 34th Street"). Also Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriot who were in many of Will Hay's comedies.
An early Ealing Studios production and seen as a prototype of their later comedy classics,
@El Loro posted:Slim, not much new of interest on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week. The 1930d film at 15.10 on Thursday is the British comedy "Cheer Boys Cheer" (1939) about two rival breweries.
In the cast are Nova Pilbeam who was in a couple of Hitchcock's 1930s films (the original "The Man who Knew too Much" and "Young and Innocent") and Edmund Gwenn ("Miracle on 34th Street"). Also Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriot who were in many of Will Hay's comedies.
An early Ealing Studios production and seen as a prototype of their later comedy classics,
Thank you El
I like a good Ealing comedy
My brother's BT landline was switched to VOIP a few days ago. I rang him this morning. Phone rang twice then a recorded voice said that the caller was aware that I was ringing, then there were about three or four rings and then the BT voicemail was triggered.
We later found out that's what happens when he's already on the land phone and it's in place of the engaged ringing tone. It seems that there's a short beep sound on my brother's phone which signifies that someone has just tried ringing him.
Not something which BT had mentioned would happen.
@El Loro posted:My brother's BT landline was switched to VOIP a few days ago. I rang him this morning. Phone rang twice then a recorded voice said that the caller was aware that I was ringing, then there were about three or four rings and then the BT voicemail was triggered.
We later found out that's what happens when he's already on the land phone and it's in place of the engaged ringing tone. It seems that there's a short beep sound on my brother's phone which signifies that someone has just tried ringing him.
Not something which BT had mentioned would happen.
Seems rather civilised El
@El Loro posted:And now a film poser mainly for Slim. Which Laurel and Hardy film has the title based on another song where the music was by the composer of "Rule Britannia" ?
Well, I know Thomas Arne composed Rule Britannia.....I've been racking my brain but can't think of the film.
Give me a little extra time El