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I've no idea who wrote this, but I plucked it from an email in my mailbox.

First pic back from Juno in orbit around Jupiter. Didn't know they'd just sent up a bloody pin-hole camera! Cheapskates!

Ganymede is that the Doctors home planet

Great pics Webbtrekker!....they were taken of me when aa was ownly 35 yeors aad!!....wi thi original six-pack! Thanks folks for your kind comments. My posts,as you all know,are straight from my brain to my screen,with no thinking about it,I type as I think,from experience,training,and memory. All the above info,was ingrained to me as a young Deputy in 1971-1978,and of course gleaned over a number of years following on. I never refer to any books,it's all up here[points ti me heed!],and yet a canna remember what a did yistidi! A spent nearly an hour typing in a post following the last one,late last night,and it wouldn't save,and I lost the whole lot! Nearly gave up ,but had second thoughts!!

Heh heh! Great memories abound!...when I got married my Selmer Thunderbird,and Watkins Dominator MK1 [blue/creamy beige..triangular shaped] stood in our bedroom unused for a while,as I had no guitar,[except my trusty old plywood Rossetti Lucky Seven..!!],so L]like an idiot we all were,I sold the Thunderbird to a friend of a friend who used it for his electric piano/organ..in the band he was playing in.The amp was absoloutly immaculate! Like a bigger idiot than the rest of you put together!,I swapped my Watkins Dominator,[also gorgeous and as new],for a BSA Airsporter air rifle,at the "Trade-in Store" [which was around from Ken's Autoparts,near the Plessey Road queer junction.] The guy in the store aalwis came oot wi thi same aad crack......"Whey,tha's nae demand for them,it'll probably hang up there for a lang time and aal get nowt for it...." Mind,that was in aroond 1967/8 ish,and aav still got the air rifle,which are pretty rare noo!!....but a wish a had me Dommie,and me Thunderbird back!! It tuk a lot of years saving up inti aad -age retirement,but a finally got me Burns Black Bison 1964 re-issue,Burns Marvin 40th Anniversary limited edition,and Burns Apache,limited edition..[i.e.First limited edition of all the following.......limited editions....!!] They all say Chinese crap,about guitars, but aal tell ye wat,from day one,me Fender Strat 1978/9 Antigua -burst Special edition,[Los Angeles produced] never sounded right,producing unpleasant overtones on the bottom strings,the paintwork bubbled up in places,slight,but visible,and the black dye from the Fender strap migrated into the area of the bottom button,staining the grey paint into a purple -ish shade. Other than these niggles,the guitar is in great condition,never having been gigged,as all my axes are for home use only. Me Burns Apache is the most beautiful looking,sounding,playing .....guitar that I have ever seen or played over the last 50 years....and it was made in China,or should I say the components were,then they were assembled in the U.K. It's down to taste,but if you haven't seen or played one,then you don't know what you are missing!![of course you wouldn't want one if you are a finger-picker...... but Knofler, or Ry Cooder ...or the likes of them,might!! The quality of the finish,and attention to detail is absoloutely stunning. My Vox AC 30 1980-ish is still as it was when it left the showroom,a museum piece,if only the output would remain stable! Common fault with them,it was the period when Rose-Morris took over the Vox company and started sending out completely un-tested amps,due to an unexpected surge in demand following the re-union "Shadows 20 Golden Greats" tour. It took five amps over a period of four years,for the new Vox company to supply me one that worked.....but not for long!!....that one started developing faults also. It's o.k for a while,then just hums and dies!!....could be five minutes...or five hours....but it'll die!![switch off....then on....o.k again till the next time!!! Rubbish capacitors and no E.Q across all four EL84's,causes saturation and cuts out the output from that stage. But aav lived with it for forty-odd years!! Aav got the Selmer and Bell Music catalogues from 1961-3 and 1970-ish respectively,in mint condition,and they are interesting to browse through! Fender Strat [red or sunburst....only two choices!]...128 guineas!!...a fortune to us young lads who were paid nowt in them days! Ye can waak inti a guitar shop noo,and get a Strat for 300-odd quid!....mine was 336 quid at Jeavons in thi toon,in 1978-ish! Selmer Thunderbird 30-watts Reverb.....127 guineas![another fortune!] Futurama 3 [3-pickups],52 guineas.....it was always guineas....to click a shullin on ivry pund!![med things luk cheaper!] Eh....a cud write a book aboot them days!![aal thi youngins wanted ti play....but the majority of the ones aa knew broke off after finding oot it tuk a lot of time and dedication ti practise...and aa had nae lessons....self-taught.]

Well, well! No sooner had I posted that video than this little gem appeared online ... I suggest watching the above video first then reading the article - http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/686268/Schulz-Merkel-Tusk-EU-European-Union-Brexit-EU-referendum-politics

Never mind 'After Brexit,' this movie was made before Brexit and is well worth a half hour of anyone's time, particularly BRemainers and borderline Brexiteers ...