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Maybe twenty! Moon formed from merger of 20 little ‘moonlets’, new theory suggests So, everything we were told about the Earth being the result of the collision of two smaller planets was likely a load of bunkum. What's more, this has been suspected ever since the first samples of moon rock were chemically tested; now how long ago was that? What I find amusing about the failing theory we were taught as certainty is the pseudo precision (around 4.31 billion years ago) of something which likely never happened. The current "global warming" hype hinges around precision measurements (0.12c a decade) which even modern instruments are struggling to resolve. This further illustrates just how dumb the BBC Guardianistas are when they proclaim that "the science [of so-called climate change] is settled", and so there can be no further discussion. That can only ever be the case if you are veering into politics and religion, and the inconvenient counter evidence is embarrassing. Real scientists retain an open mind, and constantly denigrating Trump for having (what is these days) the courage to sit on the fence, is in fact a massive display of bigotry from the very people who regularly level that accusation at others. I don't think anyone is saying "carry on as before", as it's only common sense and good housekeeping to clean up our act. But in the hysteria about (anthropogenic) climate change it's so easy to overlook other polluting factors which may turn out to be vastly more important; this in order to fit someone else's political agenda. It also becomes so easy for politicos to divert vast sums of (other people's) money into madcap schemes, and thus ignore areas of more pressing need. The only certainty here is that those who don't retain and encourage a degree of scepticism very surely possess a hidden agenda,

"bug stopped play for me" There is "something going around" in town here too, and I probably caught it during the 4.5 hour+ communal Christmas lunch (only in Italy!). Mrs 3G seems to have escaped with only an early light cough (is this positive for the 3G family gene pool you ask?) Anyway.. it's now just over a full decade (6th December 2006) since I arrived here permanently in "the Mediterranean outback" from the total civilisation of Bedders, and HOW things have changed here since! Maybe some of the details later. A Happy New Year to everyone!

An amazing quote in today's Daily Express: But hang on a tick "Ms" Graham: are you telling us that if the Blairites get back control of your party things will be any different? You both want to open the floodgates to mass immigration. The fact that it's the Corbynista's communism, and the Blairite's intention to force working people's wages down in the fascist EU, is a little academic here don't you think? I take back anything I might have said about your intelligence Ronnie; you clearly have enough smarts to know when the Labour Party gravy train is about to hit the buffers.

Philip was a friend of our family, and I'm sure did a fair bit of our industrial electrical work too. I can recall some humorous discussion about his cable stripper in the late 1950's or early 1960's, but never actually encountered one of them myself. This info regarding his injury explains a lot. Reg Dixon is another name that passed over my head as a child, along with Bill Orange, Bill Elliott, etc... It was a smaller world then.

A video to calm the nerves of your fellow travellers as you queue for ages at the inevitable security check.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/12/22/uk-car-production-roars-17-year-high/

The fact that she got away with unarguable massive fraud has to show even the naive who voted Remain exactly how the Euro-elite system actually works. 5000 of them in France alone, and they heavily intermarry to keep the gravy train on the rails for generations to come. The membership queue includes most of our MPs, and particularly the Blairite Labour ones. The Brexit vote was a disaster to these people, but Blair is plotting behind the scenes to undermine it.

Yes, that's certainly part of it: he was contemptuous of it, but as it was his "comeback number" couldn't refuse to perform it. Main thing is his producer rushed the recording because he didn't have an exclusive deal, and got wind of another major release by... I forget who. As there was no time to organise a proper song arranger Frank simply had to ad lib the ending. It was recorded in only two straight takes and the best bits of each one quickly spliced. Then the producer got air stewardess' at the local airport(s) to hand deliver pre-release copies to radio stations in different parts of the USA to get it on the air before the rival version. This obviously worked well for Frank. It's actually a foreign song (the Balkans?) with English lyrics added later. I'd heard of the Scooby Doo connection but was a little dubious. But, if there's attribution it's most probably correct. HAG = Have A Go Sorry, lazy typist at times!

So you know about the solar array then.

It did. Not the only town to have a smoke problem; I'm still kippered from last night on the bike! Shower beckons!

Get it in the Services Directory then, and yes we are a community resource and a Bedlington URL (and your very own FREE webspace) is there for the asking. You can also have your own forum on the board providing you provide your own moderation, and it can be as open or as closed as you wish. PM if you need any other help. P.S. Don't forget to post your meetings and other events on the calendar.

The reason(s) behind the doo-bee.. are even more interesting. Laters if no one can come up with them. Amazingly the charting of this song in the UK and the final days of HAG are approximately time coincident. Coincidence or not?

Excellent! I didn't think anybody would get that. Long before my time - of course! Here's an interesting factoid: His wife Mabel played the piano in the quizzes in later days, but when HAG started in 1946 the piano player was non other than the latterly famous Violet Carson, so maybe that harmonium in Coronation Street was there by request?

The closing bars of Strangers in the Night. More oobie than scooby I think! Give 'im the money, Mabel!

Does anyone detect a pattern here? Christmas chaos expected at UK airports as Virgin pilots take industrial action and 1,500 airport staff vote to strike Well of course you do, or you wouldn't be striking.

There you go blaming someone else; a career in politics awaits!

You're missing the point: the lady requested a purple waiting-approval notification! And... I don't agree with all this approval stuff anyway, it's starting to look like the BBC website.

Ah, religious training! So that's why the subject is being hedged around!

Hmmm... not sure what the semicircle thing with the radials symbolises. Do you do an officially recognised training course, and is there an online risk assessment?

Very plausible, but there's an alternative theory: he only wants to shake Nigel's hand because traces of Trump "populism" will rub off. I think that's a sort of orangey colour; though... maybe Bob needs to restyle his hair too?

Bob Geldof's Brexit U-turn Has he apologised to the fishermen he insulted and derided on the Thames though?

More Christmas-past authenticity! British Airways cabin crew vote to strike in latest UK industrial action 'Tis the season to be striking - tra la la - tra la la - laa laa laaa!

Be careful what you ask for! SNOW BOMB: Wall of SNOW to SMASH UK as deadly blizzards hit in COLDEST freeze for 53 YEARS Of course the likelihood is it's Jeremy Corby's brother Piers at his crystal ball again, so we can all relax - probably! If that's not enough to invoke the spirit of the Christmas' past then how about train and postal strikes to add to the authenticity?

And I'm "qualified to know" about Sterling against the Euro! If Clinton had won you'd be significantly worse off now. BTW the first of the Italian banks has just gone bust, shareholders have been totally wiped out, and as part of the rescue bondholders are having to take a huge haircut. As most of those bondholders are average small savers sheltering their life savings (they won't take the risk of investing in the stock markets as they hate the thought of any loss of capital) it's a crushing blow, and bondholders in other banks are now going to panic. (More) Civil unrest is likely. The equivalence here in the UK is building society deposits being raided! Unfortunately - amongst his other major blunders - Dodgy Dave tied us in to the the EFSM, so we will be tapped as Eurozone finances inevitably get worse. It's entirely conceivable that with the Greek nonsense blowing up again too Sterling will be worth more than pre-Brexit value very soon. Maybe some of the rise in the value of Sterling will be moderated by Dave's blunder, and we won't have to pay out too much in support - we must hope! May needs to detach us from the EZ a lot faster than she's now doing!

Quickly skipping over all the other good news (like saving our Steel Industry with a mega investment by Tata): Record UK exports drive huge narrowing in trade deficit He's probably right not to put too much weight on the value of Sterling because it has been steadily creeping up lately, and what is really important is getting away from the dependency mindset that is part and parcel of the EU political project. We will succeed because we are British, and that's what Brits do when faced with real challenge. If that sounds a bit jingoistic then tough! We are not unrolling a thousand years of history to suit the prejudices of those rats who are now willing their own country to fail!