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by kingfisher
Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: Troodos story
Replies: 53
Views: 3869

Re: Troodos story

Without wishing to be aeronautically pedantic, Devil; with reference to your earlier saga when two engines failed on your DC3, you would require more than a bulletin from the captain. The DC3 unfortunately only possesses two engines...
by kingfisher
Tue Dec 19, 2023 8:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: volcanic eruption in Iceland.
Replies: 2
Views: 3606

Re: volcanic eruption in Iceland.

Good evening Devil I would have imagined that you know all about hot sulfurous gases in the realms you inhabit! Seriously, tho' I believe that dust is the engine-killer. I have never forgotten the attached tale which I read in the 1980's recounting the event when a 747 lost all four engines after pa...
by kingfisher
Sat Sep 23, 2023 7:55 am
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: Fire
Replies: 2
Views: 918

Fire

Here in Tala there has been a strong smell of smoke during the night, and now helicopters flying in a Tsada/ Koili direction- does anyone have any info?

Jon.
by kingfisher
Fri Oct 29, 2021 12:07 am
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: Agios Neofitos new church?
Replies: 7
Views: 1402

Re: Agios Neofitos new church?

There are three new churches within the Monastery’s estate. The church of St. Efraim [under construction], already mentioned, on the Monastery approach road. There is another church nearing completion on Melissovounos above and east of the Monastery, which I ran a thread on a few years ago. It is bu...
by kingfisher
Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:29 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: If only I'd warned...
Replies: 159
Views: 120545

Re: If only I'd warned...

A Childhood Memory.



Jon.
by kingfisher
Mon Aug 02, 2021 1:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: confused (not)
Replies: 28
Views: 5118

Re: confused (not)

Jeba- of course I was trying to manipulate people’s opinions! I’m not the BBC or the Guardian! I just chose to omit the CDC’s utterly predictable weasely excuse with which they rounded off a hugely embarrassing revelation from one of their employees who quite rightly blew the whistle. I also chose t...
by kingfisher
Mon Aug 02, 2021 11:45 am
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: confused (not)
Replies: 28
Views: 5118

Re: confused (not)

[From CNBC Health and Science] Quote: “CDC study shows 74% of people infected in Massachusetts Covid outbreak were fully vaccinated Published Fri, Jul 30 20212:34 PM EDTUpdated Fri, Jul 30 20218:27 PM EDT Berkeley Lovelace Jr.@BerkeleyJr • About three-fourths of people infected in a Massachusetts Co...
by kingfisher
Mon May 31, 2021 3:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: Old advertising slogans
Replies: 39
Views: 8757

Re: Old advertising slogans

“Hands that do dishes can be soft as your face with mild green Fairy Liquid” [Remember the Two Ronnies send-up?]
“It looks good….. it tastes good…… and by golly- it does yer good” Was it Guiness or Mackeson- at any rate, some foul looking brew resembling frothy creosote!
“Ah… Bisto”
Jon.
by kingfisher
Tue May 25, 2021 11:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: "Rare" nesting of ravens sighted after 16 years
Replies: 2
Views: 860

Re: "Rare" nesting of ravens sighted after 16 years

It is good news that the raven is now breeding in the Akamas. I suspect that, like the Griffon Vulture, which was formerly widespread, its decline was not only due to poisoning, but the decline in the use of donkeys. These lovely creatures were rewarded after a life of unending toil, when they were ...
by kingfisher
Thu May 13, 2021 8:14 am
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: Infrastructure investment
Replies: 9
Views: 2533

Re: Infrastructure investment

Lloyd, staying slightly off tack, I agree about the prospect of gales, but I would be even more concerned about the proximity of the Cyprian Arc fault line which lies only a few miles off the coast, which periodically and unpredictably causes seismic events. It seems to be where the northward pressu...
by kingfisher
Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:25 am
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: Cyprus and Greece to follow French example
Replies: 19
Views: 6425

Re: Cyprus and Greece to follow French example

A low-flying pig with goggles just streaked through the hailstorm [I thought at first it might be the Israeli Airforce on exercises, then realized it was Lloyd in his Fokker!]…
by kingfisher
Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:22 am
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: Cyprus and Greece to follow French example
Replies: 19
Views: 6425

Re: Cyprus and Greece to follow French example

Dominic- being OLD, I keep hearing “Jackanory, Jackanory”, but same idea!
Really odd, but yesterday, I had an almost irresistible impulse to do a sort of reverse of Lloyd’s April 1 prank, and fake an abject retraction of all my dearly held Brexit beliefs- honestly!...... You beat me to it LLoyd!
Jon
by kingfisher
Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:28 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: That tell-all interview
Replies: 38
Views: 9843

Re: That tell-all interview

It doesn’t appear to have occurred to anyone that the raison d’etre of this entire clown circus is to provide a sideshow for the “sheep”. I would also include the sudden relegation of Cuomo, from hero to villain as being an additional diversionary sideshow. The reason is that the USA is presently in...
by kingfisher
Mon Jan 04, 2021 7:54 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: The Joy of brexit
Replies: 116
Views: 31672

Re: The Joy of brexit

A great source of joy to me is Lloyd’s evident misery, and I detect I’m not alone in that. Lloyd has made 5500 mostly anti- Brexit/UK posts over the past four years. Say each post took ten minutes, including finding links to scholarly research in such erudite and independent organs as The Independen...
by kingfisher
Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:49 am
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: Tax
Replies: 4
Views: 1690

Re: Tax

Good morning Mr. Blobby,
Many thanks for your help, I now have access and can make necessary changes. I do hope you get help with your query.
Jon.
by kingfisher
Wed Nov 11, 2020 12:04 am
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: Tax
Replies: 4
Views: 1690

Re: Tax

I’m sorry I can’t help on your query- although I do hope someone can- but you do appear to know your way round most of this stuff. May I please pick your brains? I have done my tax return, which now languishes in the category of “temporarily stored” to which I now need to make some corrections. I fi...
by kingfisher
Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:29 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Brexit Economic Assessment - in. Politics
Replies: 33
Views: 8714

Re: Brexit Economic Assessment - in. Politics

@Photolady. I have not troubled to post on this forum since it became an occasional dumping ground for sad losers and other assorted bed-wetters- and unspeakably boring to boot. However, I will make an exception. You are probably aware that four members of the same family of Kurdish Iranians, trying...
by kingfisher
Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: Taxisnet return for 2019
Replies: 23
Views: 7612

Re: Taxisnet return for 2019

I feel your pain, Cactuslil. Tax is evidently a prickly subject for you too!
Jon.
by kingfisher
Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion Area
Topic: Taxisnet return for 2019
Replies: 23
Views: 7612

Re: Taxisnet return for 2019

Well heck, bromerzz, I hadn't thought of that!
Thanks anyway! Jon.