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- Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Troodos story
- Replies: 53
- Views: 6875
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...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 8:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: volcanic eruption in Iceland.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3961
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...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: volcanic eruption in Iceland.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3961
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 7:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Fire
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1140
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.
Jon.
- Fri Oct 29, 2021 12:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Agios Neofitos new church?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1494
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...
- Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:29 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: If only I'd warned...
- Replies: 159
- Views: 168032
Re: If only I'd warned...
A Childhood Memory.
Jon.
Jon.
- Mon Aug 02, 2021 1:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: confused (not)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5742
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...
- Mon Aug 02, 2021 11:45 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: confused (not)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5742
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...
- Mon May 31, 2021 3:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Old advertising slogans
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9517
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.
“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.
- Tue May 25, 2021 11:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: "Rare" nesting of ravens sighted after 16 years
- Replies: 2
- Views: 905
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 ...
- Thu May 13, 2021 8:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Infrastructure investment
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2599
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...
- Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Cyprus and Greece to follow French example
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6633
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!]…
- Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Cyprus and Greece to follow French example
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6633
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
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
- Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:28 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: That tell-all interview
- Replies: 38
- Views: 10600
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...
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 7:54 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The Joy of brexit
- Replies: 116
- Views: 33144
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...
- Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Tax
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1794
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.
Many thanks for your help, I now have access and can make necessary changes. I do hope you get help with your query.
Jon.
- Wed Nov 11, 2020 12:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Tax
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1794
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...
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:29 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Brexit Economic Assessment - in. Politics
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8962
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...
- Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Taxisnet return for 2019
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7903
Re: Taxisnet return for 2019
I feel your pain, Cactuslil. Tax is evidently a prickly subject for you too!
Jon.
Jon.
- Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Area
- Topic: Taxisnet return for 2019
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7903
Re: Taxisnet return for 2019
Well heck, bromerzz, I hadn't thought of that!
Thanks anyway! Jon.
Thanks anyway! Jon.