Off-Topic Discussion

That's the PRS (Performing Rights Society) charges. It's been the law since 1914. There's also the PPL (Phonographic Performance Ltd) which is much younger as it started in 1934.They have been collecting the charges since those days but have got much more diligent in recent years as they...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LORI !

Thank you, Our Mandy (Aye!) I shall be on the look out for it and will impress my menfolk with your my knowledge

Yes, you could ... just have your stripper tool in one hand and ...... a bag of chips in the other and then you won't notice the smell

one of your many enigmatic answers...

It was close, KFFWell, Tim's on a personal mission to get back into Space and keeping himself in the Spotlight, while passing on his enthusiasm to Schools etc. He's worked hard to get into the Space Program and get to the Space Station and you can understand his need to get back there.

Hope this doesn't mean people are now going to donate dogs to her household

I was on the front page of the News Chronicle (who remembers that?) in 1959 but only in a photo. I remained incognito (they didn't publish names) as it was a photo of the front of the Aldermaston March (I didn't actually go on the march ).

As some of you know I was privileged to go to the Centenary Event of the Passchendaele battle back in July this year. Two of my Great Uncles were killed there in 1917 and two other Great Uncles were also fighting alongside and survived.My Great Uncle Alf, who had previously been wounded in...

Good morning @Tetters my friend good Thread ,I just love Hedgehogs and RosesSorry I just couldn't resist this(all done in good humour)

In such a situation, I would use acetone. Of course, in a well ventilated area, using gloves and some kind of face mask to filter out the fumes.Be prepared for the need to re-grout afterwards.

I wasn't having a dig at you FC. I agree, it is bang out of order (pun intended). My point is it is a problem largely of society in general's making. What's even worse is that we haven't even learned anything. Rather than giving kids something to do, we are still further turning the screw. For...

Sell it to a lime mortar company

Congratulations, silu! Hope all goes well for the delivery. All I can add is 'don't ever, ever buy anything in France. Anything, from a tin of tuna to a new car, is fraught with indifferent service and woe betide anyone who complains (That's a gallic shrug, by the way, perfected over several...

Awwwww, happy endings . But what about all the unhappy endings . I think about that a lot.

@shiney - Im sure they would have sounded better with you reciting them, I do love poetry, quotes, and rhymes and enjoy discovering new pieces, neither of those i had read so for sharing

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