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We talked elsewhere recently about landslides causing a temporary dams and the consequences of the dam then collapsing. This happened in Canada a few days ago and a very large 'reservoir' has built up already. The dam will fail at some point in the near future and a large-scale evacuation has been necessary. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/chilcotin-river-landslide-aug-1-1.7282210 It is all a matter of the rate that the dam opens up at, which is a difficult thing to predict accurately.

You could knit some costumes for them?

Got any buffalo to roam..?

For the sake of (potential) interest, I can report that the Lidl ones are 65mm lower, but I can bodge up a spacer at some point, before I need four at the same height. Mmm, I could even match the Stanley slots in the spacer... The central slot, so handy for gripping the aluminium angle for the greenhouse mods, is also not there on the Lidl ones, but the 'red button' does flip up as a side-stop. The bottom hinge does seem a bit 'freer' than the Stanley one, so they may not have that issue. I would say that they are almost worth buying for the leaflet that comes with them. Whoever wrote it is clearly petrified of the potential consequences of misuse. One of the headings is "Life-Threatening Hazard". He's also very concerned about the similarity in the style of the mouldings to many larger toys around these days - he's one step away from telling you to tie any children within 200 metres to a suitable post... They also currently have some reasonable multi-drawer wall cabinets at two for €14.

I saw one in that state at Holyhead. It looked like it had had a coat of Halford primer and just the wiper arc masks peeled off at the front.

E.g., Ballybrophy.

Barry's issue was with a control cabinet, when he put his head onto the mains.

And Malta. Three years in each.

I'm not taking part in this load of hassocks... ...other than to say that a friend of mine had a large layout with a church on it. He also had a friend who was a vicar and very well-known in the R/C electric flight world, publishing many articles and designs over the years. We got a group of wedding figures and placed them in front of the church, with some wedding cars, plus tombstones and a couple of grave-diggers for the full effect. But, if you looked closely, the vicar's 'bible' was painted all black, with two short wires inserted where the pages should be, as joysticks, plus a short length of unpainted wire sticking out of the top, as an aerial. 'Flying' around the church spire, mounted on a very fine wire, was a model model aircraft. We were never excommunicated - as far as I know...

They do drop snails off the roofs of the house and the shed, when they can be bothered to actually fly. Mostly, they just stroll around. Occasionally, when they have a few spare hours, they spend half a day standing on the pole behind the shed, shouting. I have written to the council, but they don't seem keen on enforcing better behaviour.

They just pull it around, using the slime from the snails as a lubricant, I imagine. I don't interfere, they seem to know what they're doing. I believe that thrushes are genetically related to roadrunners and have an innate ability to cope with anvils.

As far as as snails go, I hardly ever see a live one, despite having the perfect conditions for them. I do have a pair of thrushes who live over the road, but spend their days ambling round in here, chewing. They do leave me piles of broken shells, but I can live with that. I have considered lending them a better anvil, but I don't like to interfere.

I considered that, but I decided that it wouldn't be a shrewd move.

There were, indeed, as nice as they usually are. Even the crows won't eat them.

These were the white-toothed ones, first seen in Wexford twenty years ago - probably not reached you yet. And 'my' cat is doing her best to slow down the advancement of the front.

'Mine' left me two shrews for my breakfast a few weeks ago. I was going to admonish her over this, as I would generally see shrews as not a great problem. They're not given to invading houses or causing 'us' much trouble. However, I was fortunate enough to look into the matter before I embarrassed myself and found that these shrews are of an invasive species, first seen in Ireland in 2005 and have been causing the native pygmy shrews some issues. So, I managed to avoid making myself look even more of an idiot in the cat's eyes... Next-door have gone away for ten days and I just came back from Lidl to find her sitting on the doorstep with a bag of food...

You must be completely tessellated.

Anybody living on the Big Island 30 years ago will be aware of the term 'Portillo moment'. It refers to the time when he, as a cabinet minister, managed to lose a seat which had been Tory since 1950 and, with it, his expectation of being Tory leader after Major. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portillo_moment

Possible overheating issues, I think.

'Mine' has intermittent power failure issues.

You'll struggle to re-gauge it for that track.

There are hooks on the ones that Lidl should have shortly - it will be interesting to see if they are the same height... https://www.lidl.ie/p/folding-saw-horse/p10029198 They don't seen to have the handy notches, though.

As I've mentioned before, I 'moderate' another forum and it can be surprising how heated things can get. It hasn't happened for a while now, but we've had the cops call round at least four times over various threats, including a potential firebombing of a café, after the owner criticised some local healthcare activities... I once had to stop two blokes organising a fight in a pub car park because one had made a joke about the fact that the other one had left the apostrophe out of the word "I'll" at the beginning of a sentence, making it look like "Ill" - the jokey way that he did this meant the the perpetrator of the missing apostrophe felt that he was saying that he made him sick... We have people who find sport in causing issues - one chap is adept at posting ambiguous comments, then claiming that he meant the less obvious version, when challenged. People sign up to start arguments, then sign up again to agree with themselves. We have people immersed in conspiracy theories who consider that anybody who doesn't fully agree with their fantasies is being intentionally disrespectful. Nobody ever censored that Hitler bloke on an internet forum, and look what he got up to...

I was unaware of the worldwide transport chaos when I attempted to set off to the hardware shop on my bike. However, it functioned correctly, without any apparent software issues. On the way there and back, I had to pass through a temporary single-file traffic management zone, where the new houses are being finished, on the old petrol station. The traffic was controlled by two lads with Stop/Go boards and they seemed to still be interfaced in a functional manner, by means of a line-of-sight communication system. Phew.