That makes sense. Washington State and Canada share a border. At the very top, it would have to be accessible by road or people wouldn’t be able to cross the border into that State.
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I meant to say,
Part of Washington State (WA), USA, can only be accessed from mainland WA USA by road from Canada.
Point Roberts is attached by land only to Canada.
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In Australia all bed linen,cotton towels,table cloths ,etc… is known as Manchester.
Originally called Manchester Goods but now abbreviated.
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In the USA, the third of a pound burger bombed because because too many people thought it was smaller than the quarter-pounder.
Hamburgers are made from beef, not pork.
It is believed they originated in the city of Hamburg, Germany, from which their name is derived.
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I always wondered why when I ask for a hamburger at Macdonalds I get a beefburger…
Whatever they gave me it was very tasty and used to be 99p…
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As a teenager (age 15-19), I worked as a cashier at a department store - Edgar’s on the weekends and holidays. The linen department was called Manchester amongst the staff.
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The stump-jump plough is an Australian invention, and used to cultivate rough or previously uncultivated land.
Instead of traditional ploughshares, it has pairs of independently sprung discs.
Whereas the shares of a traditional plough would dig in, if the discs hit a rock or tree-stump, they ride up over it.
My granddad’s stump-jump plough with six-horse team to pull it. You can see at least one of the discs has risen up over an obstacle.
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It evidently belonged to someone of importance.
I always think of later periods being lavish and indulgent.
I suppose there’s no definitive answer.
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You don’t ask for a hamburger… you ask if you can get a hamburger! Do keep up with the times.
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I expect you always were a canny lass 
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Don’t think there has been a pulse jet pilot, Hence that may not be a fact, or interesting.
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There was several pulse-jet pilots including Heinz Kensche and Hanna Reitsch.
They flew a modified version of the V1 Doodlebugs called the Fi 103R Reichenberg, and the Messerschmitt 328 of which one variant used two V1 pulsejets.
The fuselage of a piloted Doodlebug captured by the Yanks.
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Was it a one way trip Fruitcake…?
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Usually, but that is not what was intended. Take-off and flying weren’t the problem, it was landing the thing. It had such a high stall-speed that the high landing speed was higher than most pilots were used to, and it only had skids, not an undercarriage.
The idea was to dive bomb a target then bale out at the last moment. This was fraught with many problems because the cockpit was right in front of the pulse jet intake.
Brown-trouserings all round.
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For thousands of years, the Inuit and Yupik people of the Arctic have been using traditional snow goggles made of walrus ivory, caribou antler, or driftwood. The narrow slits helped reduce eye strain and prevent snow blindness.
Unlike modern snow goggles, these traditional ones do not fog up. However, the visual range was limited, so the wearer would lose peripheral vision and had to be cautious of where they stepped in the snow. The first prototype for modern snow goggles was not invented until 1888 by Europeans who were collecting crystals in the French Alps.
Scottish mountaineer Harold Raeburn warned of not using these goggles and the horrible effects of snow blindness: "…as with sunburn, mist does not stop the chemical rays which do the mischief. If from any cause the precaution has not been taken, snow-blindness, either slight or severe, may come on.” Raeburn goes on to describe snow blindness as "an exceedingly painful affliction.
The sufferer may have to be confined to a darkened room for several days. It does not appear to result in a permanent loss of sight. A few drops of a dilute solution of cocaine may be used to ease the pain when severe."
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You’ll have to explain that terminology. Lost in translation…
showing shrewdness and good judgement especially in money matters…
It was intended as a compliment 
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Why thank you kind sir!
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The other kids would spend their wages on clubbing on a Saturday night, clothes and jewellery at the jewellery counter but I discreetly handed my dad my wages unopened so that there was enough for bread and milk etc for the week ahead. He always felt so awful to take it. He was a fantastic dad!
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It must have made him feel very proud of you though.
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