Interesting facts

My BH would agree with all that.She’s a gardener and often says after a long day,shes tired but feels great.
I could never live in a city now and just be walking on concrete all day.

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Would a Digestives wrapper work just as well?

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I think it might Mr Smith. Try rubbing it on the back of your hand to charge it and then see if you can pick it up without touching it. The Penguin wrappers are a sort of thin plastic and very hard to tear. I think the digestive wrappers might be made out of the same stuff. I’ll purchase a packet of McVities chocolate homewheat and give it a try despite what they do to my figure…I can down a packet at one sitting…A mug of Yorkshire Tea is preferable but not essential…
Fat Bloke

Gosh.the sacrifices you make for science.

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Speaking of Penguin chocolate biskwits, I saw an experiment where someone gently heated one to melt the chocolate. To their surprise, they discovered the inside was … a bog standard bourbon biscuit.

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Opposite poles of a magnet attract. Identical poles repel.

The needle of a magnetic compass has a north and south pole. This means that when the magnetic north pole of the needle points to the earth’s magnetic north, it is is actually pointing to a magnetic south pole.

My brain hurts.

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Buddy holly
Interesting fact of a different kind…

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'Tis Punkie Night by here in Somerset tonight.

Punkie Night is a UK West Country tradition practised on the last Thursday of October. Children will march around with a punkie, a type of lantern singing the following song, or variations thereof.

It’s Punkie Night tonight
It’s Punkie Night tonight
Adam and Eve would not believe
It’s Punkie Night tonight

The legend is that the custom originated in the village of Hinton St George in Somerset when the menfolk had gone to a fair in Chiselborough a few miles away. They got drunk and fell asleep so the wives went looking for them putting candles in mangold wurzels to stop the candles blowing out as there was a gale that night. When the men first saw the lanterns they thought they were Will’o’the Wisps.

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The butterflies who are raised by ants.

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One hundred and one?

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But ‘and’ isn’t a number Bruce…
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daft bugger :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

It was referring to spelling and you don’t say or write “one hundred one”. The number is “one hundred and one” and it contains an “a”.

QED

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Doctor Barbara Moore

Doctor Barbara Moore 1903 - 1977 a Russian born British Engineer who in 1932 became the Soviet Union long distance motorcycling champion and came to live in Britain in 1939. She was a renowned long distance walker and in 1959 walked from Edinburgh to London and in 1960 walked from John O’Groats to Lands End, almost 900 miles in 23 days. As a ten year old boy she caught my imagination and perhaps was the reason for my interest in long distance endurance events. She was a vegetarian and believed people could live to be 200 years old by abstaining from smoking, drinking and sex…She once walked 3387 miles from San Francisco to New York on just nuts, honey, raw fruit and Vegetable juice.
After a long and expensive legal battle over a sewer and access roads to a housing estate, she contested the courts findings and she was found guilty of contempt of court and jailed.
She died in a London hospital bankrupt and starving when she refused to eat…

The fastest time for a woman to run from Lands end to John oGroats is held by Carla Molinaro in 12 days in 2020
And the record for the fastest man is held by Andi Rivett who completed the run in 9 days…

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I remember her quite fondly

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It was a big thing on the local news and I used to follow her progress each night Bruce.
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I don’t know when it changed, but 40 - 50 years ago, an individual could not adopt in the UK, only couples. There may however have been exceptions say, for example, where a parent died and a step-parent was permitted to adopt.

As a result, when my uncle remarried and wanted to adopt his new wife’s two daughters, he wasn’t allowed to do so. Instead, my new aunt was put in the incongruous position of having to adopt the two girls to whom she had given birth so she and my uncle could adopt as a couple.

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There’s a paradox somewhere in there. :thinking: It wasn’t possible for a single person to adopt but ok for a natural mother to adopt her own natural child? :laughing:

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As Dickens once wrote, “The law is a ass, a idiot.”

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