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This paper in Nature is a bit worrying. In a nutshell it suggests that stuck waves in the jetstream can cause widespread simultaneous crop failure and thus food shortages on a significant scale.

Our veggie patch is quite well hidden happily :-)

The thread about a filthy painting showing - gasp - bosoms - led me to think about offence. It’s just words after all. The pen isn't actually mightier than the sword unless you use it to stab someone.
Personally I find apostrophe abuse offensive but...

As mentioned in the "Net zero and the dodo", plus numerous other threads - there's an underlying interest in the various subjects around such things.

I'm doing some research into the various technical and cost options open to my property...

We're used to being told to "Exercise Caution" or "Exercise extreme care", but being asked to exercise "Obtundity" was a new one ...... but it seems it is actually quite easy.

@Kanga over to you :)

Plan A is to spend ~3 weeks in New Zealand in December 2024; being economically inactive, I'd like to add a week somewhere else. Can the Deep Mind of the Forums come up with any recommendations?

Ideally I would go to a new country - I've been to...

It's a cold snap and there's the usual round of social media posts from ICE drivers gloating about EV drivers freezing in their cars.....

mmm....

My Diesel Mondeo never got warm in the 7 mile drive to the office, and even if you'd got it warm,...

I had a call last night from a fraudster purporting to be from the fraud department of my card issuer. He quoted a transaction (fictional) and obviously knew my name and phone number and quoted the last 4 digits of my card. He also knew that as he...

Hi everyone, I was wondering if someone could help me.

My grandfather Henry Cowan (Hank) was shot down over Parchim airport in Germany on April 19th 1945, he was flying RN204 (Spitfire IV).

There was a part purchased from Mr Spirfire himself Peter...

I'm used to 2 years / 20,000 miles, whichever comes first.
But new car is also counting down engine hours until service.
And as someone that spends a lot of hours in slow traffic, I think I'm going to get to that before the 2 years/20,000 miles...

Before contacting DL to try and knock down the 50% increase in 'er indoors car insurance, I thought I'd try my banks, then a comparison website so I had some comparative premiums.

The Lloyds site threw up something I hadn't come across before in...

Our house and investment portfolio are in a Family Trust, something we did years ago.
Our current insurers will no longer offer this type of cover for the house buildings. Before them we were with Direct Line, (when we set up this Trust the...

Further to the other post, two of us have now bought these, we have both read the instructions, cover to cover and are still bemused……

It clearly says you can store your own channels and stop it scanning, question is - how ?

It looked perfect for...

Either I have missed it, or we did not have a 'Merry Christmas' thread this year.

Let me be the first to wish you all a 'Guten Rutsch' as they say over here - which loosely translates as 'slide over well' into the New Year and all the best with...

Our once cutting edge 19 year old 42" Sony HD LCD works perfectly -it just won't die - but it's ancient tech now and doesn't even have HDMI never mind Google TV etc so we can't even plug in the Chromecast that travels abroad with us. We have BT...

Whilst I accept the attention grabbing headline on the BBC today is achievable, my opinion, based on my experience, is that true driverless cars are many, many years away.

Despite the topic being frequently in the news, I’ve assumed most drivers...

We're having a few neighbours in for a drink, before a quiet Christmas lunch, just the two of us, wild duck vintage burgundy and vintage port.

Tomorrow invaded by children and grandchildren who'll enjoy venison and all except children more vintage...

Yes, another “they don’t make nostalgia like they used to” thread…

I was but an ankle-biter back in 1973, but as someone on X/Twitter commented - they can’t imagine that in 2073 they’ll look back at the 2023 Christmas Hit Parade with the same...

Just bought one for me and Lady M S. Used it for the first time last night.
A pretty unpleasant experience. Toothpaste and water got everywhere, I didn’t like the vibration.
My teeth, however, felt like I had just had therm cleaned at the dentist....

Other than for flying I have never owned or needed a tablet.

But increasingly watching stuff on my phone (YouTube tutorials and the like) and only rarely being bothered to cast stuff to the big telly I have decided that given an attractive enough...

This lady is a remarkable lexicographer & etymologist and publishes unusual words, often from the past, that are apposite to current affairs, I find them pretty good fun.

Today's was a lulu given some of the debate on here and elsewhere :D

A...

Merry Christmas all! Wishing you all the best for Christmas and the New Year. Hope to see you all at an airfield some time before next Christmas!

:santa: :santa: :santa:

BBC Sounds don't have the Between The Ears version available.

It can be found here though

Rob P V2.0

Best left to Aquanauts and Astronauts - neither is a place for tourists.
For those poor sods trapped in deep ocean, even finding something to bang against the hull may be difficult, more so if it’s pitch black.

…deserving of a thread of its own.

Tesla shows $300m profit in quarter ending Sept. and shares jump 10%.

I, for one, am looking forward to that extra minute of miserable, grey, dreichit, rainy overcast “daylight” tomorrow ;)

To any Pagans amongst you lot; Yule tidings & I guess better luck next year for decent sunrise weather!

Given our collective experience of units this made me chuckle and so I thought I might share it.

I am probably about to take the plunge into a solar power and solar battery installation for various reasons including a desire to reduce my carbon footprint, take advantage of the zero rate VAT whilst it lasts, provide a bit of security for power...

We"re looking at getting the interior cabin area of our cherokee refurbed /possible bits replaced.
Just wondered if anyone out there could recommend any company that they"ve used for that type of work.

Hi

I was told a couple of years ago that I have early stage cataracts in both eyes and I wear gas permeable contact lenses. At some time I will need surgery.
So my first question is, although they are not bad at the moment, would it be sensible to...

For the last week we have had problems sending email via BT's SMTP server. Sometimes they just go, other times they stick in the outbox and the username and password dialogue box pops up repeatedly and clicking OK just causes it to reappear.

It...

Tried to register for an account with the Oxford English Dictionary.

Got this message:

We detected suspicious behavior .

Think I shall not bother.

Standards slipping, clearly.

If you buy food from a supermarket you should perhaps be aware that farmers get paid around £1 an hour and are being driven to suicide apparently.

It seems our @farmer is rather better placed than that and perhaps has a better understanding of less...

What are the rules for flying over gas venting sites when they are under/inside the circuit pattern of an airfield ?

Is it just an acceptable risk ? or are these huge circles on the charts just too big for a once in a blue moon vent occurance...

I want to set up the simplest & easiest way to run MS Flight Sim. The aim is just to practice IFR flying.

I don’t want to set up any kind of fixed multi screen sim set up. I’d prefer to have just a laptop or similar that I can use whilst...

I'm in the market for a new soldering iron for hobby electronics and general repairs use - does anyone have any recommendations?

I particularly like the one BigClive (if you know, you know) uses with the hot air gun for doing heat shrink (amongst...

look up someone in the forum members' list.

But I can never find the 'kin list and have forgotten the instructions given the last time I asked.

'Search' doesn't help. Ive tried iStuff , laptop and PC:

I hesitate to ask again in view of tw@ttish...

Men from Merthyr Tydfil, including ex steelworkers desperate for cash during the town's industrial decline, went to a local research centre to volunteer as medical guinea pigs.

"In the late 1980s and early 90s, it was very hard times for us...

I need to do some painting on the Stinson as part of a winter refurb programme ready for D-Day 80th anniversary events next year.

I was sure Halfords did a service but no.

I don't have the RAL code for the light creamey/beige colour and wodered if...

Up to 30 ex UK military pilots helping the Chinese understand "how western planes and pilots operate", sounds more strategic than hands on flight training, in return for salaries of up to $270,000

These seems very difficult to believe,...

Credit where credit's due?

Seems a pretty lucrative venture!

“Lawyers for Dominion announced that Fox News (and parent company Fox Corporation) had agreed to settle the case for $787.5 million — less than half of Dominion’s claim for $1.6 billion in damages but nevertheless...

Let's hope that this isn't the start of something. Not just disease, but scales falling from eyes, retaliation, retribution...

In China, the cluster of infections, commonly known as ‘walking pneumonia’, has filled many hospitals and has been...

There are more than a few different brands and seemingly different types of smokeless coal (for an open fire)

Does anyone know the difference between them, or are they just different mould shapes with snazzy marketing?

I'm losing the will to live due my dealings with Scottish Power. I'll spare the detail, suffice to say that if I wasn't experienced in total incompetence of major companies I'd think they were trying to stich me up.

Eight full months in I have...

I could push the limits and put this in GA......

What has happened to Plexus? None on Ebay or Amazon.
Damned expensive where you can find it £29 + P&P. (double what I paid a few years ago)
Does anybody know of a sensible source?

I know...

01-12-23.

I'm not quite sure why that makes it interesting. Which, I guess, makes it uninteresting. Which makes it both interesting and uninteresting.

Which makes it interesting again.

I don’t want to contaminate this bit of public service broadcasting…

So what is the received wisdom on the last cut of the year?

The almost continuous rain while I have been home means the grass hasn’t been cut for about a month. It is an ok...

For Me .. The best Ad' ever :thumleft:

I've been with them since 2009, including a mortgage and several savings accounts.
All has been fine until today.
I got the email "Your fixed rate ISA is ending.... it will revert to a rubbish rate.... or here's some new fixed rates you can...

OK, so getting to grips with the wholly intuitive, it just works iPad and largely it does, though some of the stuff is labyrinthine and I could manage much more simply on any Android tablet.

However, wanting to be able to read a camera SD card on...