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Farnell have a very useful free customer support line: call them and they'll sort it (I've had to do that before). The number is 03447 11 11 13

Persiana is wonderful - one of SWMBO's favorite books - As part of the recent Emirates Literary Festival , I went to a talk & dinner with Sabrina Ghayour (author of Persiana: Recipes from the Middle East & Beyond ) and Peter Frankopan (author of The Silk Roads - a truely wonderful read). Bot...

Can you go for an "English" Nick ? Or is our cuisine nor de-riguer out there ? I did go for an "English" breakfast a couple of weeks ago at some place called "Shakespeare and Co.". Some might say that that's how it's supposed to be... It was ghastly: cold, greasy eggs,...

It's a big city and food is central to the way of life here - you can get any cusine you want.

A bit of steamed fish and salad is hardly exotic...

Steamed salmon with zatar, tomatoe and onion salt, green salad, haloumi, stuffed Iranian olives, makdous, beetroot, ratatouille, etc. Very healthy, but I'd kill for an Indian takeaway

Only a week until the family are out here too...

Could be the Te Deum which is for a male choir, or the Ave Maria, which often has a boy treble/soprano soloist.

Nothing to do today. A day of nothingness, i hate it. Im now so bored that I'm wondering around the house looking for things to do. Wonder if the dogs and the cat get bored Yep - Understood - I get bored easily too... story of my life. You need to force yourself to do SOMETHING. ANYTHING. Today is ...

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It's a bit cheaper if you don't have it lacquered...

shane wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 8:50 am Gnop gnip?

Very close.

gnip gnop... (think "ger-nip, ger-nop")

Ray P wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:13 pm

jack wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2017 5:39 pmPalindromes are neat. Here's a starter for 10: What's the only onomatopoeic palindrome in the English language?

I can list two; pop and toot. We had this at work a few months ago.

Yep - they're good.

How about "ping pong"? Think about it

I was trying to work out if Jack used the Penguin as a unit of area or volume, it wasn’t detailed in the original post. Neither - It's the SI unit of satisfaction,1 Penguin is equivalent to at least 10 TimTams, however much our antipodean cousins may delude themselves. I would have thought a better...

A few more minutes of thought. Not sure a Wales is a particular good measure of area. At least some of its circumference (the coast) could be said to be fractal in nature, so we could regard the circumference as infinite. Of course that doesn’t stop the area from being finite, but it does suggest i...

Nick wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2017 5:09 pm I was trying to work out if Jack used the Penguin as a unit of area or volume, it wasn’t detailed in the original post.

Neither - It's the SI unit of satisfaction,1 Penguin is equivalent to at least 10 TimTams, however much our antipodean cousins may delude themselves.

Oh, and its the size of a couple of penguins As a unit, what the conversion to football fields? Not sure about football fields, but it's going to be round about a nanoWales. You need a standards converter -: https://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html 1nW is about 21m^2, ...

Regarding the "barn", there's a bit more to it... ...specifically, its the smallest unit of area they use, so it is an example of inverse nominative determinism, approximately the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus - it started in WWII as a code word and it just stuck (bit like &quo...