Oh well.

Hope your end-of-year-day runs better. :-)
Happy New Year, all.

David Attenborough switched youthful ambitions for medicine to veterinary and marine conservation instead, and I can never thank him enough.

We had a double beaching of adult humpbacks this year. A first for Aldabra. Tragically, re-floating them proved impossible and sadly, the accompanying juvenile we lost track of. :-(

Now gearing up for a turtle rodeo (next few days), but would like to wish everyone a happy and environmentally-friendly new year, as much as is humanly possible.

Thousands of government papers detailing some of the most controversial episodes in 20th-century British history have vanished after civil servants removed them from the country’s National Archives and then reported them as lost.

Excellent, I'm happy for both of you

How easily some are appeased by irrelevant cosmetics... ;-)

Some may think that, but I'm pretty sure that the printers that win the contract won't be seeing any cosmetics but plenty of ££££££££££££££££££££££££££ :-)

In the meantime happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

Jord,
Take the time you need. I hope and pray that Holly will make a good & speedy recovery and that you get the rest you deserve and need.

Same msg from me.

Yes.

the man, who suffered cuts and bruises, was arrested after a "short pursuit"

the last thing we need is for the database(s) to get corrupted and need a rebuild lasting a day or more.

If he now knows it irritates you, maybe he won't use it with you again.

I'm NOT a Sir I WORK for a living and find being called that very condescending !!!

but just bear in mind that the English have always been p*ss poor on their own.

Really , please tell that to Argentina ;-);-);-);-);-) , that was Britain on her own with NO help from certain others weren't it !!!

Quite correct - Britain not England :-)