Martin Widlake

I just spent 5 minutes telling a friend a story about when I met four nuns in an oringinal Austin Mini, about 1986. It sounds like a joke but it wasn't. And yet...

For some reason, just the remembered image of four nuns in a tiny Austin Mini cracks me up. And I don't know why.

It had it coming, dropping bloody acorns all over the place.

Just leave it for 9 more months and you'll be back on trend.
It's what did with the fairy lights we put up around the oak sapling 10 years ago!

Yeah, the Doctor rather famously never uses weapons.

Except when he uses weapons.

OK, he does not use guns.

Mostly.

Also, I think the Doctor is more of a Lib Dem than a Conservative.

Silver tabby cat with a white bib, sitting in an empty laundry basket, looking content

They just can’t resist, can they?
#Caturday #catsofbluesky #cats

I've got a pair I could send you! They cost €6,000, used for about 6 months, apparently they can be totally reprogrammed. But the UK hearing aid industry utterly refuses to do it.

Dear oh dear oh dear.

Deer! Visitor in the back garden

Susan Parker (as was, a year behind you in Leeds) says "Well done!"

To be fair I was remembering a meal from about 8 years ago when Sue was in Switzerland. But for some reason, it has stuck with me! It was actually..... OK!

Rather beats my:
cornflakes in water-laced-with-soy-sauce and a side of a couple of slices of 2-day-past processed chicken.
Oh, and some fruit pastilles.

This person has... drawn a line between the "best" two points to back his claim and utterly ignored the *very clear* trend of the actual data!
Even an abject moron would see this is stupid.

I have spent a few weeks as a wheelchair user - it freaked people out when I used to get up and stagger about the park for a couple of minutes 😁

One day, this will be me.

I never claimed to be a nice person!

Happy #Caturday!

All four kittens playing with mum on the new cat gym I created
#cats #catsofbluesky

I wonder how bloody stupid #FIFA feel now over that "peace" prize they gave to Trump.

Back in 1999 we viewed an old granery beside a canal (and opposite 2 pubs(*)!) which we almost bought - and it came with moring for a canal boat!

But we were too slow. What might have been...

(* one of the pubs was our favourite in the area and was one of the places Marston's tried new brews at.)

Some people drink wine, go on the internet late at night, and buy canal boats, double-decker buses, or old fire engines.

I drink wine, go on the internet, and buy battery-powered garden tools.

And batteries.

But only small ones.

Ghosts feature film begins filming next month The Wait is Over… Ghosts: The Possession of Button House is coming to the big screen

The BBC comedy "Ghosts" is to come back as a film! It's odd how happy that makes me, the writers had previously said they had brought the program to a conclusion and it was not coming back.

We have just finished re-watching it for, I think, the third time.

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Indeed, and a good scientist will concede they are wrong when the data shows this.

Religions certainly alter their position over time, though I can't think of any key religious leaders doing so - but it's not something I know much about.

I wonder how many "cat presents" equals one foor tile...?

I would not really do that. It's not fair on the people running the franking machines in the Post Office.

This idiot does not even know how science works.

In science you explicitly do NOT trust the expert - you trust the results of tests.

You are informed by logical deduction and modelling.

And you listen to experts who have proven they do the above. But you do not take what they say as gospel.

As someone who has been watching House Porn for years (escape to the country, Location etc) I can tell you that house prices have certainly gone up over that period! Prices local to me have steadily grown and have doubled since we bought our hovel back in 2005.

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17C was a special version of Oracle where the optimizer was RBO if all tables involved were less than 1 million records, it wouldn't let you create a table with no PK, it dropped tables with only numbers in VARCHAR2, and the instance if there were fewer FKs than tables

It worked but was unpopular

It’s 17C, not raining, bright sunshine, and the cats are playing chase. Not #caturday but I might repost then.
#cats #catsofbluesky

Not many, but there are some! 🤣

Sadly, no. There is one with the Tory one, from Kemi. I contacted her about the NHS a year or two back and was utterly underwhelmed by "her" standard reply (I doubt she ever saw my email).

If it was a choice between voting for this bunch of lying, racist, dog-whistling, jingoistic grifts or Beelzebub, I’d be asking Mr B to talk more about his plans for buying souls.

Is there a way to prevent these people sending me their pernicious tripe?

Has the nearest one to you just been enjoying a chest rub or is that his normal form of repose?

Obviously we have different opinions but I suspect some of it comes from the environment in which we used the tool? And of course, familiarity with a tool makes you forgive all sorts of faults.
Last point - I don't think I was naturally a very good developer!

😆😆😆 - I think I remember having a discussion with you about this in a bar in ?Belgium? I loved using it and the forms gen tools, but we had a very waterfall development and did a lot of up-front work creating data types, domains, and better forms code we would replace key generated stuff with
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