Wordle in one today! If you keep using the same starter word it's bound to happen sometime... Spoiler alert if you've not played today...
No guesses in 1 yet, but still happy with 99% win percentage. Have to better my win streak though as have missed days due to illness and forgetfulness
Saw this headline in the papers wjen out shopping today...certainly fits in the random news thread Woman's memory is wiped clean by 'quick 10-minute bonk' that 'gave her amnesia' EXCLUSIVE Mick Thacker was shocked when partner Polly Fisher had sudden memory loss after the couple shared a wild sex session, and it also left doctors utterly baffled https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/quick-10-minute-bonk-gave-32891614 However, I had plenty of "encounters" in my younher days that I managed to wipe out, mainly due to eccessive alcohol intake though I wonder if Turkish revels in his memories of days and nights with the ice-cream girls?
Superstar QPR fan does it again I activated this a couple of weeks ago please log in to view this image Show Menu Virgin Media O2 completes first stage of shared rural network with UK’s highest mobile mast at Glencoe 1 July 2024: Virgin Media O2 has completed the first phase of its Shared Rural Network (SRN) rollout, bringing reliable 4G coverage to 227 rural communities across the UK. The final partial not-spot site built by Virgin Media O2 is at Glencoe Mountain Resort, which became the highest mobile mast in the UK, standing 1,108 metres above sea level. Read the full press release https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/vi...work-with-uks-highest-mobile-mast-at-glencoe/ Some view from the top...
Not such a bright spark... Electrician stole £4,000 of electricity from his neighbours please log in to view this image Leslie Pirie stole electricity from his neighbours for more than three years Published 18 July 2024, 10:51 BST An electrician had been told to repay £4,000 to his neighbours after stealing their power by diverting the supply to his own home. Leslie Pirie, from Tayport in Fife, set up the elaborate system using a device hidden behind a picture frame. Dundee Sheriff Court heard that Hugh and Tracy Torrance's bills were so high they had to get their teenage daughter to work to help fund the payments. Pirie, 51, admitted stealing electricity between July 2017 and August 2020. He was given more than eight years to repay at £40 per month. Investigators called in to look at the unusually high charges immediately discovered the family were paying for their own supply and for downstairs neighbour Pirie. They found Pirie had cut a hole in the plasterboard to hide a Henley block, used to connect the mains to a meter, and had covered it up by hanging a framed picture. This device was splitting off the supply from the Torrance's supply to Pirie's. 'Thought he was a nice guy' Solicitor John Boyle, defending, said the neighbours were "essentially out of pocket to the tune of £4,000". He added: "They still remain neighbours, but obviously they are not on particularly good terms." Mr Boyle said Fife Council were trying to evict Pirie as he is the only resident in a three-bedroom house, after the death of his mother in 2010. He said: "The council have been trying to have him removed and I suspect this will be the final nail in the coffin. "He has expressed his willingness to compensate them, but that would be in modest instalments. He is not working." Speaking outside court after the sentencing, Mrs Torrance said: "We thought he was alright, quiet, just a nice guy. I just feel really disappointed." Pirie was admonished by Sheriff Morag Fraser and ordered to repay the couple.
Suspected burglar caught after sitting down with book 1 day ago Share Zahra Fatima BBC News please log in to view this image Kriangsak Koopattanakij A would-be burglar in Rome was caught after stopping to read a book on Greek mythology in the middle of a theft, Italian media reports. The 38-year-old reportedly gained access to a flat in the Italian capital's Prati district via the balcony but became distracted after picking up a book about Homer's Iliad on a bedside table. The 71-year-old homeowner is said to have awoken and confronted the alleged thief, who was engrossed in the book. News of the failed burglary attracted the attention of the book's author, who told local media he wanted to send the man a copy so he could "finish" his read. After being caught off-guard, the alleged thief reportedly attempted to make a quick getaway by escaping via the same balcony, but was arrested shortly afterwards. He is said to have told police he had climbed the building to visit a person he knew. "I thought I had ended up in a B&B, saw the book and started to read it." Giovanni Nucci, the author of The Gods at Six O'Clock, which explains the Iliad from the perspective of the gods, told Il Messaggero: "It's fantastic." "I'd like to find the person caught red-handed and give him the book, because he'll have been arrested halfway through reading it. I'd like him to be able to finish it. "It's a surreal story, but also full of humanity." The thief was reportedly in possession of a bag containing expensive clothing allegedly stolen from another house earlier that evening. Mr Nucci said his personal favourite deity was Hermes, the god of thieves. "He is also the god of literature. It is clear: everything fits," he joked.
