Happened 12 years ago.......interesting that his partner at the time is now his ex......he should have offered the council a couple of £million if he found it.
Serves him right he should have stuck to old fashioned cash then he wouldn't have had this problem in the first place. Anyway he'd only spend it on something rubish.....
The death of David Lynch, the producer of the seminal 1990’a American TV series Twin Peaks, was reported yesterday. I don’t know if anyone remembers it - it’s the story of an FBI agent who is sent to a remote Pacific Northwest town called - Twin Peaks - to investigate the murder of local prom queen Lauren Palmer. So far so good. You know it’s going to be weird tough when he arrives to find the local sheriff is called Harry S. Truman and that Lauren has an identical-cousin who arrives in the town to generally confuse the issue. An identical-cousin - WTF is that? This small rural community has a resident psychiatrist, It’s unsurprising. On the Weirdness Index. Lynch was right up there, having also made the cult movie Eraserhead. I hope we get a re-run to mark Lynch’s passing. It’s a mad mix of crime, science fiction, pulp fiction, horror and comedy themes moulded into an entirely bizarre and unbelievable plot. How it got made, God only knows but it’s a classic. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyv9ge0pgeo
Bring on the log lady....... Talking backwards was a bit confusing too. I remember this series and never quite got the hang of what it was supposed to be about or anyone was doing. Bit like Corrie on Acid.
I suggest a complaint to the Luftwaffe. Offshore wind firms told WWII bomb disposals must be less noisy. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dgrvww3qeo
The Telegraph reports on its front page that presumably as part of some sort of vendetta, President Macron has "vowed" that British tourists will be charged more to enter the world’s most popular museum, the Louvre The BBC though carries the true story: increased charges will pay to improve the Louvre to cope with the huge numbers visiting it and those charges apply to ALL non-EU visitors, not just the British as the Telegraph headline suggests. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde9r0xgk67o Serious newspaper or tabloid rag? You decide.
King Charles the third has decided to change the name of our latest submarine.... that his mother had called HMS Agincourt in 2018 when it was originally named.....to HMS Achilles. He didn't want to upset the French by reminding them of the tonking we gave them,.....Sounds a good reason to call it Agincourt personally. Rest assured that the Greeks might find a reason to complain about it being called Achilles.....maybe the Friends of Paris Society might complain about us calling it after the one weakness he had.....his undipped ankle.
If the Louvre is having huge numbers visiting...why do they need to charge extra....just use some of that excessive profit and stop being greedy.
Did you read the BBC item? The Mona Lisa will be moved to a new exhibition space at the Louvre in Paris as part of a plan to renovate the world's most frequented museum. Emmanuel Macron stood in front of the masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci as he made the announcement to an audience of dignitaries, with the change to be introduced by 2031 and visitors charged separately to see the painting. The French president was outlining his New Renaissance project, which will also involve an international competition to design a second entrance to relieve the growing pressure of visitor numbers beneath the famous glass Pyramid. In a letter to the government made public earlier this month, Ms des Cars said the pyramid - which since 1989 has housed the unique access point to the galleries - was "structurally unable to cope" with visitor numbers that now reach more than nine million a year. About three-quarters of the museum's 30,000 daily visitors go to see Leonardo da Vinci's painting, but the experience has become an endurance test, with a constant crowd being funnelled through the Salle des Etats and getting on average 50 seconds to observe the picture and take photos. But that's not the main point, the Telegraph headlines it as an extra charge on the British. It's not. It's a charge on all non-EU visitors. The Telegraph was one of those papers which encouraged Britain to do itself monumental self-harm by leaving the EU, often deploying misleading headlines if not downright lies. Here it is complaining about the one very minor consequence using.... a misleading headline.
HMS Achilles was a frigate when I was in so it is not a new name for a ship of the line. Greek names were once quite the flavour.
As you can see, this boat has had more than one name during construction. Originally its name was to be HMS Ajax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Achilles_(S125) RN naming conventions are a complex matter I believe, referring back as they do to the long lines of vessels going back into the days of sail. This class of submarine is being named after WW1 battleships and WW2 “A” class submarines. Again, the fact that this hull has had not two but three names hasn’t quite made it it into the rabble-rousing tabloid press That wouldn’t have allowed the story to be portrayed as the UK pandering to the EU would it? Neither has the fact that the HMS Agincourt she was provisionally named for was a WW1 RN battle cruiser. However, she was not built as an RN ship. She was built for the Brazilian navy but then sold instead to the Turks while still under construction before finally being seized by the British at the start of WW1. Given the choice available, perhaps Agincourt wasn’t the best basis for naming one of our submarines and passing the name down into the future is it? Funny how a 2 minute search on Wikipedia reveals facts apparently inaccessible to the Mail or the Telegraph isn’t it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agincourt_(1913)
Wikipedia facts are not always truth......anyone it seems ...can add to the "truth on that web site".....although most of us use it to find out many things we don't know about.....as long as at times we take the facts with a pinch of salt. At least Agincourt hasn't been erased yet from our history books....although wokeism and political correctness seems to rule over many areas.....who knows what our history books might be allowed to say a hundred years from now. We might have to review what we call "the English Channel" one day in case it offends the French.
I think you can rest assured that the history of the Royal Navy is curated by people far more reliable than Mail and Telegraph reporters. HMS Agincourt saw action at the Battle of Jutland and for that reason alone has every right to a place in RN history. There were many battleships and battle cruisers active in WW1, though which was very much the last hurrah for vessels which by WW2 were increasingly at the mercy of submarines and aircraft. You will no doubt remember the popular slogan in the run-up to WW1: "We want eight and we won't wait" meaning the commissioning of 8 new battleships EVERY YEAR. These submarines are the modern equivalent of the battleships. If a name is going to passed on to such a prestigious vessel, it makes sense for it to be from a ship which was British designed as well British built and operated. That's not the point though. It's not the wokists to blame here, it's the Brexit apologists trying to make an anti-French and indeed anti-royalist mountain out of a molehill.
The fact is that King Charles felt it should change from Agincourt....so it isn't Brexit apologists in this case. The French I think have their own name for the stretch of water between our two countries. Trump calling the gulf of Mexico the gulf of America shouldn't be a problem either.....the rest of the world can continue calling it the gulf of Mexico....only new American atlas's might conform to Trump mania......of course Keir Starmer might do a bit of forelock pulling to keep in Trump's good books and Mandelson has already changed his views on Trump because of the Ambassador job in Washington coming up.....so they might call it the gulf of America as well.
As is presumably his prerogative as head of British Armed Forces, no doubt under advisement which will have fed through from the Navy and the MOD. That’s the way things work in this country.
What on earth has America done in electing Trump a second time? Is the man senile? He’s now purposed that Gaza be emptied of its inhabitants, to be deported to unspecified locations (not the USA presumably) and the whole area should be rebuilt as Florida-on-the-Med. Among other things, can you imagine how that would encourage future terrorism and who the targets would be?
Has he never read the old testament.... ..thousands of years of history......just been waiting for some goof ball like him to come along and sign another declaration with his big fat black pen.......another problem solved......move on to the next world problem please.
