Toadfish Monastery

...potato collections!" as she swung the cleaver in a frenzy quickly reducing the onions to a fine dice.

It was DaveL who had introduced Bart to the finer points of potatoes, previously Bart had only collected broad beans.  The boys screamed in terror, and ran off to...

More clues.

No 3) Four syllables in the name of this group of animals

No 4) The biggest member of the biggest group is red, but this is the smallest group.

All time fave, practicality not a consideration -> lightweight D-Type Jaguar in British Racing Green with the fairing behind the driver's roll bar and with aero screen and metal tonnaeu on the over the passenger seat.  I actually saw one once up close and personal and fell in love.  Would still blow away most "exoticars" today.

Bluenose

Hi everyone,

Sorry if I lead people astray, my birthday is not the 2nd, rather the 6th of November.  I was congratulating Chatty on being a first week of Nevember person too!  It's just that in re-reading this thread it seems I have given people the wrong idea and I apologise - I am not looking for more best wishes for tomorrow.  Oh, h*ll!  It doesn't seem to matter how I write this, it looks like I'm trying to angle for applause or something.  I think I'll stop digging now...

BTW, in my family this is a busy time of year, my sister's birthday is on the first, mine the sixth and my mum's is on the 14th.  Dad's is on the 11th of December so the last couple of months of the year have always been a sort of hectic season.

Funny how you see things when you're a kid.  When I was about 5, I remember that I knew that the reason everyone let off fireworks on Guy Fawkes night was because it was my birthday the next day!        Well it worked for me!

Bluenose

Got some of these cooling to have with dinner tonight.  Can't wait...

Arrive safely up at Brookville.  Alister (my friend who kindly allows me to take over his kitchen when I am up here) has to put up with this view every day:





We went for drive this morning, and oh dear, had to stop off at alocal winery and stock up on some of the deliciouys wines, it was a dirty job, but there was no one else around to do it.  Anyway on the way home found something growing in a tree on the side of the road, took a photo but it did not come out well with the sky behind, but we did find a bit of the plant on the ground and it is beautiful



As Alister says "its hell in the bush!"

Bluenose

OK, managed to find the Internet in the wilds of the Australian Alps.

DD's last guess was both half right and in another sense way off the mark.  You're all still being too literal

Clue no 2: a small jumper

Oh, and last post

I want to reply to your post in some detail, but I have no time just now, and may not have much time over the next few days since I'm going away for 4 or 5 days and will have only limited access to the Internet.

However, let me say that although I agree with most of what you say, I think that many climatologists have yet to come to terms with the lack of predictibility of non-linear systems.  You can completely know everything about even quite simple non-linear systems, all the forces, the starting positions of everything (to wihin the quantum level of uncertainty) and yet still not be able to predict the behaviour of the system beyond the immediate future with better than chance accurracy.

The climate is by no means a simple system and that will magnify the problem significantly.

Bluenose

Memo
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From: Elpdesk Manager

To: Chief Financial Controller

'Ere, Johnno,

Smiggins down in accounts as got his revenue program all outer kilta agin.  We jest received wun o' iz "Nigerian" letters in the elpdesk inbox.

Could you go down an get im ter fix the blaggard thing so it uses the customer database, not the employee one?

Nongo
Elpdesk Manager

Don't be too literal.

Gloria's first guess is almost another clue.

Last Post

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If it won't matter in a hundred years, it doesn't really matter.

Ok, I'm thinking of a new word. 

Clue No 1: Irish fruit.

Last Post

You can jump off a moving train or out of a moving car without any risk of persnal harm.

All automatic weapons used by heros have special magazines that allow the user to fire for up to three of four minutes at a time before needing to be replaced instead of the usual three seconds for everyday guns.

The hero's magazine will only ever need to be replaced during a lull in the shooting and when he/she is safely behind a bulletproof solid object.

A desk is a bulletproof solid object.

Hero clothes dry instantly after immersion in water.

The heroine's hair is always perfect when she wakes up in the morning.

OK, how do we start a new word for the Last Post?  (I've got one in mind)