MrsDoyle

It's my understanding that everyone has sleep paralysis - the brain "switches off" the body (apart from essentials: breathing, heart beat etc) so you don't come to grief acting out your dreams. What we call sleep paralysis is when you wake, but your body hasn't been switched back on.

I used to have horrible sleep paralysis nightmares quite often. But then I read about what it really is, and I stopped having them. It was like my brain realised it was out of sync and corrected itself.

I once had to look up deep-fried butter.

Chanko for chunkers

I agree - I make a lot of soup, and can use the stick blender directly in the saucepan. So much easier to clean than a jug blender.

I think it may be dawning on them. I'm on an international holiday & didn't get time to faff about installing Linux before I left. But I discovered the day before my flight that Microsoft has extended its offer of security updates for another year to individuals as well as businesses free of charge, and signed up. Last time I'd looked I'm sure ESU was for businesses only.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates

The bit that made me laugh was: "ESU enrollment does not provide other types of fixes, feature improvements, or product enhancements." Phew!

I'll crack on with upgrading to Linux when I get home, nice little winter project.

http://www.britishlandsailing.org.uk/

It happened in the UK too, in the 60s. Some of the lines have been reinstated in recent years, but most were gone for good. Cars were the future! Really dumb.

In Belgium we hired bicycles at the railway station at Ypres, biked around the countryside all day, then dropped them off and got the train back to Brussels.

As for the Netherlands... this is a typical railway station bike park.

It says "in charge"; I guess the obscured word is "nurse".

Not weird at all. I reach into my left pocket for my phone with my left hand and am ready to operate it with my right hand. Having it in my right pocket would be awkward.

Taps aff!

Late licences (to 5am in Scotland) are the main reason I fled Edinburgh's Old Town for the suburbs. No fun having your front door used as a toilet, drunks ranting and fighting in the close at 3am, having to dodge "pavement pizzas" every night. Yay, growth!