Happer: What about the sky?
Mac: [observing the northern lights] Sky, sir? It's amazing. I wish you could see it! I wish I could describe it to you like I'm seeing it”
I took this photo of Comet Neowise un 2020 from about the same spot

Love the film, my in laws lived very close to Pennan in Aberdeenshire where all the village scenes are set. I’ve drunk in the bar and called people from the phone box

Blast from the past!

Wrapped in smoked streaky bacon grilled or baked and smothered in a hollandaise sauce…

Just about to retire after 36 years in the public sector. It was a conscious decision to work in the public sector because somehow I had gained enough knowledge of pensions to know it was a secure prospect

Yay verily though the people from the land of York are blessed in the eyes of the Lord they be not so blessed as the chosen children of the land of Lancaster. But all those of the North are more blessed than the Southron peoples

My local has three regular ales and usually two guest ones, busiest pub in the area. Even Wetherspoons who are all about volume and profit margins have regular ales on sale.

No one’s talking about your home brew

Each to their own…

It’s not a problem if you drink proper beer from proper kegs! The ‘great British pint’ shouldn’t need additional carbonation

Bought a new bed recently, with mattress it cost well over £1440, we were nowhere near the high end of what was available in bog standard retail park stores

I know but you first have to decide if what you are going against is infallible teaching and what is and what isn’t is not always clear. The last occasion of a pope speaking clearly ex cathedra was the doctrine of the assumption in 1950. Not all teaching is ex cathedra

Not really, the Pope rarely speaks ‘infallibly’ the last definitive time was 1950. Other teachings of the church eg contraception are not regarded as infallible by many theologians.

Oí ! Im about to retire im far too busy funding my kids to look for conspiracy theories!

Proper handbags stuff from two of politics saddest losers!😂

Scrapage scheme too…

Lots of blame spreading as he name checks everyone who’s going down with him. Vance noticeably absent , looking to take advantage

He must be very cross, he forgot to say “thank you for your attention to this matter”

So very true! I too went to an RC school our houses were called Barlow, Cottam, Almond, Arrowesmith, Southworth and Rigby. If you know you know…. Later on, when we became Co-ed some of them were changed to Clitherow, Line and Ward. I taught in a school called Plessington. 10 people who died brutally

Tbf Joan of Arc wasn’t punished for being Catholic , she was accused of heresy by the Catholic Church but it was nothing to do with the penal laws in England it was mainly political.

Those laws absolutely were designed to punish people for being Catholic! Fines for non attendance at Protestant services and the imprisonment and execution of priests or those harbouring them. Seem pretty punitive to me…

Bensons blackcurrant and liquorice boiled sweets are the best! What’s the cordial like? Non alcoholic Pernod and black (my stupid drink of choice when a student in the 80’s)?

Simpleton’s question… is that good or bad for the USA?

Multiple copies of Ronald Knox stuff, all 19th century Oxford Movement

My parents (uber Catholics) heard that a priest’s 19th century theology library was going to be skipped so took the whole lot in, other clergy didn’t want it! 50 years later, they were all still in the house, never opened. I passed the whole lot on to the local branch of Opus Dei! Never to be read!

Testosterone supplements can make a big difference to well being but only if your levels have been shown to be low by a blood test. Mine were and the difference getting them back to normal was very significant

Bringing back nightmares of my days as a KS3 science coordinator wondering ‘why but why?’ At the mountains of information required to know if a child understood the particle model of matter.. !

That was a later ‘abridged version’!

Liberating! Have you got any old orange national curriculum folders to get rid of ? 16 targets 10 levels 2-3 sub targets to each level and don’t forget to decide if they’ve ‘experienced’ or ‘met’ each sub level…

I wish I understood gilts!