I cant take to Clapton and Cream. Listen to Cream doing ‘I’m So Glad’ then listen to Skip James scratchy version from 1931. IMO if you prefer Cream’s version then you dont get the blues.

It’s just my personal taste I suppose. My favourite watch is my 40yo Seiko 5 with a 36mm dia. If you squint or I think it looks a bit like a Rolex Oyster Perpetual. I like 36mm to 40mm.

On modern larger divers it always appears to me that a Nato is not enough strap for the watch.

It’s a nice looking watch neil, but appears massive. Is it a 42mm case?
Different opinion to cb but I like it on the bracelet. I reckon it would look great on a rubber strap. What’s the lug width?

It’s a shame about the hands on that Seiko. Nothing like the 62MAS.

Could your wife drive to Birmingham or Sheffield. I commute daily from Peebles to Edinburgh it’s a nice drive. Doesn’t see many HGV’s as it’s not really a major thoroughfare.

I dont really know the trains, but if you are based in Peebles and your wife works in Birmingham it may be less hassle to get her to Lockerbie and catch a grain there. To get to Edinburgh from the Tweed Valley you have to head in the opposite direction. Getting to Lockerbie reduces this. You might get cheaper fares.

Sas78, I have seen that San Martin review. That’s where I first saw the Seiko. The San Martin might have to go on the Xmas list.

JOMW also reviews another Seiko 62 MAS homage by 54 watches, but I prefer the San Martin.

Sapphire crystal and ceramic bezel insert. It’s a nice watch. I like the slight spearmint colours, indices are big but not overly massive. I also like the simple hands on it.

I say this not normally being a fan of divers.

https://dutchgp.com/en/information/

It seems ballot tickets for Zandvoort were allocated in July.

Looking at Zandvoort and Austria next year

I had heard that they had to run a lottery for Zandvoort tickets as so many want to go. I think all individual Sunday only tickets have been allocated. Packages may be available but I imagine prices will be eye watering.

Yes. Thanks tthew that’s an absolute beauty IMO. Very understated. Apparently the diameter of those originals is only 37mm.

The original Seiko 62MAS is one of the prettiest dive watches I have come across. A few companies are doing homages. Seiko have updated it but is out of the price range of mere mortals. Tried putting up a pic of the original but cant seem to manage it.

There is an off licence in Boston called ‘Jobi Liquors’

CFH – it would improve state education by getting all those active interested parents involved and thus they would pressure the school system to improve – and those motivate middle class kids would be an example to the others and even mentor others from less advantaged backgrounds

There is mileage in this argument. There are studies suggesting that the presence of high attaining kids in classes can help the education of those that are lower attaining without adversely affecting their own education.

No one sends their kids to private school unless they are rich or well connected. To be able to afford the fees you must be in the richest few % of the country

I know couples that send their only child to private school. They earn on or around the average wage for couples both employed in full time work.

Some people are sacrificing plenty for themselves to be able to send a child to private school.

There are also kids at private schools on bursary’s so they dont pay full fees.

I know the vast majority of people will be in the top earners and may have several children in private education, but this is not always the case.

Fist fights where nobody puts up any defence. Every shot lands with a sort of slapping noise but without breaking either the nose of the person being hit or the knuckles of the person doing the hitting.

Back to the Future, the enchantment under the sea dance, 1955. Marty is playing a Gibson 335 which was first made in 1958

You could write a book of BTTF niggles.

The big one is in BTTF2 when old Biff goes back from 2015 to 1955 to give the sports almanac to his younger self, why does he not return to an alternate 2015 rather than the one he left?

Anagallis – as i said, i have spoken to them (and work in the environment/engagement sector). Apart from a very few really clued up youngsters they’ve all cried foul at the flights issue.

Of course the they will. They are only kids. They take their technological needs from adults. The fact that they raise climate change at all shows a degree of maturity despite their naivety.

We owe it to the next generation to do what we can to ease the pressure. Our kids will be the cause of problems of their own making. They have to try their best to solve them in a few years time.

From Frankie Boyle on Twitter,

“That kids have got to take time out of their childhoods to explain climate science to us should be a matter of profound shame”

Also, when an ugly or fearsome CGI beastie fails to dispatch a petrified hero because they are too busy bearing their teeth by letting out a roar in their face.

Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit and Harry Potter are prime offenders.

It’s been years since I saw it, but I am sure there is a reference to the Challenger Shuttle disaster in the film Wall Street. The film is set in 1985.

Definitely not Indonesia or Borneo.

We (not me but local “strongmen”) destroy our virgin forest at a rate others will cry if they can see what have happened to the land. We in Borneo have lived in despair about the situation for sometime now.

I was reading that over 50% of global palm oil export is from Indonesia. Perhaps people should be protesting in developed countries to try to reduce demand. Indonesia and also Malaysia are only supplying a demand. The fault is ours.

Daily Mail readers will be furious if the RNLI are rescuing immigrants or foreign nationals on holiday, if it turns out a homeless ex-serviceman drowned in Morcambe bay whilst suffering a bout of PTSD!!

Homeless ex service personnel with PTSD seem to be the yardstick against which the worth of assistance is measured for most DM readers.

So, who will buy our cheese?

Us I suppose. Cheddar based menu options at Wetherspoons.

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Dairy is a funny one though, lots of protectionism in North America, in Canada the plasticine they call cheese is extremely expensive

I was also reading with regard to travel distances/times in relation to pasturised and unpasturised products and the potential effect upon public health.

whats the entire market worth? you’ve quoted EU numbers in percent, and the others in pounds. i’m guessing the EU value is a some more lots twelfty substantially more than the other markets?

The site says EU market for cheese export is £146m of a total of approx £175m (using my sums of percentages). The thing is it shows how lagging in quantity our exports are outside the EU. The Brexiteers talk up the prospects of other markets, but can they really match up to the export market the EU provides not just for cheese? I cant see the rest of the world stepping up to the plate to take on our current exports if we get no deal with the EU.

Who will buy our cheese?

https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/markets-and-trends/dairy-markets/uk-cheese-exports-rocket-22-in-first-quarter-of-2019

It seems 83% of UK cheese exports are to the EU. The US is the largest export market outside that taking £13m pounds worth of cheese from us in the first quarter of 2019. China accounted for a whopping £2.5m of cheese exports in the first quarter of 2019. You could almost pay for a visitor centre at Wensleydale for that.

French or American cheese. Let me think it over. Cant quite decide. Do I want Reblochon on my sandwich or luminous squirty “cheese” from a can??

I enjoyed it on the whole. Would have liked more of Jared Letto and Robin Wright, as well as less Harrison Ford.

I will look into it squirrelking.

Neon Genesis Evangelion. You ain’t seen bleak until you crawl into the mind of the worlds most whiny annoying teenager ever. Thankfully not a regular occurance, Shinji is a world class ****. But aside from that giant biomechanoids fighting alien invaders, what’s not to like?

I wondered whether this was worth a watch. I have started watching plenty of anime but stuck with very few.

I am always expecting anime to have moved on from Akira, but at 30 years old I find it hasn’t been bettered.

Castlevania was good but that’s fantasy. In terms of sci-fi I quite liked Ajin Demi-Human.

Westworld
Cowboy Beebop

Personally I’d like to see Ricciardo get a drive in a better car – he made a mistake leaving RB last year.

The feeling I got from watching the Netflix series following teams last year, was that Ricciardo was scared of Verstappen and chose to jump ship rather than fight against the upstart.

I don’t think Vostok watches have had a mention in this thread of a thousand plus posts.

They do some handsome pieces.

Anybody?

I have a couple. A new Komandirskie and a vintage Amphibia. I like them although they are often overlooked by experts where it’s all about Swiss.

Russian watches are a great way to get into vintage mechanicals. Raketa, poljot, Pobeda, Zim do nice old watches. Loads for sale on ebay.

I own 19 watches in the £10 to £50 bracket, mainly Soviet vintage manual wind watches. Just bought a special watch for 20th and additional 21st, a pre-owned Tissot Visodate automatic, and a Casio F-91W.

Hope Leclerc wins tomorrow. He has become my sons favourite driver. I can see championship battles between him and Verstappen over the coming years. Verstappen has amazing talent but I cant warm to his arrogance. The sea of orange at the Dutch GP at Zandvoort next year will be a sight to behold though.

For someone so keen to get a deal from the EU, why is blowhard busy posturing and threatening a GE rather than in Brussels to try to secure this deal? If underlings are working round the clock to secure it, where is the news or reports of progress?

I went for the first time this year to just the free practice day, so was able to roam about the stands.

I found Woodcote A the best of the places I sat at. I could see the cars coming the entire length of the Wellington Straight towards me, then around Brooklands, Luffield and Woodcote before seeing them head away down the National pit straight. This must have been close to 1/3 of the lap with both high speed and low speed sections. Quite a few cars spun out at Brooklands.

I’m not holding that up as a reason to leave, rather that we’re working from out of date information. The claim is that leave is the majority position, I’m positing that this is untrue. Which kinda puts “the will of the people” on shaky ground, doesn’t it.

Look at it this way. All the vocal leavers are dead against having another referendum. Why do we suppose that might be? They should be all over it like a tramp on chips, an opportunity to silence the pesky remoaner minority for good.

I agree with this. Although I am sure we agree that this is largely down to having more accurate information, facts and knowledge consequences of brexit than we had 3 years ago.

I am just suggesting that this is a better argument to take back to the people rather than having another referendum because people have died off.

Cougar, I get your point, and there are many good reasons not to leave, but I dont think arguing that we shouldn’t because leavers are dying off is a great one.

If people become more right wing as they get older, then perhaps there are now leave voters from those that voted remain on the basis that they are now 3 years older.

his is a rubbish argument as in your mind the votes of 2 million dead people is more important than the 3 million EU citizens currently living in the UK whose life is going to get really shitty?

I disagree with nearly all of what dazh says, however I dont agree with you on this.

Do you know that 2 million leave voters have died since the referendum?

How many of the electorate die between general elections? You cant remove a government mid term because you reckon most of the people that voted for it might now be dead. The same with the referendum result.

Bah Cornish pasties at least they’ll be able to get pork pies :-),

On food regional protection, as well as opening up the UK to imported American Cornish Pasties, does this mean that within the UK itself this will also be a free for all. Could we have Arbroath Smokies made in Devon or is there regional protection in UK law?