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Lenin had principles, Stalin was vicious, Putin simply embodies the worst of both of them and of mankind's greed and cruelty.

My wife's uncle was 2nd chief engineer on the QE2 (he'd previously been on the Queen Mary) and he was responsible for the engines...

Yes ... we look on the RHS and trips to Wisley as a treat - we don't do foreign holidays or meals out to any extent and Wisley is a...

£3.95 now.

Although the post mortems showed that the survivors assembled in compartment 9 probably died between 6 and 8 hours after the sub sank...

We love Wisley ... RHS member so it's free apart from the £3.00 a cup coffee and £4.75 cake ... they do walkies at Wisley from March to...

Putin has little concern for life of his own people or anyone else for that matter - when the Kursk submarine disaster occurred he was...

Very similar bit of kit to the Lidl one but finished in stainless rather than enamel. I think Lidl have stopped selling them in the UK...

There's another blast from the past ... one of my teenage friends, Dai, worked at Crompton Parkinson in Doncaster ... he lived in a flat...

This convo just reminds me of my late great (in all terms of the word) uncle Delfryn Lloyd my paternal grandmother's brother in law who...

They are now much prized by the hand car wash people ... dig it out of the shed - £100 or so on ebay - that's a few sheets of foundation...

Ir's still going to cost a fraction of the price of a new replacment ... as long as you don't count your labour in !

I had a mangle I wanted for wax making - but found it wasn't needed. Also fairly important it is not too worn. I also had a metal...

My goodness that mangle has seen some action ! Is it electric or a handle one ... do you make flat sheets first and then press them ?

and good luck finding one these days ! Anyone below 60 won't even know what a mangle is .., let alone what it was originally used for ...