Due to an attachment to TV camaras, the adverts that viewers see, can be changed for each channel and country.

https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2025/july/chipping-in-to-save-cash/?utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery

Just got back from Sidmouth in Devon. It's a lovely place, lots of shops - not the usual town square shops, lovely gardens, beach - lots of swimmers, no seaside amusements! I've never seen so many dogs!
https://www.visitdevon.co.uk/sidmouth/

https://link.butterfly-conservation.org/m/1/71172733/p1-b25199-6e6112adf56842e9abea09d33bbfaead/2/847/0f26758e-0bec-4e48-b61c-1a53559dad90

I have responded to your post, but doubt you can see it, so I have created a post as a response.
If you were commenting on a post by a person where blocking is involved, you can only see the post but cannot comment on it.

I am still a member, just checked.

Will you be going for a traditional roast and veg, or will you be thinking of more exotic flavours?

And what about your pud?

What do you enjoy?

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Have a look at, or perhaps join the Arts and Creativity loop.

https://www.scooploop.com/loops/arts-and-creativity

Then join the Gardeners Group;Down to Earth loop:

https://www.scooploop.com/loops/gardeners-groupdown-to-earth

Then, if you are not a member, join the Pastime loop:

https://www.scooploop.com/loops/pastime

https://youtu.be/sGyRmUTR_sM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20160113-why-do-you-get-eye-floaters

https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u193491675?at_objective=conversion&at_ptr_type=media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN3Y_iKmgZA

I was ordering stuff on Amazon yesterday and decided to have a look at herbs and spices they were selling.

I came across dried, ground Basil.

What surprised me was that I could buy 100gms for £4.15.

Even more surprising was that I could buy twenty times that amount (2kgs) for a mere 15 pence more!

They had other amounts at different prices but I now have enough powder to last a couple of lifetimes. So if anyone needs any....

By Joshua Jones - The Sun

'THE absence of line judges at Wimbledon will be a sad sight.

For as long as I can remember, the men and women decked out in their Ralph Lauren outfits have been part of the furniture at the All England Club.

Yes, they provided some mild entertainment on the court when one would call "fault" with plenty of extra, and unnecessary, gusto and volume that boomed around Centre Court, prompting a snigger from the fans.

Then there was the ongoing game of dodgeball they had to play when a big serve nailed a mammoth ace down the line and they had to take rapid evasive action or take a whack to the top of the head.

And challenges provided some audience participation, excitedly joining in the clapping countdown before the inevitable "oooh" when the graphic showed just how close the ball was to landing in or out.

Purely objectively, Wimbledon's decision to replace line judges with Hawk-Eye Live makes total sense.

The accuracy and consistency of calls in real-time will speed things up, save time and should mark the end of arguments over the tight incorrect calls - well, until the technology malfunctions.

And Wimbledon's hand was somewhat forced to ditch tradition for their standing in tennis.

The Australian Open and US Open already use electronic line calling and the ATP Tour is adopting Hawk-Eye Live across all of its tournaments from 2025.

Wimbledon's refusal to comply would leave them lagging behind and exposed to the threat of needless controversy over human error.

But the impact - as is so often the case in these decisions - has ramifications further down, below the surface with very little impact on Wimbledon's Championships or the players.

It is on the line judges themselves.

Approximately 300 officials - aged from 18 to 80 - covered more than 650 matches at Wimbledon.

A fraction travel internationally with the circuit but the vast majority of those are part-time line judges based in the UK, earning up to £180 per day to work at the prestigious tournament and their chance to play their part at Wimbledon.

For many, they will help out at British tournaments throughout the year, spurred on by the possibility of taking to the lawns of the All England Club.

But it is understood many of those officials would be reluctant to work at the lower-level tournaments without the carrot of Wimbledon dangling in the summer.

That in turn will put a major stumbling block in the pathway for British tennis umpires, who grind up through the ranks to reach the pinnacle of the sport.

Like football with referees, tennis needs umpires and line judges.

So the inability to call "out" at Wimbledon could prove to be a major "fault" for the future of the UK's tennis officials and therefore the state of the sport on these shores.'

... I remember a dinner date with a girl who was a county champion chess player , and when I asked her to pass the salt , she took 20 mins .

I would like to share this link with you
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/ckgj184pdrno

A few pictures from my recent Western Mediterranean cruise.
Sunrise as we arrived in Barcelona.
A shop in Barcelona Marina (which would need to be Reform(ed) otherwise Nigel wouldn't visit).
A street in La Spezia, Italy, home of Richard Wagner - where we had some delicious gelato.
A Seagull, one of many whipping past our balcony while we were in port.
A car ferry trying to overtake us and beat us in to Palermo (it succeeded).

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I have taken to uttering a large groan every time I sit or get up from a chair.

Seeing that River Island is closing some stores, reminded me of my time at a clothing company. We ordered all the components for their clothing, packed them in boxes, then transported them to be shipped to Morocco where the clothing was made. The finished items were then shipped back to our warehouse. River Island then called for the items they required. If we did not have the size they wanted for trousers, we altered them!

I see there are lots of MSN 'news' links on the site. They just seem to be click-bait to lead you to the endless adverts. The 'news' may not even contain what is in the headline. Who do you use to see the news?

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/face-recognition-skills-of-the-memory-cop-achieves-mind-blowing-3000-suspects-found/

I have been in pain around the groin area so have been to see my G.P. She has a sense of humour as asked me if l wanted the bad news or the bad news. The first bad news was she thought l needed a new hip. So I asked her about the other bad news, she answered you probably need 2 new hips one on each side. Hilarious 😢

My wife and I had an excellent night last night at the O2 for a Lionel Ritchie concert. For a man of 75 he still has that Ritchie voice. A really brilliant concert.

https://jottacloud.com/s/0956db84f0045ef4ca499833cacaea6d15e

I found a monkey wondering around Shepherd's Bush yesterday. I took him to the zoo.
Tomorrow I’m taking him to the cinema. I hope he likes it as much!

There will soon not be enough electricity in the world to power all the data centres. 55-90% of the data is never used!


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002dc92

https://birdaware.org/solent/gulls-by-the-sea-but-thats-not-a-seagull/

Looking around Scooploop, I notice that some people are on here the whole day, I find this very sad. Edited at: 8 am, 9 am, 10 am, 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm, 6 pm, 7 pm, 8 pm, 9 pm, 10 pm.

tried to

If you are reading this and feel unseen, I hope you know your presence is a miracle. The world does not need you to be louder, or smaller, or less difficult to love, it only needs you to stay.

Somewhere, someone is quietly struggling to feel seen, to feel like they matter just as they are. If that someone is you, let this be a soft reminder that your existence is not an accident, nor is it a mistake to be corrected. You are not here to be more agreeable, less emotional, easier to understand, or harder to break.

You are here to be and that, in itself, is extraordinary.
The world may not always mirror back your worth, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. You don’t need to change your shape to fit into places that can’t hold your depth.

What you carry, your voice, your tenderness, your resilience is needed. You are needed, so if today feels heavy, if you’re wondering whether your presence makes a difference, please don’t go, stay, not because you owe the world perfection, but because your being here already matters more than you know.

How many forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?

1 to change the light bulb and 1 to post that the light bulb has been changed

14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently

7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs

27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs

53 to flame the spell checkers

41 to correct spelling/grammar flames

6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb"

... another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive

2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp"

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb" is perfectly correct

156 to email the participant's ISPs complaining that they are in violation of their "acceptable use policy"

109 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum

203 to demand that cross posting to hardware forum, off-topic forum, and lightbulb forum about changing light bulbs be stopped

111 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum

306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty

27 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs

14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL's

3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group

33 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too"

12 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy

19 to quote the "Me too's" to say "Me three"

4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ

44 to ask what is a "FAQ"

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"

143 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs"

1 new forum member to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.