It's happened only twice a year since 1968, which is when the Abu Simbel temples were relocated from their original position to avoid being flooded by the Aswan dam.

Phasers on stun!

My favourite raccoon clip: https://youtu.be/rfbb4yRBH64

"Modernisation" lol - human beings are soooo last century.

I'm with Nationwide and overall happy. But I recently discovered there are no humans available on the phone after office hours, just a robot that puts you on hold because "all our advisers are busy right now". Busy at home, cooking their dinners! I ended up in tears when I found the small print on the website, after holding for half an hour. I complained and they gave me £50.

It was ridiculous - and such an easy thing to fix! Just a response like "no-one's home right now, please leave a message".

A farm near me trucks in thousands of pumpkins, lays them out in a field, and charges customers for the privilege of collecting them in wheelbarrows.

After Halloween, the farm pays pest destruction people to deal with all the rats.

They forgot Jeremy Bentham's body.

Batten down the hatches too.

None of these has a layer of grated cheddar on top that's gone all brown and delicious in the oven. You start with a very buttery roux while the macaroni elbows are cooking. Make a super cheesy sauce with a spoon of mustard in it, using full cream milk. Drain the macaroni, add the sauce, and pile it into a buttered oven proof dish. Cover with that layer of cheese. Slide it into the preheated oven and distract yourself somehow for ten or fifteen minutes. (I mean, you could use that time to make a salad but who are we kidding.)

So good.

It's ok, but it monkeys around with the plot to an annoying degree.

Anything by Emma St John Mandel. I started with The Singers Gun, but probably enjoyed Station Eleven most. It was made into a series by HBO - I'm in "the book was better" camp. The Glass Hotel is also good, and Sea of Tranquility. A quirk is that various characters pop up or are referenced in different novels.

China Mieville is another writer I like a lot. I read most of his steampunk novels - Perdido Street Station and The Scar stand out. But my favourite was Embassytown, which is basically about language.

You are welcome in my house with that kedgeree! One of my fave comfort dishes.

Ken Cheng is a British comedian. He likes to take the piss out of business people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cheng

Didn't work for me... in my 1972 bank job interview I was told, "I'd hire you if you were a man, but you're not. If I hired you, you'd just get pregnant and leave." It wasn't against the law for him to say all that.

And for what it's worth I didn't buy a home - a small one-bed flat - until I was in my 40s. Cost me so much I couldn't afford proper furniture. Yes, my current house is worth a lot more than what I paid for it (mainly because I bought a wreck), but so is any other house I could afford if I sold it.

Amazon gets these dumb answers because it emails buyers with the questions. So Joe Blow gets an email saying, "will this fit my XYZ?" and he answers, "I don't know, but it works ok on my ABC". It makes the Q&A section mostly useless.

My personal experience in the 1970s: “I’d give you the job if you were a man but you’re not, so…” Apparently I would just get pregnant and leave.

That's a swarm - get in touch with your local beekeepers group/organisation and someone will probably come and collect it.

Otherwise don't fret, the bees will do their thing. Scout bees will leave the swarm and look for a new home for the colony (the queen plus a third to a half of the original hive). They report back with details, and a collective decision is made on the best choice. The swarm will then leave. (Honeybee Democracy https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691147215/honeybee-democracy is a good read on this.)

Back home the rest of the colony have a new queen pupating. She'll eventually hatch out, go on a mating flight, and come back to start laying eggs.

Last night my sister and I had a 90 minute conversation on our phones with full-colour, hi-res video, me in the UK, her in NZ. It didn't cost either of us anything. We're in our 70s, such a thing was unimaginable back in the day.

My father, a union organiser: "You can love the company all you like, but the company will never love you back."

Stood me in good stead down the years.

"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers."