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• Post #1844517

  Finally got round to seeing Project Hail Mary; thoroughly enjoyed it. Still have difficulty telling Ryans Gosling and Reynolds apart though.

• Post #1844516

  @cunobaros I see you're a Hugo finalist again - many congratulations, and good luck!

• Post #1844515

  Off to Stowe for a National Trust event. 1st time we've been back since we got married there 30 years ago -)

• Post #1844514

  The room we got married in is in the central section of the house, immediately to the right of the 5 columns.

• Post #1425406

  @cunobaros Just squeezing in under the wire - Happy Birthday!

• Post #1020806

  Now on the train from Paris to Munich. Our friends are somewhat closer this time, in the next carriage along.

• Post #1020805

  Now on a train from Munich to Zagreb. This time our friends are in the same carriage as us.

• Post #1020804

  And now into our 3rd country of the day (Slovenia)

• Post #1020803

  Settlling in to our large, modern apartment in Zagreb. After over 9 hours on the train, don't think we'll be going out again this evening:-)

• Post #1020802

  This apartment is perfect except for one small thing - the cups provided are fine for small coffees but no good for a proper cuppa, so had to go out & buy a mug :-)

• Post #1020801

  @jackwilliambell @bellinghman They are sensible enough to provide an electric kettle, but if they hadn't, I would have boiled water in a pan before resorting to the microwave - some things are Just Not Done:-)

• Post #1020800

  On the sleeper train to Stuttgart. Getting into the upper bunk required a level of contortion that makes me glad I do yoga and pilates. Not looking forward to getting down again!

• Post #1020799

  @jackwilliambell @bellinghman Thank you

• Post #1020798

  Yesterday I had an email from the National Trust telling me that tickets for 'Christmas at Wimpole' were now available. Slightly boggled.

• Post #1020797

  Oops

• Post #1020796

  Let's see if the slinky trick works for me :-)

• Post #460055

  Today's achievement unlocked

• Post #460054

  I suppose in Switzerland, Shetland and Welsh ponies would be exotic

• Post #460053

  That's one way of recycling old Christmas trees :-)

• Post #460052

  Flicking through TV channels in the hotel, came across the German version of 'Ghosts'. The character casting is the same, except the arrow through the neck person is female & the dead soldier is a Roman centurion.

• Post #460051

  The Plague, painted by Böcklin in 1898. Looks like it should be an SFF cover.

• Post #460050

  I'd forgotten how weird some German places can be about debit & credit cards - the restaurant we have just been to would only take Visa or Mastercard if they had been issued by a German bank. Good job it was not an expensive meal so we had enough cash.

• Post #460049

  Alarm set for 02:30, will leave the hotel at just gone 03:00 to see the official start of Fasnacht at 04:00. The back to the hotel for a snooze, I think :-)

• Post #460048

  Just before the lights went out for Morgenstraich at 04:00. Glad to see we're not on our own :-)

• Post #460047

  Wut?

• Post #460046

  I have discovered, to my cost, that it is actually possible to eat too much leckerli (small soft biscuits from Basel). They are dangerously more-ish, but I have learnt my lesson.