Just re-reading The Crab with the Golden Claws; at the beginning of the story, Tintin bumps into the Thompsons, and they have three pints. At a cost of 45p 😳
The story text is from 1958, and a pound then was worth £30 now, so the cost of a pint was roughly £4.50 in today’s money, which I think is not far off current prices in the UK.
But 45p for three pints did sound too good to be true 😂
Bin doch relativ froh, daß Capaldo nicht bei der WM dabei war, so wie die Argentinier sich gestern (und auch vorher gegen England) benommen haben.
Die die in der Premier League spielen, werden bestimmt ihren Spaß haben, wenn die Saison in England wieder anfängt.
Having just listened to the final Gallipoli episode and Churchill ending up as an 'outcast' after his disastrous decisions, I‘m puzzled how he managed to recover his political career and end up in charge again 25 years later. Surely everyone would have remembered Gallipoli and his responsibility, so how did he become Prime Minister when people used to shout at him in the streets?
I recently got a 2014 T100, and it has the standard fuel cap which can’t be locked.
Has anyone ever had any problems with that? I was thinking of replacing it, but I might just be paranoid.
I mean, who would either try and get fuel out or other stuff in?
I was just watching the David Suchet series of Poirot, where Captain Hastings is played by Hugh Fraser, who was Wellington from 1994 onwards.
In this episode (from 1993), there was a character named Barton Russell, some rich oil magnate involved in dodgy dealings with an Argentine junta. Somehow his voice sounded familiar, not so much the voice itself, but his manner of speaking.
I went to the trusty IMDB, and discovered it was David Throughton, who was Sharpe’s Wellington in 1993… I hadn’t recognised the actor, as he had a moustache and was sans a fake nose.
Bit of trivia, really, but I found it fascinating that the present and future Wellington were both featured in that episode!
Oh, and Hugh Ross, another actor in the very same episode, happened to be Major Munro (in 1995).
Small world!
Ik rid in een paar weken van Hoek van Holland naar Duitsland (Noord); in plaats darvaan door Utrecht/Zwolle/Assen wil ik over de Afsluitdijk rijden. En paar jaar geleden ben ik da al med auto gewest, maar dat tijd was het heel windig. Is het een goode idee, med en motorfiets deze route te kiezen? (Sorry voor mijn slechte Nederlands).