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  1. Marianna

    So That's What Happened to Foggy's Mattress

    More d****d fly tippers! I've lost count of the number of photos/reports on the Holmfirth Community Group Facebook page. One of them, within the last couple of days, was on Woodhead Road, across from the intersection with Greenfield Road. Looked like a load of furniture.
  2. Marianna

    Where's Howard?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp876l354y7o?at_ptr_name=facebook_page&at_campaign_type=owned&at_format=link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_link_type=web_link&at_link_id=15E09224-B020-11EF-B680-A28C8E8E2476&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_medium=social&at_link_origin=BBC_Yorkshire&fbclid=IwY2xjawG6_FRleHR...
  3. Marianna

    The 'Haters' are wrong ...

    '"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak arguments, "one of the best, and best-known" critiques of applied statistics.' Mark Twain attributed this to Benjamin Disraeli, but that attribution is doubtful.
  4. Marianna

    Yorkshire as a character

    Very good! My first thought, though, was that the Spirit must have been Earnshaw.
  5. Marianna

    When do you.

    I used to put it up whenever I had time, but didn't turn on the lights until Yule, on December 21st.
  6. Marianna

    How Long

    I grew up on the farm that my paternal grandfather bought in 1911, when my father was three years old. Moved from there to reduce the commute to work in 1965, when I was 21. The efficiency flat I rented was miserable, so I moved to another a few months later. Married in 1967, separated in...
  7. Marianna

    You expect me to take how many?

    I have major difficulty staying with an exercise program unless I enjoy that particular exercise. I might have less difficulty if I saw results from it, though. The only one I've ever enjoyed has been walking, outside when the weather isn't too awful and inside on a high-tech treadmill with my...
  8. Marianna

    Name Episodes #5

    When You Take a Good Bite, Yorkshire Tastes Terrible
  9. Marianna

    Name Episodes #4

    Of Passion and Pizza
  10. Marianna

    “Bill Owen - A Tribute” BBC Documentary

    Wonderful tribute. The only thing lacking is captions for the deaf and hard of hearing. I enjoyed the sections in which the speaker was on camera, because I could mostly read their lips and infer the rest from context.
  11. Marianna

    Anyone into Bungee Jumping

    Make sure the safety harness is reliable! My ~22-year-old grand-niece was doing a similarly dangerous sport - rock climbing on an indoor climbing wall, when she fell to the mats on the floor below. Fractured both bones in the left lower leg, one of them in two places, and sprained the right...
  12. Marianna

    You expect me to take how many?

    Good grief, that looks like my regimen, except that I have a couple of inhalers prescribed for twice a day.
  13. Marianna

    It's arrived!

    I'm not tempted by Amazon Prime. I let items accumulate in the Saved for Later section of my basket until there's enough to qualify for free shipping. Then, if I still need them, I move them to the basket and place the order.
  14. Marianna

    Name Episodes #3

    Forked Lightening
  15. Marianna

    Be Careful

    I keep seeing photos of British snow on my computer screen, and then I'm surprised when I look out the window and it's just autumn here.
  16. Marianna

    If Only

    I have no idea about contemporary farm equipment. Been off the farm since 1966, and it was sold in '68. We had a team of horses until the early '50s, replaced with a couple of gasoline tractors. We had no diesel equipment.
  17. Marianna

    If Only

    When I was young and living on the family farm, we had a gasoline tank buried under the lawn next to the driveway, with a pump above it. Bought gas from Agway (formerly GLF) at about $0.25 a gallon.
  18. Marianna

    Can you spot it

    Spotted it, unless there's more than one.
  19. Marianna

    Gentle Comedies - The Definitive Guide

    Question for @gothic Can the list be moved to the Episode Guide section of the forum and pinned so that it remains at the top of the section?
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