Mmm… there’s nothing quite like a nice photo (of whatever) situated where I can see it easily… and smile every time I do so… 
I’m at my dad’s for two days and we’ve been looking at photos. There’s nothing to compare with passing a physical photograph round. My dil has many lovely photos of my grandson on fb but she doesn’t do fb anymore which means I no longer have access to them.
I do hope you are noting (gently) on the reverse… who is who…
My Dad started to do that, but left it too late… and I am now left with a glorious mound of photos. Thus, busy trying to match “eyes”, “nose”, general expression… to those which I can definitely identify… 
That’s a good idea.
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You could also eually say one of the Napoleon’s invaded France from England (Napoleon III in case you didn’t know)
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Thanks Dan - nothing about Slough memories cheers me up, but just for the record a) Having worked on the factory floor in Mars for a while I admit to not knowing it was’ invented’ in Slough and have reservations about this from some old US advertising records. 2 I never knew there was female Herschel even though I passed his observatory most days of the week as it was almost opposite the Adelphi Cineam and Ballroom (where I once did a stint as a Bouncer with my brother.) 3) Yes in another life I was also a Postman on the Slough Estates and on that basis only I did meet Gerry Adams on several occasions. It was also where I first met my father _ one of only three times in my life! 4) didn’t know about the ebra crossing, but did know that Slough for some while held some sort of record for the number of traffic lights from one end of the town to the other - 23 if I recall correctly.
I was surprised the list didn’t include what was surely the most famous product of Slough which was Horlicks ( does this still exist?); I recall ithe place also won an award for the Worst Tourism Campaign of All Time where it did not induce a sinlge applicant for the brochure!!
Finally how apposite that they should be he inventors of the wheeled rubbish bin?
@Pam_Thompson I disagree with your definition, which I find very narrow. Greenpeace is a campaigning body, the National Trust is a conservation body. They both, in their own ways, work for environmental ends. And a few licenced trail hunts every year is a modest support of hunting - especially compared to what happens in France every week during the season.
They are both non-governemental and not-for-profit bodies, so I’m not sure who you think the NT profits go to? And Greenpeace is not exacly a financial angel…a couple of years ago they lost €4million of donated money through dodgy currency trading, and they spend a far greater proportion of donated money on marketing than other similar bodies. So not exactly squeaky clean.
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The so called ‘trail’ hunts are simply nonsense as are most ‘trail hunts’. As for your case of ‘whataboutitis’ saying that the national trust suppoirt for hunting is modest compared with yada yada. There should be no support for hunting at all, especially since members don’t want it. It’s all nonsense of course and they fall over themselves to ‘ban’ any hunts who happen to get caught killing animals during supposed ‘trail hunts’.Like the one a couple of days ago.
Apparently hounds cannot be controlled, which is another problem with allowing hunts on NT land as past attacks on members of the public and their pets by packs of hounds has shown
The National Trust is facilitating illegal fox hunting on its land according to campaigners
If it’s a ‘not for profit’ charity, what about the billion quid ‘reserves’? Where’s that from if not profit? Add to that a director general’s salary of £200,000 and profit generating investments, I say your devotion to them is confusing.
The National Trust is facilitating illegal fox hunting on its land accor…
The National Trust approves of legal hunting but protestors say it does nothing about illegal hunting
Hunting on National Trust Land
National Trust sitting on reserves of £1bn
Hunting on National Trust Land
Many people have been shocked to learn that illegal hunting is taking place on National Trust land.
National Trust sitting on reserves of £1bn
The National Trust is sitting on reserves of more than £1 billion while it continues to plead for donations and …
Charities cannot be insolvent (unlike businesses) so any well managed charity should build up reserves. And if you are responsible for 600,000 hectares of land plus a lot of old and expensive-to-maintain building then I would have thought a million is not excessive at all. But I guess the realities of running a huge enterprise are not really of interest to people who want to stir up a fuss. I also guess that the director general’s salary is equivalent to similar sized companies, and certainly far less than for example the vice chancellor of a university. But again that doesn’t make much of a media headline.
It is I believe still the largest membership body in the UK, with twice as many members as Greenpeace has in the whole world. And only about 1% of them voted to ban hunting on NT land so I don’t really think it is accurate to say members don’t want it.
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did I respond to this? I thought I had, but can’t see it shown. Anyway nothing that could ever be written would change my view of Slough. Bit surprised that surely Horlicks had a prior claim than Mars? Although does this still exist? I recall with grim humour that Slough held some record or other as having the Worst Ever Tourist Programme (ref. Historic Failures’ book) where not single application was ever received for a Guided Tour.
Yes you did Norman 23 hours ago, where you talked about meeting Gerry Adams - l’m sure you meant Gerry Anderson the creator of Thunderbirds and working as a bouncer with your brother at the Adelphi.
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Ithought I had replied somewhere but also starting to realise that I am getting a bit (lot? doddery! Did I really talk about Gerry Adams - Good Grief, where did that come m?
The only march I have been on was the Countryside March over 20 years ago now.
London was full of well behaved people of all ages all there to preserve their countryside identity.
You might be interested to know that a charity bought land on Exmoor to save the red deer and they had to bring in the Exmoor stag hounds to cull because they bred out of control and were becoming starved and diseased.
The chasse in France is a totally different breed from UK hunts.
There were miner’s hunts in the Welsh valleys, hunting on foot in the Lakes and John Peel wore a coat so grey, as it was made from the local Herdwick wool and waterproof.
Farmers hunted to save their stock from predation and in fact, when the rule of only using two hounds to flush to guns was brought in the Scots killed more foxes than using traditional hunting.
When you take out levels of natural predation the only control available is by man and hounds ensure a clean kill.
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In test 5 I found a question which was wrong.
It gave the answer that Oliver Cromwell fought against Charles the Second.
So much for poor people trying to take this test!
Er Cromwell did fight against Charles II and defeated him at the battle of Worcester in 1651
Sorry to be a smart alec but I just can’t help it
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75% and a pass.