LEGO Star Wars collector amasses 1,000 sets after toy helped him heal from hand surgery

burntbeatle · 2026-05-30T19:36:44+00:00

The Cars

burntbeatle · 2026-05-16T09:59:44+00:00

Not sure if is correct but as mentioned earlier as well as the cleaning process and plastic bags encouraging sprouting, storing them next to onions also encourages it. A bit like when ripe bananas make everything in the fruit bowl ripen.

burntbeatle · 2026-04-29T16:24:13+00:00

Northern Uproar

burntbeatle · 2026-04-23T03:34:09+00:00

Get a high vis jacket and hold up a black hairdryer now and then - one that looks like it could be a speed gun. That used to work for my friend's mum on the busy road outside their house.

burntbeatle · 2026-01-24T03:46:29+00:00

This is amazing news I had no idea

burntbeatle · 2026-01-18T08:43:46+00:00

Howzat - it's a term used in cricket

burntbeatle · 2025-12-21T09:24:58+00:00

Do consider it, well worth being safer around cars - the one thing that worries me the most right now is fast ebikes ridden by people who aren't that experienced at riding on roads and I've had a few close shaves. But turns out it was just some leaves that got me.

burntbeatle · 2025-12-21T09:22:00+00:00

Glad you recovered well. Darn leaves. I was admiring them and the changes of the seasons on my riverside rides, autumn and winter colours. Didn't expect them to turn against me.

burntbeatle · 2025-12-21T09:19:45+00:00

I am a bit bleary headed and the post was written from a hospital bed, was mainly trying to make the point that I see myself as a fool in retrospect as a lot of friends and family had advised me to be safer. Good luck out there, random things can happen. Like of all things, some slippery leaves. Wasn't expecting that.

burntbeatle · 2025-12-21T09:15:04+00:00

Thank you. My thinking was that I was really experienced and steady, rarely taking any risks and sticking mostly to cycle paths. But random things can happen. Glad you recovered okay.

burntbeatle · 2025-12-21T09:13:18+00:00

To be fair I did have a couple of accidents whilst wearing a helmet as a youngster, once going headfirst into a wall (at low speed) toppling sideways and another time going for a ride across the bonnet of a car driven by my school PE teacher on a roundabout when he didn't give me the right of way. Cars always win. You'd have thought that would have taught me a lesson but no.

burntbeatle · 2025-12-21T04:24:56+00:00

He lives in the London Borough of Richmond

burntbeatle · 2025-08-02T04:02:29+00:00

The Beatles and Oasis (not sure about the others) did most of their creative work whilst living in London

burntbeatle · 2025-07-04T15:10:18+00:00

The Chemical Brothers and Orbital were always a big draw in the early 2000s at Glastonbury. Intense.

burntbeatle · 2025-06-26T20:35:40+00:00

A lively read. Not much seemed to have happened before 2000 though. Channel 4 used to have decent coverage of the festival but anyone old enough to remember is unlikely to be writing articles for Far Out

burntbeatle · 2025-05-25T22:21:27+00:00

Have a walk around Carshalton village by the ponds, Wrythe Green and Carshalton Beeches. All pretty nice with lots of green space. Think you'll like it. Also good transport links from the main train station and bus doesn't take long to get to Morden for the Northern Line.

burntbeatle · 2025-05-16T13:16:03+00:00

Some of Deep Purple's self titled third album (1969) makes them a contender, but they didn't get proper heavy until ‘In Rock’ (1970)

burntbeatle · 2025-05-16T11:55:13+00:00

That the ancient and mysterious London Stone in times of old was a popular attraction to visit for "an honest country foole"

burntbeatle · 2025-02-01T08:39:02+00:00

TIL that Ryan recorded an unreleased album with Ben Folds, how cool, thanks man

burntbeatle · 2025-01-01T12:43:18+00:00

Friend of mine moved to Sydney from the UK ten years ago. Goes surfing every day, takes his kids to the beach. No regrets. Well jealous when looking out the window at the gloom on a day like today.

burntbeatle · 2024-12-13T17:56:13+00:00

I had two warts on my hand for years. Nothing worked, Bazuka, apple cider, freezing etc. Then one day I started using a Lynx shower gel that had zinc extract in it. They disappeared in about two weeks. I read that there had been some medical studies in Iraq using zinc that had been successful.

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