El Loro posted:Apparently there are plans over the next few years for Gloucester to have the UK Retail Innovation Centre, It will be the national centre for testing and developing robotic security guards and holographic virtual employees. The intention is for this to be done by 2025.
That sounds very interesting El 
I hope they don’t get as far as replacing accountants, well until you retire anyway 
Evening all, we had a fabulous time at the panto.
Squiggle, it was Sleeping Beauty and PB loved all the audience participation 
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros.
Hugs for any night owls
HAppy new year my lovely friends!! I hope 2018 brings each of you good health & great joy xx
And congratulations to Frankenstein on the 200th anniversary:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42411484
Good morning and happy new year! I hope you all had a lovely evening.
I’m currently recording “on the town” which is on channel 5, I’ve never seen it before and am looking forward to watching it later
the weather is looking good so we’re off to the beach to blow away the cobwebs from last night 🎉
have a good day everyone
Velvet, from what you posted, Auld Reekie lived up to what that name originally came from.
Summer. I hope you really like On The Town. It's the earliest of the three major Gene Kelly musicals, the next being An American in Paris, and then the best of all Singin' in the Rain.
Good morning everyone, we had a torrential hailstorm last night, it covered everything in white within seconds, and this morning a torrential downpour of rain. Huge menacing clouds overhead now, I hope your weather is better wherever you are.
Enjoy your day everyone 
If the flat earth people are correct, I don't exist as the north edge of the world goes through Watford:
http://www.gloucestershirelive...ist-meet-flat-992591
Flat earth seems to be gaining ground, one of the sillier notions becoming popular EL.
squiggle posted:Flat earth seems to be gaining ground, one of the sillier notions becoming popular EL.
Thanks to this which was in the media at the time.
http://realnewsrightnow.com/20...t-the-earth-is-flat/
Of course he might have been misreported or not been serious or changed his mind by the next day.
The clip in my local news site article is easily disprovable. As the flat earth people don't accept that gravity exists, if they were right you wouldn't need to be in a plane to get off the ground. You could just jump up and you would keep on going upwards 
I mentioned that today is the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein. Here is the very first film adaptation from 1910. It's not the best film ever made, poor picture quality, and primitive acting. Hardly a faithful adaptation of the book. But it is surprisingly watchable and a rather different ending to versions you may have seen.
It's just as well that the film is of poor graphic quality and not in colour as the creation of the monster scene would have been really revolting.
Good evening 
I hope you’ve all had a good start to the year 
That’s lovely Moonie have you got a fresh Calendar?
Evening Moonie and Summer.
Summer, you have reminded me to put up my new calendar
Moonie posted:~Sweet Sequins & Sparkles~ posted:That’s lovely Moonie
I haven’t as matter of fact Sweet
you might one in the sales
I love fresh calendars. One of my friends gave me one about friendship for Xmas, it’s really nice
what are you doing tomorrow?
Moonie posted:Yogi19 posted:Evening Moonie and Summer.
Summer, you have reminded me to put up my new calendar
Hello Yogi
Happy New Year
Happy New Year, Moonie
~Sweet Sequins & Sparkles~ posted:Moonie posted:~Sweet Sequins & Sparkles~ posted:That’s lovely Moonie
I haven’t as matter of fact Sweet
I love fresh calendars. One of my friends gave me one about friendship for Xmas, it’s really nice
what are you doing tomorrow?
That sounds nice Sweet
Nothing planned as the weather is supposed to be quite bad here. What about you?
I’ve been up since 6am and it’s been a busy day, so I’m off to bed.
Goidnight and sweet dreams, Moonie, Summer and Ros
Moonie posted:Yogi, I see the pantomime went well
It did, we thought it was the best one yet.
Night night Moonie
Sorry yogi, I went to hang some washing
sweet dreams
I see that Cheltenham had the highest increase in house prices last year of any town or city in the country and that Gloucester were 7th. Don't know what caused this. As the survey is based on houses sold it doesn't mean that all houses have increased by the same proportion.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42539137
Good morning everyone, grey, rainy and windy today again. Storm Eleanor EL? What happened to Storm Dylan?
Enjoy your day everyone
Good morning everyone
We’ve had rain and sleet showers all morning - sky is grey and dark.
I’ve been catching up on housework and packing away Christmas crockery and cutlery till next year.
Hope you have a good day, all
Yogi, the sky here has been like yours, grey and dark. The first band of rain has passed. Storm Eleanor due to arrive here about 7pm this evening - much of the country has weather warnngs though much of Scotland doesn't.
I gave my parents a bone china tea set for their china wedding anniversary. I was a student accountant at the time so on a low income but I got it at a discount as one of the cups had a slight blemish on it. My parents used it just for birthdays and Christmas.
