@El Loro posted:Besides England winning a cricket test match, Wales qualifying for the football would cup, & Nadal winning the French Open yesterday, there was another notable sport event taking place on the same day:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-61696644
love this - like quirky stuff thank you EL
night EL slim moonsiee
Apple to introduce "Apple Pay Later" in the US in its new operating system iOS 16. Apple Pay Later will allow users in the US to spread the cost of a purchase into four payments over six weeks, without paying interest or fees. Not yet known if they will do that in this country. There are concerns over such BNPL (buy now pay late) schemes as they are unregulated and so too easy to get into debt.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-61718101
@El Loro posted:Apple to introduce "Apple Pay Later" in the US in its new operating system iOS 16. Apple Pay Later will allow users in the US to spread the cost of a purchase into four payments over six weeks, without paying interest or fees. Not yet known if they will do that in this country. There are concerns over such BNPL (buy now pay late) schemes as they are unregulated and so too easy to get into debt.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-61718101
I donât like the sound so that El 
night EL slim moonsieee
Warning from Citizens Advice about BNPL and other types of loan - mentioned on the radio news just now:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61719592
@El Loro posted:Warning from Citizens Advice about BNPL and other types of loan - mentioned on the radio news just now:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61719592
Thatâs very interesting El. Thanks 
Been out and about returning papers to a couple of local clients along with their returns for approval, doing local shopping and dropping off a repeat prescription request at the doctors. Back home before any showers - there's a thunderstorm symbol at 2pm from the Met Office but no weather warnings (there are in Scotland).
@El Loro posted:Been out and about returning papers to a couple of local clients along with their returns for approval, doing local shopping and dropping off a repeat prescription request at the doctors. Back home before any showers - there's a thunderstorm symbol at 2pm from the Met Office but no weather warnings (there are in Scotland).
Glad to see you made it back before the showers arrive El
night EL slim moonsieee
Unusual photos of a concrete works amidst the clouds:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...-derbyshire-61722669
@El Loro posted:Unusual photos of a concrete works amidst the clouds:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...-derbyshire-61722669
Absolutely fantastic El 
@El Loro posted:Unusual photos of a concrete works amidst the clouds:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...-derbyshire-61722669
Lovely photos
They remind me of being on the moors....without the concrete
@slimfern posted:Lovely photos
They remind me of being on the moors....without the concrete
Many years ago, I went to Bristol to hand deliver an important document relating to the first of my accountancy exams - it was at the time of a full scale lengthy postal strike which dragged on for weeks. I had already booked a bed and breakfast place to stay in a few weeks time to stay at for a couple of days for the exams.
Trouble was that there were a couple of roads with the same name and I didn't know which was the correct one. There was before the internet existed so the concept of Google maps with street view hadn't been thought about.
As I had several hours left after delivering the document, I decided to walk to one of the two roads to see if I could locate the bed and breakfast place. Needless to say, I had chosen the wrong road so knew that it was the other one.
So I started to walk back to the city centre. It would have been either January or February though not particularly cold. I was walking along a road. To the side of the road, there was a view across near wasteland where I could see houses in the distance. There was a slight mist. Between the houses and where I was I could see one of those old gasometers.
There was something extraordinary about that image, strangely beautiful. A cross between one of those photos of the concrete works and a painting by LS Lowry (though without people).
@El Loro posted:Many years ago, I went to Bristol to hand deliver an important document relating to the first of my accountancy exams - it was at the time of a full scale lengthy postal strike which dragged on for weeks. I had already booked a bed and breakfast place to stay in a few weeks time to stay at for a couple of days for the exams.
Trouble was that there were a couple of roads with the same name and I didn't know which was the correct one. There was before the internet existed so the concept of Google maps with street view hadn't been thought about.As I had several hours left after delivering the document, I decided to walk to one of the two roads to see if I could locate the bed and breakfast place. Needless to say, I had chosen the wrong road so knew that it was the other one.
So I started to walk back to the city centre. It would have been either January or February though not particularly cold. I was walking along a road. To the side of the road, there was a view across near wasteland where I could see houses in the distance. There was a slight mist. Between the houses and where I was I could see one of those old gasometers.There was something extraordinary about that image, strangely beautiful. A cross between one of those photos of the concrete works and a painting by LS Lowry (though without people).
It was obviously an image worth remembering El after all these years
Lowry's paintings are incredible, how the eye pictures little folk going about their business, when in fact they're just a couple of strokes of a paintbrush. 
@slimfern posted:It was obviously an image worth remembering El after all these years
Lowry's paintings are incredible, how the eye pictures little folk going about their business, when in fact they're just a couple of strokes of a paintbrush.
love Lowry - I was born in a hospital in Salford lived in Eccles -Lowry 's area and at a young age was taken to a local museum to see his paintings with my primary school - very talented man
@El Loro posted:Unusual photos of a concrete works amidst the clouds:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...-derbyshire-61722669
stunning photos EL -love them
night EL Slim moonsieee
@slimfern posted:It was obviously an image worth remembering El after all these years
Lowry's paintings are incredible, how the eye pictures little folk going about their business, when in fact they're just a couple of strokes of a paintbrush.
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:love Lowry - I was born in a hospital in Salford lived in Eccles -Lowry 's area and at a young age was taken to a local museum to see his paintings with my primary school - very talented man
There was the time that I was in the Bude area, it had been raining and there were lots of dark clouds. For a few seconds I saw a sunbeam shining through the clouds on to the wet beach. Another image which was worth remembering, a bit like a Turner painting. Not surprising that Bude is popular with artists.
