I don't know how this enquiry will go. But my gut tells me that the revelations will be explosive Um, well, yes. That is 'yes' if you have been hibernating for the last 25 years and have just about managing to wake up now. At a guess, the explosive revelations will be about people deceased or else ...

Perhaps its related to :

https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/f ... -00-en.pdf

?

An Oireachtas Committee has recommended that the pension age in Ireland should increase from 70 to 75 https://gript.ie/oireachtas-committee-recommends-raising-pension-age-from-70-to-75/ Who was on the committee Indeed, "Who was on the committee" and also ... their ages ... Anyway, where a...

I'd forgotten about that wan !

.... I was quite taken aback at the level of hostility towards the Brits - and not just from the usual suspects, but apparently across the political spectrum. ... Yes, this bubbles up to the surface in many facets of life... and its going to be a problem to de-escalate. I guess John Major and other...

Thanks C, You truly have an encyclopedic knowledge of all things inter-European

I guess it means that I cant boycott Lufty as they got there first and banned me

I wonder if this is a fair illustration of how continental Europe understands Brexit ? https://www.pprune.org/11121663-post1.html " Lufthansa Lufthansa will allow you to take a dog from Dublin to Frankfurt in the cabin (€60 charge) but they will not allow you take the dog back FRA to DUB becaus...

Mr Ryan took a Covid test in advance of traveling

Perhaps Mr Ryan does not have a Vax Cert ?

( another pic pinched from pprune )

'Where Cumbre Viejo sweeps down to the sea' ( to the tune of The Mountains of Mourne )



( Pic pinched from a post over on pprune )

A private MD-87 crashed while attempting takeoff from an airstrip in Texas yesterday, 19th October. It was a private Jet owned by a local builder. on board were 18 passengers ( incl said builder ) and three crew ( there were no fatalities ) Their plan was to go watch a game in Boston The MD-87 is a ...

In my youth Beirut was on a par with Monaco and Nice.
Very trendy to have an apartment there ( dont you know ) .
It did have a whiff of the espionage / spook world ( just as Vienna did at the time ).

Its very, very sad to see it go the way it has.

Planes will need to be flexible on routing around the islands in future !

https://avherald.com/h?article=4ee9dfe1&opt=0

www . pprune.org/rumours-news/642893-la-palma-spc-gcla-closed-volcanic-ash.html#post11125833

( remove the spaces 'ww . ' pp)

Anyone know where the 'Satellite imagery showing the plume over Rome via northern Morocco and Tunisia' might be found ?

The scale of this carry on has always astonished me An example, a few miles across the water on the north west coast of Tenerife there is an old road down to the sea ( San Marcos ) hacked into the lava. A few snaps of the up-side https://gubu.ie/download/file.php?id=589 https://gubu.ie/download/file...

From a few days ago

Some good scenes from the above live feed tonight. Lava flowing very quickly. Stats are interesting at the bottom of the screen - 66 cubic metres a second. 106107100 cubic metres of lava since the eruption began. In cement truck terms that's a total of 13,263,387 large 8 cubic metre cement lorries ...

... I have heard though that there are massive bitcoin mining centres in China, some of them in remote places literally plugged right into hydro electric power stations - as far as I know bitcoin mining takes huge energy and China are more into that game than us. Although supposedly they are cracki...

No. All evacuated. Killer fumes. Usually bananas growing under cover, sometimes tomatoes.

Some pictures posted over on pprune by a Canarian based photographer e.g. https://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/642769 ... st11119113

Received the following from one of my Chinese suppliers today... China has 49 nuclear power stations already, 17 more under construction, and a further 100 planned. It's hard to believe they're short on power! Mr Musk confirms China short on generating capacity https://youtu.be/ESIjxVudERY?t=25

https://www.janetanscombe.com/news/yell ... palma.html

updated to today, el 4 de octubre

The Continental Op wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 11:05 am You mean Boris

Not just Boris, but Cameron before him

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Del.Monte wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:12 pm F the begrudgers, it is a well known fact that God is an Englishman and he will see 'us' through this testing time.

Not just an Englishman but an old Etonian.




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Well ... it's an ongoing discussion within the EU, so it could have happened without Brexit. The difference is that the EU generally acts and regulates on the basis of "show us the advantages and the proof that there are no signficant dangers" ; whereas the UK would appear to be drifting ...

Clio and some of her pals nattering about local stuff including La Palma

https://www.radiosuradeje.com/programs/englishtime ( 30 Sept edition )