The Tube to Hogwarts?
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Quote: roscoff @ April 12 2009, 6:40 PM BSTWell he probably is at subjects like northerners and mines but quite good at computer stuff spelling and grammar. Aaron was second in Thing's quiz. Although having said that Things scoring system defied gravity. Overall B+ I think.
I miss thing.
Quote: Aaron @ April 12 2009, 7:10 PM BSTThing's quiz was demented. No Tube line crosses the Thames.
In 1870, they used it to build the very first tube railway, crossing the Thames from Tower Hill to Bermondsey. Steam could not be used in an enclosed tube, and so the trains were pulled on cables driven by stationary steam engines. This first tube only operated for a few months, but it showed the potential of deep tunnels.
Here is the page if you wish to verify
http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/the-tube-map/biography/the-deep-tubes
A number of lines go under the Thames, but they do not cross it.
Oh, and the passage you copied is factually inaccurate. But I won't blame you.
Well cross can mean go across or intersect? Either way I 'aint gonna lose sleep over it one way or t'other. I've been on the underground me 
To change the subject somewhat...
BillWill has been out in the garden today, draining and powerwashing one of the garden ponds & getting very mucky in the process.
All because a friend called up yesterday and said that she had drained her pond to convert it to flower beds and though it is short notice, would I like the goldfish she promised me last year.
So I went & fetched them, but this caught me on the hop as I had not got around to preparing & repairing my two ponds. I think I said last November that my last 3 fish all died suddenly one night.
I suspect it was due to Yew berries falling in the pond from a neighbours tree. So I did not want to put the 'new' fish in that same water, so for the time being they are swimming round & round in an old plastic dustbin near my front door, while I prepare the small pond. Unfortunately all the garden pond shops seem shut today, so I couldn't get the fluid which neutralises tap water ready for fish, So I think they will have to stay in the dustbin for a few days. I managed to find and repair my old aquarium air pump, so now I've got an air pipe leading out through my front door letter box to give the fish a bubble bath.
Next I have to arrange a cover so that no more Yew berries or needles can fall in that pond. Finally when the fish are safe in the little pond I can drain the last few inches of water remaining in the bigger pond so that I can chisel away the concrete near its crack and try to make a more successful repair than those wot I've done in the past.
Then finally the fish will be able to take up residence in the larger pond.
I, too, just finished sweating my way through the first lawn maintenance of 2009. The figures:
2 blisters
1 heart attack (or so it felt)
80 ounces of ice water consumed
1 dead lizard (sorry, little guy)
1 decapitated sprinkler head (mower blade set too low)
Tomorrow will be sprinkler repair and vegetable garden weeding day.
Time for a shower. I reek. 
Did you mow a lizard?
Haven't you mown several other animals?
Quote: zooo @ April 12 2009, 11:46 PM BSTDid you mow a lizard?
Haven't you mown several other animals?
Yes, one bright green lizard is in lizard heaven now. I got a snake last year and there are always close calls with toads. You can't always see them in the grass before it's too late. 
Wow. Everyone's days have been a lot more eventful than mine!
Quote: DaButt @ April 12 2009, 11:50 PM BSTYes, one bright green lizard is in lizard heaven now. I got a snake last year and there are always close calls with toads. You can't always see them in the grass before it's too late.
Yikes.
They should really all be bright red, or something.
Quote: zooo @ April 12 2009, 11:55 PM BSTThey should really all be bright red, or something.
Some of them have bright red neck pouches that they puff up when they're trying to get laid. 
I hadn't seen any frogs around lately and thought they had all left me, so I got quite a shock when a big one jumped out from under a waterfall tray that I was cleaning.
Possibly it was the same one which had made the drastic mistake of spawning on the concrete rim of the pond rather than in the water. I couldn't make out what on earth it was; looked like a miniture alien monster or a slug with very knobbly skin. eventually I did pick it up & realise what it was and put it in the water, but I fear that the tadpoles might not hatch as the individual eggs have not swollen to the pea size of frog spawn in the water. Perhaps that can only happen immediately after they are laid.
Quote: billwill @ April 13 2009, 12:47 AM BSTI hadn't seen any frogs around lately and thought they had all left me, so I got quite a shock when a big one jumped out from under a waterfall tray that I was cleaning.
Possibly it was the same one which had made the drastic mistake of spawning on the concrete rim of the pond rather than in the water. I couldn't make out what on earth it was; looked like a miniture alien monster or a slug with very knobbly skin. eventually I did pick it up & realise what it was and put it in the water, but I fear that the tadpoles might not hatch as the individual eggs have not swollen to the pea size of frog spawn in the water. Perhaps that can only happen immediately after they are laid.
Theyll be ok. Nature finds a way.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ April 12 2009, 11:54 PM BSTWow. Everyone's days have been a lot more eventful than mine!
I can assure you that they have not. 