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Outpourings / Erich von Daniken.
« Last post by Roger Kettle on Today at 02:35:59 PM »
I watched a programme the other night about Erich von Daniken, the author of "Chariots of the Gods?", who died earlier this year. I remember reading the book when I was about 18 and was fascinated by it. A lot of it is absolute tosh but it did raise some intriguing questions. I certainly don't believe, as he did, that aliens were involved in the construction of places like the pyramids and Stonehenge but how and why they were built still remains a matter of huge debate. Archaeologists today accept that some of the massive stones used at Stonehenge came from Wales with no idea how they were transported. They now also believe that some of the other stones came from Aberdeenshire in the north of Scotland---which is even harder to explain.
I remember consoling myself, as that teenage reader, that the truth would surely emerge during my lifetime. I'm running out of time!
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Outpourings / Re: 364 days
« Last post by Roger Kettle on November 06, 2026, 10:13:35 AM »
I've never sampled the infamous fried Mars bar. Come to think of it, it's probably over 50 years since I had a "raw" one. I think it's possible to put on 2 stones in weight just looking at one.
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Outpourings / Re: 364 days
« Last post by Mince on November 06, 2026, 08:09:22 AM »
I see the fried Mars bar has suffered from Shrinkflation as well.
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Outpourings / Re: 364 days
« Last post by Mince on November 06, 2026, 07:56:44 AM »
My wife bought a large tin of Quality Street in case any trick-or-treaters came round.


A tin, you say? You still get them in Scotland? We're much more advanced down here in England with our crappy small half-empty plastic containers.

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Outpourings / Re: Free Alberta?
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on November 05, 2026, 05:58:31 PM »
The blue wave that hit the USA will no doubt drown some of the separatist thought in Alberta too.  Feels a lot more hopeful.

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Outpourings / Re: 364 days
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on November 05, 2026, 05:56:30 PM »
I had lights on and even purple porch lights and still nobody came. We too are in the country and have a long and scary path to walk down to get to the house.

I painted plaster halloween ornaments with my 27 year old daughter and then we all watched a classic zombie movie.

Still have a lot of candy :-) 

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Outpourings / Re: 364 days
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on November 05, 2026, 05:49:54 PM »
Well done Zesty with your medical skills. Next year you could be a mummy and just rip off bits of bandage as needed. 
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Outpourings / Re: 364 days
« Last post by Diane CBPFC on November 05, 2026, 05:46:12 PM »
Tarqs, I would like to share the attached recipe with you, its one that I've been making at Christmas for about 30 years. If you half the amount of chocolate stated in the recipe for the top layer, then they taste a lot like Twix bars.

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Outpourings / Re: 364 days
« Last post by Roger Kettle on November 04, 2026, 06:30:25 PM »
Interesting Halloween, Zesty! Attack of the Flaming Marshmallows!
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Outpourings / Re: 364 days
« Last post by ZestyWhite on November 03, 2026, 02:35:32 PM »
I feel I should have been dressed as a paramedic this hallowe'en. An adolescent came to the door, having fallen in a neighbour's driveway. There was not an insignificant amount of blood pumping out of two knee wounds. I told him I approved of his shunning the fake stuff and going full method with the gore, but he didn't seem to appreciate the gag.
Anyway, no sooner was he patched up and sent off to his waiting parents, than my daughter was caught on the forehead with a burning marshmallow. (She and some friends were making 'smores) If Harry Potter had a scar the shape of a mars bar, then she could pass it off as a pastiche of the boy wizard. As it is, it's a race against time for it all to be cleared up before the Peterhead panto kicks off.
When I was a lad, the biggest danger was choking on a monkey nut, or drowing when dooking for apples. Oh for those days again...
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