As kitchens go, it's a lot nicer than the all-black one I installed last year. That wasn't nice - and I saw it again last week, and it still isn't nice.
Not as bad as the all-black bathroom...now that really was ugly. Black grout, black tiles, black towels...just ghastly.

Yebbut - it's still impressive. People can, in the right situations, do the right thing properly.

That's ice. You can see it floating, on occasion. It gets very grubby in the muddy water you find on eroding mountainsides. The alps are young - so they're eroding fast.

And always remember, it's not plagiarism, it's resarch. (Tom Lehrer).

While I'm quite happy to celebrate the end of the Great War, I feel uneasy about celebrating its start. I get the feeling the whole thing is driven by media and political imperatives rather than public sentiment, this time round. I don't think my either of my grandfathers (who both survived the Somme and other battles) would be celebrating the beginning - only the end.

My worry would be whether the walls can take the outward pressure of the water. In general, masonry is rubbish at resisting lateral loads.

Mmm, wooden Scrabble tiles. We have a set from an old game which we use with a more modern board. They're so much nicer to play with.

Something similar happens to Horatio Hornblower in (I think) the first book. He is in command of a captured French freighter carrying rice, but unknown to him, it's been holed below the waterline.
The dangers of carrying some dry goods has been known for centuries!

No eggs for us Brits, it seems. Can't have the video, being lower class people.

Now that I really like. I'd worry a bit about the charred wood not being very stong and rather prone to rubbing off on clothes, but I think I'd put ujp with it 'cos of how they look.

Cor - wish I could have a new sewing machine. I've a set of curtains and our son's jeans to repair and I can't find the power lead/foot control for my elderly New Home machine. Might have to find a "wong" one and make it work. Or build something modern with which to drive it.
But a new one woujld be lovely.

I couldn't hold my arms up like that for long. I've been putting ujp plasterboard and ceiling lights all day and I've had enough of arm-work!

Oooh, so many...and many of tjhem probably quite obscure.
Napoleon XIV - They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha Haaa
Tribe of Toffs - John Ketley is a Weatherman
The Coasters - Yaketty Yak
Shirley Ellis - The Clapping Song
Topol - If I Were A Rich Man
ABBA - Slipping Thjrough My Fingers....

I could go on all night.