Fireworks display. Dogs in the neighbourhood going bonkers. Owners were warned over a week ago, so the beasties should be indoors.

Interesting. The surface bruise from my car crash 10 days ago has mostly disappeared. Although the bruising to the ribcage just below the collarbone is still painful.

It was my first experience of an imported sheep's milk cheese other than Roquefort. It inspired me to locate local sheep dairies, one offers $10 tasting platters with samples of 8 - 10 sheep, goat & cow's milk cheese to sample, along with water crackers to cleanse the palate between varieties. Such tasting platters are a meal in themselves. You also get a score sheet & a pencil.

Or one of the Maunsell sea forts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts

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Very true re fine cheese pricing. I am very impressed with the Manchego variety, it's become a 'firm' favourite.

I do hope they were all drunk or drugged! Man 'cements microwave to head' in Wolverhamptonhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-42271150
It’s not something to do when sober.

My friends with their new iMac wanted to know what other hardware they needed & I recommended a Toshiba Canvio 2 TB USB 3 ext HD to use for Time Machine backups. They bought their copy of Office for Mac in one particular store & were then headed to the place that sells the suggested HD when the salesperson browbeat them into buying a piece-of-shit WD Elements HD.
The side of the box said that it had to be reformatted from NTFS to suit a Mac but when I tried Disk Utility it would not erase or partition the drive, popping up an error claiming some guff about insufficient space.
Whereas the Toshiba drive is sensed by Time Machine and the user is asked if they want it used for backups. They click OK & the Mac reformats it to suit.
The salesperson claimed the WD drive was "exactly the same as" the desired Toshiba unit; a claim I refuted most vehemently as did their son who phoned them while I was onsite.
So they're going to return the junk, get a refund & buy the right one at the other store & save $10 on the deal.

New Mac user friend bought Office for Mac 2016 Home & Student edition in the form of a card with installation/download instructions & a 25-character code to be entered in the relevant filed while logged into their Microsoft account.
Followed said instructions: was told the 25 character code didn't match any products & to follow one hyperlink if the software to be downloaded was Office 2007, 2010 or 2011 for Mac & another link if dealing with Office 365. No mention at all of Office 2-16 for Mac.
So we followed up the 2nd option of going through office support website.
The page opened, recognised the product concerned as Office for Mac 2016 & showed a download button. Too many mis-steps & hoops to jump through. In the end, though, the suite got installed.

It ain't cheap. I've been using it since version 3, on Panther (OS 10.3) and each time an upgrade to a new version was announced existing users/licencees got to upgrade at a 50% discount. Even then, it was US$72 to do so in the form of a 1.85 GB USB flash drive.