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(417 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Royal Mail are using a sheep to advertise postage stamps with barcodes.

William

2,152

(3 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Thank you.

I will keep this one please. It is rather splendid.

Did you design the logo or did it come with the forum facility?

William

2,153

(3 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I seem to have gained a logo underneath my name.

Was it there before and I hadn't noticed it?

William

big_smile

William

I wonder if it is no coincidence that a sheep is being used to publicise barcodes. smile

William

2,156

(12 replies, posted in General Discussion)

In an emergency a basic just telephone and text mobile telephone can be best as one can just switch it on and use it to dial a number.

No need to wait for it to boot up, start the operating system, start an app or wait for an update, etc..

William

This is a spin-off thread from the following thread.

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=37

Same scale of 1 to 20 million.

The following is helpful.

https://www.rome2rio.com/

Using the O2 Arena in London to represent the Sun.

Driving distance is like to be further than as the goose flies distance, but it can give an idea of the model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_goose

It looks like all of the model can be fitted in, I tried working out how far John O'Groats is from the O2 Arena.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_o%27_Groats

William

2,158

(4 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Alfred wrote:

Perhaps you didn’t notice that the link in my original post takes you to that page.

I did not notice the link.

William wrote:

I wonder where a model of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to Earth apart from the Sun, would be located.

Well, it’s 4.34 light years away from Earth, or 4.106x10^13 km away, so at a scale of 1:20 million it would be 2.053 million kilometres away.

The model of the star several times further away than the real moon!

William

2,159

(4 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Coiuld we work out one for the United Kingdom, using the Millennium Dome to represent the Sun?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Dome

William

2,160

(4 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

Thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System

I wonder where a model of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to Earth apart from the Sun, would be located.

William

Well, yes, I was just about to post that BBC Breakfast appears on screen for a very short period at the very start of the video.

The still image in your post makes it look far more obvious than it is in the video.

William

Ah, it is apparently BBC Breakfast. Full screen shows BBC on the red mug.

The word Breakfast is on the computers and there is a mark that may well be BBC but I cannot make it out.

William

I have just found this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uMx69Y9O3I

I don't know which chanel it was on.

William

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60213179

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/60201018

William

https://www.royalmail.com/sending/barcode-stamps/videos

William

https://www.royalmail.com/sending/barcoded-stamps

William

https://news.sky.com/story/royal-mail-a … s-12530063

William

Royal Mail has issued some more barcoded postage stamps.

https://shop.royalmail.com/barcoded-nvis-stamp-set

I notice that the colour of the 2nd class one is different from the colour of the original 2nd class one that was issued in 2021.

https://shop.royalmail.com/machin-2nd-c … mint-stamp

Some of the 2021 Christmas stamps had barcodes.

https://shop.royalmail.com/christmas-2021-postcards

William

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OO9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPG36qfPLns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjLLG3UIEb4

William

I have now found this website.

https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/masterp … t-gallery/

William

I was watching a video of an art gallery exhibition, and, thinking that with all that space one could never do such a display in an ordinary home.

I wondered if one could have a scale model of an art gallery.

If so what scale?

I found the following website that has scale models of pictures intended for use in a doll's house, thje scale being 1 to 12.

https://tumdee-dollshouse-miniatures.co … tures.html

So scale models of pictures of quite a size.

Amongst them are some nice pictures, and also some empty frames, so one could produce one's own art.

A scale of 1 to 12 is 1 inch to one foot, which is 25.4 millimetres to the foot.

OO scale widely used for model railways in 4 millimetres to the foot.                       

William

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(0 replies, posted in General Discussion)

It has gone up by 54%.

Has anyone noticed, in any of the news reports or what is said in Parliament or in official announcements anything making it clear that it is a CAP on the price, not an obligatory price rise.

It seems implicit in the reporting that 54% will be the price rise.

William

2,173

(3 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Alfred wrote:

The linked article explains:

Forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, is a wellness trend for relaxing and reconnecting with nature.

Google Translate tells me that shinrin-yoku is a transliteration of 森林ーよく, which is translated as “forest-well”.

I tried that but could not get exactly the same result.

Can you explain what you did please?

I am thinking of trying to produce a prtrait format picture with the characters in the upper-left corner, as there ar some fonts that might contain the characters bundled with Windows 10.

William

2,174

(7 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Well, I suppose if there is a family with one or more children, the main could be split up so that everybody gets a bit and pad it out with some vegetables, such as carrots.

William

2,175

(7 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Alfred wrote:

The other major UK supermarkets seem to prefer to get Valentine’s Day out of the way first.

Tesco has a special offer of a meal for two.

Though I suppose someone alone could have a good feed.

William