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Dvorak Mar 2014 2:28pm, 26 Mar 2014 8,531 posts	0 Dvorak [That surprised me, Captain Dad. Of course, I had to check it. The major towns roughly halfway to each are Reims and Eindhoven. Dundee is about the same distance from Bristol as Eindhoven.]
Dvorak Mar 2014 2:33pm, 26 Mar 2014 8,532 posts	0 Dvorak It is quicker to travel by train from Bristol to Reims than from Bristol to Dundee.
jacdaw Mar 2014 3:00pm, 26 Mar 2014 693 posts	0 jacdaw What a Lladro goose is (see Anciens coureurs thread).
Wriggling Snake Mar 2014 11:35am, 28 Mar 2014 6,533 posts	0 Wriggling Snake A groat was a real coin, worth four pennies
jasond Apr 2014 10:37pm, 4 Apr 2014 1,170 posts	0 jasond That I would be planning on running 16 hilly miles each way to/ from parkrun tomorrow
Velociraptor Apr 2014 10:54pm, 4 Apr 2014 29,410 posts	0 Velociraptor That one of our consultant radiologists was 63 years old and a runner. I found out from the patient who told me he'd dropped dead while driving his car last week.
jacdaw Apr 2014 11:02pm, 4 Apr 2014 699 posts	0 jacdaw That a number 1 grade haircut (3mm) is considerably chillier than a number 2 grade haircut (6mm).
CaptainDad Apr 2014 12:41pm, 5 Apr 2014 186 posts	0 CaptainDad The field vole is the most common mammal within the British Isles. There 80million of them
Dvorak Apr 2014 1:06pm, 5 Apr 2014 8,578 posts	0 Dvorak [I saw an item last week that revealed that voles are responsible for both the flooding and the financial crisis. Voles, it seems, are very guilty of undermining banks.]
Night-owl Apr 2014 7:52pm, 5 Apr 2014 17,009 posts	0 Night-owl The Jehovah's Witnesses have a stall at the local market