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Today's latest news:
The Ever Given container ship has been officially impounded after its owner refused to pay a reported £655 million in compensation for blocking the Suez Canal....
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Sophocles.
Who2 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:31 am
Today's latest news:
The Ever Given container ship has been officially impounded after its owner refused to pay a reported £655 million in compensation for blocking the Suez Canal....
Let’s hope they find somewhere - out of the way - to park it.
Who2 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:31 am
Today's latest news:
The Ever Given container ship has been officially impounded after its owner refused to pay a reported £655 million in compensation for blocking the Suez Canal....
Wonder who is going to compensate all the companies that have been waiting for the cargo that is on it.
Experience is not what happens to you;
it is what you do with what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley
Yesterday I took a pleasant walk along a stretch of my favourite canal, these places are often overlooked as a good place to walk due to their past industrial heritage. However I find them to be full...
I have no idea how long it took to dig out and prepare, test and then open the original Suez Canal. (OK, I'm lazy and not searched for the information either.) It does seem to me...
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Since the opening of the 'new' Suez Canal, revenue has significantly declined from previous years. The government of Egypt has recently set up an inquiry as to why this is so,........Hmmm....
Hopefully this could be interesting tonight on Ch4.
Mind you, celebrating the 6th of October must be like celebrating the great exodus of Afghanistan.
I believe it's called a Pyrrhic victory ?........
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Shame the programme involves Tony Robinson otherwise I might have checked in. He should have stuck to being Blackadder’s servant. I find it impossible to take him seriously as a historian.
As I continued my stroll along the canal, I was particularly pleased to notice a couple of Lime trees that had established themselves and although they can be quite common in some towns as shade...
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Lovely pictures Horus.......I love canal walks we often go along the one near us, as for swallows there were loads of them in Greece - I did get a picture of a nest with a few hungry beaks which I...
Experience is not what happens to you;
