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Courtenay wrote: Actually, what I at first found really disorienting — literally — is that the sun is on the other side of the sky here. I kept wondering why my sense of direction (which is normally very good) kept going awry as I was walking in London... I finally realised it was because I was instinctively assuming that the sun was in the northern half of the sky! :shock:
Also, the water goes down the plughole the opposite way... ;-)
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Courtenay wrote:what I at first found really disorienting — literally — is that the sun is on the other side of the sky here...:
I don't quite understand this - I am quite dim though!

Here at our holiday cottage the sun sets in the west in front of us.We had assumed west was directly behind us a few miles from the sea.

We have obviously got our geography hopelessly wrong - perhaps due to all the twisty,winding lanes that we followed to get here!
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That police 'panda' cars were all fiat pandas.

(I never believed this for 38 years until last week when I found out it was to do with the old colours....honest!!!)
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Eddie Muir wrote:As a young child, I remember being told that swallowing fruit seeds could cause appendicitis.
See, now being told that wouldn't have bothered me. The thought of a tree growing in you was offputting and scary, but the thought of appendicitis just created a reaction of 'I can be off school sick and watch tv!' :lol:
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I did believe for a little time, as a very young child, that if you stepped on the grating over a drain in the pavement, you'd slip through the bars and fall in. :shock: I think it was my big sister who told me that...
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Hayleymoomin wrote:That police 'panda' cars were all fiat pandas.

(I never believed this for 38 years until last week when I found out it was to do with the old colours....honest!!!)
Back in the 80s, one of the mothers drove her son to school in a Fiat Panda. Except that for years, I misread it and thought that Flat Panda sounded a really strange name for a car!
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Stephen wrote:and thought that Flat Panda sounded a really strange name for a car!
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Yes - you'd expect it to be Flat Hedgehog! :wink:
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:lol: Or the Australian version would have to be Flat Blue-tongued Lizard. :wink:

(Popular joke when I was little: Q. Why did the lizard cross the road? A. To see his flat mate.)
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I used to believe that Dr.Spock and Mr Spock were the same person.
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That sounds logical... 8)
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Courtenay wrote::lol: Or the Australian version would have to be Flat Blue-tongued Lizard. :wink:

(Popular joke when I was little: Q. Why did the lizard cross the road? A. To see his flat mate.)
Yeah - same joke when I was at school - Why did the hedgehog cross the road? To see his flat mate! :-D
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Ah, well, see, we don't have hedgehogs in Australia. We do have echidnas, but they're shy and usually stay well away from the roads! :wink: Big lizards, on the other hand, think a sun-warmed road is a nice hot place to bask, so... :shock:

Back to daft things, I remember my mum telling me that when she was little, she believed Kiwi brand shoe polish was made from ground-up kiwis. :twisted: (The birds, that is, of course. We almost always call the fruit "kiwifruit" in Australia and NZ so as not to get confused.)
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Courtenay wrote: Back to daft things, I remember my mum telling me that when she was little, she believed Kiwi brand shoe polish was made from ground-up kiwis. :twisted: (The birds, that is, of course. We almost always call the fruit "kiwifruit" in Australia and NZ so as not to get confused.)
I used to think that too! When I was little I used to see the Kiwi on the lid and assume it was somehow made of kiwi birds! :-)
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