Hi everyone - sorry I'm so appallingly late. I'm also sorry for Gan - I wish he'd had a better episode than this to be centre stage in. I think he's driving, Obsidian, because no-one else can be bothered - Gan is always very obliging about helping out.

I had a lovely trip to Israel - but it was SO COLD THERE AS WELL! Storm Barbara, with torrential rain, sleet and freezing temperatures. And of course the central heating broke down in my Mum's retirement home, so the shop across the road did a roaring trade in hot water bottles.
Oh, and we got part of the Turkish/Syrian earthquake. Approx 5.8 in Jerusalem, swayed the buildings, though no real damage. And then several smaller earthquakes of our own, over the next few days, mainly down the Jordan rift valley. Felt quite Biblical, with all that going on.

If there's a meet-up in London, please let me know. It would be nice to put faces to the posts!

Hi, Obsidian - how is Louella?

Are we still carrying on with the ABBA thing? Things here haven't changed much since my last posting ages ago.. lol...

You have daffodils and crocus in the south? Here in the wild North Virn's daffodils haven't woken up yet , but the snowdrops are looking good.

Hi everyone - sorry I'm so appallingly late. I'm also sorry for Gan - I wish he'd had a better episode than this to be centre stage in. I think he's driving, Obsidian, because no-one else can be bothered - Gan is always very obliging about helping out.

I have daffs and crocuses in my garden. But it is very sheltered.

That does sound scary. Glad it wasn't worse.

I don't especially like this episode. But I am now toying with the idea that the limiter might have been designed by the Federation to do this - it keeps a violent prisoner sedated, but can be triggered to drive him beserk. He can be turned from a meek animal to a killing machine in seconds. It is breaking down insofar as it is not actually being triggered by the Federation (or is it?) but it is feature, not bug.

These planets have tiny populations. Jenna says 'population in excess of 7,000,000' as if it was something - but that's about the population of London, isn't it?

You have daffodils and crocus in the south? Here in the wild North Virn's daffodils haven't woken up yet , but the snowdrops are looking good.

And quite a long way south from here. Hi, Anne, by the way. How's your class behaving?

It was weird. The big quake hit at 3.00am local time, and I happened to be awake. Staying with my brother in his flat on the 5th floor of an 8-floor block of flats, on one of the higher hills of Jerusalem. Felt the building sway in waves, several times back and forth. First thought was 'wow, Storm Barbara is really strong!', second thought was 'maybe it's an earthquake?', third thought was 'it's stopped now and I'm really tired so might as well get some sleep'. I'm not very bright at 3.00am! My brother slept right through it. Next morning the news was all about the Turkish quake, so we got off very lightly in comparison.

Have a word with Wordsworth about his hosts of daffodils!

It was weird. The big quake hit at 3.00am local time, and I happened to be awake. Staying with my brother in his flat on the 5th floor of an 8-floor block of flats, on one of the higher hills of Jerusalem. Felt the building sway in waves, several times back and forth. First thought was 'wow, Storm Barbara is really strong!', second thought was 'maybe it's an earthquake?', third thought was 'it's stopped now and I'm really tired so might as well get some sleep'. I'm not very bright at 3.00am! My brother slept right through it. Next morning the news was all about the Turkish quake, so we got off very lightly in comparison.

Knew you'd get the earthquakes. I've read every historical record for earthquakes in the region from the 19th C going back to 1200 BCE. Largely to explain damage to and formation of archaeological sites. I'm waiting for Beirut to fall off the edge of the map.

And again, one cannot have a 'co-ordinate three'. There has to be another part to a co-ordinate. That's what 'co-' means.

And again, one cannot have a 'co-ordinate three'. There has to be another part to a co-ordinate. That's what 'co-' means.

Oooh I certainly hope so. My attempts to meet up last time all fell apart. But I have more advance notice this time, so hopefully we can organise something.

Also, I hear some B7 cast and crew might be going to the Brit Sci-fi but I can’t seem to find anything about when or where??

It was weird. The big quake hit at 3.00am local time, and I happened to be awake. Staying with my brother in his flat on the 5th floor of an 8-floor block of flats, on one of the higher hills of Jerusalem. Felt the building sway in waves, several times back and forth. First thought was 'wow, Storm Barbara is really strong!', second thought was 'maybe it's an earthquake?', third thought was 'it's stopped now and I'm really tired so might as well get some sleep'. I'm not very bright at 3.00am! My brother slept right through it. Next morning the news was all about the Turkish quake, so we got off very lightly in comparison.

We had a quake here in Canberra back in 1977. There is an important fault that runs nearby. In the middle of the night there was a massive cracking sound. My nearest and dearest woke up going wazzat???!!! I just came to and went "It was just an earthquake, go back to sleep." Next day our double brick house (the kind that huffing and puffing wolves can't blow down) had some nice cracks in the upper walls.

Ooh, how interesting, re archeological sites! Would love to hear more about them.

I'll ask the Supreme Commander - I've been out of the loop for a while and have no idea what's going on.

Why does Avon call it a space laboratory? Every station is a 'space' station, for goodness sake.

LOL we won’t call on you in an emergency. LOL

Although I can’t talk, I slept through an earthquake here some years back, although I had did have a good excuse - I was having surgery and was under anaesthetic. LOL It wasn’t till I came round that I found out about it. Fortunately, it wasn’t bad. In fact, I don’t think we were the epicentre.

Hi Anne!
How's the weather where you are? MVirn and I have established that it's freezing both north and south of Watford!

A lot of people forget that they had an important role in flattening buildings and, often, whole settlements.

Well all once again thanks for tonight & been fun. Hope rest of your weekend ahead goes well. I'll be off soon to bed.
We'll catch up soon.