Is it possible to eat a ring of black pudding followed by immediatley whistling the national anthem ?

Raise your glasses to Ashby-de-la-Zouch Hurrah

A friend of mine was plagued with boils on his bum, something not to be sniffed at.

Every time Mrs Snap sees one of those Mega lenses she asks "Is that a Sigma Bigma"

I don't read any newspapers now. I used to read the Daily Mail, liked their cryptic crossword, but now put the money saved into my "Camera Fund", one of those digital money box things, over £100 in there now, towards my next lens or whatever.

The last Olympics I can just about recall seeing ( on Pathe News ? at the cinema anyway) was the Melbourne games, oh and a fictional games in a film called "Geordie" or something where the main actor insisted he wore his dad's kilt, or I may be confusing the two , it was a long time ago. Never seen them since, either because no TV or was usually at sea when they were on. I'm hoping this time, with the multi channels I'll be able to see events other than some people running around a big circle as fast as they can.
I didn't know the announcements were always in French first, a question I would have got wrong in a quiz, so thanks for explaining it.

I stopped going to the cinema and theatre quite some time ago as even with the "Loop" system the dialog in modern films is usually so bad and well beyond my limited hearing. Only "foreign" films seem to have English sub titles. The last Japanese film I watched "Departures" was brilliant and was so well acted it didn't need dialogue or subtitles.
Sub titles on TV are often so far out of sync it's like watching early editions of "The Talkies". They must use Dragon un-naturally speaking or some such.

Will have to check the TV Times for channels to watch for the sports I enjoy watching, if any are featured.

I think if "Abide with Me" had been sung like that on the Titanic the orchestra would have jumped over the side I was fortunate to be asleep before McCartney's turn, Mrs Snap says he must have changed his hair dye as it didn't look so unnatural this time

Why were the announcements made in French first ?

I wonder how much "Green Tax" had to be paid for all the smoke and fumes generated. In the main I found it very sad, showing a past time when Britain was Great.

While shooting in raw+ each file had a corresponding file .jpd and dng except one file which was stored as a jpg but a strange number:

_K5_1121.dng and _K5_1121.jpg

no dng file _K5_M1122.jpg

_K5_1123.dng and _K5_1123.jpg

Any clues as to what caused this. The jpg with the M added was decent enough and was the only one to have this "error" out of 80 odd snaps.

I didn't know if I should congratulate him or mug him

I forgot to mention, he got on the same bus as Mrs Snap and I 6 hrs later, when we were returning home, spooky or what

Spotted a rare item on the bus on the way to the Gateshead Flower Show.
A well dressed elderly gentleman got on the bus in Ashington and he was carrying a black square ( leather? ) box complete with shoulder strap and the box was clearly marked ( pressed into the leather) Ashai Pentax 6 x 7. He also had a large well used cylinder on a strap which could have contained anything. Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to speak to him.