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7 hours ago, cctransuk said:
Not Virgin Media, but we have a contractor for Wildernet ripping up every street in and around Bodmin at present!
G*d knows why - Bodmin was the first place in Britain to get BT Highspeed Broadband, some twelve years ago, and we are now fully fibre connected.
I cannot believe that a significant proportion of users are suddenly going to switch suppliers to Wildernet, but the works going on must be costing a fortune!
CJI.
That drags me back 30 years.
I forget who the company was (they eventually ended up as part of Virgin), but they spent ages digging up all the pavements in the area putting in cable. At the time, I had a flat, so a group of us asked the freeholder if we could get connected up. He came back some time later and said no. We assumed that was because he couldn't work out how to make something out of it. I subsequently got talking to a colleague who's girlfriend worked for the company. It turned out that they had spent so much money on digging the road up, that they couldn't afford to make any complicated connections, which we would have been.
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12 hours ago, Gilbert said:
"star attraction".....we all know its the pasties folk come for....
And the cake. Do not forget the cake.
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2 hours ago, polybear said:
Bear's Postie told me a few months back that they're not allowed to do such tactics anymore.
Last year, our usual postie asked me to take in a parcel for next door. The resident genius had left a note on the door asking for parcels to be left in the recycling box. When he came around to collect it, I asked him why he thought it was a good idea. "I couldn't think of anywhere else" was the answer.
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24 minutes ago, rockershovel said:
The Golgafrincham B Ark must be refusing bookings daily...
Just remember where the B Ark ended its journey.
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3 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:
If he's got a lorryload of spare tarmac he's probably the chap being paid by the council to mend the potholes.
Almost true.
40 years ago, the local council had the privilege of employing me. We had a parking area at work resurfaced, and there was more on the lorry than they needed. That evening, chatting to my father, he mentioned that someone had turned up late that afternoon with some spare tarmac, and did he want his parking area doing.
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1 hour ago, NHY 581 said:
Wisbleat and Tupwell does have a nice
sound to it............
R
Presumably not to be confused with the neighbouring Wisbleat and Upwool.
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10 hours ago, Stubby47 said:
Considering this as a possible outfit for the day.
So you're going for the toned down look this year.
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7 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:
It must have been catching. In the same period I worked with a chap who used to buy cheap bangers at car auctions, at which his brother who was an AA patrolman would accompany him to give them the once over so that he didn't buy anything dangerous or liable to die in short order, then run them until they became uneconomical, scrap them and repeat the process. Generally they could find cars with valid MOTs at knock down prices and when the time came to dump them it was surprising how much he got for scrap. He used to keep a record of everything and he claimed that the sums came out quite favourably compared with buying more expensive cars and keeping them for longer.
Dave
Known as "Bangernomics"
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4 hours ago, Compound2632 said:
Ah, yes, the MRJ approach to exhibition advertising...
Cruel, but often true.
To be fair, the latest edition is advertising events that are still in the future.
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8 minutes ago, Vistisen said:
Oh Cod, not again! nothing but fish puns for the next few pages.
Don't carp about it.
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31 minutes ago, Gilbert said:
Everywhere I go.....sheep....
Usually less trouble than bears and hippos.
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6 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:
The only "proper" music I don't get is Jazz.
I don't mean like swing or traditional, but all that improvised stuff. Not that I particularly like the normal Jazz either....
"There are three kinds of jazz. Hot, cool and when does the music start"
Jill Swinburne in The Beiderbecke Connection.
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3 hours ago, NHY 581 said:
Sorry to break this to you, Jason. But those aren't cats. They're people pretending to be cats.
No, 'tis true.
Rob.
Why would people pretend to be animals ?
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Heading into London last night, it looked as thought Dominique's London end was resting on the first pier after the canal span, so perhaps they've started moving it across for the next section.
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I'm pleased to report that my subscription copy arrived at the Manor House this morning. That accounted for this afternoon's lack of activity.
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27 minutes ago, cctransuk said:
I think that the container on the crane is precisely that - a container.
Such 'boxes' were loaded into and unloaded out of narrowboats by crane - look carefully, the boats have several heaped boxes in each one.
CJI.
Looking again carefully, the narrow boats don't appear to have cabins. That strongly suggests that they are BCN day boats (used for short haul journeys), in which case the photo is somewhere in the Black Country.
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8 hours ago, Tim Dubya said:
I embrace being not normal
I used to have a colleague who wore a badge saying "Define Normal".
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This may be of interest to at least one contributor.
You might need to turn off javascript to avoid the paywall.
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23 hours ago, Hroth said:
I got a mention for a "Bach Before Seven" suggestion (The Italian Concerto) some time ago!
And even a personalised weather forecast...
I got a mention for my suggestion on the play list challenge some time ago. Unfortunately, the mention was followed by the suggestion that I go for a walk, which I thought was a bit harsh.
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15 minutes ago, Ruston said:
Somewhere on (I think) youtube, is a video that someone took of one of the train simulator programs that had been set up as a model of Hartley Bank, showing the trains running backwards and forwards from the colliery to the exchange siding (just off the top of the screen shot).
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36 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:
Another video just posted re the progress with the Burton Green, green tunnel. Some real progress. The old GCR(I think) bridge has been demolished and they are well on with the tunnel at both sides of the temporary bridge.
Burton Green was on the LNWR (rather than GCR).
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2 hours ago, Tony_S said:
A good response to the sort of people who say “do you know who I am?”
2 hours ago, jamie92208 said:I thought that the correct response was to ask loudly if anyone nearby knows who the person is as they've forgotten.
Jamie
Not entirely.
I made an appointment at the doctors last month (yes you can get them). Unfortunately the receptionist forgot to ask who I was, and the penny didn't drop until I was half way home.
When I went back for the appointment, rather than use the electronic sign in thingy, I spotted the same receptionist, and pointed out that I had an appointment, but did she know who I was ?
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21 hours ago, TheSignalEngineer said:
Unfortunately I'm the only one left who eats it, so I set myself a target of finishing it by Lady Day, 25th March. I'm doing well this year, only about 6 servings left.
I should be careful make comments like that, you may well have to fight off marauding bears and hippopatami.
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20 hours ago, SM42 said:
The big problem is that she wants a simple car, without all the tech, not something that is very common nowadays.
Sounds like one of the following fits the bill :
https://theclassicpedalcarcompany.co.uk/
Both seem suitably low tech.
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The Night Mail
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Rumour has it that hospitals think that cake is a Bad Thing.
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