Joseph_Pestell

That's an interesting stat, perhaps reflecting that claim that hip dysplasia in women (female children) is putting more strain on ACL. But what I meant is that there seems to be an increasing incidence of ACL injuries in both sexes. That could be down to pitches or to the design of the boots.

Useful photos. They show that the design closely follows that of Jouef steam loco tender drives. Daft arrangement with the motor overhang causing the driven bogie to be unbalanced such that only one axle is really providing any traction. It may mean that any split gears on a Class 40 could be recovered from a scrap tender drive.

Where I lived in France, the Mairie used an ancient Renault estate as a hearse. On one occasion the gentleman to be interred was rather tall and his coffin was too long for the rear door to be closed. I rather expected him to slide out on the steep hill up to the church.

When I talk about VAR, I am not talking about the equipment. I mean the whole process including the rather large team of people. The machinery is never wrong except in cases where the camera angles don't give adequate info. The vast majority of VAR "incidents" are due to the people. I resent your comment about the England-Nigeria game. I am not generally an England supporter (except for cricket, where my country is subsumed, and the Red Roses, because I have met them). I was looking at it from the perspective of an ex-referee which is why I was impressed by the referee getting herself into such good position to make the original decision. I am not sure that it is just the women that are getting more ACL injuries.

32 snails seems like rather a lot to me. Are they a smaller breed than is usually served? Usually get 6 or 12 when served as a starter, and that's quite enough for me.

Possibly 100 years (assumed reserves). 50 years on confirmed reserves. Amazing project. I do recall it first being proposed and the amount of concern for the landscape.

I definitely agree that this photo is showing the passenger accommodation to be attached to the car-carrying vans of the Okehampton Motorail. Presumably, passengers would not embark using those steps but would have to wait until the train had been assembled and shunted into a platform road.

So agree. If VAR can't get right a decision like that, it is a waste of space and time. The delays to the game are wrecking it as a spectacle and could even lead to player injury. The England-Nigeria game was the same. The referee had positioned herself ideally for a clear view of the incident and correctly awarded a penalty (positioning is always the key to good refereeing). But then VAR persuades her to go look at the monitor and change the decision. Dodgy or what?

Told you so. Strangely enough, the Lionesses have replicated the Roses: a long stretch of winning matches until a final.

If you Google it as Glasgow North, you should be able to find it easily. Rather large to model and not that interesting in my opinion.

This is not a matter of scale so the Ratio system can work perfectly well. You may need to drill an extra hole in any crank to reduce the amount of throw.

I can't match 35. But when we cleared out my parents' house in France where they had lived for 26 years, we found some items that had clearly been untouched after an expensive removal from the UK. The most obvious example was boxes of headed notepaper with the London address on.

Beer cans bursting is now quite commonplace. All down to costcutting with thinner metal.

Close. Mallaig is a little further east than Arisaig.

A very standard railway quiz question: what is the furthest west station in Great Britain? Not on here of course, but most Brits would answer Penzance.

My big bugbear with modern cars. Our Nissan Qashqai was bad. Various waterpipes had to be removed to get at the bulb and then reassembled afterwards. Needless to say, with such a heat source next to it, the bulb (LH) never lasted long. The VW Beetle is even worse with the bulb very difficult to access. Local Kwik-Fit refused to even try.

That probably should be the case. But the history of football shows that a team which wins a difficult semi-final often underperforms in the final against a nominally weaker team.

Do you recall that book which had a chapter titled "What the average chairman knows about football". It consisted of a blank page. I suspect that the author might have found something rather pithy to say about Tod Boehly.

In France, all pharmacists are expected to know their mushrooms. Foragers who are uncertain can take their basket of mushrooms to be checked. Our local rugby pitch produced quite a crop. Harvesting before the crop would be ruined by the Sunday afternoon match was supervised by the local retired pharmacist.

And a serious propensity for tin beetle. A friend once collected me from Plymouth Station in his father's Rolls (we were down in Devon for a wedding). There was another Roller there picking up the Mayor of Plymouth. Made me feel quite grand but I found it very disappointing as a car.

No, it was nothing like a fine wine. Tried plenty of those (not so many as I would like) and never had a problem.

I had never tried Irn Bru in my 66 years of life. But just recently, my curiosity got the better of me. Not a good experience.

I have had the same problem with Brittany Ferries, Portsmouth. As I had an appointment the following morning in Brittany, I ended up having to drive overnight via the Channel. There is clearly a serious glitch in the software.

Passed through Manc Victoria yesterday on my way to Chester. Coffee/snack provision there is a converted horsebox. IIRC Oxford do a suitable model.

Sadly, missed out on this Accurascale "takeover" as I went to Chester yesterday. Oddly, my first ever visit to the city given that my grandmother lived on the Wirral. It really is an impressive model and I hope it gets out to other exhibitions. Operation was a bit iffy as they were allowing visitors (mainly children) to drive trains. Can the Accurascale team do any worse.