Andy Hayter

We had one that loved Cantaloupe melon, to the extent that if we were eating one, Smudge would sit back on his hind legs sit right up and wave his front paws while meowing to catch our attention that he had not had his portion.

Fresh potatoes? In April? Are you having a laugh? Potatoes are planted in Spring once the risks of frost have largely gone or later. They are harvested 60days (new potatoes) to 120 days later. Except for the very southernmost bits of Europe, this means that all potatoes have been lifted by the end of October and they have to be since frost will kill the plants. Cypriot and Egyptian potatoes can be planted and harvested just about any time of the year. It used to be that the stored potatoes were sprayed to prevent them from sprouting but this was discontinued in 2019 due to concerns about the breakdown products of the spray then being used. Some spraying with a different inhibitor continues, but now most stored potatoes are kept at a very precise temperature and may be also subjected to a light dose of ethylene gas. This gas ripens fruit but inhibits sprouting in potatoes.

Roneo?

I have to agree totally with @iL Dottore's view on downsizing. This is the biggest property we have ever owned and we could probably do with a few extra square metres. I miss not having a proper library. 2 buildings; Building one: Ground floor and cellar (sloping ground means one side is at ground level while the other is below ground) - wine and preserves cellar/tool shed plus laundry/pantry/plant room and oil store. First floor - kitchen diner plus living room (OH hates "lounge" which she thinks belong only in airports). Second floor bedroom and en-suite bathroom. Third floor bedroom and shower/WC. Building two: Ground floor - open plan kitchen, diner, living room plus 2 bedrooms (one used more as storage) plus shower and WC. Second floor open muddling area plus railway library and document archive.

What, no utility room/ plant room - or is that in the basement?

The exception to the rule Tony. Single chevrons are used where the space at the side of the road does not permit the placement of a sign with the correct number of chevrons for the bend and still allow a good sightline for the approaching motorist. In this case you do indeed add up the chevrons. We have a hairpin bend nearby with 5 single chevrons. If well placed on the initial approach, the individual chevrons might well look like a continuous set of chevrons rather than individual ones as you first approach. Geometry does not always permit that though.

So if I have understood your semantic point, while I swerve on the curve, you are quietly going round the bend. 😄

The first is a small roundabout with by definition lots of =4 chevrons. The second is a much larger roundabout and the signs are 2 chevrons - albeit that there 9 x 2 chevron signs. But 9 x 2 chevrons is not the same as 18 chevrons. The rule still stands but it has to be understood that it applies to a single sign not to the totality of the signs.

Er No. Not often appreciated is that the number of chevrons indicate the severity of the curve, and that curve does not look overly sharp. The more chevrons, the tighter the curve. They do however look to me to be badly sighted and would be better placed on the railings.

Ditto. To the extent that I loaded the site in parallel and opened the page from there, which triggered the original page to open.

Not had the unavailable message but it has just taken 3 minutes or more to load this page from the previous one. Sorry I am sure this is spoiling the holiday weekend.

Lucky you with that choice. When asked, our patissier (bun and cake maker) replied: Qu'est que c'est un ot crows bone

I beg to differ, as does Wiki Spätzle ([ˈʃpɛtslə] ⓘ), or nokedli in Hungarian, are a type of Central European egg noodles typically served as a side for meat dishes with sauce. Commonly associated with Swabia and Alsace,[1] it is also found in the cuisines of southern Germany and Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Vojvodina, Slovenia, Lorraine, Moselle and South Tyrol.

Many of the editions earlier than N°. 80 came with English translation sheets* but undoubtedly the full print English language version is a big step forward for non-French speaking modellers. *on request IIRC

It sounds as if you might be inspired by the Inglenook shunting puzzle and siding layout. https://wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/Inglenook/inglenook-rules.html You might be able to expand a bit on this, but it is a good starting point.

I think that rather than being a flue - why have arches and rectangular openings in a flue? - it is in fact kiln and flue combined. I have seen (on the box) a similar arrangement where the arch gives access to 4 kilns - 2 on each side and fuel (coal or maybe coke) and limestone or chalk are loaded into the kilns at that level. The height of the flue above is determined by the need for the fire to draw sufficiently to create enough heat to calcine the rock. The lime/cement is then extracted at the lower level (rectangular openings) once the fire has subsided but probably still too hot to touch.. https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailv2&form=SBIHVR&lightschemeovr=1&iss=sbi&q=imgurl:https%3A%2F%2Fcontent-eu.invisioncic.com%2Fy320084%2Fmonthly_2024_03%2Fimage.png.816cb988f73d8e054961bf0c243a27bc.png&pageurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rmweb.co.uk%2Fforums%2Ftopic%2F229-early-risers%2Fpage%2F12876%2F%23comment-5471532&pagetl=Early+Risers.+-+Page+12876+-+Wheeltappers+-+RMweb&imgalt=image.png.816cb988f73d8e054961bf0c243a27bc.png&imgsz=281x479&selectedindex=28&id=https%3A%2F%2Fs0.geograph.org.uk%2Fgeophotos%2F03%2F01%2F72%2F3017244_44f03303_1024x1024.jpg&ccid=fyh1nuQd&mediaurl=https%3A%2F%2Fs0.geograph.org.uk%2Fgeophotos%2F03%2F01%2F72%2F3017244_44f03303_1024x1024.jpg&exph=768&expw=1024&vt=2&simid=607996722171161310&ck=C79CEC83FD0AAB6E3793A7B3D8CAB366&thid=OIP.fyh1nuQd7d51tnjpmlndigHaFj&cdnurl=https%3A%2F%2Fth.bing.com%2Fth%2Fid%2FR.7f28759ee41dedde75b678e99a59dd8a%3Frik%3DQ6Qx%2byyAI8BpLA%26pid%3DImgRaw%26r%3D0&sim=11

I too would recommend pre-wetting. I have done it without and found on drying that it looked as if the ballast had been subject to a series of meteorite strikes, with crater like depressions where some of the drops of glue/water/surfactant had hit the dry surface.

Western Union will do that but I certainly would not recommend it as a way to do business. Too many opportunities for fraud.

Farine - flour Moulin - mill Brasserie - brewery You will tend to get a whole lot of hits of small scale artisan equipment and not full sized industrial units. As Ian has suggested, Minifer offer suitable models.

We seem to have focused heavily on beer; but do we have any evidence that that was the cargo in the barrels? Barrels were widely used for shipping small quantities of all sorts of other goods. China (packed in straw), pots and pans, fish (salted and cured), oil (probably whale not black gold) etc.. the reason for the widespread use of barrels is that they are easily moved in the days before pallets and a fork lift or pallet truck. Tip it slightly and you can twirl it ( with skill) down the street. Put it on its side and you can roll it. I could imagine that as beer barrels became old and perhaps less liquid tight, they might be sold on for the use of non-liquid products. Does this explain the somewhat tatty state of some of these barrels?

Very much less sophisticated but very effective: a town near where I lived in Germany had a main street with 6 or 7 sets of lights for intersections and crossings. The speed limit was 50kph (30mph). They introduced the Grüne Welle (Green wave) Travel at 40kph and you would guarantee that every light would change to green just before you got there. Travel at 50 (still within the limit) and you were guaranteed the lights would still be at red as you got to them. It actually worked and only needed a timing sequence to be effective.

I think there is a problem with the forum indexing at the moment. As well as the lengthy delays, I am directed to the first unread post - except that it frequently is not the first unread post, which may be before where the page lands or after. Yesterday I got a notification that someone had had left a reaction to one of my posts. I was directed to the top of a page; a page on which I had made no posts. Later it had been corrected.

From the local news reports it looks as if this may prove to be a lot more serious than mismanagement.

Indeed. Climbing friends of mine, both of Scots origin, had that exactly happen to them in that area. They had between them around 6 sentences in Scottish Gaelic. So for a couple of minutes they discussed/ The sun was hot today Yes but the bus only runs on Saturdays ................ And suddenly everyone in the pub was talking English.

Today was forecast to be overcast but dry and importantly with overnight temperatures above 5°C. So it seemed a good day to start building steps down the terracing from the upper slopes to the lower slopes. All nicely marked out on the concrete plinth, I had just got the first block seated and level in both directions and the heavens opened. With a wheelbarrow full of mortar, there seemed little choice but to battle on. An hour and a half later and I was p'ssed wet through but had the bottom layer all but complete and an empty wheelbarrow. Retreat to the warmth seemed the honourable thing to do.