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A nice seasonal tune for the first of May! (Its apparently all about rustic sex... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_Is_the_Month_of_Maying )

I have heard that properly delivered CPR should result in rhe breaking of several ribs, notwithstanding the age of the patient...

This should cheer iD up no end https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87z06r175no Scientists are working to make white bread healthier.... 🤪

Explains all the skeletons at the bottom of swimming pools with an Apple Watch around their boney wrists.....

It was on the One Show on BBC1 this evening.

Well, it was better than being executed for stealing a hankie, despite the importunate pigeons with yellow feathers on their heads...

The £125 O gauge Jinty in BR livery has sold out, the private owner one is still available, as is the Southern livery Terrier. Rails has now released a variety of 14xx locos in the £145 price bracket. https://railsofsheffield.com/collections/o-gauge-bargains?system_collections=Steam%20Locomotives

Thanks for the link about the restoration work on the viaduct. I first passed under it on the S&W in the early 70s, it was very much as the "before" pictures illustrated!

Midnight? 🤔 Its barely 4pm! 🤪🤪🤪 Speaking of cakes, I should have had a Cinnamon Bun with my mid-afternoon cuppa, but I forgot. Oh well, it'll keep for tomorrow....

Keeping a landline is due to several factors. Little or no mobile coverage at the location Inertia Age If I were younger, I'd probably drop the landline, but as I'm not fully integrated with the smartphone culture (I loathe the things, even though I have one), I'll stick with my landline, even though its more or less a tethered mobile phone...

George V and Prince of Wales bodies? The "tenders" have their wheels, which is something... 🤪

There was a sword attack incident in Hainult, London this morning, during which a 13 yo boy was killed and 4 others, including two police officers, were injured. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-london-68926446 The attacker was tasered to a stop. Its a pity he wasn't shot by armed officers. Now we have the waste of money for a trial and keeping the attacker locked up for an appropriate length of time.

Isn't a jeep a bit anachronistic for a 1940 Dads Army scene?

Love Is A Many Splendored Thing - Andy Williams

"This Way Up"?

Although a round topped 517 is too early for me, at the price quoted its still a Rule 1 no-brainer! I might even consider a 14xx in later trim...

I was going to do some work in the garden this morning, but I sat down for a mo and picked up a book. Between that and dropping into RMweb, bang went the morning!

The SVR crosses the Staffs&Worcs canal on the Falling Sands viaduct. The canal bridge just below is Falling Sands bridge, Falling Sands lock is just around the bend*... * Or may be behind the photographer, I don't have my copy of Nicholsen to hand!

People here would miss their phone boxes and will pay for them to be left in situ... They're largely left painted red. Sadly passers by realise that they probably won't contain a working telephone.

Almost down to lockdown levels of churn!

Not that that seems to bother some people, I mean, who's going to have the tea ready for the next stop?

We have, its somewhere upstream...

Thats not a failure on his part, you just failed to provide a sufficiently robust box!

The main problem with BTs conventional telephone exchanges is that they're all very elderly. They're also all digital electronics and many of the electronic components are obsolete, not manufactured any more and are consequently impossible to replace. "Soon" it will be impossible to maintain a functional conventional telephone system. Its cheaper to install full fibre and implement VoIP over it than to find someone to develop a completely new digital/analog exchange system that won't contain creeping obsolesence due to electronic parts becoming unobtainable as the system is brought into service... The other factor is that full fibre is cheaper to power than the old copper wired system. Yes, BT has to power the exchange computers at the other end of the fibre optics but they don't have to provide the 60v* or so that powered the subscriber telephone at the end of the copper. The consumer now has to power the fibre terminating equipment and the router box** out of their own pocket 24/7 as well as pay for the call package. * Can't remember the exact voltage, but I remember it was something like that! ** A plug PSU for each - I'd have to look to see how many watts each consumes🤔. Not that many, but it all adds up. When the power is on, that is... 🙂