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I think there is a planet somewhere in the universe to which Kadee knuckle springs migrate through tiny wormholes. It's possibly in the samer nebula as the planet of the biros. 

It indeed - despite yesterday's all day gloom- and it's  accelarating, a minute a day in the afternoon now and up to about a minute and a half a day after the weekend. You can understand why most cultures have a mid-winter festival  

One of my favourite days of the year is the one, a few days before the winter solstice, when sunset is at its earliest- it's uphill from there for a whole six months.  

I think you'll find, young man, that the correct English term is pastime not past-time.

You'll be referring to points and frogs next!

That's odd. I used Google to identify a couple of fairly obscure images (of a bridge in France) yesterday and it found the source almost immediately.  However, it's possible that either Google is favouring its own competing photo sharing/storage site.

Always remember that if a commerical service gives you something for free then you're the product not the customer.

Yes, it's a fairly well known code like inspector Sands.

On public events, the Royal Television Society, of which Charles has long been Royal Patron has postponed events and the BBC has pulled the Last Night of the Proms. 

It's a Rugby Club ground now with a park alongside it.

Yes. I've just checked and it's going from Sky and Virgin also. Apparently, Offcom flogged the frequencies its multiplex uses to EE who wanted more of them for 5G. BFBS decided that that without being of Freeview it wasn't financially viable to run the channel just on the paid for networks.

As always, a public service (in this case run by a charity mainly for our servicemen and women and their families but appreciated by many other viewers) loses out to commercial interests.

I knew one their senior engineers who I'd worked with on the Microlive programme in the 1980s who went to BFBS after leaving the beeb. He showed me round their HQ near Missenden once. 

Really! I hadn't come across any reference to that. BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) who run it has been around for decades and has always provided a valuable service particularly to service personnel stationed overseas- of which there are likely to be far more in future thanks to Vlad the mass murderer and like-minded tyrants. 

Youth are not an alien tribe. They are just all the different young people trying to navigate their way through the world that our generation created. Some will do that very badly, others will do it really well and most will be somewhere in between- just as we were.   Do we not have a duty to try to support them in that?

Thanks for the support. Izzy is right and my neck is hurting more now than this morning. My passengers are suffering far more so we will be looking at personal injury claims. 

The car is eleven years old so the difference in value probably won't be as significant as with a newer one. It was a good car though and buying a new one will be a hassle. Annoyingly I'd only just had it serviced.

Thnaks for your good wishes.

Both my passengers have both been told by A&E that they have suffered from  some degree of whiplash injury. it's too soon to know how severe. So far I seem to be alright with just a little stiffness. "quiet" country roads can be amongst the most dangerous.

You have my sympathy. Being naturally somewhat clumsy I've found those foam  bottle and paint tin holders an absolute godsend. Just a block of dense foam with suitabley sized holes in them but they've saved me from disaster on more than one occasion.

I looked through the previous and several subsequent years and, in this quite long running series of GWR Prototype Drawings, there were only about three or four of actual carriages, the others included a brake third and a restaurant car with central kitchen and pantry and separate 1st and 3rd class dining saloons at either end, There was a suggestion that the drawings would allow a five coach express train to be built Apart from those there was a passenger brake van with no corridor connection but most of the drawings were of locos and some tenders. At around that time there was a separate sequence of goods wagon drawnings by a different author.   

I have a complete run of pre war MRNs in bound volumes and the only carriage drawing in 1927 is in the March edition and is the fifth and last carriage drawing in a series of GWR prototype drawings by Captain F.H.G Layland-Barratt. This is though a corridor 1st /3rd composite.

Being in a bound volume it doesn't scan very well. I'll look back to 1926 for his earlier drawings but I think they too will be corridor as he talks about the five coaches being enough for a complete train. 

And real events have never seemed so much like a Poisson d'Avril.

No! Any more than the physical world can be 100% safe. There will always be people out there who want to rob you, exploit you, con you and manipulate you.  The internet, and the ability of computers to process vast amounts of data, gives them new ways of doing that. From the con artist convincing you to part with your money  to extremist poltiician who uses your profile to whisper in your ear exactly what they know you'll respond to get you to part with your vote.

In many ways we're like a naive youngster moving to the big city from a remote village; the city offers new opportunities but also new dangers. 

The only way to avoid some of its dangers would be to tightly control every aspect of it but that would be, in many ways, even more dangerous.

Don't ring the doorbell when you go home?

Just checked the aviation forecast for London and it's a 4000ft cloudbase. Should be ideal for the RAF flypast

Ealing have just set up an irrigation sprayerr on the playing fields behind my house so rain can't be far behind.

We'll probably be looking wistfully back in August !

I thought the laws of football forbade England to win any penalty shootout.

I like "Old Speckled Hen" but only on draught

Sshhh!! We want Andy think to we've all run away, then we can all jump out and surprise him.

Infantile....Moi?

You'll probably get away with it just this once but don't ake a habit of it or you may risk raising the tone of the hobby.

A nationwide strike by the union of philosophers, sages and allied luminaries would br disastrous. For a start there wouldn't be any trains running because trains are certainly uncertain and with nobody to speculate on whether a train might exist, since it couldn't certainly exist then it certainly wouldn't exist. You might be able to ask Deep Thought but who would wait 3.5 x 10^6 years for the next train.