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I think it's Danish AF. Ah! Pipped at the post. 😃

I get an email from E.ON Next telling me my energy prices are set to fall from April. Three days later I get another email from them telling me they are increasing my DD. My usage is the same as it always is, so not sure how they work that one out. I think you are right about spamming all as a cost saver.

BBC reporting a derailment, see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68738960

Yes a variable DD option would be a good idea although a fixed one lets you manage your finances better, as you know what's coming each month. It seems the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing with E.ON Next. 🙄

EON Next sent me an email stating " good news our prices are falling" and I'll pay approx £18.50 a month less from April. 3 days later I get another email telling me to INCREASE my DD based on their algorithm! That would have me paying an extra £16.50 a month. Needless to say they got a stern email advising them to leave my DD as it was. Cheeky monkeys.

Look at the road surface. Recent rain. A contributory factor I think.

Is this of any help?

60 years ago there was no legal requirement for equipment to have suppression, although the effects were known, and, to a greater extent, equipment did have it fitted. 20 or so years ago the Legal requirement to have it fitted was introduced. Hence all the gubbins round the motor. Also electronic equipment it better protected from interference now. It has to legally conform to standards that allow it to work under certain levels interference AND not produce interference above certain levels. Unfortunately many imported products do not conform to these standards. Mainly cheap knock offs and Far Eastern imports. The main issue, in the modelling world, lies with DC or DCC ready loco's, they need suppression components. If DCC fitted or retro fitted, the decoder takes care of that (onboard components).

My comment wasn't about solar as a means of saving money. It's about people seeing an opportunity to make money at the expense of others, and leaving them to pick up the pieces when it all goes wrong. Anyone can set up a company and claim to be an expert in whatever field they choose, and as most of us are not conversant with whatever the technology, it's very difficult to find those that are experts and will do a good job. Solar Together seems a better way to go about things in this regard. We seem, as a country, to have a surplus of these individuals, who, with no experience in the chosen field, will gladly take your money and run. These emerging technologies are food and drink to them.

Solar is the 21st century equivalent of the 20th century double glazing boom. Many chancers saw an opportunity to fleece unwary members of the public. Set up a company, install poor equipment badly, and then disappear. Heat pumps is the next "big " thing. Caveat emptor.

This may help, although it's for a DCC conversion. https://loco-updates.uk/oldclass-158-01/index.htm Rob

It was 1958 and a school friend suggested going to Romford one evening to see the "Hook Continental". At the time I had no idea what that was, but it seemed like a good idea, so I went along. The rest is history. In the picture you can see a footbridge over the GE main line. This is where we went that evening and many, many times after. We'd stand on the wall and hold on to the railings to watch the trains go by. I still go there if in the area with time to kill. It still smells the same, ingrained smoke.

I've just been out to pick my daughter up. At the shops at the end of our road there's a pedestrian crossing with ziz-zags. Some clown had parked half on the pavement, behind where the blue car is in the picture. Parking is tight up there, but there were spaces in the lay-by outside the shops and opposite the post box.

Yes, there are several threads where people have increased the size and it still didn't work. So possibly something else in play. Will await the MS "fix" if and when it appears.

Three out of 4 machines updated this OK, the oldest failed. It's something to do with a partition not being big enough to accommodate where this update should go. This link gives some background. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-kb5034441-security-update-fails-with-0x80070643-errors/ Hopefully a fix will appear in due course.

May be of interest to some. Tonight at 6:30 to 8:00 via Zoom. You can register here https://events.theiet.org/events/the-introduction-of-digital-block-control-on-the-romney-hythe-and-dymchurch-railway/ Rob

The art of "reading the road" is, sadly, lacking nowadays. Although some make you wonder what an earth they are trying to achieve with their manouvers. 🙄

It doesn't help that these mini roundabouts have some with give way lines and others double "stop" ones. There seems no logic as to which you'll encounter or where. Apart from due care and attention, which seems to be lacking. Some drivers think they are all give ways, but in their favour only.

I discounted those as not going in the direction suggested, but possible as they went back around 1500. ZJ914, ZJ947 & ZK321, COBRA 11, 12 & 13 on ADSB exchange. Sometimes the data is different on different sites.

Hi Nigel, I've had a look around those times, but can't see anything conclusive. I checked on https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ which is better for military than the more commonly used trackers. Again nothing conclusive, but not everything shows up. That area does have a major airway traversing it, it's also possible they were going to the military training areas in Wales. Best I can do.

Where was this, please??

You don't need MS Office, there are at least a couple of free programs such as Open Office & Libre Office, that will do most things for you.

The listing picture shows a Pullman coach named "Amethyst". Looks like the vendor either though that was the colour, and/or the word got truncated in the listing. Rob

Initially I couldn't find a Xmas card thread, so had put it in the ""Merry Christmas" to All" thread here https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/183382-“merry-christmas”-to-all/#comment-5375475 Of course immediately after posting I spotted this thread! So have transferred my card here, but left the greeting there. Have a peaceful festive period and a happy and healthy New Year for 2024. Rob

BIG SUNSPOT ALERT: Sunspot AR3529 is still growing, quadrupling in size since Tuesday. This 48-hour movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows its rapid development: The animation is here https://www.spaceweather.com/ With two primary dark cores twice the size of Earth, AR3529 is an easy target for solar filtered telescopes. You can even see it through eclipse glasses--no magnification required. Of greater interest is the sunspot's 'delta-class' magnetic field. Within the sunspot + and - magnetic polarities are pressing together. Magnetic re-connection could produce an X-class solar flare. Any eruptions today will be Earth-directed, as the sunspot is almost directly facing Earth.