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Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. There's some really sick people around, I hope she has a not so nice time inside, and when she comes out.

I don't know of any width signs on the bridge. But apparently they'd freed the boat and on their way in about ten minutes. I think they were probably creeping through the arch as they were not sure it would fit. When they realised it was likely to get stuck they simply backed up a few feet, adjusted the load by slightly tilting it and were then on their way.

Its a Ventora, the VX 4/90 only had a single vertical bar on the grill.

There was a photograph posted on RMweb some years ago of the huge connecting rod from a marine engine. There had been a failure and the connecting rod was bent into a U shape!

@rapidoandy, you mentioned that one of the biggest costs is assembly. Has self assembly by the purchaser been considered? or is that not viable.

The letter O was not used until the 1950's when many counties were running out of suitable letter combinations so they started using the letter O. The *OO series was allocated to Essex. Then the year letter was started in 1962 (But did not include I or O as a year letter). When registrations were introduced in 1903 each registration district was allocated a single letter. The letter S was allocated to Scotland and I was allocated to Ireland, O and Z were not used as single letters.By 1910 some districts were already running out of numbers so two letter registrations were introduced.

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Only one call out from bladder control last night and the sore/stiff joints weren't so troublesome this morning but pills have been taken. I try to keep my salt intake to a minimum due to hypertension, but so many things contain hidden salt. Bread for example though I understand that wholemeal bread generally has less salt than white bread. That's not why I eat wholemeal, I like the taste. When it comes to bacon I have smoked bacon, again because of the taste but it must be dry cured, not pumped full of brine.

The spacing is illegal but it's a valid registration from Northern Ireland.

Goodnight all.

The shock absorbing van must have earned its keep.

That was a common problem with VW flat four engines. It was always the same cylinder IIRC, something to do with it not receiving enough cooling air.

Evening all from Estuary-Land. The left knee and hip are playing up again, probably due to the rising atmospheric pressure. If the forecasters are right that means we are in for a few days of hot and sunny weather which is a small compensation.

That makes sense, it was using that route to avoid a low bridge or bridges on the A12. Likely as not it was heading for Harwich as the load was too big for the Channel Tunnel and the linkspans at Dover. Harwich has the facilities for handling such oversize loads.

Last month at the toy fair in Rayleigh I paid £3 for what I thought was a bag of plastic kit coach parts. When I got home a closer examination revealed that it was a Southern Pride kit for a four coach class 411 EMU. As far as I could see the kit was complete. Also with the kit was the header card for a Kirk Maunsell brake third. The toy fair is every month and the last one was yesterday, the same trader had the actual kit that the header card came from on his stall for £1, header card and kit are now reunited.

After the problems with the Boeing 737 MAX 8 I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

The escort vehicle was British as can be seen in the clip. Apparently it only took ten minutes to free the boat.

The knee is playing up again so I'm going to lie down for a bit.

I notice that the low loader is German registered. If it was going to or from a port why what was it doing in Chelmsford?

Something else that is brown by the look of it.

As well as having to shoot the 'rapids'.

Sunbeam, Rover?, Plymouth?, Standard.

My dad when he went on the show only lasted as long as the second lady in that clip.

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. I saw an item the other day about what is the healthiest human diet. It turned out to be a piscean diet, omnivore but eating only fish and no other meats. Second is a tie between vegetarian and omnivore depending on the type of omnivore diet. An @iL Dottore diet is healthier than a vegetarian diet but a @polybear diet is less healthy. Worst of all is a vegan diet where there is too much ultra processed food, it would even make a @polybear diet look healthy.

The problem was that it had been dead for quite some time and the corpse disintegrated when the disposal guy picked it up. As for burying it the garden is too small and have you ever tried digging a hole deep enough in Essex clay?

This is interesting.