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Wow - they really brush up well! My (lonely) one arrived out of the blue yesterday. Really pleased. Kev.

Victoria with a Teddy-Bear and a Skin Head! Kev. (Can't wait for these pictures to disappear and someone tries to make sense of this!)

I found that being 3-0 up is worse ! Kev.

Yes, and all in black and white. I watched it in Melbourne and I was always up early for the start. The programme before it was always two "old blokes" talking the most boring stuff imaginable to a kid - probably politics. "Watch out, watch out - there's a Humphry about! Kev.

I thought the "country code" encourages you to "leave gates how you find them". (...with a very few exceptions of where the gate is obviously in the wrong position.) Kev.

I thought they had to abandoned the "square egg idea because someone said that if it went ahead, then all the other farm animals would complain about the noise! Kev.

Not AC "Traction" power/supply, or transmission, but simple interference rejection of the domestic 50Hz supplies when operating "sensors" remotely from the signalling system/network. I also wonder if it might just be a simple "spark gap" used to protect the occupancy circuits if AC traction supplies are present and fault to the rails. Kev.

Is it a "load" so that the occupancy detector can detect that the circuit is working even if a train is no "shorting" the rails together? Think of it as a resister and that the occupancy detector can detect 1/ an "open circuit" - a fault, 2/ an "unoccupied circuit" - line clear, and 3/ a "short circuit" - a train or line occupied. Of course, it makes more sense if it is actually a capacitor (providing impedance) so that it works with AC electric - of a frequency that does not correspond with "mains" frequencies (and their derivatives). Just my speculation as I don't work in the rail industry. Kev.

It's the "Bafta Games Awards" tonight. Info here... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72pjyl4w04o Kev.

Shrinkflation

"Special Branch" and "Flying Squad"! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-oxfordshire-68785461 Made me laugh. Kev.

I've found that not all things are available online forever. Can you still get a "Hattons" receipt online? Kev.

I was thinking that too, plus the fact that some receipt materials used just fade away - usually years before I even start the project that the receipt paid for! Kev.

The "resultant finish", of fake products, "may not be the same" because any defects/loss of fidelity does not matter to them as they fully intend not to support them in any way once sold - unlike a legit business which must factor in these costs. Kev.