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An alternative to the guillotine?

Including Art Deco, a well known Spanish footballer.

Where else would one want to play?

If a scrum in a first class match is near the touchline, the referee will normally position him/herself on the opposite side. The touch judge will officiate the other side, advising the referee of offenses either by radio or by flag. There is enough to look out for, even concentrating on one side of the scrum. My method was, that once the scrum was settled, watch out for sudden movements by a prop. Probably nefarious. In so far as Saturday's match was concerned, I'm in total agreement with HH. SA won the quarter final by charging down a conversion and the semi final when Farrell was marched back 10 meters for abusing the referee. And that wasn't the first time he had had a pop, got away with a warning the first time. And so to the front row. Sinckler was struggling from his first scrum, his opponent was angling in far enough to disrupt Sinckler whilst staying within the ref's tolerances. I think my solutions (give him a tap or go under and pop him) are now illegal, But I can think of three ways to nullify the tight head: 1. go in on the angle yourself, which would need a big drive up the arse from the wing forward; 2. get assistance from the hooker (and why didn't England sub George); 3. Sinckler "acquires" an injury and Marler comes back on.

This request is for those of you living in East Kent or East Sussex. My sister is involved with the National Trust and one of their properties is presenting a 1970s themed Christmas. This will run from 20 November to just before Christmas. If anyone could lend her a suitable television or record player she would be very grateful. It doesn't need to work. The exhibition will be in Rye and Sally lives in Tenterden (not far from the railway). Bill

Mr Cotton?

Some of us are banned from that exhibition! Couldn't care as I have a far better offer in West Byfleet. I'm presently researching the Kriegsmarine and the LSWR ships in The Great War.

or a decent view of the layout. I set the barriers at a foot at St Albans. When we had The Gresley Beat, I set them at two foot. Bill

I helped a friend signal his layout recently. A mutual friend, who died last month, had given him a signal and Pete wanted to use it. Perfect, says I, that's your down starter.

Well I enjoyed New Maths. Basically taught Old and New together. My preference was log tables. I still use the log function on my calculator to find the power of a number - take the log of the number, multiply by the power and take the antilog.

Girl with two big balls.

I spent today ballasting. Not my favourite occupation! If you are tempted to see Blindheim in print, it will appear in the November Continental Magazine. And in the flesh? Well come to Warley! By the by, I've been accessing RMWeb via the handy. I'm happy to read but don't particularly enjoy typing in that machine. Bill

So HS2 is now merely a mechanism to transfer between Wormwood Scrubs and Winson Green.

My skills and training mean that I walk towards an incident. A recent one was as I was walking to The Albert Hall and passing Buck House when I heard a bang about 100 meters behind me. Once I could see what had happened, a car had hit a lamp post and there was a push bike leaning against the car. Not necessarily good news. Walking quickly, I was third person on Scene, behind a doctor (whose bike it was) and a firefighter. Car driver in shock, but the vehicle had a bust radiator, everyone else OK, so I carried on to the concert. But anyone in an emergency service will move towards an incident. Conclusions - perhaps a hundred people were nearer the incident and had decided to ignore it - and - in London there is probably a doctor within 100 meters of most incidents. But since then, I carry a PulseOx with me. Also I've always had an emergency kit in the Yeti - lots of bandages, some aluminium blankets, a torch and a hi-viz jacket.

I made the ultimate sacrifice tonight. Didn't watch, didn't listen - so we won. Bill

and I totally agree with you, Alan, that your condition requires a face to face consultation. But mine didn't. However in the last fortnight I've had two face to arm consultations (shingles and Covid), with a third (flu) still to come.

I understand your concerns but there is a tendency in this country for people to totally rely on the NHS to look after their health without taking any responsibility themselves. I haven't seen a GP in over five years and actually I haven't needed to. My chest infection last November was dealt with by a telephone call to the surgery, a call back from the duty GP an hour later, inform her with the symptoms and observations (sats of 90%), and I picked up the antibiotics from the chemist an hour later. I asked for a blood test this summer for cholesterol level. telephone discussion with a GP and negotiation of a lower dose of statin.

Stephen, the answer to your first question is - no. The LSWR didn't use route indicators; the introduction of the "theatre" type at Waterloo was part of the 1936 introduction of colour light signals. The LSWR subsidiary arms were mostly fairly logical. Shunting ahead of a starting signal on right line was an "S", and shunting ahead on wrong line was a bow tie signal. These were rare for obvious reasons but were used to shunt across a station throat, Waterloo was an example. The ringed arm was used for entry into a siding. These were fairly rare; the LSWR didn't have a phobia concerning facing points (as per the MR) but didn't like to enter a dead end siding from a facing point. So the siding needed to go somewhere, such as a marshalling yard. The contentious signal was the calling on arm from a home signal. The original LSWR practice was a diamond on the arm that could display a red or green light. This later became a "C" and I can remember one in use at Wimbledon in the 1970s. There is a record of the Somerset & Dorset (signalled by the LSWR) using a ringed arm but this may have been local practice. for calling on into a siding. Bill

Thanks for the statement. Is there any chance that you could actually quantify it?

Evening all, SEGOG this afternoon when I ran my new Spur Null locomotive (BR 98.8) then to a pharmacy for my Covid jab. It's my last day of the season at Lord's tomorrow although I reckon I'll be watching the rain fall. Bill

So I must be a genius!

My sister and I come from families of late starters. We were born 1951 & 54; our parents in 1918 & 19. They actually met on 31 December 1939 at a dance in Kimmel Camp, Rhyl, where Dad was doing his basic training and chatted up a local girl. They married in 1949, bought their first house in 1949, then me in 1951. Grandparents were all born late 1880s in Holywell, "part of Flint", Yeovil and Deptford. My sister has researched the Deptford grandmother, born 21/12/1887, whose father came over from Dublin during the potato famine. She was a ladies' maid, sent to Bournemouth Central to send a telegram and was chatted up by the telegraph clerk. Actually Granny was a nasty piece of work. When Dad came back from Auschwitz, the army posted Mum to the nearest depot as stores clerk with instructions to attend pay parades but otherwise care for her fiancé. Granny told him to stop seeing the "Welsh tart!" Bill

We had 1628 KO, should have been a B plate ...

The LSWR had two routes to Ludgate Hill. The "Wimbledon" service ran through Tulse Hill and Herne Hill and is extant as part of Thameslink. The "Richmond" service ran through Addison Road and Factory Junction with various bits used by London Overground and the District line. The South Western sidings stlll exist near Farringdon. However there was a proposal to extend through Waterloo to Blackfriars. It would have used the site of the South station at Waterloo, run beside the SER line but gaining height and, about the site of the TfL building, swinging across the SER line to join the LBSC line. Bill

I'm off to York Minster soon, to see my ex rector installed as a canon. I'm travelling Grand Central, so hope the a/c is working.