SHMD

Vicious gulls.

Railway chippy was the best, now either Riverside, far end of Church street or Fish Cottage, Sandsend.

I thought Turdus Merula was the preferred term these days...

I must admit, i didn't know that.

Romania's nice - but I don't recommend the curried cabbage lattice slice, for breakfast or the deep fried goats brains ever!

Ok. Fleet Lists are showing the AF A318 fleet as stored. Shall have to send them an update.

My itinerary listed it as an A318 but what actually showed up could have anything, (with compatible seating arrangements). I remember (badly as I never ever usually take notice) that the reg/call sign/number... was something like G-GOPH or G-GOPH or G-GUPG or G-GUPH.... you get the idea. New seats fitted as 2xUSB sockets were lit up everywhere!

I thought it was reaction to Accurascale's announcement of the chaldron wagon that had burst rmweb.

 ...but there does seem to be alot of announcements at the mo.

I'm just glad we are back up and running.

I'm in Den Haag, for 2 to 3 weeks, so I went to Utrecht to the Spoorwegmeuseum.

What a great place.

Why have I never been here before!

Den Haag and the Spoorwegmeuseum.

Apart from changing planes in Schipol I haven't even been to the Netherlands. Something I hope to sort in the next year or two. Enjoy your trip!

Used to visit Holland once  a year for the Eurospoor in Utrecht,  also enjoying a visit to the Spoorwegmeuseum a few times.  Would usually stay at a guest house in Arnhem. Great cafes and bars in Amsterdam too.

One wonders what the birth weight was.  In bags of sugar...

I had forgotten they involved Tammy Wynette which even today is inspired and justified. 

But is it ancient?

Furthermore known as The Jams...

Yes. It's a much more sedate/relaxed drive to Haverford West than these new fangled types.

Season tickets to New Normal have been available since March.

And there was me hoping it will be a one-way ticket.

"I do wonder what the tube's vacuum was though, for the trip?"

My guess is that the tube wasn't evacuated at all for this publicity stunt. There's a long way to go before they do that, in my view.

The only part of Hyperloop that makes any sense to me is the first four letters...

Dragging brakes.

Ha, I've found it!

The tube was under vacuum. 100Pa or 0.001 bar.

Now I wonder how long it took to pump down that 500m by 3.3m diameter chamber?

Kev..

OTOH, Biden and Pelosi both stated that any US-UK trade deal would depend on all aspects of the Irish accord being honoured.

Whilst this might, at face value, be lauded, was it not they that cried foul over external influence in US political affairs.

Can either of them spell H-Y-P-O-C-R--I-T-E?

That man will still be too close to the red button for the next 78 days at least

Fair comment about Trump and the "nuclear football".

Thankfully, I understand, there's a bit more to it than one individual pushing one button. I don't know the details - don't want to know, either - but I'm aware that input from a few people would be required.

As for Boden and Pelosi pointing out that all aspects of the Anglo-Irish Accord need to be honoured, I don't see this as hypocrisy. The UK Government of the day signed up to this treaty - and it's international law (which I seem to recall had US help in brokering it).

Can we really expect an incoming US administration to play an active part in breaking international law?  I sincerely hope not.

External interference in elections in a number of countries (including the US - and, I've been led to understand, the UK) is a completely different matter. Disinformation campaigns - and other acts to sabotage an election - are every bit as illegal as actively attempting to prevent the timely delivery of ballot papers - every bit as illegal as a whole slew of other schemes to disenfranchise legitimate voters. They are also every bit as illegal as encouraging people to attempt to vote more than once.

Or how about inciting armed thugs to descend on places where votes are being counted - to demand a "right" to get close enough to the "action" to be able to see individual ballot papers? Whatever next - refusing to allow specific ballot papers to be counted because the voters committed the heinous "crime" of voting for the "wrong" person?

A number of US citizens find actions like these repugnant - nothing to do with which political parties might stand to gain or lose - they are clear attempts to undermine an election.

On the other hand, I've got no issue with senior US politicians making it clear that they have no wish to be involved in creating a trade deal that would breach international law.

Aren't we all, dahling? Aren't we all?

I suspect it was doing circuits and not loops a suggested by the article. If the Pilot can loop that then he or she is a brave soul.

We had one here at Leeds Bardford the other day along with an A400M. The RAF are using the lack of Civilian flights to get used to landing at airports they don't normally use.

Well having had a C130 doing circuits of Hurn yesterday, an A400 doing 3 laps today, so maybe the C17 tomorrow.

Join in - probably next Thursday!

And just to think that, until now, I had always been under the impression that ACME solely supplied Road-Runner-Death-Inducing requisites to one Wile E. Coyote.

Verily, I consider myself to have become a little more educamated.

There's also an Acme Thread used in heavy engineering,

Indeed.

710.0553

707

When we had LCD calculators it only referred to an obsolete airliner....