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There are those that say it's the only thing to look forward to. Adrian

It would be interesting to know how many of the 100,000 follow him because they believe him, and how many do it for a laugh. Adrian

Roy Clarke, writer of Last of the Summer Wine, reputedly based the characters on people living in a small town close to him. The locals there claimed to be able to work out who was based on who. I think we guessed one of them. Adrian

Or the ones who mis-read the timetable and get ready to leave too soon. Many years ago I was on a train into London that was was due in at a particular time. About 65 minutes before the scheduled arrival time, the two young ladies sat opposite me made a move for the door with their bags. It was perhaps just as well that by then, Kings Cross was the next stop. On the upside, they were rather noisy, so I had some peace and quite for the last hour of the journey. Adrian

Decades back, we used to work around the corner from the local fire station, the town also had a police station and ambulance station. Our faithful hound never batted an eyelid when anything left the town with sirens going, but anything coming back with sirens on was definitely not on the approved list, and he would spend 5 minutes letting us know about it. Adrian

Interesting, but one thing that it didn't mention was how the segments will get from the factory to the site. Adrian

In my case, it was our A level chemistry teacher. Adrian

Some time back I read somewhere that we were rapidly approaching the point where 40% of the value(*) of a new car was the electronics. I wouldn't be surprised if we are now past that point with infernal combustion cars. * the manufacturers view of the value, not necessarily that of the user. Adrian

I think bacon has returned a substantial number of lapsed omnivores to the their old ways. Adrian

A question arose on Test Match Special today, and it may be relevant to some regulars here. The question was : Which would you rather fight, 100 duck sized hippos or a hippo sized duck ? Adrian

Oddly enough, this came up in conversation last week. A mate of mine is a barrister, and he'd been called in to act for one of the parties when a burial at sea didn't go quite according to plan. It seems that the lady in question was committed to the deep, but a few days later the coffin resurfaced, complete with occupant. The local police (Hants ?) took an interest until such times as the circumstances were established, at which point they had another attempt (which I understand worked). It seems that there is a designated burial area off the Isle of Wight. Adrian

Looks like some one had been the @polybear school of decorating. Adrian

The Figworthy Quarry Company lives ! Adrian

You need to look for "Thunderbolt's Last Run". Adrian

Little Muddle and action ? Shurely shome mishtake. (nice paint job though) Adrian

Rather good (as usual). A nice weed line on the waters edge, what did you use for the water ? Adrian

And for many years before that. Containers were used to bring coal out of the underground section of the Bridgewater canal, and were carried through to Manchester (avoid transhipment). It isn't obvious from the picture above how the containers were emptied, the canal borne ones were built for bottom discharge. Adrian

If I've got the right spot, it could be a chemical works : https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.0&lat=52.98864&lon=-1.18891&layers=168&b=1 Adrian

Returning to Ms. Dorries for a moment (sorry about that), I think the problem is that it appears that she was made a promise by a politician, and believed it. Adrian

Apart from the work that has gone into making the gates move (which is no mean achievement), the gates alone are a wonderful piece of work. Adrian

I won't mention it if you don't. Adrian

Indeed. In September 1667 Pepys recorded in his diary that the lifeguard were sent to Winchcombe to spoil a tobacco crop there. At the time, it was illegal to grow it in England as the Virginian colony had a government backed monopoly on it. There is a street called Tobacco Close in Winchcombe which I presume relates to this. Adrian

I haven't a clue about modern messaging, but back in Welchman's day, whilst the messages were in code, the call signs (who was sending, and who it was for) wasn't, Between the call signs and a bit of RDF, you could work out quite a lot of information. Adrian

From a previous place of employment : "Are you civilised, or do you drink tea ?" Going back to the original question, hobnobs (plain chocolate if available), otherwise digestives (ditto for the choccie). Adrian

You'd only need to open the sliding bridge (the river bridge is upstream of the canal entrance). However, you'd probably be better off heading up to Goole, and then taking the canal from there as it is much deeper and the locks are much bigger. <looks for a siphon pun> Adrian