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That’s you set up for your next pub quiz!

But, as for here on ERs - let us not speak of it again 😜.

That looks very like the first house we rented when we were married. But ours was much larger than yours - it was 11 feet wide! It was also a bit older, having been built in the 1770s. The back garden was the same 11 feet wide, but about 30 yards long. The house had been unoccupied for 3 years while it was very slowly reno-ed, and the garden had run riot. We gradually tamed it over the two and a half years we lived there. It was on the edge of the flood plain of the Trent, the garden was river soil and anything would grow in it. An older couple lived further along the lane, and the husband had grown up in the cottage next to ours - as one of seven kids!

Some information on what’s happening on the CNR east-west mainline through Jasper with the fires: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/wildfire-shuts-down-cn-main-line-through-jasper-alberta/

The aircraft type that featured in the first ever “Broken Arrow” incident, which happened in British Columbia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_British_Columbia_B-36_crash

Yes, apparently the fire burning from the south has reached the town. Highway 93 to the south from Jasper is now closed, as is Highway 16 (the ‘Yellowhead’) to the east. Jasper is in Alberta. The only way out is 16 West into British Columbia. Most people evacuating from Jasper want to go elsewhere in Alberta. They are having to drive west into BC, then south down through BC then east again to get back into Alberta - a diversion of over 1000km to get to Calgary. Apparently, some people got out to Alberta on 16 East, then north to Grande Cache and Grande Prairie, but the fire has closed that route now.

This fairly basic 2 bed 2 bath 923 square foot apartment in our local town centre: https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/26981302/101-200-capilano-road-port-moody works out (if my math is correct) at 5630 GBP per square metre. Greater Vancouver is in the top three most expensive (often quoted as the most expensive) city in North America for housing, relative to average wage. Our town is by no means the most expensive area in Greater Vancouver! Edit - my wife has just told me about an article in the local paper about the costs of houses in a fashionable part of the city of Vancouver, and of apartments in downtown Vancouver. The costs translate to over 6600 GBP per square metre.

We’re just about to start a scheduled power outage for a pole to be replaced. It is to last 7 hours. Freezer compartment in one fridge packed solid, coolers filled with stuff from the two fridges, chilled by frozen 4 litre jugs of water, portable power bank for phones fully charged etc. Things should go OK - I have faith in our Hydro crews.

I did say “representation of”.

Representation of the results of an uncontrolled slip by an engine starting from rest? https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e0/6f/9a/e06f9a4d8aab0e085f80c1fdb100e751.jpg

Pictures, please!

In the past, other methods have been used to decide the winner of soccer games drawn after 90 minutes , or 120 minutes if extra time was played. - a coin toss. I believe even European Cup “home and away” ties have been decided by this method - counting the number of corners each side had won in the game. This was taken as an indication of the attacking pressure the sides had exerted. I don’t remember what the second (and subsequent) factor was, if still needed.

Interesting layout lighting: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/862018/

I’m not sure I would want to be doing that on a regular basis. Great to be able to do it if needed but … When learning to drive (1965), my dad taught me to double declutch and also to “heel and toe”. Being quite comfortable doing those things, I happily used them in my test. I noticed the examiner looking sideways a couple of times, but I did pass.

Depends how sure you are of your case! 😉