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After the Sun which is the nearest star to us... now, where's my coat?? 😉

Looks like he's putting up the facing (you can see them hanging down the righthand ladder) so a single ladder in the middle wouldn't allow him to reach either end to trim and fit. What he needs is scaffolding that would allow him full access to the wall and be harder to fall off that the structure he's currently on.

does this mean they're delaying the breakthrough for a delayed photo op? So when people wonder why HS2 ends up being late and over budget... 🙄

They could run freight on it then... that'll open up a bit of capacity on the West Coast mainline 😂

Just watching 'Capricorn One' on Legend... where elements in NASA fake a Mars landing to not lose funding

rules in different countries (in this case UK & Australia) can be different when it comes to mobile phones in cars.

it's done at 2am; and it's done at the same time across Europe. So 2am here, Ireland and Portugal, but 3am for Spain through to Poland, Norway & Sweden, 4am for Finland, the Baltic countries and Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, & Greece. Though there are talks about the EU dropping the clock changes because the further south you live the less sense it makes.

looks like it's separating the taxi rank (which the car is parked in) from the bus stop (where the photograph is taken from), probably to prevent taxis from encroaching into the bus stop area

I suppose part of it is how you see RMWeb, as the experience, or part of the experience. I came to RMWeb looking for a model/railway forum, knew nothing about BRM (apart from possibly seeing one in WHSmith). Adverts have always been part of forums as they pay the bills without direct payment from members. Now I'll be honest, none of the benefits of Gold Membership I would use. I'm not a reader of BRM (I'm sure it's a wonderful magazine and all, just not interested), and I'm not a reader of digital magazine (so the archive isn't of interest), and the other benefits such as increased PM/image storage are things I don't need. So for me the question becomes 'is £50 a year to get rid of pop-up ads worth it?' But what it does mean is that my time on the forum, even to use it as a resource is dramatically down on what it was from before. Adverts I don't mind, but pop-ups and especially auto-playing video pop-ups annoy me to the point where I don't know if I'm going to come back. I've already stopped coming here when at home because the smaller screen on the laptop made it annoying. I don't know how much a subscribed member who has all these ads thrown in their general direction make towards the upkeep of the forums, but if there was a Silver Membership who's only benefit was no pop-ups for a few quid, sign me up as interested. (and I don't even mind the ads at the side, literally pop-ups and auto-playing video pop-ups) I'm not going going, but the annoyance is greater than the joy for now so I'll see you in a bit.

I have a slight variation on the theme, where I have the dropping top banner, and the regular ad areas on the right hand side... but all of them are blank white with no actual ads in them! I've not changed any settings in my browser or use an ad blocker, but I'm assuming ad areas without ads don't help raise revenue for the forum. This might be the ad people playing with settings after prompting...

it's only a three mile walk, and surely three miles counts as two stations close together?

In three years Andy's about five layouts down the road! Amazed at your work rate, don't think I've done any work on mine in bout six months...

Does remind me of the speed the DPD driver who'd double parked and blocked Pratt Walk in Lambeth ran back to his van when an escorted car with four police motorbike outriders with blues & twos pulled into the street...

It's an official UP loco, they may well have tagged them on as they needed moving...

Sure, but as it's designed to haul +3000 ton trains at 60mph up hills a few extra wagons to help braking aren't that much of a difficulty for it, and every little helps