eastglosmog

My Geography teacher would have agreed - East Anglia comprised the Northfolk and the Southfolk and no-one else.

Was naming a loco Lady Godiva any worse than the Southern naming one after that famous Arthurian adulterer Sir Lancelot? 🙂 Mind you my class at primary school was named Lancelot but they never expounded on that part of his character................

Tilly hates vegetables. She won't even eat them if mixed with fish. I am careful not to waste my money on cat food adulterated with veg.

Sorry, wandering off topic again, but no need to drain the pound above. The upper gate with paddles shut will keep enough water back to keep the water level up. While the upper gate leaks, the leaks will not exceed the inflow rate to the pound above (well, not normally), and more importantly will be less than the outflow rate from the lock below if the latter has all paddles (and gates, if necessary) open. Some water may come round the bypass weirs, but again can be dealt with by keeping the gates of the lower lock open.

Not necessarily dammed. The bottom gate is open, so could be any lock (above the bottom one) of a flight, with the intermediate pound drained through the next lock down.

At the risk of being accused of more thread drift - at least it would remain upright and you could get a rope round the bows to lift it.

From my days navigating narrow boats, the side thrusts are not equal. From what I can remember, the lower arc does not counteract the upper arc exactly because of the greater water pressure on the lower arc giving greater thrust.

Hail, thunder and wind! Tilly is not happy.

For something that needs attention and lacks buffers, £159.56 is a bit steep: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195844949950 I've just bought a new one that runs perfectly and has all its buffers for £154.18!

I think you have underestimated! It was doing about 8 knots, so over 4m/s.

Depends how much money you are prepared to throw at it. The Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay (depth 47ft) has pier base platforms 55ft wide by 99feet long. They were built for the new bridge, which replaced the old one which had been brought down by the MV Summit Venture in 1980, killing 35 people.

Worcester Foregate St has the A38 (Sansome Walk) going under it

Sadly not the first and unlikely to be the last case of a bridge being demolished by a passing ship. Need hefty barriers around the pillar bases to protect them.

The wind was too cold for an old arthritic cat this morning, but Tilly found the sunshine on my bed was just right:

It would be being peddled as an excellent demonstration of how safe the nuclear flasks are?

Could easily be Clackmannan or Stirlingshire, both of which supplied house coal

The Fife Coalfield was high volatile steam and house coal, rank 800/900, so plenty of house coal for local supply. (My uncle used to mine the stuff.)

Time Team once did a reconstruction of early 19th Century surveying methods in 'Under the Gravestones' (Castor, Cambridgeshire) | Series 18 Episode 6 | Time Team which is on Youtube at Shows how they did it, starting at about 24:05. They also had a reconstruction of Roman survey methods, but can't find that at the moment.

Tilly is 14 today, so after giving her he birthday treat of Salmon and Mackerel I recited the ode to a 14 year old cat to her (with the relevant gender change from the original): A 14-year old convalescent cat I want her to have another living summer to lie in the sun and enjoy the douceur de vivre - because the sun, like golden rum in a rummer, is what makes an idle cat un tout petit peu ivre - I want her to lie stretched out, contented, revelling in the heat, her fur all dry and warm, an Old Age Pensioner, retired, resented by no one, and happinesses in a beelike swarm to settle on her, postponed for another season that last fated hateful journey to the vet from which there is no return (and age the reason), which must soon come - as I cannot forget. Gavin Ewart (b: 1916) No sign of any sun at the moment, but she is doing the sleeping and purring bit.

A disadvantage of having MaineCoons is that you have to have big cat flaps for them, and the rats fit! I am extremely glad Tilly has retired from the ratting business.

What a relief. Marble has a magnificent set of whiskers!

But at least going westwards the track has ballast all the way to Newlands East, unlike the track over the Severn Bridge, which is on longitudinal sleepers with great big holes down which their wheels fell!

I believe that was someone trying to escape the Police. Clearly doesn't know the area, otherwise would have turned the other way at the level crossing.

Class 172 on the 12:47 West Midlands service leaving for Stratford on Avon leaving Worcester Shrub Hill platform 1 on Wednesday 28th February.

POA = Price on Application? Maybe you have to pay a lot extra for the box?