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I saw a car with the number plate 2 MB. I assume it was owned by a famous footballer or, more likely, an undertaker.
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I was getting dizzy. I'm sure splendid work will be undertaken here when you're all ready.
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On 07/03/2023 at 00:36, Adam88 said:
Oh dear! Someone has rather carelessly left this Crampton unattended in a dark corner of the internet.
Needless to say, Mike Sharman already had it in his book (p91). Had I been deliberately looking for this I would not have found it, and I never did find what I was actually looking for.
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Oh dear! Someone has rather carelessly left this Crampton unattended in a dark corner of the internet.
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How the NHS is improving at pace. My GP's practice sent me an SMS message with a link to complete a health questionnaire. They've never done that before, things must be getting so much better.
1) Name/DoB
2) Smoking status - a) smoke b) used to smoke c) never smoked
3) Next question - Thank you for completing this questionnaire. Your practice will review this information in the next 28 days and be in touch if further action is required. As always, please contact reception if you need to speak to a clinician.
That was it! Would you credit it?
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5 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:
... my old school, with a real genuine Pegasus ...
Similarly my at dad's and my old school where one of the masters was nick-named Peg, that was short for Pegasus - the eternal nag.
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On 01/03/2023 at 22:13, monkeysarefun said:Report of one of the 4 crashes:
On the afternoon of Friday 27 July 1945 Squadron Leader James ‘Sammy’ McGoldrick RAAF, together with the commanding officer’s usual navigator, Flight Lieutenant Francis French RAF, prepared to leave Narromine on a one-way trip to Laverton, Victoria. McGoldrick was to receive his next posting, while for French it was the first leg of his trip home to Surrey, UK and return to his pre-war job as a detective and fingerprint expert with Scotland Yard. Their mount, Mosquito ‘R1’ serial no. HR614, was an armed FB.VI fighter-bomber version, a few examples of which had just been shipped out from England to save flying hours on the more valuable and top-secret ‘Highball’ modified B.IV bombers.
John Flinn, a wireless mechanic with the squadron), was out on the tarmac to farewell the two. “They packed their bags and put them in the back of the Mosquito. We shook hands with them, ‘Good luck’, and they took off.” It was 3.20 in the afternoon, and the weather was fine.
McGoldrick climbed to 500 feet, heading northwest, then decided to ‘shoot up the drome’ from just above ground level as a farewell, before climbing southeast towards town and banking vertically left to begin a ‘victory roll’. A detailed description of the short flight, from the subsequent court of enquiry, comes from Captain Hector Sutherland who was playing football southeast of the aerodrome:-
“It continued parallel with the road until about half the width of the golf course. He then banked very slightly to the left and then again very steeply to the right, and came directly for the flour mill. From this position he commenced to roll on his back, just missing a block of buildings. He didn’t get completely on his back until roughly opposite the silos in the railway yard. At this point it appeared that the tail rose slightly and the machine went off at an angle towards the ground.”
The ‘block of buildings’ referred to was the post office, court house and other buildings in the centre of town. Whether by luck or because McGoldrick was still able to alter its course somewhat, the Mosquito cleared them, but crashed inverted at ‘Narromine Recreation Reserve’ - an open patch of ground between the sale yards / showground and the police pound. With laden fuel tanks for the 650 km trip to Victoria, it exploded on impact. A large part of the plane ended up in a private property.
John Flinn recalls, “We dived into the old blood wagon [ambulance] and shot down there…” But there was nothing for them to do. Pieces of burning wood and aluminium, soon being hosed down by the fire brigade, were strewn around the impact point marked by a shallow ground imprint of the plane’s nose and wings. The two main wheels were 130 metres away, leaning against fences.
My much missed, total aviation uncle told me a similar sad tale. At the end of the war, aged twenty, he found himself in Burma and had serviced the engines on a Mossie. This required him to go up in it and check that everything was as it should be which of course it was. The war ended shortly afterwards and the aircraft wasn't used for some weeks. The next time it flew in preparation for a celebratory fly-past it simply broke up in mid-air. High performance, wooden aircraft need to be carefully nurtured in tropical climates. My uncle was obviously not on board and went on to have a very rewarding career in aviation and thirty years' retirement much of which time was spent delving into various aviation archives around the country.
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On 01/03/2023 at 12:45, The White Rabbit said:
Absolutely...
What gauge is that? 5'3"?
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39 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:
I am not an e goneer and have no engineering qualifications
Jamie can't spell engineer so he must be an engineer.
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8 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:
The mission creep I suspected has happened.
Although tickets for the Wales v Fiji game have not yet been secured, I was informed this morning that a Flight into Bordeaux and suitable accommodation was booked in the early hours of the morning!
Apparently, the task of arranging transport from Bordeaux to Nice is being sub contracted to me.
I have been unable to ascertain whether my bus pass is valid or not.
Likewise, if I am not top to toe in Lycra, do I have to cycle around with a string of onions around my neck?
Does France still have a rail network?🤣.
I spent two or three weeks in France last summer and, in all that time, I think I only saw one chap wearing a beret. I've not seen a Johnny onion man for years. Is that a sign of progress/falling standards (which are usually the same in many walks of life)?
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11 hours ago, AndyID said:
There's a great example (and very local) example of how one junior researcher, J Harlen Bretz, stood the scientific establishment on its head just one hundred years ago here:
That reference reminded me of the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy which seems to be an example of a similar phenomenon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Roy
Many years ago I identified them on an OS map and decided they deserved a visit. Although they are called roads and are easy to identify, they do not make easy walking as they consist of quite large rocks - at least the ones I investigated. That was all part of a pleasant week tramping across the Highlands starting in Aberdeen and ending up dipping my toes in Loch Linnhe on the west coast.
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For those of a North Western inclination this popped up the other day: Life and writings of Amelia Bloomer and might be of passing interest. I've not read it myself and a quick skim through leads me to think that time might be better spent.
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Our PE master was known to us as the Blue Whale on two counts: the royal blue track suit he always wore and his large circumference.
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1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:
In the air I was still a bit limited as my mass was great, but my arms and legs were short, so I fell like a brick.
It's all a matter of having the right Reynolds number.
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3 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:
"It's not @PupCam, but it is
pupcams Chilean cousin!"
(The southern hemisphere is the place to be for star gazing)
No it isn't. All the constellations are upside down, that is if they can even be seen.
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1 hour ago, jamie92208 said:
That made me think of the immmortal lines from one of Blaster Bates' stories.
40 miles there, 40 miles back, sh1t myself and left the lens cap on.
Jamie
I seem to recall that that happened to Winston Link when they were making a documentary about him. He'd got all his rare magnesium flashbulbs set up for one final shot and then ...
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I trust you have the late Tom Harland's Bramblewick on your list. It was beautifully modelled closely based on a real location, had pre-grouping elegance and many other fine qualities.
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9 hours ago, polybear said:
A personal favourite of Bear's is Turkish Delight ice cream - first seen in Whitby and very rarely anywhere else, sadly.
Just to remind you all:
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3 hours ago, iL Dottore said:
Nail
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I couldn’t agree more. It’s one thing to respect the personal choices of a minority, but it’s another to allow the minority to dictate to the majority.
Although I’m a heavily carnivorous omnivore, I do enjoy proper vegan and vegetarian food. And when I say “proper” I mean natural foodstuffs not meat or dairy “substitutes”
I do object to “fake food” - highly processed, high in chemicals, often neither good for the body or the environment (Google “amount of water needed to make 1L of almond “milk” “)
My view is that if you eschew meat or all animal products (for philosophical and/or ethical reasons) isn’t eating fake meat and fake dairy a betrayal of your philosophical/ethical position?
Regarding 'genuine' and 'fake' foodstuffs I thought yesterday's Life Scientific interview on BBC Radio 4 was very interesting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gwyh
The interviewee was more concerned with detecting fake ingredients than identifying recipes which use permitted but non-traditional ingredients. Examples given included oregano bulked with olive or strawberry leaves - herbs are very high value and this sort of activity can be very lucrative, horse meat substitutions and the detection of illegal growth agents fed to farm animals.
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8 hours ago, polybear said:
I'm pretty sure** they've overcharged the Leccy by 434KWh, whilst undercharging the Gas by 83KWh; since Gas is a third of the price of Leccy then it looks like they've overcharged big-time.
Will you be nominating EDF for a Pulitzer fiction prize then?
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5 hours ago, Charlie586 said:
Also, totally unrelated to Wantage Road (I think), I got a 1:400 titanic airfix kit for xmas.
This may keep me busy for a while, but work will resume eventually...
I'd send it back. It looks like there aren't enough lifeboats.
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Early Risers.
in Wheeltappers
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I know little of this pasttime but knew a man who once went to see Huddersfield give a lacklustre performance at Leeds Road sometime in the forties or fifties. A lone voice rose from the assembled throng, just loud enough to wake everyone up:
"Come on Town, scintillate or summat."