KeithMacdonald

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-government-to-parade-trident-missiles-through-edinburgh/

Careful now! This one might need a health warning. https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/london-to-temporarily-join-eu-to-smooth-over-security-pact/

A new rail service! https://www.radioexe.co.uk/news-and-features/local-news/devon-to-get-new-sleeper-train/

Somewhere in France...

This?

Top of The Pops (John Dowland,1610, about 400 years before Johnny Cash wrote Hurt)

I had to have a listen didn't I? 😀

Just following on with a really nice video on the human side of it all, with Brian Crighton himself. And how he got started, tuning 50cc engines in his shed, using a water hosepipe to learn about gas flow through ports! 😀

Personally, I'd need more than one pair.

Have we had this before? My excuse for posting this on an "old" bikes thread? This Crighton CR700W is derived from the 1987 rotary-engined Norton. But with a few improvements. Like 220hp from a 700cc engine (= 319hp per litre). Plus words of praise from Guy Martin. Crighton https://www.crightonmotorcycles.com/

The nice lady with the necklace looks like she's hoping George will give her one.

I'd like to make these.

Sounds interesting - have you been in one?

Thanks to Geoff Marshall, a tour of the new Glasgow subway trains. Definitely new, maybe not quite as orange as the old trains?

Any ideas what happened to the VC10 at Cornwall Air Musuem? Other VC10;s here: https://vc10.net/index2.html

Which sport? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/68678670 It's cricket, but not as we know it Aggers . Who knew that the Czech Republic and Hungary have cricket teams?

Oh I don't know, they've kept pouring public money into the bottomless pit known as Ferguson. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68680453

And the nominations are ....

I had to explain why that was funny to a colleague in Marketing. It seems STEM subjects are optional there. The simplest and easiest-to-understand analogue I could think of was by way of a question. Would small ice cubes be a good way to stop a large volume of very hot water? You could see the light bulb gradually turning-on. But then, just to check, I did look it up, the melting point of concrete (depending on the mix) is c. 1527 °C Whereas the temperature of lava is what? Oh dear, it turns out I'm not such a clever-clogs after all. https://www.livescience.com/32643-how-hot-is-lava.html It would have to be a small volcano (or perhaps far away?)

Some Ferguson news that's not a surprise? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-68666020

Was that before or after they introduced the Chimney Sweeps scheme?