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  1. On 24/04/2024 at 05:50, BR traction instructor said:

    Similarly, I long ago stopped friends/family trying to buy railway books for me, just for the same hopelessly broad spectrum/mass market aimed titles to be carted off to the charity shop and added to dozens already there.

     

     

    Same as me, and not limited to railway stuff.  I tell them to buy me a £10 or £20 note, or any combination of the afore mentioned. 

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  2. If the base of a raised earth embankment is below the normal water level of a reservoir, it's a dam. If the base of a raised earth embankment is above the normal water level of a reservoir,  it's a Bund. 

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  3. Visitors to my garden this week: Magpies trying to nest in the Hawthorn,  a Heron stealing the goldfish and next door's hens leaving deposits on the rails, rearranging the the borders and gravel. Oh, and a Blue tit did look in the bird box.

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