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I am struggling with the fact that there are people* whose job it is to monitor daily what various Royal women are wearing and refer back to earlier records of what was worn when and where, and then write about the results. Not only do they apparently get paid for this but get into various prestige events to do it. I am aware there is an audience for this stuff, but would they notice or care if the content was never generated in the first place? *Apparently more than one.

SWMBO (60), already mobility impaired, had a nasty fall resulting in a hip replacement. She was unable to drive for several months and had to change her Motability car for one with higher ground clearance, a Qashqai. She realised she had developed some bad habits and also was lacking confidence and becoming nervous in certain urban traffic situations. She took a series of refresher lessons with a instuctor who targeted her particular concerns. She's now much happier and confident.

At Eastleigh, trains onto and off the Fareham line and down stopping trains for Southampton use either side of the island platform as required, often changing at a few minutes notice. Passengers on the train don't know which side will be platformed until the train pulls in. No doubt this happens elsewhere. Charter trains use this platform.

Bridge number plate, Restricted Clearance Sign....

Just answer "Security" and they hang up. Works every time.

There is a park near here, with a main tarmac path along it that is also part of a National Cycle Route, which I used to use as part of my cycle commute. A gaggle of female dog walkers used to stand on it, some with dogs loose, some on leads. I used to ride up to them, then pointedly swerve round them on the grass. On day a loose dog started to jump up at me. Being careful not to swear I shouted something like "Get down you stupid animal!", to which the owners reply was "He's not an animal, he's a dog."

It hadn't occurred to me before that Macavity is an ideal name for a cat; "If it fits, I sits."

On the subject of young working class women having a full extraction and a set of dentures, this was often done as a wedding present. The bride's father would pay for it, so the happy couple wouldn't be burdened by such costs later.

No, he would originally have come with a wheelbarrow or similar. I had one in the '50s who was pushing this: https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/117352

On elargement it clearlyhas a guard's ducket, so the LMS origin may be likely.

Winchester, the B3044 Stockbridge Road passes under the north end.

I've just watched an old movie on YouTube that TheQ might find amusing, re the history of radar. It was Radar Secret Service, a b/w B movie from 1950, about the use of radar in crime detection. I never knew it was so far developed then that it could produce a TV quality image from a vehicle mounted set! Not to mention Uranium 238 being transported in an ordinary van.

If the two "main lines" are the up and down lines of the same route the land between would be railway land. Lacking access, it would probably not be let for grazing and maintained like other trackside land*. If there was a station or railway housing nearby it might be used for staff allotments, with a private foot crossing for access. *So for a modern layout, covered with trees.

Barrels from Cork's Franciscan Well brewery, brewers of Shandon Stout. https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/31012/jameson-caskmates-stout-edition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan_Well

FIFY * presumably not the one he was towing.