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A violently rotating column of air
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At 00:20 this morning - 20/02 - Clacton signal box closed for good and with it go the remaining searchlight colour light signals. In 3 weeks time the line reopens under the control of Colchester.
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At last the sun is shining,
The clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness
The sunlight blinds his eyes. -
Blackpool Tower is off to Southend today, along with His Bobliness - aka 37407/425 have launched on the first shakedown run of the 2022 Anglia RHTT season.
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Can't beat a tug on a Monday morning, and a blue one is even better,
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Careless Whisper
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Don't think I'll be volunteering to be a passenger on SN10 - not until that landing issue is resolved.
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Downtown's been caught by the hysteria
People scream and shout
A generation's on the move
When disco spreads like a bacteria
Those lonely days are out
Welcome the passion of the groove -
Dream, if you can, a courtyard
An ocean of violets in bloom
Animals strike curious poses
They feel the heat
The heat between me and you -
I know - you ask a question and I'll spend an hour or so researching the answer for you, then you ignore my reply completely, at least that stopped me wasting more time. From now on I won't be helping anyone who I don't know or has less than 1000 posts.
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In a previous job, helping those sorts of jerks seemed to be in my job description. That's right - I was a "lab rat" (sorry - technician) at a university - so my job included supervising / assisting / mentoring students doing lab tests for their final year projects.
Thankfully, most of these students were great.
Unfortunately, there were also a minority who just grated - expected decent, hardworking, people like us to do all their work and all their research. Some of them even thought it acceptable to try and tell us how to spend all our work time (occasionally even our own time). One of these jerks didn't seem too happy when I informed him where the door was - and that he was about to go through it - then invited him to open it first.
Thankfully, these guys were in a minority - but they do exist. Like you, I've encountered a few of them on forum sites - and I agree that they make people wonder if there's any point bothering. All I can say is that these jerks can count themselves lucky that I've never been a "mod" on one of these sites - they'd be on the "ex-list" before they knew what had hit them ... .
This probably tells you something. Let's face it - anyone who really knows me also knows that I'm generally very mild mannered. I'm in my mid 50s - but I can count the number of times, in my life, that I've lost my temper, on my fingers.
That's right - I really don't like those jerks.
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I remember one Saturday night
We had fried fish and Johnny-cakes
I remember one Saturday night
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A modern johnnycake is fried cornmeal gruel, which is made from yellow or white cornmeal mixed with salt and hot water or milk, and sometimes sweetened. In the Southern United States, the term used is hoecake, although this can also refer to cornbread fried in a pan - Source Google
They only become rubberised if you overcook them!
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I'd just like to say "Perseverance - we're all counting on you"
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Plummeting to the Martian surface....
and...
The Perseverance Mars rover has successfully landed on the surface of Mars, according to Nasa scientists.
The successful landing was confirmed by radio messages sent back to Earth from the Jezero Crater - an ancient lake that will be studied for years to come.
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I'm expecting a Coronal Mass Ejection
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I've had the call
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I've heard there's a wicked war a-blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising
Their guns on fire as we sail into hell
I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell -
It might not be home, but it got on the last bus tonight
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Lets go to Brandon - DCR stone on Friday
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Like buses - no drags for months and then 2 on consecutive days, todays is 3 x 755 dragged by 37601 - that'll do nicely
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My ink is back and working well
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