PhilJ W
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1 hour ago, Reorte said:
A bash in a different direction to the usual:
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2024-04-30/motorist-captures-moment-yacht-gets-stuck-in-railway-arch
I am familiar with those arches as I drive through them several times a year. In fact the left hand arch is a couple of inches wider. Perhaps whoever planned the route wasn't aware of that fact and assumed the arches were equal.
18 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:No doubt the escort driver checked there was adequate height ...........
The arches vary between 32 and 40 feet in height.
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49 minutes ago, Sidecar Racer said:
Paris (France) has a similar crossroads.
https://nerdist.com/article/paris-impossible-intersection-no-entry/
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The *Gallows Corner viaduct is the one for drivers braking while going uphill. Here in Basildon the favourite trick is braking when approaching speed cameras even though they are below the limit.
*Built in the 70's as a temporary structure, has been 'upgraded' at least twice since.
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3 hours ago, Oldddudders said:
Let's see, for you that's M4, M25, M26, M20. Bon courage with that lot, mon brave!
I'm planning to visit the Chatham show on the 20th or 21st of July. That is the first weekend of the school summer break. I won't be driving there from Essex as it involves the Dartford crossing which will be chocker. Fortunately someone is thinking of hiring a coach if they get enough bums on seats.
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3 hours ago, Deeps said:
Gravity is one of the most fundamental forces of the universe, if you remove it what are you left with?………………….gravy.
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2 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:
Just won £150 on Premium Bonds. Now, what can I spend that on?
Dave
Do you have to ask? But whatever you do DON'T put that question to SWMBO.
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15 minutes ago, Tony_S said:
In Enfield driving at teatime/ early evening is chaotic. Huge numbers of mopeds and scooters with L plates are out delivering food.
They have a bad reputation, are quite often uninsured and this:-
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Morning all from Estuary-Land. The arthritis is still playing up this morning so pills have been taken. Hopefully I'll be able to go to the toy fair at Rayleigh tomorrow and maybe even be able to visit a new model railway emporium nearby at Rawreth (open until 4 on Sundays). Like @polybear I've got heaps of washing to do so I'd better get on with it.
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3 hours ago, Grizz said:
Yeah and there’s another whole hobby of Land Rover Defender ‘Less than Enthusiastic’… who are doing their bit for the environment by allowing particles of rust to fall off of their vehicles every day as they bomb around the countryside, out farming, shooting and ‘off roading’ on what’s left of our highways road surfaces. There by making such vehicles more and more fuel efficient every day.
Sometimes these particles of rust can amount to several kilos of metal and on one occasion they took the form of a whole back door! Still it is at times like that, that it makes you feel enormously proud to know that you are really doing your part to address world issues!
I’m even considering writing to the Swedish Enviro Fascist to tell of my endeavours.
Might even get on the Nobel shortlist…..well probs somebody’s short list anyway!
IIRC the back door of a Land Rover is aluminium, as is the rest of the bodywork.
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6 minutes ago, Tony_S said:
MiL has expressed a preference for my Land Rover over the Toyota she is otherwise transported in. She had mobility problems and the rear doors on the Corolla don’t open wide enough for her to get in.
I too have that problem. I have to sit in the car first and swing my legs in which requires a wide door. The biggest problem though is a high sill, I should imagine that a Freelander has a high floor and no sills. That is why I was going to upsize anyway from the Hyundai before it was written off. My present car has a much lower sill than most cars but the drivers seat is a bit on the low side so I'm looking for a suitable booster seat.
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1 hour ago, DaveF said:
It's rained just about all night, about 14mm so far but it is supposed to stop soon and then just be dull all day. It's cool as well, 9°C now, it might reach 14°C by teatime. I suppose the weather has realised it is a bank holiday weekend so it cannot be too good.
I had planned on some light gardening today and also planting some begonias in pots in the greenhouse. That won't happen, once again the greenhouse has water inside it.
I'll probably end up scanning old photos again, the next batch are Dad and his brother in the 1930s, old photos of two schools grandfather had shares in, followed by an assortment starting in the early 20s going on to the 60s. Some of them are interesting. I think there are so many as my grandfather took quite a lot of photos. He also took cine film, 16mm including railways but that seems to have been lost over the years. I suspect it may have gone in one of grandmother's periodic clear outs after Grandad died. She would have been very good at telling people how to declutter their homes, though after she died a lot of stuff was found, some quite valuable but they may have been her second husband's things.
Further down the pile are photos and documents of and about my Great Uncle who was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Sherwood Foresters, captured in Norway and taken to be seen by Hitler before spending the rest of the war in prison camps. Sadly he died quite young in 1949 so I never knew him though he did see me just after I was born.
Three photos below.
Guess where. Grandparents holiday snap 1939
Me with Mum at Nottingham Victoria learning about trainspotting
I've always liked cars - Brighton
David
Volks Electric Railway behind you.
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Goodnight all.
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Evening all from Estuary-Land. The arthritis is playing merry hell this evening, I took a couple of co-codamols earlier and I will take a couple more before going to bed. I watched 'The Great Steam Adventure' on channel 5 earlier, not too bad and hats off to Peter Davison for steering an enormous traction engine through the narrow Lakeland roads, especially where there was a lot of traffic.
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8 minutes ago, polybear said:
Post din dins and Bear goes for a Hilly Walk - despite the rain. What happens? Some complete T0sser drives thru’ a puddle at speed as Bear was walking past…… 🤬🤬🤬
And they were in a Fiat 500 with no oncoming traffic.
Rumour has it that A Certain Bear might just have called them a naughty word that rhymes with at least part of Sqn. Ldr Hunt…..
Similar story here, I had just got my replacement car in February when one evening an idiot parked on my nearside decided to do a u-turn about twenty yards in front of me. I jammed on the brakes and only just stopped in time. I called him a Cupid Stunt (or something similar).
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Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. I'm not going out to Tess Coes until later when it stops persisting down, I've got a few things to attend to in the meantime.
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Carry on screaming was also one of the better Carry ons. As for sitcom, no one's mentioned 'Dad's Army' yet which must be one of the best if not the best British sitcoms. Only problem was that it wasn't allowed to retire gracefully but wheeled out every year by the BBC. The follow on, Allo Allo, wasn't as good but was better than some I could mention.
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38 minutes ago, rockershovel said:
I've found that withdrawing entirely from modern thinking solves a lot of problems.
I saw part of the "black Anne Boleyn" and found it unwatchable. THE WHOLE POINT of the Boleyn family is that they were people "of their time" and to assert otherwise is nonsense.
Same goes for Bridgerton and the cringingly "socially correct" Downton Abbey.
There was a whole documentary the other night "rethinking our attitudes to Tudor Britain" because one of the skeletons from Mary Rose appears to be African. The Tudors weren't stupid, they were well aware of Africa. It's hardly news that seamen might be from almost anywhere; read any sea story from Moby Dick to the Hornblower or Aubrey/Maturin stories and occasional Africans appear.
Joseph Conrad incorporated many Asian seamen in his works.
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10 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said:
I was toying with posting a general question: 'Has anyone ever actually built a model railway?' Then thought better of it!
2 hours ago, The Johnster said:To have built, past tense, a model railway presupposes that one has finished building because the thing is complete, so, no, nobody has ever built a model railway, ever, and nobody ever will…
The question should be 'Has anyone ever actually built a model railway?' Then
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2 hours ago, CameronL said:
I thought that song was about the man who ordered the building of the Stockport Pyramid...
His kingdom stretched from the burning sands of Disley to the orange groves of Cheadle.
His name? Pharaoh Krosta-Merses.
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Morning all from Estuary-Land. Another good night, one call out from bladder control but about six hours ZZZ's in all. Got some calls to make and a visit to Tess Coes is on the agenda today but that's about all.
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Goodnight all.
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Evening all from Estuary-Land. Not much fuss from Arthur Itis but the joints tend to stiffen up if I stay in the same position for too long. So I'm going to stretch my legs and then tackle Farcebook.
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Staithes harbour, Yorkshire 1915.
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The Night Mail
in Modelling musings & miscellany
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There was a bit of a fuss in Tel Aviv a few years ago when several top end restaurants started serving what was called 'white beef'. It was in fact pork and the (mostly Jewish) patrons were fully aware of the fact.