JonM
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Our local council gritters all have names painted on them, like Eddie Stobart Lorries. So far, I have seen Gritney Spears, Brad Grit, Vanilla Ice, Snow Patrol & Usain Salt
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On 11/13/2017 at 5:58 PM, Bedford Roughyed said:
Its not the size of the card... Its the size of the card reader. Meaning you can cram a bit more heat sink or battery in the phone.
Also, most of them don't go in phones - over 6 billion SIMs made this year. Will probably stop being a physical thing before too long, anyway (e.g. latest Apple watch doesn't have a separate SIM.)
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Grrr. I had quotes this week for renewing my house and car insurance (£900ish and £300ish) from one of the UK's largest insurance companies. Ten minutes entering my details online has given me quotes elsewhere for basically identically cover for £200odd and £100 odd. Basically if you let it auto-renew you're paying a lot extra for the privilege.
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9 minutes ago, Oxford said:
Tell us a bit about it then, please?
I'll need to open it first!
Mr Pullman taught my wife at school in Oxford and immediately remembered her when she said hello to him nearly 40 years later.
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On 9/16/2017 at 11:54 AM, Copa said:
A collection of Sherlock Holmes stories translated into Indonesian.
Do many Aussies speak Bahasa Indonesia? My limited exposure made me think it looked easier to learn than some other languages?
The new Philip Pullman book "La Belle Sauvage" just arrived for me.
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On 10/14/2017 at 10:49 AM, Maximus Decimus said:
It's tolled at 2 quid a journey but they'll be tolling both bridges eventually.
It's a work of art that bridge - pictures I've seen looks fantastic.
My dad has been driving up from Shropshire to Runcorn & Widnes to go to the barbers & dentists for the last 30 years. The fact that you have to faff about with a website to cross the river means that he will probably never visit either place ever again.
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On 9/9/2017 at 0:11 PM, Flagedgetouch said:
Also, if they had stayed out of the Chinese civil war instead of backing the Kuomintang and Chang Kai Shek and had allowed china to take a seat in the UN Security Council they may never have been forced to fight the PLA as well. China would in all likelihood have stayed out of the war (it was a risk that Mao took extremely reluctantly and only when he thought every other possibility had been exhausted) and the landings at Inchon and subsequent northern thrust by the US marines would have forced the North Koreans to retreat to the Yalu only without Chinese support; almost certainly leading to their surrender or annihilation by Allied forces. Thus avoiding another two years of war (including numerous documented atrocities on both sides)
Interesting to compare present day Vietnam (where the Americans lost) with North Korea (no-score draw.) The main streets of Ho Chi Minh City are lined with shops selling multi-national brands, american chain stores etc while the young, well educated urban population rushes off to work for businesses that mostly export to the western world.
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A sheep heading a rugby ball? Quite good technique too.
https://www.facebook.com/farminglife1/videos/457035454667757/
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Good luck indeed - plenty of difficult stuff to be dealing with, bleep.
The local council gritters are out round here, dealing with roads that are melting by spraying ground up rock on to the tarmac.
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Great win in the world cup final for England u-20s.
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The above map (which I love) has led me to read about the Synod of Hippo, which decided which books were in the Roman Catholic Bible and which were out. There's half an hour I'll never get back.
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7 minutes ago, Futtocks said:
'Between the Woods and the Water' is the sequel to 'A Time of Gifts', so a good one to go for. It is a shame he never wrote about his very interesting wartime exploits.
If you liked his writing, try some books by Norman Lewis, another interesting character whose journeys were more or less contemporary to Fermor's.
I've read the sequel, but not the third one in the sequence. Thought he had written a book about some of the wartime stuff (the abduction of the German General that was dramatised in the film Ill met by moonlight) just before he died.
Thanks for the Norman Lewis recommendation, haven't come across any of his writing (he lived in a village not too far from me, where Dodie Smith also lived.) I think "As I walked out one summers morning" by Laurie Lee is the closest thing to 'A Time of Gifts' that I've read.
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1 hour ago, Futtocks said:
Patrick Leigh Fermor - Mani. Travels in Southern Greece.
I only read "A time of gifts" for the first time a couple of years ago and it was instantly one of my all-time favourite books. I'm trying not to get through everything else he ever wrote too quickly.
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A cockchafer flew into our kitchen last night.
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Really like this guy's latest artwork - click on some of the pictures to get an idea of the scale.
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On 25/04/2017 at 9:09 PM, Bob8 said:
I forget what my first licence plates were in California, but one was stolen. I called the police and they advised to take the other off, as I had reported the plates missing and it was better to be pulled over politely that be aggressively held up at gun point for driving with stolen plates.
I know of someone who reported his plates stolen (in the UK.) He later found them down the street where he lived, presumably having been removed by waggish drunks. He fixed them back on his car and drove off to meet a friend. He was stopped by the police within a few minutes, who had recorded that the car itself was stolen. They searched the car, found a quantity of ketamine and surmising that he was not a vet, arrested him. He lost his job as an accountant and was sentenced to two years in prison. He served 12 months inside, emerged a fairly broken man and has been unemployed ever since.
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On 17/04/2017 at 11:54 AM, Lounge Room Lizard said:
Just revisiting this - does anyone know about the structure of the cup here? It seems like there are a very high number of local derbies, so clearly the draw was regionalised. How was this done? Did it persist in the later rounds? There are clearly Lancashire clubs playing Cheshire clubs, so it's not completely county based, but the Cumberland clubs seem to be mostly playing each other and Barrow play Seaton, Morecambe play Kendal, Millom play Lancaster. Was there a Cumberland/North Lancs/Westmorland pool?
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4 minutes ago, henage said:
Millom sounds interesting
Five laps of a school field doesn't sound like the most exciting course to me :-) Trail shoes make a surprising difference on mud, I find.
Up that way in a couple of weeks, might do Fell Foot parkrun at Newby Bridge, which is described as "undulating."
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On 15/04/2017 at 11:56 PM, henage said:
Few numbers from todays UK parkruns .
440 parkruns in the UK Today .
Bushey Park (London?) had 1414 runners/walkers complete the run . (highest number of runners)
Wormwood scrubs had 49 runners/walkers .
Millom had 32 runners/walkers .
East Park (Hull) had around 560 , me included . Great numbers .
Beat the previous total attendance record on Saturday by more than 10k.
Our parkrun in Cambridge is in a park owned by a charity. The council decided it couldn't afford to run a large park, 10+ years ago and sold it to the charity (for £1 I think.) More than half of the park's income now comes via parkrun, which has funded new paths, currently building a new cafe extension. The next two closest parkruns to me are on National Trust properties, again I assume the NT is making money on car park fees & cafe profits.
Local councils aren't obliged to allow events in a park and in any case most of them are trying to set up parkruns, not close them down. It's a nice gesture from the government, but it's more preventing a future possible problem than anything else.
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22 minutes ago, Moomintroll said:
Some interesting stuff from the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer (31.05.1881) that states the Leeds Football Club would be changing their name to the Yorkshire Wanderers. The LFC/Wanderers were an amateur rugby club that disappeared long before the split of 1895 - I wonder if they were as old as Leeds St Johns (now Rhinos, established 1870), especially since they claimed - by virtue of their name - to be the football club representing the whole city?
Yorkshire Wanderers get a couple of mentions in Tony Collins' works, it was formed by ex-pupils of Leeds Grammar School in 1864, the school having had a football club since the 1850s. They refused to take part in cup competitions and restricted themselves to playing other "middle class" clubs, before disbanding in 1883.
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BBC headline "Jesus returns ahead of schedule"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/39032202 (at 10:53)
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14 minutes ago, Bearman said:
Talking of lorries. Does any one know whatever happened to the once ubiquitous Norbert Dentressangle's in their red livery?
Now XPO logistics
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3 hours ago, tim2 said:
We walked up to the Fox Glacier but you could only go on it if you paid a guide.
I think the glaciers have receded quite a distance since we were there - and got a good bit more dangerous.
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16 hours ago, tim2 said:
They have a rather more relaxed approach to Health and Safety in NZ and I love them for it.
I first met my wife in NZ. She offered me a lift to the Fox & Franz Josef Glaciers, where we went up to the glacier face. So I took a ride in a stranger's car immediately followed by a dangerous walk under falling rocks and ice.
Over 130 000 doing parkrun last Saturday. How long will those new year's resolutions last?
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I looked the whole naming thing up on the council website and it seems like the names were suggested by local schools. So I think that's a no.