Iain Burke

And very close to both Huntingdon police station & Cambridgeshire Constabulary HQ & Hinchingbrooke Hospital. In a matter of minutes that's very, very quick thinking.

I can't be certain but this looks like the S&C, probably between Horton & Ribblehead. The loco is a Jubilee, built by the LMS but this looks like it was taken post-nationalisation as the carriages have two colours.

Mine, after years of working with names in the context of library systems, is programmers, etc., who assume that everyone has two names (at least). There are some people with only one name.

Furthest I've been (with my feet on land at least).

N: Svalbard (specifically Smeerenburg)
E: Tasmania
S: Antarctic Peninsula (Paradise Harbour)
W: Chicago.

Rory Stewart says he was told that the mutual antipathy between Kirkby Stephen & Appleby dated to the 1640s when the latter was Royalist & KS was Parliamentarian. See also Mark Steel being told in Skipton that Keighley was a "sink of evil".

And I'll bet they would have been puzzled by the pronounciation as well.

All metal tracks & a different front drive sprocket I think. Otherwise it's a standard M4A1.

...they put all their eggs in one basket & the basket got trashed. Which is what I think happened (though I haven't read a huge amount about it).

We'll be hearing from the Prime Minister of the Heard and McDonald Islands shortly on their tariff retaliation plan

Back to Meta then it would seem. Sorry.

Quite. There must be at least 2 possible offences there. I'm not a lawyer but the Computer Misuse Act 1990 & the Theft Act 1968 would seem to be relevant - an interesting contrast to their "I'm not a bad person" - sorry, but yes you are. The problem might be where they live.

An ex-London Transport Routemaster bus parked on a street in Ushuaia, Argentina. It's painted in a grey/blue/green livery with pictures of the city on the side.

This one was being used for tours of Ushuaia in 2005, complete with London Transport posters inside. Don't know if it's still bring used, but I think it is.

Boycott what you can of American goods. Now.

If you see this post, post or quote repost a ‘bridge’
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Two for the price of one. Dent Head viaduct on the Settle & Carlisle line with a 17th century pack horse bridge below it.

Thanks for this thread - it's nice to see some pictures of the church & the area after reading about it in 'Borderlines'.

True, though the Finns had fewer resources to work with.

A Finnish BT-42 assault gun. A British 4.5" howitzer grafted onto a Soviet BT-7 light/cavalry (Wikipedia can't make its mind up) tank. A triumph of something over something else.

The Finns had a go as well.

A finial in the shape of an owl with, I think, two mice hanging from its beak.

Swavesey's worth a visit as well. It's got some rather nice bench end finials (not sure if that's the right word).

It wouldn't be so bad if Cambridge North was better - but the only time I went there it was dreadful as well. I can only put it down to, in essence, profiteering.

Five reasons the journalists are striking

Why are Guardian and Observer journalists going on strike for four days in December over the deal to offload the Observer onto a failing digital startup? Five reasons here. Please repost 🙏

A map of Europe, North Africa and the North Atlantic with a 25 squate grid superimposed on it. The squares have letters on them. Squares N, O, S and T are over the UK which corresponds to the OS grid reference system.

According to an article in this issue of 'The angry corrie':

archive.org/details/tac-18

these are borders the Ordnance Survey are using:

We're well, but busy. Don't know where we found the time when we were working. Just having the kitchen redone. How are you?

I'm curious to know what "slightly elevated in court" means. Is it a euphemism for having had a drink or two?

Me too, but also Professor Furie in 'A very peculiar practice'.

I wouldn't bet on it. When I started working in libraries - for a govt dept library - I read somewhere that one civil service dept. had enough treasury tags to last hundreds of years.

Help secure Skiddaw Forest - an extraordinary opportunity for nature | Cumbria Wildlife Trust The purchase of Skiddaw Forest (including Skiddaw summit) presents an unparalleled opportunity for nature and Cumbrian Wildlife. With your help, this world renowned wilderness can be protected for nat...

A month since the Cumbria Wildlife Trust announced their bid to buy and ecologically revive Skiddaw Forest. They're 91% of the way there, but donations have slowed.

Chip in if you can to help get them over the line. And please share this post.

Especially if there's a festival & they've got some of the cheesemakers there. I was a bit surprised that most of them were quite young with small children.

Another beeping typo. *Today's* obviously.

A view of moorland with some forest plantations. A rough track runs through the landscape and there's a rifde with small limestone cliffs on.the horizon.

And todsy's jaunt, given that we've just had two successice days of sunny weather, was on the old main road from Settle to Long Preston. This is the view from near Hunter Bark looking over to the "main" road to Airton with Attermire Scar in the distance.