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It was just a guess, really, Izaak lived not far from me - where it says Angling Museum here - - it's also worth a look at the railway bridge just north of his house - where the road bridge goes over the railway, the railway is actually on its own bridge, going over the stream - a very unusual arrangement. Edit - I notice that it actually says Angling Mesuem.....durrr...

Is that from Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler..?

Is that a clue...?

Or 'decal' strips - http://www.micromark.com/ho-scale-decals-with-raised-3d-rivets-and-other-surface-details,9968.html

I had some sesame seed in a box once, but I never found out how to open it.

To be fair, I've never felt safe on a London Underground platform, surrounded by objectionable people and with an unguarded drop to an exposed live rail.

Probably safe(?) for a bit. You can only really do it where you're confident that the door spacings of anything that stops there will be identical.

A whole gander? I thought it was just tea and sandwiches that they were doing?

You could hang on for the warmer weather to give the new grass a chance.

Exhibition of 1986, http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/1024/826447-model-railway-exhibition/

I'm a great fan of steel drawers, much easier to find stuff in than toolboxes. I once saw some at the boot sale and asked the woman how much she wanted - five pounds - bargain, but I decided to mull it over - ten minutes later, I went back for them and found that her husband had returned and was in earshot when I said "Here's a fiver, I'll have the drawers off you now". I took him a while to understand what was really going on.... The "flat" file drawers are even more useful - and they appear now and then as people computerise data.

Accurately pitching the level of service provision is a difficult proposition. Probably nearer the spoon-on-a-chain end, rather than Lapsang Souchong, I think. And maybe go for straight-cut sandwiches, rather than triangles, to start with, anyway. Good luck.

Marvellous news. Tomorrow the world.

I live on a main road into a 65,000 population town. It's fully closed for three months, with only a single parallel back lane, full of parked cars, as a diversion - the signs as you enter, half a mile before the closure, say Road Ahead Closed, fair enough - but the Businesses Open As Usual sign is perhaps a bit misleading, as they're all beyond the closure. I get eight to ten artics a day trying to turn here now, having thought they might be able to get as far as they need to. Nobody's hit anything yet, but statistics will prevail at some point, I fear. There is a 'beautiful' permanent sign on the A55 near Bangor - Width Limit 12 Miles Ahead - but no idea of what the limit will actually be when you get there.

Until somebody like Google does it on a Street View type road survey in the future, perhaps...?

This may have some beneficial effect, eventually. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37703556

I got a copy of this today, set in a fictional version of Rathdowney - Chapter 2 describes a journey up to Dublin from Ballybrophy soon after it would have opened, though it is called Ballydermot in the book. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Luck-Penny-John-Maher/dp/0863223613

This video - - is suggesting much more draconian limits than mentioned above. Click the blue button to watch direct in Vimeo.

My correspondent concurs - much the same regs here. There's all sorts of stuff in the air now that wasn't there years ago. The Chinese Lantern craze seems to have faded, but I've seen those at well over a thousand feet on occasions. And big kites are popular round here, often many hundreds of feet up. We do have daily military helicopter visits and the odd air ambulance event, plus the coppers seem to get a spin in their chopper most days.

Some of that, at least, applies in the UK, I believe the height limit here is 400ft agl. I have a drone correspondent - I will ask him.

Trench/grave... ..it depends where you're standing when it goes off..

The reason for going all lightweight with the magnesium was so that they could be fitted to Land Rovers, as here in Yemen. The WOMBAT was 120mm calibre. Similar devices were made by other countries/manufacturers. This is a captured Argentine device from the Falklands that is a few hundred yards fron my house. I might just be safe from the back-blast.

I was talking to somebody last night and the conversation drifted onto Wombats, of the Australian variety - though, to me, it meant WOMBAT, Weapon Of Magnesium, Batallion, Anti-Tank. Essentially, a giant Bazooka. The rearward blast when one was fired was a serious "friendly" threat and it was often said that it did more damage where it was fired from than where it came down... In stony ground, the exhaust could excavate a trench big enough to hide in afterwards and fire the debris from it backwards for some considerable distance and at very high speed - like a giant shotgun. As you say, the quoted technical capacities are often a mix of ideal conditions and wishful thinking.

I understand that memes are regarded as being quite groovy by beatniks and the like.