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That's just not at all fair. They were behind the yellow line.

The red square does look remarkably like a rodenticide block, but it seems an odd place to put one.

I'm going to be reluctant to record my progress, or lack of it, on this project, due to the Forum's ban on religious discussions.

The ICE made representations about it over several years and, as nobody ever included themselves in the 'Boring' category, however specialised they were in mining, tunnelling or well-drilling, it was eventually abandoned.

An interesting cameo scene...

Whilst advertising does pay for a lot of stuff I use 'free', it remains, mostly, a mystery to me. An experiment you can try is to wait until an ad break on the telly has finished and then ask someone what the adverts were for. Quite often, people have little actual memory of what has just been presented to them. Most of the 'targeted' adverts that I get online are sheer madness - I feel sure that just doing it randomly would be better, there might be the odd one of interest then. Over a period of many months, I was subjected to repeated adverts for a book which promised to help me "Become a Complete Christian Woman" - this seemed quite an ambitious project - but, if this weather continues, then I might make a start... Whilst it does pay for some sites that would otherwise need to be funded in some other way, it can, as with some newspapers, etc., become a problem which simply results in the adverts getting fewer views than if they were less intrusive. At one time, I made quite a niche product which was sold locally, pretty much by word-of-mouth and one example in a small shop window - a typical 'cottage industry' scenario. Somebody suggested that I should advertise in the local paper, pre-internet days). I did, and was absolutely inundated with enquiries, to the point that I could do little else than just answer them for a fortnight. These enquiries came in two forms - people who thought they wanted one, but were never actually going to buy one - and people* wanting details to pass on to my competitor about how I made a better one that was cheaper than his. I sold not a single one as a result of that advert. * It was in the very early days of the 1471 caller identity system and I was able to determine that the calls came from his brother's phone...

This.

UK Financial Times.

Stradbally photo on the front page of today's Irish Times.

I have seen this elsewhere on the grapevine. "I am very sorry to have to tell you that Russan Limited, trading as Eileens Emporium has ceased trading and appointed liquidators. We have done our best to send out all the stock we have for pre-paid orders. I am sorry that we were not able to complete all of them. Any claims against the business should be sent to: Christine Vaines, Begbies Traynor, Suite C 11 Kingsmead Square, Bath, BA1 2AB | T: 01225 316 040 | Email Christine.Vaines@btguk.com"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodson_baronets The mention of 'Houghton' should, almost certainly, be 'Haughton'.

Possibly both? For many years into the 1980s, the UK's Yellow Pages had a 'Boring' section, which was empty, but had a handy suggestion of where else you might look for boring people. Somewhere, I may still have the framed cutting that I had above my desk. Oh, how we mechanical engineers used to laugh about it, whenever there were any stone age chaps to hear us...

This has the potential to be annoying - a high-speed sleeper? It'll probably stop half-way through an episode and continue on a bus, with no heating...

Dare we hope..?

I would have marked them down for blowing the window in when the door was open...

Nobody expects the ERU - or the Spanish Inquisition...

Or a crane.

If it's going to be a coal-powered thing (or even oil - or turf!), then they'll need to get it into production quickly - before it gets banned.

I was once hugely mystified by Currys* - I used to run a few rented houses for people and one day I got a text out of the blue. "This is Knowhow** - we're delivering your fridge at 1:30pm, please ensure somebody will be there" I had no idea who 'Knowhow' might be and had not ordered a fridge from anybody. Eventually, the internet revealed that it was Currys and I assumed that one of the owners had ordered a fridge and given them my mobile number. Simple. No! I still didn't know who had ordered this fridge and, thus, which house 'somebody' was supposed to be at - and Knowhow weren't inclined to answer me, either. Eventually, it turned up at one of the houses and the tenant happened to be in at the time, so they rang and asked me if it was meant to be there - I took a wild guess and said "Yes". * "Currys" really annoys me - it should either be Curry's or Curries, surely? ** In my days of dealing with Currys, they had an offshoot called Mastercare, that dealt with their aftersales 'service' They had a slogan "We make it work". I bought a CD player in the mid 80s, but it developed a difficult fault, only after being on for a few hours. They insisted they could fix it, rather than replacing it, but they only got one go at it every working day and it dragged on for weeks, into months. They stopped even answering the phone to me and our communications ended up as weekly letters - I got so fed up that I started using a modified copy of their notepaper for my letters Bastardcare - we make it worse. I eventually got it back from them and fixed it myself.

There have been test-runs through Ballybrophy, they're just waiting for the speed limit to be dropped from 90 to 88mph.