Broithe

He used to have an arresting personality.

Saved by a fluke...

https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/02/train-which-crashed-through-barrier-saved-from-disaster-by-giant-whale-tail-13519809/

A few others were mentioned here.

He is definitely the best impression that I can manage. "You are a shite... ...for shore eyesh."

The original Royal Mail pillar boxes on all of these islands were green*, but were changed to red for exactly that reason, apparently. * a 'Brunswick Green', rather than the current An Post colour.

Excellent @Joe Keegan- I knew I'd seen one. Odd that there's not even a trace of the BICC log on the casting - I would have got it quicker if that was there. I now have the great opportunity to call in this statement "If that isn't meant to take chain links out, i'll eat Paddy Ashdown's hat."

As it stands*, there's nothing to stop the pipe being pushed away, as far as I can see. * There could, of course, be bits missing...

I rescued a few nice tools from a garage clearance a few weeks ago. There was a good mix of nice stuff, this may have been in the 'plumbing' pile. I initially thought it was some sort of olive puller, but it isn't. The steel plate with the three spikes slides up and down. A 10mm diameter is a rattle-fit all the way through. There is no identification on it anywhere.

I would love the idea of a model shop a few miles away. As I did when Graham's was there in Port Laoise. But, it needs to work for you, before it works for us. I often look at rents for retail outlets and work out how much an hour you would have to make before you got anything for yourself. Shops where there's a huge variety of potential products are more of a problem to run than places selling a limited range of 'standard' goods. This is all mere conjecture from someone who has never worked in retail*, so take it all with a sack of salt. * If I had worked in retail, I would be in prison for assault by now...

There was a truly monstrous pole by the signal cabin at Ballybrophy - with a good lot of wires along the line and a fairly large side-load, it was around 18" diameter at the base. I was greatly disappointed when it disappeared. http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000304509

Oh, now, that's really unfair. Should be at least two months, even for a first offence.

It's vaguely in the style of what Dunamase would have been like before the alterations..

I think it might be a bit more frequent than that - I seem to remember a photo with a submarine 'shopped' into it just a few years ago. I was thinking that it would make a nice diorama for someone who doesn't like wiring or making 21mm track. Here.

My understanding of how it works is that the magnet induces magnetism in the (presumably soft iron) parts of the couplers. The couplers will both be of the same pole, as their magnetism is induced from the same source, and, thus, they will repel each other. They can each only swing to one side - and, as they are necessarily facing each other, this means that they will swing in opposite directions, away from each other, thus uncoupling.

Mmm, an interesting destination in a Spongebob Squarepants cartoon. Apparently, Ballymun gets other references, too - if you want to make a rather specialist kids' layout, beyond the inevitable Thomas one...

A friend went to Albania in the early 1980s, during the Enver Hoxha times. A bit like going to North Korea now, but even more cut off from 'us'.

A bit of extra time to stay eating and build up my strength is OK by me. It can wait until Lent, as far as I'm concerned.

Rolling it to the kerb side can increase the excitement potential for pedestrians and cyclists. A separately-mounted beam requires substantial support, to avoid that coming down and adding to the danger. There's usually no simple, cheap and complete solution. There are often competing "owners", who may have different perceptions of the problem to them. In the one on the A51 above, it might have been 'better' to drop the road surface a few inches and forget about it, but that was a Highways issue and Network Rail 'owned' the problem.

They've done this one - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.879697,-2.1106227,3a,63.4y,290.68h,90.6t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suEiVvGFkOFfE3HugUaRFLA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 - near me a few years ago. It's only just 'under height', but it's out-of-town and so the speeds will be higher. I don't think it's been hit yet. With a skew bridge in this direction, though, you've also got the (slight?) possibility of rolling the impacting vehicle onto the opposing traffic. Using the bridge abutments is cheaper I suppose, though, than building new remote supports for a separately located sacrificial beam, although that could be arranged to be orthogonal to the impact direction.

Right, they arrived today - two hours after I did - perfect timing! The timing is good in another way, too - I note that my genuine Lisduff ballast has nearly disappeared in the last ten weeks - I'll be making a mix in the morning for a test run. Others have commented on the healthy weight of the box and it certainly is a 'solid' product - it was odd, though, that the green box on its own felt slightly heavier than when the whole lot was in the brown outer box. Guessing the weight of a held object can be very subjective.