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Everything posted by Broithe
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A Brisfit is nearly five metres wider than a Dr1, though it may be a bit more directionally stable. A lot of us will have made the old Airfix 'Dogfight Double'. I can't find a picture with the Dr1's top wing properly visible, but an idea of the diminutive size of the Fokker in comparison to the Bristol is clear here.
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There was a full-length concert on a Waterford train. Featuring a driver on the 'opposite' train joining in a 'dance' section around twenty minutes in.
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Richthofen brought down Lt Bird's Pup - you could have recreated that. They seemed to get along OK afterwards, though.
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https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/ireland/blue-max-bridge-to-be-a-star-once-again-35925570.html
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Oooh! Brandy* and mince pies for those collecting their orders, too? * For those with a designated driver.
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A nice view of Heuston. From - https://www.facebook.com/IrlAirCorps/posts/4411789255515330
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As someone who lives a couple of miles from the M6 when I'm on the Big Island, the prospect of regularly using the 'Land Bridge' would fill me with horror - the continual roadworks and congestion are bad enough when you don't have time constraints, it must be very frustrating to those with deadlines and driver hours to consider. I was a regular foot passenger from Holyhead, until about 2007, when it just became too difficult, due largely to the trains on the Big Island - journeys just took longer and longer and it ceased to be a viable route. My Heuston/Ballybrophy section was reliable and got slowly faster, but the Stafford Holyhead section grew from two to nearly six hours... And trying to buy the ticket in a UK station was not a task for the fainthearted. For one journey I actually had a hand-written ticket - amazingly, nobody queried it. The computer had refused to believe it existed and it took me a lot of phone calls to get them to do it - "Listen, I'm trying to give you money for a piece of cardboard, just so I can get on a train that's going there anyway!"
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Fan Taobh Thiar Den Líne Seo / Keep Behind This Line
Broithe replied to DART8118's question in Questions & Answers
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I thought it might not have gone far... I did a fence for someone and it involved removing an old concrete post that was concreted in. The lump was much bigger than we expected - it was like unearthing the submarine pens at Brest. Even when we had finally got it 'loose', we couldn't get it out of the hole. We ended up by digging a ramp down into the hole, so that we could roll it out - even that was very difficult. I have great respect for those who built the Pyramids.
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I'm considering suggesting that he sees if he can get tested for Cabin Fever... And he might see about getting some shorter couplings for those swans.
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I was going to ask about the odd location - it seemed very strange to me - as you say, it would have been more useful where a few wagons could be shoved past it. This is a picture of the canal crane in Tullamore a few years back.
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This is where it was - were the remains far from that location? https://brownesphotography.photoshelter.com/image/I0000RsjCwu5vggo
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I was hoping that they would take the opportunity of their refound 'freedom' to return to proper money - £/s/d. I still have the programme installed in my head and often revert to it in some circumstances. I saw an item at a boot sale - I would have given him two pounds for, at a push. I asked the bloke, who was a good bit older than me "How much for that?" "What's it worth to you?" was his reply. "I'll give you thirty bob", I said, leaving room for manoeuvre. "Oh, no!", he replied, "I want at least fifty pence for it" So, I pretended to reluctantly give him a quarter of what he could have had. I can still work in Fahrenheit and the more common obsolete units that are still in circulation there. Interestingly (perhaps?), I think of the summer in Fahrenheit and the winter in Celsius...
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If it's of any interest, this is mine after I disembowelled the box this morning. Totally pristine - wrapped in about twelve feet of bubble wrap.
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124 has arrived here - despite the bank wondering why I should be buying such a frivolous item and holding the payment for a while - all sorted now, I hope. I've only looked into the box so far - and found it to be a bit bigger than I was expecting, although I've never seen one in real life - the 'single-ended' style being more of a 'little engine' thing in my head, I suppose. I've never been much of a fan of unboxing videos, but I think I'll investigate before trying to get it out...
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Indeed, a better comparison for UK exports to EU is EU exports to UK. There is a lot of deliberate(?) confusion about the reality. Somewhere, I have a UKIP election leaflet that declares "Europe buys more from the UK than we sell to them" I've never quite worked out what they meant there...
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950mm or 3' 1½", according to this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_611_Class
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There are instructional videos available.
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Grasping the reality of all this is not a national pastime there. My 'favourite' conversation about it was - "We drink pints and drive miles. We should never have joined!" "How many feet in a mile?" "Oh, I don't know. About a thousand?" Of all the numbers to guess...
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For the same reason as, when the Americans give you a lethal injection, they use a sterile needle.
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GSR & CIE locomotive list for grey, green or black livery
Broithe replied to jhb171achill's question in Questions & Answers
Mmm, this course might cover some useful aspects for you. https://www.educationindex.co.uk/course-search/university-of-northampton/first-degree/ba-hons/dance-and-wastes-management/ -
GSR & CIE locomotive list for grey, green or black livery
Broithe replied to jhb171achill's question in Questions & Answers
Of course, I should have realised that you would have your finger on the pulse of the nation's cultural zeitgeist. I have suggested to the National Gallery that they include a print of your artwork above in their current exhibition :- https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/mondrian Obviously, I have asked them to check with you first - in case the image above is not the right way up.