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Broithe
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That's a good tip. A reverse picture search, to see if it's been used elsewhere before, is often a useful guide to the possible reality of the situation. I have a neighbour who has run a series of scam businesses. The last one was a building/landscaping operation, featuring many pictures of 'his work'. I suspect that few really were, one was in Russia, in a small town in the Ural Mountains - a long way home for your tea. A picture of the amazingly neat turf-laying job that he had done on someone's new lawn was actually a picture of artificial grass from an online catalogue.
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I was expecting a boil notice. Good to see rapid action, though, layouts can often be made of very combustible materials. In the old days, when we used 'grain of wheat' bulbs, it was not too unusual to find scorch marks above carelessly placed ones.
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Reminds me of when I used to do a bit of work for a chap with a plant hire operation - one day a brand new bucket arrived for a Caterpillar. The finish on every square millimetre of it was absolutely immaculate. I don't think I would have been able to face just shoving it into the ground the first time. It would be like taking a brand new Rolls Royce on the Dakar rally.
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I loved Kraftwerk from the first second of hearing Autobahn, it wasn't very 'fashionable' at the time, but the true importance has become ever more obvious every year since. I also like La Dusseldorf, if you're partial to this sort of thing. It's a sort of sense of nostalgia for a lost future that we never had, back in the past...
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On a cycle ride within my 2km operational radius the other day, on a road I would rarely use in 'normal' times, I encountered two chaps I have known for about 25 years. They were about 200 metres apart. I could still see the first when I met the second. This came as a great revelation to me as, for 25 years, I have believed them to be one person with a very poor recollection of our recent conversations.
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Worth waiting for the magazine.
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That's no reason not to produce a short run of them. Do you have a timescale yet?
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The town I live in on the Big Island got a total of four bombs in WW2, and only one of them went off properly. Everything else was caused by their own 'officialdom' in the comfort of peacetime.
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A large proportion of the aluminium saucepans that were also collected were eventually melted down to make aluminium saucepans...
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Someone has to keep an eye on her...
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Might be this..? If so, then it's a Colm O'Callaghan picture from June 14th, 1996 - https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/3745/from-our-archive-master-of-mixed-traffic-forty-years-of-irelands-big-gms/
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There are few places where the current inhabitants are direct descendants of the original settlers. Iceland may be almost the only one around here. Facial shapes and body mannerisms west of the Shannon are just scary...
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Major enough to require Teresa Mannion. https://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0524/877583-mayo-earthquake/
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Looking a bit more "Star Wars" than "Napoleonic Wars"....
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Anybody know the RAL code for the colour of Club Orange?
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Or... I'm going down the pub, get your coat on. Ooh, am I coming? No, but I'm knocking the heating off on the way out.
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Triang/Hornby had a gravity unloading hopper arrangement for years. I did a set-up for a chap with a mine and a loading conveyor at one end and a power station with an unloading drop at the other. Keeping it all working was a full-time job. Here's a description of how the dropping hoppers worked. https://www.southportmodelrailway.org.uk/page21/page117/page78/index.html
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At first glance, I thought these were the now-familiar green boxes... Phew....
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I had a thirty+ foot run of 00 in an unheated boxed-in car port with a polycarbonate roof - temperature and humidity levels were rather variable. There was a straight along the back and life was a bit difficult before these Fleischmann expansion joints were fitted - they offer most of an inch of movement and solved the issue fairly completely, whilst masquerading plausibly as a crossing. I felt that the majority of the movement was humidity-related - shrinkage of the 'wood', rather than expansion of the metal rails.
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Mention of 'Leo' might lead you to fall foul of the "No Politics" rule.....
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C19,self isolating and the consequences thereof.
Broithe replied to spudfan's topic in Letting off Steam
I recall a radio programme around 1970, about the life of a chap in New Guinea, who was from one of the last tribes to be contacted - he had been a stone age cannibal until the age of twenty, but had, since then become fully accustomed to modern life, over a period of just a few years. Anyway, he offered his opinion that the choice cut of 'long pig', as it is known in Pidgin English, is the forearm of a woman. It's only a matter of time before it's on special offer in Lidl.
