Any question answered...

Looks ok, says explicitly here that you can break journeys on off-peak tickets. I wouldn't risk it as you definitely need to keep your ticket - it's best to find a member of staff and get them to let you through the luggage gate.

Edit: there appears to be an echo in here...

Good shout, thanks guys

If symbiosis is a 'biological' term, is there an engineering/mechanical term that implies the same level of co-dependency?

'Ultratorue' doesn't get any search results

Fuq off, Schiq ☺

Brakless.
So many Zen between rider and traffic.

I'm not sure how my tutor will find that but I like it nonetheless.

is there an engineering/mechanical term that implies the same level of co-dependency?

The term "interdependence" is used, for example, where the form design of a product is influenced by/influences the choice of manufacturing method.

cohesion?

That's pretty close to what I was expecting. I was just hoping there was something more tech-sounding. Thanks. (you too @mands)

Join the q. :)

Ta!

Did anyone else hear a small plane flying round in circles last night between about midnight and 1am? It was fairly loud and kept circling over Clapton, where I am.

Think it might have been an example of this:
http://www.itv.com/news/london/2014-07-22/mysterious-plane-with-no-callsign-spotted-circling-london-for-two-hours/

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Dude you're near me did you not hear anything?

It was actually faily loud, a prop plane, slightly weird note to the engine.

It wasn't on flight radar either #jetfueldoesntmeltsteelbeams

I heard that, low rumbling sound. I had no idea what it was.

My girlfriend thought there was thunder.

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I'm glad it wasn't just me. Google says probably a Cessna F406 Caravan (the Met) or a Britten-Norman Islander (spooks flying from RAF Northolt). Actually there's even a thread about it:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/268006/

Is rathered a word? I suspect not, my colleague thinks it could be, my dictionary doesn't have it, google is ambiguous.

Of course it could be, as inventing words is a perfectly legitimate pastime, but it is not currently widely recognised. What does s/he want it to mean?

Talking of planes - on my way home from my hols on sunday, flying somewhere over France, I looked out the window and another, smaller, jet plane passed us rather close. I know it's really hard to judge distance in these sorts of situations, but it looked a LOT closer than it should be. Probably within 50 metres below us, at a distance of maybe half a kilometre? Maybe even less. And it had black smoke coming from its engines - not belching it out, but certainly not the light coloured exhaust fumes you normally see.
Couldn't find anything about a close pass or emergency landing on google, but still. Is there anywhere to find out about these things?

it's really hard to judge distance in these sorts of situations

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And to be honest if it had dark smoke coming from the engines and it wasn't belching it was probably just old.

I wasn't there though. If something had gone wrong it would need to be reported to the French equivalent of the Civil Aviation Authority - dgac or the Direction générale de l'aviation civile.

It's the past tense of rather for their purposes.

What's the full sentence?

Well, 'rather' isn't a verb, so I was actually wondering what the meaning of the verb was supposed to be. :)

Well, 'rather' isn't a verb

If may not have been considered a verb by many now, but it probably will be considered a verb by many in 5 or 10 years time. Language evolves and is driven by usage, usage doesn't always conform to the rules.