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I saw a pair of kingfishers on the river Itchen just north of Southampton. It was a very brief glimpse which I would have missed completely if it wasn’t for the sun lighting up the vivid plumage on their backs. Startling and unforgettable.
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In line with the conversation in Epic WTF;
Pavement parkers. Specifically parking half on and half off the pavement. The space they use up in the road means that vehicles travelling on that side have to wait for a gap in oncoming vehicles so why block the pavement at all? Just use the carriageway you selfish prat ! -
Yep. Even in well-to-do areas it was so. Saw an episode of The Good Life recently, as middle-class as you could get, and their street is deserted.
Suburbia aside it really hits you when you go out to the sticks and ancient market towns like Alresford and Helmsley are wall-to-wall with motorised tin boxes that shove pedestrians onto a few inches of pavement in a main trading thoroughfare hundreds of feet wide and long. It’s ugly and tragic.
Ironic then that local councils go all out to maintain the vehicle access so it doesn’t go ‘out of town’ to shop and it’s that very access that f**s the whole shopping (and, perhaps more importantly, the browsing visitor experience) up. -
Call me weird, if you will, but once I’m done with the humour of these things my mind wanders to the thought of just who are the people in these photos? Do they know they have been used for a fake obituary? Do they mind? Are they spooked? Will they sue? Why, there’s a thousand questions to seek an answer to.
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It’s easy to be a snob about these knock-off kits if you have been a Lego nut since childhood but there is some really good quality stuff out there. My son has just bought an ‘Arkham Asylum’ -ish model and it’s ace. Bricks clutch (hold together) really well - something even Lego themselves have struggled to achieve at times.
I reckon the only way Lego are going to survive is to buy the franchises for current hit movies etc. It’s going to cost them and us dear and, ultimately, the public will decide if it’s a working formula. -
Porthtowan, W Cornwall.
Midlife, I met a mate on the coast path as this flew over and he confirms the mapping explanation. I was walking for a couple of hours and it did at least half a dozen passes.
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Can anyone tell me what this is? Fuselage very much like a DC3 but much more modern wing outline and higher pitch engine sound.
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Not so wise if he also has a telephone.
Plenty of shelf space to fill there. Forward planning at its best. I salute you.