Slime
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219 miles to and in Wales today ............................. 68mpg!
Things That Gladden The Heart
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Arthur Wedge
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Miles Jupp and Sean Lock on 8 out of 10 Cats do Countdown 
Tashyboy
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Spent all day delivering poppy pots for this years poppy appeal. Had some really good positive responses from the schools and local businesses. Overall a fantastic day. There has been a few negatives, that’s in the random irritations though am not spoiling this post.
Tashyboy
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Whilst delivering the poppy pots today I called into Clipstone miners welfare in Nottinghamshire. We have branch meetings there every two months. Anyway Tash dropped off a pot in the office and lo and behold on the filing cabinet is some photos of Clipstone camp.
now Clipstone camp was land donated by the Duke of Portland to the army to train its tommies during and after WW1. The camp was the largest training camp in the whole of the UK. It could train up to 30,000 soldiers at a time. It was massive.. it had 16 parade grounds. The photos were discovered during a house clearance and surfaced yesterday at a funeral at the Welfare. They are quite simply an astonishing snapshot of Clipstone history over 100 years ago. The colliery was sunk a few years later and the huts were used as housing and a couple of huts were used as the first school.
now Clipstone camp was land donated by the Duke of Portland to the army to train its tommies during and after WW1. The camp was the largest training camp in the whole of the UK. It could train up to 30,000 soldiers at a time. It was massive.. it had 16 parade grounds. The photos were discovered during a house clearance and surfaced yesterday at a funeral at the Welfare. They are quite simply an astonishing snapshot of Clipstone history over 100 years ago. The colliery was sunk a few years later and the huts were used as housing and a couple of huts were used as the first school.
PJ87
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Walking into my last night shift to utter chaos (defective train needing to be pushed by another. Very rare) however after working tirelessly all night we were able to hand over this morning balanced stock and a good service. Very pleasing as incidents that late that are that bad can impact the next day.
HomerJSimpson
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Great effort and something that the public rarely gives you the praise you deserve. As frustrating as defective stock and cancellations can be I know there is a lot that is out of your control.
PJ87
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With a very inexperienced crew aswell, I took the lead .. pushing a train with another one from mill hill to Morden took 4 hours after all the passenger trains were to bed..long night but rewarding
Red devil
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That's some shunt. What was the speed?
PJ87
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Restricted manual so limited to 15kph
Took 4 hours 30 I think it was , had a very excited driver aswell who wanted to make a meal of it lol
Red devil
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Legends some of them. I just want to clear the line when it's happened to meRestricted manual so limited to 15kph
Took 4 hours 30 I think it was , had a very excited driver aswell who wanted to make a meal of it lol
HomerJSimpson
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Morden. My old neck of the woods. Arse end of nowehre
RichA
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Most of the Northern Line trains feel like they'd fall apart if they went much faster than that.Restricted manual so limited to 15kph
Took 4 hours 30 I think it was , had a very excited driver aswell who wanted to make a meal of it lol
PJ87
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The 1996 stock is not in the best of shape but it's also nowhere near the oldest so will be a long time before it's upgraded , No1 will invest in it
The new pic stock arrived the other day.. some joker graffitied it before it got to the depot lol
PaulMdj
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He was brilliant on that, absolute tragedy losing him at his age.Miles Jupp and Sean Lock on 8 out of 10 Cats do Countdown
nickjdavis
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There's not much that truly warms the cockles of my heart but i saw something yesterday afternoon, whilst playing my round of golf, that truly brought a smile to my face and made me feel good about the world.
Our 11th hole was, until a couple of years ago, home to a magnificent oak tree that was estimated to be around 450 years old. Sadly in the late 201x's it developed a split down the length of its trunk, the tree was banded, the upper branches all roped together, the tree was pollarded, but nothing halted the growth of said split. Three years ago, during some storms some of the larger upper boughs collapsed and it was plain that the tree was utterly unsafe and a danger to life and limb, such that an exclusion zone was created preventing any play or passage from anywhere within 50 yards of the tree.
Despite the terminal damage to the tree the club faced a long battle to have the tree removed, local "activists" putting every obstacle in the way of the clubs efforts to render the tree safe, and objecting at every proposal put forward by the club. Eventually (not before more storms had caused more damage) though local planning authorities conceded that the Preservation Order that had existed on the tree for many years was simply not in keeping with the current state of the tree which had befallen it through natural causes. The tree was dead and eighteen months or so ago it was felled for good....something that's life stretched all the way back to Henry VIII's time was lost forever.
...and the reason for my joy yesterday?
Under the shadow of where the mighty oak once stood, the club have planted a new oak tree. Now I know that I will be gone from this Earth long before the tree reaches any sort of comparison with its predecessor....it is a mere sapling today, but I hope that it has an equally long life overviewing the events of the natural world, in its own little corner of Suffolk.
Our 11th hole was, until a couple of years ago, home to a magnificent oak tree that was estimated to be around 450 years old. Sadly in the late 201x's it developed a split down the length of its trunk, the tree was banded, the upper branches all roped together, the tree was pollarded, but nothing halted the growth of said split. Three years ago, during some storms some of the larger upper boughs collapsed and it was plain that the tree was utterly unsafe and a danger to life and limb, such that an exclusion zone was created preventing any play or passage from anywhere within 50 yards of the tree.
Despite the terminal damage to the tree the club faced a long battle to have the tree removed, local "activists" putting every obstacle in the way of the clubs efforts to render the tree safe, and objecting at every proposal put forward by the club. Eventually (not before more storms had caused more damage) though local planning authorities conceded that the Preservation Order that had existed on the tree for many years was simply not in keeping with the current state of the tree which had befallen it through natural causes. The tree was dead and eighteen months or so ago it was felled for good....something that's life stretched all the way back to Henry VIII's time was lost forever.
...and the reason for my joy yesterday?
Under the shadow of where the mighty oak once stood, the club have planted a new oak tree. Now I know that I will be gone from this Earth long before the tree reaches any sort of comparison with its predecessor....it is a mere sapling today, but I hope that it has an equally long life overviewing the events of the natural world, in its own little corner of Suffolk.
ADB
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I guess that’s the reason for a night shift
Slime
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Went for a walk/scramble accross to Worm's Head on the Gower.
Saw a couple of seals bobbing around and, seemingly, staring at us.
I then came accross about 30 of them lounging around on the rocks, including at least one pup and a few pregnant ones!
That's a first for me.
May post a piccy later ................................ if I remember.
Saw a couple of seals bobbing around and, seemingly, staring at us.
I then came accross about 30 of them lounging around on the rocks, including at least one pup and a few pregnant ones!
That's a first for me.
May post a piccy later ................................ if I remember.
Slime
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Staring seal.
Slime
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Staring back dog;
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Slime
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Lazing in the sun, the pups are the white ones;
