Recent content by johnnychips

My Auntie Elsie always said, ‘If UCP on tripe, don’t eat it.’

I continued my walk along the Aire rather than the canal, so I can’t help, unfortunately. As a general point, as @THC hints, it is often difficult to work out whether tracks, embankments or towpaths next to rivers which are not public footpaths are walkable or not. Just a few km north up the...

When I walked this last year, I walked along the river as far as Fairburn Ings, then into the village with no issues. I have previously walked south along the Aire from Fairburn to Brotherton. I am unsure if you can walk along the river next to Brotherton itself: you may have to divert into the...

There are two in Leeds.

This is what I’ve also found using Flixbus, both here and abroad. I find it very civilised compared with having to ask a stranger sprawled across two seats to move up: the reservation is your authority. Unlike on trains, where the guard is nowhere to be seen (understandably), the driver is...

According to AI, you need to install a white-tailed eagle or peregrine falcon in the nearby cathedral close. Mind, if the falcon dived and missed, it could bring the whole roof down. :lol:

Whereas Tenby has an Upper and Lower Frog St, Rochdale has a Toad Lane, home of the co-operative movement.

The link above updates itself. To summarise, the driver, chaperone and two children were killed. Five children are critically ill. The minibus carrying them turned onto a level crossing where the barriers were apparently down. They were struck by a passenger train slowing down for Buggenhout...

Stainforth in South Yorkshire also has a greyhound stadium.

The whole thing was allegedly: "You have hissed my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm. You will leave by the town drain”.

Hattersley was also originally an overspill settlement for Manchester.

Sat outside a pub in Otley, I was wishing I could get there by train. Apart from the lack of overhead wires, I was quite impressed.

Just as a contrast from abroad, I attach a picture of the departure board at Blankenberge in Belgium. I realise there will be more trains in the peak and in high summer, but I love the way they have scattered the hourly trains around the seven platforms without any obvious logic.

Not quite.

Yes, you got it cot=bed tin=metal gley=waterlogged soil and it’s closing soon. Your turn!