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Neil Innes of Bonzo Dog, The Rutles, Monty Python films and much more has died aged 75. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50948921 Among other things he wrote better Beatles songs than Lennon and McCartney.

At last, justice for Jimi. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50755015 I think this is appropriate:

I found this police chief's address very moving and remarkable for someone in his position to speak out so strongly against politicians.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50403561

If anyone's interested I was in Aldi this afternoon and they were selling Airfix starter kits for £4.99. Only a limited range mainly WW2 aircraft (Spitfire, BF109, FW190, Tomahawk) plus Folland Gnat and Cutty Sark, of course I don't know if they have them in all branches.

Today at Peterborough I saw two short Azuma sets in tandem at about 1205 and another pair at 1225 both southbound. What's that about?

Lies upon lies. This sort of thing seems typical of the Trump administration. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-42462190/fake-news-blunder-from-us-envoy-to-the-netherlands

I normally restrict myself to a single can of Strongbow in the evening but today I read the label and it says the recommended daily dose for men is 3 to 4 units; as a can is equivalent to 2.2 units it means I should be drinking 1.5 to 2 cans per day.

Is anyone else being plagued by unusual numbers of fruit flies?

A local news report I thought might be of interest from both the infrastructure and service disruption aspects. http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/transport/railway-bridge-to-be-replaced-at-bank-holiday-1-8088050

If you're a fan of the film Airplane! you really need to see this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs

I had assumed the use of "of" in place of "have" in phrases such as "I should of bought a ticket" was a relatively recent phenomenon but I've just discovered this in the 1943 Ray Bradbury short story "The Scythe". It's not just a product of text messages and the internet after all.

Are there any toolmakers or similar on the forum who can explain this? I wanted a 12mm hole in some thin (~1mm) rigid plastic. I started with a 3mm drill then a 7mm drill but decided any bigger would be too aggressive on the thin material so I would open it up with my tapered hand reamer which...

I found an old copy of "Motor Sport" magazine today which includes a report of the 1964 Monaco Grand Prix. The following is a précis of the most interesting part: While leading in the Lotus 25 Jim Clark suffered a broken anti-roll bar which, although it didn't slow him down, fell off on the...

What a way to be woken up. http://www.peterboroughimages.co.uk/blog/gnr-rail-crash-1922/

Today I saw an EWS Class 66 being reversed onto some tankers, it was being driven from the front cab which looked awkward as the driver had to lean out of the cab window. I wondered why the driver wasn't using the rear cab which, it appeared to me, would make the operation a lot easier. No doubt...

Seeing a GBRF class 66 today got me thinking, is there anything stopping companies like GBRF from renumbering their locomotives so they no longer carry what appear to be "BR numbers"? It would presumably upset the trainspotters. Who actually allocates class numbers now?.

Back in the late 70s/early 80s there seemed to be an eruption of whimsical names for pop/rock bands. A few I particularly remember are... Half Man Half Biscuit Prefab Sprout Splodgenessabounds ...any others?

I've just been watching Fawlty Towers on dvd. It's a long time since I've seen it and I'd begun to assume that the episode with the hotel sign reading "Flowery ****s" was an urban myth but no there it is at the start of "The Anniversary".

I've just discovered Intel Security True Key was installed on my pc yesterday without any action by me. Does anyone know what's going on here? I know it's a password manager but how did it get on my pc?