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Cheeky gits who use your green bin. Our green waste was collected early this morning, when I went out to wheel the bin back it was about a third full of fresh tree/shrub cuttings.

Therein lies the problem. We did try online deliveries for a couple of months a few years ago but got fed up with items being out of stock and inappropriate substitutions. I know you can reject any substitution you don't want but that then means a trip to the supermarket to buy a few odds and...

You're not the only one. Hard to believe the NSE launch was closer to the days of the big 4 than to the present day.

I've never seen either ads or reminders when I haven't scanned for a while, at either Sainsburys or Tesco. Maybe it's a new thing they haven't introduced to all stores yet. If it's anything like my local Tesco, it's probably because a lot of people using self scan routinely ignore the dedicated...

Agree, but the problem is far longer term than that due to FPTP. In the political situation now where 5 parties are polling greater than 10%, plus the SNP and Plaid in Scotland and Wales, a party who takes 30% of the vote at a GE will likely hold a majority of the seats, or taking into account...

It would also require the EU to want us back. They're not going to re-admit us unless they can be 99.9% sure we won't change our minds again a decade or two down the line.

Thanks, just watched a Youtube video of Manston, exactly the sort of thing I had in mind. Yes, can see that'd be a problem.

Something I would like to see, which I'm sure would go down like a lead balloon with many people even as a one off, is a 'realistically weathered' steam loco. I don't mean to the extremes of the filthy locos seen when steam was being run down in the 60s, more what a normal working loco would...

For me, WIPAC lights on a Deltic are a far greater visual sin.

I'm also Gen X, if I can see the clock clearly, both are about as quick and easy to read as each other for me, if I had to pick one I'd say analogue is marginally quicker. Where there is a significant difference is when it's a clock which is some distance away, then analogue is far quicker...

I can vouch for that. I visited Prague in January back in the later 90s, daytime temperature was around the -10 mark but it felt more comfortable than home where is was a couple of degrees above freezing but damp.

It was, but for the bulk of the population who neither work in the industry or have any interest in trains, how many are even aware GBR is part of this? I suspect very few. As you say, from the passenger perspective nothing has changed, evem though a number of TOCs are now state owned, you...

I don't think GBR registered with most voters at all. Aside from around the time of the initial announcement, I don't recall it being mentioned in any of the non-rail groups/forums I'm a member of.

That's what put us off the idea of a portable unit, where to store the thing for the 95% of the year we're not using it, they're too bulky and heavy to lug into the loft. The only time we find the indoor temperature of a hot British summer excessive is when we're trying to sleep, by which point...

It's a possibility but not a foregone conclusion. I suspect funding their reinstatement after a long hiatus would be relatively popular with the electorate. The fact that 2040 is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Britain probably helps their chances too.

The problem there is the Hawk T2s are expected to remain in service until 2040, which I suppose adds a third option to the OP's list, suspend the Red Arrows for 10 years pending the introduction of the T2's replacement.

There definitely were NIMBYs then, and the few who were wealthy and powerful enough did disrupt the plans of railway builders, ironically an early example involved the original Curzon Street. The Grand Junction Railway originally planned to approach Curzon Street from the north west but that...

Quite possibly, I moved house twice in the space of 9 months back in 2017/18, I definitely noticed a difference in levels of service by Royal Mail at the 3 addresses.

The re-arrange to an alternate delivery date option is very hit and miss, IME it's approximately 50/50 whether they do in fact change it or just ignore the request and deliver on the original date. Haven't tried requesting the post office option but no reason to think it'd be any more reliable.

Are there figures anywhere for national turnout, I've only seen ward level figures? For those councils I've looked at where a comparison to the previous election is available, turnouts are up across the board, substantially so in a number of wards. My suspicion is a significant chunk of the...