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It's not just the wind speed that influences the warning level. There is a high Sping tide due up the Bristol Channel as well. This massively increases the risk for coastal areas, despite theower wind speed than for example Dorset.

Isn't it curious that the noisiest and most billigerent Western countries either have a domestically embattled leader (Biden, Johnson, Duda) or have an election coming up this year (Macron)

Russia will always fall back on the fact that under international law they can position their troops in whatever numbers they like and whatever posture on what is their territory. They plan to use this as a sword of Damocles hanging over Ukraine to destabilise the government.

The reaction of the Western countries is exactly what Putin wants. We are playing right in to his hands. He loves to make us play the guessing game and he is the centre of attention. I don't believe he intends to "invade" Ukraine. That's not how he operates. He'll stir up something in the east...

But surely the weight of the diesel equipment is only the same as 200 people, who would have been crush loaded in to each carriage in the Thameslink days. They were still pretty nimble then.

Putin is underhand, corrupt etc etc, but he's not mad.

Great view from Pepperbox Hill today near Salisbury, down to Southampton, the Solent and the Isle of Wight.

There is, I'm told, line of sight from the top of the Chillerton Down transmitter on the IoW to Alderney. This was how they first got 405 line ITV to the Channel Islands.

It isn't. There us insufficient high ground on the Cherbourg peninsula. However there are reports you can see the beam of light reflected from Gatteville lighthouse. However, there was once a report of a Fata Morgana (superior mirage) whereby the French coast could be seen from the Isle of...

Here's the Viewfinder Panorama map http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/panoramas/ENGP/NINE%20BARROW%20DOWN.png The view to the west if very limited by the rest of the Purbeck hills.

A good spot in the south is Nine Barrow Down in Dorset just above Swanage. You get a view right across the Solent, past Portsmouth in the mid distance to Burton Down in Sussex. That's a good 60-70 miles.

A lot of people forget why there's a TV licence. It's to fund programming that is not commercially viable. That means there will be some stuff broadcast that you have no interest in but still have to pay for. But conversely there will be programmes broadcast of great interest to you, but...

The Thames Valley branches (I know Bourne End is troublesome in that respect). Then cascade the 165s somewhere useful.

I hardly watch any linear TV these days. It's all either on catchup or streamed on the Sky Q box. The only time I watch normal TV is for live events.

To the media, Russia is the new Covid. Pick up on the worst case scenario, and dress it up as the most likely. Russia could invade Ukraine. But they probably won't. Putin isn't stupid. Those troops are there as a part of his plot to destabilise the Ukrainian government. His modus operandi is...

Problem is if you cut the grass and then there's a frost that night. Mine is rather long right now, but I'm trying to resist giving it a trim.

That's interesting, thanks. I don't know of any similar types of preservation by anyone else, so the plot thickens.

The Cab Yard in Bridgend already have the cab of 2405. I wonder if they want 2424 as a source of spares to tart up the one they've already got?

I believe there are very few countries that are formally identified with a definite article. The Gambia is one, I think The Bahamas is another. Ukraine certainly isn't.

For quite a while they were able to spot hire one unit a day to GWR, and allow another one to potter up and down the Lymington branch.