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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Its to give time for an auction for who will buy adverts based on your profile.
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    Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire one day Anglia Plus

    From Ely, its about a 5 mile walk to walk along the river towards the sidings at Potters and then back past the Cathedral. Another nice walk is to get off at Berney Arms and then walk to Great Yarmouth, which takes you past Great Yarmouth carriage sidings This is a Geoff Marshall about the...
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    Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire one day Anglia Plus

    I would try a 3 car 755 on electric power where there is a high speed limit, for the acceleration. A good place for that would be southbound from Stowmarket from Cambridge or Peterborough.
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    £2 Price Cap on fares in England - Now extended beyond October 2023

    Emily Turner just wrote on Twitter https://twitter.com/ETWriteHome/status/1626600174637436930
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    Railways on the Radio and Podcasts

    Roundel Round We Go is a podcast where each episode covers a London Underground station, covering the history, architecture and local area. Its presented by Emily Turner and Paul Burkitt-Gray. Emily recently was in the news when she went from London to Edinburgh with £2 bus tickets for the bit...
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    East-West Rail (EWR): Alternative options and speculation

    I would focus on getting East West Rail built and then for it to be electrified, and then worry about using it for extended routes. I don't think short DMUs should be running under wires, and I would rather a limited budget be spent on electrification and not bimodes.
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    Best film of 2022?

    Everything Everywhere All At Once was my favorite, but Belfast was a close second.
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    End of the line for return rail tickets

    There are some live tweets with updates on the speech with the #GBA23 https://twitter.com/hashtag/GBA23?src=hashtag_click&f=live
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    Eurostar food and drink policy

    https://food.ec.europa.eu/animals/animal-products-movements/personal-imports_en says
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    Website with in-depth technical description of Aztec (barcode) tickets

    I enjoyed reading this blog again about getting a Prime Minister's mobile phone number from an Instagram post https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram
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    Laptop advice (for travelling)

    It depends on the model. I've had a cheap plasticky Dell, but it was cheap. The XPS 15 has an aluminum case and feels more up market. I expect a Latitude will have a higher quality plastic case. I have it in a clear plastic case for a bit more protection...
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    Laptop advice (for travelling)

    You can get a refurbished 5530 from the Dell Outlet for ~£930. I have bought a couple of laptops from the Dell Outlet before, and they were fine. Personally, I would pay extra for a 3 year on site warranty. Once a laptop is 3 years old, then you can buy a used replacement for the cost of major...
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    Andrew Tate on trial in Romania.

    Could you summarise the views that you agree with?
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    Opinions on Brexit

    At the moment the poll has these scores: I voted Leave and stand by that decision Votes: 23 13.5% I voted Remain and stand by that decision Votes: 123 72.4% I voted Leave but have changed my mind Votes: 6 3.5% I voted Remain but have changed my mind Votes: 7 4.1% I hold no strong...
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    First car : lease or buy?

    Most modern cars are pretty reliable, and even the least reliable brands will still work most of the time. The problem with getting a used car, is the risk of getting one which has a problem, which will be expensive to fix. Lots of used cars will be fine, but its good to avoid the ones that...
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    Russia invades Ukraine

    The appeal of an aircraft is that it can hit ground targets far behind the enemy's front line, which are beyond the range of their ground launched missiles. Its worth doing this often enough to divert some of the Russian's air defenses away from the front line. If the Russians then have to move...
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    Hotel Chains Discussion

    At HotUKDeals there are links to some Google Documents with dates when you can stay at various Premier Inns for £35 a night. For example, for London Sidcup, it has them for a few Sundays. I tried searching for one of them (March 26th) on the Premier Inn site and it was £35.
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    Cars and owner stereotypes

    They are also engineered to a weight and efficiency. Add lightness and simplicate. A Mk3 Granada is smaller than a Mk4 Mondeo. The 163 BHP diesel Mondeo is as quick as the 2.9 litre Granada. I've got a 140BHP Mondeo which is 0.7 seconds slower for 0-60 but gives 50mpg in real world driving. The...
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    What was the worst car you ever owned.

    70L according to https://www.ultimatespecs.com/car-specs/Ford/7267/Ford-Scorpio-I-29i-24v.html which gives a range of 388 miles with the combined economy figure of 25mpg.
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    Railways on the Radio and Podcasts

    The Slow Radio series on BBC Radio 3 has this program. It starts in an hours time: A Journey across the Steppes A 1,000-mile journey on an old Soviet-style train from the Kazakh city Almaty to Aralsk and onwards in search of the Aral Sea https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hg40

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