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  1. johnnychips

    Offal - why are less-desirable cuts of meat more expensive?

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

    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...
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    Walking and Rambling discussion

    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...
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    Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

    There are two in Leeds.
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    Flixbus Discussion

    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...
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    Manchester Victoria's roof has sprung a leak

    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:
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    Settlement Association

    Whereas Tenby has an Upper and Lower Frog St, Rochdale has a Toad Lane, home of the co-operative movement.
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    Several killed as train and school bus collide in Belgium

    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...
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    Settlement Association

    Stainforth in South Yorkshire also has a greyhound stadium.
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    Station names that have an amusing Spoonerism

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

    Hattersley was also originally an overspill settlement for Manchester.
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    AI-generated (not entirely realistic) railway images

    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.
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    Trivia: Stations which are 'overcapacity' and those with the most efficient capacity utilisation? vs Capacity Utilisation

    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.
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    Cryptic clues = station name

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

    Getting warmer!
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    Cryptic clues = station name

    Unfortunately not. But you aren’t far away
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    Cryptic clues = station name

    No, but in the right county.
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    Cryptic clues = station name

    Clue: it’s in Yorkshire.
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    Cryptic clues = station name

    Thanks Dale Bed metal into wet soil at this station - but not for much longer!

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