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"If God had meant us to fly He would never have given us the railways!"

Christchurch? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_trolleybus_turntable Did Roundhay Park in Leeds have a balloon loop (although it was on a balloon-shaped route too), or was that just for the trolleybuses?

would it be possible for a cunning adversary to infiltrate some remote/lower security airport and "accidentally on purpose" enter a dud code which it was known would stuff the systems at bigger airports downstream? (Serbia and Slovakia come to mind, to name but two...)

but I agree that it is worrying, given the repeated ever-stronger warnings of removal of concessions for any infringement of the rules - and some of the ticket-checking staff's evident lack of knowledge. in which case is it worth buying the very cheapest public ticket you can find, maybe not...

are they even allowed to accompany parents in? I thought that "alone with your ballot paper" was one of the rules - apart from postal voting where it obviously can't be enforced!

OK, reminded by another thread, how about a range of offal being available in butchers shops? (and maybe the butchers shop is the anachronism in its own right!)

I definitely found my priv oyster worth it... but what wasn't worth it was the annual trip to London to get the discount applied, and the lottery of finding a LUL barrier with staff who could (or would) do it. I used to allow a day for it: a ride south, several hours messing (other verbs are...

Arrange access then? Either on a friend's computer or maybe using one in a public library...

Maybe they are being bussed in to Toton, rather than bringing a light engine all the way from S Wales for no benefit?

On what supplier/contract? I have a 1-hour £1/kWh exported offer from Axle tomorrow at 1930, and an Octopus 1 hour free on Sunday based on what I have exported recently...

We went to "our" butcher this morning for some lamb for a VIP's birthday coming soon, as well as a load of other stuff... I was pleased to see oxtails on offer at a fiver so I grabbed one (turned out to be 1 1/2 lb). The man was delighted that I was interested in it! I'm now preparing the...

I just looked at that website - hadn't seen it before. It says 2 significant things: and right at the bottom:

On top of our batteries here, the Norwegians are expanding their pumped storage, actually repurposing it from straight HEP (e.g. Illvatyn and Blasjo,) so we can imagine the interconnectors exporting some of our surplus that way.

but only if XC get a grip of their staffing and HR policy...

That's like all the other travel articles in the mainstream press then... (Having said that, quite a lot of them are interesting and could tempt me to go somewhere I hadn't thought of! -e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/aug/29/slow-travel-success-story-slovenia-vipava-valley)

It looks lovely... however my computer translated a bit of https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/ic-niespieszny-wyjedzie-na-tory-w-2026-roku-123630.html as which I thought was a funny thing to highlight! p.s. I also found a nice header:

Volks Electric Railway is up there among the early Welsh ones, but can't beat the slate railways. Oldest car 1892 according to their website (https://volksrailway.org.uk/rolling-stocks/)

I suspect we are getting mixed up with differing finishes: Pebble-dash - stones thrown against wet mortar/render where the stones are a feature - a friend's house in Bristol was built for himself by the developer of a group of houses in the crescent and was pebble-dashed with big calcite...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn74g1k6yxyo Oh dear, but at least they have got their hands on one ship!

in which case wouldn't it say so prominently on the ticket? It states plainly that this is an "anytime ticket" between 2 places. You can't expect "normals" to go looking for hidden restrictions. (and the sooner that there are no TOCs at all, the better.)