Alway Swilby

Most of the Rochdale is closed along with the Huddersfield Narrow. So along with the Leeds & Liverpool closure it has been impossible to cross the Pennines for quite a few months now.

The New Civil Engineer magazine has published an article about the saga of the bridge. https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/network-rail-admits-significant-challenges-maintaining-sliding-canal-bridge-after-recent-failures-03-07-2025/

Does the Scancom EE pay in advance allow access to all bands? The 24 month unlimited one works out at £15 per month which is pretty good. Our EE contract is expiring in mid July so looking around atm.

Talking of beer I was brought up on Fullers. Chiswick Bitter was my favourite at 32p a pint. Sometimes I had London Pride instead at 34p.

So a thou and a mil are the same thing? How silly! ☺️

I thought a thousandth of an inch is called a "thou". I would say "mil" for us is short for a millimeter.

The Ripon Canal is closed at the moment until the water levels on the River Skell which feeds the canal improve. In other words it needs to rain quite a lot. The turn in at Selby is easier when neap tides are running rather than springs.

Not all deer can read. We saw two dead ones near Pollington Lock on the Aire & Calder the other day. Maybe there aren't enough escape ramps.

It was a long time ago but I definitely remember a scientific TV programme on the BBC such as Horizon reporting this error in measurement during the mirror manufacture.

I think it was the Hubble Space Telescope that they couldn't get to focus properly once it was in orbit. It turned out the mirror wasn't the correct dimensions due to some American inputting a measurement of something in imperial instead of SI units during the manufacture of the mirror. NASA being an international scientific sort of organisation had decreed that SI units must always be used. The upshot was that they had to send up a space shuttle and two astronauts had to do a space walk to fit an additional lens. It didn't cost much at all. 😊

Sorry for agreeing with you.

😂 Very good! Perhaps this retailer thinks that they will not have to do any HMRC paperwork and revenue collection by doing this? Does the propulsion/domestic split apply to sales of over 100 litres (measured in kgs) directly into a boat tank?

I've been listening since episode 1. Lots of interesting articles.

It depends where you are. Berkhamstead on the GU is noisy with those speedy electric Pendolinos zooming past until late at night. I didn't sleep well in Berko.

The Cheshire Locks? Yes. No restrictions at the moment.