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Thanks @Tacet and @Tim Lewis - I'm guessing it was just after I moved to Milton Keynes in 1984 when the tunnel re-opened? I've a vague memory of the Galleon in Wolverton serving a barrel of ale which had been "legged" through the tunnel.

Share where you wish - we have around 47,000 more to go! Although if any responses include the six digit reference it will help, that's unique across all sites posted to. Thanks for both posts - all welcome First time I've heard it called the "Danglebahn" but thank you!

It's taken a while, but the next 1,055 scanned slides are here https://www.bagpuss-and-baxter.org.uk/zenphoto/Imported/Import-No-2-November-2023/ (and there are a few thousand more in the post for scanning) As before, comments more than welcome, whether detailed or not; date, location and other observations will all be gratefully received! Reply here (including the image reference) or on my website. Thanks in advance

I've never had an envelope (in this context) "pulled" - As Chair of our Town Council's Planning Committee (we don't make decisions, we offer suggestions to the Unitary Authority who then ignore us...) it would be wonderful to have a developer who said "You know what, I don't think the regulations are tough enough. We'll comply with the rules, and then some, and trust you will then hold this as a precedent for other greedy B**** to achieve the same high standard"

@MarieC may not be able to access (or reply) new members need a certain number of posts for PM to function. Can't remember the exact number.

And the fundamental problem is Humans will always lag behind computers at the "simple" tasks - collect what looks like an email address and see if (at) makes more sense as @; or if removing the square brackets around my adrian[.]com makes it work better - computers are going to win...

Test Mickey@mouse.co[.]uk The email triggered a "needs approval"

The report of a stoppage included the contact email for CRT. The forum automatically needs approval for any post with an email address (it's designed [I think] to protect posters from spammers when they include a personal email in a post) The CRT one (which I won't include or I'll have to approve my own post!) often trips posters up - understandably when you copy and paste a "news" item and it get's blocked. @RichM - I don't suppose there is an "allow list" of emails that don't trigger the block - to be populated (sparingly) with one's such as the CRT address?

He was always much more adventurous than me - not in taking risks (although he did that as well) - but in searching out out of the way destinations. I did a school trip to France, he did a school trip to Moscow...

... or the pound above is empty...

Considered as a problem within the laws of physics, there are two requirements to solve: - You need to fill each chamber to a certain level (to meet the requirement of getting the craft in to (or out of) the next chamber) Water only goes downhill (unless back pumping is in operation) So the trick is to fill (or empty) the next stage in the sequence with the minimum amount of water going downhill (not just volume but "head") E.G. (all going uphill with full locks in front of you, but the scenario is reversible): - Single lock - empty into navigation below, drive in, fill from navigation above, drive out. Job done Single lock with side pond - empty half the lock into the side pond (as it is higher than the lower navigation), empty the rest into navigation below. Drive in. Fill from side pond (as it's lower than navigation above), fill from upper navigation, drive out. Single lock with two Side Ponds - empty chamber into A and close paddles. Empty rest of chamber to B and close paddles. Empty the rest into the lower navigation. Drive in. Fill from B (as it will be lower), then from A (higher) then from upper navigation - in each case closing paddles before you start the next one. Drive out

I'm in (relatively) deep doo-doo then. I'm a Civil Servant and have been advised for travel, "book it yourself and claim it back" - not just the odd train ticket but flights to a conference in Florida, the hotel in Florida. We used to have a (individual) corporate credit card but cost saving... etc ...

Annoying as it may be, there is a point. It doesn't stop infiltration, but it makes it absolutely obvious that the infiltrator knew what they were doing and broke the T's and C's (by giving an untruth on application) which is, itself, reason to ban them. And that this applies even if it was a human registering, with the intention of handing the account to a Bot when they were in.

The reference from @MIKE P is, I think, to the recently televised story of John Darwin, who faked his own death in a canoeing accident.

I think Jen is already on 1, 4, 6, 11 and 13... It's not quite as funny as it seems - captchas are an excellent way of training a machine how to think like a human... In @MtB example, the computer might know well that a Moped could be a bicycle but learns from captcha tests that 73% of humans think it isn't. So can be more like a human next time... Next...

Without casting aspersions on Nick (or any other [mammalian] forum member) - Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity - Albert Einstein

And the benefits of cassette / composting / pump out toilet. Hang on, we blocked a post (suspected of being AI) on precautions to take when installing a pump out...

But your response (at least on this date) shows you are not... Give it another few months when Bot's and AI give a credible "I'm outraged that you've blocked me" and we have a problem