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Similar to a friend of mine who was pulled over on the M1. In response to the question "Why were you doing 95MPH sir?" he'd probably have got off much more lightly if he'd not responded "Because the idiot in the BMW wouldn't get out of the way"

And complain in your full name as well!

Which of course no modern construction project would ever suffer from (We've had one or two on our patch but rather smaller / less publicity) Very interesting - and thank you. A Million Cubic Yards sounds an awful lot. How does it stack up against a modern building project (I'm visualising a million Cu Yards as a cube 100 yards on a side or roughly a football field sized cube)?

Thanks Heartland - pretty much all the detail I could have asked for. Much appreciated.

No shooting intended. (But CWF doesn't permit "2 hours ago Alan de Enfield quoted..." as a header to a quote)

Pedant alert: - You can't have a piece of my mind; I have none to spare. You may however have peace...

Thanks - I'll go and re-watch on catchup (with pause button in hand) Now that I have to get! (I'm aware of the fun and games over the new station - I made myself unpopular at the time by pointing out that it was opened by visiting dignitaries at a time when it would normally have been closed to the public)

I loved the first episode of "Building Britain's Canals", not least as most of the story of the Grand Junction was around my neck of the woods, Wolverton (although I think the Iron Aqueduct at Cosgrove was, if anything, overdone) I was interested in the rivalry between the canal and railway companies and (at least as Channel 5 explained it) that the railway company snook out at night to build a bridge over the canal only for the canal company to snook out at night and demolish it! From context I think this was bridge 71A (https://canalplan.org.uk/place/qahv) Does anyone have more information on this? I've lived in the area over 30 years (and walk the dog under said bridge several times a week) and this is the first I've heard of it.

And our shopping / delivery habits have changed. (Cue Hovis music...) When I were a lad the local corner shop would have two, maybe three big blocks of cheese which they would cut to order. They had a regular delivery from their supplier which could be predicted days if not weeks in advance. If it took three / four days for the delivery to get there, so be it, even for relatively perishable items. The local corner supermarket now has over thirty varieties of cheese, each available grated, sliced, thick sliced and by the kilo in separate sealed pouches. the till reports to HQ "We've just sold one of our two packets of grated welsh goats cheese, send more" and the whole system relies on "just in time" ordering. Even if canals had the capacity to carry, they don't have the speed for our modern lifestyle.

Who mentioned cargo - "Mason and Smith Carrying Co" is carrying "Mason" and "Smith"; what more do you want?

So Pont Cysyllte Aqueduct is actually Pont Cysyllte Pont Dwr which is Water Bridge near Cysyllte Bridge; what's Cysyllte the Welsh for?

Some weeks ago I "reported" a thread as being a duplicate with a request the two were merged. It was actioned within 24 hours.

This ^^^ should be the first bullet point!

My site was with 1and1 but I moved (to 123-reg) as 1and1 were relatively expensive. I had good technical support from both. The site for my step-son he built on another provider (can't remember the name now). They were fine until they were bought out. The new owners were hopeless; even (in the end) neither acknowledging nor acting on his request to release the domain. In the end i had to get Nominet involved to forcibly redirect to 123-reg, a course of action which 123-reg talked me through. None of my sites are SSL but they all will be this week! Good support today is no guarantee of bad support tomorrow following a buyout!

Back in days of old when NiCd cells were common, many of them died through (for want of a better phrase) Lack of Exercise. Batteries which were left unused for extended periods developed an internal short as a crystal (Nickel? Cadmium?) bridged the two electrodes. A well know short term fix was to charge a honking great capacitor (100uF or so) to 5V and drop it across the affected cell. The instantaneous current literally blew the crystal away while the total energy wsan't enough to cause further damage as might happen if you just threw a 5v supply at the cell. Once the short was gone the cell could be charged normally. Slightly different application; restoring an otherwise "dead" cell but same principle?

Thanks - as a Parish Councillor I'll make a note of that!

Likewise However, depending on the frequency of the meeting this may cause issues itself; releasing the minutes of the April meeting in May is OK and logical, possibly the release of the AGM minutes following the next AGM are not (unless the business of the AGM is so glacial in speed as to not matter). In fact many entries in the AGM's I'm privileged (?) to attend are on the lines of "appoint auditors for the next financial year" so if the 2018 auditors couldn't be appointed until the minutes were agreed in 2019 we'd never get the job done.