Cambridge (x2)

Always gives me a buzz…. :wink:

Anyone any experience of using these apparently handy and useful tools ?

Following on from comments on Val Kilmer obit thread & The Doors…

Which musicians/groups “seemed to be everywhere” but everyone has forgotten about.

I’ll start with Nana Mouskouri. Only cos I had no clue she was proficient in singing in...

Well I did say i reserved the right to post in this forum!

The 21st century has caught up with rural Norfolk and now my 'landline' is no more. Everything come through the spiffy new router they sent me if you dial the 01842 number.

But

I...

Another canal breach has occurred, this time on the Macclesfield Canal above Bosley Locks.

No work has been done towards repairing the massive breach on the Bridgewater Canal at Dunham Massey that failed in the early hours of New Year's day. The...

Two days earlier than last year. Always makes the hair on my neck stand up when they arrive and means I'll be less grumpy for a few months :D

No, not our Iceman.

Th'other one.

…except, there is this bloke on social media who is *absolutely killing it*.

I’ve no idea where he gets all the reels from, but every day there’s a few minutes of “blast from the past” which is utterly glorious for a British car & nostalgia...

Not my bag, but it occurs to me that

AV 18 TOR

Will be valid next year..... how much woul that be worth and is anyone tempted?

Does anyone know how to set Google Maps to track up? I can’t drive the other way!

Yes, if you’re reading past the first sentence or so - you ARE a window geek.

I’ve just arrived at an old townhouse hotel on Corstorphine Road in Edinburgh. Inbound is too late to go any further, so I always book a room in an old building with...

ESA’s Euclid space telescope spotted twenty six million galaxies in one week in a relatively small area the first survey of its data shows. Difficult to get one’s head around the magnitude of what’s out there and how utterly insignificant we are...

With the many police programmes being shown on TV it can't have missed your attention that the drink/drive limit is 35 micrograms per 100ml of breath, however there is a lower limit which applies if you are a pilot, an air traffic controller or a...

A while ago I splashed out £££ on Channel 4 Plus to get rid of the eeennnndddlllleeesss inane adverts on Walter Presents (I do enjoy his foreign crime dramas etc), but I don't think I have watched a _single_ episode of anything that doesn't start...

I have an old iPad mini with what seems to be a 7.9 inch screen measured down the centre of its longer dimension.

It stopped updating at iOS 15.8.3 . It’s not a major issue as dear old Tim still supports SkyDemon on it but other things are...

Many thanks to the long suffering admin team for speedy Spam elimination. I hope a prevention strategy rather than cure might be in the works?

Well I reserved the right to pop up here from time to time for advice. But in order that I am 'in credit' I'm passing on a wheeze I discovered elsewhere.

As you know, the evil Ms Reeves is now going to start charging we bastions of Greta's Green...

BBC reports a cargo vessel and an oil tanker have collided in the North Sea to the north east of Spurn Head.
Both vessels are on fire and a number of people have abandoned them.

After something like 22 years it ends, not with a flounce, not with a ban, but with a final post to sum up what has been a blast.

The FLYER List is probably unknown to the majority now active on here, but it was an email group of pilots back in...

I heard today that Jenni Morton passed away on 18 February.

Jenni loved aviation, caused occasional mayhem on these pages and attended and even organised quite a few Flyer gatherings in the early part of this century. She was one of those people...

I have some alarm cables within a long ceiling run in a corridor and looks as though rodents have bitten through.
Unfortunately the site is next to number of takeways with lax hygeine policies and also some communal rubbish bins.
I realise that...

the first and last letters of the SEHT headset advert which appears as a strap up there ^^^^^ from time to time, and read it quite differently initially until the penny drops? :roll:

Is sending back some cracking images from lunar orbit, lander is due to touch down in a couple of days I think…

As above. Has the tech changed significantly?

My 10yr old McMurdo PLB is due a battery change, which will cost circa £140. Would I be better putting the money towards a new more advanced option, or is the tech still much of a muchness at this...

We have a client who is insisting on us having ISO9001 accreditation, we have managed for 30 years without it but then thats the way things are going now :(

I have been getting various 'consultants' (seem more like sharks) who wont give me a...

Recently completed, it is quite something!

Just that really. When trying to type in MS Word I have a Copilot logo blinking at me all the time where I'm trying to type.

I'm in the process of selling my house and thought I'd better clean all the windows for the first time in about five years. Yes, I'm grubby...

After falling off my chair from the quotes I got from a couple of window cleaners (when did they start...

This was in the latest 'Oldie' newsletter, but is itself presumably out of copyright. It is the syllabus for one term at Dulwich College when it was attended by P G Wodehouse. His books are full of throwaway lines in comic contexts which...

Two parter here Folks !

Friends I have known for 30 years have moved to the UK from Florida, He is Brit, she is US but married to him with full visas etc etc.

Part 1

He is a FAA CPL/IR fixed and rotary pilot. Skyvan, Caravan, Citation XLS,...

After 43 years I'm totally hacked off with Barclays and want to switch my current account.

First Direct seems to be on or near the top of all the reviews. Anyone have any first hand experience?

I just need a simple and reliable account that I...

My old one is struggling. (Windows 11)

What is the simplest and quickest way to transfer files to a new one?
I’ve seen some proprietary programmes claiming to do this, but always wary.
TIA

“A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.”

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who...

sweets came off ration.

The result of which was that my milk teeth and most of my adult set quietly rotted away..............

Mind you I've still got a gobfull of porcelain, mercury amalgam and gold..............all my own. :lol:

Mum has discovered a Burma Star which she says belonged to Dad, and might have been awarded to his father, who served in the Navy. Problem is, Grandpapa died when Dad was very young, and Dad died a couple of years ago, so we don't know the history...

Possibility of a large earthquake in the vicinity of Santorini.
Over 200 3 - 4 magnitude earthquakes have taken place near the island over the last 48 hours; siesmologists reckon it will be about 6 magnitude.

Huh - maybe I did know this in the past, but forgot or didn’t have as much of the story. The bloke who founded the Oxford English Dictionary..what a bloke!

TBH, he sounds a bit like a certain gent around these parts… :wink:

“By this time...

12 visible Chrome tabs are open but Task Manager tells me that 29 instances of Chrome processes are running. It's using around half the RAM which even on an 11th Gen i7 with 16GB is causing problems with other processes running slow or crashing....

On average, a baby is born every 2.35s. So each one is likely to be the youngest person in the whole world for a couple of seconds.

I rather like that :thumleft: :D

...can anyone suggest another UK town where this would be allowed? :lol: It was streamed live on BBC. As impressive as it is on film, it does not do it justice. :D

What an aptly named alternative to Xitter (Twitter, which became X), and quite a refreshing break.

Been on Bluesky since October, finally pulled the plug on X last week - as I simply couldn’t stomach what the owner of X was doing.

I chose a...

Starting a new thread as I (& others?) might have similar questions in future ..

Curtains

Does anyone have any experience with motorised curtains?

I'd like to automate three curtains in our Sitting Room; ours are fairly heavy & wide,...

I know we are little airplane folks on here, but some have connections with submarines (some more than others, obviously)

I used to enjoy watching them come & go when I lived in Greenock, & thankfully never ran into any whilst scuba...

Do any of the globetrotters of the forum have recommendations for travel insurance cancelation cover beyond the run of the mill 'high street' policy limits. I have a Nationwide FlexPlus with the standard £5k cover increasable to a max of £10k. I'm...

In July, I need to get 6 adults to Nice and back over one long weekend.

I'm convinced the EasyJet have found this out in advance and appear to be taking advantage on those dates!

Is there a trick to timing it right to get sensible rates?

Does anyone have any practical experience of dealing with HMRC as an attorney? My mother has been getting various and sundry correspondance from the taxman and, if I am lucky, it gets to me (eventually). She is pretty much totally gaga and bins...

Just heard this tale, from a reliable friend. Another friend had used Gatwick valet parking, within the past few months. Friend 1 met friend 2 for a coffee recently and noticed F2s Rav 4 had four mismatched tyres. He is nerdy like that. F2 had...

Should be a view of celebrities yachts :lol: