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North Sea Rig loses anchors - helicopters sent
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CharlieOneSix » Sat Oct 21, 2023 4:41 pm
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Helicopters have been sent to assist a North Sea drilling platform which lost anchors during Storm Babet.
Stena Drilling said four of the eight...
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More than half the staff manning a North Sea drilling platform have been airlifted to other sites after several of its anchors came loose during...
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Sun Oct 22, 2023 9:39 am
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Some more John?, you are welcome!
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EA01 » Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:56 pm
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A couple more coming back to you John!,....hopefully..... :)
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Thanks for that, the page won't open for me but somehow I do not think I missed much.
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Last post by John Hill
Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:43 am
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Car diagnostics
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Boac » Fri Oct 13, 2023 5:10 pm
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Can anyone recall a thread on readers/scanners? I was prompted to consider buying one when my garage wanted £60+VAT to read my engine codes.
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I have the Autophix OM126 scanner. Easy to use and cancels an occasional engine warning light telling me that the variable valve inlet system is not...
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Last post by izod tester
Mon Oct 16, 2023 11:00 am
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Things you never see on TV any more...
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OneHungLow » Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:33 pm
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Things like wrestling on UK TV. The true theatre of the absurd...
One day it was there and then the next it was gone, and along with it wrestlers...
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That's why they don't do it any more - they've all died! :(
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Last post by tango15
Sun Oct 15, 2023 9:02 pm
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Looking for a photo.......
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CharlieOneSix » Sun Oct 15, 2023 1:31 pm
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A few months ago I saw a photo on t'internet, possibly on this site, of a wooden sign which said Beware of the D-- . Most of the lower half of the...
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Oh brilliant, OHL, that's the one - thanks very much!
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:26 pm
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what its all about for me now....
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EA01 » Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:01 pm
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.....So happy with this... :) ...truly helping people and making a difference!
I just wanted to leave a glowing review for (EA01) at (XXXX Clinic)....
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Well done! I know how you feel. I had a call from a client who had just received his commission, a keepsake box, to say how pleased he was. It's a...
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Last post by Hydromet
Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:53 pm
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Cooker Woes
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OFSO » Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:16 pm
A few months ago we (I) bought a new cooker, model Beko, a product of the Ottoman Empire. It has some strange characteristics. The front left burner...
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Last post by OFSO
Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:16 pm
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Frasier Reboot
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OneHungLow » Sun Oct 08, 2023 4:52 pm
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I was a huge fan of Cheers (am I showing my age?) and even more so of Frasier, having had a huge teenage crush on Roz Doyle, remember her? Anyway all...
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Very much +1 for fancying Roz Doyle (Peri Gilpin)! Such a shame it’s on Paramount+ as it’s a subscription channel. I don’t know how many times I’ve...
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Sun Oct 08, 2023 6:27 pm
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Emus outdo Ammo!
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OneHungLow » Sat Oct 07, 2023 3:41 am
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Just imagine if the foreign cane toads, camels and rabbits made common cause with the indigenous emus! :-o
Australia’s emu war: John Cleese outrun...
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I'd never seen that before - thank you! :))
:-bd
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Last post by OneHungLow
Sat Oct 07, 2023 5:46 pm
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Unfortunate Names
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frostbite » Mon Nov 28, 2016 5:45 pm
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I was introduced to a lady named Phoebe today.
The name always makes me chuckle inwardly as we had a girl blessed with the name Phoebe Beaby in my...
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Bill Anker You have to wonder why his parents hated him so much at the Christening. Like Richard Head (RAF Herc driver).
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Last post by Boac
Fri Oct 06, 2023 3:36 pm
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Ecclesiastical Duties
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G~Man » Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:41 pm
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Some know, others do not, but I am ordained in the Church of The Latter Day Dude .....or more commonly refered to as a Dudesit Priest .
Church of...
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They all look like fun, G~Man, as they should do.
Re weddings & funerals, when I first started selling my woodwork, many of the boxes were wedding...
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Last post by Hydromet
Thu Oct 05, 2023 10:42 am
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Major Owie From a Wedgie
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PHXPhlyer » Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:05 pm
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Disney sued over ‘severe’ injuries allegedly caused by ‘wedgie’ from water slide
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is facing a lawsuit related to an...
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It is amazing how dangerous some of these parks are.
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Last post by OneHungLow
Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:49 pm
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Has this site just gone to sleep or is it dying?
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OneHungLow » Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:16 pm
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I like this place but it sure has gone quiet these days...
We need more life here...
If I am wrong...
Bugger it... wake up!
UHL
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The fact that I couldn't get my printer to print just paled into insignificance.
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Last post by 1DC
Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:16 pm
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The Sphere
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PHXPhlyer » Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:02 pm
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Las Vegas’ Sphere venue debuted this weekend with concerts by U2. Here’s what it was like
Vegas Baby!
If there weren't enough ways to blow money...
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First U2 had The Edge, and now they have The Sphere! Is there no end to the cosmic geometry of this band?
Could it be that The Edge has become The...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:23 pm
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Kevin Costner Prince of Thieves iconic tree cut down.
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G-CPTN » Thu Sep 28, 2023 8:17 pm
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Living in Tynedale, just a few miles from 'the Sycamore tree in the Roman Wall gap', this is a local issue, yet interest is national and also...
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Unfortunately
No good deed goes unpunished. ~X(
PP
Just as well he didn't plant any more trees, as Sheffield council might have sent a...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:17 pm
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John Hill's Ashburton Aviation Museum DC3
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OneHungLow » Sat Sep 30, 2023 6:27 pm
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As mentioned by John Hill in the link above. Some good photo's on the Facebook page Mr Hill mentioned in the link above...
AshburtonDC3.JPG...
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One of my friends, now departed, told me how his Corsair had a propeller hitch when his flight was departing for the end of war ferry flight from a...
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Last post by John Hill
Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:52 am
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The Fox Hunt
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OFSO » Mon Sep 04, 2023 5:21 pm
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Where is Fox Three? Sadly missed..
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Ach zu!
So I see that some potential doppelganger, perhaps masquerading as the Fox, has appeared on the site, and that the denizens of this site,...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Wed Sep 27, 2023 6:19 am
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Chemtrails
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OFSO » Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:42 pm
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My house lies under the N to S track of aircraft flying from Europe to Africa over the Begur beacon (112.20 BGR). Just before lunch today, within a...
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I may have missed some out...I leave it to the other weather fundis here to add to the list...
You omitted cirrus flatulatus
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Last post by Hydromet
Wed Sep 20, 2023 11:14 pm
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Re Link Trainer project.
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John Hill » Mon Sep 18, 2023 12:55 am
We are now trying to get the software sorted before final assembly so that someone can climb in as soon as the paint is dry.
I want to use the four...
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Last post by John Hill
Mon Sep 18, 2023 12:55 am
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Progress on 2023 Subs
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admin2 » Fri Sep 08, 2023 8:23 am
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Thanks to all responders - going well, but a possible 22 'non-responders' leaving us on 29th! (That's site notice, posts and PMs)
Hopefully not.
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Sub sent this PM.
The Ancient Mariner
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Last post by Rossian
Fri Sep 15, 2023 5:37 pm
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Proctor Adventure
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John Hill » Wed Sep 13, 2023 7:59 pm
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ProctorInFlight.jpg
I was going to post an article about this aircraft(?) but have not found a way to do it, .ODT file of about seven pages. :( I...
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Jean Batten flew a Percival Gull from England to NZ in 1936 setting a world record and in a time that would not be bettered for a solo flight for 40...
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Last post by John Hill
Thu Sep 14, 2023 8:43 pm
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Unforgettable
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Karearea » Thu Sep 14, 2023 2:24 am
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For me, so far, and omitting family milestones and sentimental occasions:
Looking for and finding Halley's Comet, naked-eye visible, low to the...
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The sight of the Concorde coming in low over Zoo Lake Swimming pool while it was undergoing hot and high trials at Jan Smuts airport. Everybody in...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:18 am
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Last post by Boac
Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:23 pm
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The coolest accents...
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OneHungLow » Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:35 pm
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I have aways been partial to the New Zealand accent, which is even slacker with regard to diphthongs than my Capetonian slackness would ordinarily...
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We used to have a card carrying communist deliver the frozen shift meals to our oil terminal. He was hilarious from the midlands very excitable and...
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Last post by 1DC
Sun Sep 10, 2023 3:35 pm
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Train Crash in Aberdeenshire...
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TheGreenGoblin » Wed Aug 12, 2020 12:22 pm
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‘Serious Injuries’ and fire as ScotRail train crashes near Stonehaven
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Network Rail guilty of safety failings over crash that killed three
Company admitted it didn’t impose an emergency speed restriction or warn the...
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Last post by FD2
Sat Sep 09, 2023 3:09 am
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