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Air photo interpretation
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Hydromet » Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:26 am
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I'm sure we have some people here who know a bit about aerial photo interpretation, so You may be able to assuage my and my neighbours' curiosity....
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There was nothing much there in the 1960s - I used to live just over a mile east of the point.
We used to go adventuring in the valley just east of...
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Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:13 pm
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The Queen's Reading Room
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probes » Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:49 pm
For each re-read book there's an unread book says Sir Ian Rankin and feels slightly guilty.
I liked it. Must be getting old? #-o
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Last post by probes
Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:49 pm
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DNA Testing in France
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llondel » Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:57 pm
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I read today that casual DNA testing is illegal in France. If a judicial process requires it then OK, but if you want to check that your father...
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There is a very old saying that It's a wise man who knows his own father . DNA testing brings in to sharp relief the truth of that saying.
The...
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Last post by Rossian
Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:21 pm
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AI
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probes » Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:19 pm
- just askin', after taking a look and findin' some real good jokes on the topic :) - is there anything you've found useful with the AI-thingies,...
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Last post by probes
Fri Jan 05, 2024 1:19 pm
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Link Trainer Project..
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John Hill » Wed Sep 14, 2022 7:01 am
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Likely lads working on our Link Trainer replica!
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Thanks for that interesting page.
So the RBI it is then. I have so far managed to almost totally avoid any flickering and I would like to keep it...
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Last post by John Hill
Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:34 pm
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Taking aircraft under bridges
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llondel » Sat Dec 30, 2023 5:42 pm
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This one got stuck. It's a video clip on the BBC.
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The A5 Pass was a great place from which to wave up at car drivers, having just swung north and down after crossing Llyn Ogwen.
Several civvies have...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Mon Jan 01, 2024 12:48 am
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Q for Ricardian
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llondel » Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:42 am
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Here's one you can probably help with - a friend from a warm place is apparently visiting Orkney and Shetland in July and is wondering what to wear,...
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Eight :YMHUG:
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Last post by limeygal
Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:09 am
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Royal Tattoo Earls Court
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Alisoncc » Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:06 am
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Briefly watching the The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2023 on the telly. I was in the band at RAF Locking and we got to do an intro at the Royal...
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Picking up on Jim's post. I once attended a day's training session of the Plymouth based gun crews, escorting a French submariner (who was still a...
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Last post by Rossian
Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:03 pm
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Happy Christmas!
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CharlieOneSix » Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:28 am
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Rather high on the approach but nevertheless.......
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I went to a fish supplier I trust and had a choice of several strengths of smokeyness. Very nice it was .
Wonderful daughter and family having left...
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Last post by Rossian
Wed Dec 27, 2023 7:48 pm
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Minger: Is this the world's stinkiest cheese?
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CharlieOneSix » Fri Dec 08, 2023 3:26 pm
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Somehow the name seems appropriate and very descriptive - a minging cheese! =))
The word 'ming' comes from the old Scottish English word for a bad...
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I bought a revoltingly stinky French cheese in the hyper last week. The wife kept saying to me that the sewer u bend was blocked and needed rodding....
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Last post by OFSO
Mon Dec 11, 2023 4:09 pm
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*Ibbie*
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Wodrick » Sun Dec 03, 2023 8:39 am
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I have a mail from Kath, *Ibbie's wife.
*Ibbie* (Dave Ward) died in a Nursing Home yesterday afternoon.
For the moment that is all I know.
Another...
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Thanks for following up on Ibbie. Sounds like it was a real cluster!
Flatmate's father passed away. He had a reputation for being notoriously late...
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Last post by limeygal
Mon Dec 11, 2023 11:08 am
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Christmas dinner
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Hydromet » Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:45 pm
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As just the two of us are at home, and the two daughters and their families are spread around, for the last couple of years we've had a quiet...
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We've had goose for the last 3 years
This year it's a stuffed heritage breed turkey crown from an organic farm oop in t'Yorkshire (same outfit who...
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Last post by Opsboi
Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:16 pm
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When it's just the 2 of you...
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Opsboi » Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:54 pm
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...do you have dinner at the table (no telly) or on trays (in front of the telly)?
Or some other arrangement?
Just curious, no judgement either way
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Since we both have itchy feet and are always dashing about, Mrs Jim and I try to make 7:00 p.m. a time when we actually sit down together: a fixed...
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Last post by Opsboi
Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:53 pm
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What A Fiasco - Three Year Cruise Canceled
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PHXPhlyer » Fri Nov 24, 2023 7:35 pm
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The three-year cruise is canceled
They had signed up for the experience of a lifetime: three years traveling the world from the comfort of a...
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My medical friend says cruise liners are floating petri dishes. I don't think he's far wrong.
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:44 am
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Nolotil
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OFSO » Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:53 pm
See post on sick bay section.
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Last post by OFSO
Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:53 pm
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Last post by OFSO
Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:21 pm
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Holidays - Some from Hell!
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OneHungLow » Wed Jul 12, 2023 8:38 am
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I can remember going on some grisly family holidays as a child. Holidays adorned with memories of bluebottle stings, heat rash, an allergic reaction...
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I am sorry but the DM article is fake news.
We don't know how big a house 60-year old Richard has, nor how many children.
Same goes for Jan Bendall,...
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Last post by Dushan
Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:10 pm
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T3 to Reading
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talmacapt » Wed Nov 15, 2023 4:00 pm
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Advice required.
Mrs TC, and I, are visiting UK and arriving LHR Terminal 3 (Finnair as BA no longer operates the route).
My son usually picks us...
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Thanks for the replies.
Had a think about it and decided changing trains at Hayes will involve changing platforms.
Unless it has changed with the...
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Last post by talmacapt
Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:05 am
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I realised Civilisation was falling when ......
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Hydromet » Sun Oct 15, 2023 9:37 pm
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As suggested by Fox3
I realised Civilisation was falling when the local bakery stopped selling steak & kidney pies.
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... when ALL politicians are seen to be unelectable and the only alternative is, 'none of the above'.
+1
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Last post by llondel
Thu Oct 26, 2023 12:58 am
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Knysna, Western Province
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Opsboi » Sat Oct 14, 2023 11:51 pm
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Going for my nephew's wedding next week
Any musts or mustn'ts?
Will be renting a car but as we have an apartment in K for 2 weeks, day-trip...
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Stopped by police for a random stop and search on my way back from Plett to Knysna
When asked to show my driver's licence, I said it was back in my...
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Last post by Opsboi
Wed Oct 25, 2023 10:35 pm
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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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