crantock.bsky.social
Bloke living in Birmingham until can escape North. Interests railways and modern history
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Why not try again and ask for examples “under 25 years old”, “25-35”,etc etc
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Presumably a holding yard for rail wagons carrying explosives?
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Digesting the evidence…
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Try Abebooks.co.uk you can set up a “want” and it will alert you if it ever appears. The second hand market sets the real value on things.
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Will I wake in the morning. A new film aimed at over 80s (with subtitles)
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In part because of Cheshire green belt resistance.
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You may find she wants to live with you and not the wife.
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Some of us oldies have a soft spot for what we grew up with. But the biggest advances in history are surely moving from one countries view of the world to others’ perspectives and there BC and AD have no role. But really in most CE cases (say post Roman) there is no need to say anything.
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I was thinking of a bring your own party
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How about a local drink for every county you pass through. You may get removed before the journey ends.
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I give you the joys of Google AI….the loco pictured has cccp on the smokebox and is neither a BR 08 or in Aistralia. Mind you it looks like its on the Bristol Stool Chart.
Now where is your photo?
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The good thing about Birmingham is you can get out of it in a car to the countryside in a way you can’t do from the hole that is London. Me at home in Bham today, South Wales Sunday, tomorrow North Wales. Look where the sun is and go….
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Are you happy with your employer reviewing your tax return as part of the salary round?
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Ditto, but more understandable, re commodes.
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Ultimately, its another self indulgent article about London of no interest to the wider country. The weekend papers need to move beyond Londoners writing stories based on their last dinner party attended by samey people.
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“Making the carriages longer”. An interesting concept.
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The nationwide app is used to confirm it is you that is making an online purchase. As part of the payment process on a website you click the app, facial recognition and confirmation. Also you can block a stolen card. So needed abroad.
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You can probably crush it, bag it and sell to model rail enthusiasts. Seriously!
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Its available in the UK on Ebay. May not be in the US….
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You must be the only person asking AI to hallucinate….and you get one non-hallucination.
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Hi, interested in the pathing to your left and if the slabs are an original pave cartway. So I was wondering where this was please.
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Yes but the graph is not “some recovery” its doubling. Doubtless some/a good bit could have happened under state control but not the massive increase on West Coast and not the total fleet replacement in East Anglia.
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You youngsters have yet to meet a cardiologist
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Is the BCGI a play on the “goodwill” of BCCI. Orat leat name recognition.
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London perhaps needs public transport within the City Centre, most other cities are walkable and need public transport to the City Centre. Manchester is at the margins but trams and free shuttle buses cover the gap.
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Its the fixation with en-suites that takes it so far from family house. You could have a en-suite master and a shared for the kids.
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Much of the stuff I buy is so regularly sold that any seller will know the market rate. I only ever message sellers to correct descriptions where I expect an honest mistake.
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Not the slightest clue what that means. Perhaps I am not alone on hitting the bottle.
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Interesting to compare with the Iran hostage crisis resolved as a new US president came to power.
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This saddens me. Be strong.
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=LPCZ...
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Welcome. I trust you will fully use this account as I am sure I am not alone in withdrawing from X by unfollowing those that are here.
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Three draped in red, white, blue. The one with added blood wins.
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Gears up to mock Londoners and explain how by living in Birmingham I can go out anywhere in South, mid, north wales, lancashire, Derbyshire etc etc…… O M G its a total wipeout
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He got very few transfers suggesting a surprisingly divisive candidate.
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You may enjoy the alternative approach in the first paras of this blog www.weekendrails.co.uk/weekly-blog/...
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Possibly the first recession where the North is hurt less than the South?
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And if some farmland is sold for housing, does Labour cry buckets or tick off another pledge?
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The middle aged man sleeping alone is likely to seek a robot with other attributes than those designed.
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Budget airlines killed it. To be honest the plot was lost when the word “Terminus” started to appear after “London”. Amazing to think London could have 2 termini built and yet Manchester awaits anything escaping HS2 with its existing platforms.
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But got the timing wrong. Should have been a pause after “inside” and before “a place he’s never looked in the bible”
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How to tell people your daughter doesn’t go to a state school in Newark without saying it.
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I thought that was going to be another X exit comment
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Someone did once do a small diorama of Thomas in a scrapyard with the narrative ‘“Hello Thomas” said Gertie the Gas Axe. “Oh b*****” said Thomas’
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I assume when they landed in a forest in Siberia. Shooting in space would be game over.
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Memories of visits. (1) the poor restorers on the top floor had to listen to a motion activated Tony Blair speech every time someone entered. (2) trying to show Gen Z how a dial phone worked - it didn’t. (3) the bits re hydraulic power in Manchester were much more interesting. @garius.bsky.social
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The Financial Times was like that for years and randomly mentions unrelated companies or Investors to generate buys/clicks. Its easy meat… other bidders are thought to include x y z. Still is SEO journalist a job title to be proud of?
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Hey but if that were Twitter they would all be “female” have 5 followers, follow 2000 and have a link to their exclusive pics in their bio.
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Where all fail is the translation. I work in a multinational and have friends whose 1st language is not English. Translation is painful and at best is a reply by reply. That is the issue with US lead (Twitter/FB/Threads) or underfunded (Bluesky? Masto deff)
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Early days but seems to work for me. I am looking at people I follow on Twitter and searching them here. Twitter’s issues are known but may in part be due to size. Threads seems American and pushes the same stuff as FB and IG. Mastodon’s attraction should be localisation but its underdeveloped.