yen_powell

Well exactly. I do tell them that but it's going ahead and in some cases in place already. There is an idea that all children should walk or be walked to school and that is fine if it is within walking distance and parents have time to do it. Unfortunately lots of children are sent to schools that are too far to walk, or in the case of little children, the parents have to be at work at a certain time so the car gives them that time. Having said that, the driver behaviour I have witnessed outside some schools in disgusting and unsafe. I live next to a school and they are bad enough, but where I work it is a whole different level. A few months ago I watched a car stopped at a ped crossing by a lollipop man. The driver opened his door, took his child out and walked with him into the school. Left the car in the middle of the road for a few minutes till he came back.

I was hoping you could tell me. I have heard it mentioned, but can't recall what I was told. My next job is to turn this survey, that I've paid loads of money for, into a design for a traffic scheme with no puddles (hence the contour lines and level information). The problem is what was originally planned has now been cancelled due to the fact that word of it caused a local election to get lost by the ruling party, so I have to think of something else in the next few days. Then I have to go and build it. Beautiful spot for something though. right outside some park gates. I worked on the fabrication drawing for the metal part of the gates years ago.

Notice the Welsh and Bi-lingual sign icon on the top tool set on KEYsign. I don't think I could manage that one.

Back to work today and knocking out a sign for my boss as I am the only one to have a working version of KEYsign because I put it on my home PC so my employer's own I.T department can't muck it up. Already done 18 of the poxy things, all with different time restrictions and zone numbers and then an extra one dropped into my inbox this morning. The idea is to close streets outside schools to any vehicular traffic except residents during the little darlings' chucking in and chucking out time. The zone number refers to residents in that street who have exemption to pass in and out at those times. Now anyone that knows your typical Brit driver knows that they will go past any new restriction due to the fact they don't care or that they never look at any signs anyway because it was clear in 1985 when they last went through. So they plonk a camera up and ticket them to encourage compliance. Edit Please note despite me putting the screen caps in order, it has decided to reverse this so it is the wrong way round. Edit 2, can anyone identify the motorcycle used in all our No Vehicles signs?

Spanish builders I heard. Oak is cut whilst still green because it is bloody hard when it dries out. If there is any give in the framework then it will twist and warp. Hence some old timber frame cottages are quite straight, but most are on the wonk.

Just for Pete, I saw this about imperial measures.

I was out at a fake ELO concert last night and stayed over at my mate's house, so I was up and out at 7:30am this morning so he could go to work, I've got the day off so decided to head for a place 4 miles from home for a sit down in the sun whilst it was still out this morning. Cressing Temple Barns was a Templar property until just after nearly all of them were arrested on Friday 13th 1307 when most medieval monarchs took the excuse to seize their property. This was a working farm until my local council bought it in the 1970s. It's a nice place to wander about and costs nothing to get in if no events are on. They still have the receipts for the construction of the two larger barns, built in 1220 and 1280. I expect they are out of warranty now though. Apparently the tiles alone weigh around 70 tons.

Wonder if he's any relation to the Walking back To Happiness lady Helen Shapiro?

Another interesting tale from a seemingly ordinary person that you could meet in the street and not look twice at. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/09/20/the-return-of-benjamin-shapiro/

Bit of sump oil run through the hair and a rub of a car air freshener from the local pound shop always brings me up a treat.

Optical illusion, no matter how grungy they get, they always look cleaner in photographs. It's similar to the flattening of steep slopes effect. Also of course it's only a year old, the muckiness is still a work in progress.

I hadn't realised that one of those event photographers was there until I saw the little tent with a board covered in zillions of tiny images with numbers next to them. I stared hard as it blew back and forth in the breeze, but without reading glasses I had no chance of finding myself between 8am and 9:30am. Grabbed a card instead so I could find the website and checked it out on my large screen, much easier.

No idea, I just liked the red and white seats. I took the picture of the Bond Bugs next to this 3 wheeler because I used to have an orange Dinky toy exactly the same.

Went and visited my brother who lives about 2 miles away afterwards, not seen him since 2019 I think. He was telling me that he found two women walking along his street opening up peoples' wheelie bins and taking stuff out of them. He told them to fuck off and knocked on his neighbour's door to let him know that some one had been going down his bin. The neighbour exclaimed, oh it was probably them that stole the trainers. Turned out his son had trodden in dog do big time and left the trainers outside when he came indoors. When he came out to clean them they had been taken. edit. It's chucking it down outside now, perfect timing!

The kids, adults and a Lampkin throwing bikes over things

Last week I was helping my mate excavate a collapsed shed at his late father's house. We were trying to recover two bike wrecks he had stored back in the mid 80s. One was a TS250 frame and few other parts of it in boxes. He sold it for £450 to a dealer. I found it for sale today.

Never been before, which is a shame because it only cost a tenner to get in and was much better than the sad excuse for a show at Peterborough (Devitt/MCN?). Couldn't find my bike in the bike park when leaving, like a doddery old pensioner (no offence Pete). I was wandering up and down in a confused manner. Only XT1200 there as well. Turned out that in my head I was about 8 rows back from the front, I was actually only 3 rows back. I could see one of the stewards watching me, I must have looked like I was casing the joint for a bike theft. Dougie Lampkin was poodling past where I was standing when he saw a little girl waving so he slowed down and waved back. I was taking pictures of him at the time so caught a bit of it. I offered the picture to her parents, but it turned out none of us could manage to send it, so had to email it when I got in. There was some very young children attempting to ride over upturned skips, very brave, especially in front of a crowd. I had the place to myself when I first got there, so took a few pictures of the trials area and a lovely hearse and a product for the site owner.