The latest inductee to The Library of Cool is “An Illustrated Guide to the Funicular Railways of Great Britain” by Amy Bartle.
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Intelligent Listening For Beginners
Back in 1987, Chris Boucher created the TV series Star Cops, and accidentally foretold everything about your daily life.
All of Merseyrail in One Day
A while ago, 2017 to be exact, I started working on a plan to visit every Merseyrail Terminus in one day, passing through every station at least once. Originally I planned to start and finish at Southport, while on holiday, but plans changed and I was going to try again in April 2020. Then Covid hit.
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Pizza Maths
Ordering a pizza used to be a hassle. Hunt down the leaflet, phone the number, recite the order, get them read in back to you, tell them your address, get them to read it back to you, put the phone down and hope for the best.
Now in the modern world, the apps make it all so simple. There is only one real dilemma left in the process… What size pizza gives you the best value for money?
Model Villages, by Tim Dunn
After saying that there was a need for a list of all the Model Villages in the UK, I was alerted to this book, by the nice @MrTimDunn himself.
Amerton Railway Steam Gala, July 18th 2021
Its been about two years since our last visit to Amerton, so we went up there for the 2021 Steam Gala…
Blackpool Balloon 710
710 was built in 1934 as open top streamline double deck car 247.
During WWII, all 13 top toppers were given roofs, to enable year round use.
Originally, it probably looked a lot like it’s sister car, the later 706 Princess Alice. Alice had also been enclosed, but was rebuilt as an open-topper following a collision:
Air Farce One (and Two)
As we all know, back in June 2020, it was announced the the Prime Minister’s sort-of-private transport was to be repainted in a Union Flag colour scheme, at the cost of £900,000. Yes, arch-clown Alexander Boris dePeffel Johnson, not content with his bus based shennanigans, decided to go for the all important aviation derision too.
The Curse of Half Man Half Biscuit
On November 20th, 1985, the song “D’Ye Ken Ted Moult?” by Half Man Half Biscuit was played on Radio One by John Peel. Less than ten months later, Ted Moult was dead. This was the first strike of a curse that would take many celebrities down.
RSGB TestReach Tutorial
You can get the feel of how the Online system works by using the links below and taking the TestReach tutorial – you can use it as many time as you like and you can pass it on to anyone who’s interested in the exams etc
Navigate to https://rsgb.testreach.com using your usual browser.
Username: testcentrecheck1@testreach.com
Password: rsgb123$TR
Click the ‘Take Tutorial’ tab
You should note that this is the standard TestReach tutorial and in it it mentions a couple of functions that we aren’t using, namely the Resource (Q6) and the Remote Invigilation (Q7) functions.
Thanks to Dave Wilson (M0OBW), for this info.