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Mind the gap

Posted by on January 21st 2020 in Driveway-blocking feckwits and piss-poor parkers

Ford Focus fitted with Rear Parking Senseless:

Not the smartest of ideas on refuse-collection day, I know how cavalier the bin-lorry drivers can be.

United Colours of Breakfast

Posted by on October 30th 2019 in Just for fun
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Hospital food's not so bad.

p.s. I'm not back in hospital, it's an old pic from when I was in the BMTU on 1st May (transplant day).

Spring forward, Fall back.

Posted by on October 25th 2019 in Blast from the Past, Just for fun

Just a reminder that we turn the clocks back at the weekend.

I'll be turning ours back to 1940, to when the country had balls and teeth, rather than keeping it set to 2019 with the country at the mercy of overseas knobs with too much lip.

WWII Sector Clock image posted under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (see here).

Post inspired by CJR.

PAXit negotiations

Posted by on October 24th 2019 in Just for fun
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Posted under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License (see here).

Self-evident truth

Posted by on October 23rd 2019 in LMAO!, Lost in translation

Observing Report 22nd October 2019 (Once in a Lucky Blue Moon)

Posted by on October 22nd 2019 in My vids, Observing Reports, Video (YouTube, Vimeo etc.)

Here you go - an ISS Lunar Transit from 22nd October 2019. Lucky because the weather has been, and is forecast to be, crap. Blue because it was a daytime transit.

ZWO ASI174MC on the C80ED-R refractor, 1936 x 1216 px raw .avi data at 160 FPS converted to 16 FPS. It's best viewed in full-screen at 1080p.