Recent content by cornishjohn

When the water outside is about half a metre high, it is likely to start bubbling up through vents, airbricks, etc. Normal masonry is at risk of collapse once the external water height difference is about 1 metre (this is a "pressure" of about one ton (per unit area) at the base of the water...

I still haven't quite grasped the point here. Why do we need to specify "via Royston" in the negative easement? Is greatkingrat onto something with the 'via Hertfords' suggestion? Hackney Central/Highbury & Islington/Finsbury Park?

This is just bad app design. My app for a supermarket in Germany suggests a bunch of money off coupons to me, I enable those I want on the app, and the app then generates a single "super" QR code to show at the till for all the coupons at once. Simples.

Membership or otherwise of the local Vehrkehrsverbund will be the thing. Seems the St Goar and Oberwesel ferries do in fact take the ticket (footpassengers only, not in cars), but the Bingen ferry does not. Info about the Moselle ferries is much harder to find. I'm quite intrigued by the note...

Hadn't thought to try it on any ferries - would you mind saying which ones? Successfully and easily bought ours in the UK with a credit card via www.vrminfo.de. The ticket with them has a separate app to their timetable app, so be sure to install the right one. Bus drivers just waved us on...

Also not voting as well past the age, but when I was a young adult I had held a full passport since childhood, for school trips, and held a provisional driving licence from 17 and a full licence from 17 3/4. Whilst a student I dont remember any friends who were IDless. My daughter is in much...

There is no need for this. We already a comparable scheme in the https://www.citizencard.com/ which is a For most students, a "NUS Totum ID Card" is also a PASS card. I haven't seen anyone in this thread point out though that drivers licences, bus passes etc show no evidence of citizenship...

Like this? (But don't try at home folks.. Tolerances are way too wide) When I was in hall (1st year, 3A sockets only, 2nd yr upgraded to 13A) we were explicitly banned from using kettles, heaters, etc. Only low wattage equipment was permitted (stereos, table lamps etc.) Almost certainly similar...

Seems to me at this point the Any Permitted would have been refundable in whole on the "cancelled train" rule, and a new, cheaper, ticket could have been bought? But having used it it's too late.

[Sorry misread you.] They are. Hampton, Hampton Wick and Hampton Court were all settlements around the original manor, loosely arranged at three corners of Bushy Park, with Teddington on the fourth corner. Hampton Hill station was never built. (Ed.) The original line never went through the wick...

Ermm, just like to say I saw plans for a new reservoir at Abingdon while at a village fete in the area in 1987! This has been well and truly nimbyd.

I conjecture the name comes from this chap:

The pronunciation of numbers is not particularly a language barrier thing - as I think others have tried to say it is the audio quality of the transmission. On a bad line the numbers maybe misheard; -ive and -ine are very easily confused *when* lots of interference is on the line. Marine VHF...

I did write a long reply sometime ago but this seems to have disappeared. But I wasn't there to see an error code. So now my wife has been up to Town to see what she can achieve. One card wouldn't allow her on the tube in the first place. The second one did, so not a cancelled card. (In any...

Which is why some aerosols are moving to an inert propellant. I often see portable gas stoves on sale inside buildings in supermarkets too. I am inclined to believe this is an industry regulation rather than a universal regulation. I was once on a job where we couldn't transport and use nail...