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 on: Yesterday at 22:54:49 
Started by broadgage - Last post by broadgage
Quote from: Chris from Nailsea on Yesterday at 22:18:21
With thanks for your 'heads up', broadgage, I will tomorrow morning fill up my 5 litre green can with motor mower petrol (it's stored in the garage), the car (it's parked out on the drive) and I will also stock up with barbeque charcoal (also stored in the garage).  We have gas central heating, so I'm unable to panic buy that. Wink



Do you have any other heating, apart from gas central heating? or electric heaters.
If not it might be worth buying a portable heater that uses paraffin or bottled gas. And fuel for at least a weeks heavy use.

Any serious crisis is liable to interrupt electricity supplies, as a lot of our electricity is still from gas.

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 on: Yesterday at 22:40:04 
Started by Chris from Nailsea - Last post by Chris from Nailsea
From the BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page):

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Cornwall seagull sips man's coffee before stealing his mug



A gull has taken revenge on a man who was installing anti-bird spikes in a Cornish town - by drinking his coffee and pinching his mug.

Maintenance worker Darren Pardoe had been bird proofing houses in Porthleven when he stopped at a pub for a coffee on 3 June. He said he had been talking to someone before he turned around to find the gull helping himself to the hot brew. Before he could take action, the feathered thief flew off with the mug. "I think it had remembered me," he joked.

Recalling the coffee heist, Mr Pardoe said: "I turn round and sure enough a seagull's got its beak in my coffee... next minute the bird picks up the coffee cup by its handle and takes off across the harbour with it. It flew round the harbour and then landed on the water, put the cup down, and the cup just sank."

Mr Pardoe captured a photo of the bird in flight with his coffee mug.

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 on: Yesterday at 22:18:21 
Started by broadgage - Last post by Chris from Nailsea
With thanks for your 'heads up', broadgage, I will tomorrow morning fill up my 5 litre green can with motor mower petrol (it's stored in the garage), the car (it's parked out on the drive) and I will also stock up with barbeque charcoal (also stored in the garage).  We have gas central heating, so I'm unable to panic buy that. Wink

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 on: Yesterday at 21:52:45 
Started by TaplowGreen - Last post by grahame
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19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00

19:38 Weymouth to Swindon due 22:00 will be terminated at Westbury.
It will no longer call at Trowbridge, Melksham, Chippenham and Swindon.
It is being delayed at Yeovil Pen Mill.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system.

Wonderful end to a day trip

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 on: Yesterday at 21:36:27 
Started by TaplowGreen - Last post by TaplowGreen
22:12 Swindon to Westbury due 22:55
22:12 Swindon to Westbury due 22:55 will be cancelled.
This is due to a fault with the signalling system.

Sun, 15 June 13:32 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:45
15/06/25 13:32 Swindon to Weymouth due 15:45 will be cancelled.
This is due to a shortage of train crew.

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 on: Yesterday at 20:33:07 
Started by broadgage - Last post by Clan Line
Morrisons must have good contacts in Tel Aviv - they put their petrol prices up the day before the Israelis started bombing Iran   Grin

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 on: Yesterday at 20:32:07 
Started by rogerw - Last post by John D
Appears 205 is being diverted from Baker Street to go to Marble Arch, as a replacement for 30 (withdrawn Euston-Marble Arch).

Clearly TfL» (Transport for London - about) money saving idea

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 on: Yesterday at 20:13:08 
Started by rogerw - Last post by stuving
Your best bet in probably getting an 18 from bus stop R at "Bishops Bridge Road/Little Venice" (really between the two) which goes to Euston station itself. That's pretty close to Paddington - the traipse from Euston to St Pancras is longer, though still quicker in many cases than another bus. 

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 on: Yesterday at 19:50:06 
Started by grahame - Last post by grahame
Quote from: grahame on May 11, 2025, 07:39:47
Has anyone come across - used - this?

https://snap.eurostar.com/uk-en

Well - that drew a resounding silence.. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Report to follow.

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 on: Yesterday at 19:30:59 
Started by Chris from Nailsea - Last post by Chris from Nailsea
Quote from: grahame on Yesterday at 19:09:30
Err - you haven't asked, Chris - happy to respond if that WAS a question.  Think I have done.

No, grahame, it wasn't a question - more of a hopefully tactful introduction to my own post on this topic, relevant particularly to you.  Wink

They nearly got that squirrel, though!  Grin

CfN.  Wink

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