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    Fettling and balancing
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    Pretending to be sober and respectable

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  1. Why the hostility toward wasps? Have you got stang off a wasp, to use the Viz parlance ?
  2. If you need to splice a new cable in, Midnight would seem a good choice to me when the load is vastly reduced and most people are in bed.
  3. One of my colleagues was waken up with a big explosion up the hill from Woodseats, somewhere below Derbyshire lane. It could have been something to do with an electrical fault maybe? Also some workmen are laying new electrical cables across the area, Down Cobner, along Chesterfield road and up Holmhirst. It is a big trench with new cable ducting in it. Not sure whether this is a standard upgrade or renewal or something more urgent due to lack of capacity/fault.
  4. My understanding of the issue is that to preserve the Battery and make it last for as many years as possible, the battery is charged more gradually overnight and not to 100%. So there wouldn't be a massive peak evening demand, the charging demand comes through the middle of the night, but it is spread out over many hours depending upon the charging profile.
  5. Yes and four of those 7 resulted in a Democratic President.
  6. I've been watching the recent Trump stuff with great interest. All the channels I have seen reporting trump speeches and comments portray him as an unhinged psychopath with dementia symptoms. The fact that he has given prominent positions to his own family members is frankly bizarre. The BBC politely report that his use of the White House to deliver Election Speeches as Unconstitutional and possibly even illegal. While Biden appears to be a safe and sensible prospect. The BBC radio have Republican speakers interviewed to put their side of the story, but they don't come across as normal. It would be easy to conclude from this side of the Atlantic that Biden will win easily. However I don't believe it. Trump did have the support to win last time although it was close and I just don't believe that we are being presented with an unbiased view of the situation. I think we should expect that Trump will probably win as that is what normally happens to an incumbent president. Whether we like it or not.
  7. Having listened clearly to scientists about this matter, it seems that the test is only partly reliable with so many false positives that it is not usual to test people who don't have symptoms for Covid-19. Even people who work in hospitals can't get a Covid test unless they currently show enough of the symptoms. The only way to prove you are Covid Free is to isolate for 14 days.
  8. They have always run up there as far as I remember.
  9. Please hand in your driving licence. You clearly are not competent to be driving a vehicle if you cannot negotiate the very simple traffic system in Sheffield city centre. And what ever you do, don't be tempted to drive across London or Leeds.
  10. It's blindingly obvious when you walk down the moor as the café is in the window. Was always well used.
  11. The problem here is that the great majority of people and especially leaders had a very different view of ethnic origin that we do today. I know one of my grandparents had a very old fashioned and fairly offensive viewpoint in the 1970s and 80s which became far less bad before they died in the 1990s A few years ago in Hungary, I visited the communist statue park. This was an out of town museum in the open, out of town full of communist era statues that used to be in prominent places in the region. There was information and pictures explaining what they meant to the people at the time and where they stood. Some were plain and others elaborate and vast. It was informative and enjoyable. There were also souvenirs and a visitor centre. Instead of destroying or storing old statues out of view, we should consider this kind of thing, making a feature out of them and giving students and interested people a place to see and study them.
  12. j4wm, In respect of your enquiry about "duff bombs". I believe that the bombs dropped on Sheffield during WWII were not all the same type. As well as large bombs there were also incendiary devices; http://www.ww2airdroppedordnance.com/incendiary-bombs.html These were not for blowing buildings up, they were used to start fires. I know of sites around Sheffield where these bombs were dropped and caused damage to property and this was later repaired.
  13. Yes. The Lines were long gone (15 years?) before Tesco was built. If you look at the Southern Railway Bridge of Archer Road. It is Adjacent to the old Station building. The distance between the Current lines and the Station Building is where the old pair of Local Lines are missing. Next there are two blocks of Industrial units before Tesco all built on the track bed. As to why was this allowed. Most of these new buildings have been there over 20 years, when the UK had had 30 years of neglect of the Railways. It probably wasn't considered likely that they would expand again. The 1980s was still the motorway age when it was assumed everyone was better driving cars, this only came to a slow halt in the 1990s with the protests against M40 and Newbury Bypass signalled the change in public and political mood.
  14. The most obvious question is why did people do this in the first place. Hard labour for the sake of it.
  15. HS2 was/is set to skirt the edge of Rother valley. Maybe the land is now reserved for construction.
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