WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Wendyf
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Thanks Ken! 46 years ago today in Chester.
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Happy anniversary, Wendy, you're not far behind us!
No, but I remember hitch-hiking on the German autobahns around 1970 and there were 100s of tiny service areas, which made the journeys safer - and more comfortable!
Nullius in verba: On the word of no one (Motto of the Royal Society)
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Happy Anniversary Wendy and Colin, I'm not too far behind...
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Happy Anniversary to both of you!
It's a miracle I can post this, we have BT men up both the poles in the back street. I suspect we'll be off line shortly.
It's a miracle I can post this, we have BT men up both the poles in the back street. I suspect we'll be off line shortly.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Happy Anniversary Wendy and Colin
And many more
And many more
I know I'm in my own little world, but it's OK... they know me here.
- PanBiker
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They will be running the fibre cables to the poles Stanley. Open Reach have done all ours on the Croft and along Commercial Street. The fibre cables are separate to the existing copper network but they have manage to drop my broadband speed by 10Mbps from 56Mbps to 46Mbps. Never had an outage though throughout the procedure.
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They were doing it in the town square when I was there last week.
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Given the reports of the fibre network not being up to speed, and the hacking of Internet services I am wondering if VoIP is not going to be the worlds best thing. Of course digital multiplexing has long (well 1950s analogue I think started in the USA, and came in the UK 1970s?) but I think the letting go of the electro-mechanical exchanges might prove to be a loss of resilience that might well be shown to have been needed.Stanley wrote: ↑02 Jul 2021, 03:18 Happy Birthday Graham, many of them....
What has grabbed my attention even more of late is the unreliability of the BBC 'outside lines' which are managed as internet calls. 'You and Yours' yesterday had almost every call fail and had to apologise to listeners. Why is this so bad?
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Thanks everyone for your good wishes.
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Well deserved Wendy....
Yes, both back street poles fully fibred up,Wellhouse Square has miles of cable hung on the pole.....
Today... The fact that it's raining very heavily.
Yes, both back street poles fully fibred up,Wellhouse Square has miles of cable hung on the pole.....
Today... The fact that it's raining very heavily.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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It's interesting to note also that prior to the required roll out of fibre to pole. Open Reach had a lot of the poles in Barlck tagged as unsafe for climbing, they all seem to have miraculously fixed themselves. Up and down multiple times on both "condemned" ones on Bessie and Commercial Street and also the one on Green Street which was also tagged as unfit.
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It's a different team doing the fibre (they get paid more than the regular Openreach engineers apparently), perhaps no one has told them they're not fit for purpose.PanBiker wrote: ↑06 Jul 2021, 09:22 It's interesting to note also that prior to the required roll out of fibre to pole. Open Reach had a lot of the poles in Barlck tagged as unsafe for climbing, they all seem to have miraculously fixed themselves. Up and down multiple times on both "condemned" ones on Bessie and Commercial Street and also the one on Green Street which was also tagged as unfit.
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- Stanley
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BT men and vans flooding the back street again. I wonder how much it will have cost to upgrade the Barnoldswick connection?
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Its fairly irrelevant I reckon Stanley. A necessary upgrade to the copper network infrastructure. The increase in revenue offered by fibre will soon negate the costs.
Ian
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Boris's possible reply to the England V Denmark football match.
"I think its an opportunity for England to show that not only do we lead the world in rolling out the vaccines and building a fantastic Track & Trace but demonstrates that once we have shook off the dead hand of the EU we will forge ahead with even more fantastic deals on the World stage".
Q)And what happens if they lose?
A) Its only a game of football.
"I think its an opportunity for England to show that not only do we lead the world in rolling out the vaccines and building a fantastic Track & Trace but demonstrates that once we have shook off the dead hand of the EU we will forge ahead with even more fantastic deals on the World stage".
Q)And what happens if they lose?
A) Its only a game of football.
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I was going to say that but you got there first.
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- Stanley
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What grabbed me was a bit of sloppy work on the engine, I shall do it again this morning. I was going faster than my eyes could cope!
The fact that Margaret took delivery of a new car yesterday. The dealer put the bow on.....
The fact that Margaret took delivery of a new car yesterday. The dealer put the bow on.....
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Stanley's View
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Nice
I know I'm in my own little world, but it's OK... they know me here.
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She thinks so Cathy. Daughter Laura paid the difference between sale value of old car and price of new one. She must have been reared well!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Stanley's View
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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I took this photo of replica tramroad wagons near where we stayed in Cornwall. They're in the garden of a house by the creek, sited where the old mine tramroad ended. Very appropriate.
Nullius in verba: On the word of no one (Motto of the Royal Society)
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Complete with Piskie....
Anyone remember Joan the Wad?
Much excitement in Pioneer Car Park at 12:30. Two police cars with Blues and Twos raced down the side of the Co-op from Rainhall Road and head for the War Memorial. One woman jumps out and shouts at the other officer who shoots off, siren blaring, and vanishes down Wellhouse Road. The woman PC runs across to the Co-op.
That's it....
Anyone remember Joan the Wad?
Much excitement in Pioneer Car Park at 12:30. Two police cars with Blues and Twos raced down the side of the Co-op from Rainhall Road and head for the War Memorial. One woman jumps out and shouts at the other officer who shoots off, siren blaring, and vanishes down Wellhouse Road. The woman PC runs across to the Co-op.
That's it....
Stanley Challenger Graham
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scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Stanley's View
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Air ambulance has recently flown over, possibly liked to the police incident?
I do, my mum carried a small brass version of Joan in her purse, supposedly for good luck. I think it came our way when we were sorting out effects but I have no idea where she is at the moment, Sally might know.
Ian
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According to Facebook there's an incident outside the Spar garage opposite Aldi. Skipton Road is currently closed.
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