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under the flight path. City Airport is less than three miles away heading west. The area, particularly the newer developments to the west, stands to be affected adversely by plans to increase the number of flights to/from the airport by 40%. It was up to Newham Council to grant permission, but Greenwich and Bexley contain the areas where people will suffer for it.
Thamesmead has been shafted by successive governments when it comes to transport provision - it has always been so. The 472 bus is the best link the area has, putting the area within one bus trip of the tube, albeit a 40 minute one. A surprising number of people do it - many for the low-skilled 'invisible' jobs that exist around Canary Wharf.
The story so far:
TfGM bus stop flag had been attached to street lamp.
Tameside Council/TfGM/Whoever came along and constructed a Kassel kerb - one of several being fitted in the area to improve kerbside access to low floor buses.
Just over a week ago, Tameside Council came along and cut down the lamp post, leaving just a stump in the ground.
Consequently there is now no longer a bus stop at the newly constructed Kassel kerb.
Also, the lamp post had already been marked with its condemning blue cross before the kerb crew turned up and delicately paved around it.
In an ideal world, I'd like to think that TMBC would at least give TfGM a call to say that they now had a superfluous 346 bus stop flag in their possession; perhaps they could even post it to them. Or that maybe it will only be a matter of days before a man in a TfGM van turns up and erects a new pole and flag; or perhaps someone from the Council to plant a new street lamp into the ground, along with said detached sign. But I'm not holding my breath.
The major irony is that the bus stop had previously been sited on the next lamp post down to the left; but it was moved one space along several years ago when - you guessed it - the street lamp ended up cut down at the base.
Hyde (Newton), Victoria Street, 15/05/2021. Posted 22/05/2021.
On route 142 to Ripon is Scania L94UB Wright Solar YN05GXB with Eddie Brown in Piccadilly passing Arriva Yorkshire Transbus Dart Plaxton Pointer 2 SN55HTY working route 24 to gibberish. The destination is strange on this one, as it only does this with the 24/26/27 routes, but is completely fine with every other service worked from Selby depot. One possible reason for this destination cockup is that it was programmed using the setting for a Dot Matrix flipdot type display - however this is unlikely as I don't believe Selby actually has any buses with flipdot displays left.
To sum up what happened, I got up at 05:30 to see 6X43 St Pancras to Kingsbury EMR, which was booked to pass Tamworth at 07:19. This train consisted of GBRF 66 66704 hauling Eurostar Class 373 373006/005 but due to the fact that it ran late, I had to miss it. Before all that happened, London Midland Class 323 323202 is seen at University with the 16:20 2N02 Birmingham New Street to Longbridge.
I sold bucket loads of new Hoover Vacuums at the time, This is one of the promo tickets you attatched to the item.
Yes you really did get TWO free flights for New York or Orlando if you purchased a hoover over £100. you had to take the dates they provided. A few Hoover bosses losts there jobs & cost Hoover £40 million!
Local paper classifieds where bunged up with dozens of brand new 'unwanted gift' Hoovers for sale!....all so funny!
One of the original Great Western County class which were 4-4-0..This is County of Worcester and all were withdrawn in the 1930s..a class of 40 locos built from 1904 ten of which carried the names of Irish counties.the other 30 were named after counties the GWR had lines running through but in true GW fashion an almighty cockup saw 3821 named County of Bedford a county nowhere near the Western...this mistake was rectified years later on the Hawkesworth 4-6-0 counties when County of Northampton was rightfully used instead of Bedford.
From the centre of Trusmadoor, looking NW. Two walkers I had just passed, now making their way up to Great Cockup. I saw them again a couple of hours later, atop Great Sca Fell.
o'Skiddaw region is an area of wild and unfrequented moorland to the north of Skiddaw and Blencathra. Tops in this region include High Pike, Carrock Fell, Brae Fell, Meal Fell, The Knott, Longlands Fell, Great Cockup, Great Sca Fell and Great Calva. The fell's slopes are mostly smooth, gentle, and covered in grass, with a few deep ravines.
All of the images on my pro account that have made it to Explore, thanks guys :)
1. Scaleber Force, 2. Blackpool, South Shore, 3. Ullswater from Arthur's Pike, 4. Blencathra, Wild Camp., 5. Threlkeld from Hall's Fell, 6. Scafell Pike from Hardknott Castle, 7. Castlerigg Stone Circle, 8. Wild Boar Fell,
9. Coniston Old Man from Brown Pike, 10. High Street from Harter Fell, 11. 45,000 Mirrors, 12. Derwent Water, 13. Wast Water from Middle Fell, 14. Take A View: Landscape Photographer Of The Year 2011 Awards Exhibition, 15. Ingleborough from Norber, 16. Ingleborough from Smearsett Scar,
17. Pen-y-ghent & Ribblesdale from Giggleswick Scar, 18. East Cairn Hill, 19. Scald Law from Allermuir Hill, 20. High Seat, 21. High Seat, 22. Ingleborough above Crummack Dale, 23. Great Cockup, 24. Derwentwater,
25. Derwentwater, 26. Ullswater, 27. Howgill Fells from Cow Dub, 28. Howgill Fells from Cow Dub, 29. Ashness Bridge, 30. Bassenthwaite Lake, 31. Tewet Tarn, 32. Tyne Bridge,
33. Bassenthwaite Lake, 34. Gateshead Millennium Bridge, 35. Derwentwater from Grange Fell, 36. Edinburgh Castle, 37. Hangingstone Scar, 38. Aira Force, 39. Morton Loch & Castle, 40. Grey Squirrel,
41. High Crag above Buttermere, 42. Wast Water from Middle Fell, 43. Blea Tarn, Eskdale
Team:
Lee Collett
Lee Chapman
Steven Clark
Adrian Tavener
Robert Britton
Neil Dexter
We started the night at the Armoury as it was a home tie but due to an alley booking cockup we ended up giving away home advantage and played at Stoke WMC top alley.
After settling down to our new surroundings and having kickout the band which was practicing the game got underway about an hour late.
The game had it all, ducks. missed spares and drama.
After 6 hands a piece we were tied and an extra hand had to be played. We hit a 37 and they managed a 40.
Well time to focus on the league (or is that too late aswell)
Twitter: @Skittlers
- Taken at 9:06 AM on February 24, 2010 - uploaded by ShoZu
Right back in June, on an errand out to Harefield, returning on a 331 to Northwood and on the met back in. I avoid 'farewell runs', not really being the social type when it comes to these things, I prefer to let firsts and lasts come and go naturally.
My enduring memory of these will be their permanent state of low level vandalism and the faint smell of urea, but the high backed seats and lack of announcements gave you a sense of your own space on the longer journeys out, an experience which leaves London completely with the departure of these trains. The mostly longitudinal seats and walk-through layout on the new S stock makes for a totally different experience, but one London Overground users like myself will be well used to by now.
A more irritating development to come out of this apparent 'rebirth' of the Met is the withdrawal of all semi-fast/fast trains outside of rush hours, which has added ten minutes to journeys between central London and north of Moor Park. I presume the idea was to give a better service to the local stations between Moor Park and Wembley Park but that has come at a high price. Perhaps LU's guiding principle here was one of 'operational simplicity' - less switching of points and pathing and repathing between fast and stopping trains along the line provides less scope for infrastructure failures and human cockups, and less likelihood that those delays would spill onto other services. But other mainlines manage it well enough - it is what a railway should do. I wonder how travellers in from Epsom and Leatherhead would have reacted if South West Trains had made their semi-fast trains call at all shacks into Waterloo - like on the met, the intermediate stations are already offered a very good service.
Hard on the heels of my "Waterloo to Yarm Special", here is another railway related location howler, which I first spotted on Friday too.
Showing a fare to London of £11.60, this ad is obviously meant to be posted in a specific town, but since London Midland don't operate to Woking or anywhere nearby, the agency have obviously cocked this one up !
Maybe it was meant for Watford or somewhere that way?
Woking, Surrey
30th January 2011
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Seen recently in Sheffield by light blinded for A1X. Total cockup of a shot which I managed to recover.~
*https://bustimes.org/services/a1x-amazon-iport-sheffield
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"Todays Low will be -48° Centigrade with a High of 10° Centigrade." Would you believe a Forecaster who said that ?
It's -35° Centigrade now but within 2 hours the temperature will be 10° Centigrade; so that OK then.
I cannot remember where i was when this occurred, but it sure as hell was nowhere near -35° C.
At least there was no precip anywhere near.
PS i was not at Barkway, i have never been there and do not even know where it is !!
Taken with a Vivitar "Ultra Wide and Slim" camera, this cheap simple camera has developed something of a cult following, it has a 22mm lens and a fixed shutter speed.
Shot on Maco Eagle developed in Rodinal 1:25 for 12 minutes.
I messed this up fine style, the lid came off the developong tank shortly after I poured the developer in! Although I replaced it immediately, severe fogging was inevitable, I've done what I can to rescue the negs in the scanning, but the results are pretty poor.
Here's my wheelie bin, nice isn't it, these new smaller bins are looking quite smart with that graphic printed on the front, nothing wrong with a bit of civic pride, I applaud it, the image is however THE WRONG WAY AROUND .... the City of Bristol coat of arms, has, since it's inception always depicted the ship sailing away from the castle and pointing westward, in this new incarnation it is approaching the castle from the east .....
Taken with a Vivitar "Ultra Wide and Slim" camera, this cheap simple camera has developed something of a cult following, it has a 22mm lens and a fixed shutter speed.
Shot on Maco Eagle developed in Rodinal 1:25 for 12 minutes.
I messed this up fine style, the lid came off the developong tank shortly after I poured the developer in! Although I replaced it immediately, severe fogging was inevitable, I've done what I can to rescue the negs in the scanning, but the results are pretty poor.
In York Piccadilly, having just changed from a route 27 working, is Transbus Dart Plaxton Pointer 2 SN55HTY working route 24 to gibberish. The destination is strange on this one, as it only does this with the 24/26/27 routes, but is completely fine with every other service worked from Selby depot - I'd like to see 260 or 262 work these York routes to see if the destination on those does the same thing. What makes this funnier is the destination actually scrolls - who is that for?! One possible reason for this destination cockup is that it was programmed using the setting for a Dot Matrix flipdot type display - however this is unlikely as I don't believe Selby actually has any buses with flipdot displays left.
The Guard appear to be wearing Beaver Hats. This brings to mind the song "Cock Up Your Beaver" by Robert Burns, written in 1792. It is written in Scottish dialect and the beaver refers to a kind of hat.
Cock Up Your Beaver
When first my brave Johnie lad came to this town,
He had a blue bonnet that wanted the crown,
But now he has gotten a hat and a feather -
Hey, brave Johnie lad, cock up your beaver!
Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush!
We'll over the border and gie them a brush:
There's somebody there we'll teach better behavior -
Hey, brave Johnie lad, cock up your beaver!
Robert Burns 1792
Ferguson Terminal 4 Aug 2015
Made a complete cockup of this shot, sorry. Trying to take the photo quickly as I'm not supposed to take then here and didn't check all my settings, Set on shutter priority on a dark dull day. Till next time.
Here shooting more golf instruction all week in not-so-sunny-Spain, and after an annoying day being mucked around by the sun dodging behind clouds every 30 seconds, and continually waiting for old duffers, sorry, golfers to get a bloody move on, I started getting a bit cavalier.
I wasn't using my awesome new softbox, as I needed a bit more punch, and there was quite a breeze up. I assumed that with only a flashgun on the stand I wouldn't need the help of The quietest assistant I've ever had.
It would appear I was wrong, as the above photo would prove. The blur on the flashgun was NOT added in photoshop.
Luckily my fairly new SB900 was intact, the only thing to suffer was the sync cable, which was quickly repaired with the help of a leatherman. It did make me swear like a trooper for a good 30 seconds or so.
Also see here, for what my flashguns have to put up with.
Slight cock-up on BBC News 24 tonight as we saw a couple of seconds of Microsoft Outlook after a bit of "citizen journalism". It was like that bit in The Truman Show when he sees through the lift - we were dead excited.
Taken with a Vivitar "Ultra Wide and Slim" camera, this cheap simple camera has developed something of a cult following, it has a 22mm lens and a fixed shutter speed.
Shot on Maco Eagle developed in Rodinal 1:25 for 12 minutes.
I messed this up fine style, the lid came off the developong tank shortly after I poured the developer in! Although I replaced it immediately, severe fogging was inevitable, I've done what I can to rescue the negs in the scanning, but the results are pretty poor.
In York Piccadilly, having just changed from a route 27 working, is Transbus Dart Plaxton Pointer 2 SN55HTY working route 24 to gibberish. The destination is strange on this one, as it only does this with the 24/26/27 routes, but is completely fine with every other service worked from Selby depot - I'd like to see 260 or 262 work these York routes to see if the destination on those does the same thing. What makes this funnier is the destination actually scrolls - who is that for?! One possible reason for this destination cockup is that it was programmed using the setting for a Dot Matrix flipdot type display - however this is unlikely as I don't believe Selby actually has any buses with flipdot displays left.
This video is only short, as it is simply to show the scrolling destination of madness on this bus.
Black Saturday +day18
update latest news
Pressure mounts on Fitzgibbon over SAS pay scandal
"... Chief of Defence Force Angus Houston has told a Senate committee the matter is being fixed. 'I would like to assure the committee that during the remediation period, no soldier is to be financially disadvantaged,' he said. ..."
Good leaders, lead by example. While Houston & the Defence Minister are still being paid, troopers are not. How long would this problem be around if it was a *pay stuffup* for those with power &/or rank?
What a cockup!
a bit later
"... But if they were OVERPAID it was OK to keep it? I dont think so ..."
Being overpaid small amounts over long periods means a systematic stuff-up. Not recognising the problem, then using a blunt hammer to immediately recover funds is both a morale problem and an indicator of poor command. The issue isn't who's not being paid. It could be a cook, driver or pencil pusher. The issue is the problem is not being resolved quickly and fairly. The fact it is sasr means comeback is difficult if deployed. Hardly the kind of message you want to send - you can do the *dirty work*, sorry about the *pay*.
the next day
"... But the wife of an RAAF pilot says her husband has encountered a similar problem.
Janet, who did not want to give her last name, says they received a letter in January demanding that they pay back almost $13,000 in allowances within about 10 days.
"He was actually flying combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan," she said. ..."
Another article comes out, this time it's RAAF pilots pay being docked. This isn't a glitch but a systematic problem. Cf Defence pay bungle spreads to Air Force
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This image is part of From ANZAC To Armistice set taken/upload in 2008MAY and shows a demonstration of tactical assault by Australian troops in WW1.
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One in sun, one in the shadow of a snow shower; Meal Fell and Great Cockup from the edge of Great Sca Fell's summit plateau in the northern Lake District.
This is a cockup that turned up on my hard drive after doing an automatic merge of two tone-mapped HDRs where one had somehow got inverted. I liked it so much I decided to show everyone.
minolta autocord with ilford xp2 (expired 1997). stand development 1+100 rodinal (20c). scanned v600.
I noticed that most photos of Kingfishers show a beautiful little bird sitting on a twig, often eating a fish. But in reality most people are more likely to just see a blur of blue and orange flashing low to the ground or stream, just like this one here. So have resisted the traditional shot for this one instead so those people know it was a Kingfisher they saw... :)
Pinocchio
these type of vessals were a stop gap in the container cockup,pity they werent around when I went to sea individual cabins,and much better living quarters all round look at the living quarters on the older ones it was taking up too much space,but the older Port line ships were the better looking ships
The neighbour's cat Two Bob. I meant to switch on the built-in flash.
Technically dreadful result, but somehow strangely compelling...
I saw this Asda advertisment around many bus stops today and I am sure they have got it wrong, can you spot the cock-up?
Summit area
Hill number:2347
Height:526m / 1726ft
Parent (Ma):2328 Knott
RHB Section:34A: Lake District - Northern Fells
Nuttall/Wainwright area:Lake District - Northern Fells
County/UA:Cumbria (CoU)
Catchment:Ellen, Derwent (Workington), Catchment Boundaries
Watershed:Solway Firth
Class:Dodd (500-599m), Dewey, Wainwright, Birkett, Synge,
Fellranger, Subhump
(Tu,5,Dew,W,B,Sy,Fel,sHu)
Grid ref:NY 27337 33320
Summit feature:cairn
Drop:90m