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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22458 Location: UK
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consul 57
Joined: 09 Nov 2017 Posts: 490 Location: somerset
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Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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best channel on the telly, i watch the others very little in comparison! |
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2479 Location: South Cheshire
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I hadn't realised until an article in the paper the other day, this channel was started by a retired chap and is still run pretty much entirely by him (and his daughter, I think), from a shed in his garden. |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22458 Location: UK
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 3:17 am Post subject: |
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Penman wrote: | Hi Bengt
I'd lay odds that she didn't enter the postcode wrong as Clitheroe area is a BB code and Barrow in Furness is an LA code.
She probably did what a lot of people do and just entered Barrow, which is where the Clitheroe MacDonalds is. |
I remember reading one day about the Turkish car transporter who was taking a load of cars to Gibraltar for shipment to Africa. So he programmed his GPS and set off. Several days later he was pulled out of the sand dunes at Gibraltar Point, which just happens to be in Norfolk. |
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1737 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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I don't use GPS for myself - I prefer a good old fashioned map. But increasingly I find myself being expected to use GPS for work when doing deliveries and find it sadly lacking a lot of the time. The common thing is that it tries to tell me which side of the road an address is on; it's wrong about 95% of the time so that now when it tells me an address is on the left I automatically look to the right and vice versa. Sometimes it just gives up and tells it "can't find a way there", usually when farms and the like are involved. Sometimes it tries to take me to the wrong town, or out to the middle of nowhere instead of somewhere that's only a couple of streets away. Sometimes it wants to take me up rough tracks which lead nowhere, or to the back wall instead of the front door, or for a scenic tour of single track hollow lanes, or now and then it simply takes me round and round in circles for fun.
Without local knowledge and the good old A-Z I'd be snookered, sometimes I have to phone the customer for a chat of the "right at the pub then left at the fork" variety but the GPS is something I could very well do without, it's better than it was a few years ago but it still doesn't work well at all in these valleys. |
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2479 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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lowdrag wrote: | I remember reading one day about the Turkish car transporter who was taking a load of cars to Gibraltar for shipment to Africa. So he programmed his GPS and set off. Several days later he was pulled out of the sand dunes at Gibraltar Point, which just happens to be in Norfolk. |
I went with a mate to deliver something, found our way to the house which was out in the stick because the postcode happens to be their property. They get a lot of delivery drivers knocking at the door because of it.
To get back, my mate knew the way from the main road so I figured I'd direct it to the centre of the nearest town, which was Newport, Shropshire, then when we hit the main road he'd know the way. Unfortunately the only options were "Newport (England)", "Newport (wales)", Newport Pagnell and another that I forget. I selected the first, only to find that it was directing us to the Isle of Wight. I never figured out how to choose the one we actually wanted. It didn't help sell my mate on the value of sat-nav. |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22458 Location: UK
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2479 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Short notice, but at 6.30pm today a short piece about the effort to build a Wellington Bomber in 30 hours. Dated from 1943. Sounds interesting. |
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consul 57
Joined: 09 Nov 2017 Posts: 490 Location: somerset
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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MikeEdwards wrote: | Short notice, but at 6.30pm today a short piece about the effort to build a Wellington Bomber in 30 hours. Dated from 1943. Sounds interesting. |
it is a very interesting film indeed. |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4765 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3831 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Its a really nice glimpse into history. _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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gillberry
Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 702 Location: Norwich
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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One of the best channels on free view at the moment. We are enjoying all the old films. There are also some good discussions on their Facebook page if you use it _________________ 1968 Volvo Amazon estate (Gracie)
1967 Cheltenham Nyala caravan |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22458 Location: UK
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