The Bee Gees - Massivechewsticks
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2021 is the product of two consecutive primes - 43 and 47.
This hasnât happened since 1763 and it wonât happen again until 2491.
(I really do need to get out more.)
VB
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Yes
Lol, bring out the gimp
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@Valvebloke can probably relate to this. They have now retrieved it with a crane and a lot of loadspreading sheets.
Pah
Missed a good chance to show off the chinooks unique ability to carry another chinook
How cool would that video have been
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Well thatâs a coincidence. I was planning getting out for a walk this afternoon and I seriously thought about heading west on the low ground, then south, then home again on the newly finished (I hope) Icknield Greenway (second story here https://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=feb3ea90bfa82dcb90c21a3e7&id=cd9ab9a5ef).
The last part of the westbound stretch takes me past the derelict Ardington Marsh Locks, and the Benson choppers do some of their low flying over the large field just north of there, around SU430920. If I go that way then Iâll keep an eye open for it. I wonder if theyâll have it under guard (youâd have thought so, not that thereâs much passing foot traffic) ?
EDIT Looking at the FB page it seems they got it out of the mud yesterday, and once theyâve confirmed itâs not bust theyâll be flying it home. So it may be gone by the time I get there. They had to get REME in to crane it out. There seems to be some Army/RAF joshing going on online as a consequence.
VB
but not with half of Oxordshire stuck to it, I guess. Itâs out now:
Donât go spoiling things with reality
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A precautionary landing, code for itâs fucked get it down now.
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In the end I looked at recent rainfall and didnât fancy trudging across to where it might have been yesterday. There are several potentially very wet stretches on the way there. So I went in roughly the same direction but a few miles further south - Ridgeway out, Icknield Way back. As I was dropping from the Ridgeway down Lark Hill though, a bit before 16:00, I did see a Chinook heading back towards Benson. I wondered if it was this one finally heading home (I think they have two based there).
VB
Itâs really busy in orbitâŚ
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Learned yesterday that the car still works.
It hasnât moved since mid-November and neither of us was confident that it would start.
Took it for a 15 minute run around the block (thatâs London for âtook our lives in our hands on the south circularâ).
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did a similar with my mini, thought the brakes were fucked but id just forgotten to take the handbrake off, my neighbour and her daughter who had just arrived found it incredibly amusing till I released it and nearly ran them down.
never been much of a driver, though i do a lot in job
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Nice that the car works. Once upon a time 15 mins on the Sth Circ would have got you 1km if you were lucky and the major threat to life would have been some combination of dying of boredom or having a frustration-driven stroke, Victor Meldrew stylee.
VB
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Someone once said of the South Circular âthatâs not a road, itâs a collection of signpostsâ
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I actually prefer the North circular to the south circular, and I hate the North circular
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The North Circular is a dual crriageway hacked through suburbia, quite often reasonably quick but if you miss your turn off you are fucked.
The South Circualr is a route arbritrarily drawn across existing roads and you would have no idea you were on it if it wasnât for the regular signposts
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Yes, donât know the sc so well, and a fair bit feels like you are not on it
Used to do Ruislip to Walthamstow daily either by moped or train in the 80s