Category: england
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Squirrely band conditions
The bands were busy today. I recently picked up an ex-display Chameleon MPAS Lite antenna and today was the first chance I had to try it out. I was in my usual east London park. I managed to set up the antenna, and KX3 quickly. No throwing wires into the trees, and hoping I didn’t…
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Mr. Porky’s…”high in protein”! 😂
Hmmm…such tasty protein. Seasoned pork rinds ingredients: – pork rind – pork fat – salt – monosodium glutamate – hydrolysed soya protein. Yummmmm. – rusk contains wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin, salt – dextrose Yummmmm. Hydrolysed soya protein. 🤤🤤
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Pota park-to-park!
This time I was able to set up my station, enjoy sandwich (Ham! Coleslaw! Wholemeal bread!) sitting at a park bench. Better day today! Lots of activity, but lots of QSB. A lot of loud, clear stations running beams, 100W. 20M conditions were good, but signals fading a lot again. Stations from Germany (DL4VER field…
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Halftime 8-12
Halftime, 8-12. Will the next post be as celebratory? 🤐🤐 #6nations #IreEng
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Mixing cooked rice
Beef bulgogi bibimbap for dinner, one evening in Nagomi Cheltenham. Bibimbap, Korean: 비빔밥. The term bibim means “mixing” and bap is cooked rice.
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The Anglo-Belgian Memorial, also known as Belgian Refugees Memorial, is a war memorial on Victoria Embankment in London, opposite Cleopatra’s Needle. It was a gift from Belgium, as a mark of thanks for assistance given by the UK during the First World War, and in particular for sheltering thousands of Belgian refugees who fled from…
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Landscape Photography of the year
An exhibition of Landscape Photography of the Year 2022 in Manchester Piccadilly train station.
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Spring is here!
“Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.Life is skittles and life is beer.I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.I do, don’t you? ‘course you do.”
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Yes minister at 40
You’d have gotten a kick out of this, Dad. Tonight the BFI had a special event for the 40th birthday of Yes Minister. They of had a screening of Yes Minister episode “Party Games” – in which Jim Hacker decides to run for leader of the party and makes a European issue part of his…
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London City Airport (test)
This is a test of the workflow: – take photo – upload it to Flickr via the mobile app – share the photo from the Flickr app to the WordPress app …to have it published on RunningWithBulls.com
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Ray of light
After a tumultuous week of political shenanigans, the sky provided some rays of light.
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The Eagle, Farringdon Road
If I won the lottery, and had £3 Million quid, I’d buy the Eagle, not change a thing, reserve a table for myself every night and eat a bife Ana sandwich every day. God bless them.
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Vote Democrobot
The first political party run by artificial intelligence. I suppose it can’t be any worse than what’s there now.
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Spring is here, A-suh-puh-ring is here
… “Life is skittles and life is beer I think the loveliest time Of the year is the spring I do, don’t you? ‘Course you do” … (Dave Lehrer, ‘Poisoning pigeons in the park’)
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Irish person’s reaction to Brexit – in video
(Wait ’til the very end…..) IPSOS-Mori carried out a survey of all Irish people, asking the question “What is you’re reaction to the word “Brexit”? After analysing the results, they commissioned stop-motion artist, Bernard Tyers to represent the results in a stop-motion short movie. Here is the result. Tyers is quoted as saying, “I feel…
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Is that a Hockney?
Sitting in St. Pancras Station, waiting for the Eurostar. Drinking a hot chocolate (lumps of cocoa dropped into hot milk). Woman walks passed as I dreedle the last chocolate into the milk. “Very nice, is that a Hockney”, she says.
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The Wizard of Alderley Edge, performed by unknown
(Click the play button above this to hear them play.) I went to the Low Lights Pub in North Shields last night for a pint and a pie. I didn’t expect anyone to be there, but these boys were playing a gig. Lovely folk songs. Apparently they play every Sunday, maybe Monday, and Wednesday (when…