Battered.

Birmingham New Street's dreadful iconic signal box closed 3 days ago after 56 years of use! I think it's listed so the building should be safe.










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_New_Street_Signal_Box

What a great building.

It's like something you'd see in Tokyo.

Brian May's been knighted.

So has Ian Livingstone!

Steve Jackson hasn't! so at least we know which Fighting Fantasy books Chuck liked.

The Citadel of Chaos  

The Forest of Doom

See the recent deaths thread.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/02/21/concerning-growth-in-average-penis-size-could-be-down-to-pollution-scientists-warn

I do wonder if pollution is responsible for a lot of today's weird goings on. One brief look at TikTok makes you think something strange has gone on in recent years.

Quote :

Scientists complete first map of an insect brain.

https://www.aol.co.uk/news/scientists-complete-first-map-insect-190000953.html

It seems to be made of Smarties.

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Beavers to return to London as part of urban rewilding

Pair of Eurasian beavers to be introduced at site in Ealing, the first of its kind in an urban setting in UK

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/21/beavers-to-return-to-london-as-part-of-urban-rewilding

I've never seen a glow worm. I thought they were things they only had in that there Down South.

We used to have loads of glow worms at our house in the 80s.

Spoiler:

100 guests have been trapped, overnight, in Agatha Christie's house.

Quote :

Caroline Heaven, contacted Devon Live to say she now fears that she and all of the other visitors could be stuck in the tea room for many hours to come.

"I think what's happened is a tree, quite a big tree, has fallen down on the main road. There is only one road in and out of Greenway.

"They are doing a great job, they are giving us free tea's and things. It's a bit bleak."

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/live-greenway-house-agatha-christie-8601707

Why do I get that feeling that, the next morning, there were only 99 of them?

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Caroline Heaven

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...she and all of the other visitors could be stuck in the tea room for many hours to come.

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...they are giving us free tea's and things. It's a bit bleak.