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A short post of a quick snippet, like a link

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Everything will be alright

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As explained by David Tennant with some good advice:

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Merry Christmas everyone

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And just in case you haven’t heard everyone’s favourite Christmas song yet this year, here you go:

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Dark helicopter passing in the gloaming

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Spotted flying over Aldermaston Wharf:

Dodgy animated gif of a helicopter with flashing lights passing in the evening sky
Helicopter at night

(And yes, I’ve seen better animated gifs as well. My skills are a bit rusty and were never that good anyway)

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The Bennie Railplane of Milngavie near Glasgow, Scotland

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The things you find when browsing the interweb on a Sunday morning. Via a post on vowe dot net about the Google Arts & Culture app I found the Google Arts & Culture site, where in turn I came across this picture of a Railplane trial line near Glasgow. I was intrigued.

A quick search helped me to find out this was the Bennie Railplane. It of course reminds a bit of the famous Wuppertal Schwebebahn. While sadly it wasn’t a success and almost nothing physical remains of it today there are at least three videos of it in action, first from the National Library of Scotland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Qamg3C188&ab_channel=NationalLibraryofScotland

Second a short video on British Pathé:

Third a longer documentary also on British Pathé:

A few links to further information:

Certainly a very interesting invention, must have looked very futuristic back in the 1930s. Well, it wasn’t meant to be.

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Ye Olde Litter Shop

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A very interesting art and environmental project: The CON-venience Store. Decades old litter collected in the Forest of Dean on display in a shop to highlight the problem of indestructible litter.

(Via the BBC, ‘Shop’ stocked with Forest of Dean litter opens)