A random thread for small things that don't really warrant a thread of their own

[The French Tandem]

Some of them go to Autres Directions. Occasionally you see both varieties of sign side by side.

I sometime have a hard time to figure out whether the place I want to go to is in Toutes Directions or in Autres Directions.

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[Basil]

Giraffe reminds me of the time I spent cycle camping in the Brecon area.  Although I saw many signs to Honddu, I never came across it.

Edited to add tip.
If you're ever near Brecon and you fancy splashing out on one night's B&B for a bit of a clean up, make sure that it's not the week of the Brecon jazz festival.
No. No rooms. Get back under your hedge you smelly cyclist.

[T42]

Some of them go to Autres Directions. Occasionally you see both varieties of sign side by side.

I sometime have a hard time to figure out whether the place I want to go to is in Toutes Directions or in Autres Directions.

A

No point in checking in Google Streetview, they've blurred them both to protect the privacy of the Directions family.

[The French Tandem]

No point in checking in Google Streetview, they've blurred them both to protect the privacy of the Directions family.

 

[robgul]

Some of them go to Autres Directions. Occasionally you see both varieties of sign side by side.

I sometime have a hard time to figure out whether the place I want to go to is in Toutes Directions or in Autres Directions.

A

No point in checking in Google Streetview, they've blurred them both to protect the privacy of the Directions family.

On a slightly different tack, but picking up on the "Directions family"   - on the A40 between Burford and Cheltenham there's a wonderful signpost that points to :  The Barringtos and the Rissingtons 

It's a collection of Cotswold villages with the usual Upper/Lower etc prefix - years ago I used to drive from home in N Essex to Cheltenham to work every Monday morning and it always made me smile - when I moved to live near Cheltenham whenever I drove back from London/Oxford etc it was the "almost home" sign.  Ah, nostalgia.

[citoyen]

On a slightly different tack, but picking up on the "Directions family"   - on the A40 between Burford and Cheltenham there's a wonderful signpost that points to :  The Barringtos and the Rissingtons 

Also 'The Slaughters', where one should bring one's daughters.

[robgul]

On a slightly different tack, but picking up on the "Directions family"   - on the A40 between Burford and Cheltenham there's a wonderful signpost that points to :  The Barringtos and the Rissingtons 

Also 'The Slaughters', where one should bring one's daughters.

Ah, You're looking Swell    (Upper or Lower)

[hellymedic]

On a slightly different tack, but picking up on the "Directions family"   - on the A40 between Burford and Cheltenham there's a wonderful signpost that points to :  The Barringtos and the Rissingtons 

Also 'The Slaughters', where one should bring one's daughters.

They'll get Upper Swell as they mature...

[ElyDave]

I went to school in Burford, and learned to fly gliders in the air cadets at Little Rissington

[rafletcher]

We had a letter informing us our Guardian & Observer subscription was increasing. From £43 a month to £53! Sadly my wife is old school and desires a daily physical newspaper.

[Pingu]

RIP Mr Gore-TEX

[Jaded]

We were disappointed that the biggest hotel of the town appeared to be some kind of local government administration building.

[Basil]

We were disappointed that the biggest hotel of the town appeared to be some kind of local government administration building.

 

[T42]

RIP Mr Gore-TEX

   Good bloke. Kept me dry on many occasions.  And after my 2009 holiday in Italy, he's keeping at least one Italian dry as well.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I’d like to party like it’s 1999. Again.

1999? Weren't you terrified like the rest of us?

Not me, I didn't have a computer back then. Which makes it also quite a good year to go back to. 2000 was even better.

How do you know you didn't have a computer? ISTR that even back then many devices had susceptible hardware and unsuspecting owners.

I kept all the government advice somewhere, should be able to check that.

Nothing whatsoever to do with coronavirus and also totally different from the original point of that^, hence here not in that thread, but it makes a perhaps interesting digression. Casting my mind back to 1999/2000, I can only think of three or four electronic devices I personally owned. I had an LCD alarm clock, bike lights – LED rear, the front was halogen but I'm sure it had some sort of electronics for voltage regulation or similar, and a cycle computer. And I'm not sure about the last, I might have only bought it a few years later. A couple of years earlier it would have been a longer list as then I had a car, which presumably (I can't remember) had electronic ignition and definitely had a radio-cassette player. Obviously there were a lot of other electronic devices I used or came into contact with but none I personally owned. Now, of course, it's a list as long as a giraffe's neck with multiples of most items (bike lights are probably still the top item!).

[arabella]

I went to school in Burford, and learned to fly gliders in the air cadets at Little Rissington

I thought all the RAF stuff was Upper Rissington?
(My cousins live in Lt Rissington.  As did, iirc, another cousin's hubby's mum, thus unrelated)

[ElyDave]

It was definitely RAF Little Rissington, actually occupied by the US forces as a storage base I believe, but limited use back then by the air cadets for gliding, stopped not much later.

Geographically may have been closer to Great Rissington of course, much like RAF Brize Norton is actually closer to Carterton (which in the days of crackly radio sounded too much like Cardington).  Or are you thinking of RAF Upper Heyford, another US base?

[robgul]

It was definitely RAF Little Rissington, actually occupied by the US forces as a storage base I believe, but limited use back then by the air cadets for gliding, stopped not much later.

Geographically may have been closer to Great Rissington of course, much like RAF Brize Norton is actually closer to Carterton (which in the days of crackly radio sounded too much like Cardington).  Or are you thinking of RAF Upper Heyford, another US base?

Isn't there a "ready for action" US Air Force Hospital at one of the Rissingtons?

IIRC last time I cycled through the Rissingtons there was a lot of new house-building on what was probably ex-military land.

[robgul]

I went to school in Burford, and learned to fly gliders in the air cadets at Little Rissington

Was that the school on the main road? - was a Mr Sanders the Head when you were there??    - he moved there from the Cotswold School at Bourton on the Water, where my eldest daughter was educated.

[Beardy]

I suppose I’d better get on the road to Leeds before they announce the lock down <fx:hollow laugh>

A supply run for things ms B the younger forgot to pack when she moved up,that two weeks ago. I’m sure it won’t be the last.

[ElyDave]

I went to school in Burford, and learned to fly gliders in the air cadets at Little Rissington

Was that the school on the main road? - was a Mr Sanders the Head when you were there??    - he moved there from the Cotswold School at Bourton on the Water, where my eldest daughter was educated.

That's the one I was there in the very early 90's for A-levels, though I can't for the life of me think of the name of the head. I can picture the head of 6th form though, but not remember his name.

[robgul]

I went to school in Burford, and learned to fly gliders in the air cadets at Little Rissington

Was that the school on the main road? - was a Mr Sanders the Head when you were there??    - he moved there from the Cotswold School at Bourton on the Water, where my eldest daughter was educated.

It probably was Patrick Sanders - he must have gone there in 91/92.

That's the one I was there in the very early 90's for A-levels, though I can't for the life of me think of the name of the head. I can picture the head of 6th form though, but not remember his name.

[ElyDave]

Sanders or Sanderson? Kind of rings a bell as head of 6th Form

[Beardy]

I have spent the day helping my son and his partner move into their new home in the town he grew up in, which we find surprising given the noise he used to make about living here 

More importantly, I’ve spent the day helping my son and his partner move OUT from our home where they’ve been staying since they moved away from London and while there new home was being decorated. 

It’s ever so quite here.

[arabella]

I went and checked it out.
It's called RAF Little Rissington, but is nearer Upper Rissington (where the air force housing is/was) and even Great Rissington that it is to Lt Rissington.
But there's a lovely west window done by the airforce in Lt Riss church.  And an annual service mid Sept.