Not Orgreave, but the right idea. Many old woodlands near pit villages have stands of even aged coppice about 40 years old (Sycamore in this case). The original trees were cut by the miners for heati… (View Post)

There was North Lincs (Scunthorpe etc), NE Lincs (Grimsby etc) and the rest of Lincolnshire - including Lincoln - originally wanted nothing to do with either. [I think in the past the rest of Lincs w… (View Post)

Most of the building is not on brownfield sites - although there are a couple of projects on old colliery heaps. A lot is on greenfield to the east of the "city" where there is no greenbelt… (View Post)

DVLA still send cheques when you terminate car tax early, it seems. So at least one arm of government still uses them. I managed to sort it out in a Post Office. (View Post)

I recall reading somewhere that Vatnajökull had been sighted at some ridiculous distance thanks to a temperature inversion and a Fata Morgana. Though technically that's cheating. I once watched a lar… (View Post)