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)

Will it be a Thursday? I never could get the hang of Thursdays. (View Post)

The railway bridges are killers. The Cote de East Coast Main Line must be Cat 1 at least. (View Post)