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As I have regularly told the wife, "If you assume most people are stupid, you will not often be disappointed".

Present company excepted, of course!

G-CPTN wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:16 pm

My then girlfriend (later my wife) claimed that it had lions on the roof-lining.

We must be told how she was so interested in the roof lining, and what she was doing at the time to be looking in that direction!

Or maybe we will just guess.

Mine was the ubiquitous Morris 1000, 1963 vintage. Bought it for £50 after I finished my degree course in 1974 and got a job as a plasterers labourer. Third party, fire and theft insurance cost me £52! Got me to work every day around numerous work sites in London and made quite a few trips from Lond...

You got it in one! It is indeed the Villa d'Este at Tivoli just outside Rome. Pretty impressive too!

All yours FD2.

Thank you Dushan. It took a lot of assistance to get there!

Can't remember if we have had a garden picture before, so here is one. Quite famous.

I believe you can. Have just added the same, max amount, to existing ISA, but could have put it in any other ISA product. The limit for investment in ISAs is £20k per year and as it is now a new tax year (since 6th April) you can invest another £20k.

Are we in Lopud?

The palm trees look like Makarska.

Looks like it could be on the Adriatic. Croatia somewhere?

Exactly right! It is indeed Groote Schuur Hospital. The world's first heart transplant was carried out there in 1967 by a certain Christiaan Barnard. I was referred there in about 1976 and passed Dr Barnard in the entrance.
All yours Karearea.

It is indeed. Can you be a little more specific please.

Sorry for the delay, currently away from home in Scotland. An old photo this time of a building that was very famous in the late 1960's for something that occurred there.

Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake, Utah.

probes wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:34 am

Meaning, the 'bits' the bridge remnants are to be cut into, shall have to be quite "small"?

Yes. Remember that a crane's lifting capacity is related to the lifting radius and can only lift its max load at min radius. The Chesapeake 1000 can lift its max load at 63ft fenders to hook.

AS G-CPTN correctly stated, the lifting cable would be multi stranded and the load would be suspended from a multi sheaved block by multiple slings, but as an example, a wire rope weight guide from Mr Google shows that a 2" (52mm) rope has a safe working load of 64,000 lbs. The picture below shows t...

Spot on FD2, Tanah Lot it is. Had a company paid flight there from Sumatra in the company aircraft a Fokker F27 about 40 years ago when I took the pic. Wonder how many F27's are still around?

All yours FD2

Not Korea either, much further south.

No, not Japan.

The Chesapeake 1000 is a pretty old, and quite small by modern standards, derrick barge.i.e. a lifting device fixed to the barge and is non-rotatable. A crane is rotatable, a derrick or sheerleg is not. Modern crane vessels are VERY much larger, the largest currently being the Sleipnir with two 10,0...

It was a good day here at the eastern extremity of the known world. Played golf this morning on the most easterly golf course in the UK in zero wind which is a pretty rare occurrence. What was equally rare is that I had a decent game and had the best score of the month in our Saturday morning societ...