Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Although we are seeing it, via the news, more frequently it is difficult for us on the NE coast of GB to imagine what residents of many towns throughout the world have to go through when fires and floods hit an area. We think we are suffering if we get a hailstorm, lasting two minutes, cause us to close a window. From TV reports it looks like, when there isn't a large lake near the area, the main way to stop large wildfires in forested areas is to create a large gap between the area that is burning and the rest of the forest by either felling the trees or burning them down in a controlled manner. It will no doubt take weeks to get everything under control where you are. Although the OH is missing the heat I am delighted the jet stream has dipped under the UK South coast and is cutting the UK off from the current heatwave. Had a look on Google Maps and it looks like you wouldn't have had many towns to stop for rest etc. on your journey to Edson. One of our daughters and her husband have just recently booked a 17 day trip, including self drive, over Canada for August next year. I will have to find out their full plans and see which areas they are hoping to get to.

Morning @Vic Patterson I've been watching a bit of CNN on SKY TV to see how the USA is coping with the heat wave and as well as the USA record temperatures they are reposting on the wildfires in Canada and Alberta is getting a mention. This extract from the CDP (Centre for Disaster Philanthropy) web site :-

That's a bugger as you try and enjoy the outdoor life before this years dark nights keep you Swede's in doors I just another booster last month. Take care CL

@Vic Patterson i don't know the details of the change but I expect @Malcolm Robinson will have a link to the changes

BBC News 25/06/2023 :- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66012303?fbclid=IwAR1jPZp_3GpX9az83IUoOqU3lWU0819UpPnTWS2I-IKoBXmQNA0w4VzPm6k

Current Goole street view with Proposal 1 & 2 overlayed :-

Bedlington Station Entrance Design Options - link posted by @Malcolm Robinson on his Bedlington West ward Facebook page :- https://www.northumberlandline.uk/post/bedlington-station-entrance-design-options?fbclid=IwAR1-e_bna1GnTyjBSsaQ5T0O_EmWcMb9FwxFBJbWKPO0H-enMUVigubf1xo

Same Sunday paper my man and dad had delivered in the 1950's and 60's - Sunday Post. Now the weekly newspaper that I can remember from the same period, delivered on a Thursday, I think was called the Weekly News. Can't remember a Blyth News,b ut that's nothing unusual for me these days. Jacquie, following on from her mam, still buys her 3 cousins (aged between 59 and 64) the Oor Wullie or Broons annual every xmas. Wouldn't surprise me if new annuals started - The Windsors& Oor Harry

I will make the effort to switch off when the daily TV evening news is on during this 'phone-hacking trial'. The last time I would have bought a newspaper would have been May 1990. Working in London, from 1987 to 1990, I started buying the Daily Express, not to read 'news' stories, to block out all the commuters on my daily underground tube journey into work. It was just to turn to the puzzle page after having a chuckle at reading the Calvin & Hobbs cartoon strip. As I came home every Friday I had to but the Express on the Saturday to see how the weekly adventure of Calvin & Hobbs ended. There were a team of technical authors on the project I was working on and they had started calling inn every week day to read Calvin & Hobbs. So I started keeping the five week days cartoon strip away fro the authors and took Saturdays newspaper to London with me the following week. Then cut out the six cartoon strips, photocopied them all onto an A4 sheet and left the A4 sheet in the kitchen area where everyone went to make a cuppa. So prior to going to work in London in 1987, having left school in 1965, I probably only bought half a dozen newspapers in those 22 years and I haven't bought one since 1990.

He needs to find himself a job. Perhaps if he had of stayed with the Royals he would have something to do rather than reading daily newspapers