In everything still getting shitter news, the cost of the school panto trip has increased by 70% this year after Nottingham Playhouse had its budget slashed by the city council ☹️
I'd always assumed part of it was because micro payments were so cumbersome to implement in the early days of newspaper websites so subscriptions became the default. No idea if that's actually the case though!
It's such a great image isn't it (although it does bring back very distinct memories of digging those badger sets in gloomy January weather 😂)
(obviously that material is produced from a particular angle!)
There is a good introduction to IDBs on the Association of Drainage Authorities website which might answer some of your questions: www.ada.org.uk/member_type/...
Brilliant! I always go out of my way to avoid Oxford Street because it's such a horrible experience, but this'll make it a much more attractive prospect. Crazy that it's been stymied for so long.
It wasn't all grim. Papplewick, in the Leen Valley, offers some lovely late 18th Century industrial archaeology, with networks of leats and ponds unwinding across the landscape. Here a stone structure leads to road crossing for a leat. moorpond.papplewick.org/historical/l...
For my long run yesterday I took an exploratory wander through the Hucknall edgelands, an area I've only ever passed through before. What I mainly encountered were the abandoned pavements of rural Nottinghamshire. I feel sorry for anyone with limited mobility trying to navigate these.
Congrats on the race! Totally get what you mean about the process and just enjoying the experience of movement for its own sake. It can be really liberating when you hit that realisation with running.