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World pollution index map https://waqi.info/ Zoom in to Delhi, India, if you want to scare yourself

This may not be of interest unless you are into railways, but - Every section of rail line in GB is identified by the three-letter ELR or Engineer’s Line Reference, eg BTL - Brighton to Lewes If you have an iPhone, iPad or Mac, you can download a small app I wrote and explore them...

Ah yes, “sorry old man, we don’t understand your banter” :D

Ah, one of my favourite sports movies, Moneyball Partly because I was sat in the bleachers in Oakland through that era

And Kamada gets a red for CPFC, not their day

The A21 junction at the Ridge is closed for 5 months (!) until end January causing mahoosive queues North and South. Go via Battle to John’s Cross on the A21, it will save you the best part of an hour

Better ticket allocation for our games in Europe

A huge car park

PPP quoted similar, 4x what I was paying them the previous month for family cover as an employee.

Great stuff, really looks like BHA belong in the top 4. Let’s keep it up

In case anyone else has a Canal Plus (French TV) subscription, Liverpool ー Brighton is just starting on +Foot Match of Ze Day (yes, seriously) And the Version Originale sound channel is free of any commentary

It’s effectively what I’ve done in the few years up to retirement, although the limit was £40K not £60K. You can also still go back up to three years of unused allowances, so over four years stuff in a total of £40K + £40K + £60K + £60K (which answers another question above about contributing...

Aged well: Comic Strip Not the Nine o’Clock News Fast Show Monty Python Fawlty Towers Not aged well: Dad’s Army Bottom Always shit: everything else above

Both DB and annuity pensions can provide beyond death, although not as much as DC. Annuities allow trade-offs between annual income and guarantees for beneficiaries after death

It applies to all direct contribution (DC) pensions. DB pensions and annuities may also leave something for beneficiaries, but with DC it’s the total remaining pot, and at the moment that’s growing, even drawing down around 6% a year I’ve told my little one what this is going to mean for her...

On Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen sings about dancing “as the band played Night of the Johnstown Flood”. Apparently there was no such song at the time of his album - reading about the Johnstown disaster is fascinating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood

Why are there always cars coming South through the tunnel when everyone is trying to leave the car park?

Just a warning that if anyone tries to hand you an old-style ₹500 note (about a fiver) they are no longer valid...

2025 TdF route announced (new thread)? First three days not too far from us - Lille, Dunkirk and Boulogne/Mer

You can change at the airport on arrival in India. Warning - a couple of hundred quid in small denomination rupee notes is likely to be a conspicuous wad an inch thick Just checked, I've no plans to go to India now I've retired and seem to have around 800 Rupees in Mahatma Gandhi old series...