Roscoria, I would be interested to know what part of the country you live in.
I remember the first time I saw the Northern Lights, I was living in a cottage in High Garrett, Braintree, the year was 84-85 and it was the 7th of February, I know this as it was my mates birthday.
It was a saturday night and I was putting out the milk bottles and witnessed this fantastic sight of what looked like green curtains in the sky, it was a freezing cold frosty night. I went into the house to tell my missus, who was watching the weather forecast, Michael Fish went on to tell us that some of us lucky one’s in East Anglia would be able to see the Northern Lights. We went back outside to witness my mate returning from his birthday meal in an open top TR6 sports car, they thought it was the end of the world, we all stood and watched it for hours.
Next time was 1991, probably
May or maybe later, again a saturday night and I had just played in a cricket match, I was living in Finchingfield and had a camcorder, I don’t recall it being a particularly cold night. We woke up our son to watch it and I tried to video the event, all I have it vague glows and the voice of an excited 4 year old, I remember the shapes being different that year with more different shifting colours.
Hope that helps with the dates, hav’ent seen it since, the moon eclipse was pretty good last night though.

Oh dear, I was required up there for one of my intermittant site visits yesterday and put it off till next week, b#####, b#####, b#####.
Hopefully next thursday everything will be up.

Of course Rob is correct that this is fiction, But what troubles me is that this petition has made its way on to quiet a lot of forums and the rumour and myth has spread, This itself i feel is dangerous as people will start believing it.

There are already laws and guidelines for photography that if you follow you should have no problems, Basically its about being sensible and if in doubt find out more before you carry out your hobby, Best advice i can give is avoid taking photo’s of anything security sensitive and do not take any photo’s on the Railway system(unless given permission to) and obviously do not put yourself at risk to get a photo.

The Railway Magazine has been running a campaign against this for a while now, under the heading of ‘Iron Curtain Britain’. There is NO official ban on taking photographs on or next to railway property, written permission is not required if the pictures are for private use. There are guidelines for this on the British Transport Police’s own website, but I gather that many officials are either ignorant of it, or choose to ignore it.
It is advised that at a manned station that you inform an official of your presence and intentions and make sure that you know your rights.
The stupid thing is that, if there are suspicious types lurking with intent, its probably the experienced railway enthusiast that would spot this, the station staff being too busy with their duties.
It’s not a new thing, when I was a kid I was jumped on by the ‘SS’ at Langar for taking a picture of a Shackleton that was parked next to a public road, must have been a highly secret piece of kit to warrant such a public parking place.
The most laughable was being caught taking pictures of withdrawn trolleybuses at Derby Bus Depot in the mid 60’s, ‘Herr’ inspector insisted that he confiscate our cameras in order to remove the film, we may have been only 15 at the time, but threatened to shove the cameras up his backside, in no uncertain terms, at which point he went off to fetch the police and we tested the accelaration of our racing bikes.

How about greatest ever football matches you personally witnessed, whether it be skill factor, result, high drama or whatever and I would be interested if any of you were at any of these matches and what your thoughts were.
I rate as follows:-
1) Nottingham Forest v Man Utd, 1967-68 season.
A bog standard match at the City Ground, however United had finished Champs and were in the European Cup, which this team won that season, and Forest had been runners up. Just for once, Forest managed to put out their full team, they had no money for decent reserves, United were lacking Nobby Styles, which was crucial to the result, I thought, but of course their forward line of Best, Charlton and Law was awe inspiring. I was in the Trent End right behind the goal and witnessed a remarkable header from Law that was tipped over by Peter Grummit the Forest keeper in a way that was better than the famous Banks save from Pele, unlike today, Law and Charlton shook Grummits hand.
Eventually, Joe Baker took control for Forest and without Styles, their defence was suspect, Baker scored 2 goals, he should have had a hat trick but Frank Wignall touched the last effort over the line. The icing on the cake was completed by Besty, he took the ball on from a Forest corner and dribbled the whole length of the pitch to slam it in the net, what a match, 3-1 to Forest, but that didn’t matter, it was just a privelidge to witness these great players from either side at their peak.
2) Fulham v Notts County, late 70’s.
Fulham were in the second division and decided to invest in order to get back into the upper tier, the investments included Bobby Moore, George Best and Rodney Marsh. The first match involving this awe inspiring team was against the unrated Notts County at Craven Cottage, unfortunately Fulham didn’t allow for the tactical genius of Jimmy Sirrel, Counties manager. He simply filled the midfield with defenders and used wingers, their well known centre forward, Les Bradd was used as a decoy, and it worked. Best was snuffed out and got frustrated and County went on to win 5-1, the Fulham goal being an own goal from Les Bradd, sent back to help in defence. The greatest goal was from Man City reject Steve Carter, he picked up the ball on the edge of the box from a Fulham corner, ran the full length of the pitch and ripped out the back of the net from a full 40 yards.
All this was recorded on LTV including a smiling comment from the Fulham management that it was a complete fluke,……..My ****.
3) Leeds v Notts County, League Cup
Tie at Elland Road, crappy Notts v Leeds, Bremner,Lorimer, et al.
Poor old Notts, down at heal 2nd div club drawn against the mighty Leeds, though having defeated Everton, but thats another story, in the last round. all their star midfield players, Masson, Busby, were injured, so the great Sirrell, put full backs in mid field, and used wingers, Euro Leeds couldn’t cope with this, Scanlon scored a blinder from the right wing and Leeds were stuffed.
3)Everton v Notts County
League Cup, First Div Champs v Saddo Notts.
At Goodison Park, Notts were able to manage a draw, but at home, Les Bradd, bless him, scored 2 remarkable goals and nearly got his hatrick Everton could not cope with Sirrels tactics, I rate this man as the greatest Scottish/English manager of all time.

Doesn’t by any chance have anything at all to do with the fact that you have to pay to get in does it?

Regards,

kev35

Actually at one point I didn’t have to, I used to sell programmes which meant that you could get in for nothing and find a suitable grandstand seat of your choice, it was great sitting next to all these saddos who had paid a weeks wages to do something that cost us nothing, and we got paid for selling the programmes too, do they apply the same criteria at Legends, it may be worth looking into, along with all the other airshows and events, having got such a reputation, I may as well take advantage of it.
There used to be a very good hole in the fence at Notts Counties ground, circa 1969, they must have gone nearly bankrupt over that as it must have boosted their attendance in reallity by 100%, good job Don Masson was a free transfer.

HOT FUZZ

Absolutely fantastic! 😀

Pegg, Frost and Wright must know their action movies inside out, because they took the mick out of every action film cliche going!!

I’m not going to give a rundown of the plot, or even give any of it away – you just have to see it for yourself.

Trust me, though, if you like gunfights, action, car chases, brilliant comedy (and it is – and they don’t even let their previous effort (Shaun of the Dead) get away from a few in-jokes!!), and a splattering of gore, you will NOT be disappointed!

Definitely getting this on DVD when it comes out! 😀

Interesting, the amount of publicity given to this film has raised my concern as to whether it appeals only to the enthusiast for this type of film, as you have subsequently proved Daz, as well as Jonathon Ross, quite frankly it looks appalling to me, I’m not knocking you or the type of film it obviously takes the p### out of, I just feel that it’s appeal to the masses will be on a different plane, neither of which I subscribe to, don’t get me wrong, I’m not dismissing it, I just think that it’s viewing figures will be based on publicity and not content, sorry but Shaun of the Dead didn’t appeal to me either.
We decided to get a take away last night and hire a video, we wandered round the shop and couldn’t find a thing that we fancied, well, I fancied Pierrepont, having read his biography many years ago, but madam didn’t fancy it at all and I can’t blame her, has anyone else seen this film and can I have the comments please, the casting of Timothy Spall as the dreaded Hangman seemed quite something, will have to sit upstairs and watch it on my own, me thinks.