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One for the girls! What links an American baseball coach with the house of the double C

Its something like a foul followed by a max break, which must be a nominated black ball and therefore 155?

So is it to do with the colours on their national flags?

Well John, its about time you finished Lewis Alone; Shallow Graves and Buried Souls, or even have a go at Lewis Alone; Great Arcs, Ley Lines and Trigs. They are both big so should take most TB's and of course local to you.

I can confirm that Bostik seems to work, but no field trials yet though.

Ah, Goldfinger Revisited. Placed that nigh on 2.5 years ago, when some of you were still in your nappies. Its only gone awol once in all that time, which is incredible given its very public location. I think the Holkesters bought our attention to it last year when Billy Piper ran past it too in a Dr W episode. Amazing to think what all this happens down in Cardiff. Worth a visit!

Anybody know what glue I should use to stick the rubber protection ring back onto a Garmin case. I hear that it is tricky. Garmin wanted £58 for the pleasure of doing it!!!

'Sha-La-La-La-Lee' Small Faces (showing my age here)

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.......Beatles / Marmalade

Mike Oldfield? Ding Dong Tubular Bells was recorded in Richard Branson's The Manor Studio within his then home at Shipton-on-Cherwell to be followed by Hergest Ridge above Oldfield's own home in Herefordshire. Tubular Bells being the first disc released under the Virgin label and could be argued to have set up Branson with his many business and record exploits to follow. Over to Bongtwashes

Whose pioneering journey started in a manor in Oxfordshire and ended up high in Herefordshire, only to be repeated ad nauseam ever since?

Are you sure its 80's Not 'I love the sound of breaking glass'??? No no no, thats Nick Lowe, so it must be Hazel O'Connor which makes it Breaking Glass. Same era, although Lowe's lp was a goody. A quick check and it looks good.

Bambi and Thumper have hit it on the head. It is a bombard and called Mons Meg and was placed onboard Great Michael a Geat Ship of the Royal Scotish Navy. It was capable of firing 180 kg shots and had a calibre of 22"

OK. But why? MrsB When competing in a race, lets say 200km, you are set a triangular course with each change point being a known landmark. Power Stations, such as Didcot near me are regularly used for this as well as generating lift. In the cockpit you would have two cameras on a mount to one side that were set to record time and date. When you reached a change point, you would circle around, at an angle of 45deg or so and take a few photos on both cameras of the change point and then fly off to the next one. On finishing the race, you would give the recorder your films; he would process them, and therefore verify that you completed the course. Digital cameras of course made this easier as the developing was taken out of the equation, but the advent of gps based flight recorders simplified it even more. With the advent of complete flight information, even greater data became available for analysis. Tony (and if you want a great thrill, go along to your local gliding club on a barmy day and get for £70 or so two 30 min trial flights. A winch tow is pretty amazing).

Gliding/Glider racing. Ding Dong Back to you Marty, gliding it sure be.

Not Golf. Clue, Its an expensive sport. Hence why I had to give it up.

Neither of those above. For those that know me, I have taken part in this sport.

Not fishing

Not skydiving. And its camera as in STILL and not camera as in MOVIE

What international sport until recently, required participants to carry and use a camera? A more sophisticated method of recording has been introduced lately. (added clue) (Great Britain are the current World Champions, with seven individuals in the top twenty but not the individual leader)

Its the Roman implement that assisted them in surveying roads, land etc. It has a plumb bob hanging down and it is that which we were taught was the groma. You centre over the 'station' a nail or peg so you have a known point of reference. Now done with gps of course.

Good grief John, trust you are OK. We will have to call you Petr Cech for now on...........................but then, maybe not. The commentators who follow golfers around at championships use a gps to report yardage. Not looking for a new career?

Sort of know this as its the thing that dangles occasionally from the old theodolites. Ages since I used one though! Also a long time since I have been here and could not resist something that has 48 pages

Erinmore Mixture by Mad Max involves a 20 mile hike!

The K&A caching trip from the Crofton Beam Engine down to Aldermaston Wharf is (I think) 32 locks with a decent from 125 metres asl to 55 metres asl. 37 caches although I suspect there are more. Crofton is about 6 locks down from the summit. Caen Hill flight in total is 28 locks in 3km! with the same amount of ascent/descent as the K&A trip above depending on which way. The central portion of Caen is an impressive feat of engineering. Roll over Alibags, I know is just too much!