Yup, heading south on the Oxford Canal in the camping skiff we naively tied up for the night in quiet countryside. Quiet before Upper Heyford started a night flying exercise and treated us to several hours of a visual impression of 120 decibel gas cookers climbing above the Cherwell Valley.

I know I rant about this all the time but the rabid - and omnipresence - anti immigrant line on BBC 6 music news is so jarring

Feels like a text book example of how an Overton window is shifted

And to repair damage from moths, a 14 hook speedweve from Alexon Ver in Ukraine is your friend.

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Curious to reflect that the M50 opened at a date when it was necessary to accommodate the railway between Ashchurch and Malvern, and also that between Gloucester and Ledbury, both being going concerns at that time. *Raises glass to Upton-on-Severn, to Newent, Dymock & to Gloucestershire's daffodils*

(Alt text fell of that image: it shows one of the staircase lock chambers at Chester, the builders were fortunate to be able to construct some of the structure in the bedrock there and possibly turned out a fair amount of masonry for construction works in the process.)