My particular curmudgeon is the lack of space between the key hole and a rough wall when I lock up in the Church. Grazed knuckles as a result and I can't really even curse
Fat chance and Jesus ( when I happened to "mention" his name ) wasn't particularly helpful either. Don't worry, it's the history ( back to at least 1100's ) which appeals rather than the religious aspect
How bizarre. After my Unnamed Road rant I accidentally just came across Inaccessible Island which states on the Wikipedia entry "the harbour on Inaccessible Island allows access for only a few days of the year" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccessible_Island
I was searching for bird stuff and came across the Inaccessible Island Rail which is the world's smallest flightless bird apparently.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My particular curmudgeon is the lack of space between the key hole and a rough wall when I lock up in the Church. Grazed knuckles as a result and I can't really even curse
Just leave it open, God will look after it.
If God actually looked after his own there would be loads of lightning strikes when the scum are there nicking all the lead off the roof.
How bizarre. After my Unnamed Road rant I accidentally just came across Inaccessible Island which states on the Wikipedia entry "the harbour on Inaccessible Island allows access for only a few days of the year" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inaccessible_Island
I was searching for bird stuff and came across the Inaccessible Island Rail which is the world's smallest flightless bird apparently.
I would complain about false advertising. The place should be called "Only Accessible On A Few Days Of The Year Island".
It made me think of the activities of English cartographers who marched around Wales noting that a lot of farmhouses were called “gwyliwch y ci”.
Maybe an early map maker did something similar with an unnamed road.
Here’s a book about it. 🙂
I looked into it and it was an old railway out of a quarry, so at some point they ripped up the lines and turned it into a road for lorries to get into the quarry instead. It looks like there was a road or track alongside but they made that into parking for the houses. The houses kept the name Railway Terrace but the road name changed to Unnamed Road. Sounds like a committee had to decide the new name and they all ended up falling out or something.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Allegedly the town of Nome in Alaska got its name when early explorer/cartographers wrote ‘Name?’ on their chart. This was then transcribed by some clerk as Nome and thus the settlement was christened.
Truth or Consequences, a town in New Mexico USA, got its name from the radio show. The host of the show said for its 10th anniversary programme they would broadcast live from the first place to change its name to Truth or Consequences and Hot Springs, NM, obliged. An annual fair still commemorates the visit and name change.
Just bought a couple of train tickets online for a return journey to Brighton for my son's graduation. The EMail arrived ok with links to a download site to retrieve PDF copies of the tickets (4 in all). All the links worked fine, apart from one where they'd (the automated system I would assume) missed the 'dot' between southernrailway and com. How on earth did that bit of software ever pass testing?
Easy enough to fix the issue once I realised what was wrong, but I called their help line to point out that they had a problem and was met with total indifference. But I suppose I should be grateful that I actually got through to a human - or maybe AI is so good nowadays that apathy and indifference is built in.
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Don't worry, it's the history ( back to at least 1100's ) which appeals rather than the religious aspect
If God actually looked after his own there would be loads of lightning strikes when the scum are there nicking all the lead off the roof.
I would complain about false advertising. The place should be called "Only Accessible On A Few Days Of The Year Island".
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.