NewcastleFalcon wrote: 06 Mar 2024, 20:25
Today we were on doggy day care duty for our eldest's Labrador, and I had a walk as often do up past my Grandpa's house and into the surrounding woodland and tracks. Coming up towards the house again on my way back I heard someone call "Hi". Responded with a "Hi" of my own, and as I looked up it was a total stranger speaking into their mobile phone.
Re-incarnation seems the more likely explanation
Neil
What's more amazing is that I phoned up someone earlier today and they told me some random bloke in the woods had said 'Hi' to them as they answered the phone
How many times is Napoleon III and his son Louis-Napoleon Prince Imperial mentioned on the French Car forum.
Well thanks to Peter and his wondering why Chislehurst had the three digit Telephone Exchange Code IMP in days gone by, the Napoleons exiled at Chislehurst have been mentioned once on Sunday.
One day later on Monday...
How unlikely then that on University Challenge aired last night one of the questions was....
De Tocqueville lost all his political offices for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the regime of which political figure who had seized power in a coup of 1851
Slightly detatched, but familiarity phenomenon non the less.
March 4th....Siemens in Chippenham gets a namecheck
NewcastleFalcon wrote: 04 Mar 2024, 19:09
Wow, Concrete Club off to a flyer! The name Siemens on it is because The Northumberland Line’s signalling system will be manufactured and tested by Siemens Mobility in Chippenham, Wiltshire, home to the UK’s only remaining dedicated signalling and control facility. It was right next to this signal box which is due to be demolished within the next few days.
Today March 19th 2024
On the episode broadcast tonight of "Great British Railway Journeys" (Series 15 episode 2 Chippenham to Yeovill) Michael Portillo spends a good deal of time in the Seimens Mobility factory at Chippenham, the UK’s only remaining dedicated signalling and control facility, and was given demonstrations of current state of the art signalling.
Remarkably, I have a bit of history with all of this...
Back in the day, we had a radio station with an unattended transmitter site remotely controlled from the receiving station. Both stations were many miles apart so the high-power transmitters did not interfere with the receivers.
The remote transmitters were fully controlled using a railway signalling system made by Westinghouse in Chippenham.
It was chosen for this role as it was very reliable and failsafe, via the protection and interlocks built into it. Communications between the receiving and transmitting station equipment was via a UHF radio link...
This system was in use for well over 30 years and never failed...
Jim
Runner, cyclist, duathlete, Citroen AX fan and the CCC Citroenian 'From A to Z' Columnist...
More Portillo familiarity links today...Next episode on tonight covered Series 15 Episode 3 Swanage to Portchester and his factory visit was to Mathmos in Poole.
Suffice to say the Pickled Egg Quiz had a bit of a dalliance into the very same product and its inventor.. Clearly the researchers for the programme are avid viewers of the FCF. Pickled egg Quiz with the start to the story viewtopic.php?p=649885#p649885
There is enough information in this picture to get the location even if you haven't a clue where it is. Just requires a query on the little snippets of information that are in the picture.
Pickled Egg Quiz:Where is the location for this picture The inventor of which iconic 1960's product is associated with the location
mickthemaverick wrote: 22 Mar 2024, 18:56
Hiding in the corner of the car park at our lunch pub today was this beauty. Who can identify it precisely?
NewcastleFalcon wrote: 22 Mar 2024, 19:03
I would rather imprecisely say the Princess 4 litre R, if there is such a thing, with the rolls Royce Engine top of the head, and I wont get any closer without looking it up.
mickthemaverick wrote: 22 Mar 2024, 19:09
You are 1/3rd correct Neil!!
Missed out the very important bit
Neil
Now this is a bit weird - about an hour before Mick 'n' Neil had a conversation about the mystery car, I was watching Jonny Smith's review of the classic car auctions this weekend up at the NEC. And what did he feature - and what did I think 'I haven't seen one of those in a while' ?......
NewcastleFalcon wrote: 22 Aug 2023, 17:50
Let me plant a seed of what I think is a relatively rare occurrence, but which today popped up unexpectedly. An Orange Door
Let it seep into your subconscious, but lie there primed for subsequent apparently random noticings.
Calling Gibbo, you may not fancy revisiting Monmouth after this...
Gibbo2286 wrote: 12 Mar 2024, 16:56
The HB car park in Monmouth is free but they have a 90 minute limit, ....etc
...but a walk along Whitecross Street with your camera in hand and you may come across an orange door Maybe even 2. Spotted on "George Clark's Amazing Renovations" on Channel 4 tonight, which featured a conversion of a former Accountant's shop at 9 Whitecross Street Monmouth...the green-painted building in this google streetview scene. Can't be sure of the shades but the google streetview cameras do appear to show a shade of orange, Britain's rarest front door colour.
Just over the border here in West Gloucestershire you would need to beg the planners for permission to do that Neil, one of the village pubs on the A40 painted his front walls a pale blue, the council demanded it be repainted to a colour that they approved of, another had his property rewired, an orange mains cable across his fascia board got him threatened with court action if he didn't change it to black.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
From the 1966 FA Cup final between Everton and Sheffield Wednesday, watched on a British Pathe Film about it only yesterday. Pre-match Referee and Linesmen with three Orange Balls
This is one of those run of the mill instances of familiarity phenomenon.
Noticing things which you wouldn't notice without having been suitably and subconsciously pre-primed to notice.
Take this photo of an Austin Maxi. Prior to the recent flood of Maxi activity on this very forum, I would have regarded the subject matter of the photograph the obvious Aston Martin Lagonda and disregarded the rest of the background.
Rivet Catcher beer named from the days when white hot rivets were thrown up to the riveters who would catch them in a glove. Featured as part of the TV Documentary on the construction of the Tyne Bridge
Now if you happen to come across A35's, the firm Fisher and Ludlow, bendix washing machines, porcelain enamel sinks, cycle racks, or even those well out of vogue brown "work coats", either in reality or in dreams today, be sure to add to the coincidences list with a post here
