I found Frank Bough an intensely irritating presenter.

His style was to rattle through a clipboard load of questions and not listen to the interviewees' answers.

His interlocutors were never heavyweights who deserved a grilling, and an informal, conversational style of interview should have developed but didn't because he never listened to the damned answers.

That said, RIP.

Thanks for posting, Jim.

I didn't know much about Foulness Island other than it was once proposed as the site of an international airport serving London and SE England and that huge numbers of birds overwinter and breed there including the Red Knot. A recipe for disaster if there ever was one.

The MoD holds on to huge tracts of land which are often grossly under utilised but it seems that the site, known as MoD Shoeburyness, is pretty active.

I did a quick search to see what information there was about rescues from the mud, tides, etc, and found this from July this year.

Foulness Island: Man and woman trapped for hours with live ammunition and rising tides

A dramatic rescue operation was launched after a man and woman became trapped on an island close to live ammunition - and with a rapidly rising tide.The pair managed to enter the restricted zone of Foulness Island, surrounded by warning signs from the Ministry of Defence (MOD), on Saturday night.
The man fell down a steep bank at just before 9pm and the couple became trapped in the mud, close to an area of live weaponry.

The police, Southend coastguard and military base launched a four-hour operation to save them.The only way the pair could be recovered was from either air or by hovercraft.it took four hours to complete the rescue mission, with the casualties pulled onto the RNLI hovercraft before being taken back to the slipway next to the coastguard station.One of the RNLI crew members, who is also a paramedic, was able to assess the man for his injuries at the scene.A spokesman for HM Coastguard Southend said the couple's details were taken by Essex Police for "onward investigation".

MoD Shoeburyness

About eight miles SW of Foulness on the other side of the T

Dragon

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

5100 incidents but has anyone held up a train or gotten run over?

This is a 2017 article from The Guardian:

Railway trespass figures reach new high, with 115 deaths in five years

Even if it doesn't result in a fatality, the effect on drivers can be marked.




 

Dad was always a dab hand at cultivating Fuchsias, a trait which I have not inherited.
He still keeps a handful going and this one occupies one of the less pristine areas of our back garden.



 

Just posted an image on the Puppies etc topic using postimage.org and had to go through the nause of umpteen captcha screens.

I think that I might have created an account for that site in the dim and distant past.

If I can find the P/W I'll sign in and post; it would be interesting to see if that bypasses all the captcha checks.

Anyone else gone down that route?
 

I read it as 'dyspeptic' and was about to recommended bicarbonate of soda.

Thanks!
Things are gradually becoming clearer!

Used postimages.org for this one.
Had to go through an irritatingly large number of Captcha image checks to get this far.

That's my canine friend from up the road.She's just gone home having spent the day here which included a snooze on my lap after lunch.

It's a dog's life.

Crossed! As above. Had intended this to be an edit but came out as a new post

No, there's no Email address or even a blank field for one, IYSWIM.

Limey wrote:

DanaC wrote:

Carruthers!! 

Hurrah

 Double hurrah! Was gonna email him, but now I don’t have to!

Didn't want to let the side down!