Guessing that's a Warhammer thing.

Wonder if they are named after Snottingham (which Nottingham was in the Domesday Book) "the homestead of Snot's people".

A dog statue in the city centre

A Warhammer character outside of Games Workshop

The Sneinton dragon

Horses

Although, do we actually have any statues of a specific real life Women who weren't the Queen?

In addition to Robin Hood and his merry men we've got dogs, horses, Warhammer characters, and dragons...

Plans for new statue of Maid Marian in Nottingham City Centre unveiled Nottingham City Council, Backlit Gallery and It’s in Nottingham, have announced plans for a new statue of Maid Marian to be unveiled this summer and located on Maid Marian Way...

New statue incomign...

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Stoffel Vandoorne's championship winning Gen3 (or a show car thereof) at Mercedes Benz World

It's no Gen 2 - that will take some beating - but it still looks good.

Not been a fan of the Gen 3, but gotta admit it looks better IRL than on the TV for some reason.

The Gen Beta that Jake Hughes drove to the indoor land speed record in 2023.

Would be really neat if, as a last hurrah for the ExCeL, if the Gen 4 car could take the indoor land speed record off the Gen3 Beta, even better if they could do it on Saturday during the downtime.

And there was me thinking Formula 1 was mearly a Formula E feeder series...

Drop kerbs on paths overgrown with grass, a slab of asphalt in the central reservation and a prayer are all you get

And yes, it's still a significant improvement

An absolute active travel disaster that is the planned Nottingham Knight junction

Meanwhile, in the UK we are about to see *significant improvements* to crossing the A52 with this.

Yes that's right - 4 or 7 Toucan crossings and shared paths which vanish just beyond the junction!

* my first computer was a rubber keyed Spectrum. I mainly used the joystick on that! That keyboard was an abomination.

The 1st computer I regularly typed* on was a word processor with no shift key, moved onto a hand me down pc with a broken caps lock key... That was some painful retraining.

Mind you, I still can't use an American keyboard (and the tiny enter key) without every line ending being replaced with a "\"

Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report ‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Unsurprising - the NMBS operated Lille ↔️ Antwerpen train is a quality example.

Want to travel from Gent to Kortrijk? Use the NMBS/SNCB app.

Want to travel *on the same train from* Gent to Lille? Oh, you've got register for and use the SNCB International app.

🤦‍♂️

An outline planning application for a housing development near (the canned) HS2 station highlighted that NCN 68 was nearby on the cancel (implying they needed no cycle infra)...

Said housing development was next to the M1 & near Donington Park - so why did they bother with all the roads? 🤔

Fiskertson nettle alley

Shite road, hit it hard

The poo path

Strava segment names really do give out some useful local knowledge!

Unless that change results in them getting more money, naturally.

Some generic new build houses with front doors opening onto a car park

Are you saying the architectural beauty of our new build housing estates could be improved some what? 🤯

No sponsors yet for flags which MP Lee Anderson said would not cost 'a penny' The Reform-run council spent £75,000 on the banners

Also, what's with politicians in right wing parties constantly expecting the private sector to pay?

www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...

If free parking is such a boon for local businesses, then surely they'd be queuing up to fund the costs the council would incurr providing such a service, as they'd be raking it in?

🤔

A Nottingham City Transport electric bus

An EV powered Ice Cream Van, no added diesel fumes 🤩

Stoffel Vandoornes Formula E car racing inside London's ExCeL

A line up of EVs in Nottingham's market square, including vans, cars, and a taxi

It is pretty impressive how EVe gone from butt of joke milk-floats and weird desert curiosities to become buses, taxis, vans, cars, bin wagons, ice cream vans, and race cars which can race indoors within my lifetime.

a cartoon of bart simpson sitting in a chair talking to a man Alt: Lionel hutz adding punctuation to his business card then removing the bar association logo

Works on Contingency
No money down

Becoming

Works on Contingency?
No, money down!

One year later...

Do you want to buy <the exact same> air conditioner again?

It's not often you see plaques marking the beginning of a new era, it's more often you see them marking the passing of an old one (like this marking the end of steam which happened in Preston).

George Russell playing Padel

Charles Leclerc on the golf course doing a photo shoot

Like, where's the Padel and Golf sections?!

Effect of increasing active travel in urban England and Wales on costs to the National Health Service Increased walking and cycling in urban areas and reduced use of private cars could have positive effects on many health outcomes. We estimated the pot…

Surely it would be a better use of limited funds to support public transport / adjusting shifts to align with better public transport and supporting travel modes that offer improved health outcomes & reduced costs to the NHS? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NHSGGC renews parking appeal to hospital visitors and staff NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has issued advice to people driving to our hospitals – and asked them to park responsibly. Parking at our sites can be challenging at times, so we would always suggest th...

Looks like it also makes parking "frustrating" and they've insufficient spaces to cope with the demand... www.nhsggc.scot/nhsggc-renew...

Travel Time Map | Drive Time Radius & Other Modes Create a travel time map in a few clicks. Select your maximum walking, cycling, public transport or drive time radius and explore where's reachable in this time limit. Available as an API.

Not a full scale map, but

app.traveltime.com/search?aId=2...

Is good for seeing how the map changes for different transport mode from a certain place (centred on my local leisure centre)

And www.chronotrains.com/en/station/2... for how far you can travel by train in X hours.

A walk in the park: how the King George V Memorial Fund helped preserve our green spaces We’re lucky to have lots of local parks in Nottingham – but they don’t just establish or maintain themselves. As the lungs, playgrounds, and life-givers of our city, they’ve seen a whole range of uses...

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TIL - that's why there are so many King George V parks!

* 17.5km extensions (2 lines) to the tram
** Which Nottingham secured www.eib.org/en/projects/...

To give an example - if City Of Leeds had introduced WPL at the same time and got similar levels of WPL income per resident; that's approx £222m, or ⅓ of NET Phase 2 paid for. With that plus £100mn from the EIB perhaps Leeds might have persuaded tesuary to open it's pockets for the Leeds Tram...

Even "better" - any patients, visitors or staff who's shifts/appointments/hours start between 9 - 5 or between 2 hours before & after a football game would be highly unlikely to get a space then.

So that would be NHS budget wasted to provide no gain to the hospital staff, patients, and visitors 👏

It's pretty telling that Boots threatened to move all their parking outside the city (their campus spans both the City & County Council areas), but instead most of their land outside the City has since been sold for redevelopment as new housing estates, and most parking remains in the City.