Sorry, meant to come back on this and say no worries! It's important for me to make the point that I do genuinely need the help sometimes though.

Well yeah, see my second post. But in my case I really struggle to see anything without my lenses in (and glasses don't work), so half the time I really need the alt text!

Please don't be going mad at Steve there, who it turns out was making a poor pedantic joke rather than mocking alt text, but honestly alt text is great. Do more of it.

Also: I don't always know who the hell that is or what's going on even when I have my contacts in, it helps images appear in searches, it can add extra information or context (don't forget the description first!), and occasionally it makes me laugh (I said DESCRIPTION FIRST)

Because I can't always fucking see, numbnuts.

Reminder that all the best planes want to be boats

A spiffing brand new mural on a car park wall in Bridlington. I still haven’t found the artists name but they’ve done three similarly splendid paintings around town. Top work.

Bow of the Normandie.

No idea where the fucking typo came from, but if I go quiet it was most likely MI5 intercepting my posts

"King Charles says that he too had been a victim, and was recently scammed into paying several million dollars to somebody claiming to be a British prince,l - who claimed he needed them for 'legal fees'"

Fun fact: in WW2 so many pilots flew under the Severn Railway Bridge that RAF police were eventually deployed there to take registrations as they went past.

I think something like ten metres at this point. That's a lot less clearance to work with!

Lovely stuff

I do agree, but in the specific case of the ATA I suspect the women were better known, both then and now, than their male counterparts. A lot of them went on to have (or resume) commercial careers. Jackie Moggridge was the first female captain on scheduled passenger services.

Who was it who arrived at the tower to hear the CO still chewing out his own pilots because she'd absolutely greased the landing? "EVEN SHE CAN BLOODY LAND ONE GENTLY!"

No need to apologise!

"If not duffers won't drown" and all that...

Yeah, it was nasty.

I've already reposted it in an attempt to connect with activity in that sphere - it's a bit late for my meagre knowledge!

The bridge is very much the stand on vessel in this situation