What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Tony Griffiths]

Pulped, you could just spray them on the sea, raising its volume by 0.000000000000001%

[Malcolm Parker]

I think the Forum has just solved the world's population crisis!

[Alan]

Yes, but who is going to do the pulping?

[Malcolm Parker]

Carbon friendly, zero emission robots.

[Denis Sweeney]

No mountains, moors and long winding empty roads to show off local to us hear on the north Kent coast but took Ruby out to get some miles on the clock, so a view looking north across the Thames Estuary to Saaaffend on Sea and Shoeburyness.

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Apologies here not hear

[Tony Press]

Thank goodness for a return from the rather dark 'What have you done today with the worlds population' 

[Graham Barker]

Denis,
Lovely Ruby. 
It appears that your Ruby has a lower front bumper than usual, or is it appearing that way because of camera angle?
Graham Barker

[Bob Culver]

Always interested in photos of UK countryside; not the stuff from the travel brochures. How far east taken from? Where is all the shipping. It is astonishing how quiet waterways now are. My grandparents home overlooked all of Wellington harbour NZ and the spproaches and there was always something coming or going, inclluding coasters and fishing boats.. But not now.

[Denis Sweeney]

Graham, thanks for the comment, the bumper is standard height, just bad use of a mobile phone camera!
Bob, we were at Minster on the Isle of Sheppey about 20 miles from home. The island is about half way along the North Kent coastline, the coastline opposite just beyond Shoeburyness turns northwards up into the North Sea, so this area is about the end of the Thames Estuary some 30 to 40 miles east of London.
The ships steer a clear path from this area as there is a no go area all around the wreck of the SS Montgomery which is lying just off the coast of the Island between Sheerness and Minster. Even at high tide the masts and part of the super structure used to stand clear of the water. The SS Montgomery was a Liberty ship carrying around 70,000 tons of high explosives when in 1940’s she holed up in a storm but dragged her anchor and came to rest on a sand bar and could not be re-floated. She then broke her back and fell into two sections and has lain there ever since complete with her cargo. There is great concern as to her fate as no one can go in as everything is now breaking up and no one seems to know what will happen to the cargo.
As someone used to say “not many people know that……”

[Dave Mann]

That was near where Boris wanted to build a third London airport Denis.