Doug N

Chartered Civil Engineer. Loves travel, food and sport. Interested in sustainability. Views are my own etc.

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

@simon_puxley You’re not the only one.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Today we, the Baltic States 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 and Czechia 🇨🇿 come to this Council to address the entire international community with a very simple message:

For all our sakes, wake up. 🧵

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

@tivjon Now you’re talking.

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

Does anyone else feel that wine bottles are the wrong size? One litre (4 large glasses) would make more sense - we should start a campaign.

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

@LydiaJane13 Drop Goal!!!

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

I bloody love you Ireland; what a match!

[Frederik Pleitgen @fpleitgenCNN]

Oleksandr Tarnavsky, #Ukraine Commanding General leading the counteroffensive, confirms his forces achieved a breakthrough near Verbove.

“On the left flank [near Verbove] we have a breakthrough and we continue to advance further,” Tarnavsky told CNN. “The main thing is not to lose this initiative (that we have). And, well, not to lose it in practice, with actions.”

#CNN

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

@LydiaJane13 Nope just an awesome springer spaniel!

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

@stu_taylor173 @DOYRMS @NigelPClarkson @steveparkersmg @relphj @rekrapd5 Christ it’s 35 years since I started there! I feel ancient. It really did give me a fantastic start in life.

[Revd Nicholas Pye @RevdPye]

1 July 1918, 8 tons of TNT exploded at factory in Chilwell, Notts, killing 134 people & injuring 250. Only 32 bodies were positively identified & blast heard 20 miles away. Factory returned to work next day & within a month reportedly achieved its highest weekly production. #WW1

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

@TrentTelenko The Kerch bridge has been over designed to to deal with ice flow build up against its peers and accidental loading from shipping. The piers are consequently quite robust. That’s said this cracking will get worse as salt and the elements continue to attack the rebar inside.

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

@TrentTelenko Due to the speed of construction the Kerch bridge has suffered from construction related cracking. These look like corrosion cracks as the salt water is now attacking the rebar inside the columns. https://t.co/4MwcdKXiyI

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

@LydiaJane13 Are you saying their father is Darth Vader?

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

Proof that not every problem can be solved by the careless application of High Explosives.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The exploding whale. The weird story of when Oregon authorities decided that the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with half a ton of dynamite, causing blubber to rain down everywhere

[read more: https://t.co/uCz7hXPTzC]

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

@aCivilSapper And Brasso!

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

@LydiaJane13 I’ve just been trying to get my son to sit down and watch it - alas it can’t compete with the Maverick generation. Will the Broadsword/Danny-boy reference be lost to time?

[Global Ukraine Rail Task Force @GlobalUARailTF]

New short TV report in German about how the Ukrainian rail infrastructure is rebuilt after liberation in almost no time at all:

"...as soon as the Russian troops are pushed back, the repair of the infrastructure begins..."

https://t.co/E6h3yh1WVD

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

A(nother) quick reminder of the ‘snaccident’: the inadvertent eating of an entire packet of biscuits/crisps/etc. when you meant to have just the one.

(Apparently you can have a ‘gincident’ too.)

[Doug N @huglessdouglas]

@druitt_monty @rgpoulussen I used to have walk past one of these everyday. Not sure when a smooth bored muzzle loaded mortar turns into something else. Making them breech loading and rifled seems like heresy. Struggling to find a copy of the Times to ruffle. Doesn’t have same effect on a tablet. 😃