The Fox Covert

12 hours ago, KingsX said:

This is a league with meager quality, tedious to watch, occasionally entertaining.  It’s been many years since a Leicester team fit it so well.

 

If Cifuentes has this group on board and working for it after just a few games, he’s more or less what we need. 

 

9 points from 4.  Onward and upward … like a lorry grinding up a steep hill.

It's the same steep hill as the other 23 Championship teams. Expect a bit of global warming from the belching clouds of black smoke from the exhausts of the leading contenders!

If they do sign him I will get a shirt with his name in his own language on the back - Твердохліб

But I think Yegor will suit the other players fine.

On 17/07/2023 at 12:39, Simoken said:

I think a statue of Rodgers would also be a great shout. yesssss

The KP is far too near the canal. I would give it 24 hours before it ended up in the mud at the bottom. It took Bristolians two centuries to get rid of the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston!

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

Silly would be the right word, I think. 

 

I certainly can't bring myself to hate the man, but the ideology he pursues is horrifically misguided and leads nowhere good.

Tommy Ten-Names started out as a football hooligan, named himself after one of the most prominent members of Luton Town's firm and has taken the nihilism and hate of football hooliganism into politics. Anyone not white, who doesn't have an Anglo-Saxon name like Robinson, is not welcome in his blinkered vision of White England. Nothing in his head has moved on from the National Front in the 1970s, or the Nazi Blackshirts in the 1930s.

4 hours ago, VLC86 said:

If you have sought advice from a surveyor and seen the plans that clearly show it’s your land then I’m sure you would be entitled to do what you want with it. It’s probably not going to be the easiest thing, but have you all sat down with your surveyor and clearly pointed all of this out to them?

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Anyone else on here had a boundary dispute on their hands?

A new neighbour moved in last year and has disputed my ownership of the boundary on one side of my garden.

I want to erect a fence on the long side of the garden and can't do so until this issue is resolved.

I commissioned a qualified boundary surveyor to investigate and he found a previous conveyance which showed the boundary of my property and the one on the other side which clearly shows my ownership of the boundary.

The neighbour has refused to accept this and now claims shared ownership, without providing any evidence. Her 'qualified' help is apparently an architect and not a surveyor (I haven't seen his report).

She has also erected a post and wire fence at the end of my garden without my permission, wholly within my property claiming that this is to stop her dogs roaming onto my property. I have never expressed any issue with her dogs and really could not care less one way or another.

And wants me to erect a fence wholly within my property on the long side of the garden.

The current state of play is that I have written to her asking to see the evidence of her ownership of the boundary or it being shared. I also said I will not erect a fence wholly within my property, as it will cause difficulties in the future as regards the precise line of the boundary. I also instructed her not to trespass on my property again and reserved the right to remove the fence at the end of my garden at any time without notice.

I am hoping she goes running to a solicitor who should put her right on all this but it is a huge worry until this is resolved, as I want to move and can't put the house on the market until this is resolved.

Any thoughts?

Not the easiest thing is probably the best way to put it as my neighbour seems determined to dig her heels in. My letter was headed 'Without Prejudice' so I am sure she can't be so stupid that she does not realise what is likely to happen next. When she has seen a solicitor and has been told the score and what if might cost if she wants to press it then I will go back and suggest we have a meeting on neutral territory, with both my surveyor and her architect present, which will only cost the attendance fee for the professional advice. On past performance a meeting on either property will probably degenerate into a shouting match - not from me - and my neighbour calling the police. She seems to have done this at least twice before and I expect the police will once again shrug their shoulders and not bother to turn up.

Anyone else on here had a boundary dispute on their hands?

A new neighbour moved in last year and has disputed my ownership of the boundary on one side of my garden.

I want to erect a fence on the long side of the garden and can't do so until this issue is resolved.

I commissioned a qualified boundary surveyor to investigate and he found a previous conveyance which showed the boundary of my property and the one on the other side which clearly shows my ownership of the boundary.

The neighbour has refused to accept this and now claims shared ownership, without providing any evidence. Her 'qualified' help is apparently an architect and not a surveyor (I haven't seen his report).

She has also erected a post and wire fence at the end of my garden without my permission, wholly within my property claiming that this is to stop her dogs roaming onto my property. I have never expressed any issue with her dogs and really could not care less one way or another.

And wants me to erect a fence wholly within my property on the long side of the garden.

The current state of play is that I have written to her asking to see the evidence of her ownership of the boundary or it being shared. I also said I will not erect a fence wholly within my property, as it will cause difficulties in the future as regards the precise line of the boundary. I also instructed her not to trespass on my property again and reserved the right to remove the fence at the end of my garden at any time without notice.

I am hoping she goes running to a solicitor who should put her right on all this but it is a huge worry until this is resolved, as I want to move and can't put the house on the market until this is resolved.

Any thoughts?

1 minute ago, ajthefox said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cren4dnd3djo

 

Timely, did you know about this?

No, so thanks for posting. I still have family in Leicester and did visit the location before doing the painting. I did know that the tunnel was open for visits every now and again but no idea that a railway had been installed in the tunnel. This painting was well received on my other social media so I have plans to follow it up with another painting some time.

On 15/03/2025 at 14:57, davieG said:

As far as Governments of all colours are concerned the East Midland  is a nonentity and Leicester is down the list after Notts/Derby. All the money goes either south or the North West.

 

Soulsby doesn't help with his isolationist agenda with his  'President of the City of Leicester' persona.

 

Back in the 60s Leicester was the go to place for new initiatives, 1st local radio, 1st multi- story / supermarket (Lee Circle), 1st Traffic Wardens after London, all the big entertainment acts had Leicester on their itinerary. Historically One of  the first English Parliaments, Thomas Cook, In the 50s/60s Leicester was the 2nd most Prosperous city and the Cleanest in Europe.

This is true but Soulsby must be deeply concerned about the loss of two of Leicester's three MPs at the last election. Leicester East was arguably self-inflicted because having got rid of Vaz, the local party selected someone even worse. The Tories have not won that seat in my lifetime, if ever. But Jon Ashworth in Leicester South is well-respected and seems to have been a victim of tactical voting and a less than even-handed approach to the Israeli-Palestine conflict by the Labour leadership, which understandably annoyed Muslim voters.

On 13/06/2025 at 12:30, stripeyfox said:

Nothing is impossible, but it seems highly unlikley a pilot would confuse the flaps and gear controls. The flaps controls are next to the main throttle controls and have multiple settings. The gear controls are on the main panel and have a simple "up / down" spring loaded button

 

 

not raising the gear in itself is unlikley to lead to disaster in any case.

 

But the fact the gear did not retract and they seem to have flap problems does indicate a possible hydraulic problem (since hydraulics would be needed to operate gear and flaps) as @st albans fox suggested

 

 

Will be interesting to see what actually happened

Large passenger aircraft usually have three hydraulic systems and a back up source of power in case the principal power source fails. I do not know whether the flaps and landing gear are on the same hydraulic circuit. Even so, there is a further fail-safe measure because if, for example, the flaps are on Circuit A which fails, it is possible to switch to another circuit. It will be interesting to read what caused the disaster. The answer should not be too long because the black box was retrieved intact.. 

Not strictly a joke but children sometimes say the funniest things.

I have read a book about a school inspector whose beat covered a huge area of the Scottish Highlands rather more than a century ago.

A young girl from a sheep farming family had been taken to the zoo for the first time. The inspector asked her to tell the class what she thought about the zoo.

She said she loved it and was really impressed that the zoo keepers had clipped the lion - brave souls indeed!

Another post which appeared in my Facebook page and I thought of passing it on here. 

The original text of the post - in Art Rooms.

Stanier Jubilee No.45616 'Malta GC' passes Wigston Magna station (closed 1968) on the Midland main line
by Rob Rowland

3 hours ago, davieG said:

I used to sit on that bridge with a few mates when I was pre-teen trainspotting.

One of my brothers was at Lancaster Boys, and the Midland Main Line was in clear view from the school buildings. Train spotting was not an official part of the school curriculum but the school had more than its share of spotters!

On 20/05/2025 at 10:11, ClaphamFox said:

So we've been charged by the PL for last season. The view among the football finance 'experts' was that it would have been very tight for that period, so hopefully the breach was only small. Also: if the PL has jurisdiction for this, does that mean we can only be punished if/when we get promoted again?

I have never been a supporter of points deductions. There has to be some kind of control to stop clubs spending beyond their means and I think that a much fairer sanction would be to disallow clubs from promotion or, in the PL, competing in European competition, until the club has got its finances in order. 

11 hours ago, Hitesh said:

The way it's heading, I can see RVN being sacked post the financial year end and then Kingy being put in charge. Most cost effective way for the club given what's expected to come

King is articulate and intelligent and I would like to see him as part of the set up. Not sure about the top job but definitely a better choice than Martin.

Picked up from my Facebook feed, a painting by Rob Rowland of a southbound train leaving Leicester Midland station, passing the junction to Ashby and Burton.

An instantly recognisable spot, with Welford Road passing over the railway above the tree line at the top of the painting, although sadly the junction to the Ashby and Burton branch is not there any more.

A later stablemate of the locomotive in the painting, No. 673, was preserved and used to be in the museum at the former tram terminus on London Road, near the junction with Shanklin Drive. I don't know where it is now but it apparently it hasn't been in operating condition for decades.

On 05/05/2025 at 21:45, davieG said:

I had a maths teacher at school who said 'Piffle' every lesson. Decades later I have never once heard anyone else use that word. He had even written one of the maths textbooks we used, which were not permanently issued to us but given out at the beginning of the lesson where we would be using them. I opened mine at the given page and there was a fossilised cheese sandwich between the pages, which had been there so long the book had reformed around it so there was absolutely no clue about the unpleasant contents when it was handed to me!

1 hour ago, Spudulike said:

I haven't been able to trace any family members that served in WWII. Parents too young, Grandparents too old. Closest is my brother-in-laws father who fought his way through Italy and a veteran of Monte Casino. Plenty of stories from my parents about Leicester getting bombed the night that Coventry was devastated.

 

Anyone have serving family members?

My uncle was also a veteran of Monte Cassino. My father was too young. Joe was hit by gunfire and, walking wounded, went to the dressing station. He was checked over, the bullet wound dressed, and then he was discharged later. Decades later, in Canada, he had an operation and the doctor told him they had done an x-ray and found a bullet in his upper leg. Whoever attended to him failed to check whether there was an exit wound! I have a few stories about both world wars.

Can this thread run to 400 pages before he is given his P45?

5 minutes ago, Sly said:

How is RVN still on 25% stay 😂 

Down to 13% now. Will be in single figures within the hour. 

So where is this going to be held if just the two players and three punters turn up? Or is the club going to spin it by wheeling out people from the offices, the cleaners and groundsmen, and youth team players to sit on the empty chairs to make it look like more of an event?

A farmer in Zummerzet sees a bloke drinking from his stream and shouts, 'Wassup! Ee doan wanna be drinking dat, it's fulla' horse piss an' cow dung!' 

The man says 'I'm from London and I have just purchased a property in the village. Can you speak a bit more slowly, please?'

The farmer replies 'If you use two hands you won't spill any!'

I took my suit to the cleaners, who wanted to charge £15. I gave my suit to the charity shop next door. They cleaned it and pressed it and put in their window. Next day I bought it for £4.50!

On 01/04/2025 at 18:30, Parafox said:

Why can't you trust an atom?

 

 

Because they make up everything.

 

 

 

Philomena Cunk!

1 minute ago, Buggsteam said:

So who’s going to be player of the season ? 

Should be cancelled as there is nobody worth it.