Baseplates are inserted between rail and sleeper to measure the dynamic loads which are being imposed; ….

Mothering Sunday arose from the custom of visiting mother churches at Mid-Lent, rather than the usual parish church.

2021-07-14, “Towns trouser cash as billions earmarked for ‘levelling up’ in U.K.”, in The Guardian:

The marjorum stood in ruddy and fragrant masses; harebells and campanulas of several kinds, that are cultivated in our gardens, with bells large and clear; crimson pinks; the Michaelmas daisy; a plant with a thin, radiated yellow flower, of the character of an aster; a centaurea of a light purple, handsomer than any English one; a thistle in the dryest places, resembling an eryngo, with a thick, bushy top; mulleins, yellow and white; the wild mignonnette, and the white convolvulus; and clematis festooning the bushes, recalled the flowery fields and lanes of England, and yet told us that we were not there.