#Waltham Cross

[livvysmama]

Lunch, Waltham Cross, Monday 27th of November, 2023

[ahdrivingtuitionautomatic]

Learners Driving Course: What to Expect and How it Refines Skills?

Embarking on becoming a licensed driver is an exciting yet daunting endeavour for many. For those stepping into the realm of learner's driving courses, the experience is not just about obtaining a licence; it's a transformative process that refines skills, instils confidence, and fosters responsible driving habits. This blog delves deep into what to expect from a learners driving course in Enfield and how it plays a crucial role in honing their abilities behind the wheel.

Understanding the Curriculum

A typical driving course for learners is structured to provide a comprehensive education on road rules, safe driving practices, and vehicle handling techniques. The curriculum is designed to cover a range of topics, including:

Traffic Laws and Regulations: Learners delve into the legal framework governing road usage, including speed limits, right-of-way rules, and traffic signs.

Basic Vehicle Operation: From starting the engine to executing smooth turns, learners acquire fundamental vehicle operation skills.

Defensive Driving Techniques: A learners driving course highlights defensive driving strategies to anticipate and avoid potential hazards on the road.

Practical Manoeuvres: Learners practise essential manoeuvres such as parking, lane changes, and merging into traffic under the guidance of experienced instructors.

Simulated and Real-World Scenarios: Through simulations and on-road training in a learners driving course, students encounter various driving scenarios, preparing them for the unpredictable nature of real-world traffic.

The Role of Instructors

Central to the learning experience are the driving instructors who play a pivotal role in guiding and mentoring learners. These instructors bring expertise and experience in a learners driving course , offering personalised instruction tailored to each student's needs. Key responsibilities of driving instructors include:

Providing Constructive Feedback: Instructors offer constructive feedback to help learners identify areas for improvement and refine their driving skills.

Instilling Confidence: By fostering a supportive and encouraging learning environment, instructors empower learners to overcome challenges and build confidence behind the wheel.

Demonstrating Techniques: Instructors illustrate proper driving techniques and best practices through practical demonstrations and hands-on instruction.

Emphasising Safety: Safety is paramount, and instructors impart the importance of safe driving habits, reinforcing the significance of following traffic laws and regulations.

Refining Skills Through Practice

Practice is the cornerstone of mastering any skill; the same applies to driving. Learners are encouraged to log ample hours of practice under varying driving conditions to reinforce their understanding and refine their skills. Practice sessions in a learners driving course  may include:

Supervised Driving Sessions: Learners practise driving under the supervision of a licensed instructor, gradually gaining confidence and proficiency.

Mock Driving Tests: Mock driving tests simulate the conditions of the actual driving test, allowing learners to familiarise themselves with the testing process and identify areas needing improvement.

Independent Practice: As learners progress, they are encouraged to engage in independent practice sessions with a licensed adult, applying the skills and knowledge acquired during the course.

The Transformative Journey

Beyond obtaining a driver's licence, completing a learner's driving course marks the beginning of a transformative journey toward responsible and conscientious driving. Along the way, learners acquire the necessary skills to navigate the roads safely and cultivate a mindset of lifelong learning and continuous improvement. 

By embracing the principles of defensive driving, practising vigilance, and adhering to safety protocols, a learners driving course produces competent and confident drivers trained to navigate the intricacies of modern-day traffic.

In conclusion, a learner's driving course undertaken at a reputed institute like AH Driving Tuition Automatic is more than just a prerequisite for obtaining a driver's licence; it is a transformative experience that equips individuals with the knowledge, skills, and mindset needed to navigate the roads safely and responsibly. Through a comprehensive curriculum, expert instruction, and ample practice opportunities at the school, learners embark on a journey of upgrading skills and personal growth, laying the foundation for a lifetime of safe and confident driving.

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[mbta-unofficial]

Proposition: the Brandeis/Roberts station on the Fitchburg Line and the Auburndale station on the Worcester/Framingham Line are approximately 1.2 miles apart as the crow flies (this requires crossing the Charles). Have you considered implementing a cable car (perhaps similar to the Roosevelt Island Tramway in NYC) to connect them and allow easy transfers between the lines?

I hadn’t, although what might be faster to implement than a cable car could be a bus connection. Extending the 553 bus by ~2 miles to Riverside could connect the fitchburg line to the Worcester Line and the D with minimal changes in infrastructure.

Something like this could probably happen in as little as 6 months if you pushed for it to happen with some friends.

This is actually a great thing to bug your legislators about. The Waltham side is represented by Senator Michael Barret and Rep Thomas Stanley, while the Auburndale side is represented by Senator Cynthia Creem and Rep Kay Khan.

All of their numbers can be found here: https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/

[the-quackeroos]

this literally took me all day, but Duck and Donald have arrived at Waltham Cross. ^^

[floydmtalbert]

“endless” and “return” from this prompts list, requested by @mercurygray ‘for your newest-to-you fandom!’

Okay, so we all said we wouldn’t come up with OCs for MotA before the show even came out, but, well. Meet Rosie Clifton, ATA pilot, who strolled into my head before I could tell her to wait her turn.

Twice a week she is put on taxi duty, flying the Anson from airfield to airfield to ferry the pilots to their next delivery. In the bluish half-light of dawn she taxies out and takes off, feeling the familiar and still-thrilling swoop in her stomach as the machine finally lifts into the air. She is kept busy through the day, and in the evening she makes the rounds again, picking up the pilots close enough to the pool to bring back; the others are fated for an overnight stay somewhere, or a nighttime journey by rail, sitting on their flight bags in the corridor of a cramped and stuffy train.

It is the end of a glorious day in late summer. This is the time she loves the most, the image to hold on to in the depths of winter, shivering in some draughty dispersal hut: the sun slipping beneath the clouds and gilding their edges, the sea still, today, and shining like beaten copper, the fields and waterways of the Fens and Broads stretching out beneath her, seemingly endless, disappearing into the golden haze along the horizon. Trees and churches and windpumps cast long shadows; she catches sight of the shadow of the Anson, too, rippling across salt marsh and grassy farmland, across rivers and woods.

Behind her, along the length of the fuselage, her passengers are shouting to each other, trying to make conversation over the roar of the engines. Rosie is quite content in her solitude. She could fly on and on like this, chasing the lowering sun forever westwards.

She follows the curve of the coast, flying low, glimpsing a train, billowing steam, cars on the roads, the white sails of small boats on the rivers. The sun glints off something in the far distance: barrage balloons around London. She crosses the Deben, the Orwell, the Stour, and turns the aeroplane inland, skirting the smoke over the city.

They return home by following the edge of the Chilterns, and Rosie lands back at White Waltham in the gathering dusk almost in a daze, her legs adjusting to the ordinariness of walking and her head still in the clouds, sunlit and perfect.

[wonder-worker]

"Margaret (of York, Duchess of Burgundy) left Bruges on 24 June and was in England for more than three months. She travelled with a large retinue headed by Guillaume de Baume and the embassy included two officials who were well-known to her, Thomas Plaines and Jean Gros, the treasurer of the Order of the Golden Fleece. She received aides from the Estates to cover her expenses with the Hainault Estates contributing 4,000 livres. Her mission had several goals, but the immediate need was to obtain some military help in the form of English archers to reinforce Maximilian’s hard pressed armies. ... King Edward sent Sir Edward Woodville, the Queen’s younger brother, aboard the royal ship ‘Falcon’ to bring his sister across the Channel. It was twelve years since she had sailed to her marriage. Sir Edward had been part of her marriage party and he had won the honours in the famous joust of the Golden Tree. This time Margaret took the shorter route from Calais to Gravesend, where she was received by Sir John Weston, the Prior of the Knights of St John. She then transferred to a royal barge which had been sent to bring her up the Thames to London. The barge was specially refitted for the occasion. The master and the twenty-four oarsmen had been supplied with new liveries in the Yorkist colours of murrey and blue with white roses embroidered on their jackets. The knights and squires who formed the escort of honour wore fine black velvet jackets which were decorated with a pattern of silver and purple. Two residences had been prepared for Margaret’s use, the palace at Greenwich where she had spent so much time before her marriage, and the London house of Coldharbour near her mother’s home at Baynard’s Castle. New beds with red and green hangings had been sent up to the Coldharbour house and the finest bedlinens and coverlets had been ordered. Curtains, screens and tapestries were provided for both the houses, including a piece of arras which depicted the story of Paris and Helen. For her travel during her stay in England, Margaret was sent ten ‘hobbeys and palfreys’ all newly harnessed and caparisoned in rich saddle cloths. The King encouraged everyone to be generous towards his sister and used ‘right large language’ with the Archbishop of Canterbury who failed to offer Margaret a gift. His own final present to his sister was a luxurious pillion saddle in blue and violet cloth of gold, fringed with ‘Venetian gold’ thread.

While she was in England, Margaret renewed her contacts with all her old friends and family. She was received by the Queen and introduced to her royal nephews and nieces. Her youngest brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who was busy dealing with Scottish incursions in the north, made time to come south to see his sister, and the King gave a state banquet at Greenwich in honour of Margaret and their mother, the old Duchess Cecily. It was also attended by Margaret’s sister Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk. It seems that Margaret admired the wine, for on the day after the banquet, Edward sent her ‘a pipe of our wine’ valued at 36s 8d. As well as enjoying the company of her living family, Margaret could not have failed to remember all her dead relations. It was perhaps with a chantry in mind that she persuaded Edward to introduce the reformed Order of the Observant Friars into England. Soon after her departure the King sent for the Vicar-General of the Order and offered him a site for their new monastery near to the palace of Greenwich. Building began in 1482 and the abbey chapel was dedicated to the Holy Cross. Was the dedication in honour of Margaret, and does it provide further evidence of her connection with Waltham Abbey? ... Well satisfied that the negotiations were at last completed, Margaret prepared to leave London. She paid a farewell visit to the city where she was presented with a purse containing £100. She then set off for the coast accompanied by her brother Edward who had decided to see her on her way. ... The Dowager passed a week in Kent visiting the shrine of St Thomas à Becket and staying on the private estates of Anthony Woodville, Lord Rivers. These two bibliophiles must have had much in common especially now that Rivers was the patron of Margaret’s former protégé, William Caxton. No doubt she was shown Woodville’s translation of the ‘Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers’ which was one of the first books printed on Caxton’s press at Westminster. With the King still in attendance, Margaret finally left for Dover, where the ‘Falcon’ waited to take her back to Calais. Edward seemed to be genuinely sad to see her departure and he wrote to Maximilian on 22 September announcing the return of his ‘well-beloved sister’. She left behind her in England Jacques de la Villeon, who was to act as an agent for the Burgundian ally, the Duke of Brittany."

Christine Weightman, "Margaret of York: The Diabolical Duchess"

[yz]

Crossing Moody Street.

Waltham, MA, December 2023.

[pwlanier]

AN AMERICAN SILVER POCKET WATCH

THE CASE BY JOSEPH FAHYS & CO., NEW YORK, THE MOVEMENT BY THE AMERICAN WALTHAM WATCH CO., WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1887

The case engraved with a vacant cartouche on the cover, the white dial painted with various baseball players at the hours and with two crossed bats and a ball at the center above a banner reading WALTHAM, the case marked on inside of front and back cover Fahys COIN No. 1 and numbered 5081518, further numbered on the interior 5081518, the movement marked A.W.W.Co. WALTHAM MASS. ROYAL ADJUSTED 17 Jewels and numbered 7064652, the dial marked AMERICAN WALTHAM WATCH CO.

2 1⁄8 in. (5.3 cm.) diameter

Christie’s

[livvysmama]

Dinner, takeaway from Waltham Cross

Thu, Nov 23, 2023

[barbucomedie]

Stone Carving from Southhampton, England dated to the 10th Century on display at the Winchester City Museum in Winchester, England

This carving was part of a shaft section from the high cross, from St Peter's Church, Bishops Waltham. The top part is decorated in simple interlace patterns and the bottom panel is showing a dragon in its own coils. Dragons often were guardians of treasure and burial grounds amongst Germanic peoples like those in England.

Photographs taken by myself 2023

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Tree Cutting Hertfordshire - How to Choose the Best Tree Cutting Service Provider

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[ingek73]

Letters

Jeremy Clarkson’s abhorrent views on Meghan reflect the society we live in

Zoe Gray says the treatment of the Duchess of Sussex confirms that Britain is a place where the media can bully a woman so much that she has to flee. Plus letters from Averil Ashton, Ruth Rowles and Ralph Lloyd-Jones

Wed 21 Dec 2022 18.55 GMT

Re Zoe Williams’ column (Violent misogynistic fantasies like Jeremy Clarkson’s are not new – but the Sun gleefully publishing them is, 19 December), last week I felt confused about why I had found the Harry and Meghan Netflix series upsetting to watch, unsurprised as I was by their treatment from the media and the royal family.

As I read Jeremy Clarkson’s violent opinion, I realised it was because of what Meghan’s experience, Jeremy’s reaction and the Sun’s complicity confirms about the society I survive in. The sort of place with the type of media that take visceral pleasure in tearing a woman apart, bullying and hounding her until she is unsafe and has to leave. And then punishing her for leaving with mockery and bile. Game of Thrones is the medieval point of reference for a reason.

This is, and isn’t, about Meghan. Her treatment tells us everything we need to, and don’t want to, know about this country. If these words are being printed in national newspapers, what do you think the men responsible for writing and publishing them are saying behind closed doors?

So we complained to Ipso, so the piece got taken down, so Jeremy issued a bullshit apology. What next?

Zoe Gray

Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire

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Zoe Williams’ article sums up my feelings too. But Jeremy Clarkson does not speak for the over-60s at all, despite his wild assertion that “Everyone who’s my age thinks the same way”. We don’t. I don’t know anyone who agrees with Clarkson’s violent, racist fantasies.

I am in my 70s and I am deeply worried to see such anti-women and racist comments gaining ground in the mainstream media. People of my age, of every age, must start speaking out loudly against these views. Just because we are a certain age, it does not make us all rightwing, racist misogynists.

Averil Ashton

Calne, Wiltshire

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Nesrine Malik may be missing a point (Why the woes of Harry and Meghan tell us little about British racism, 19 December). It is because of their position at the heart of Britain’s most historical and established institution that Harry and Meghan can bring to light the entrenched attitudes of racism, bullying, class, conservatism and lack of empathy, deeply wired into our culture, at the very centre of the establishment. To disturb the status quo at the palace is to challenge the very foundations of these corrosive “values” that run through society. Yes, they are privileged, yes their experience doesn’t necessarily touch the everyday struggles of everyday people. But they are playing their role in our collective attempt to change and heal, bringing their experience and influence to bear where they can, and have the privilege to do so.

If everyone plays their part, faces the challenges on their own doorsteps, collectively change is evoked. Let’s value everyone’s experience and contribution, not devalue it because it doesn’t encompass everything.

Ruth Rowles

Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire

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I am slightly worried by the fact that I am exactly one day older than Jeremy Clarkson. Contrary to his assertion that everyone his age will agree with him, I rather like the Duchess of Sussex and have always found Clarkson a complete and utter ghastly twonk.

Ralph Lloyd-Jones

Nottingham