Motorcycle parking at football grounds - Burnley

Frankly, gawd knows, all suggestions gratefully received in case I ever care to go back. But don't blithely assume that single yellow lines don't apply on Saturday afternoons just because lots of cagers appear to have done the same.

And we lost 1-0, and it rained on me both ways, and the bits of West Yorkshire you go through to to get there are full of traffic-filled roads surfaced with builder's rubble and chip fat, and all the petrol stations there have no toilets, and if you use an HTC Desire as a satnav it runs the battery flat in about two hours.

Ubuntu server upgrade to 10.04 LTS - dovecot configuration

Just fairly painlessly upgraded our file/web/mail/everything else server to Ubuntu 10.04 (wouldn't normally bother or would do a clean new install, but it was a pretty new clean installation of 9.10 anyway and 10.04 is one of the LTS versions). The only failure that I've noticed so far is that dovecot did not start because of errors in the old config file /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf so in case anyone else comes across it

1) Dovecot will use SSL by default, so if you don't have the certificates and that set up, it will tell you so and die. The old config file had a commented out default setting in the SSL settings section (around line 100):

# disable_ssl=no

but uncommenting and setting this to yes doesn't work - I had instead to insert

ssl = no

2) The new version has changed the handling of the sieve routines (whatever they are) making the MANAGESIEVE section of the same file (around line 680) redundant, and specifically the settings

sieve=~/.dovecot.sieve

and

sieve_storage=~/sieve

cause an error - just comment them out. Congratulations, you now have (well, I now have) a slightly crufty dovecot.conf that will actually let the thing start, and you can read all the viagra spam that has been waiting while you did the system upgrade.

Usual caveats apply, especially the "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" ones about taking advice from people who don't really know what they're doing.

Motorcycle parking at football grounds - Nottingham Forest

The City Ground will probably be the only other entry here this season, unless something unlikely (like my getting an away leg ticket) happens in the playoffs.

There is a small bike parking area and cycle shed tucked around the back of the gatekeepers' hut of the car park to the east of the ground - handy for the Bridgford End which is currently the away end. Access is from Scarrington Road which is a rathole off the southern end of Ladybay Bridge. If you follow the "football traffic" signs, from most directions they take you round the A52 ring road and into down down the Radcliffe Road (A6011). From the roundabout at Gamston go straight ahead through three sets of traffic lights, and where the road splits at the fourth, take the two right-hand lanes to go straight on over Ladybay bridge and then left a hundred yards later and you should be here:


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then straight in through the gate and round to the left.

Motorcycle parking at football grounds - number 1 in a very occasional series: Blackpool

There doesn't seem to be much on the web about going to the football by motorbike, so I may as well stick what I know down here as and when I find it out, I guess.

So, number 1 in a series of at least 1: Blackpool FC, Bloomfield Road

The ground is surrounded by car parking, but Blackpool City Council charge a motorbike in a car space the full fee. Fortunately, there is a large (and largely empty, when I was there) free motorcycle bay in the Rigby Road car park, directly opposite the North Stand. No locking rail or any of the sort, but plenty of space.

Note that Rigby Road car park is NOT accessible from Rigby Road. If you are coming in from the M55 like most visitors, just carry straight on at the roundabout and follow your nose/the match traffic; you end up coming up the west side of the ground on Seasiders Way. Carry on past the ground and turn right on Sands Way at the small roundabout, and then turn right and left immediately afterwards into the general car parking area; the bay is down the second row on your left - around top middle of the google maps thing below.

Blackpool council give the postcode as FY1 5DR but I don't think that that is actually for the car park itself.


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