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Getting to the point of a question

 Does anyone know if Parsloes Park has a ranger? This is the question that has triggered this post. We can make some assumptions and remove some 'layers'. OK, so of course someone  knows is Parsloes Park has a ranger, or not, so the answer is yes. I think, though, that if the answer were given as yes, the reader might take it to be the answer to the implied question: Does Parsloes Park have a ranger? Coincidentally, this is the next layer down nearer to the hidden question. Superficially, the answer to this question would seem to be either yes or no, but beneath the surface there could be more detail. Perhaps the asker wants to know if Parsloes Park has its own dedicated ranger. This seems likely has the question implies that the asker knows that there are park rangers which makes me wonder whether they think these rangers ranging includes Parsloes Park, and why they would think it might not. Anyway, perhaps the answer is 'yes' but it it seems very likely there's a ...

My legacy to cycling in B&D

 I have just updated stibasa.org.uk * a little (don't get excited!) as there is still no sign, as far as I know, of anyone willing/able to take on a leadership role wrt cycling in B&D. So what I hand over is what I have put on the www over the years.  This probably won't generate much interest, but I would still like it to be there in case it is useful, so that any successor doesn't have to start from scratch, even if s/he can't hit the ground running based on what I have created. * If the forwarding stops working, use https://stibasa.wordpress.com/