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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 20, 2023 at 3:05pm

MANHOLE COVERS FROM LE MANS, FRANCE -- FROM WILLIAM B.

Featuring the coat of arms of le Mans. "Gules, to the cross Or charged with a key sable in pal and quartered by four candlesticks Argent; to the chief Azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis Or, the shield edged Or ".

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 19, 2023 at 5:37pm

ENVIROMENTAL AWARENESS -- DRAINS AND MANHOLE COVERS CAMPAIGNS IN FRANCE

Closely related – both functionally and spatially to Manhole Covers – are drain covers. Several towns in France (including 9 municipalities in Finistere, and Montpellier, Fitou and Collioure in the South of France) are currently running campaigns to raise civic awareness of the environmental dangers of dumping waste (chemicals, paint, detergents, etc; as well as cigagrette ends, paper, and so on) into drains and manholes. Attached to drains and manhole covers are metal plaques containing various messages. ‘NE RIEN JETER. NE RIEN VIDER. LA MER COMMENCE HIER.’ (‘Don’t throw anything away here. Don’t empty anything here. The sea begins here.’)

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 18, 2023 at 10:42am

2 MORE PARISIAN ONES FROM PIP

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 18, 2023 at 10:37am

Thanks Katerina. That's very good. If you don't mind, I will steal that idea -- the writing on a cOver, not the smiley -- and use it closer to The Day.

And yes LA seems to have soerted out the problem for the F1 GP.

Bestest, Val

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 17, 2023 at 7:56pm

Yay! Manhole Cover Day!

May Las Vegas fix its manhole covers by then?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 17, 2023 at 4:49pm

MANHOLE COVERS CAN BE DANGEROUS....IF YOU ARE DRIVING A FORMULA 1 CAR AT THE US GP AT LAS VEGAS

"F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix: Practice sessions chaotic with track problems

The first day of the much-vaunted Las Vegas Grand Prix descended into chaos as practice was hit by problems with the new street track.

The first session was called off after just nine minutes of running when Carlos Sainz's Ferrari hit a loose manhole cover, badly damaging his car.

Esteban Ocon's Alpine was also damaged - like Sainz's Ferrari, losing a chassis - after he hit the same manhole as Sainz on his return to the pits after the red flag."

(From BBC News)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 15, 2023 at 7:24am

ANNOUNCING THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL MANHOLE COVER DAY -- 31 MAY' 2024

 

Bonjour,

This is to announce the launching of the first INTERNATIONAL MANH0LE COVER DAY which will take place on 31 May, 2024. *

On that day, I suggest we all post a photo of the MHC nearest to where we live (there is one just outside my front door) saying,  a) where it is, and b) how close it is to my house/appartment/ranch/palace, etc.

These photos are posted in a special section of the MHC Lovers Group page -- if I can work out how to set that up.

Other MHCs that you spot on that day will also be posted there.

I hope u will join in

Regards. 

Val

* THANKS! Heleen

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on November 14, 2023 at 6:31pm

I just saw a message of Val in my email (not the IUOMA mailbox) about Manhole Cover day, and I think it a good idea!

However, I cannot find the message to reply to - the link in the message in the email leads to this website and not to a message-to-reply-to...

I would suggest 31 May as The MHC-day, because that is the day Val posted his first manhole cover photos in this group. And May is in spring (that is, here in the northern hemisphere), which is the perfect season to go out for manhole cover hunting spotting.

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on November 14, 2023 at 1:33pm

Prague/Praha, Czech Republic/Czechia

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 12, 2023 at 7:53pm

So sad, Val,...there is no official "International Manhole covers Day", is there?

I discovered news about this:

"Manhole Summit in Tokorozawa, japan,  on Nov. 19"

but that was last year , an exhibit of painted manhole covers.

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