*\o/* Let us know if/when you are down here & we'll have an evening at Manthorp Mews.

Fascinating - the way that something which we used to regard as an everyday, cheap and easy thing to do, travelling from one part of the UK to another - is now either a luxury, or only to be done if it's a necessity of work. As a student or a young man starting work back in the 70s, I thought nothing of hopping on a train to visit friends a couple of hundred miles away. Didn't have to book a year in advance to get a decent price, or risk standing all the way either.

Privatisation of the railways (after the stealth NHS privatisation which has been going on for a few years now) must be the most absurdly, grotesquely unsuccessful privatisation ever.

I thought Portillo's TV series on Great British Railway Journeys was a particularly brazen piece of pissing on the citizens, seeing as he was the very man who came up with the mechanism which pushed those journeys into the world of the rich man's pastime.

Sorry - now go back to discussing the meat.

You can still go and visit your friends for cheap - it's just that now you have to take the bus.

As long as you don't smoke an electric cigarette thing.

I saw a bit of one of those where he went to Fife to his old family home and he was talking about all their servants and how great life was.

 

I had to turn over before I punched my tv into a million pieces.

Half the time I try to take a train it turns out to be a bus.

That sounds like a brain-eye problem.

 

Get yourself booked on one of those object-recognition courses I've heard about. You'll be telling buses apart from trains, tractors apart from phone booths and clouds apart from fog in no time.

I miss compulsory use of blue text :( I'm guessing you are aware that he means that trains are often replaced with buses anyway. :-<

(nod)

 

Yup, I was goading.

 

Have never got used to the blue text thing, it was all done before my time here and I've rarely seen it since.

"Privatisation of the railways (after the stealth NHS privatisation which has been going on for a few years now) must be the most absurdly, grotesquely unsuccessful privatisation ever."

 

Not even close. Travel is not in the same league of necessity as water and electricity. :Y

If you think you can just turn up asking for Technical Support without being pestered to meat, you are sadly mistaken.

 

MEAT!

Afraid I'll be underwater.

1 calendar month to go folks. Maybe's, get booking those train tickets, you know you want to.

 

Any other takers? It's not too late.

You can add my laydeeeeeee friend Ann Rutherford to the list, young Skywalker.

Consider it done.

I would have loved to go but am gigging at a wedding that evening.

*giggling

That's the bridesmaid while the best man tries to knock her up.

News?

My bad!