Excellent work Mr Pierrepoint!
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Coupling
These guys drove the train - you have to admire the beard. Check out the full size version on Flickr
Friday, 3 July 2009
Last of the summer beer
For those who have seen the tweets about beer and the photos I thought I'd just explain what it's all about.
Paul, Phil and I worked together 20 years ago, at that time we were auditors with Berni Inns. For the last few years we've got together to watch some cricket. We've visited Canterbury, Scarborough and Horsham in the past - Phil and Paul are cricket fans and have been doing this for far longer but I muscled in to lower the tone. The venue is planned at the start of the year when the fixture list is released; we aim for somewhere pretty with decent beer and we've now added the "Third Day Trip". The only fixed part of the format is that we park on arrival and don't use our cars until it's time to leave and that determines how far from the ground we can stay. The "Third Day Trip" started last year when we jumped on a train and visited Bognor and Arundel and this year we went to Minehead.
Minehead was a great deal nicer than Bognor and my favourite pub of the week is The Queen's Head in Minehead.
Best pint is a harder call because there are so many to chose from but I think it's the Nutcracker from Cotleigh, a local brewer. We enjoyed that in the Castle Green in Taunton.
Best meal (not too many to pick from) was fish, chips and mushy peas in a lovely place in Minehead.
The service on the West Somerset Railway is nothing short of excellent and I can't remember the last time I went anywhere with such happy and welcoming staff (many are volunteers). Well worth a visit and some lovely countryside on the journey.
If anyone wants to see the rest of the photos they are on Flickr.
Next year? Well we're going to see where Lancashire might play any away games but that's not big deal - I'm sure we'll find something to do wherever we end up.
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Note
Just a brief note about photos. If they are sent using Moby Pictures they seem to take an age to arrive here - some never do. If the time looks skewed check the timestamp on the picture (if the photo was taken with the phone). I recognise that the number of people who are interested in that is terribly low but I want to make sure that we've got this stuff right :-)
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Monday, 29 June 2009
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Not a bad way to spend time
Pimms made with cloudy lemonade so it looks like beer. The book is bobbins; formulaic with two-dimensional characters. I don't care if any of the main protagonists are washed away in a freak storm.
DNA
"Okay. You've got an elephant and a whale and the dealer has to stick - want another card?"
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Saturday, 27 June 2009
More iSpotting
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And this is the link to iSpot which is a jolly useful web resource - check it out and bookmark it.
Every one has a silver lining
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The eagle-eyed will spot that the time stamp shows this to be well after the campus shots. The more eagler-eyed might recognise that it's the view from the Chinese take-away in Coxheath. Them be proper Kentish clouds.
Mercs
OU response to the funding crisis is that all staff will be given a Mercedes- here lined up so we can chose which model
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Friday, 26 June 2009
Health issues
Frequent fliers will remember that last year we went to Horsham for a bit of cricket. This year we're heading further afield - to Taunton next week. Of course this imposes certain dietary restrictions. The following from Phil;
"Is cider the only drink we shall be allowed next week, a health drink I'll grant you, and it counts towards our five a day ( a fairly tame target I think we shall achieve without too much trouble) but we should consider sloe gin, plumb vodka etc and a strange beer I had the other day in Wetherspoons that had coriander in it!"So you'll see that we're taking our health concerns seriously and if anyone is in any way concerned about the well-being of three elderly gents in the West Country at least you'll note that we're being sensible about what we eat :-) (I have suggested that the beer with coriander is more likely to be an accident with some garnish falling off a sandwich)
Annie
Annie
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Annie is here because she was asking about blogs and I took a photo to demonstrate taking a photo and posting it from the phone. Again Moby Pictures seems to be hanging onto them for ages before posting - check the image time and the post time (same with the Brands Hatch photos)
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Annie is here because she was asking about blogs and I took a photo to demonstrate taking a photo and posting it from the phone. Again Moby Pictures seems to be hanging onto them for ages before posting - check the image time and the post time (same with the Brands Hatch photos)
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Saturday, 20 June 2009
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Monday, 15 June 2009
The token
This is the token exchange. The guy with his arm up is waiting for the engineer to give him the token which the engine must have to pass along the single bidirectional track section of line. The signalman is watching from the signal box.
I knew this would happen so I was waiting for the shot but the really great thing is the little girl on someone's shoulders - she's got her hands over her ears to block the sound of the engine passing.
I knew this would happen so I was waiting for the shot but the really great thing is the little girl on someone's shoulders - she's got her hands over her ears to block the sound of the engine passing.
Explain yourself!
Every week I get a mail from Lijit with stats. Nobody, as yet, has bothered to use the Lijit search box at the bottom of this blog but I've found a way to cope with this and move on with my life. Interestingly it includes search terms people have used to find this blog and today I thought I'd share the top 20 terms. Some of you might have some explaining to do!
1. nogbad (6 times)
2. hobbies blogspot (2 times)
3. prince flector august von sachsen (1 time)
4. spooky car ad (1 time)
5. blokey things to do (1 time)
6. balloons blogspot (1 time)
7. ikea blogspot (1 time)
8. nog blog (1 time)
9. cider farts (1 time)
10. dd304 tma (1 time)
11. gabriel batistuta police hq image (1 time)
12. "linguistic dexterity" (1 time)
13. this fortress built by nature for herself (1 time)
14. ou a207 (1 time)
15. dc stephen oakes (1 time)
16. google street view naughty (1 time)
17. ou a207 summary (1 time)
18. trains to sussex downs college eastbourne (1 time)
19. sid clark pilot (1 time)
20. spent an evening with lola or layla. she said make me... (1 time)
First up - I have no idea about number 3 and numbers 10 and 17 you shouldn't be looking on the web for TMA stuff! Number 9? Number 16? Railtrack is better for number 18. But number 20 - this really puzzles me.
Any answers anyone? C'mon, I'm waiting!
Saturday, 13 June 2009
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