Do we all remember how earlier this year I wrote about this guy?


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Ah Autumn. What a wonderful season. Unless you're a traindriver. Or a passenger. Or a trains manager or Signaller. Or in any way associated with or reliant on the railways. Then it's sheer hell ( Read more... )

Given how indisputably awesome I am, it may be surprising for you to learn that traindrivers are generally pretty rubbish at telling stories. I know, I know, it's hard to imagine. But it's completely true. The problem lies not in the storytelling skill of the driver but in a fairly limited range of material. Just how often can a person relate that ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting here minding my own business and trying to work out how best to level up in Gardens of Time (I'm something of a sucker for facebook games) when I hear a strange sound. As I haven't noticed any blue flashing lights it's unlikely to be the police kicking in my door again (another story for another time) and I'm home alone so this is ( Read more... )

It has recently come to my attention that I may be completely and utterly retarded. No, please don't patronise me with cries of incredulity for I will not shift my position on this. The evidence is irrefutable ( Read more... )

I have ceased dancing in trains. OK, that's an out and out lie, I admit it. I still dance. But lately you are more likely to see me hurtling past with a pensive look and a scant regard for braking distances. Other times you might see my train flying into a station with apparently no driver as I am doubled up with laughter. Or you might see me ( Read more... )

It is entirely possible that you don't need to read this entry. If you are the sort of person who can generally be relied upon to work out content from a title then you can save yourself some time and head off now. Mind you, even if you are not the sort of person who can generally be relied upon to work out content from a title then you probably ( Read more... )

As I finished work reasonably early today I decided to take a trip to the zoo with my camera. There's a bus that runs from near Regents Park up to the zoo and being as I was at Warren St and it was about to start raining I decided to catch another bus along the road. So I lurked at the stop on Euston Road and took the first bus that came - this ( Read more... )