In which there are steam trains and trains of thought
- I've now seen all the currently running Manor steam locomotives in motion, albeit not all on a railway.... Meet 7822 Foxcote Manor exiting Llangollen on a lorry trailer. I saw the missing tender reappear, by the same method of transport, from my breakfast table a couple of days later, lol.
- When I was searching for the book Going Home by Alan Plater, ebay suggested a blue and white china plate depicting a steam train which amused me enough that I told everyone about it. Guess what's turned up as a Winter Solstice present for me from a friend? GLEEEEEE!
- Reading, books 2016, 216: I'm running out of year in which to post my book log so here are seven paragraphs for seven play scripts, 1966-1997, by four authors (all bona fide Northerners, including the Scot! ;-P ).
197. The Filleting Machine, by Tom Hadaway, 1974, a one act play script in Geordie about working class life and economics in North Shields. (5/5 warning for domestic abuse).
200. You Are My Heart's Delight, by C.P. Taylor, 1977, a one act play script in West Central Scottish English (not Scots), but written to be toured around Northern England (Northumberland, Durham, and Cumbria), about a gamekeeper who lives with his sister in the Scottish Borders (although they're from a coal-mining background in Blantyre). (4/5 warning for implied child abuse and incest)
201. Shooting the Legend, by Alan Plater, 1995, a two act play script of a comedy set in a run-down social club. (3.5/5)
202. Wittgenstein on Tyne, by Lee Hall, 1997, a one act play script about Wittgenstein getting homosexual oral sex in Newcastle during a Second World War air raid... or the philosophy of language... probably the former because it is only a one act play. (3.5/5)
212. Excursion, by Alan Plater, 1966-9, is a radio play script about passengers on an excursion train laid on for football supporters, and two women who're taking advantage to go shopping and for a meal out. (Impossible to judge as a bare script imo so let's say 3/3)
213. On Christmas Day in the Morning, Softly Softly episode, by Alan Plater, 1968-73, is a television script from an acclaimed police drama. (5/5 never seen the telly series but this script works anyway)
• They drink a toast
Wilson: Peace and prosperity.
Muriel: You always were ambitious.
They laugh.
214. Seventeen Per Cent Said Push Off, by Alan Plater, 1972-3, is a standalone television play script about a middle class southern English social anthropologist attempting to study working class northern English people. (4/5)
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