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  1. Cheeky win in M&S, £10.50s worth of bakery goods for £1! Merry Christmas!

  2. Amazing the things you find in Cash Converters, mint in box 57315 in Arriva livery for £89! Absolute bargain!

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    2. Swifty11

      Swifty11

      Hopefully not, the guy there said an elderly gent bought it in.

    3. big jim

      big jim

      not as good as my "Hornby carriage" a few years back for £10, was actually an dcc fitted EMT 153 unit

    4. Swifty11

      Swifty11

      That’s a bargain Jim! Although it’s amazing the things you can find some times!

  3. Transpennine at rush hour is possibly the new 10th circle of Hell.

    1. PhilEakins

      PhilEakins

      Ty getting back from London to Dorset on South Western Railway! Ended up they paid for a taxi from Bournemouth to Wareham as there were no trains after 17:15.

      #strike

    2. Swifty11

      Swifty11

      No trains after 17.15 is pretty poor, of note both are first groups companies!

  4. I can confirm ‘freshers flue’ definitely exists, that’ll be a pallet of cleenex man-size tissues and as much night nurse and vix as I can find then!

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    2. 2mmMark

      2mmMark

      A chimney sweep ought to be able to sort that out.

       

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Agreed, 2mm Mark.

    4. New Haven Neil

      New Haven Neil

      In my it was the nurses we caught the flu from...ahem.

       

  5. A Level Geography finished, A levels economics final exam tomorrow and business finished on Monday then bring on summer!

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    2. Jack374

      Jack374

      Nice one, I’ve only got two maths exams left in the next two weeks...good luck Tom!

    3. centraltrains

      centraltrains

      Lucky!! I have till Friday with maths :(

    4. Swifty11

      Swifty11

      Thanks all, just business on Monday then job done!! Good luck everyone

  6. Coursework, coursework, coursework. The never ending task...

    1. SHMD

      SHMD

      Don't ever grow up.

       

      Toil, toil, housework and trouble...

       

    2. Harry Lime

      Harry Lime

      It does, but only when you eventually decide to stop studying...

  7. Driving test passed with 2 minors and my last UCAS offers received, very happy!

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    2. Swifty11

      Swifty11

      Thanks very much all!

      Cal.n don’t leave it to the last minute and you’ll be fine, best to write down roughly what you want to put in then draft and redraft it again and again until it’s right

    3. beast66606

      beast66606

      You took your test in a pair of Morris Minors ? - wow, I took mine in a Ford Capri. (ps - well done)

    4. The Black Hat

      The Black Hat

      Congratulations on both counts.

  8. Offered conditional places at all 3 universities I’ve applied at, now to get the grades and bring on September!!

  9. Boris’ dad and Jamie Vardy’s wife. Welcome to I’m a celeb 2017...

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Didn't recognise any of the celebs. I must move in the wrong ciccles, or at least watch the wrong TV programmes!

    3. vitalspark

      vitalspark

      What a load of crap!

    4. Jim49

      Jim49

      I think you are being quite kind to them. Personally I doubt that they are good enough to be rated as crap!

  10. Got a photo in Rail's and Railways Illustrated's current issues, very happy bunny!

    1. Liam

      Liam

      Best I can manage is the reports in the operations column of Railway Magazine, which I guess is still something

    2. chris p bacon

      chris p bacon

      I knew a chap who got picture in 'Readers Wives'.

  11. Decided to do some modelling whilst I had the night off work, only to cut a chunk out of my finger. Well done Tom...

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    2. Swifty11

      Swifty11

      It’ll be fine, although some grey paint will be needed on some slightly contaminated bits of track work shall we say...

    3. KalKat

      KalKat

      nah....just leave it to oxidise....*hashtag* weathering

    4. Swifty11

      Swifty11

      I’ll have a look tomorrow, hopefully I won’t end up with a flush front finger haha

  12. Personal statements....

    1. Jack374

      Jack374

      The current bane of my life, I’m with you on that one

  13. 35 minutes into The Apprentice and I'd say pretty much all of them are the usual arrogant cretins.

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    2. thaddeus

      thaddeus

      I hate the program but I can see it would be pretty boring if the candidates were all quietly competent and modestly self effacing, rather than being loud mouth a'hole that the average employer would touch with a shi'ty stick

    3. Horsetan
    4. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      My heart goes out to Alan Sugar. The poor b#####d advertises for an exclusive job in his company, and all that show up for the interview are a bunch of t###s.

  14. learners insurance purchased for the car, I can see where Ryanair get it from in charging for as many extras as possible!

    1. Liam

      Liam

      It's like buying a Landy - I was in a showroom a while ago and one had a price of about £31,000. But you can't buy it for that price, as that excludes pretty much everything!

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Would the premium be as extortionate if the learner's vehicle happened to be a classic car?

    3. Swifty11

      Swifty11

      I tried all sorts, the funniest quote was one for a citroen saxo which was 3 times the value of the car?

  15. A and 3 Bs, made up without that! Onto A levels now

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    2. highpeakman

      highpeakman

      Did my A's in 1966 and still have the papers but cannot understand most of them now!

    3. Satan's Goldfish

      Satan's Goldfish

      Well done Swifty, keep at it!

    4. Swifty11

      Swifty11

      Thanks all, I'm passed my first year of A levels (AS) so onto next year!

  16. To my fellow AS/A2 students having the nervous wait for results in the morning, best of luck to you all.

    1. Liam

      Liam

      Best of luck to all of you.

  17. Watching pointless celebrities and honestly think the most obscure pointless answer is who the celebrities are

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    2. newbryford

      newbryford

      I guess you know nothing about cricket.....

    3. sharris

      sharris

      Might have been pointless but one of them did make a couple of mistakes - it was a double slip.

    4. Satan's Goldfish

      Satan's Goldfish

      They were celebrities? I was just happy I knew Soul Plane.

  18. Another pic in this weeks Rail, 37025 at Blackpool North.

    1. Claude_Dreyfus

      Claude_Dreyfus

      Is that before or after you were frog-marched from the platform by the glamorous station staff? ;)

    2. Welly

      Welly

      What hidden camera did you buy?

    3. Swifty11

      Swifty11

      About 5 minutes before we were all turfed off, Blackpool had 2 security guards and 2 BTP police officers on the end of each platform!

  19. iCloud has been the pain of my week.

    1. gridwatcher

      gridwatcher

      Mine too....brought the house to a grinding halt! Add to that a sneaky Apple Music con...watch out. Not free!

    2. Swifty11

      Swifty11

      Spent 2 hour trying to remove an iCloud account that doesn't even exist from this iPhone = need to buy another. GRRR

  20. Railway Herald never do cease to amaze me with their reasons for rejecting images, you'd think they had Stevie Wonder in charge of checking them.

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    2. MarshLane

      MarshLane

      Nothing has changed in 30 years??? .... they've only been going since 2005!

    3. Liam

      Liam

      Try the Railway Magazine - they're bound to accept your photos.

    4. Swifty11

      Swifty11

      I don't submit them to the magazine, I just upload them to the site. Funniest part is an image I had rejected from Railway Herald for being incorrectly framed was published in Rail magazine.

  21. Working in and out of a kitchen for 3 nights this week is absolutely horrid in this heat!

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      If you can't stand the heat, get out of the....oh never mind.....

  22. Starting to feel like Faithless in this hot weather seen as I can't get no sleep!

    1. bgman

      bgman

      Rave on !

    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Dunno what you're on about. However, if you can't get no sleep, then you must be getting some. Perhaps you are concerned that you're not getting sufficient sleep over the course of the night?

    3. big jim

      big jim

      just dont start tearing off tights with your teeth!

  23. Only feels like 10 minutes ago that I sat my last GCSE and tomorrow I sit my first AS exam!

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    2. sharris

      sharris

      Good luck

    3. Zero Gravitas

      Zero Gravitas

      If it's any consolation, it only feels like 10 minutes since I sat my last GCE - and that was in 1979... Good luck for today.

    4. 11B

      11B

      Good luck

  24. 37025 and 37057 bagged in one night, success!

    1. big jim

      big jim

      welcome to my world!

    2. Phil Mc

      Phil Mc

      Saw 37025 at Derby last Tuesday, and 37057 & 37099 at Donny last Wednesday, Splitbox-tastic !!

  25. Hard to believe Robert Miles has passed away, such a loss to the trance music world.

    1. bgman

      bgman

      Sad news indeed, one of my favourite dance tracks.... RAVE ON !

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