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That sinking feeling you get when...
You know it's bin day, the leaflet says it's bin day, the website confirms it's bin day but the road is empty and you're the only person putting your bins out.
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@Captain Kernow Tubs? Luxury! We have now got
wonderfuluseless bags for the cardboard that can end up in a different postcode on a day like today. -
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We have proper wheelie bins that are emptied on alternate weeks (recycle:household waste) but we're down to putting them out once every four weeks and that's only because the cats and dog tins (even flattened) and plastic bottles (crushed) take up a lot of space and I daren't leave the household waste for longer than that because of - um - smells and flies, especially in the summer :(. Green waste is recycled 'in-house' as it were, and there's a bottle bank not 100 yards away.
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Receiving small cardboard boxes in the post is a big part of modern life.
I'm the sort of person who keeps little boxes that "might be useful".
So why is it that when I want to send something in a small cardboard box I cannot find a suitable one anywhere?
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The status post speaks
An autumn leaf suspended
Then falls as litter
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Feature about early Hornby on Bargain Hunt today.
Christina looked rather bored until the TPO did it's thing and the values of some of the items were discussed.
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Come on Emma!
No pressure but "The nation expects..."!
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I hear that Swindon is going to apply for Nato membership.
Or have I got that wrong?
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"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
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On Pointless, nobody ever says, "I'd like to see questions about railways come up".
And when asked what they would do with the prize money, no-one ever says, "Well Xander, I'd buy a huge shed and build the model railway of my dreams".
That's what I would say!
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How about naming railway companies which existed before the Grouping but still existed after the Grouping (although its acceptable that their ownership might have changed)? But probably too narrow a field for Pointless.
Going back to the original question my favourite for a pointless answer would be the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway (which was jointly leased by the GWR and LC&DR/SECR).
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The model railway / Bake Off connection fizzled out early, unfortunately.
I was looking forward to lots of train cakes.
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Come on, Emma!
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Yesterday I bought a lovely book by Adrian Vaughan...
...in Trago Mills of all places.
(Don't ask!)
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I'm going to watch Countdown today with some trepidation...
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Get a grip, TV presenters!
Wembley has two syllables, not three! It's "Wem - blee" not "Wem- ber- lee"!
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There's a parcel coming and I don't know what it is!
Might be something exciting...
(Or it might not.)
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Nearly 40,000...
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It doesn't matter. It's an arbitrary number like so many others in life.
And the winner is: @Greg Mac Oz (Welcome aboard Greg!)
<Imagine balloons falling from the ceiling and a fusilade of party poppers...>
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I thought you were on about the Traffic song:
"Forty thousand headmen couldn't make me change my mind
If I had to take the choice between the deafman and the blind
I know just where my feet should go and that's enough for me
I turned around and knocked them down and walked across the sea"but I suppose I'm showing my age ...
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The collected works of Charles Dickens can be a tough read...
but they are excellent for weighing down track while the glue dries...
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I bought them for my Kindle for pence - but no used for weighting tracks.
I've been working my way through them now for the best part of a year - nothing tough about them; a delight to read. Dickens' writing is the perfect time machine - a panoramic window to the past, with quite a few railway references from the
'Railway Mania' years.
When you've finished track laying, read the books!
John Isherwood.
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I was hoping to remain isolated until well into the New Year...
But I've run out of Quality Street!
It's a logistical disaster!
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“He’s got an orrrnge for you.”
Pike mimics Capt Mainwaring. great stuff! -
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R.I.P. Geoffrey Palmer OBE, lugubrious British character actor.
"Bit of a cock-up on the catering front."
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