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Fashion show of Helen Skelton's latest outfits must be starting soon.

I'm sick to death of Nigel Pearson already. Once again picked the wrong team and system for the players in the squad. He has been with us since May so surely should know the strengths of the team by now. Not good enough!

Aha but I am going to spot trains not the cars by the level crossing.

Morning all. Best wishes to Andrew who has had a rough week off. My sympathies sir. Great to hear Tony's news about the success of Robbie's operation. It is always worrying when you take a pet to the vets. We have just got back home from an early morning appointment at our local vets. A check up for cat number three who was almost 10kg in weight when we adopted him from the Cats Protection. Goodness knows what his previous owner was feeding him on. The vet has put him on a strict and special diet. The result has been a 400g loss of weight in the last 4-5 weeks. Great news. As he is a Siamese breed the nurse thinks he could live into his 20's if well looked after, he is 11 now. Hopefully we can help him stay healthy as he has a lovely nature. A lovely sunny day here. Enjoy what you do.

I hope we see a steamer and not one of those new fangled diesel things!

LE I Definitely prefer watching the Olympic woman's beach volleyball. They would have put up a better fight in the Rugby 7's

Evening all and generic greetings and wishes as appropriate. On the subject of cockwombles I had a close encounter with a young female variety today. She decided to pull out of a side road across the front of me as I was accelerating from a previous junction. I slammed the brakes on, the car skidded on loose stones and I missed ploughing into her driver's door by inches as I leaned on the horn. All she managed was a sweet smile and a mouthed "sorry". She is lucky she could manage it!! The above incident occurred on the way home from a second successive day on the Great Central. This time a working stint as a ticket inspector again. Today seemed more tiring somehow and I am feeling exhausted right now. I did end up with a longer day as the other TTI wanted to work the early finishing set that also carried the griddle car. This would have left me with a long wait so I rode the train to Leicester and back to Rothley before picking up my train there. I consumed a bacon cob from the griddle, and a good job too as the buffet was closed on my set. The day was busy with numbers holding around 200 per train until late in the day. Most families were pleasant, but there were a couple of families on the last departure who let their children race up and down the carriages and climb on the tables, and were surprised when I spoke to them. On the final set were one loud family whose daughter had one setting "transmit loudly". She did not talking garbage all journey. A small drama was the arrival of the local constabulary to search the surrounding embankments around Leicester North after an "incident" in the early hours. They were quite excited when they found some spent ammunition cartridges until the stationmaster identified them as left overs from. War weekend! Summer steam mileage now over 177. Here are some stolen internet pictures of our two locos from today.

Yes I Sky plussed the whole series.

Yes. Welcome back Polly

Don't see leopard on here much at all, missing from ER's too.

Evening all. Generic best wishes to all. A quick check in at the end of a busy day. Sarah, Amber and I had an enjoyable visit to the Great Central Railway for their Teddy Bear's picnic event. A very nice day. Sarah and I both had an all day breakfast from the griddle car on the 12.15 service from Loughborough. Amber got very excited by the sight of the teddy bear and the basket of sweets. After a run to Leicester behind the 8F we dropped off at Rothley on the return journey so she could visit the fair ground. We then picked up the 9F on its run to Leicester and then back to Loughborough. A nice bottle of real ale consumed too. Summer steam miles now up to just over 125. Back there tomorrow in a working capacity. Enjoy your Thursday.

Yes I am aware they had put these plates on a few weeks ago. Personally (and I am not a Leicester fan), I think if the railway wants to name this locomotive then its current identify is more appropriate than the other dreadful plates it has carried.

The Great Central's Teddy Bear's picnic finishes tomorrow. The two locomotives in service are the 8F and 9F. The 8F was working the griddle car set today with departures at 10.15, 12.15 and 2.15 from Loughborough. The 9F worked the other set, containing the RVP group's teak buffet, departing Loughborough at 11.15, 1.15, 3.15. The 9F has suffered another identity change and now sports Leicester City name plates.

A Million Love Songs - Take That

A little less conversation - Elvis

Trebor strong mints

Just read a nice piece in our local paper. It appears that Shaun Barker is close to agreeing a contract with Burton Albion. He has been training with them to prove his fitness after we released him a year ago. He has not played a first team game for three years since a horrific knee injury sustained whilst playing for Derby against Forest. He was granted a testimonial by the club last season which attracted a decent crowd. Having met the man himself I can honestly say he is a true gent. His hard work to battle back from several operations and the charity work he did in the intervening years is a mark of a man who always remained positive. It was a shame that he never played for our first team again, having had a few games in the under 21's. I really hope he wins that contract, even if he only manages a handful of minutes in the Championship it would complete a heroic return.

Yes the "name" that appears with each message changed regularly.

I noticed it was our ex defender who got a red card.

Thanks for the information. As this was through the What's App service I am not sure if tps could help in this case.

Like I said. Another spam message.

Beautiful Day - U2

Sadly the latch on the cage has been faulty for a while but never thought the little rodent would be able to slide such a large lid. Quite clever to work that out though.

I wonder if John Stones move to Manchester City will be as successful as that of Jack Rodwell, Fabian Delph and Scott Sinclair.

Without doubt this is your best yet, although I was a big admirer of Glen Roy too.