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We find using Eurostar far less stressful than short haul flights these days. We havent flown short haul since 2018. Its just the journey on Thameslink that is the more stressful part as it often goes horribly wrong, so we allow a lot more time to get into London than we should really have to, including travelling at peak fares and sit it out in Wetherspoons over breakfast. We do travel very light, often with just one rucksack between us and will wash our clothes at various points of the trip even on long haul flights we now carry on our bags. Not so easy on short haul flights.

That would also have been me helping them achieve that as it was on my walk to and from the office. I dont recall going in their Tooley St shop.

Its just my carp grammer despite doing well at it in school🙂. Yes she was much brighter when I saw her on Wednesday. She has a habit of falling these days but considering that she is nearly 92 and still living at home looking after herself, its taking a bit of persuasion to get her to accept a carer visiting once a day.

When we lived on the edge of the Mendips many decades ago Mum would often see them walking the dog and one day she went to pick a stick up on the riverbank where we lived. However it moved. SHe cant stand even seeing a snake on TV let alone touching one. It took her a long time to go near the riverbank again. In her current home both my brothers have seen a snake basking by the pond but I havent seen one yet. They wont tell Mum about it as the fear that she won't go in the garden again. Mum should be going home from hospital this morning so I will go round there to do any food shopping, etc. for her.

Yesterday I was in hospital visiting Mum. She was admitted just over a week and a bit ago after falling asleep on the sofa and slipping off it not the floor late at night. She pressed the home response button around her neck and a neighbour was called plus me and my brother. I was asleep in a hotel in Kidderminster so didnt her the call. Eventually an ambulance arrived in the morning to find here resting against the sofa as she couldnt get up. She was Ok but after taking a blood sample they found that she had an infection and took her to hospital. Two days ago she was sitting on the hsopital bed putting her socks on ready to be taken home when she fell off the bed and badly cut her hand hence why she is still there. When she does get home, the hospital will have arranged temporary visiting care and then we can arringe the longer term visiting care. I have cameras around her property but I am now going to put a camera in the living room to keep an eye on her. She is OK with that. Cur next doors lawn this week but need to cut ours today before going to Mums place. Luckily she has someone cut the lawn for her.

Currently drinking in our local community pub after visiting mum in hospital. Despite it's name I will be walking if I don't have too many🍻🍻

Excellent railcams

I played this Amish Paradise song a lot when I was building the shed - I really want to build another🙂

Happy May the 4th.

I do like the 842, spent many hours riding in them. How does it compare with other MTB models?

There has been a derailed DMU on the Dobris line. Unfortunately I haven't been able to translate the details.

My old layout 'Appledore' will be there with some of our usual crew but not me this time.

I never had much of an interest in Deltics as they were almost gone when I started travelling around the country by train but Cromptons and Hoovers were my thing. I recently found 10 cromptons in the loft and all still runnig. I do have a few Hoovers lurking somewhere. That reminds me that I do need to plug the robotic cleaner back in this morning🙂

We are lucky as at present we have all the banks except HSBC. The only one in the area was in Reigate but that was the last bank left in that town and it closed a couple of years ago. When mum wants to go to a bank her closest ones are 8 miles away and are ours but nowhere to park close enough to them for to be able to walk from the car. At the moment though, she is in hospital receiving antibiotics after a fall Saturday night whilst we were away. Plenty of watching the CCTV at her place and telephone calls with the ambulance crew and home response teams on Sunday morning. We also had calls from the response team and the Police Saturday morning when her cleaner couldnt get any response when she pressed the door bell. Luckily she was fine then but couldnt hear the buzzer due to having the tv on loud but for a while I wasnt doing much operating on a friends layout at the Swiss Society do in Kidderminster. Back home now after 11 days away. My othe half did enjoy the Bala lake railway finding Alice.

A fellow modeller and friend calls them inbetweeny's.