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  1. Re6/6

    Goodnight Olivia. Such a lovely genuine person.

     

    "Love and light" 

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      Really sad to hear this news.  I always thought she was great even - dare I say it - when she was on the Cliff Richard Show on Saturday nights back in the early 70s!  RIP Olivia.

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  2. Captain Kernow

    When attempting to send a letter to an address in Germany yesterday, I now find that instead of an 'EU destination' stamp, I now have to put three separate stamps on the envelope, to the total value of £1.45. Of course, there is no £1.45 stamp. You need one for £1.42, then one for 2p and (incredibly, they still exist) one for 1p.

    Is this some kind of Bre*it-related farce, I wonder?

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      I wanted to order some French wine from a supplier a couple of weeks ago and was told that there would be delay due to it being "held up at Dover" - well I guess that's progress!  I wonder how long it will be before we are only permitted to take £25.00 in sterling when visiting "the continent"!  What a load of b......s!

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  3. Re6/6

    ".... I ain't pretty and my legs are thin.."

     

    Rest in peace Peter.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      Now I do feel old!  I loved this when I was at Southampton College of Art in 1968 and I still love it now.  Rest in peace Peter.

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  4. Captain Kernow

    Why is it, during weather like this, when good, upstanding folk need to have their windows open, that some anti-social barsteward finds an urgent need to have a bonfire?

     

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      I don't know Tim but it also happens to me every time! It is currently 25C and there is smoke drifting across my garden - barsteward!

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  5. Mallard60022

    Congrats to Network Rail Euston for providing the homeless with food and some essential goods. What a bloody fine gesture.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      Brillaint work by the Network Rail guys at Euston. very well done.

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  6. Indomitable026

    Silly human, silly human, silly human race

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      YES!!

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  7. Captain Kernow

    I really don't like the expression 'bookazine'.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      That will be the same dumbing down that has brought us to the situation where librarians - and even libraries - are no longer valued and are seen as disposable - don't even get me started on that subject!

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  8. Captain Kernow

    I really don't like the expression 'bookazine'.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      Just ask any librarian what a small volume on a single subject is and he/she will tell you it is a monograph - always has been! Bookazine is just vile!

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  9. Captain Kernow

    I really don't like the expression 'bookazine'.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      Monograph?

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  10. queensquare

    Kim took me to Corfe / Swanage today for my birthday treat. Steam, fish and chips and a walk on the beach with the dogs. Now at home in front of the wood burner with a large G&T, pretty much perfect day really!

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      Happy Birthday Jerry - Fish and chips on Swanage sea front - what could be better?

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  11. adb968008

    As the £ sinks the band plays on, even though we still haven't yet hit the iceberg.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      Wait until they put VAT on everything that comes in from the EU - currently all goods from the EU are exempt from VAT on imports.

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  12. WhiteRoseRambler

    Just watched 'To the Manor Born' on the Yesterday channel and noticed that at a scene at the local station the TV channel had blurred out an old Jimmy Saville British Rail poster!

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      IIRC the station scene was filmed at Maiden Newton on the Yeovil - Weymouth line.

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  13. Scottish Modeller

    You are not alone..... Speaking as a 61 year old who has full NI paid up and now struggling to get work. Then finds that DWP do not have to give me any money!

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      I lost my job in 2010 and have had to be self employed ever since as there simply was nothing availible for 59 year old. But hey, we all live in Nirvana now and it's going to be alright - isn't it?

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  14. gwrrob

    Anyone got the link to a GWR loco allocations website, I can only find BR.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      What do you want to know Rob? I don't know of any website but I do have an actual, real RCTS allocation list for the GWR for 1947! It's not all on the web - let me know what you are looking for.

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  15. Mad McCann

    Wondering if it would in fact be easier just to build new EM chassis for RTR locos than to convert them.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      It usually is!

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  16. bgman

    I thoroughly enjoyed the Bath experience at the weekend and it seems everything scrubbed up nicely thank you

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      It certainly was a most splendid day!

       

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  17. Brinkly

    There he Go-ves, There he Go-ves, There he Go-ves! And Morgan too. But who do we get as a replacement?

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke!!

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  18. Tim Dubya

    Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      Alfred Prince - Beaumont Hamel, 1st July 1916 - he would have been my Great Uncle.

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  19. Phil Clarke 1980

    They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      God bless all those who stood together with our European allies - it breakqs my heart to see what we have done with their hard fought peace.

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  20. Captain Kernow

    I have officially banned, by Supreme Decree, the word 'awesome'.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      Does that also include "super awesome"?

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  21. gwrrob

    Never tires of hearing the Robert Fripp guitar riff on Bowie's Heroes.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      Or Rick Wakeman on Life on Mars! RIP Ziggy

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  22. 46444

    Margo and Jerry...

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      That's the last time I play the tart for you Jerry!

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  23. Re6/6

    has just heard Rush on the wireless. A great pick-me-up on a miserable day. https://vimeo.com/55210093 .Play it LOUD!

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      If you heard it on the wireless was it on the Light Programme?

       

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  24. Pannier Tank

    Redundancy confirmed! First time out of work for 46 years.

    1. Bulwell Hall

      Bulwell Hall

      My sympathies to you. I know how it feels - my job dissapeared in 2010 and I found myself out of work for the first time since leaving school in 1968! Recovery - my a..!

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