I very much hope that you are securely glued to a seat and not wobbling about on your poorly hooves, Gus!
Soo xx
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We are still in the grip of this Epic & Biblical thunderstorm
The rain eased orff for all of 10 minutes at around 11am
Sigh
Carinthia.xx
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I am seated - hurrah. Not everyone is, and there is a certain amount of disgruntlement in the air.
Gxx
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Disgruntlement is entirely reasonable. I so wish that the train operators would stop treating their customers as ruddy cattle.
Off for a walk - in the wind and rain.
Soo xx
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The rot set in when they stopped thinking of the people using the trains as passengers to be conveyed somewhere, and started to think of them as customers to charge money.
Gus, I hope the Ma is ok and all well.
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Thank’ee, Fishy.
Will update when I can. Meanwhile, where’s the Gin trolley?
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[squeakity] [squeakity] [squeakity]
Only £500 a sip, and the alternative is facing the rest of yer journey sober…
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A sight for sore eyes. There are times to economise: this is not one of them.
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Tut tut, Fishers. Remember that services improved after privatisation. Count yourself lucky you’re not like all those wimpish Europeans who have to be bribed to use their nationalised trains by things like reserved seating, low fares, decent food and reliable services. Deutsche Bahn even sank so low as to hand out free snacks, last time I used them.
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Veering dangerously close to the political here, I think that most studies accept that subsidising a mass transport network generates more value than it costs (because people who can will now use the train rather than putting wear and fuel use on their cars, shipping goods by road, etc.), but if your orthodoxy says that each individual thing must be profit-making in its own right then you can’t allow that to happen.
Quite a few places in former Soviet-bloc Europe have removed tickets altogether from their light rail and tram networks, on the basis that they want people to use them rather than cars, so you just hop on when you feel like it; and not having collectors and barriers and inspectors and so on removes a massive ongoing cost too.
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Am now on a small and malevolent Welsh train chugging up from Newport, where I had time for coffee and a smoke.
Then a quick dash into the supermarket for Needfuls (fags and poss Gin!) and then stand 7 at the county bus station for that rara avis, the Fownhope bus.
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Indeed.
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I’m sure that’s Mansfield, Dunnock
Have had Coffee & shared a bottle of Fizz wivva friend in the Sexy Strasse
Am now wondering what to do about eating .I am alone in the street for the next few days
Itizz still raining…
Carinthia.xx
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Mansfield it was. First bus station photo that showed up with about the right angles for what I planned to do…
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Does this mean that you’ll have no company until you leave Carinthia, Carinthia?
Worit, worrit.
Yer bee izz thoroughly irritated with ‘stuff’. Nowt to do (directly) with family (maybe one ovvem) but I should buzz off and not comment. Kindest thorts, Cellarites,
Soo xx
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Don’t you dare buzz orff, Soo
Sit & drink Gin instead
NDN has gone home to Bruck taking a load of stuff she won’t need again with her . She will be back on Friday or Saturday, having cleaned the windows in her flat,done Severial loads of washing & visited her 90 year old mother .
The journey takes about 90minutes depending on the weather/traffic conditions
Those on the other side live in Zeltweg, & there is to be an Huge Airshow there next weekend, so they will stay away abit longer, methinks.
Itizz Hissing it down again, but no thunder
Carinthia.xx
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Wee bee sympathetic hugs and condolences about your BiL
Dear chatelaine I am worriting about you being too isolated now
Are there still good friends nearby?
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Okay, I’ll sit down on my beely bum and thanks for the gin, Carinthia. My mental peregrinations are too, too for hereabouts. I am very angry.
However, let’s share:
Twellsy - my BiL is an irritant and not dead, or anything. Tell me you aren’t confusing me with that other one?
Soo xx
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There are 4 people within spitting distance, Twellsy
Howsumevva
I never spit, wot wiv being an Lady , & all that Jazz
Gawds, Soo
That looks lovely
Carinthia.xx
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