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From: ogden on 15 Apr 2010 11:31 Switters wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:29:32 GMT, ogden wrote: > > > Switters wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:02:36 GMT, Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote: > >> > NATS are now saying it is "very unlikely that the situation over > >> > England will improve in the foreseeable future". > >> > >> Does this mean that the politicos can't get to Manchester? > > > > Other modes of transport between London and Manchester are available. > > Yeah, but surely just for poor people. At 400 for a 1st class seat on the 16:40 from Euston I really don't think it's for poor people. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | rgv250
From: Switters on 15 Apr 2010 12:37 On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:28:24 GMT, prawn wrote: > How about this. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/ice-cold/4497761488/> > > Aurora and volcano in one shot. Oh, some of these are wonderful... http://www.millhouse.nl/eyjafjallajokull2010.html
From: 'Hog on 15 Apr 2010 12:52 Switters wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:28:24 GMT, prawn wrote: > >> How about this. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/ice-cold/4497761488/> >> >> Aurora and volcano in one shot. > > Oh, some of these are wonderful... > http://www.millhouse.nl/eyjafjallajokull2010.html www.millhouse.nl/eyjafjallajokull20.html My first thoughts were of the morning after a serious Ruby Murray -- Hog
From: Mike Buckley on 15 Apr 2010 12:54 In message <s8qj97-3se2.ln1(a)nermal.internal.unix-consult.com>, Timo Geusch <tnewsSPAMMENOT(a)unixconsult.co.uk> writes >ogden wrote: > >> Switters wrote: >> > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:29:32 GMT, ogden wrote: >> > >> > > Switters wrote: >> > >> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:02:36 GMT, Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote: >> > >> > NATS are now saying it is "very unlikely that the situation >> > over >> > England will improve in the foreseeable future". >> > >> >> > >> Does this mean that the politicos can't get to Manchester? >> > > >> > > Other modes of transport between London and Manchester are >> > > available. >> > >> > Yeah, but surely just for poor people. >> >> At 400 for a 1st class seat on the 16:40 from Euston I really don't >> think it's for poor people. > >It is. You're pretty poor after you paid for the ticket. > When I used that route regularly last year I was always amazed at the number of people buying a ticket on the day for first class travel. I always got dirty looks as I was working for a company with a relaxed dress code (and buying a weekly season ticket in First was less than the cost of 5 day returns in Standard), anybody not in pin stripes got ignored by everybody apart from the staff. Free brekkie in the morning and free beer on the way back - makes EMT who I now use a right come down. "Breakfast" is a member of staff with a plastic bag full of not very nice looking fruit. At least Chiltern had bacon and sausage butties in the morning. -- Mike Buckley RD350LC2 CB72
From: steve auvache on 15 Apr 2010 13:38
In article <$TxrzwVMT0xLFw5s(a)hotmail.com>, Mike Buckley <Mike(a)hotmail.com> writes >When I used that route regularly last year I was always amazed at the >number of people buying a ticket on the day for first class travel. I >always got dirty looks as I was working for a company with a relaxed >dress code (and buying a weekly season ticket in First was less than the >cost of 5 day returns in Standard), anybody not in pin stripes got >ignored by everybody apart from the staff. When I were about 15 we would go fishing off Southend Pier during the summer hols. As a matter of course we used to travel 1st class and one day some Brigadier (retired) type took exception to us in our mucky fishing togs sitting in "his" smoking compartment smelling strongly of something he disapproved of and unable to get us to leave by issuing orders called the guard to check our tickets. Having checked our tickets and found them in order the guard duly made to leave and I suggested that he might like to check hyphen tossers while he was here. He did and guess what, our upstanding citizen, who "always travels 1st class" to avoid types like us had only a 2nd class ticket and was escorted away to the office for a little chat with railway plod. We was well happy. -- steve auvache VN750 Third gear has scope. SR250 The SpazzTrakka (Improved). |