The Accident Rating and Punctuality of Sodor Rail

I’m not entirely sure what brought this to my mind today, I think it could have been when I was in the library earlier and a number of Thomas the Tank Engine books were returned. Sodor Rail – the Fat Controller’s new privatised railway company serving the Island of Sodor – must have the worst [...]

May 9, 2009  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Railways   No Comments

Pay your PIN by PIN

Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a rant about using PINs to pay for your items with credit cards (though while I’m at it, all the leaflets and stuff that were going round at the time that Morrisons changed said that using PINs were more secure – surely it is much easier to remember [...]

April 24, 2009  Tags: , , ,  Posted in: Life, the Universe and Everything   No Comments

Revenue Protection?

This weekend I have been in London.В  As usual, I took the train between Tiverton Parkway station and Paddington. Today, I returned, and I found myself contemplating about several things actually, but one of which I am about to mention to you. Although I had a completely valid ticket for the train on which I [...]

March 22, 2009  Tags: ,  Posted in: Public Transport Geekery, Railways   No Comments

Return of the 307 Bus

People who have known me for quite some time (those who knew me back at Secondary School) will know that for a short while I appeared to have a bit of a fixation with the 307 bus, the route which back then was between Barnstaple and South Molton, occasionally down here to North Molton, occasionally [...]

March 13, 2009  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Old Website, Public Transport Geekery   No Comments

More snow

Yes, OK – my life is this dull that two snow days on the trot I’ve made a post of photographs. Still, it’s not every day that it does snow and apparantly it’s going to all disappear by the weekend. Quite a bit of it has disappeared here today to be honest which actually is [...]

March 5, 2009  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Life, the Universe and Everything, Old Website, Photographs   No Comments

The Incredible Games

For a very long time now, I have been asking a question of people I meet.В  The question is thus: Do you remember a kids game show where they were in a lift, and each floor was a different game.В  Pretty much everybody I ask remembers the show, but they, like me, cannot remember the [...]

June 20, 2007  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Old Website   No Comments