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« Reply #4590 on: 20:09:54, 29-01-2008 » |
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hh, I couldn't agree more: but they're in a cleft stick because the railways are now so much more popular than they expected that they're having to put up prices to dissuade people from using them too much. Silly things like the XC (previously Virgin) Cross-country trainsets being one or two coaches short because it was decided to trial them cheaply first, and when they found more capacity was desperately needed, being unable to order the extra coaches because the waiting lists had grown too long....
I find it weird that it's considerably cheaper to fly from Edinburgh to Gatwick (for martle's do in Brighton) than to do the same journey by train - even at the cheapest advance rates.
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« Reply #4591 on: 20:53:36, 29-01-2008 » |
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Somehow people make it through in life in older age too. You are lucky to have good children, Mary. I have a feeling they are really good people.
We don't see your age here. For us you are always young.
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« Reply #4592 on: 22:46:34, 29-01-2008 » |
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I put into Network rail the cost of going to Mr. Butler's concert in Brighton from South Wales. The cheapest return fare was £25, (i.e. two singles) necessitating a 5 1/2 hour journey (and three changes) there, leaving at crack of dawn and an 8 1/2 hour journey back (leaving Brighton at 21.55) necessitating negotiating London Underground (where is Farringdon Street?) at midnight and spending four hours kicking my heels at Bristol Temple Meads until the Milk Train to Carmarthen arrived. Hm. I suppose I could spend those hours lucratively wandering down to Bristol Docks and singing salty songs to equally salty sailors. I could earn more than the initial train fare I suppose at sixpence a warble?
Here to Brighton otherwise is £59 off peak - but the timings are out for the Concert, or £160 peak rate, ditto, and necessitating a night in The Sin Capitol of The South Coast. Hmm. Tricky.
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« Reply #4594 on: 23:18:49, 29-01-2008 » |
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Cheers for that link Ron, but when I click on it, it do say:
"Unfortunately access to this resource has been denied, which could be due to a number of reasons."
I suspect the number of reasons to be:-
a) I am denied access to Mr. Butler's performance due to the fact that I may misbehave and be a total disgrace and embarrass the R3ok Cognescenti
b) I cannot access Cardiff Station easily without a wild cross country journey
c) I have received an unexpected ASBO and are banned from travelling on Arriva Wales see point a) above
d) I am tone deaf and would not appreciate it
e) Neither of the above but I have a problem with me Browser
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« Reply #4595 on: 23:22:40, 29-01-2008 » |
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OK, Anty, which station would you be using? Newport?
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« Reply #4596 on: 23:28:33, 29-01-2008 » |
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Well yes, Ron, it would be Newport, and it's very sweet of you, but I think it an impossibility and trying to negotiate London stations and underground in the early hours of the morning is quite frightening (for such a gentle maid such as I). You are so very sweet but I think it is a no-go for Brighton, much as I would like it.
I have to get up at half six, so night night.
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« Reply #4597 on: 23:40:37, 29-01-2008 » |
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£58, leaving Newport at 08.03 (changing at Reading and Gatwick), and returning from Brighton at 18.00 (changing at Clapham Junction and Salisbury, getting you back to Newport at 00.11 on Monday). No tubes, no Central London at all, no trolling round the docks in Brizzle....
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« Reply #4598 on: 08:56:53, 30-01-2008 » |
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No tubes, no Central London at all, no trolling round the docks in Brizzle....
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« Reply #4599 on: 10:41:05, 30-01-2008 » |
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No tubes, no Central London at all, no trolling round the docks in Brizzle....
Well she certainly won`t come now, Ron. She was looking forward to the docks Mort, I read that as "she was looking forward to the ducks". I tried to remember what was special about Britol and ducks. All I could remember was George's sexual relations between Bristol Station and an oil refinery. (You had to be there  ) Tommo |
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« Reply #4601 on: 16:24:24, 01-02-2008 » |
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"Well well well. Fancy that. Who would have imagined it?", said Mort in an even, scarily restrained tone of voice. James the computer god is on holiday. He has been all week so he couldn`t possibly have `phoned me this morning. Oddly enough, chatty charming Rupert who booked the appointment "has gone home for the day". I bet. I indicated that I thought Rupert should be roundly chastised, have his commission removed, then be pelted with rotten eggs before being hung, drawn and quartered, the remaining offal to be fed to the lions. I was assured that "his Manager will be informed". James returns from hols, no doubt somewhere that I probably can`t afford, on Monday. We have a date at Midday. Let`s see  |
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« Reply #4602 on: 16:47:55, 01-02-2008 » |
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« Reply #4604 on: 16:53:47, 01-02-2008 » |
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(They really, really don't like names like 'James' or 'Rupert', let me assure you.) |
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