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What is WRONG with this country and cheap fares? Surely the whole point of railway privatisation and airline competition was that we'd luck out! They can do it elsewhere (the USA is cheap as chips) - why not here. I guess I know the answers...  Don't. I had spent a thoroughly depressing two hours on Sunday arranging tickets to see my brother in three weeks' time and attend a friend's wedding in five weeks' time. I'm now £120 poorer for a couple of return tickets to Warrington and Newcastle respectively. To rub salt into the wound, these tickets rejoiced under the name "saver advance". |
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« Reply #4666 on: 12:27:10, 05-02-2008 » |
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I've tried to find an alternative site for that recommendation, Mort, without success.
Thanks for that Ron. I tried a trawl as well with no luck. I had another bash at ordering on-line but it`s not having it. I`ll wait for Nigel to call back ....  |
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« Reply #4667 on: 13:00:32, 05-02-2008 » |
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I'm feeling grumpy today, nothing special to moan about, so I'll just sit here and mutter to myself. Though I could moan about my broadband connection and the weather amd the cost of train fares and......  |
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« Reply #4668 on: 13:42:01, 05-02-2008 » |
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I'm usually pretty lucky finding cheap fares, but now that I've been told that Raymond's funeral is this Friday, I'm having no success whatsoever. I really don't want to have to drive it - 1000 miles (much of it M74 and M6) is not my idea of fun, but at the moment virtually nothing's available for much under £200. I'll keep trying...
Are you a member of the Scotrail (or whatever it is now) 'Advance' Club, Ron? Bizarrely, I seem to have become an Honorary Sassenach Member automatically by regular use of the overnight sleeper up to Inverness. I assume you probably are too (I mean a member of 'Advance', not a Sassenach)? They often have special offers on the sleepers and I thought there was one in operation now (half price?). Unfortunately their website isn't allowing me on at the moment to check. |
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« Reply #4669 on: 14:00:37, 05-02-2008 » |
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GG - I'd forgotten the Advance Club! However, my salvation appears to have hailed from over La Manche, since Air France are quite happy to take me from Edinburgh to London City for a whisker over £120 return.
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... my salvation appears to have hailed from over La Manche, since Air France are quite happy to take me from Edinburgh to London City for a whisker over £120 return.
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« Reply #4671 on: 14:57:59, 05-02-2008 » |
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I very nearly mentioned that, GG; to add to the fun their website crashed whilst I was booking, so I had the fun of dealing with Monique somewhere in La Belle France rather than Nigel in Mumbai. Zut alors!
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« Reply #4672 on: 18:29:34, 05-02-2008 » |
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Why cant we have some sunny weather. The weather people say we are going to have some but a few days in a row would be nice, please!
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« Reply #4673 on: 18:31:33, 05-02-2008 » |
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...I gave up and decided to use the more traditional method of placing my order using the Graham Bell technique... You skiied your order in ??  To Mumbai ?? Sheesh Tommo |
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« Reply #4674 on: 15:31:33, 06-02-2008 » |
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Our basement is flooded. We had had four inches of snow melting plus torrential rains, and now I'm afraid I've lost some books (no music books, though!)
A lot of books were ones I needed some excuse to be rid of (that's why they were stored in the basement rather than in bookshelves on the main floor) -- but there were at least a few dozen gems, and one or two rather rare ones, not to mention my collection of chess books, and three items from the university library. Anyone know if they'll respond well to a good blow-dry and ironing job?
Strangely calm about it all. But the water's still rising. I need to go teach some counterpoint. Can't do anything at this point anyway but attach a hose to the pump and pump out to the lawn, which is currently a lake. The landlord has a fella to do that.
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« Reply #4675 on: 15:48:04, 06-02-2008 » |
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That's terrible news, CD.  The best thing to do is probably buy lots and lots of absorbent kitchen paper, and start inserting it between pages. Edit - no, dont: according to Martle's link you shouldn't try separating the pages until they're dry. |
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« Reply #4677 on: 16:34:44, 06-02-2008 » |
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I initially read the article posted by martle as saying:
"Any insurance company will have a list of practitioners killed in recovering soggy paper documents. "
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #4678 on: 17:05:28, 06-02-2008 » |
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Chafers, that is truly rotten news. I do hope that you can manage a recover and repair exercise on most, if not all, of your books.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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