Overheard on a train. A man and a woman have just walked through the carraige, it’s late night (around 10). Conversation between two people behind me.
A – Did she just say ‘is this second class’?
B – I think she did
A – I’ve got a good mind to go up to her, crush a can of [...]
Overheard
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 safety [...]
Revenue Protection?
This weekend I have been in London. 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 was travelling, [...]
Eggesford and Honiton
At the end of the day on Friday, I was given one of the Nikon D40 DSLR cameras by one of the students who had experienced some problems focussing it. This was the excuse I needed to borrow one of said cameras over the weekend so that I could take some random photographs.
So yesterday, after [...]