Andy in Germany
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- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
The apartment is all parquet wood, so apart from the odd rug* we've left it that way.
Very helpful if we drip paint.
*It's a very odd rug, but it keeps our feet warm.
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The apartment is all parquet wood, so apart from the odd rug* we've left it that way.
Very helpful if we drip paint.
*It's a very odd rug, but it keeps our feet warm.
classic33
Leg End Member
Why drip paint. Something you saw on VisionOn ir Take Hart?
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
You're talking to someone who hasn't watched British TV in two decades...
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
The exchange rate with pretty much any other currency has got even shitter today.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
classic33
Leg End Member
VisionOn ended in 1976, TakeHart followed on until 1983. Then HartBeat took over. Places the first two outside the two decades.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
VisionOn was before my time then. And Take Hart would have been about before I was aware of television...
classic33
Leg End Member
HartBeat?
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Vaguely. Being asked about HartBeat by you is a tad worrying. it's fine, fine, okay? keep that scythe away.
classic33
Leg End Member
You may be mixing HartBeat up with Heart Beat. Possibly Hart To Hart even.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Blast, that was a day that didn't go to plan...
Took me five hours to travel home from South Kensington, as I got caught up in the power cut shenanigans...
Got to Kings Cross after an hour on the tube, just missed a train out to Kings Lynn. Had half an hour to kill before the next one, so off to use the little girls' room and grab a bite to eat. Back on the concourse and everything is down as delayed or cancelled. Try and get on the one train to Peterborough that's still listed as departing, only to get turfed off that. Overhear a member of staff saying that there are still trains running out of Liverpool Street.
At this point, they're kicking everyone out of the station as the concourse was getting dangerously crowded. I decide to bail out then, rather than risk hanging around. So onto an #205 bus to Liverpool Street. Good decision, it turned out.
Mirabille, there is a train to Kings Lynn about to depart, so I squeeze myself onto that - it's a 4-car sardine can special. I'm wedged in a corner by the doors, can't stand up properly, can't sit anywhere, can't move. Not feeling terribly chipper in the heat either. An hour and a half to Cambridge via Audley End.
Get to Cambridge, everyone gets turfed off the train - sorry, not going any further up the line. There is a train to Kings Lynn on platform 6, but no one knows when it's going to leave. Ho hum. But there's a diesel service to Birmingham that stops at Ely leaving from platform 4. I'll take that.
Good job I did really. The Kings Lynn train left a minute before the Birmingham service, but again, only 4 cars and so many people wanting to get on it - not just the people who were on my train, but also the people who were on the next train out from Liverpool Street, plus the people trying to get home from Cambridge. There were a lot of disappointed people left behind on the platform when that train left.
Funny, people were so fixated on the Lynn train that they didn't twig the Birmingham train stopped at Ely. Consequently it wasn't busy, and I had a seat for the last 15 mins of my journey.
Don't think I fancy repeating that lot in a hurry. Hopefully I should be able to get a refund on my ticket.
Did have a good pootle around the V&A though.
Time to call it a night once I've finished my
Might be technically morning, but it's still night for me as I haven't gone to bed yet. It'll be morning when I wake up. Unless, of course, I wake up after midday...
Took me five hours to travel home from South Kensington, as I got caught up in the power cut shenanigans...
Got to Kings Cross after an hour on the tube, just missed a train out to Kings Lynn. Had half an hour to kill before the next one, so off to use the little girls' room and grab a bite to eat. Back on the concourse and everything is down as delayed or cancelled. Try and get on the one train to Peterborough that's still listed as departing, only to get turfed off that. Overhear a member of staff saying that there are still trains running out of Liverpool Street.
At this point, they're kicking everyone out of the station as the concourse was getting dangerously crowded. I decide to bail out then, rather than risk hanging around. So onto an #205 bus to Liverpool Street. Good decision, it turned out.
Mirabille, there is a train to Kings Lynn about to depart, so I squeeze myself onto that - it's a 4-car sardine can special. I'm wedged in a corner by the doors, can't stand up properly, can't sit anywhere, can't move. Not feeling terribly chipper in the heat either. An hour and a half to Cambridge via Audley End.
Get to Cambridge, everyone gets turfed off the train - sorry, not going any further up the line. There is a train to Kings Lynn on platform 6, but no one knows when it's going to leave. Ho hum. But there's a diesel service to Birmingham that stops at Ely leaving from platform 4. I'll take that.
Good job I did really. The Kings Lynn train left a minute before the Birmingham service, but again, only 4 cars and so many people wanting to get on it - not just the people who were on my train, but also the people who were on the next train out from Liverpool Street, plus the people trying to get home from Cambridge. There were a lot of disappointed people left behind on the platform when that train left.
Funny, people were so fixated on the Lynn train that they didn't twig the Birmingham train stopped at Ely. Consequently it wasn't busy, and I had a seat for the last 15 mins of my journey.
Don't think I fancy repeating that lot in a hurry. Hopefully I should be able to get a refund on my ticket.
Did have a good pootle around the V&A though.
Time to call it a night once I've finished my
Might be technically morning, but it's still night for me as I haven't gone to bed yet. It'll be morning when I wake up. Unless, of course, I wake up after midday...
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
I forgot to switch off my Garmin when I got to work this afternoon. It recorded around 7 hours of sitting in my locker before the battery went flat.
classic33
Leg End Member
You've some odd "little girls rooms" down your way.Blast, that was a day that didn't go to plan...
Took me five hours to travel home from South Kensington, as I got caught up in the power cut shenanigans...
Got to Kings Cross after an hour on the tube, just missed a train out to Kings Lynn. Had half an hour to kill before the next one, so off to use the little girls' room and grab a bite to eat. Back on the concourse and everything is down as delayed or cancelled. Try and get on the one train to Peterborough that's still listed as departing, only to get turfed off that. Overhear a member of staff saying that there are still trains running out of Liverpool Street.
At this point, they're kicking everyone out of the station as the concourse was getting dangerously crowded. I decide to bail out then, rather than risk hanging around. So onto an #205 bus to Liverpool Street. Good decision, it turned out.
Mirabille, there is a train to Kings Lynn about to depart, so I squeeze myself onto that - it's a 4-car sardine can special. I'm wedged in a corner by the doors, can't stand up properly, can't sit anywhere, can't move. Not feeling terribly chipper in the heat either. An hour and a half to Cambridge via Audley End.
Get to Cambridge, everyone gets turfed off the train - sorry, not going any further up the line. There is a train to Kings Lynn on platform 6, but no one knows when it's going to leave. Ho hum. But there's a diesel service to Birmingham that stops at Ely leaving from platform 4. I'll take that.
Good job I did really. The Kings Lynn train left a minute before the Birmingham service, but again, only 4 cars and so many people wanting to get on it - not just the people who were on my train, but also the people who were on the next train out from Liverpool Street, plus the people trying to get home from Cambridge. There were a lot of disappointed people left behind on the platform when that train left.
Funny, people were so fixated on the Lynn train that they didn't twig the Birmingham train stopped at Ely. Consequently it wasn't busy, and I had a seat for the last 15 mins of my journey.
Don't think I fancy repeating that lot in a hurry. Hopefully I should be able to get a refund on my ticket.
Did have a good pootle around the V&A though.
Time to call it a night once I've finished my
Might be technically morning, but it's still night for me as I haven't gone to bed yet. It'll be morning when I wake up. Unless, of course, I wake up after midday...
You want to try the trains up here if you fancy playing sardines.
classic33
Leg End Member
Top speed, elevation gain/loss?
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Nil, bugger all and zilch.
