Ante Meridian
Posted in London on 12th July 2006
It's been a long hot day, in uncertain territory. My customary summer foray into academia has arrived again. It sort of crept up on me this year. Without the strange structure which the appeal season used to give to my summer, I found myself starting this week at work with...
Lazy Sunday Afternoon Spoon
Posted in Railways on 9th July 2006
Another in the occasional series of photographs taken practically on my doorstep... 47813 'John Peel' thunders through Highbridge on route to St. Phillips Marsh On the way home, a couple of kids who'd seen me crashing about at the end of the platform asked me if I...
Barrow Hill Diesel Gala
Posted in Railways on 8th July 2006
It was a last minute, and therefore rather expensive, decision to head for Barrow Hill Roundhouse for their Diesel Gala. I'd read about it some months ago, and even planned to book on one of the mainline trains they were running to Deepcar or Toton - but somehow the whole...