Flying North For The Winter

Posted in Railways on 8th February 2007

Over the last couple of days I've been pottering around the house and generally enjoying being on leave and having nothing to do. Because I had a fairly substantial trip planned for the coming weekend I was content not to do too much else. Then, sometime yesterday, things started to...

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Sleeping Late

Posted in Railways on 3rd February 2007

Planning a lazy weekend before next week's Scottish excursion, I stumbled out of bed much later than planned. Started to pick through some email, and noted entirely by chance that there were a couple of message mistakenly flagged as spam which were about last night's 1C99 down Night Riviera. It...

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The Beer Club

Posted in Updates on 27th January 2007

Caught the train up to Redditch after work yesterday in order to be here for the Redditch & Bromsgrove CAMRA Beer Festival, at an old family stomping ground - the Bridley Moor and Batchley Social Club. Spent much of the morning persuading my uncle and cousin who were to accompany...

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