The Concrete Cow #1

Posted in Railways on 21st January 2012

Less than a month into the year and I'm writing about my second railtour - this is far from the usual course which January takes. However, years back when I had a lot less ink in the atlas I used to see start the year by how many weeks I...

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Benjamin Shaw - There

Posted in SHOFT on 20th January 2012

This blog doesn't generate huge amounts of feedback, at least not much that the spam filter doesn't happily discard for me because it involves enlarging at least one body part. However the two issues it does generate some occasional heat around are its unremitting praise for things, and its geographical...

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Single Ticket #6 - There Will Be Fireworks & So Many Animal Calls

Posted in SHOFT on 18th January 2012

I realised recently that one reason this blog will never be wildly popular or highly regarded - aside from my contrary tastes and over-complicated ramblings - is just that I'm too damn slow! I could of course pretend that this is some sort of defiant refusal to play the industry...

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