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Steve Ashmole-Day
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mastodon 4.6.8British comedy fan, occasional theatregoer, lover of minimalism, prog, and library music. Rail industry worker and enthusiast.🏳️🌈
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GTR have made a railway safety film with Diane Morgan. I think they could have let the superb Ms Morgan have a bit more fun with it but delighted to see the top YouTube comment is this. #PhilomenaCunk
Flying arrows on Stafford station, presumably from the first time around. The station was rebuilt in 1962, so would have seen steam trains initially in its brutalist form.
Today’s bus isn’t tracking but it’s dead on time. I’ll take that.
Blinkin’ First Essex are showing a bus on the tracker that’s not in service. Bit of a shit show when I’ve been standing at this stop for 40 minutes with no service.
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My heat pump cost about £44 per week (based on 24p per unit) this month for the central heating, but I’m in a big house with poor double glazing.
@avavsystems.bsky.social a shout-out from Technoan in his latest Oddcast! Tip of the hat to you, sir.
It’s the heat pump challenge. #HeatPump
Ah, The Brutalist, a nice film about an archi… good lord.
Playing Aphex Twin in Caffè Nero. Nice.
Going through my wardrobe, I put on an old pair of jeans I’d not worn for ages and went out. I now discover a hole in the crotch / gusset. Luckily I remembered my underpants.
Jesus the ads on ITV4 are depressing. Abused animals. Funeral plans. And gambling.
Get in!
I’m sure the magpies are watching for when the old cat food goes out.
Has anyone won the Galton and Simpson by-election yet?
Nice to have a ‘Follows Shortly’ on this streaming service.
Saw a guy today touch his bare hand on the Oyster reader before tailgating someone (this was at the wide gate). Cheeky fucker.
Just had 2 pips of the Greenwich Time Signal in The Archers Omnibus… #BBCRadio4
Coming up: 3.5 hours on Class 800 standard class seats. Wish me luck.
Tuesday saw me qualify to highlight the last of my rail atlas for Cornwall. Ollie and I went there years ago, maybe 2012, but missed the Looe branch. I was not prepared for how beautiful the Looe branch is, not to mention the lovely towns of East and West Looe. Did OK in the chazzers there.
All I’m saying is, if your actual job is to check tickets at the station, why wouldn’t you have your reading glasses with you? Or Reading glasses as this was GWR.
Voted for someone today and less than an hour later he was at my front door. Now that’s service.
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I’m very similar. But I do dip into commercial TV on occasion to mix things up a bit.
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I switched to oat ‘milk’ last year to reduce my carbon footprint. I’ve not regretted it. Still have regular cheese or bovine lactose if I’m in Greggs or something.
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Actual real standing in the cold minutes. I got to the stop about 0837 and stood there until 0928. The bus tracking app is actually very good but they pick and choose what’s tracking.