Ordering a pizza used to be a hassle. Hunt down the leaflet, phone the number, recite the order, get them read in back to you, tell them your address, get them to read it back to you, put the phone down and hope for the best.
Now in the modern world, the apps make it all so simple. There is only one real dilemma left in the process… What size pizza gives you the best value for money?
After saying that there was a need for a list of all the Model Villages in the UK, I was alerted to this book, by the nice @MrTimDunn himself.
Its been about two years since our last visit to Amerton, so we went up there for the 2021 Steam Gala…
710 was built in 1934 as open top streamline double deck car 247.
During WWII, all 13 top toppers were given roofs, to enable year round use.
Originally, it probably looked a lot like it’s sister car, the later 706 Princess Alice. Alice had also been enclosed, but was rebuilt as an open-topper following a collision:
As we all know, back in June 2020, it was announced the the Prime Minister’s sort-of-private transport was to be repainted in a Union Flag colour scheme, at the cost of £900,000. Yes, arch-clown Alexander Boris dePeffel Johnson, not content with his bus based shennanigans, decided to go for the all important aviation derision too.
On November 20th, 1985, the song “D’Ye Ken Ted Moult?” by Half Man Half Biscuit was played on Radio One by John Peel. Less than ten months later, Ted Moult was dead. This was the first strike of a curse that would take many celebrities down.
My new passport arrived in the post today. I will not be using is to travel to exotic foreign destinations, for this in my Pier Passport: a handy guide to the seaside piers of the UK.
As I get ready to start work on Gardale again, I found the original track plan!
The Stafford–Shrewsbury line formerly ran between Shrewsbury and Stafford, from 1849 to 1966.
Those paying attention will spot that the little thing above only shows Wellington to Stafford… and for good reason – the line between Shrewsbury and Wellington is still in use, and here I’m only interested in the closed parts.
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