Recent content by scarby

Is it really "quite a few steps back" for "English cricket"? It seems to me that all these "incidents" around the England team have been relatively minor, if really anything at all. But the media and social media is pouncing on anything. On the other hand during this century we have had a...

This is how I feel but from an earlier era. I was born in the 1960s but there is something about the 1950s that strikes a chord. Like you, I most certainly wouldn't say it was better. It wasn't. But I would still love to just be able to have a day in the 1950s. Just one day. Realistically, I...

Currently Saltsjöbanan is especially isolated due to major rebuilding work at Slussen. Cut back to Henriksdal in 2016 with a short connecting bus, it has now been further truncated to Saltsjö-Jarla due to works in the Nacka area. I travelled on it yesterday and what a pleasure - I have never...

It isn't hard at all, but doing that doesn't mean that one should then side with a party that wants to scrap plans for sustainable living - in other words, progress - and fielded a candidate who called Putin and Jimmy Savile "working class heroes" and said the latter was a "role model of mine"...

When I watch films from the 1940s and 1950s I am fascinated to see the actors in close-up - their eyes darting around and their mouth opening and closing; it is then as if they are alive in front of me. I also look at the website Reelstreets, which is an incredible resource of film scenes in...

Tiger in the Smoke (1957) opens with some shots at Fenchurch Street, including a brief glimpse of now-preserved 80136.

Satisfying for who?

Elisa Waut - Four Times More

Because gross inefficiency is not financially a bright idea. All the visitors who spend hours in a line at the airport spending nothing when they would otherwise very likely be spending money in the country or at the airport. As just one example, how much money lost to airport restaurants to...

Indeed, but relationships are a two-way street. Where are the “all possible steps” on the part of the European Commission? If they said “We are postponing the EES system for a while but please still turn up in good time to the airport” then we might be getting somewhere.

Which? shouldn’t be normalising this by advising the customer to take ridiculously inconvenient measures just to catch a flight. The onus is all on the service provider to fix the issue, not the customer.

Fantastic Something - If She Doesn’t Smile

I am fascinated by 1950s Britain and also the 1940s. There is something quite humbling and grounding about seeing people and society before I existed. I quite simply was nothing and it just didn't matter at all, nor (of course) did the non-existence of anyone around today, however famous. I...

I don’t think the kick off times being all over the place helps at all. Games that like this one were too early for friends to gather in an evening and the next one is obviously a non-starter for most people.

I have a pretty tried and tested rule for these type of situations, where it’s a big game but not a cup final or game that determines promotion or not, etc. Sleep through it and check the result in the morning. If they have won, I am happy and the big thing is there is then an even bigger game...