Recent content by WesternS

They don't encourage it, but no reason why you can't - I used to do so nearly everytime I flew from Birmingham, and for up to 10 days at a time. Clearly you're not going to leave a sign on your car saying 'gone to Rome, back on Sunday', but the ticket machines will still take your money even if...

Thank you and much appreciated - I'll let him know. As an aside, I do wish all that if firms/organisations/agencies have websites that they keep those updated too rather than relying solely on Twitter. Just because all the PR people and journos live on it doesn't mean that all the customers do -...

Is there any progress towards an opening date for this ? I've a friend who wishes to travel with his 13 year old son from Belfast to Corby, and as he doesn't want to take the ferry and drive, I've advised flying to Luton and taking the train. It will be a whole load easier to say 'just get the...

Obviously the Northern Irish/Ulster use of the term 'baltic' to mean 'it's absolutely bl****dy freezing today/out there' is not one that has crossed the Irish Sea. Not knowing Liverpool and its stations at all (bar one visit to Lime St), it may well of course be another example of super-ironic...

Yes, no doubt that explains the snark towards (late) Will Alsop in the article. As for incestuous, no doubt partly a function of it being a small field, partly that one person's Brutalist masterpiece is another person's ugly carbuncle etc etc. As for architects, well, I've expressed my thoughts...

Don't quite understand the "" around architecture critic. Rowan Moore is the architecture critic of the Guardian. Or are only 'railway experts' allowed to have a view on how the stations look and feel ? As for the article itself, (a) why shouldn't an architecture critic review the architecture...

Apologies, not especially well-drafted section. It is evident from a reading of the various GWSR blogs over the years that remedial work has provided evidence that the contractor who built the Cheltenham-Stratford section back between 1902 & 1906 took some interesting 'short-cuts' in their...

To be completely frank with you I sincerely doubt you will get a more courteous answer to your question than that from Bald Rick in post #199. I'll let you into a secret though - most people seeking to understand a company's finances take a look at the Report & Accounts. You'll note from any of...

Would be interested in knowing what you think it should cost. And where you think the majority of the costs should fall. From here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmtrans/63/6306.htm (from 2016-17) "To take an example, the M25 J27–30 motorway widening scheme cost £272.4...

If there is a proscription to use UK manufactured steel even though it might be more expensive than imported steel, with checks to see that the supply chain isn't substituting imported steel because it's cheaper, then there has to be a much greater understanding around the whole 'why does a...

Many thanks for the update. A good friend is part of the Skanska team doing it and she gave me the impression that it was going to be Christmas/New Year. However I did think 10 days was pushing it a little, but with modern construction and much more off-site fabrication I wasn't sure. It'll be...

Is there any update on such major HS2 works like the Stechford-Aston line viaduct replacement which was supposed to take place over the Christmas/New Year period ? I would hope that the demolition of 8 arches of a brick viaduct over road and rail and its replacement by a single steel span...

The Sansevieria trifasciata seems to be ok though.

A view from the other side..... https://tyronetribulations.com/2021/11/24/bridge-from-ireland-to-scotland-plans-abolished-due-to-potholes-already-appearing-on-final-drafts/ As the female owner of a lighting shop in Larne said to me a month or so ago "Larne loves a bargain".

If this is the shed sort of at the railway and Causey Arch, then +1 from me. Friendly, warm, good grub (sausage rolls with shortcrust pastry and tasty sausages... mmmm) and well-priced. Not a place perhaps to find an avocado but at 2.30pm on a very cold January day, rammed and I could see why...