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Which was my point before. If that’s the case, and I regularly buy advances as soon as they’re released because that’s generally when they’re cheapest, then each railcard I own will only have 9-10 months use before I have to renew it because I want to buy an advance for 2-3 months time

Depends on the validation used doesn’t it? “Has a valid railcard at point of purchase” vs “has a railcard at point of purchase that will be valid at time of travel” Now you’re talking :D :D

"The railway" is in this case going to be marking its own homework, so yes, I suspect you're right (Not sure about the 3 months in 12 years argument though. If the validation is "you don't have a railcard that will be valid on the date of travel - buy one before you can buy your ticket" its...

No

And also they're edge cases that are most relevant with advance tickets, something the railway invented relatively recently (and a long time after the invention of railcards) and continues to market quite aggressively

Neither of those, to the best of my knowledge anyway

Nope

He seems a nice chap, as are the two BBC county people I've met - Rich Rae at Leicester before they binned him off, and Dave Fletcher at Derby who I knew a bit in his previous life as Halifax Town correspondent for the Halifax Courier Anyway, enough cricket for one day.... What comes in...

I hope you mean Kevin Howells, rather than the awful Mark Church who I suspect would love to think he was the voice of county cricket

How will this work for me buying an advance 3 months prior to travel, with a railcard that expires in 2 months time?

The cricket correspondent is Stephen Schemelt (sp?) now after Agnew stood back. Is there a named county correspondent? I thought they had a sort of main person per county?

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No, because….. …..yes Some sort of foundation garment, it was mentioned in a thing I was reading the other day about Mary Queen of Scots @Peterthegreat your turn to put your head on the block

The signal box at Leeming Bar on the Wensleydale came from North Wootton, near Kings Lynn

Got a spare minute so try this. What is or was a kirtle?

Blimey. I was only joking when I said camembert New question to follow tomorrow morning

Saltburn is 1 in 1.4

Ah yes, we found that out too When we were in Rothesay we went to Bute Yard and they had (I think) the full range of Bute beers, plus some alright snack type food. Bit of a strange place during the day - like a barn - but apparently good at night when they have music on

We went to a chip shop in Dunoon when we were there a couple of years ago. Not sure if it was the chip shop but I remember thinking I'd had a lot better elsewhere

A camembert or a brie