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The Antelope is a great shout. Most of the pubs in Tooting have been gentrified to within an inch of their lives in the past ten years or so, unsurprisingly, but the Antelope is definitely one of the best options. I still mourn the old Castle -- used to be a proper old school boozer. I...

Blimey, that takes me back. Remember that from ~2002, think it was the 407 I used to catch from Waddon to Carshalton? Incredibly annoying!

Nice one, ta.

My bold. Out of idle curiosity, when did that change?

Auntie. (My bold.)

Amazon Cargo Plane Overshoots Runway in Miami, Killing Five People

Explains why the SWR Reading train I’m on is so popular!

Impressive!

Each Smiths News magazine depot has a conveyor belt system that takes the unsold copies into a massive skip which then gets collected each day and taken to be recycled by SCA. There is one process before that though: when the user scans the magazine barcode, if it's marked as "retain" in the...

Open floor :)

Aye, that's pretty much commonplace these days.

Cheshunt?

It looks positively ghastly, based on the last couple of episodes. Such egregious behaviour.

They did my U.S Visa return from the Embassy a few years ago. Assume they still do.

It did help that both Sky News and the Telegraph breaking news alerts beat the government alert by about 45 seconds, so I could warn everyone in the pub beer garden what was about to happen :lol:

They go off a couple of times a week in the US, particularly on the west coast. Here’s an example from last year (photo is of a missing person alert in LA):

To be fair, trains that are five carriages or fewer are always advertised as platform X A/B, so you know well in advance which half of the platform to aim for. Does the northbound approach to Tottenham Hale still have that “4 / 8 / 12?” sign on the approach to the platform? Been ages since I...

I noticed that on Sunday as well. Fairly sure we’d slowed down a bit at that point; maybe a TSR / ESR is in place over it?

Just going back to the air con situation on route 17 -- I was chatting to a friend of a friend yesterday who's a driver for Reading Buses. He said on the 17s, the air con is only turned on on the upper deck, and the downstairs kit is switched off across the fleet. I'm heading over to Tilehurst...

They were dishing out the weekend(?) snackboxes on Sunday when I last traveled (photos below):