On 2024-02-16, Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
> In article <uqlsj9$3ff0j$1@dont-email.me>, Hymermut <tone@email.com> on
> Thu, 15 Feb 2024 at 20:35:52 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
>>>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 14/02/2024 20:24, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>> .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yesterday I wandered from the kitchen into the storeroom whistling
>>>>>> Tommy
>>>>>> Steel's "Little White Bull".
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeez! How old ARE you!
>>>>>
>>>>> Tone
>>>>
>>>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
>>>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
>>>>
>>> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
>>> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.  I assume
>>> that was at much the same time as the filum.
>>>
>>
>>I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
>>
> Last Train to San Fernando.

Don't Miss It
--
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Is There not even one Influencer here to torment?

In article <1qp105z.1vs642y5dp3r5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
<snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05:59 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>
>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
>> >On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>> >> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
>[...]
>> >>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
>> >>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
>> >> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
>> >> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
>> >>
>> >
>> >I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
>> >
>>
>> Last Train to San Fernando.
>>
>
># Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
># If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
># Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.
>
>[sigh]
>
I was only nine and we, (my first bestest friend - Stuart Maxwell by
name) used to listen to it, over and over again. Friendship ended, as
his parents sent him away to boarding school.

--
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"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

On 16/02/2024 16:06, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> In article <1qp105z.1vs642y5dp3r5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
> <snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05:59 awoke Nicholas
> from his slumbers and wrote
>> Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>> On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
>>>>>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
>>>>> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
>>>>> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
>>>>
>>>
>>> Last Train to San Fernando.
>>>
>>
>> # Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
>> # If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
>> # Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.
>>
>> [sigh]
>>
> I was only nine and we, (my first bestest friend - Stuart Maxwell by
> name) used to listen to it, over and over again. Friendship ended, as
> his parents sent him away to boarding school.

Preferred 'last train to Glasgow Central' myself...

James

On 16/02/2024 22:52, James Heaton wrote:
> On 16/02/2024 16:06, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>> In article <1qp105z.1vs642y5dp3r5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
>> <snipeco.2@gmail.com>  on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05:59 awoke Nicholas
>> from his slumbers and wrote
>>> Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>>> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>>>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
>>>>>>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
>>>>>> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
>>>>>> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Last Train to San Fernando.
>>>>
>>>
>>> # Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
>>> # If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
>>> # Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.
>>>
>>> [sigh]
>>>
>> I was only nine and we, (my first bestest friend - Stuart Maxwell by
>> name) used to listen to it, over and over again.  Friendship ended, as
>> his parents sent him away to boarding school.
>
> Preferred 'last train to Glasgow Central' myself...

Ok, I'll raise you: "Last Train To Clarksville"...*

Chris

*Beeching really did swing his axe widely didn't he?

>
> Ok, I'll raise you: "Last Train To Clarksville"...*
>
> Chris
>
> *Beeching really did swing his axe widely didn't he?
>
>

I think Beeching just wrote a "report" - and the actual axe swinging was
carried by the incoming Labour Government ?

In article <l3bmnkF1krtU1@mid.individual.net>, chrisnd@privacy.net
<chrisnd@privacy.net> on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 12:22:12 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>On 16/02/2024 22:52, James Heaton wrote:
>> On 16/02/2024 16:06, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>> In article <1qp105z.1vs642y5dp3r5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
>>> <snipeco.2@gmail.com>  on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05:59 awoke Nicholas
>>> from his slumbers and wrote
>>>> Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>>>> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
>>>>>>>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
>>>>>>> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
>>>>>>> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Last Train to San Fernando.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
>>>> # If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
>>>> # Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.
>>>>
>>>> [sigh]
>>>>
>>> I was only nine and we, (my first bestest friend - Stuart Maxwell by
>>> name) used to listen to it, over and over again.  Friendship ended, as
>>> his parents sent him away to boarding school.
>>
>> Preferred 'last train to Glasgow Central' myself...
>
>Ok, I'll raise you: "Last Train To Clarksville"...*
>
>Chris
>
>*Beeching really did swing his axe widely didn't he?
>
>
But the last train still passes through Addlestrop. It never stops, at
the now non-existent platform.
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"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

On 17/02/2024 17:31, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> In article <l3bmnkF1krtU1@mid.individual.net>, chrisnd@privacy.net
> <chrisnd@privacy.net> on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 12:22:12 awoke Nicholas
> from his slumbers and wrote
>> On 16/02/2024 22:52, James Heaton wrote:
>>> On 16/02/2024 16:06, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>>> In article <1qp105z.1vs642y5dp3r5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
>>>> <snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05:59 awoke Nicholas
>>>> from his slumbers and wrote
>>>>> Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
>>>>>>>>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
>>>>>>>> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
>>>>>>>> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Last Train to San Fernando.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> # Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
>>>>> # If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
>>>>> # Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.
>>>>>
>>>>> [sigh]
>>>>>
>>>> I was only nine and we, (my first bestest friend - Stuart Maxwell by
>>>> name) used to listen to it, over and over again. Friendship ended, as
>>>> his parents sent him away to boarding school.
>>>
>>> Preferred 'last train to Glasgow Central' myself...
>>
>> Ok, I'll raise you: "Last Train To Clarksville"...*
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> *Beeching really did swing his axe widely didn't he?
>>
>>
> But the last train still passes through Addlestrop. It never stops, at
> the now non-existent platform.
>

Yes, I remember Adlestrop, the name ....

--
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BUTT.COM IS NOT MY E-MAIL ADDRESS

On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:30:43 +0000
Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote:

> On 17/02/2024 17:31, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> > In article <l3bmnkF1krtU1@mid.individual.net>, chrisnd@privacy.net
> > <chrisnd@privacy.net> on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 12:22:12 awoke Nicholas
> > from his slumbers and wrote
> >> On 16/02/2024 22:52, James Heaton wrote:
> >>> On 16/02/2024 16:06, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> >>>> In article <1qp105z.1vs642y5dp3r5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
> >>>> <snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05:59 awoke Nicholas
> >>>> from his slumbers and wrote
> >>>>> Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
> >>>>> [...]
> >>>>>>>>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
> >>>>>>>>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
> >>>>>>>> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
> >>>>>>>> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Last Train to San Fernando.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> # Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
> >>>>> # If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
> >>>>> # Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [sigh]
> >>>>>
> >>>> I was only nine and we, (my first bestest friend - Stuart Maxwell by
> >>>> name) used to listen to it, over and over again. Friendship ended, as
> >>>> his parents sent him away to boarding school.
> >>>
> >>> Preferred 'last train to Glasgow Central' myself...
> >>
> >> Ok, I'll raise you: "Last Train To Clarksville"...*
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> *Beeching really did swing his axe widely didn't he?
> >>
> >>
> > But the last train still passes through Addlestrop. It never stops, at
> > the now non-existent platform.
> >
>
> Yes, I remember Adlestrop, the name ....
>
>
Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
for tea?

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote in
news:uqt4ak$169df$1@dont-email.me:

> On 17/02/2024 17:31, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>> In article <l3bmnkF1krtU1@mid.individual.net>, chrisnd@privacy.net
>> <chrisnd@privacy.net> on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 12:22:12 awoke Nicholas
>> from his slumbers and wrote
>>> On 16/02/2024 22:52, James Heaton wrote:
>>>> On 16/02/2024 16:06, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>>>> In article <1qp105z.1vs642y5dp3r5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
>>>>> <snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05:59 awoke
>>>>> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>>>>> Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
>>>>>>>>>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
>>>>>>>>> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
>>>>>>>>> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Last Train to San Fernando.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
>>>>>> # If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
>>>>>> # Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [sigh]
>>>>>>
>>>>> I was only nine and we, (my first bestest friend - Stuart Maxwell
>>>>> by name) used to listen to it, over and over again. Friendship
>>>>> ended, as his parents sent him away to boarding school.
>>>>
>>>> Preferred 'last train to Glasgow Central' myself...
>>>
>>> Ok, I'll raise you: "Last Train To Clarksville"...*
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> *Beeching really did swing his axe widely didn't he?
>>>
>>>
>> But the last train still passes through Addlestrop. It never stops,
>> at the now non-existent platform.
>>
>
> Yes, I remember Adlestrop, the name ....

because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

--
Peter
-----

Kerr-Mudd, John said:
>
> Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
> for tea?

It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
CBA to butter them.

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 15:22:33 -0000 (UTC)
Peter <myshed@prune.org.uk> wrote:

> Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote in
> news:uqt4ak$169df$1@dont-email.me:
>
> > On 17/02/2024 17:31, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> >> In article <l3bmnkF1krtU1@mid.individual.net>, chrisnd@privacy.net
> >> <chrisnd@privacy.net> on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 12:22:12 awoke Nicholas
> >> from his slumbers and wrote
> >>> On 16/02/2024 22:52, James Heaton wrote:
> >>>> On 16/02/2024 16:06, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
> >>>>> In article <1qp105z.1vs642y5dp3r5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
> >>>>> <snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05:59 awoke
> >>>>> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
> >>>>>> Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
> >>>>>> [...]
> >>>>>>>>>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
> >>>>>>>>>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
> >>>>>>>>> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
> >>>>>>>>> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Last Train to San Fernando.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> # Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
> >>>>>> # If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
> >>>>>> # Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [sigh]
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> I was only nine and we, (my first bestest friend - Stuart Maxwell
> >>>>> by name) used to listen to it, over and over again. Friendship
> >>>>> ended, as his parents sent him away to boarding school.
> >>>>
> >>>> Preferred 'last train to Glasgow Central' myself...
> >>>
> >>> Ok, I'll raise you: "Last Train To Clarksville"...*
> >>>
> >>> Chris
> >>>
> >>> *Beeching really did swing his axe widely didn't he?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> But the last train still passes through Addlestrop. It never stops,
> >> at the now non-existent platform.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, I remember Adlestrop, the name ....
>
> because one afternoon
> Of heat the express-train drew up there
> Unwontedly. It was late June.
>
>
Precisély
--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:
> Kerr-Mudd, John said:
>>
>> Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
>> for tea?
>
> It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
> CBA to butter them.
>
>

Heresy! What kind of animal would eat a scone without butter??

Tim

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In message
<1081257410.729977040.890489.timdownieuk-yahoo.co.youkay@news.individual.
net>, Tim+ <timdownieuk@yahoo.co.youkay> writes
>Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:
>> Kerr-Mudd, John said:
>>>
>>> Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
>>> for tea?
>>
>> It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
>> CBA to butter them.
>>
>>
>
>Heresy! What kind of animal would eat a scone without butter??
>

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Adrian
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replace "bulleid" with "adrian" - all mail to bulleid is rejected
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Tim+ said:
> Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:
>> Kerr-Mudd, John said:
>>>
>>> Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
>>> for tea?
>>
>> It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
>> CBA to butter them.
>
> Heresy! What kind of animal would eat a scone without butter??

An elephant. HTH.

--
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"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:

> It depends on whether you got to the shops & back.
> And then whether you CBA to butter them.

Buttered shops? I'm up for: battered (with chips and pickled Onion);
Pizza alla stylee Romanian; curried; sweet 'n' sour chinese; but neither
laundrettes nor poast offices, TYVM.

I suspect that butter may be inappropriate in some of the above cases.

--
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My pet rock Gordon just is.

snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:

> Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
> > CBA to butter them.
>
> Buttered shops? I'm up for: battered (with chips and pickled Onion);
> Pizza alla stylee Romanian; curried; sweet 'n' sour chinese; but neither
> laundrettes nor poast offices, TYVM.
>
> I suspect that butter may be inappropriate in some of the above cases.
>
Well I CBA to cook my fish and chips today so had buttered fish instead.

--
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I had not realised before a few days ago that London Overground were in fact
originally lesser used lines of the old British Rail, which with some
investment and new stations actually make money for the company with the
franchise and TFL now. It does make you wonder if the Beeching remit was, as
has been mooted to deliberately run down the railways in order to make large
road projects more likely to be built as members of the Government had
shares in the companies building them.

When we say Last train, in some instances it means the last train today, but
as for the Nancy Whisky song, I don't know enough about US rail history to
know if its based on anything real.
I gather from that song City of New Oreans that Rail travel is declining in
the US as it is shall we say leisurely, and most people want to get to
places yesterday, so to speak. I used to like the trains when I was younger
and could see. You tended to have a good panoramic of country and towns and
you could lose yourself in thought. A friend of mine who is now no longer
with us said that you could meet some famous people on trains.

Brian

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<chrisnd@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> On 16/02/2024 22:52, James Heaton wrote:
>> On 16/02/2024 16:06, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>> In article <1qp105z.1vs642y5dp3r5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
>>> <snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05:59 awoke Nicholas
>>> from his slumbers and wrote
>>>> Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>>>> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
>>>>>>>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
>>>>>>> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
>>>>>>> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Last Train to San Fernando.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
>>>> # If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
>>>> # Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.
>>>>
>>>> [sigh]
>>>>
>>> I was only nine and we, (my first bestest friend - Stuart Maxwell by
>>> name) used to listen to it, over and over again. Friendship ended, as
>>> his parents sent him away to boarding school.
>>
>> Preferred 'last train to Glasgow Central' myself...
>
> Ok, I'll raise you: "Last Train To Clarksville"...*
>
> Chris
>
> *Beeching really did swing his axe widely didn't he?
>
>

Does anyone know if the platforms still exist at Minehead, no tracks no
trains when I was last there.
Brian

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"Chris Elvidge" <chris@mshome.net> wrote in message
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> On 17/02/2024 17:31, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>> In article <l3bmnkF1krtU1@mid.individual.net>, chrisnd@privacy.net
>> <chrisnd@privacy.net> on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 12:22:12 awoke Nicholas
>> from his slumbers and wrote
>>> On 16/02/2024 22:52, James Heaton wrote:
>>>> On 16/02/2024 16:06, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>>>>> In article <1qp105z.1vs642y5dp3r5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
>>>>> <snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05:59 awoke Nicholas
>>>>> from his slumbers and wrote
>>>>>> Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
>>>>>>>>>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
>>>>>>>>> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
>>>>>>>>> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Last Train to San Fernando.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
>>>>>> # If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
>>>>>> # Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [sigh]
>>>>>>
>>>>> I was only nine and we, (my first bestest friend - Stuart Maxwell by
>>>>> name) used to listen to it, over and over again. Friendship ended, as
>>>>> his parents sent him away to boarding school.
>>>>
>>>> Preferred 'last train to Glasgow Central' myself...
>>>
>>> Ok, I'll raise you: "Last Train To Clarksville"...*
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> *Beeching really did swing his axe widely didn't he?
>>>
>>>
>> But the last train still passes through Addlestrop. It never stops, at
>> the now non-existent platform.
>>
>
> Yes, I remember Adlestrop, the name ....
>
>
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Around those times, late 50s and early 60s, it now seems obvious that we all
spoke differently, and so much is different now in oh so many ways. The
films from back then seem like they are from another planet, but I lived
through the years and never really noticed the changes at the time, its only
later on that they become obvious.

Brian

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"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:30:43 +0000
> Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote:
>
>> On 17/02/2024 17:31, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>> > In article <l3bmnkF1krtU1@mid.individual.net>, chrisnd@privacy.net
>> > <chrisnd@privacy.net> on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 12:22:12 awoke Nicholas
>> > from his slumbers and wrote
>> >> On 16/02/2024 22:52, James Heaton wrote:
>> >>> On 16/02/2024 16:06, Nicholas D. Richards wrote:
>> >>>> In article <1qp105z.1vs642y5dp3r5N%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
>> >>>> <snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Fri, 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05:59 awoke
>> >>>> Nicholas
>> >>>> from his slumbers and wrote
>> >>>>> Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> Hymermut <tone@email.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>>> On 15/02/2024 18:43, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>> >>>>>>>> On 15-Feb-24 2:31, Sn!pe wrote:
>> >>>>> [...]
>> >>>>>>>>> My mum took me to see Tommy the Toreador
>> >>>>>>>>> at the Odeon pictures when I was ~10 y.o.
>> >>>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> We must be (more or less) con temporaries.
>> >>>>>>>> I was just shy of my tenth birthday when the song came out.
>> >>>>>>>> I assume that was at much the same time as the filum.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> I go back to 'Rock With The Cavemen' !
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Last Train to San Fernando.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> # Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando
>> >>>>> # If you miss this one, you'll never get another one
>> >>>>> # Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> [sigh]
>> >>>>>
>> >>>> I was only nine and we, (my first bestest friend - Stuart Maxwell by
>> >>>> name) used to listen to it, over and over again. Friendship ended,
>> >>>> as
>> >>>> his parents sent him away to boarding school.
>> >>>
>> >>> Preferred 'last train to Glasgow Central' myself...
>> >>
>> >> Ok, I'll raise you: "Last Train To Clarksville"...*
>> >>
>> >> Chris
>> >>
>> >> *Beeching really did swing his axe widely didn't he?
>> >>
>> >>
>> > But the last train still passes through Addlestrop. It never stops, at
>> > the now non-existent platform.
>> >
>>
>> Yes, I remember Adlestrop, the name ....
>>
>>
> Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
> for tea?
>
> --
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Off on a tangent, Does anyone recall Balham, Gateway to the South?

On that same Parlaphone LP was a track called Party Political Speech. Apart
from the accent, the words could apply to today.
IE he never answers the questions he poses but bullshits his way through
without saying anything at all.
And let me tell you, I do not consider existing conditions likely, we must
build, but build surely, and in conclusion , let me say just this....

Brian

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"Richard Robinson" <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Kerr-Mudd, John said:
>>
>> Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
>> for tea?
>
> It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
> CBA to butter them.
>
>
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>
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And is there Honey still for tea? Honey's off dear.
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> Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:
>> Kerr-Mudd, John said:
>>>
>>> Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
>>> for tea?
>>
>> It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
>> CBA to butter them.
>>
>>
>
> Heresy! What kind of animal would eat a scone without butter??
>
> Tim
>
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Was that post trunkated?
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> Tim+ said:
>> Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:
>>> Kerr-Mudd, John said:
>>>>
>>>> Never mind all that, what I want to know is: Are there buttered scones
>>>> for tea?
>>>
>>> It depends on whether you got to the shops & back. And then whether you
>>> CBA to butter them.
>>
>> Heresy! What kind of animal would eat a scone without butter??
>
> An elephant. HTH.
>
>
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>
> My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

My news feed is going backwards now, bah humbug. Brian

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> 74 in December if I make it.
>
> I even remember the pheasant pluckers song.
> Brian
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> "Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote in message
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>> In article <MPG.4036a03617df0b8d9896f3@paganini.bofh.team>, Jim the
>> Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> on Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 10:03:13 awoke
>> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>>In article <uqhupt$2ijtc$1@dont-email.me>, newsforpasiphae1953
>>>@yahoo.co.uk says...
>>>>
>>>> On 13/02/2024 18:23, Jim the Geordie wrote:
>>>> > The location of this place came to me quite unexpected-ly
>>>> > There's a tiny house there - by a tiny stream
>>>> > If I told you any more then you would know.
>>>> >
>>>> > Memory only!
>>>> > NO GOOGLING!
>>>> >
>>>> Summat like
>>>> Tvyyl-tvyyl-bffrasrssre-pnfra-obtra-ol-gur-frn.
>>>
>>>Indeed
>>>You must be as old and daft as me.
>>
>> You, me and him, tree
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>>
>> "O� sont les neiges d'antan?"
>
>

On 19/02/2024 11:30, Brian Gaff wrote:
> I had not realised before a few days ago that London Overground were in fact
> originally lesser used lines of the old British Rail, which with some
> investment and new stations actually make money for the company with the
> franchise and TFL now. It does make you wonder if the Beeching remit was, as
> has been mooted to deliberately run down the railways in order to make large
> road projects more likely to be built as members of the Government had
> shares in the companies building them.
>

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Oops, finger trouble, trying again.

I heard that it was some of Beeching's personal friends that owned the
road builders.

On 19/02/2024 11:30, Brian Gaff wrote:
> It does make you wonder if the Beeching remit was, as
> has been mooted to deliberately run down the railways in order to make large
> road projects more likely to be built as members of the Government had
> shares in the companies building them.
>
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