Stormy Weather

[Bryn]

I remember the radio 1 show with FZ talking through his forthcoming album and he played this track. Can you imagine how disappointed I was a couple of months later when the album appeared, sans Bolero due to copyright infringement!!!? Can't remeber when it was, maybe mid 80s?

AH you were too slow. My copy is replete with Bolero. I also have two alternatively presented copies of the CD single release of Bolero and Stairway to Heaven (easily my favourite performance of the latter).[/I]



[This is a later version of the artwork, minus Bolero.]

[salymap]

Bryn, you poor man, 6 hours, wow. Not much to say but at least you were paid, but awful for you.

[Lateralthinking1]

Yes, dreadful. People in Central London don't understand. I always reckoned on 3.5 hours in heavy snow, if at all, but I walked 6 miles in 2009 following three hours of just trying to leave Victoria and a "15 minute" train journey to Croydon. My condolences.

[Beef Oven]

AH you were too slow. My copy is replete with Bolero. I also have two alternatively presented copies of the CD single release of Bolero and Stairway to Heaven (easily my favourite performance of the latter).[/I]



[This is a later version of the artwork, minus Bolero.]

Rats! (Hot?). I didn't buy the album on account of the missing bolero.

What year was it?

[amateur51]

Ay, tis a cruell mystresse !

Sadly I don't think you have a claim. I would heap moral pressure on, in the hope of compensation in kind in due course

Compensation? You mean free pickles and a paratha thrown in?

[salymap]

Travelling in 'my day' it was usually fog and sometimes dreadful train accidents that caused me to be stranded in Central London.

Luckily I had a friend with me. We were going to the theatre but decided to head for my home. After hitching and short underground links, we got home in about the same time as Bryn. Six or seven hours.

[Bryn]

Bryn, you poor man, 6 hours, wow. Not much to say but at least you were paid, but awful for you.

Well I was inside buses or a train most of the time. My sympathy is with the several elderly women who were advised to get a taxi! Great, isn't it? The First Bus official considered the road conditions too dangerous for a bi-monthly serviced and daily serviceability checked bus with its PCV licenced and CPC equipped driver, but fine for a mini-cab with a driver equipped with a basic car licence and desire to get on to his or her next fare a.s.a.p. That's what really angers me.

[Sorry, PCV licence = Passenger Carrying Vehicle licence, and CPC = Certificate of Professional Competence, both of which all First Bus drivers will be in possession of.]

[amateur51]

I have just read on their website that First Bus has now resumed all services in the Slough and Bracknell areas, including the Greenline services they operate. That, despite what is clearly a deterioration in road conditions as the temperature drops again. I wonder if someone has reminded them of their public service requirements? That said, I also see that Thames Travel have suspended all their services in Bracknell indefinitely. However, their routes, unlike the Greenline routes, do include many roads the local council is notoriously bad at keeping gritted, including the one I live in.

Blimey Bryn, what a to-do! It's journeys like that one that make you think fiendish thoughts Have a pint of Auld Lang Syne like the one I had at lunch time, which caused a three-hour snoozle

[Bryn]

Travelling in 'my day' it was usually fog and sometimes dreadful train accidents that caused me to be stranded in Central London.

Luckily I had a friend with me. We were going to the theatre but decided to head for my home. After hitching and short underground links, we got home in about the same time as Bryn. Six or seven hours.

I'm just about old enough to remember Pea-soupers and the paraffin lamps used to lift them a little to aid visibility.

[amateur51]

Travelling in 'my day' it was usually fog and sometimes dreadful train accidents that caused me to be stranded in Central London.

Luckily I had a friend with me. We were going to the theatre but decided to head for my home. After hitching and short underground links, we got home in about the same time as Bryn. Six or seven hours.

Anyone fancy a reminiscence thread about getting to and from work during the three-day week?

Those were the days

But Bryn's journey sounds like cruel and unusual treatment

[salymap]

I'm about 6 or 7 miles from the nearest tube/underground station but they are the people I envy in bad conditions.

[Nick Armstrong]

Have a pint of Auld Lang Syne like the one I had at lunch time, which caused a three-hour snoozle

Thought you'd been quiet....



Sorry about the travel nightmares of Bryn and others. Lat's right, city centre (or near) living has advantages when conditions are adverse. My cycle ride home was more pleasant than the blizzardy trip eastwards into the wind this morning - very light snow falling this evening, the wind at my back, roads merely damp.... No moisture on the glasses at all, and basically just like any other cold damp winter day. The pavements were more treacherous, I was home in the same time as normal, inc. a stop at Waitrose for supplies

Cold it was, and getting into the warm a delight - but an easy experience compared with others. Good luck to all who have no choice but to travel this weekend. I imagine Richard T didn't make it to his concert in Wales? And what of JFLL's 'unavoidable' drive up to Nottingham today, I wonder....

Look forward to news...

[JFLL]

And what of JFLL's 'unavoidable' drive up to Nottingham today, I wonder....

Look forward to news...

Thanks for your concern, Calibs. Luckily, the lecture + committee meetings I was booked for on Friday and Saturday were very sensibly postponed, so I've spent a very pleasant day gazing at the mild snow in SE3, finished re-reading 'Middlemarch' and listened to the Kreutzer Sonata with Grumiaux and Haskil. Bliss!

[Nick Armstrong]

Thanks for your concern, Calibs. Luckily, the lecture + committee meetings I was booked for on Friday and Saturday were very sensibly postponed, so I've spent a very pleasant day gazing at the mild snow in SE3, finished re-reading 'Middlemarch' and listened to the Kreutzer Sonata with Grumiaux and Haskil. Bliss!

Perfect, JFLL! Both of us were relieved of a snowy road trip to Nottm. this week then

[Sydney Grew]

have all the fires been put out Mr Grew, or is that an ongoing problem ?

Very much ongoing I believe. And in response to another's query, the larger shops and offices in Sydney do indeed have air-con, but the majority of smaller shops and homes do not. One reason why I moved to van Diemen's Land, the northern coast of which is never hot.

What troubles all these new cities of five million around the world will experience twenty years from now when the water runs out!