So I often get annoyed coming home from work that the platform indicator board at South Kensington only displays very close trains. It turns out that the API they offer has lots of useful data, that isn’t shown on the platform displays. Surely that’s not a hard fix if they have the data….. Anyway this […]
Author Archives: Mike
Oyster / Oyster Replacement over a wider area (PAYG)
Yes the government are doing a consultation on making more pay as you go options available. This in my opinion really needs doing, but there are two big things I want. One monthly and annual caps (ideally with X day a week options to cover part time commuters). Two if the technology needs replacing add […]
The phone line is fixed
So the phone line did get fixed before 1pm, thank you sky for getting BT openreach to deal with the fault. I am told there was a flood locally with lots of BT vans in the morning, hence guess them fixing that might be related. What was slightly annoying was making sure I was at […]
The phone line is down
So I got home to the phones saying check phone line and did the whole moving furniture to check the master socket and still no phone line. The good news is the broadband hasn’t died with it, but of course a half broken phone line makes me worry it will break some more. Sky took […]
Uh-oh… I’ve had an idea
Chatting to some friends last night I came up with an idea….. I want to visit a place in the UK for every letter of the alphabet. For each letter I’m going to choose a place I like the sound of and make that the place I go to. My definition of go to is […]
Commute with “snow”
So there’s a tiny dusting of snow on the ground and the temperature is above freezing. So far the winter timetable just means less trains, not more reliable ones in my view. This said according to the Met Office forecast it is going to dip back down to zero degrees centigrade, and snow at the […]
Damn winter timetables
So tomorrow we get a winter timetable on the Hayes (Kent) line. I can’t make my mind up on how I feel about this. It is good in that we are more likely to actually get a train to London, but bad in that the trains that do run are almost guaranteed to be full […]
Hamilton
I love this musical as of tonight I’ve seen it twice. Not quite your standard happy ending musical, but it tells a story and it tells it well. It is my current favourite probably as it breaks some of the norms. Blood Brothers is also up there, again it breaks the happy ending norm. Many […]
I love my radiator valve
Yes you read that right. I really love my radiator valve.
It is not embossed – Debit Card
So my bank sent me a new debit card after the ticketmaster data breach. Thank you bank for looking after me, but I was surprised when this bank card turned up that it no longer has embossed numbers. As my friends pointed out to me on Facebook where I made a short comment on this […]