As I was late to bed last night I allowed myself the luxury of getting the 08:39 instead of my normal 07:36 train to work. I don’t understand people the announcement repeatedly says “this train is formed of eight coaches” yet a good number of them walk well past the “8 car stop” sign and […]
Author Archives: Mike
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Having seen this before when I was still at school it was great to see how they have taken the production into the modern world
Insect bites
I’m going to start this post with a only read on if you can cope with photos of insect bites on my foot warning.
Get back on track
So it’s time to get back on track. Having to buy the largest waist jeans M & S sell is never a good plan, which when I did lose weight I promised I’d never put it back, but alas I failed there. Time has come to fix this. I’ve ordered some new swimming goggles (with […]
After my UK A to Z
Should I do a Europe A to Z or a tour of places from the “Meaning of Liff“? I thinking myself I should do both as I love Europe, but it’s big and might take me a while. When I was a young teenager it was Douglas Adams who really made me rekindle my love […]
Cramp, but we won
I went to the pub last night, and this morning woke up with a horrible left leg calf cramp. Now before anyone says I drank too much I had one pint of beer and two pints of diet coke, plus I ate pizza so I doubt it was not getting enough salt…. I’m going to […]
Ae (Mike’s UK A to Z)
So I’ve started my A – Z project with a trip to Ae Village. I visited Ae on Friday 14th June 2019 whilst on the way to Tough Mudder Scotland where amusingly to me one of the obstacles Arctic Enema often has it’s name shortened to A.E. Whilst speaking of Tough Mudder remember any first […]
Playing with the TFL APIs
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 […]
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 […]