Thoughts So I’ve now finished my North Coast 500 (NC500) adventure. I’d allowed myself three days with the option to extend into four if needed. It took me two days. I’m glad I did this in a car before probably changing to driving a van (camper van) next year, as it made the driving more …
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So back to my A to Z
So my covid excuse has run out, so it’s back to making an A to Z of places in the United Kingdom to visit. Think the rules are staying about the same, but the list may be chosen before they get visited. One difference is this time I’m going to visit them with a parter …
Network connected USB
Why So my car records the last 60 minutes from multiple cameras to a USB stick if you plug one in. I want to do something more long term like take a snapshot every 5 mins when driving. Sowhen COVID eventually goes away I can get a time lapse for each road trip I do. …
Tough Mudder Clapham Common
Early get up First train on a Saturday to change at London Bridge for the Northern Line to Clapham South meant I couldn’t stay out too long on Friday. I also found it quite hard not to get off the tube at Clapham Common, but the maps all agreed that Clapham South was the right …
This train is formed of eight coaches
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 …
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 …
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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 …