Quiz time. Only one question. If you had a leaky roof what would you do? 1) fix the leak 2) put out buckets to catch the drips 3) install a comprehensive system of gutters inside the ceiling to catch the water and direct it out through holes in the wall.
Entries Tagged as 'Railways'
The pleasures of commuting
September 9th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Work
As someone who views commuting as something to be endured rather than enjoyed, I found this opinion piece in G2 a bit hard to swallow, even allowing for the fact that the writer is blind and therefore will have a different experience to me. I will admit that he does have a point that commuting […]
Tags: Newspapers·Railways
Moving on
September 7th, 2006 · 9 Comments · Work
I got the phone call today where I was verbally offered the job I was interviewed for on Monday, and which I verbally accepted. As it is a transfer between two companies in the same group it counts as an internal move and so verbal is OK apparently, with the contract to follow up in […]
Train strike – PS
August 29th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Politics
Surely I am not the only one who finds this quote from Keith Norman, the Aslef General Secretary, to be ever so slightly ironically amusing? I believe the company is using its passengers to try to score points over the union. I am only sorry that the public will suffer, rather than this appalling management.
Tags: Funny·Railways·Trade Unions
Train strikes
August 29th, 2006 · Comments Off on Train strikes · Work
Having been on holiday for a week I didn’t realise that there was a rail strike today. It was only on South West Trains but since they provide all the services to Waterloo (except for Eurostar of course) it was very quiet at work today. Apparently the strike was because managers drove some trains during […]
Tags: Commuting·Doh!·London·Railways·Trade Unions
Time Travel
August 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life
There were times last week when it felt like my holiday destination was actually 1950 rather than Dorset, although to be fair there were some things which were more late 70s. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Don’t we all sometimes look fondly back to simpler times?
Tags: Camping·Dorset·Family·Holidays·Nature·Nostalgia·Railways·Schooldays·Shopping·Town Planning
Doncaster Revisited
July 26th, 2006 · Comments Off on Doncaster Revisited · Work
I am back up in Doncaster again, but staying in a different hotel this time. This one is outside the town centre, so there are no crowds of drunks outside in the early hours, nor booming nightclub music. It is also a larger, cleaner room with a smoke alarm installed. On the negative side, being […]
Blink and you will miss it
July 5th, 2006 · Comments Off on Blink and you will miss it · Technology, Work
My workplace was on the BBC London news on Monday evening. Last Thursday some cameras turned up and spent an amount of time filming. Not sure how long as I made sure I was out to lunch at the time, but they were shown around, had everything explained to them and they filmed people at […]
Homeland security threat
June 19th, 2006 · Comments Off on Homeland security threat · Life
The ever-vigilant Stef Z has reported that our transport system is coming under increasing surveillance from furtive men who are observing every movement with their bare eye and with binoculars. They are making meticulous notes on the exact locations and schedules of public transport vehicles and taking hundreds of photographs for unknown purposes. So far […]
Pay, inflation and rail strikes
June 16th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Work
Where I work, the company has made a final offer for this year's pay which is a three-year deal of about 2.75% this year and then increased by inflation for the subsequent two years (with maximum and minimum levels specified so we are stuffed if inflation goes higher than that maximum level). The hilarious thing […]
Tags: Railways·Trade Unions
