1st Aug 2018
There’s an impending 50th anniversary coming up very soon - my 50th wedding anniversary. I lived in Bedfordshire in August 1968 and steam locomotives had quietly slipped away ...
18th Jul 2018
Another very warm Wednesday might account for the reduced numbers again this week, but just maybe it was the thought of trying to dig more post holes. But more of ...
4th Jul 2018
Dave-2Jags started the tender puns last week with “Love me Tender” so it was off to Google to search for another song with “Tender” in ...
20th Jun 2018
Not quite the longest day and driving through the low cloud and the November like mist, it was difficult to reconcile that Thursday was actually the longest day. However, ...
14th Jun 2018
The day started well as Painless appeared with a huge supply of blueberry cup-cakes produced by Mrs Painless. Perhaps this is the only legitimate use for blueberries - otherwise ...
9th May 2018
A bit of a gap since my last blog. Wednesdays at Ropley have been an island of calm in a troubled sea, caused by my daughters attempt to move to ...
11th Apr 2018
Well, summer is a’coming in, but first we had to get through Easter. No mean feat this year! I did a couple of turns as TTI in the ...
7th Mar 2018
It’s been a few weeks since the last blog so I decided it was high time for another. Not that there’s huge amounts of visible ...
31st Jan 2018
After a few days of endless gibberish about Super, Blue and Blood moons I was rewarded by the beautiful sight of the moon as I drove home through Odiham yesterday.&...
3rd Jan 2018
It’s nearly twelfth night, and Christmas and the smell of boiled brussells sprouts is but a fading memory for most of us. All except the folk tradition fraternity ...
19th Dec 2017
Well what will the weather throw at us today; in the last couple of days we've had pouring rain, settling snow and heavy frosts to keep our un-prepared country ...
29th Nov 2017
Another month gone; going to work in the dark, coming home in the dark; Gawd; where's the St John's Wort? It doesn't make the days any lighter, ...
15th Nov 2017
Back to the fun factory, with joy in my heart, a spring in my step, and every intention of taking lots of interesting pictures to include in a blog! ...
1st Nov 2017
First of November? No, it can't be; apparently the last blog wot I rote was June 28th; I don't believe it; though I was assured by a Mrs ...
11th Oct 2017
More complaints to the Travelling Ticket Inspector (ie me) that there hasn’t been a blog for a while, so here we are again. I noticed that a ...
20th Sep 2017
During a TTI turn last weekend, our reader from Greece turned up on the train, complaining (very gently) that he hadn’t seen a blog for a while. ...