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Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
Cambridge to Chelmsford looks like about an hour and a half by express coach, changing at Stansted Airport. Depends on your personal taste how that sounds. Cambridge to Oxford (for CPDN) will take about 10-20 years, until Chris Grayling reopens the railway line.... |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
Ah, I didn't check my claim they were there. So thanks. 😊 |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2708 |
Cambridge to Oxford (for CPDN) will take about 10-20 years, until Chris Grayling reopens the railway line.... Or about four hours on X5 Stagecoach bus (on a day when there are no delays.) |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
Goes looking for a raincoat... Sunday 3 Mar - Tuesday 12 Mar Wednesday 13 Mar - Wednesday 27 MarThe Dutchman brings wet and windy weather without beans. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
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Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
What to believe, the Met Office or the BBC? :) |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
What to believe, the Met Office or the BBC? :)That's the glory of the free market competition system. If you don't like one set of weather, you're free to choose a different one. Mind you, the BBC did choose the cheapest option when it was forced to ditch the state-sponsored service and into the competitive market. Maybe you get what they pay for? |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
My local weather agrees with the Met Office in that it's going to be wet and windy. So I believe the Met. Then again, if your local micro-weather can differ from everything else, we'll go for that. I'll bring disposable rain coats anyway. Ain't got a coat, just vests and a sleeveless body warmer, so it's going to be interesting whatsoever. :) |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
If dry, we walk. If wet, we go by car :-) |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
Deal! :-) Meanwhilst, there's a chance my two week vacation becomes a three week one. I made one final bid to my friend Isa to celebrate her birthday in England and she wants to... but has to clear it with her mum, who has to bring the kids to school during that time. Yes, things between us have normalized that well. When it does happen, we'll continue on to the south,Devon/Cornwall area. She's also the walking type, so perhaps - weather permitting - Dartmoor. Then back I'll probably take the Chunnel. Never been in such a long claustrophobic environment before. :) I can cancel my ferry crossing back to within 24 hours before it happens, without cost, while Isa can fly in relatively cheap. We'll figure it out. No hurry, I ain't there yet. :) |
Send message Joined: 23 Feb 08 Posts: 2495 |
If dry, we walk. If wet, we go by car :-) Sounds like one if by land, two is by sea ;) |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
Then back I'll probably take the Chunnel. Never been in such a long claustrophobic environment before. :)You can always practice on the London Tube. If you stay for three weeks, you'll be getting perilously close to Brexit! For some reason, Eurostar - that's the foot-passenger service, capital to capital, not your car shuttle - has been reporting a reduced timetable 'for operational reasons', for more than a week now. I wonder if they're preparing emergency doors for Brexit. And if so, which side will the door-knob be on? |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
Perhaps by that time they'll open the middle tunnel for car traffic. More fun. :) But you're all making it sound like Britain will end by the 29th of March. I doubt that, we'll just not hear from you again. Internet turned off, wall around the islands. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
Echo of slow grinding sound as we drag our anchors across the bed of the Atlantic. Maybe heading off to rejoin our old tax havens in the Caribbean. |
Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2708 |
What to believe, the Met Office or the BBC? :) In 1974, first year of statistics at St. Andrews, we learned that the most accurate way of predicting the weather was to say that tomorrow's weather will be the same as today's. While things have moved on a bit since then, it worked pretty well last summer! |
Send message Joined: 23 Feb 08 Posts: 2495 |
What to believe, the Met Office or the BBC? :) IIRC that universal forecast is correct 70% of the time. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
Three more days. The packing list is final, I hope it all fits. I hope Richard is modern and that he has a washing machine, not that I have to rinse my socks and underwear in a local stream. I don't mind air-drying them. :) As it looks now, the bit of breeze will have passed by the time my ferry sets out to sea. But still, I think I'll just turn in early on the boat. Never been much of a socializer anyway. Isa is still negotiating, I've told her the answer isn't needed before the 13th of March. Fingers crossed. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5129 |
Well, we have a local stream, which powered the local economy for several centuries. But yes, I do have a washing machine - a washer-drier, even, so you don't have to expose your smalls to the neighbours. And until the modern economy finally collapses, I have an electricity supply to power it. |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
Perhaps the local stream is preferred :) |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15567 |
Just spent over an hour trying to copy music to the tablet, having to pull the cable from the computer every 5 files copied and reinserting it to be able to do things. In the end just removed the SD Card and put it in my phone, copied everything I wanted over in 3 minutes and put the card back in the tablet. It's going for repair when I return, because this is bull shit. |
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