Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Drove from home to Feltham yesterday, took over 3 hours, the Bank Holiday traffic was heavy, where do all those people go?

Spent the afternoon at Feltham, then did the Show with Michelle Orpe. Her script - Presenters have scripts, on the Auto-Cue, Analysts don't - included the word "effervescent", which she could not get her tongue round, so she got mercilessly dissed. And so the Producer amended the Auto-Cue & kept putting "effervescent" in, in every link. She takes it well, she's a great kid, really.

Stayed over at Jurys Hotel, Heathrow, &, for the first night in a week, slept well.

I've had some pain/discomfort, in my upper body/shoulder area, for over a week, & it's getting worse, & keeps me awake now, but the Show gets the adrenelin running, & that gets rid of the pain. Amazing thing, adrenelin.

I spent an hour by the A30 this morning, just watching the 'planes coming in to land, they are very low, a few hundred feet I guess, & the engines roar like billy-o. I could stand there all day. The "long-hauls" tend to arrive in the morning, from America, Australia, New Zealand, what amazing beasts modern aeroplanes are. I really need to grow up, the fascination of aeroplanes & stuff should be long behind me now, but the thrill of being at an Airport, or Railway Main-Line Terminus, is as much as it was when I was a 10 year old.

[thetank]

I'm not rich enough to fly to Heathrow, went into Luton earlier this week instead.

Had a 10 year old Tikay moment when I got the train from there and came into St Pancras. I understand it's recently been done up, it truly is an awe inspiring site.

[cia260895]

I'm not rich enough to fly to Heathrow, went into Luton earlier this week instead.

Had a 10 year old Tikay moment when I got the train from there and came into St Pancras. I understand it's recently been done up, it truly is an awe inspiring site.

yah it's more like a shopping centre now

[thetank]

The upstairsy bit was still pretty impressive I thought. The ceiling and that.

I'm just not used to seeing things on that sort of scale, I'm a highland tceuchter see.

[the sicilian]

Took kids to the science museum last week.... amazing place and free.. Tikay would have been in wonderland... place was packed.... good to see not all parents are feckless...obv then took kids to Alton Towers for spoiling..pissed of rain..bought fast track tickets for £70 on top of the normal ticket..didnt use one of em..sigh i run bad LOL

[cia260895]

as a station it is v impressive

 just not all the shops and cafe's. just seem more like an airport

[MANTIS01]

I read a piece in the paper today about unclaimed lottery prizes. A spokesman for The National Lottery offered the following advice..."Players should check their tickets when they play the lottery". That is insightful advice. wp gg.

[tikay]

The upstairsy bit was still pretty impressive I thought. The ceiling and that.

I'm just not used to seeing things on that sort of scale, I'm a highland tceuchter see.

English as it should be. "upstairsy bit" says it all, describes it perfectly, as the authority on such matters - Miss Mason - would agree.

But I must correct you as to "ceiling". It's not a ceiling, it's a roof. BIG difference. For goodness sake...... Rooms have ceilings, buildings have roofs.

And it's a roof that stands staring at for hours - magnificent, truly cathedral-esque.

My only worry is the colour, a sort of undercoaty-blue. I'm not quite sure about that. It's either sheer perfection, or just plain wrong. The former, probably, I'm warming to it.

PS - For those interested, the two trains in view are both plastic Eurostars. Pity such a great station has such crap trains. Slam-door stock ftw.

[thetank]

Yeah, that's a roof allright.

[RED-DOG]

I've had some pain/discomfort, in my upper body/shoulder area, for over a week, & it's getting worse, & keeps me awake now

If it were only possible to get advice from someone with specialist knowledge of this sort of thing.

They could collect several of these "Specialists" together, and station them in strategic positions around the country. If you didn't know which kind of "Specialist" to see, you could first seek advice from a sort of general ailments chap, who could point you in thee right direction, or maybe even cure you himself.

Sounds wonderful doesn't it? Well don't get too excited. This plan has one major flaw. Namely, it assumes a modicum of common sense on the part of the person with the problem.

Ah well... Never mind. Tell us a train story.


 

[cia260895]

http://www.stpancras.com/about-stpancras/stpancras-image-gallery/

[thetank]

I've had some pain/discomfort, in my upper body/shoulder area, for over a week, & it's getting worse, & keeps me awake now

If it were only possible to get advice from someone with specialist knowledge of this sort of thing.

They could collect several of these "Specialists" together, and station them in strategic positions around the country. If you didn't know which kind of "Specialist" to see, you could first seek advice from a sort of general ailments chap, who could point you in thee right direction, or maybe even cure you himself.

Sounds wonderful doesn't it? Well don't get too excited. This plan has one major flaw. Namely, it assumes a modicum of common sense on the part of the person with the problem.

Ah well... Never mind. Tell us a train story.


 

Don't listen to RED

It's just variance.

[tikay]

I've had some pain/discomfort, in my upper body/shoulder area, for over a week, & it's getting worse, & keeps me awake now

If it were only possible to get advice from someone with specialist knowledge of this sort of thing.

They could collect several of these "Specialists" together, and station them in strategic positions around the country. If you didn't know which kind of "Specialist" to see, you could first seek advice from a sort of general ailments chap, who could point you in thee right direction, or maybe even cure you himself.

Sounds wonderful doesn't it? Well don't get too excited. This plan has one major flaw. Namely, it assumes a modicum of common sense on the part of the person with the problem.

Ah well... Never mind. Tell us a train story.


 

Lol, behave Tom.

If we all went to the quacks evey time we had an ache or a pain, the NHS would collapse under the strain.

What do you think people did before Doctors were invented? (Banstick for anyone who ventures the opinion "they died").

As a young man, I suffered horrendous migraines, now, thankfully, cured. These migraines were so acute I would take to my bed, chewing a pillow to ease the pain, throwing up, (that'd be the pilllow) almost blind, & they'd last 4 or 5 hours.

So, nagged by the woman of the moment - a born "wet", & worrier - I went to see the quack.

"I get shocking migraines, can you give me something?".

"How do you know they are migraines, not just bad headaches" says the learned one.

Fair point, I guess, you don't go to see a quack & then tell him what your illness is I suppose. But I was 30 something, & had not visited him for 16 years, so I kinda thought my mere presence would suggest something bad.

So, we moved on, & eventuallly, we agreed it was migraine. "But why?", I asked.

"Do you worry a lot, have a stressful job?" says he.

"Well yes, I'm a born fretter & worrier, it's just the way I am".

"Well stop worrying, & that'll cure it".

Now I mean, ffs,. How can you stop worrying, if you are made that way? As advice went, it was as daft as it gets.

That was, until 3 years ago, when I became really unwell in Edinburgh, & went home early, the last time I troubled a GP.

But thank you for your kind thoughts, it's appreciated.

[tikay]

I've had some pain/discomfort, in my upper body/shoulder area, for over a week, & it's getting worse, & keeps me awake now

If it were only possible to get advice from someone with specialist knowledge of this sort of thing.

They could collect several of these "Specialists" together, and station them in strategic positions around the country. If you didn't know which kind of "Specialist" to see, you could first seek advice from a sort of general ailments chap, who could point you in thee right direction, or maybe even cure you himself.

Sounds wonderful doesn't it? Well don't get too excited. This plan has one major flaw. Namely, it assumes a modicum of common sense on the part of the person with the problem.

Ah well... Never mind. Tell us a train story.


 

Don't listen to RED

It's just variance.

Not wrong.

[thetank]

Reverse-psychology fail