We All Enjoy These Puzzles (?) There are only four differences on the above pair, one of which is hard to spot at this size, so fbb wll give it to you. The bus (bottom right) is showing a different route number. Now you can find the other three! From a correspondent in Cornwall, fbb has recently received a Transport…
Ferry To Bridge Once upo a time, if you wanted to go from Plymouth to Saltash, you coud take a train and cross the magnificent Royal Albert Bridge seen in part above. Or you could take a tram to Saltash Passage thn a ferry across the River Tamar. The ferry predates any recognisable form of public transport, but by the…
Well then. At the end of the last article I promised to write about the stations on HS2 phase 1 assuming that I hadn’t been too enraged by the political fallout from hopefully soon-to-be-ex-prime minister Rishi Sunak’s cancellation of phase 2 of HS2. Reader, I have been enraged. I have had to have a very […]
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“I wanna be the leader, I wanna be the leader.Can I be the leader? Can I? I can?Promise? Promise?Yippee I’m the leader, I’m the leader.OK what shall we do?” Roger McGough Any Colour You Like Come 5th July 2024, there is a new Labour government, voted in on a strongly-supported mandate, and pledged in Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s lunchtime speech…