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Running\u00a0A Little Late – Again<\/span><\/p>\n Got that?<\/p><\/div>\n It was running a year late …<\/p>\n … but looks like actually appearing some time in June – that’s 2024, or so TfL hopes. Mr Khan is doing quite a bit of hoping!<\/p>\n According to the wonderful Ian Armstrong’s bus routes guide, the route 358 was started in 1989 by then independent Metrobus, running between Crystal Palace and Green Street Green<\/span>.<\/p>\n Strange name?<\/p><\/div>\n Groan!<\/p><\/div>\n … continuing via more wiggles to Orpington.<\/p><\/div>\n A superb 12 minute frequency applies on Monday to Friday …<\/p>\n … taking about 90 minutes for the full journey. When Metrobus first started the route, it ran hourly!<\/p><\/div>\n Or they might come across this Underground map! (extract only shown below).<\/p>\n Blog readers are used to fbb’s interest in weird and wonderful (?) Underground maps and this is not the first time the iconic diagram has been repurposed, based on circles. But it is the first such to be posted at a selection of Underground stations. Here, for reference purposes, is a picture of the whole “Circle to Search” map.<\/p>\n According to those far more knowledgeable than fbb it does give all interchanges exactly as on the “normal” map – so you could actually use it<\/span>.<\/p><\/div>\n … fbb was able to sort it out. Here is a simple guide to “Circle for Search”.<\/p>\n A Galaxy S24 will cost you over \u00a3800.<\/p><\/div>\n … was turned off.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hooray<\/span>!<\/p><\/div>\n … which was BAD! Playstation icons at Oxford Circus did not change the station’s name, so possibly amusing rather than disruptive.<\/p>\n When HSTs Die …<\/span><\/p>\n Don’t we have a shortage of rolling stock in the UK?<\/p><\/div>\n A bit like the tubes transporting cash in big stores (Northampton’s main Co-op had them) the idea was to put people in a cylinder\u00a0 and movie it down a tunnel very fast using a vacuum.<\/p><\/div>\n Abandoned!<\/p><\/div>\n Although it is unclear from the picture, it seems that China is putting the people-filled projectile in a transparent tube, so they can see out. (?)<\/p>\n No thanks!<\/p>\n A Light To Lighten The Camp Site<\/span><\/p>\n fbb occasionally exchanges modelling news with a chum; and said chum was impressed that fbb was considering adding lights to his Routemaster camping bus. “You must be skillful,” was the friend’s over confident comment.<\/p><\/div>\n … held on the ceiling with Blu Tak.<\/p><\/div>\n … to feed the lighting\u00a0 under the awning of the verandah. Note mega bodge 5<\/span>\u00a0to use up too much wire!<\/p>\n Finally a porch light is being fitted on, well, the porch.<\/p>\n The intruding wiring (bodge 7<\/span>) will be poked away almost invisibly.<\/p><\/div>\n you are right, however, some of the lights are too bright and they need turning down a bit. You cannot easily “turn down” LEDs, so a bodge of a splodge of translucent paint should do the trick (bodge 8<\/span>).<\/p>\n The rest of the string will be used to illuminate the Nissen Hut holiday “cottage” which will be part of the same site.<\/p>\n