Silly in the snow

quasi-Marketeer; language mangling goes with the job.

 

I'm going back two or three years, but the Met Line was equally
diabolical in that sense. Once I realised that the Chiltern Line was a
far better experience, I generally stopped using The Met.

And the only time the Chiltern Line was fucked, was because of knock-on
effects from the Met Line.

 

Yeah I would plump for Italy too. They have weather, geography, food, nice
people, an inability to conduct proper govmint and a streak of general
anarchy a mile wide.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Paul Corfield

Unfortunately, it seems that not even the rail industry believes in rail
transport.

Work is due to start fairly shortly on a very impressive track flyover
at Hitchin. It's quite a long project.

And all of the materials are going to be delivered by lorry, causing
chaos in the surrounding area.

 

Cor you would think they would slip a temporary siding in

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, 'Hog

Wouldn't you?

 

Coming to this thread from a wooden cabin in the hills above Lake Pucon,
in southern Chile.

This is God's country. Deserts in the north, penguins and ice floes in
the south, amazing diversity everywhere else, and a fabulous
Mediterranean climate in the middle.

The country's Lake District (around Pucon) has a very English climate.
That is to say, during the day the temperatures are like you'd get in an
Engliosh summer - maybe 24-27 C. And yes, it can change to pissing down
in an instant. Nights are definitely cooler, although that may be the
altitude where we are.

The people are lovely, the prices on the silly side of cheap for just
about everything, and the wine needs no introduction.

Planned date for The Move is 2012, after the Olympics and Jubilee
celebrations.

 

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I *love* it when this sort of riposte is fired straight back.

 

Severe delays due to a failed train at Aldgate.

Which was nice.

 

Sounds great. If it were in England I'd be seriously tempted.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8464690.stm

In some respects the govmint have been better than Blighty. It has always
seemed fiscally sound for a country to be in credit and not debt. An
investor and not a debtor. It should be a basic principal really, to
prevent excessive expenditure on pointless social engineering amongst other
things.

I expect the bottom end of poor in Chile rather surpasses what we would
think of as acceptable though.

 

In message <-september.org>,

Actually the 'failed' train had hit some scaffolding installed by
contractors last night.

Not really caused by LUL per se but I accept that it was their
contractors that fucked up.

 

Yes.

 

Will we still get an extra day off if she pops her clogs before then?

 

When we drove over from Argentina, we were immediately put in mind of
the Black Forest and other areas not a million miles away from us
here. And apparently there's a huge ex-Swiss population, as the great
Bernard O'Higgins led a couple of migrant-recruitment drives over
here.

So have you found a place now?

 

Argentina is also the biggest success for the Mormons outside the USA

 

Ooops, it wasn't him - some other dude in the mid 19th c.

 

I've been using the underground a bit over the past few weeks and it's
not actually as bad as I remember, last time I was doing this kind of
trip St Pancras was in bits, and you had to walk outside to even get
near a tube entrance.

Picadily and Northern line though, so a different kettle of fish.

 

It's cheaper to **** up the local area than cause disruption to the
passenger trains. Big penalties for NR.

It's madness.

 

They actually finished the old St Pancras hotel thing?