Andy - 🚉 / ⚽ / 🏒 / 🏳️‍🌈

People often ask "why don't you want to move back closer to your job?" (in Birmingham). It would be easier, after all, without a 90 min commute each way. This view is from the top of Matlock Road out of Chesterfield, maybe five mins drive from our house (if that). ...this is why. 😍

Lovely, lovely - after a 12hr shift at work, what you want is your train home affected by reportable railhead conditions... We're supposed to be arrived at Derby. We are currently sliding around between Water Orton and Wilnecote. 🙃

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

What a shit end to another shit 12hr night! Oh well, lovely 13hr shift to look forward to tonight with the clocks going back... 😴

The four finalists for James Bond are….

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Genuinely think that if I set up bsky to mute all variants of #TheArchers tags, I'd see probably 50% fewer posts... 🤔

There's a lot of chatter about mobile noise on trains, and I occasionally see comment that things were quieter in the past. The 1960s wants a word. Then, transistor radios were considered a plague, to the extent that British Railway's Western Region produced this poster.

Still annoys me more than it should that the factory sits between Navigation Road and Bailey Hall Road and yet not one person has convinced the council to rename either right of way 'Quality Street'. Tsk.

Got water in my right ear on Sunday. Cannot clear it. The pressure and discomfort since is insane. I cannot hear anything out of my right ear at all. Nights for a week from tonight is gonna be fun. 🙃

In things I didn't expect would ever happen to me, yesterday I was invited to an exclusive album launch event in Central London 😮 😳 What the heck does one wear to that? 😂 🤔

Fined or removed by who Heidi? The crew can only ask them to leave (they won't, like fare evaders don't now). The rest of the train will be DELIGHTED to be delayed whilst this happens. Removed by the chronically understaffed & underfunded BTP who don't have enough staff to respond to crimes already?

Somewhere new today 🛤️

The Eastgate Clock is my most detailed print yet. It started as a commission and isn't my usual subject matter, but it became a real labour of love. Now in my shop in a range of sizes. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page...

Oh @jimallthetime.bsky.social please don't be reposting AI slop 😞

Wednesday.

Would you take a job you can’t get to? Too many young people say no to work every year. Not because they don’t want to work. Tell the Transport Committee what your journey to work looks like by 16 October 📲 forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

When I say my music tastes vary wildly, I ain't kidding... My phone this morning made me laugh out loud waiting for the train. Perfectly mixed 🤣

Just had to do a run of days from Tues, culminating in a 1000-2200 yesterday followed by an 0700-1900 today, and what a set of days they have been. So sleepy! Off tomorrow but good for nothing 😴 oh well, keep on smiling! 😅

I dunno about supermarket magazine stills, this to me smacks of a 'Dear Deidrie' photo case study in a certain tabloid rag... 😅🤣

Can tell I'm old now. It was 4°c when I left the house yesterday, so I put my hat on for the first time this autumn. I walked by no-one else wearing a hat. Many weren't even in coats, still in their jumpers, blazers, and shirts. In my youth I wore shorts all year round. What has become of me? 😭

One doesn't feel too well.

Rare instance of a protected Dev Day today 😳 so am off to York to be a nuisance at the ROC for a bit! 😅

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

We could have had flying cars. 📷 Universal Pictures

🤩 🎶 Oh my god I can't believe it, Town have only gone and won away from home! 🎶 🤩 (to the tune of Oh My God! by the Kaiser Chiefs)

Morning all. iPod Nano providing the tunes on my way into work for a lovely 12hr shift today* *yet to be proven, pending events Hope you all have a lovely Saturday! 👌 🎶

📸 Nevada Northern Railway Museum

You'll all be thrilled to know my dabble with iPhones lasted barely two weeks. What a lovely piece of hardware, with an awfully restrictive and clunky operating system. 😳 In other news, anyone want to buy an iPhone 13 Mini which has literally just had a genuine battery replacement? 🤔😅

Make a band more boring: LinkedIn Park

Sitting in an empty room Trying to forget the past This was never meant to last I wish it wasn't so

'Trapped in the Sky', the first episode of Thunderbirds, was originally broadcast in selected ITV regions on this day in 1965.

@devpanda.uk is this who I think it is? 👀

Definitely you should all get your mugs from Natt. They are even accommodating of bonkers custom requests for weirdos like me who like/work with Voyagers! 😂 (still going strong after almost 18 months of mileage! 💪)

I now has a new battery. Which is showing 100% battery health but seems to be draining as quickly if not quicker than the old knackered one... 🙃

This morning is brought to you by Raspberry Swirl by Tori Amos. Off to the Apple Store in Meadowhell to enquire about a new battery 😳

Good to have a reminder every once in a while. It's easy to do, and the problem is likely to get worse. So make it a habit.

Nice sunny afternoon for a short wander around this beautiful market town... Crowd and participants noticeably reduced compared to the last couple of years, mind you. Happy Pride, Shrewsbury! 💙🧡

It's Shrewsbury Pride today. If you're about please say hello - will be there before the Colchester game repping Proud Salopians 💙🧡

What's up folks? Need your help. On the look out for podcasts (audio only) to expand my interests and awareness but without boring me - what do you listen to? What would you recommend? #podcasts

Third time lucky I guess. Typing on my new (old) phone so I've got further than I did before!!

Sure does 😕🤷🏼