10-11-2018, 13:49
Stanley Baxter was just about a genius. I liked Stanley Unwin too ..... but sometimes he lapsed into the merely silly instead of the surreal IMO ..........
I wear orange trousers, red, green, yellow and all kinds of bold jackets and shirts. So I can't complain about Michael Portillo's dress sense.
The bloke who does the walks along abandoned railway lines was on about the railways and different times in different cities a couple of weeks ago.
I think HS2 is meant to re-industrialise the few parts of the country not yet in London. Different time zones may well be back in vogue. How else will anyone be convinced that being dropped at Toton has speeded up their journey to Derby or Nottingham when they are stuck in queues of ring-road traffic?
If it was going to be a different time in Derby it wouldn't matter how long the journey from London took would it? And altering your watch would easier and cheaper than decimating ancient woodland and compulsorily purchasing the homes of formerly happy people ......
I wear orange trousers, red, green, yellow and all kinds of bold jackets and shirts. So I can't complain about Michael Portillo's dress sense.
The bloke who does the walks along abandoned railway lines was on about the railways and different times in different cities a couple of weeks ago.
I think HS2 is meant to re-industrialise the few parts of the country not yet in London. Different time zones may well be back in vogue. How else will anyone be convinced that being dropped at Toton has speeded up their journey to Derby or Nottingham when they are stuck in queues of ring-road traffic?
If it was going to be a different time in Derby it wouldn't matter how long the journey from London took would it? And altering your watch would easier and cheaper than decimating ancient woodland and compulsorily purchasing the homes of formerly happy people ......