Mags L Halliday

Snippet from Real Time Trains showing the Azuma was one minute up from Fletton Junction onwards, and arrived at Huntington 3 minutes after it was originally due to pass.

Whatever else comes out once the attack on the ECML train last night, this alone is a credit to the train crew, driver, and signalling team.

Huntingdon was the first possible stop. In a highly stressful situation and improvising a plan the train lost just 3 minutes vs line speed to get there.

Ta! Reading them on phone app is not easy.

Can you read Net Galley ARCs on it?

Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating.

My thoughts with all involved

Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival 2025 YouTube video by BGFCarnival

My home town tonight. Rewind to about -2.28 for the start of the good shit.

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it is very important to me that you click through to the thread

Rather implausibly, we were talking to a mum and her two young rainbow-striped kids on the bus this morning and they turned out to be the Batman family we’d been impressed by last night!

This is awesome! Someone in our neighbourhood had a more rough and ready version and got all the “ooooh”s.

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

I knew a veteran of the Falklands who’d go down the Legion so more modern planes etc aren’t completely odd to me (he also said the WW2 and Korean vets didn’t understand what the Falklands had been like for him so the Legion couldn’t help him much).

The men who raised the flags Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler.

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Last night’s full marks for costuming was the family dressed as Batman 66 characters: small kid Batman, even smaller Robin being carried by a Joker and a Penguin complete with false nose.

Extra sweets to the small kid who said ours was “the little horror shop” as most kids don’t get it.

Ours goes out just before dusk, and vanishes again once the first aggressive teen horde is spotted.

The only IRL people I’ve seen wearing them are the poppy sellers.

Allow us to turn off the reposts of individuals.
Allow us to turn off the reposts of individuals.

They're calling him the most French man in history

If you see this post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

Nandor. NanDOR. Ffs.

Nosferatu. Lestat. Carmilla. Spike. Angel. Drusilla. The sparkly ones from Twilight. Nando.

About ten years ago I was chaperoning a bunch of my kids’ small friends trick or treating on Halloween night and the first door they knocked on was opened by a woman in a negligee with a wine bottle very obviously expecting someone else. It was like something out of a Robin Asquith film

I'm the king of kings
I'm not the king of kings
but I'm the wreckage of a king
but really I'm not actually a king
but I am...

Shattered visage in the desert by the stone legs
wrinkles its lip at you.
See my works, ye mighty, and despair!

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS] 1 NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]: Hello there 2 [A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk]. DAD: Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids? 3 NT EMPLOYEE: Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail! 4 MUM: That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids? 5 NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]: Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot! 6 NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]: Listen - that's their call [Calls emanating from the landscape]: tut-tut woke-woke 7 NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]: They are extremely sensitive and fragile... But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery. 8 KIDS [pointing]: There they are! [Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure]. [Little people noises]: woke-woke tut-tut woke-woke 9 [Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]: Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house. [Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]: tut-tut woke-woke 10 MUM [pointing]: What's that one doing there? NT EMPLOYEE: Oh, that's so sweet… 11 [We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away]. NT EMPLOYEE: I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph… 12 [We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]: Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE? [ends]

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

a man in a leather jacket is holding a pair of scissors and says `` you 'll be a dentist '' . Alt: Steve Martin singing You’ll be a dentist”

We’ve already watched Little Shop of Horrors once, and will have it playing in the background tonight. Teen is dressing up as the Dentist but I’ve said there will be no scaring kids about dentistry.

I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music.

If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.

Cat Burns crossing a rope bridge in The Traitors: “It’s literally fine, it’s literally fine. I’m an adult, I’m an adult.”

Psyching myself up to make a phone call

Sweet sorrows?

I talked my way into a private tour of Tinside!

I began WCM as I wanted to write about buildings, modernism and people. I've got *just* enough paying subscribers to cover my costs but not remotely enough for my time.

If you like this kind of thing, and can spare £3 a month, please consider a sub.

I went to a screening of The Other Boleyn Girl where I suspect there was an outing of the university’s history staff.

Yes, there was heckling.

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