Brake cable - where am I going wrong?

Yes but, it only remains as "next" weekend until it's imminent, then it becomes "this" weekend and the one after becomes "next" even if "this" hasn't technically started yet. Don't you see? It's really very simple.🤓

That up and down thing is a reference to railway terminology I think. Up lines were into town I seem to remember. I still go down to London though. Over to America, down to Australia, up to Scotland. And in all cases usually while sitting "on" a train or aeroplane but "in" a car and never "sat" in or on any of them.

Of course last week I had to stand on the train, but at no time was I stood despite the act of standing.

On a ship, but in a submarine you'd have thought anyway? But then in a dinghy.

I prefer with.

On is ok if it's an open sandwich. Which doesn't necessarily have to have Scandinavian connotations, cheese on toast for example. Which again in Scotland is referred to as toasted cheese you know.

Fish and chips is a fish supper, and a roll and sausage is quite different to a sausage roll in that the former refers to a slice of Lorne sausage in a bread roll. Which may in fact be the thing I miss most about Scotland. "A pie" refers to a mutton or "Scotch" pie, as opposed to a steak pie which is beef, and therefore seen as ostentatious unless there has been a recent pay day. Pasties are mistrusted due to a high vegetable content. A jeely piece is a jam sandwich and absolutely counts as one of the five a day. Then of course there are Bridies. Mince pies in flaky pastry mainly eaten by teuchters.