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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 18:21:09 GMT
What a day to be travelling today!
Firstly my father was booked on the 11:15 flight from Manchester to Tel Aviv although they boarded on time they were struggling to catch their slot because of the weather. Then a passenger took ill and had to be removed from the plane and of course they did miss their slot so the plane took off two hours late. Whilst he was waiting on the tarmac my father rang me whilst I was near Manchester Airport and underneath the arriving flight path. A Virgin jumbo jet flew over me its wings waggling furiously in the high winds. I would not have enjoyed that.
Secondly my wife was booked on the 11.00 train from Euston to Manchester. As I am writing this she is somewhere between Tamworth and Crewe having been on two trains which have broken down and is now on a stopping train to Crewe from where she is not sure how she will get to Manchester. I may have to go and pick her up but the traffic may make it a stupid decision.
Thank you storm Doris
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Post by Humph on Feb 23, 2017 19:23:08 GMT
Don't want to go to Crewe after dark...👹
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Post by Hofmeister on Feb 23, 2017 20:14:37 GMT
Don't want to go to Crewe after dark...👹 Crewe? thats norf init? Dont go there.
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Post by tyrednexited on Feb 23, 2017 20:19:12 GMT
Don't want to go to Crewe. after dark...👹 ...there, corrected it for you....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 20:57:58 GMT
Weird place Crewe. Occasionally do valuations there. Just feels .....wrong....
Humph lives near there......maybe that's why?
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Post by Humph on Feb 23, 2017 22:04:17 GMT
I live miles away from it, and what's more they built a bypass so you don't actually have to go there anymore. 😉
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 22:46:30 GMT
Hmm miles away...... Nearer than anyone else on this site, by-pass or noo.
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Post by Ted on Feb 23, 2017 23:17:08 GMT
Crewe is a figment of traveller's brains Born of the night, of Bradshaw and of trains.
Went to a funeral on the Wirral today, a biker pal who was sectioned after some brain bleeds 4 or 5 years ago. Set off at 0900 for 1030 service.Weather was awful, down past the airport and across the North Cheshire plain it howled down with rain, I was glad to let me other mate drive in his newish Grand Cherokee. Could hardly stand against the wind at the crem. Coming back, they had closed the M56 so we diverted through Delamere and the A556...queues everywhere. Not too bad when we got back to South Manchester although a strip of roofing felt has come off my little shed and a 6ft fence panel next door was all over his lawn in bits. The power had tripped in my workshop and my computer needed switching on so I guess we'd had break some time in the day.....2 freezers in there !
Oh, and I think I saw a blue bin on it's side somewhere on the trip !
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Post by WDB on Feb 24, 2017 7:51:15 GMT
Nowhere near as dramatic here, although there were reports of flight disruption at Heathrow. I had nothing to do yesterday that couldn't be done on the phone, so when I sat briefly in the car and felt it rocking in the wind, I decided I didn't need to be on the road and went back inside.
Got an email later from our facilities manager to say that the wind had torn out one of the windows on the sixth floor. I work on the third but I'm still pleased not to have been there.
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Post by Alanović on Feb 24, 2017 9:45:20 GMT
Just hoping it's all cleared up today as I'm booked on a the 6pm train out of Kings Cross to that Edinburgh tonight, for the ruggerbee tomorrow. Beer ahoy. New sporran arrived yesterday. Natty leather thing, can't abide the furry beggars. Hope it's not too windy, missus.
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Post by Hofmeister on Feb 24, 2017 9:48:11 GMT
Well, total damage for the Doris Day was three fence panels blown out of the concrete posts, (popped em back in) and the habitual felt ripped off the shed roof. I am getting a bit pissed off with re felting the thing, so I will be a patch up job till the summer, then a new shed.
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Post by tyrednexited on Feb 24, 2017 10:55:17 GMT
Beer ahoy. New sporran arrived yesterday. Natty leather thing, can't abide the furry beggars. I'd be careful which bar(s) you frequent wearing a leather sporran. People might just get the wrong end of the stick. Just sayin'........
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Post by Alanović on Feb 24, 2017 11:19:31 GMT
Oh. Is that so. Shows what a plastic Jock I am, I had no idea. Anyway, it'll be Fingers Piano Bar tomorrow night, as usual. Good as gold in there.
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Post by WDB on Feb 24, 2017 14:19:07 GMT
Kilt ... Sporran ... Fingers ...
I think you may have arrived too late to help, T&E.
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Post by tyrednexited on Feb 24, 2017 16:08:10 GMT
Kilt ... Sporran ... Fingers ... I think you may have arrived too late to help, T&E. ...it certainly doesn't get any better, does it?
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